1615: Full-Hearted Bhakti: Vivid, Personal Krishna Devotion | Q & A Vol. 280

Wisdom of the Sages

David Ramella

Hardcore, Yoga, Dharma, Kaustubhadas, Bhakti, Srimadbhagavatam, Wisdom, Bhagavadgita, Hinduism, Raghunath, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Punk, Raycappo

5 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

From epic failures and ego clashes to tender moments of empowerment and encouragement, Raghunath and Kaustubha open up about what they love most about Krishna Bhakti—and how it transforms even the most ordinary day into an offering of beauty, meaning, and joy.

In this candid Q & A episode, you’ll hear stories of spiritual growth, forgiveness, and the joy that comes from living with a fully invested heart.

Highlights include:

• Black-and-white Vedanta vs. full-color Bhakti

• One humbling breakfast invitation, one roasted ego, and a lot of growth

• Gossip vs. grace: a Bhakti PSA on spiritual etiquette

• Parking lot kirtans and singing past your comfort zone

• Rūpa Gosvāmī’s poetry, Draupadī’s forgiveness, and the art of full-hearted living

A rich, funny, and inspiring conversation rooted in the lived experience of Krishna devotion.

Check out Supersoul Farm's first annual kirtan fest at

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/supersoul-farm-kirtan-fest-tickets-1376536139649?aff=oddtdtcreator

Check out Radhanath Swami's class on how to treat people at https://youtu.be/ed0Effi7Kfo?si=b97G8C-cUaBtVWf6

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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-D-H-O-G-N-A-T-H-E-H-N-A-T-H-E-H-E-B-E-L-E-B-E-E-B-E-E-W-E-E-L-E-E-R-E-E-E-R-E-E-R-E-E-R-E. to use it as a reason to reform you, you know, in some way, to cut away at some, some thick kind of
1:00.8	haze that, you know, you live in, you know, and you've been living in for years and years.
1:06.1	And he said, you know, your problem is that you're like a peon.
1:13.4	You just, you know, you get some instruction to do and you just do it as if you had no real personal investment in it.
1:21.7	He said, that's not Bhakti, you know.
1:24.4	Buckti means, you know, like when you're serving, you're serving with a heart that's fully invested because of the love that you have for the person that you're serving, you know?
1:34.5	We don't just serve God. We serve God with a heart full of love. And it's actually the love that's accepted, not the service.
1:41.4	And he said, I've asked you to invite that person because I really want that person to come.
1:46.4	And if you really wanted that person to come as much as I do, that person would be coming.
1:51.2	But you're just a peon. You're just going to deliver the met. Your heart's not in it. It was like
1:55.2	that, you know. He said, now go back, you know, and ask him again you know and so i did and and and and this time i said
2:05.3	you know he would really love to have you there you know you're you're you're so dear to him and
2:09.9	you know i i just i went in invested in it and they said oh okay well then i'll come you know
2:16.7	and and that was that's something that i've
2:19.8	always carried that story with me and that that lesson with me um that we don't just become these
2:25.5	mechanical people feel even when we come to a practice that's all about the softening of the heart
2:31.1	and and in the experience of of a genuine divine spiritual emotion because we're
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