1672: Rewiring the Inner World: Why Weren't We Taught This in School?
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
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🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Bhakti practices like chanting, kīrtan, rising early, study, and satsang aren't side notes—they're the training ground for reshaping the inner world so the outer world follows. In this episode, Raghunath and Kaustubha reflect on first encounters with sādhana in Vṛndāvana and dive into Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.12, where Krishna liberates the snake demon Aghāsura and reveals how even a moment of remembrance can transform destiny.
Key Highlights:
* Daily bhakti practices as inner rewiring.
* Why moving won't fix the mind—but sādhana will.
* Vṛndāvana as a culture of practice.
* Krishna's liberation of Aghāsura and its meaning for us.
* How the inner world reshapes the outer.
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Srimad Bhagavatam 10.12.36-44
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| 0:00.0 | We were raised in such a way where nobody even thought, like this nugget, this anonymous nugget was saying, most people try to change their outer world. We went to school to be trained. Like, if you're going to be happy in life, this is what you have to do. We're going to train you to change your outer world. We're going to change you how to know what you need to know so that you can make more money so that you can change your outer world in a way that will be more satisfying to you. That's the basic strategy here. |
| 0:23.8 | And there was practically no thought about, |
| 0:25.9 | like, what are we doing to change our inner world? Right. Imagine that. Zero. Okay. Sixth period is |
| 0:32.8 | inner world. Yeah, exactly. And what are you doing for your inner world? And what would you like to do to, you know, and here's the, here's the way that these people do it, and here's the way that another culture does it, and here's the way that these other people figured it out. What appeals to you or what makes more sense? Let's talk about which one makes more sense or which one is more effective. How do we change our inner world? |
| 0:54.3 | Zero. |
| 0:55.2 | And when some person kind of like saw through this, |
| 0:59.9 | they were identified as they've got a problem |
| 1:03.5 | with their inner world. |
| 1:05.7 | They bring you to the school of psychiatrists. |
| 1:08.3 | You know, and it's like, right. |
| 1:10.7 | And that's- Psychiatrists have to know, and it's like, right, and that's... |
| 1:11.1 | Psychiatrists have to dig deep through the whole massive spaghetti of your mind to find |
| 1:16.7 | out what is up with your inner world. |
| 1:18.6 | What is wrong with this person who actually is thinking about changing? |
| 1:21.6 | Who sees a problem with our strategy here, that they must be a problem. |
| 1:25.2 | They must be the problem. |
| 1:26.4 | So, yeah, and this this and now our whole world |
| 1:30.6 | is like oh revved up due to social media of like um saying that if you're not active changing the |
| 1:38.4 | outer world by posting something apparently on social media you better post something to show that you're |
| 1:46.5 | really these are just the ethic cops. |
| 1:50.9 | And then if someone comes on and says, we need to change our inner world. |
| 1:53.6 | They say, oh, you're bypassing. |
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