1722: Redirected by Grace: Part 2
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Krishna's "coincidences" didn't calm down—they escalated. Part Two of Meet the Pilgrims picks up right where the last episode left off: real people, real spiritual detours, and that unmistakable moment when you stop chasing "success" and start getting redirected by grace.
Live from Govardhan Eco Village, this continuation brings even kirtanf the Wisdom of the Sages pilgrimage into view—hardcore kids from the punk scene, yoga teachers, musicians, academics, kirtan leaders, and seekers who thought they were just "improving themselves"… until bhakti started improving them. And sometimes it's a former corporate success story singing kirtan, wandering musicians Googling "kirtan near me" and ending up singing for Radhanath Swami, and a PhD student realizing the ladder of achievement was leaning against the wrong wall.
And it's not just about "how I got here." It's about what happens after you arrive—when humility opens the channel, association does its work, and spiritual life stops being theory and becomes transformation. Sometimes the miracle is a "secret temple." Sometimes it's a new marriage that begins with a second-date kirtan. And sometimes it's a former corporate success story singing kirtan on the streets of Mumbai because he finally meant it when he said, "Teach me how to be a devotee."
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| 0:00.0 | there's a quality to the chanting, you know. And it's not even exactly like the quality of the voice or the quality of the musicianship, but there's just a spiritual quality. And I find when you start chanting, you hit that space. It's just right there. I find it so good. And one of my favorite kirtans was the one that you led that day that we were at that place near Radakun. Do you remember that? And I asked you to chant that Bengali. |
| 0:23.9 | we were like I don't even know what that place was |
| 0:25.1 | this home that people |
| 0:26.5 | cook a little mini-a-stram and this |
| 0:29.1 | family cooks and we went |
| 0:31.2 | there at lunchtime and they were cooking up the |
| 0:33.3 | lunch and we were sitting there in one |
| 0:35.3 | room and there was like a room full |
| 0:37.3 | of just like Bengali pilgrims just like |
| 0:38.9 | all lying on the there lunchtime and they were cooking up the lunch and we were sitting there in one room and there was |
| 0:41.0 | like a room full of just like Bengali pilgrims just like all lying on the floor right they came to |
| 0:37.9 | see Radakund and they're just like all lying on the floor you know how the Indian thing you just |
| 0:42.9 | lie on the floor and it's okay and it's a whole it's like a slave ship kind of tightness you know |
| 0:46.5 | it's like everyone's all back in there and then I said said, I said, Gandharvi Kyridhar, I just chant. I just chant this melody. And I just had to chant this Bengali melody. You know, the one, Haredi, Krishna, Haredi, Krishna, Krishna. Hushana, Haredi. So she started chanting that, and then all of a sudden, like, the head started poking around the corner, you know, and then they all got into it. But you really are one of my, you're a wonderful devotee, and you've really become one of my favorite Kirtown leaders. So I'm very thankful. And you got a good story about coming into Bhakti. You want to share briefly? You've got a lot of the shenanical story too that's |
| 0:51.5 | another thing i'm into bacti though but still it's a great story that's a different story yeah yeah |
| 1:28.4 | it's a good story okay want to share it again or uh how it came to bacti how he came bacti your love |
| 1:33.0 | connection your whatever whatever you like today how are you doing? I'm overwhelmed. |
| 1:38.6 | I'm overwhelmed. |
| 1:45.3 | I'm overwhelmed, to be honest. |
| 1:46.0 | Okay. |
| 1:46.8 | I'm here and it's just... |
| 1:47.0 | A good overwhelm? |
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