5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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In this hilarious and revealing Q & A, Raghunath and Kaustubha tackle one of life’s most powerful forces—sexual desire—with honesty, insight, and bhakti-based wisdom. It’s a down-to-earth exploration of how the yogic tradition views it, and lays out a yogic framework for navigating desire without losing your mind (or your integrity).
Highlights include:
• 4 responses to desire: indulge, repress, ignore, or resolve
• The monk’s 8-fold path of NOT having sex
• How rāsa-līlā becomes a tool for inner purification
• Why spiritual life doesn’t mean becoming rigid or resentful
• What it takes to truly redirect the energy of desire
This one goes deep—and keeps it real.
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0:56.9 | under control like a yogi, but we want to do it without becoming rigid, particularly in Bhakti, |
1:03.2 | it's all about the heart becoming very soft. So we do have to walk a very fine line wherein |
1:09.8 | we're very controlled, but we're not rigid, |
1:13.3 | where we have a kind of an inner strength, and you could say, I suppose, resistance. |
1:20.3 | And at the same time, not one drop of resentment, you know, this, this, the kind of, the kind of things that grow out of |
1:34.2 | repression, you know, becoming very hard, you know, pushing, let's, let's look at this. |
1:43.1 | Essentially what he's asking is the asking is a big question that any |
1:45.8 | kind of spiritual practitioner is going to have to process. How do I deal with desire, right? How do I |
1:53.3 | deal with when my mind and my senses are calling me in whatever direction that they've been programmed and, you know, to follow. |
2:03.3 | And I would say, well, I'll list four ways that we could potentially respond. |
2:09.6 | One is indulge. |
2:12.7 | Two is repress. |
2:15.3 | Three is ignore. |
2:17.4 | Like this. Okay. Everyone needs those systems, right? Yeah. is repress three is ignore like this okay |
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