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🗓️ 26 May 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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From parenting struggles in spiritual life to the elusive experience of deep japa meditation – Vulnerability meets wisdom in this very real Q & A episode recorded live at the Wisdom of the Sages Retreat.
Whether you’re trying to inspire your kids, stay inspired yourself, or figure out what absorption in the japa meditation actually feels like, this episode has something for you.
🌀 Key Highlights:
• “Future fakers” and the art of letting go (yes, your kids might be doing it)
• Japa as a spiritual shower for the soul
• The illusion of control in parenting (and the relief in surrender)
• Carrying retreat inspiration into everyday life—without crashing into Maya
• Stoicism vs. closing circles: the struggle is real
It’s an episode for anyone walking the tightrope between devotion and daily life—packed with deep truths and just enough comic relief to keep it real.
🌸 Subscribe and tune in daily for spiritual wisdom that’s equal parts elevating and grounding.
🎧 Listen now! #BhaktiParenting #JapaMeditation #SpiritualGrowth #WisdomOfTheSages #KirtanLife #LetGoLetKrishna #FutureFakerFreeZone
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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-Y-H-D-H-E-H-N-A-T-H-E-H-N-A-T-H-E-V-E-B-E-B-E-B-E-W-E-T-E-B-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R make their own choices. And you hope that the values, not just the rituals, but the values behind the rituals, |
1:00.3 | rub off on them and direct them. |
1:03.5 | But you also get to this place is that I can't control them. |
1:09.2 | And God's got an actual plan for them. |
1:12.1 | And it might not even look like my plan at all. |
1:16.3 | As a matter of fact, it might be the complete opposite of my plan. |
1:19.9 | And so part of my loving parenting is to understand, |
1:24.1 | this is what I'm finding for myself, is like, |
1:27.1 | you might not have made your children devotees |
1:31.0 | and that's okay because that's just what it is they're individuals and you don't possess |
1:36.5 | them and it's nice to think things I can possess do whatever I want but I don't possess |
1:40.5 | anything or anybody and so my realization was you give them love, |
1:44.8 | you try to set a good example, |
1:46.3 | you don't try to be manipulative with religion |
1:48.1 | like a lot of people were with us when we were kids. |
1:52.4 | And you hope something valuable rubs off on them. |
1:56.5 | Oh, no, Bhagavati, |
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