1701: A Cosmic Reality Check: The Truth Behind Our Illusion of Control
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Carl Sagan's apple-pie insight becomes a launchpad for a sweeping journey from kitchens to cosmos, as Raghunath and Kaustubha explore why nothing we "create" is truly from scratch, why everything we touch is on loan, and how embracing our smallness opens the door to spiritual freedom. From the caves and rivers of Rishikesh to the wheel of saṁsāra and Lord Brahma's realization of Kṛṣṇa's supremacy, this episode dismantles the illusion of independence and invites us into a more grounded—and liberating—vision of reality.
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| 0:00.0 | We are secondhand creators of the ultimate creation. |
| 0:04.8 | That's why this quote is so great. |
| 0:06.3 | You want to make an apple pie from scratch? |
| 0:08.2 | You must first invent the universe. |
| 0:09.9 | There is no scratch. |
| 0:11.8 | Don't you get it? |
| 0:12.9 | That's the scratch. |
| 0:13.9 | There is no scratch. |
| 0:16.3 | Right. |
| 0:17.7 | What do you think? |
| 0:20.0 | I agree with you. You know, I once heard someone say, you know, I agree with you. |
| 0:21.2 | You know, I once heard someone say, you know, I once heard someone be corrected. |
| 0:25.8 | They're saying, I'm going to go make some orange juice. |
| 0:27.9 | It's like, no, you don't make orange juice. |
| 0:30.5 | Orange juice has already been made. |
| 0:32.0 | You just squeeze the orange juice, right? |
| 0:35.8 | And, you know, I thought about that. |
| 0:37.2 | I said, yeah, that's true. But, you know, I thought about that. I said, yeah, that's true. |
| 0:38.1 | But, you know, being here in Rishi-Kesh, it's a place where for so many centuries, |
| 0:48.5 | yogis have come, and they live very simply. |
| 0:53.5 | They live in caves sometimes, right? |
| 0:57.9 | They live or in these simple ashrams or little huts. |
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