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Wisdom of the Sages

1735: When Rivers Overflow and Yogis Remain Still

Wisdom of the Sages

David Ramella

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Monsoon season turns Vṛndāvana into a living poem — and Śrīmad Bhāgavatam uses that poem to deliver precision teaching on the inner life: how uncontrolled senses flood the mind, how devotional service makes a person genuinely luminous, and how steady yogic vision remains unshaken amid life's storms.

The conversation also briefly revisits the ongoing discussion surrounding women initiating, touching on a timeless principle: institutions may regulate structure, but the awakening of devotion and the transmission of transcendental knowledge unfold according to subtler laws.

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0:00.0

I think that by making this choice, it's really pushing people away from it.

0:07.0

And you and I have given our life to propagating it.

0:11.2

And therefore, it's hard on us as well because, you know, we want to rally behind things that we believe in.

0:17.8

We are into selling things of a very high calling. And both of us feel

0:24.5

like this goes against our personal integrity and our understanding of the philosophy.

0:29.4

And I don't believe you or I are saying that that's the intention of anyone, but I do think

0:36.1

it's the result.

0:37.5

And I was thinking, you know, like imagine if one of these,

0:42.4

let's say Prabhpah decide, they're not all

0:44.0

Prabhpah decides that are opposed to this idea,

0:46.5

but many of them are.

0:48.7

And imagine if in their life they had heard from Prohpad

0:53.3

and they had their, I mean, they all have had this experience

0:57.8

where they heard Prabhad's words.

0:59.4

They saw his example.

1:00.4

They had this conviction to give their life to Krishna or rise in their heart by the power

1:05.8

of his words, the power of Guru Panampara coming through him.

1:10.8

And if institutionally they would have been forced or coerced or, you know, required to say,

1:16.3

no, you can't take initiation from A.C. Bhaktiby binan to Swami Prabapad,

1:20.1

but you can't pick any of his God brothers.

1:23.3

How would they have felt?

1:24.7

But no, but it's not them.

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