1675: Truth + Discipline: Tuning In to the All-Pervading Divine
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
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🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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The Upaniṣads say the Divine is hidden like fire in wood, cream in milk, oil in sesame seed—revealed only through truth and discipline. Raghunath and Kaustubha unpack how yoga and the Gītā echo this same teaching: God is everywhere, but without discipline you only pick up static. With truth and practice, the channel clears. Or as our Friend, Matthew Perry, once put it: "God is everywhere—you just have to clear your channel, or you'll miss it."
Srimad Bhagavatam 10.13.15-19
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| 0:00.0 | you hear these things from all different spiritual traditions from all over the place just the fact |
| 0:06.2 | that you're hearing from all from all these different traditions this idea that god is everywhere |
| 0:10.8 | and some perception of it um or everything being one in one sense that that so many people are |
| 0:17.4 | feeling this and reporting it it lends credence to its truth. And I think even |
| 0:23.3 | someone like, you know, Matthew Perry, who we don't think of as a yogi, we think of as a, |
| 0:27.7 | you know, a television star. And struggling with addiction, well, sometimes your struggle |
| 0:34.3 | actually brings you to a point where you actually, you surrender in a sense. |
| 0:40.4 | Nice. |
| 0:41.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:42.5 | And so then you pick up on what others aren't picking up. |
| 0:45.5 | And when you said it's meditation, I was thinking it's yoga and it reminded me this is from Shvetashvatar Upanishad. |
| 0:52.7 | Okay. |
| 0:53.3 | Tell me. |
| 0:53.7 | Tell me. |
| 1:02.7 | And, you know, about the idea of something being everywhere and just needing to tune into it. |
| 1:13.6 | As fires found in wood, as water is hidden in springs, as cream is hidden in milk and oil in the sesame seed. The Paramama is perceived when sought with truth and discipline, with Satya and tapas. |
| 1:22.6 | One should know that highest truth, Brahman, the all-pervading Lord, who is hidden like butter and milk through spiritual knowledge and discipline. |
| 1:34.4 | This is the supreme teaching of the Upanishads. |
| 1:37.7 | That's an amazing. |
| 1:39.2 | Incredible. |
| 1:39.6 | That's an amazing quote, huh? amazing quota. Vasudeva ya. |
| 2:11.6 | Live from Super Soul Farm, it's Wisdom of the Sages, a Bhakti Yoga podcast with your host, Raghinaw and co-host and senior educator at the Bakhti Center, New York. |
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