1713: Can the Angels Lift Raghunath's Spirits on Christmas Eve?
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Christmas Eve hits different when life feels fractured: broken family emotions, grief, longing, and that uneasy feeling that the world keeps taking what we hoped would stay. Raghunath and Kaustubha let it get real. can Kaustubha cheer up a very Fonzie-alone-with-a-can-of-beans Raghunath—using Christmas carols, classic lyrics, and bhakti logic as the rescue plan? Can they, together, reframe Christmas through a bhakti lens: holidays aren't just celebrations, they're yogic instruments—designed to interrupt the daily trance, soften the heart, and pivot us from self-centered survival to love, giving, and forgiveness?
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| 0:00.0 | Let's just do this podcast, please, before I break down in tears. |
| 0:04.6 | Let's do the nugget. |
| 0:06.8 | And then I have a dog that will not come home. |
| 0:10.1 | I have a dog who's not interested in me any longer. |
| 0:13.4 | He's interested in the neighbors. |
| 0:15.2 | He's like the only dog that's not loyal. |
| 0:19.3 | I've raised that dog since puppyhood. |
| 0:22.8 | He's like, no, I'd rather stay with these, the family down the road. |
| 0:27.4 | All the animals are dying over there. |
| 0:29.8 | Rognath, he wants to go somewhere the animals are alive. |
| 0:36.0 | His aren't loyal. |
| 0:37.6 | No one's loyal. The animals aren't loyal. No one's loyal. |
| 0:38.6 | Animals aren't loyal. |
| 0:39.9 | I'm loyal. |
| 0:41.2 | I'm right here. |
| 0:43.4 | I'm right here. |
| 0:44.4 | I know this is like that. |
| 0:45.6 | This is like that scene in Love Actually where like there's that rock star guy and he's like, you he's like really miserable actually you watch too many |
| 0:56.0 | movies for a mom right why you why you give me a hard time there's this rock star guy and and uh |
| 1:04.1 | he's like he's he um he somehow gets a big hit around christmas time but then he finds out life is empty. Nobody really loves him. And the only guy that's really like there is his manager who's like a really sweet guy, but he guys kind of always neglecting him. But then he realizes, no, this is my guy. He's here with me through it all. I'm here for you, Ruggner. I'm like that manager guy. It's like the Fonzie Christmas ever watch Happy Days? Anyone that old to remember watching Happy Days? It was like the number one show in America. I remember Mrs. Cunningham came in. Okay, okay. Do you remember that Fonzie is like the coolest guys? They were inviting Fonzie to come in. He said, no, I got so much going on. |
| 2:02.7 | And then they go see Fonzie. And you know what he's doing on Christmas Eve? He was all alone eating a can of soup. He was eating a can of beans. Eating a can of beans. That's what his Christmas was. I feel like Fonzie today. I feel like Fonzie. How could you say that with Pranapri is sitting right next year with a whole loving community of Zoom people right here for you? |
| 2:05.2 | All these Christmas presents have wrapped under the tree. |
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