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Wisdom of the Sages

1662: Krishna: Unlimited Brahman or Adorable Baby? A Paradox at the Heart of Vedānta

Wisdom of the Sages

David Ramella

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This episode dives into one of Vedānta's deepest paradoxes: how the all-pervading, unlimited Brahman appears as a child and is bound by a rope. With reflections from physicist Niels Bohr and insights from the Bhāgavatam, Raghunath and Kaustubha unpack how truth, when probed deeply, transcends logic—and how love alone can bind the infinite.

Srimad Bhagavatam 10.9.15-23

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0:00.0

Here's an analogy. Let's take language, for instance. If you were to study, like someone

0:06.7

might study English, never spoke in English before. And then you're like, okay, there's this code.

0:11.8

And basically, you know, there are words that represent certain things and certain ideas and so on.

0:18.6

So like, you know, okay, there's a, you know, let's say this person

0:21.9

spoke Russian and then you find out, oh, well, in Russian, this is the word for tree and in English

0:27.6

it's tree. And in Russian, there's a word for river. In English, it's river. Okay, so everything

0:32.7

is lining up really nice and there's no paradoxes. But then you come to certain phrases that don't seem to

0:41.6

have any connection to reality. Like say a phrase like kick the bucket, right? What does that mean

0:46.8

kick the bucket? I understand. I put it together. It means that you kick a bucket. But it doesn't

0:52.4

seem to make sense in the sentence in the paragraph that you're

0:54.9

using in it.

0:56.0

Right.

0:57.3

And then someone say, well, that means to die.

1:00.2

And then you, well, then you should say die.

1:03.4

But when you say kick the bucket, it means die.

1:07.1

But it seems to contradict.

1:09.7

It doesn't seem to fit, but it actually says more or what to

1:13.2

speak about like when you get to a phrase where the phrase itself seems to be self-contradictory

1:18.8

like origins of kick the bucket please thank you the bottom i can't even listen to any more

1:25.1

it's crazy what does it mean but like take a take a I can't even listen to any more. It's trying to be crazy.

1:29.9

What does it mean?

1:33.8

But like take, you know, like Shakespeare, like where he'll write,

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