1682: You Can't Hurry Love: How Bhakti Matures / Q&A Volume 285
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
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🗓️ 12 October 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
You Can't Hurry Love: How Bhakti Matures
It's easy to look spiritual — chant loud, dress the part, quote Sanskrit — but bhakti gets real when one starts perceiving divinity everywhere, in everyone. In this live Wisdom of the Sages retreat Q&A, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore how beginner bhakti matures into genuine love — the kind that sees God in every heart and responds with compassion.
Episode Highlights:
* "Ego is the glass in the soup of our joy" — why even a small shard ruins the whole pot
* You can't hurry love: why bhakti grows slow, like a vine
* From neophyte to mature devotee — learning to see Krishna in everyone
* Preaching without pretense: why sharing joy beats proving philosophy
* The charity trap — what King Nṛga's story teaches about giving wisely
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| 0:00.0 | We hear Krishna speak about the neophyte devotee. |
| 0:03.1 | And he says, it's, it's, it's, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I think the word you use was infatuated. |
| 0:12.8 | And so they can say like, the neophyte devotee may be infatuated with the form of Christian in the temple. |
| 0:17.9 | He bows down, loves to, you know, taking pictures of it, hanging on as a refrigerator, you know, you know, going to the temple. He bows down, loves to, you know, taking pictures of it, hanging |
| 0:21.7 | on as a refrigerator, you know, going to the temple every day, offering money to the deity |
| 0:28.9 | in the temple and so on. But Bhagavatan tells us that that's a neophyte devotee. It seems like |
| 0:34.6 | they're totally absorbing Krishna. But they don't see Krishna everywhere. They don't see Krishna, particularly it says, within the hearts of all |
| 0:43.7 | living beings. So they, so they're very respectful to the deity in the temple, but they |
| 0:49.8 | don't treat the devotees well, and they don't treat the people in general well. |
| 0:56.0 | They don't see Krishna in them. |
| 0:58.0 | So moving from the neophyte devotee to the more advanced, |
| 1:03.0 | it means seeing Krishna in everyone. |
| 1:06.0 | And that means that's something that we really need to practice. |
| 1:10.0 | Oh, now, Bhagavati, Vasudevaea. |
| 1:14.6 | Oh, no, |
| 1:17.6 | Bhagavati, Vasudevaea. |
| 1:21.6 | Oh, Nama, Bhagavati,ude Bahia live |
| 1:30.4 | live from Super Soul Farm |
| 1:35.5 | this is Wisdom of the Sages |
| 1:36.9 | a Bhakti Yoga podcast |
| 1:38.4 | with your host |
| 1:39.3 | and co-host |
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