1642: Squirrels Without Borders: Chasing Values, Not Happiness
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this wildly entertaining episode of Wisdom of the Sages, Raghunath and Kaustubha return from their whirlwind retreat and European adventure to tackle what really brings happiness and success—and why chasing them is a losing game. With a healthy dose of humor and wisdom (and a few “squirrel-level-three” tangents), they explore Victor Frankl’s profound insight: that fulfillment comes not by pursuing it directly, but by dedicating yourself to something higher.
From “getting chieft” in Italy to a Krishna miracle in Bosnia to the cows, sages, and values that uphold a spiritual civilization, this episode is packed with laughs, life lessons, and even some Tony Robbins shoutouts.
Key Highlights:
* Why even demons need a pep talk sometimes (and what we can learn from it).
* The rip current of bhakti—and how it sweeps unsuspecting spouses & teenagers into the ocean of devotion.
* Scrooge McDuck, hardcore kids, and the real meaning of success.
* How cows, Brahmins, and good values quietly keep the world sane.
* Why Prabhupāda’s devotees were “really hard to snap” (and what that says about true conviction).
* “Squirrels Without Borders”—the new foundation no one asked for but everyone needs.
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| 0:00.0 | This idea put strong values first and let success and happiness follow. |
| 0:08.5 | You know, what, what, there's a trend right now. |
| 0:11.7 | And it's, it's almost sickening. |
| 0:14.9 | You know, it's almost sick. |
| 0:15.7 | I want to hear this. |
| 0:16.7 | Tell me. |
| 0:17.1 | Well, it's, it's just this idea that you owe it to yourself to be happy. Now, make the world revolve around you. Stop apologizing and, you know, go out there and, you know, like, it's, it's, it's this kind of like hedonism put in, put like in the dress of like liberating self care self love self love and |
| 0:40.9 | some kind of liberating philosophy or something like that no no no what you're presenting there |
| 0:45.9 | is just the old crap that gets us nowhere it's old it's old school hedonism that's what it's |
| 0:51.2 | old school hedonism it's me first and the gimmie gimmies. Right. |
| 0:54.4 | And so this idea, I love the way that he phrases this, that success and happiness, they're the unintended |
| 1:02.2 | side effects of one's personal dedication to cause greater than oneself. |
| 1:08.5 | Oh, no, there is nothing greater than me. |
| 1:10.3 | You are the center of the universe. |
| 1:11.8 | Your happiness is the most important thing. |
| 1:13.5 | No, it's not. |
| 1:15.0 | My happiness will come as a side effect of myself, |
| 1:18.6 | dedicating myself to what's greater than me. |
| 1:23.1 | That, to me, is wisdom. |
| 1:25.3 | To me, this is a way to live life. |
| 1:28.3 | Oh, no, Bhagavati, Vasudevaya. |
| 1:34.3 | Oh, Nama the Bhagavati |
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