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Wisdom of the Sages

1618: Identity Politics, Self-Esteem Battles & the Spiritual Solution

Wisdom of the Sages

David Ramella

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

5970 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Modern society is in the midst of an identity crisis. From gender and race to body image and social status, we’re defining, defending, and dividing ourselves by external labels. In this episode, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore how ancient yogic wisdom provides a powerful alternative: knowledge of the self.

Through discussion, humor, and insights from the bhakti-yoga tration, they unpack how we can stop tiptoeing around fragile identities and live from the truth of who we really are.

Key Themes:
•⁠  ⁠Carl Jung’s insight on identity and self-definition
•⁠  ⁠How real kindness comes from seeing through labels, not tiptoeing around them
•⁠  ⁠Identity politics = bubble-wrapping the world / Knowledge of the self = putting on shoes

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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.

0:08.4

We call it the Bhakti yoga cultural immersion, and we've been doing it for 10 years.

0:14.7

And it's hosted at the beautiful Goverdowne Eco Village with Ragnaswami and all the monks.

0:19.5

What a backdrop for transformation.

0:22.7

It all culminates in the incredible flower festival.

0:26.4

Find out why people love this training and it's our greatest offering throughout the year.

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 it's such an important question in society right now like

0:57.0

identity is just one of the biggest questions in our culture it's it's you know it's like at the

1:04.1

center of all the public discourse sure and you know that's understandable i suppose because there's

1:09.7

so much suffering that's tied into it, that's connected to it.

1:14.0

And, you know, people want to address that.

1:17.1

They want to say, let's try to relieve the suffering, which is noble, you know.

1:21.3

But commonly, like, the solution is let's try to fix the outside world, every detail of it, you know, if we're being told,

1:31.3

you know, we are being told our background is wrong, our gender is wrong, our weight is wrong,

1:35.8

or our social role is in some way we're not worthy. Let's, you know, fix it. Let's change the language.

1:43.6

Let's, you know, legislate it so that we can just entirely even the playing ground.

1:51.3

Oh, I like this.

1:52.9

But these sages of the yoga tradition, they, in a sense, they appreciate the sentiment.

2:00.3

Yeah, the sentiment or the sensitivity that's there.

2:02.7

The playing ground's already even.

2:04.7

If you know what the real playing ground is.

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