1649: Overcoming the Fear of a Personal God

Wisdom of the Sages

David Ramella

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

5 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Beneath all our spiritual searching may lie a hidden fear: the fear of the personal Divine. In this episode, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore how that fear hardens one’s hearts—limiting one to the impersonal paths of liberation that feel safe but ultimately empty.

Through the texts like the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, we uncover how vulnerability isn’t weakness—it’s the doorway to the deepest yoga, where love becomes real and the Supreme reveals His infinitely sweet, personal nature.

Key Highlights:
* “To love is to be vulnerable… and only in risk can we overcome darkness.” – Madeleine L’Engle
* How our fear of surrender creates emotional armor that blocks love.
* Why impersonal liberation can feel peaceful—but cold, distant, and incomplete.
* The Bhāgavatam’s powerful call to soften the heart and trust the sweetness of the Divine.
* Why true spiritual intimacy can feel risky—and why that risk is everything.

Discover how the highest yoga is not about withdrawal, but about opening fully to divine love—and why texts like the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam go to such lengths to show us the beauty, tenderness, and kindness of the personal God.

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0:00.0	And then the next stage is called Guiana. I mean, knowledge, I understand even more that the game of being good and being generous to enjoy the things of this world, it's always followed by suffering. Even if I get the things that I want in this life, I lose them and I suffer. And then you get this next spiritual level where it's kind of like you become withdrawn i'm not
0:21.3	going to play that game anymore i i i'm i don't want to be vulnerable to that i don't want to be
0:28.6	vulnerable to anything i want to just be removed from it all and you know just like ohm and just like
0:36.6	cut myself off.
0:37.7	Yeah, yeah. And now. And we vacillate a lot that we ping pong back and forth between. I want to enjoy the world. I want to renounce the world. I want to enjoy the world. I want to renounce the world. Neither of them is fully satisfying, right? I'll never fall in love again. Who sang that song? as it's a
0:34.3	I know who wrote it
0:36.1	was that
0:36.4	Bert Bacherack
0:37.2	but
0:37.4	oh really
0:37.7	maybe the fall in love again. Who sang that song? I know who wrote it.
0:56.4	Was it Baccarak? No, really? Maybe the carpet or something. I don't know. Anyway, that's the thing. We try to indulge it. Our heart broke. We back off. Never again. Never again. Never again. But I'm so lonely. I got to do it again. Yeah. that's it playing out like a ping pong ball
0:52.4	but it could also play out over the course of lifetimes
0:55.0	where like you take birth as like again to do it again. Yeah, that's it playing out like a ping pong ball, but it could also play out over the
1:11.9	course of lifetimes.
1:13.0	Or like, you take birth as like a gana yogi and you're just kind of like, I'm not of
1:17.7	this world.
1:18.2	I want to walk away from it.
1:19.8	But there's something that you're still worried about being vulnerable about that.
1:23.1	Ontologically, that eternally, there's a power greater than myself.
1:33.3	And if that power isn't kind and compassionate and sweet and loving and satisfied, then I'm really stuck.
1:36.3	I don't know if I can even open my mind up and my heart up to that possibility.
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