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🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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In this intriguing and often hilarious episode, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore a natural pattern in life and spirituality: moving from simplicity to complexity, and then back again.
On the spiritual journey, we may wrestle with perplexing questions: Who am I? Is there God? Is the world real? Is it all an illusion? We speak of “the sound of one hand clapping” or “being here now,” and sometimes it can feel as if spiritual guides are muddying the waters just to make them seem deep.
But it’s possible to emerge on the other side of these tangled spiritual riddles and discover the simplicity of divine love — a simplicity that carries within it the depth and wisdom gained along the way.
Key Takeaways:
* The recurring life pattern: from simplicity to complexity and back to a refined simplicity.
* How the search for truth can lead to ever-deepening — and sometimes overly complex — spiritual riddles.
* Why divine love, though simple in expression, contains the deepest wisdom.
* The Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam’s portrayal of pure, selfless love in Yaśodā’s relationship with Kṛṣṇa.
* The difference between naive, material love and enlightened, spiritual love.
Srimad Bhagavatam 10.8.1-9
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0:00.0 | we need to work through the complexity of we may need to work through most of us generally |
0:05.1 | need to work through the complexity of questioning who am i where am i what is this world we |
0:10.0 | when we come to those spiritual texts you know you can read these books by eckertoll and you know |
0:17.2 | ramdas and what to speak of getting into all these Buddhist texts and so on. |
0:22.4 | And there's truth in them, but it can get so complex that it's almost like, |
0:28.8 | sometimes we think that that complexity is, is it's the proof of its validity, right? |
0:36.0 | But I do think we need to watch out for it. |
0:37.9 | And this is saying, I found it to be so profound what Nietzsche said. |
0:41.5 | And how do you pronounce it again? |
0:43.4 | Nietzsche. |
0:44.2 | Nietzsche. |
0:45.3 | That he said, to me, this is the protocol of the pretentious spiritual teacher, right, |
0:56.7 | is that they muddy the waters to make them seem deep. |
1:00.4 | Right? |
1:00.9 | The water's not deep, but you muddy it up, |
1:02.6 | and for all you know, it's super deep. |
1:05.1 | And the teacher, what he's sharing may not be deep at all, |
1:07.6 | but you present it in such a muddy way that is, oh, wow, he must be so deep. |
1:14.9 | But really the spiritual teachings, they should be, yeah, we have to go through some complex |
1:19.6 | question, a chintya beta beta tatfa, you know, simultaneously one and different. You know, we need to, |
1:24.4 | we do need to hear these things, but the explanation should bring us to a very simple place. You know what? There's God. He's unlimited and he's beautiful and full of all wonderful qualities. It is one of the blessings that we receive when we got books by Prabopod. He made the complex very simple. |
1:50.4 | And I previously I was just reading tons of books by by yogis. |
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