1686: From Bypass to Bhakti: 12-Step Honesty with Jiva G
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
When devotion turns into performance, honesty becomes the new yoga. In this powerful conversation with Jiva G, Raghunath explores how 12-Step recovery principles blend seamlessly with bhakti yoga to heal the heart. Together they unpack spiritual bypassing, codependency, trauma, and the courage to drop the mask. It's raw, funny, and deeply transformative—showing that real bhakti isn't about perfection, it's about honesty, humility, and doing the inner work that makes love real.
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes, like for me, and I can only speak for my personal experience, when I first had to face my addiction, there was nothing else I could do except for face that. |
| 0:08.6 | I couldn't think about why. I couldn't think about where it took. |
| 0:12.0 | I couldn't think about why I was addicted to heroin. I couldn't think about what I had to get myself out of that mess. |
| 0:19.3 | Every single drop of energy was spent not using and trying to get myself to a point of being a functional human being, showering, saying, you know, going to a meeting. |
| 0:31.6 | When I went to one meeting a day and did my dishes, that was call for the most celebration ever. I was filled with gratitude |
| 0:38.5 | not to be able to just not having to use, not being a, a not being remote controlled and |
| 0:46.8 | being absolutely bullied by my own addiction, bullied into a corner beaten into submission by my own |
| 0:53.2 | addiction, making me, me is literally like this |
| 0:56.2 | abusive monster that I had that would take me by the neck and make me go use over and over that's how it felt and when I was free of that |
| 1:05.5 | when I finally was free of that I wasn't ready to find out why or what. I was just freaking happy, just thanking God. |
| 1:13.4 | So the thing is, through the years of all of the layers, my conditionings and all of that stuff, |
| 1:21.2 | that unfolded to seeing, okay, why? And sometimes I just don't know why. I mean, gene. It's biopsychosocial. That's what they say. |
| 1:30.9 | And spiritual. And karmic. It's just, it was one of the contents of my karmic reaction here on this earth. |
| 1:39.1 | And I'm so grateful to it. I'm the most grateful to my addiction because it caused me to compartmentalize |
| 1:45.6 | surrender. I can't do it for everything, but I did in drugs and alcohol. I surrendered that |
| 1:51.7 | I could never touch it again and I knew that I couldn't and I never wanted to since then. |
| 1:55.9 | I wanted to touch it was like a, it was just like as God came down and just boom it's gone |
| 2:02.0 | oh no bagavati vas today byea oh no, Bhagavati, Vasudeva, |
| 2:19.3 | Bahia |
| 2:21.3 | Come on! |
| 2:26.3 | Live from Super Soul Farm, this is Wisdom of the Sages, |
| 2:29.3 | a Bhakti Yoga podcast with your host, Raghanov. |
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