1671: We Become What We Behold: Choosing the Spiritual Tools That Shape Us
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
What you hold in your mind shapes you. In this episode, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore Marshall McLuhan's famous line—"We become what we behold"—and connect it with Krishna's teachings in the Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Do we let random media and impulses shape us, or do we consciously adopt tools that align with who we want to become?
From the media-is-the-message to Bhāgavatam 10.12, we enter Aghāsura's cavernous "cave," watch Krishna rescue His friends, liberate the demon, and trigger a celestial celebration. Along the way: fearlessness vs. recklessness, why a morning program beats doom-scrolling, and how bringing Krishna into the heart quietly lowers the temperature on everyday panic.
Key Highlights
* McLuhan meets the Gītā: how tools and habits carve our destiny
* The cowherd boys' fearless joy vs. reckless "No Fear" bravado
* Aghāsura decoded: envy, anxiety, and Krishna's liberating touch
* Why a crafted morning program beats algorithmic autopilot
* Celestial fireworks—demigods, Gandharvas, and Brahmā's astonishment
A practical, provocative look at how the tools we choose today determine the lives we live tomorrow.
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Srimad Bhagavatam 10.12.24-35
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| 0:00.0 | I feel fortunate because when I hit about 20 or 21 or so or so, I was given a vision of what my life could actually become through Bakhti Yoga. You know, that's how we, that's how we came upon this. We, we met people. We met old men. We met middle-aged men, women. And we were thought, we thought, you know what? I want to be like that. I want to be like that when I get to that age, thought we thought you know what i want to be like that i want to be like that |
| 0:21.5 | when i get to that age right and you know all along that with that vision bacti gave me the tools to |
| 0:28.3 | do it it gave me it gave me a map it gave me a process a morning program practices habits |
| 0:33.1 | chanting reading serving gathering it wasn't a random thing. |
| 0:38.2 | It was a conscious design |
| 0:40.3 | to shape my inner world |
| 0:42.7 | in a particular way. |
| 0:46.4 | Oh, no, |
| 0:48.0 | vagabate, |
| 0:49.6 | Vastewa, |
| 0:51.5 | ah, |
| 0:52.4 | Oh, |
| 0:53.0 | no, |
| 0:55.0 | baghavette, Vas-de-bye-ya. |
| 0:58.0 | Oh, nama, baghabeti, |
| 1:01.0 | bas-de-bye-ya. |
| 1:04.0 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:05.0 | Oh, yeah! |
| 1:07.0 | Come on! |
| 1:09.0 | Come on! |
| 1:10.0 | Live from Super Soul Manor. |
| 1:11.8 | This is Wisdomest Hases, a Bhakti Yoga podcast with your host, Raghanov, and co-host and senior educator to the Bakti Center in New York, Gostuidas. |
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