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Wisdom of the Sages

1715: Is Self-Care Making Us Less Happy?

Wisdom of the Sages

David Ramella

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Self-care culture tells us to treat ourselves, embrace our flaws, and obsess over our inner world—but the research on happiness points in the opposite direction. In this episode, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore how bhakti-yoga reframes humility and self-esteem, and why real relief comes from realizing you are not the body, the mind, or the story you've been defending. With humor, psychology, and ancient wisdom, they reveal how service, purpose, and spiritual identity dissolve anxiety and comparison—and then pivot into the to Srimad Bhagavatam's Kāliya-līlā, where the residents of Vṛndāvana become so absorbed in Kṛṣṇa that fear, grief, and love explode beyond anything ordinary psychology can measure.

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The strategy that's largely propounded now, if you have feelings of unworth or feelings of

0:08.9

low self-esteem and maybe it's connected to your body or some other personal characteristic,

0:17.9

that the idea is just embrace that.

0:21.9

Don't, you know, like, it's beautiful exactly the way it is.

0:26.1

And a lot of times that's like quite a mountain to climb to really convince yourself

0:30.0

of that.

0:30.6

But what you can convince yourself of, and something that's true and much more meaningful

0:34.9

and much gives much greater relief, is that, well, you don't really

0:40.0

need to worry about that because you're not your body anyway, you know?

0:43.6

Right.

0:44.0

Again, not that you don't take care of your health, but in other words, that's not you.

0:48.5

That's just a little vehicle that you're passing through.

0:50.7

And for just a moment, and when someone really gets that this this was always

0:57.9

the ancient teachings of all these texts like baghavigita and Upanishads or you know bagwatam

1:04.9

you know nard of panchiratra you know there's that famous quote from nara the sarvopati

1:10.2

vinyar Mukdam,

1:11.6

Thaparatvena Nirmala, Hrishika, shes, say, and Bhaktirutjit.

1:16.4

That when you engage, right, you engage in service, right?

1:20.9

You offer yourself, just like we've been talking about, right?

1:23.1

You have a meaningful purpose and you connect with God in a deep way and you serve and with some intensity,

1:29.2

then there's the side of the side effects is that it's Sarva-upati vinae Mukhtam.

1:34.1

All your Sarva Upadis, all of your false designations, including, I am this body, I am this

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