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🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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How does one truly enter a spiritual path—beyond the ritual and formality? It’s not about externals—it’s about what’s alive in the heart.
In this eye-opening episode, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore the deeper dimensions of spiritual life, focusing especially on the heart-to-heart transmission of spiritual knowledge, realization, and conviction. Through the lens of Krishna’s miraculous appearance in the womb of Devakī—and some fascinating Bhaktivedanta commentaries—they unpack the true meaning of initiation on the bhakti path: not as a mere ceremony, but as the sacred connection when divine consciousness is awakened in the heart of a seeker.
Listen in as they discuss:
• How Krishna consciousness transforms any place into a sacred space
• The deeper meaning of initiation beyond ritual
• Why seeing God only in temples—but not in others’ hearts—misses the point
• The mystical transmission from Vasudeva to Devakī
• Embodying scripture vs. just quoting it
This episode is a call to go deeper—beyond external forms, into the heart of spiritual transformation.
SB 10.2.16-18
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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-E-H-N-A-T-H-E-H-N-A-T-H-E-T-H-E-T-E-V-E-V-E-T-E-E-B-E-E-R-E-E-R-E-E-R-E-E-R-E-E-R-E-E-R-E-E person that's sharing a message and not just a message right but sharing a conviction and |
0:55.5 | understanding about life and who i am and what this world is about and what's beyond it and who's |
1:02.5 | beyond it and someone's carrying that in their heart and and you open your heart to that |
1:08.7 | and a seed is planted and it starts to grow, you know. |
1:15.5 | Or, you know, there's a transmission, not just a transmission of just academic knowledge, but a transmission of understanding. |
1:26.5 | What am I meant for? |
1:27.7 | What am I meant to do? |
1:28.7 | And so that is what happened. |
1:30.1 | Our tradition speaks a lot about that. |
1:31.7 | Of course, there's that very famous verse spoken by Sri Jaitanya. |
1:37.9 | You know, Brahman da Brahman teakon, Bhagavā, Guru Krishna Prasadai, Bhaktilatabhādha Beach. |
1:43.9 | Right, that this is so important, right? That this is this is so important right that |
1:46.7 | we're wandering for many many lifetimes you know through many different planets and you know |
1:54.0 | bouncing back and forth throughout the universe and um but a fortunate soul after wandering for we don't know how many lifetimes, may connect with a true guru, |
2:11.6 | with someone that, with someone that is caring and demonstrating and living and embodying |
2:22.1 | diviagiana, knowledge of what's beyond all of this, |
2:27.9 | and that if that person has that potency and that they're vibrating in that way, |
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