1597: Loss. Confusion. Melancholy. Then Freedom. | Q&A Volume 274
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
With humor, vulnerability, and sharp philosophical insight, Raghunath and Kaustubha unpack the gritty reality of spiritual growth: that it sometimes begins with a period of loss, confusion, or even melancholy—but on the other side is joy, clarity, and freedom.
This Q & A episode tackles big, relatable questions from listeners on the spiritual path:
• How do I live a life of dharma—seeing the good in everyone—without letting people take advantage of me or drain my energy?
• How do I practice detachment without becoming emotionally distant from the people I love?
• Does devotion to Krishna mean not exploring other spiritual traditions?
Discover how the simple mantra “Adjust. Tolerate. Focus.” can become a compass when life feels chaotic and the heart is pulled in too many directions.
Key Highlights:
• Adjusting your circumstances vs. tolerating them—and how to know which to do
• Why Krishna’s blessings can feel like lemon in milk—and why that’s a good thing
• The difference between real detachment and just shutting down emotionally
• A perspective-shifting metaphor about butter that’ll stick with you forever
• Why kirtan and philosophy together are like spiritual ayahuasca (minus the vomiting)
Whether you’re navigating toxic coworkers or simply trying to love your family without losing yourself, this episode will give you both tools and comfort for the inner work that really matters.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Namaste everybody, it's Raganath, and I want to announce my autumn pilgrimage 2025 to sacred India. |
| 0:08.6 | Tons of Kirtan, tons of Bhakti. |
| 0:11.1 | It is my great passion and pleasure to take people to sacred cities, sacred rivers, sacred people, |
| 0:18.8 | and of course, amazing vegetarian and vegan food prepared with love. |
| 0:25.2 | If India's been calling you, this could be the trip. |
| 0:28.6 | Go to my website, ragunov.orgia.orgia,000-J-N-A-T-H-U-N-A-T-H-E-H-N-H-D-H-E-H-N-A-T-H-E-H-N-A-T-H-E-H-E-T-E-V-E-B-E-E-B-E-E-B-E-E-L-E-E-L-E-E-L-E-E-L-E-E-L-E-E-R-E-E pain of it, that will happen. That's going to happen. And when it happens, it's not necessarily that you won't entirely grieve. |
| 0:58.4 | But as a Ragnod's saying, you won't grieve in the same way. |
| 1:02.2 | You'll feel a sense of melancholy, right? |
| 1:05.0 | It'll be a very subtle kind of experience where, yes, it's's an experience of suffering wherein the disillusionment of |
| 1:15.7 | this world begins to crumble and what you felt you needed to be happy in life begins to slip |
| 1:25.1 | away and you realize it will never come back. |
| 1:29.2 | But with that, blended into that, are these feelings of, and now I'm coming closer to the reality, |
| 1:38.6 | which is very rosy, which is very beautiful. |
| 1:41.0 | What we generally try to do is we try to see the material world as rosy. |
| 1:47.0 | And in order to do that, we need to have rose-colored glasses. |
| 1:50.2 | We need to be an illusion. |
| 1:51.4 | I like that. |
| 1:52.3 | Oh, thank you. |
| 1:53.1 | You see it as rosy and you need rose-colored glass. |
| 1:55.6 | That's the illusion. |
| 1:56.6 | I need to see this world through this illusory idea that these are my children this is my spouse it |
| 2:02.4 | all revolves around me there will be a big romantic ending yeah yeah you know it'll all end up |
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