5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Paul Simon’s bittersweet lyrics set the stage for this raw and funny exploration of why even life-changing insights often slip through our fingers. Raghunath and Kaustubha unpack the slippery nature of spiritual determination — and how each of us can make the simple but bold choice to live a meaningful life before the clock runs out. This episode blends music, humor, and timeless wisdom from the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
Highlights include:
• What Paul Simon teaches us about missing our moment
• How Kamsa fell back into old ways after glimpsing wisdom — and why we do too
• Why meaning matters more than magnitude in what we do
• The elements of a Vishnu-centered society — and the surprising roles of cows and brahmanas
Don’t let your breakthroughs slip away — tune in now!
SB 10.4.28-41
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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 Raganov, Never knew who's singing it. Okay. Made up my own words, sang those loudly. |
0:54.7 | Go on. |
0:55.3 | I'm going to read some lyrics, Pramu. |
0:56.6 | And these lyrics, as you're saying, I think they have a lot to do with missing opportunities in life. |
1:02.8 | That the way that life works is that, you know, we sit and watch movies of people rising to the occasion, you know? |
1:12.9 | Like that's kind of generally what happens in the character arc in a decent film, is that there's challenges in life and something |
1:19.0 | becomes difficult and someone steps up and faces the difficulty with courage. We sit and watch |
1:25.6 | stories of it, but we don't always do it in our own life. |
1:28.0 | And we may feel like, well, I don't have, it's not like I'm being called upon to save the world from nuclear destruction, or I'm being called upon to save, you know, a child from being kidnapped or, you know, like, there's nothing for me to do, you know, that's like so meaningful. We might |
1:46.1 | feel that way, but I think, you know, it's not necessarily that we have to do something huge in |
1:52.4 | life, but if, if and when, you know, we're on our, if and when, you know, we're on our deathbed, |
1:58.0 | that we can feel good about where we are. it will have, it's not necessarily that we've |
2:03.4 | done something big, because in one sense, no matter how big, whatever we do in this world is, |
2:09.1 | ultimately it's very small, right? Even if, even if we become the most famous person on earth |
2:14.3 | and become very influential, in the grand scheme, in the relative scheme, it's very tiny. |
2:20.4 | So it's not so much about how big the things we do in our life are, but how meaningful they are. |
2:28.0 | Oh, no, baghavati, bas-ste, Bahia. |
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