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🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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The most obvious and pervasive realities are often the hardest to see. Like fish who don’t realize they’re swimming in water, we move through samsara — the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth — unaware of the forces shaping us.
In this episode, Raghunath and Kaustubha unpack the illusion that my experience is the most real, vivid, and important, and explore how yoga wisdom teaches us to zoom out, recognize our connection to the whole, and break free from self-centered existence.
Drawing on David Foster Wallace’s “default setting,” the story of the fish and the water, and King Yudhiṣṭhira’s profound greeting in the Mahābhārata, they reveal how to stop reacting to immediate causes — and start seeing the supreme cause behind everything.
Highlights:
• Why samsara — and its lessons — often go unseen
• The illusion of separateness and self-importance
• How to greet others in the spirit of liberation
• How a rock star’s madness reveals the trap of ego
• Why we stay busy counteracting symptoms while ignoring the cause
Subscribe and join thousands on the path from illusion to liberation.
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1:01.1 | Right. That's what I'm experiencing. And that can overwhelm me and prevent me from |
1:09.3 | understanding what's really going on. |
1:12.0 | So he's kind of, he's trying to say, you know, resist that, that self-centeredness. |
1:19.7 | Try to break out of the default, the default setting. |
1:23.3 | And, you know, and he's implying that it's going to take some intentionality to do that you know some real |
1:28.3 | practice some humility and understand that i am not this little spark that everything's revolving |
1:33.8 | around i'm one of unlimited sparks that are all moving through this water of some sara and we're |
1:39.8 | all connected in a certain way and if we become aware of that connection if we |
1:44.3 | meditated on if we look for it if we try to feel that we can break out of the default |
1:49.0 | setting and actually begin to understand the nature of our existence in this world |
1:52.7 | and what it is that we're meant to learn and how we're meant to evolve |
1:54.8 | oh no baghavati, Vasudevaea. |
2:01.6 | Oh, na, mahavate, Vasudevaea. |
2:07.6 | Oh, nama, Bhagavati, Vasudevaea. |
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