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🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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From Vedic kings to aging rock stars, this episode maps the journey from pleasure to emptiness to liberation. Raghunath and Kaustubha unpack why letting go of material desire—before the body gives out—is the key to spiritual freedom.
Featuring:
• King Yayāti, Lord Brahmā, Stephen Hawking, Billy Idol & David Lee Roth
• Addiction psychology meets Vedic wisdom
• Why renunciation is the real glow-up
• How material sex desire is a pale reflection of Krishna’s divine love
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SB 9.19.16-20
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1:01.6 | There's that image, that photograph of Stephen Hawking, and he's sitting there in his wheelchair, |
1:05.1 | and there's like a big blow-up of Marilyn Monroe behind him. |
1:10.7 | Oh, really? I don't know that one. You've seen that? It's kind of like a, you know, a stark image, you know. |
1:12.0 | But you just think about that, like, in one sense, we all become invalid in some way or another. |
1:16.3 | You know, our bodies are limited, and as we grow old, they become still more limited. |
1:21.2 | But the desires don't necessarily go away. They stay with us. They might even get stronger. |
1:26.8 | Right. Isn't that interesting? Yeah. |
1:28.6 | It's like you think, well, I'm getting older. So the desires are still there. The desires fade with the |
1:33.7 | body. Yeah, unless you're cultivating like this is illusion. This will not give me what I want. |
1:40.7 | This is a baited hook. Unless you're cultivating that as you grow old, as the ceiling lowers |
1:49.1 | for your sense enjoyment too. You can't eat as much. You know, you can't go to that Italian |
1:54.0 | restaurant and eat as much as you want. Or you're a little bit conscious of what the food you're |
1:58.5 | eating, you want to eat less. So as you cultivate knowledge, it sort of lowers that threshold and you're, |
2:04.4 | you physically can't enjoy as much. |
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