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Wisdom of the Sages

1639: When Karma Meets Dharma: Contradictions of Destiny & Duty | Q&A Vol. 283

Wisdom of the Sages

David Ramella

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

5970 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

When Karma Meets Dharma: Contradictions of Destiny and Duty

Do the choices you made in your past life shape the family, friends, and circumstances you’re born into? And how do bhakti-yogis navigate a path of dharma that sometimes seems to contradict itself — demanding sacrifice, mercy, or even revenge — all in the name of love?

In this live Q&A from Tuscany, Raghunath and Kaustubha tackle two profound questions: how to take radical responsibility (karma) and how to recognize the right course of action when dharma appears to point in conflicting directions.

From choosing your parents before birth to uncovering the love hidden in even the toughest moral dilemmas, this conversation reveals how karma and dharma lead us toward spiritual growth — if we trust the divine plan.

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0:00.0

And so you're saying that you're speaking, you're saying that according to the law of karma,

0:07.3

that there is a law out there.

0:08.6

Not everybody knows about it.

0:09.8

There's a law of cause and effect.

0:11.4

Okay.

0:11.8

And so that if we're born to certain parents, it's, it didn't just happen randomly.

0:17.8

It happened according to choices that we made in a previous life.

0:27.1

Either the life before or many lives been building up to this. And so in that sense, we chose because we made choices and those choices had the consequence. And the consequence was that

0:31.2

we were born. So in one sense, you were kind of saying that's the way of what we might call

0:35.9

taking radical responsibility. That even if i had circumstances that were less than ideal rather than blame my

0:43.8

behavior on the circumstances i say even those circumstances i put myself in somehow

0:50.5

even if you don't believe in any of this stuff it's a much better way to frame out reality it feels healthy even if you don't believe in any of this stuff, it's a much better way to frame out

0:56.5

reality. It feels healthy. Even if you don't believe in God, this is all a joke, this is all crazy,

1:00.7

the worship of gods, come on. It's an interesting way. When you take radical responsibility,

1:06.1

you get to this point of, all right, this is what I got. I must have done something to get this.

1:11.5

Now what am I going to do about this?

1:13.2

It's such a better way to live instead of, why me, this is unfair, what did I do to get

1:20.0

this stupid dad in my life, et cetera?

1:23.1

You know?

1:23.7

Yeah.

1:25.3

Oh, now, bag of a day, Vasudevaeaheah. you know yeah yeah oh no bagh bagh

1:27.5

bae

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