5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Why do we resist turning inward — and what does it cost us? In this spirited episode of Wisdom of the Sages, Raghunath and Kaustubha confront the uncomfortable truth: that we each have a choice to make — either we discover our true self, or we don’t. And if we don’t, we risk living an empty life and perpetuating cycles of conflict and injustice.
Drawing from the words of Henry David Thoreau, the insights of Black Elk, and the timeless teachings of Bhakti Yoga, they unpack how society’s “conveyor belt” keeps us distracted, how desires and fears cloud our inner vision, and how real healing and real justice can only begin with the soul.
They also explore the yogic science of purification: how austerity purifies the senses, charity purifies material possessions, and satisfaction purifies the mind — and how these practices open the door to inner peace that transforms not just ourselves but the world around us.
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0:00.0 | Here's the real point, is that they condemn people that take up spiritual practices that turn inward. |
0:06.5 | When actually, if we were all turning inward, we wouldn't have these problems. |
0:12.0 | That's my point. |
0:13.2 | In other words, the irony of it is if what's going to solve all our injustices is if we really understand who we are. |
0:21.4 | If we really understand the self, then we're going to be relieved of so much fear, |
0:26.9 | so much anxiety, so much pride, so much, you know, ego. |
0:30.9 | It's okay. |
0:32.4 | You know why? |
0:32.9 | Because instead of posting about and shaming the people that aren't posting about what's going on right now and why you should be out there screaming your head off, post about the most important thing and influence people to turn inward. |
0:47.3 | There you go. |
0:47.8 | And if we're all turning inward, and that brings me, and I've read this even recently on the show, but I'm read it again, Roganath. |
0:54.1 | Black elk. Black Elk. |
0:55.9 | Black Elk. |
0:56.9 | Okay. So here you have someone from the kind of community that many of the postmodern thinkers |
1:01.7 | would say have experienced such injustice and we should be doing something about it right now. |
1:06.3 | Well, why don't we go back and hear what he has to say? |
1:09.3 | What did Black Elk say about it? |
1:10.5 | So he says the first piece, which is the most important, |
1:15.4 | because he's going to talk about peace with the individual, |
1:18.0 | peace within the family, peace within the broader community, |
1:20.2 | peace between nations. |
1:22.5 | The first piece, which is the most important, |
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