5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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One of the most sacred dynamics in all of yoga culture - the relationship between teacher and student—has become both feared and misunderstood as it’s been transferred from India to the West. In this potent episode, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore how spiritual truth flows not from information alone, but from affection, humility, and mutual sincerity. What unfolds is a spirited, honest, and occasionally hilarious exploration of how and why the guru-disciple model endures—even in an age where trust is hard to come by and everyone’s got an “enlightenment moment” in their Instagram bio.
Key Highlights:
• “Victim mentality kills growth.”
• A lesson from Mahābhārata: If you can’t find someone better than you, you’re probably not looking hard enough
• Understanding the friendliness and familiarity with a teacher
• Transmission of truth is never just intellectual—it’s relational
This episode is a call to seek wisdom where it’s real, not just where it’s trending.
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0:56.2 | they all have these scandals, you know, write down, you know, not all, but like, you know, |
1:03.1 | it's a ridiculous amount of them. And then all these people like, oh my God, the trauma that |
1:07.3 | I've gone through. And then here's the trend. |
1:16.1 | Then we say this guru disciple model does not work. |
1:18.4 | Maybe it worked ages ago in India. |
1:19.4 | It doesn't work anymore. |
1:20.2 | You know what? |
1:23.8 | It's not so cheap, but it's real. And you got to go, you know, go on your own hero's journey and search it out. Find out what is a guru. Study these texts. Try to really understand it. And then go out and search that out and search that out. It's just going to roll through your town or, you know, on some yoga tour or something like that necessarily. It's something that's very real and sacred. |
1:44.7 | And you go out and you search for with sincerity and with determination. |
1:49.9 | There's a lot of in the Vedic lore. |
1:55.5 | There's a lot of stories of people who search very hard to find that person and then |
2:00.3 | tolerated a lot. |
2:02.5 | You know, we're tested by the guru to see their sincerity was tested, you know? |
2:07.5 | Sure. |
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