1602: Feed the Dogs, Love the World: Bhakti Yoga’s Expanding Circle of Compassion
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Indian hospitality, the soft heart of a mother, and the Dog-Man of Tompkins Square Park all intersect in this powerful exploration of yoga. Drawing from the Maha Upanishad and the insight of Albert Schweitzer, Raghunath and Kaustubha unpack a central bhakti truth: that genuine love of God expresses itself as compassion for all living beings—not just the ones who vote like you, think like you, or smell like you.
At the heart of this episode is the unforgettable tale of King Rantideva from the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam—a king whose radical acts of generosity and deep spiritual faith push us to reconsider what it really means to live a spiritual life.
🌀 Key Highlights:
• “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” — The Maha Upanishad’s timeless call to expand the borders of your compassion
• How great spiritualists experience suffering—and transform it into compassion
• The real yoga test: when your food is hot, your stomach is empty, and a stranger knocks on the door (with dogs)
• Why bhakti doesn’t exist without compassion
👁️🗨️ Real peace begins when we expand the circle. If your yoga isn’t transforming how you see others, it’s time to go deeper.
🎧 Tap in and get transrational.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, it's Raganov, and I'm announcing our Super Soul Academy, 203-hour yoga teacher training. |
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| 0:30.8 | If you're a yoga teacher and you want to add Bhakti to your teaching, this is for you. |
| 0:36.1 | Go to my website, this is for you. Have a great day. Yeah, we'd say, oh, this person's so codependent. He needs boundaries. He's slavish. |
| 0:59.1 | Yeah. But he's actually, he's actually, he actually actually just is so caring for other people. |
| 1:05.7 | He's, he's sacrificing so much. Yeah. And he's happy about it. He's not like, |
| 1:10.5 | he's not like, I'm giving away parts of myself and my identity. |
| 1:15.6 | It's not like hating himself or doing it. |
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| 1:18.7 | He's joyfully. |
| 1:20.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.8 | So, so this was a faith that if we have, this is a faith that has to grow in our, in us. |
| 1:25.9 | If we're going to elevate our consciousness onto that spiritual level, you know, that we don't calculate everything the way that a materialist does, that there's a certain faith and we put that faith to the test a little bit, that we stretch those boundaries a little bit, that we widen our circle. day by a live. Live from Super Soul Farm, this is Wisdom of the Sage, |
| 2:14.3 | the daily spiritual podcast with your host, Ranoff, and co-host and senior |
| 2:18.4 | educator at the Boktee Center in New York, because stupid us. Today is Friday, May 16th, 2025. This is |
| 2:25.3 | Episode 1602. Welcome to the show, everybody. Welcome. It is Friday, and we are starting our |
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