1667: Born to Give: How the Universe Trains the Soul
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
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🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Anne Frank once wrote, "No one has ever become poor from giving." In this episode, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore how the universe itself is designed to train us to give—first through external acts of sacrifice and service, and ultimately by offering the heart. Through the lens of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and the Bhagavad-gītā's peace formula (5.29), they unpack why we are born to give, not to possess, and how life's tapas transforms into joy when directed as seva.
Key Highlights
* Born to Give (not to hoard): generosity as the soul's natural state.
* The Peace Formula (BG 5.29): nothing is mine; everything offered; the Divine is your best friend—goodbye anxiety.
* Clinging = anxiety: the more we hold, the more we fear losing—until devotion reveals what truly remains.
* Life as tapas: work, family, and projects become spiritual practice when consciously offered.
Srimad Bhagavatam 10.11.1-11
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| 0:00.0 | It's not our constitutional position to keep possess. |
| 0:04.7 | To keep. |
| 0:05.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:06.1 | It's our constitutional position. |
| 0:08.5 | Hear me. |
| 0:09.4 | To give. |
| 0:10.3 | We are born to give. |
| 0:13.0 | We are givers by nature. |
| 0:15.3 | And this whole Bhakti Yoga is a resurrecting of what we actually are. |
| 0:20.3 | In illusion, I think I'm the possessor and i'm frustrated i have to be |
| 0:24.7 | frustrated it's not my position like if i walk around in a big a gorilla costume like that's not who i am |
| 0:33.3 | people are like who's this joker who's this guy why's you stealing all the bananas what it's |
| 0:36.9 | it's like that's not what I am. |
| 0:56.1 | I will never be, feel normal or at peace in that position. In my real position. You would have some fun with it for some time. Oh, I'd have some fun for sure. Okay. But that's not what I actually am. You know, the irony is when we cling to things, we live in fear of losing them, isn't it? When I cling to things, when I think I am that person, the |
| 1:01.5 | possessor, get ready for a life of anxiety because that's not what you. That's not what you, we |
| 1:08.0 | actually are. But when we understand, I can't own anything. |
| 1:14.3 | All I can do is give love. |
| 1:16.2 | And as all those factors I said that can take away from you, right? |
| 1:21.0 | The time, the IRS, the criminals, your health, they're all takers away. |
| 1:27.5 | The only person that can give the only thing, the only force, the only energy that can take |
| 1:34.2 | away my desire to give, love is me. |
| 1:40.9 | Oh, no, bagavate, vasudevaya. |
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