1646: What Loneliness Is Trying to Teach Us (If We Dare to Listen)

Wisdom of the Sages

David Ramella

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

5 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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When everything you cling to — your children, your partner, your dreams — slips through your fingers, what are you left with? Raghunath and Kaustubha dive into George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass, the wisdom of the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, and their own stories to explore why loneliness and loss may hold the key to our deepest connection.

From Beatles breakups and bittersweet summers to cowherd wisdom and comic book collectibles, they reflect on how impermanence — revealed by time and destiny — can feel devastating but is actually a sacred opportunity to turn within.

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0:00.0	All the things that are in my world that are weighing me down, the things that are like causing anxiety,
0:07.0	or causing me heartache, or it's all things must pass. And even the greatest things, you know.
0:19.5	You know, you hear it. And at first you can feel really lonely.
0:23.8	Like, there's like a heavy realization that everyone you love, everything you've built, all the people you're clinging on to.
0:29.1	It's all slipping through your fingers eventually.
0:30.9	And there's this temptation to either ignore it or get sad about it.
0:38.5	Yeah.
0:38.9	That's where it leaves me.
0:40.0	That's where it leaves me.
0:40.9	I got you.
0:41.4	Like, I think all of this is the ignoring of this is marketed, right, through all the distractions
0:49.0	that are out there.
0:50.3	It's like, it's taking advantage of our fear to face it, I think.
0:54.7	Well, both are, I like what you said.
0:57.6	Both are actually marketed.
1:00.0	Betrayal, heartache, loss, that's marketed.
1:03.0	How many songs on that?
1:04.3	And then reunion, love, you know, success, that's marketed.
1:08.0	That's sold to us.
1:09.6	But what if that feeling of loneliness that you get from like the passing of time, what if that's marketed that's sold to us but what if that feeling of loneliness that you get from like
1:13.2	the passing of time what if that's actually a door opening right what if that feeling when you
1:18.4	finally see that no one here can right when there's no one out there that can fill that place
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