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Wisdom of the Sages

1645: Finding Your Center: Why Life Feels Off‑Key & How to Tune It

Wisdom of the Sages

David Ramella

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

5970 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The cosmos whispers a message: when life revolves around a center, harmony follows. When it doesn’t, we feel the dissonance. But are we listening?

In this episode, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore how the universe models harmony for us — through stars, through music, through the very structure of nature — showing that life works best when it revolves around a center.

They discuss the tonal center of a musical composition — that gravitational point every musician tunes to — and how even one out‑of‑tune string creates unease. Is the dissonance we feel simply because we’ve lost touch with our center?

Far from limiting us, the center frees us — enabling us to improvise beautifully within harmony. And then comes the Śrīmad‑Bhāgavatam’s stunning vision of the spiritual realm: a divine world where every soul revolves joyfully around its center, creating perfect bliss.

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0:00.0

I'm with you, Roganath, that our work becomes joyful when there's a central purpose.

0:07.3

It becomes meaningful. And when there's a shared central purpose, then we find this harmony. So I did

0:15.2

think that that was interesting. I said, the very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.

0:24.7

And, you know, it's kind of like, you know, we talk a lot about how certain, I guess,

0:33.7

empiricists, if you want to call them that, or, you know, atheists, how they assume that

0:42.6

there's no meaning to what we're looking at, that it's a random, you know, mixture of gases and dust,

0:49.3

you know, in a big, empty, dark space, and that's where everything's come from whereas other people will look and

0:56.6

say no i think there's messages and everything that i'm looking at right like look at the stars and how

1:01.6

they revolve around you know look at the solar system how they revolve around a central uh figure

1:09.0

the moon doing the same thing right or all the magic see the magic in it all. Yeah, see the magic. Not the randomness of it, not the nothingness of it, right? Yeah, that's right. Try to understand if there's a mess. And it's kind of like if we open up to that, it can be like, well, duh, you know, why am am i not happy because i'm not revolving around a nice

1:29.2

thing in a nice smooth circle you know it's like maybe that's why there's dissonancy you know i

1:34.3

thought about this in terms of music right i think we can see these principles everywhere

1:38.3

you know in science in astrology in in music.

1:45.0

Let's take music, for example, right?

1:47.0

It's like in music there's something called the key, right?

1:52.0

And every instrument has to be tuned according to that key.

1:57.0

And every musician has to be playing in tune with that key.

2:03.3

And if one string is out of tune, it creates a type of dissonance.

2:08.6

And that dissonance is like a feeling where things are out of tune and uncomfortable

2:12.3

and disturbing in some way.

2:14.3

If our world is so full of disturbance, perhaps it's not that we're in tune with the key.

2:20.9

Perhaps it's not that. Like that.

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