1708: When Vedānta Becomes Poetry: Kṛṣṇa's Footprints in Vṛndāvana
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Bhakti moves like a river between union and separation, carrying the devotee through remembrance, longing, and love. In this episode, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore spiritual experience as it naturally unfolds in devotional life—through divine arrangements, moments of ecstasy, and the quiet ways sacred places awaken the heart. As the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam describes Vṛndāvana, Kṛṣṇa's footprints are said to make the land auspicious, showing how even a trace can hold both presence and absence at once. Here, Vedānta appears in its most beautiful and poetic expression, where bees, breezes, forests, and dust don't explain truth so much as embody it—and Vṛndāvana becomes something the devotee learns to carry wherever they go.
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| 0:00.0 | You bronze those shoes, you know. |
| 0:01.7 | And for those that don't know, it's just like they would literally take the shoes and dip them in bronze. And they would be like, I guess you put them on like a mantle or something like that. Well, it's like what we do for Prabopod. We take his footprints. Yeah. You know, when I was little, we did handprints and clay. I still have mine somewhere. My handprint in clay. Okay. from when you're five years old. |
| 0:23.0 | And that sort of like my handprint in clay. Okay. From when you're five years old. |
| 0:22.9 | And that sort of like holds you there in time. |
| 0:26.3 | And so we do with Prabat's footprints or great Acharya's footprints. |
| 0:31.2 | And for a parent, like to say to have a baby shoe, bronzed, it means one, it's never going to get, it's never going to be destroyed, |
| 0:39.2 | you know, because it's so solid now. But even when like the mother is like, you know, |
| 0:44.8 | let's say the mother was, you know, like 25 when she had the baby. So by time she's like 80, |
| 0:52.9 | then the kid is 55 years old. |
| 0:55.5 | Sure. |
| 0:57.3 | And the motions that she feels as a mother have changed in a way because, you know, there's an infant and then there's a child and then there's a teenager and then there's you know then then your child is |
| 1:11.7 | married and having children of their own and now you're a grandmother and the mood the flavor |
| 1:17.0 | of that love goes through you know transitions but the mother wants to remember what it was like |
| 1:25.8 | to feel that love when it was just an infant. |
| 1:28.0 | There's something very special about that feeling. |
| 1:32.5 | And those bronze shoes bring the mother back. |
| 1:37.3 | It makes that feeling arise in the mind, arise in the awareness. |
| 1:44.0 | You can say arise in the heart. And then in the awareness you say arise in the heart and then you feel |
| 1:46.7 | that and really for in Bhakti again it's like we don't say the success of this path is that you go to |
| 1:56.9 | heaven all right you die and go to heaven we say the success of this path is that you have a love that's so real that you feel deep, |
| 2:08.6 | powerful emotions of love, so much so that you cry, so much so that you get goosebumps. |
| 2:14.6 | So, you know, all the things that you would feel in any kind of |
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