1696: Racism, Rage and a Spiritual Way Forward / Q&A Vol. 291
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
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🗓️ 15 November 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Rage at a racist, a double middle-finger "protest," and a bhakti yogi wondering, "Did I actually help… or just lose it?" From there, this episode dives into how good ethics—when cut loose from wisdom traditions—can quietly mutate into the very hatred they're meant to oppose. Broadcasting this Q&A epeisode from a quiet village in India, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore how yogi can confront injustice, racism, and toxic ideology without being swallowed by anger, tribalism, or self-righteousness. Then the conversation widens: why do so many cultures have elaborate "Books of the Dead" while the Bhagavad-gītā boils it all down to the essense of "just remember Kṛṣṇa"?
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| 0:00.0 | You said something, Roganath. We generally don't have takeaways on the Q&A days, but you said something like that this person is... |
| 0:05.0 | Want to keep something? |
| 0:06.8 | Well, I forget exactly how your phrase, but you said this person is in like a costume of a white supremacist, right? |
| 0:14.1 | Sure. |
| 0:14.7 | Because it's a soul within a costume of a white supremacist. |
| 0:18.3 | You know, you and I used to see, like, it is a fact. |
| 0:21.5 | Like, we used to see people like, because like in our scene when we were kids, it was like, |
| 0:28.1 | there were like skinheads that were like straight up Nazis, right? |
| 0:32.8 | Straight up. |
| 0:33.5 | Like card-carrying Nazis. |
| 0:35.2 | Not like Trump is a Nazi or whomever is a Nazi when political guy is a total Nazi. |
| 0:42.2 | It's like card-carrying, self-identifying, I am a Nazi, proud to, you know, swastika on their neck. |
| 0:50.7 | Mind-com following. |
| 0:51.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.8 | Like that's, they identified as Nazis. And then there were like peace punks. Yeah. Like that's, they identified as Nazis. |
| 0:55.7 | And then there were like peace punks, which were the opposite. |
| 0:59.3 | They were extreme left. |
| 1:00.1 | They want to destroy the system. |
| 1:02.1 | They want to burn everything down. |
| 1:03.7 | They want to know government whatsoever. |
| 1:05.7 | And you would see people like switch the uniform, right? |
| 1:09.9 | Like in a short amount of time someone would go for from being |
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