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🗓️ 11 August 2025
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The great sages of ancient India understood the stories of Krishna to be far more than charming children’s tales. Through the sophisticated lens of the Sanskrit science of drama, they revealed just how richly structured and deeply meaningful these pastimes are — spiritual dramas designed to awaken devotion and evoke profound yogic experience.
This episode explores how spiritual life must be alive and nourished with emotion. As Abraham Joshua Heschel observed, when faith is replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit — and when religion speaks in the name of authority rather than with a voice of compassion — its message becomes meaningless. Krishna’s pastimes restore that life and compassion, stirring joy, longing, fear, and relief in the hearts of the residents of Vṛndāvana, and awakening the same divine emotions within us.
Srimad Bhagavatam 10.7.20-26
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0:00.0 | one of the greatest or even people argue like the greatest teacher in our lineage |
0:04.6 | is rupertagoswami and what he did this you know there's so many lineages of vedanta |
0:13.6 | and they all have their different contributions what they share that's like they're looking |
0:19.2 | at the same books but then they give an angle on it that's |
0:21.9 | special you know yeah and what he shared is so special and it makes this lineage so special |
0:28.9 | he took these pastimes of krishna and he analyzed them through a particular lens so that |
0:35.9 | we can understand them and And that lens is like what |
0:41.5 | they call, I guess scholars would call it like Indian, ancient Indian Sanskrit, really Sanskrit |
0:50.1 | is I believe it's called dramaturgy, is that how you pronounce it like the study of |
0:54.7 | dramaturgy I have no idea never even heard that word the study of drama and you know like all |
1:01.0 | like we were just talking about music you know music has beat music has melody music has you know |
1:05.4 | there's rhythm within rhythm there's beat you know there's there's there's melody there's tempo |
1:10.5 | there's it has all know, there's, there's melody, there's tempo, there's, it has all these |
1:11.6 | different elements. Harmony. |
1:15.4 | Within drama, there's different elements. And there's this really beautiful, sophisticated |
1:20.3 | study of drama that goes back in these ancients, that sages wrote, you know, in ancient |
1:26.5 | Sanskrit text. And they speak about what we mentioned earlier, |
1:32.9 | Russa, right, like the different varieties of emotion and the different varieties of love. |
1:39.1 | And what stimulates them, what increases them, what decreases them, which ones blend nicely, which ones |
1:45.3 | don't blend nicely, what kind of characters, what do you have in your drama, what do they |
1:51.4 | embody and how they all blend together? |
1:53.9 | So there's like, just like there's a science to like, you know, within music, there's certain |
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