1678: Many Miles to Settle the Mind
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
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🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
It took 40, then 25, then 30 miles before the mind finally stopped screaming and started praying. Fresh off a solo bike ride through the Adirondacks, Raghunath and Kaustubha dive into practical bhakti: how movement can quiet the mental "algorithm," how to use Kārtika (Damodara Month) to turn up your practice x1000, and why the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam's Brahma-vimohana lila (Brahma Mohan Leela)—when Kṛṣṇa becomes every cowherd boy and calf—reveals more than wonder; it maps how God and God's energies actually work.
Key Highlights
* "Metaphysical Amazon Prime": stop praying for two-day shipping; start praying "What do You want from me today?"
* Kārtika math: one round = a thousand (devotion multiplies—calories don't).
* Japa that sticks: sit, walk, or pedal—just get past the first "many miles" of mental noise.
* Phone in another room = mind in the same room as God.
* Acintya-bhedābheda for real life: one energy, different functions—like electricity that can cool your fridge and heat your toast.
If you're ready to trade doom-scrolling for mantra-rolling, this episode gives you a simple plan: pick a vow for Kārtika, leave the phone outside the temple of your morning, and let the mind settle mile by mile until prayer gets loud.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.13.36–40
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| 0:00.0 | That's how it went for me. |
| 0:01.4 | I got into a pedaling groove and where I just got to, I just got to connect. |
| 0:07.8 | So is there any like fantastic deep realization? |
| 0:11.0 | No, but I felt like there was, there was like a type of a deep, deep connection, which is what I want during Joppa, you know. |
| 0:22.7 | Sometimes I can go through a whole 16 rounds of Joppa and not feel any deep connection, |
| 0:27.9 | or I can go to a Sunday feast and not feel a deep connection or a rapiatra and not feel a deep |
| 0:32.6 | connection. So I think according to our psychophysical constitution, within Bhakti, we're going to have to figure out methods that we can find deep connection. |
| 0:44.5 | Of course, just because I don't feel it in my JAPA today, doesn't mean it's not going to be there. |
| 0:50.8 | And Joppa is a staple and it's a principle of what we do. |
| 0:55.5 | But sometimes you might need to go for a walk in the woods or find a way to quiet your mind |
| 1:01.5 | so you can feel some connection and and some maybe portal to let God into your heart and your thoughts. |
| 1:12.9 | What do you think about that? |
| 1:14.1 | People? |
| 1:15.3 | Very good, Roganath. |
| 1:16.3 | I'm happy that you did it. |
| 1:17.5 | It's interesting that you said it took like three days because it's – |
| 1:22.3 | I thought it'd be right away. |
| 1:23.3 | I was like, okay, I'm going to stop pedaling. |
| 1:24.5 | Now, give me something. |
| 1:25.4 | Give me something. |
| 1:30.2 | It literally – it wasn't until day three that I've, like. |
| 1:32.5 | No, that makes sense. |
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