1635: Krishna’s First Words Reveal the Missing Ingredient in Spiritual Practice
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In one of the most powerful moments of the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, Krishna speaks for the first time—and what He says sheds light on the real aim of yoga, austerity, and spiritual discipline.
Raghunath and Kaustubha, joined by Radhanath Swami in the studio, unpack this pivotal teaching: that it’s not the practice alone that transforms us, but the devotion that infuses it. Without bhakti, even the most intense austerity leaves us spiritually unfulfilled. With it, every action becomes divine.
Tune in for deep insights into Krishna’s words, reflections on a moving initiation ceremony, and an honest look at what makes spiritual life real, sweet, and powerful.
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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-H-Y-H-N-A-T-H-E-H-N-A-T-H-E-H-N-A-T-H-E-T-E-B-E-T-E-B-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E- he's not just talking about work he's talking about devotion while working you could you could be |
| 0:55.1 | like weaving a cloth laying bricks planting seeds in your garden but it's how you do it it's not the |
| 1:01.7 | action of doing it it's how you do it you could be on stage in a band okay right but it's how you do it |
| 1:08.0 | it's it's it you could be making a flower garland you could be leading a kirton but it's how you're doing but it's how you do it. You could be making a flower garland. |
| 1:12.0 | You could be leading a kirton. |
| 1:14.5 | But it's how you're doing it. But it's how you do it. |
| 1:15.6 | So that's yoga. |
| 1:16.8 | Then that offering to your beloved while you're doing it, right? |
| 1:21.0 | If I say, come over, we're having a savor retreat, and we all do everything within that savor retreat. |
| 1:26.7 | The fence gets built, the hole gets dug, the wood gets split. |
| 1:31.5 | If the consciousness is not there, we throw this word around a lot in contemporary culture, mindfulness. |
| 1:39.3 | It's not just splitting the wood mindfully. |
| 1:44.6 | Okay. |
| 1:45.6 | You know, now I'm going to split it. |
| 1:47.7 | I'm going to split it right in the middle. |
| 1:49.4 | Okay. |
| 1:50.3 | Dead in the center. |
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