1737: Physically Loose, Mentally Tight: A Yogi's Secret
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Most people don't suffer because life is chaotic — they suffer because their mind is.
As the stormy monsoon season gives way to autumn's still waters and clear skies, the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam reveals a profound teaching on the inner life: when agitation subsides, perception itself changes.
In this episode, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore how mental turbulence, stress, and emotional reactivity drain our energy — and how bhakti-yoga cultivates a rare combination of outward flexibility and inward steadiness.
Drawing on Arthur Ashe's timeless insight — "physically loose and mentally tight" — the conversation dives into the Sanskrit principle of anapekṣaḥ: freedom from dependence on how life is "supposed" to unfold.
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| 0:00.0 | what we've been reading in baghattam this description of the autumn season this beautiful poetic |
| 0:05.5 | chapter it's it's just it has beautiful poetic verses about nature but especially what it is it's |
| 0:13.2 | a meditation on what happens when agitation subsides you know it's about like the monsoon is over |
| 0:19.8 | and it created all kinds of agitation. |
| 0:22.7 | And as the autumn season sets in, the agitation subsides. And so that rainy season is really |
| 0:30.8 | representing, you know, turbulence and, you know, excess action or excess movement. And the autumn is representing, you know, excess action or excess movement. |
| 0:38.4 | And the autumn is representing, you know, clarity and inner stillness. |
| 0:44.8 | And so these verses, you know, it's worth really thinking about. |
| 0:48.3 | We may live active lives externally, but we have to find this inner steadiness and this inner stillness. |
| 0:57.4 | Otherwise, we won't be able to have this kind of focused, unwavering meditation on Krishna, |
| 1:05.3 | which is really what Bhagavagita is calling for us to develop that kind of focus. |
| 1:10.7 | And reading these texts and sharing them is one way to do it. |
| 1:13.5 | And I felt like just spending a little time with that, with that sadu, |
| 1:18.3 | was something nice experience to remember, you know, |
| 1:21.5 | remember that kind of steadiness. |
| 1:25.3 | Oh, now, Bhagavati, Vasudevaea. |
| 1:30.3 | Oh, no, Bhagavati, Vasudevaea. |
| 1:36.3 | Oh, Nama, Bhagavati, Vasudeva ya Live from the Gorda-downeco village and beautiful Maharashtra. |
| 1:52.0 | This is Wisdom of the Sages, a Bhakti Yoga podcast with your host, Raghanov, and co-host and senior |
| 1:57.7 | educator at the Bakhti Center, New York City, Kostubadas, who's live from Rishi-Kesh. |
| 2:02.3 | Welcome to the show. |
| 2:04.3 | It's Tuesday, February 24, 2026. |
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