1609: Surrender, Purpose, Love: Bhakti Answers the Big Questions | Q & A Vol. 276
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Raghunath and Kaustubha tackle powerful questions about surrender, purpose, and love in this live Q&A from Super Soul Farm—offering timeless bhakti wisdom on the struggles modern seekers face. What does surrender really look like in practice? How do you discover your dharma without drowning in options? Can you strive for spontaneous love of God without ruining its spontaneity?
This episode brings clarity to the most misunderstood teachings of bhakti, grounding them in the lived experience of devotion. No platitudes—just real talk, deep insights, and a spiritual path that meets you where you are.
Key Highlights:
• Six practical symptoms of surrender—and why they’re anything but weakness
• How to avoid “mission drift” in your spiritual life
• Why Krishna is already loving you—and what’s blocking you from feeling it
• Service, identity, and the paradox of modern dharma
• The difference between faking it and practicing it
• Greed is good—when it’s for divine love
🎧 For anyone navigating spiritual life in a distracted world, this episode is a guidepost back to center.
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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-A-T-H-E-T-H-E-N-A-T-H-D-H-D-H-Yoga slash India 2025 to hold your spot or for more questions. |
| 0:45.2 | How do you bowl? |
| 0:46.6 | The practice of Bhakti means, and we call it like pure Bhakti, pure Bhakti means I really want |
| 0:52.7 | nothing but Krishna now. |
| 0:57.1 | I really see everything in relation to Krishna. |
| 1:02.8 | And it's just a, they say that this highest love, this, you know, this, this pure Bhakti, they say there's, there's only one thing that we need to get it. |
| 1:08.4 | And that is the greed. That I want that. |
| 1:12.1 | Like, I really want that. |
| 1:13.8 | Not just like, oh, I've studied the different theologies, and this one makes most sense, and I want that. |
| 1:18.8 | No, it's like, I want that and nothing else, and I'm ready to run full speed towards it. |
| 1:23.5 | That's our takeaway today. |
| 1:24.5 | Greed is good. |
| 1:25.6 | It's got to be the right good. |
| 1:27.5 | It's got to be the right greed. That's our takeaway today. Greed is good. It's got to be the right good. You've got to be the right greed. |
| 1:28.9 | That's right. |
| 1:29.4 | That's the only thing. |
| 1:32.0 | Oh, no, but Godabate, Vasudevae. |
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