1718: 3 Ferraris, Zero Peace: The Higher Taste Effect (Bhakti & Spiritual Psychology)
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
A higher spiritual taste doesn't negotiate with desire—it demotes it. From Govardhan Ecovillage in Maharashtra, Raghunath and Kaustubha riff on William James (father of modern psychology), the bhakti renaissance in India, and the strange way spiritual culture can make renunciation feel effortless: not by suppression, but by a new attraction taking the center of the heart. Along the way: kirtan "clubbing," deep-rooted devotion that suddenly shoots up like bamboo, and a reminder from the Bhāgavatam that when Krishna's touches the soul, even heaven, power, siddhis, and liberation start to look like broken glass next to the real thing.
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| 0:00.0 | It's part of what makes Bhakti Vedant to so not just, it makes it beautiful, but it makes it effective, you know, effective in this day and life. |
| 0:11.3 | I can respect spiritual practitioners of different ilks, I suppose. |
| 0:18.3 | Oh, yeah, different ilks, forgot it. |
| 0:20.9 | But where I see transformation take place, it takes absorption. |
| 0:28.2 | It takes very deep absorption, and it's very rare that a person gets fully absorbed in the abstract, right? |
| 0:35.1 | In the attributable, the attributable. But anyone, a child can get |
| 0:41.3 | absorbed in Kirtan. Sure. A child can get... We're witnessing it here |
| 0:45.4 | with the children here. We see it all the time. A child can get absorbed. |
| 0:49.9 | You were talking about it to Gobie or Jonovi. You know, |
| 0:53.3 | from... They were just children like all other children. |
| 0:56.4 | But there, but it would be hard to take a child of that age and have them deeply absorbed in Edweta Vedanta. |
| 1:03.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.1 | Sit still. |
| 1:05.3 | You know, calm your mind and breathe. |
| 1:07.8 | Right. |
| 1:08.2 | And so in one sense, we're all kind of like children, particularly in this day and age, |
| 1:12.1 | our minds are restless. |
| 1:13.9 | But the idea that even from the young is just from the womb, practically, you can have, |
| 1:20.7 | your mind, your senses can become absorbed in spiritual content. |
| 1:25.1 | And really, we call it the P of Brahmin right like the the the highest |
| 1:30.9 | manifestation of that spiritual energy you can you can become captivated by you can become caught up in |
| 1:37.4 | it in the beat in the taste and the flavor and let it pull you deeper and deeper into spiritual resorption. |
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