1679: Marcus Aurelius Meets Krishna Under the Autumn Full Moon
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
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🗓️ 7 October 2025
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What happens when the Stoic emperor of self-control meets the divine cowherd of boundless love? From Brahmā's cosmic prank to the gopīs' fearless devotion, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore the art of giving without keeping score—through Stoic insight, Bhakti wisdom, and the moonlit mystery of Kartik's full moon.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.13.40–43
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| 0:00.0 | Some people are genuinely merciful or like parents naturally affectionate. |
| 0:08.0 | Such persons who devotedly serve, even those who fail to reciprocate with them, are following the true faultless path of Dharma. |
| 0:18.3 | And they are the true well-wishers. |
| 0:21.5 | Beautiful. |
| 0:22.6 | It's so beautiful and so that this is shared at this moment, right, kind of like right |
| 0:29.7 | in the middle of the Rasalila, shows that there's something incredibly deep about life here these are the archa chars are saying that |
| 0:39.5 | these are the this is the essence of everything being shared right here right am i a giver or am i a |
| 0:46.8 | taker that's what yoga boils down to that's what our existence boils down to and and when we give |
| 0:53.7 | we if we're going to really be a true giver, it means we give regardless. |
| 0:58.2 | And so Marcus Aurelius is kind of, he's tuned into some deep wisdom about, you know, he had this |
| 1:04.4 | life. He had tons of responsibility. You know, he was like a ruler of like an empire, you know, not just like a country or a city or something like that, but like an empire. |
| 1:17.4 | Are you saying that he might have been a little bit smarter than me? |
| 1:23.1 | I'm not saying anything about you. |
| 1:25.5 | I'm sorry about that. |
| 1:30.0 | I'm just saying anything about you. I'm sorry about that. I'm just saying that, you know, but at the same time, although he was living this life of, of, like, political complications and distractions, he was, he had this intense focus in this codes that he lived by that I think revealed to him some depth of understanding. |
| 1:48.6 | He probably had wonderful teachers, you know, too. |
| 1:51.1 | Sure. |
| 1:51.8 | And he really seemed to understand this. |
| 1:54.4 | You know, you did a good deed. |
| 1:56.7 | That should be satisfying enough, right? |
| 2:00.4 | You did a good deed and someone else benefit from it and received it and benefit from it. |
| 2:05.1 | Perfect. |
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