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Wisdom of the Sages

1739: When God Plays the Flute: Gopī-Prema, the Pinnacle of Bhakti

Wisdom of the Sages

David Ramella

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Raghunath and Kaustubha enter the sacred poetry of Canto 10, Chapter 21—The Gopīs Glorify the Song of Kṛṣṇa's Flute. This is the theological summit of bhakti yoga, where love is defined, refined, and elevated beyond ritual, beyond liberation, beyond even the reverence of the gods. This is not ordinary romance. This is gopī-prema—the highest expression of divine love.

When divine sound penetrates the heart, nothing remains the same.

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0:00.0

Krishna entering the mind will make it pristine.

0:03.5

Nice.

0:03.9

You don't have to be perfect already to have Krishna come in.

0:08.2

You just hear about Krishna and he makes it all perfect.

0:11.9

His influence is all purifying.

0:14.5

Isn't that good news, Brantley.

0:17.1

It's that good news.

0:18.2

You just have to hear and chant on a regular basis.

0:22.0

Arjuna and Bhagwana and Bhaktya to christian and says uh what is it um param brahma padumdram idamam

0:30.4

yeah uitram you are the the supreme purifier so so especially our god, or, you know, those in our lineage, they say that

0:40.2

if you meditate on the prayers of the Gopis, now in one sense, it's very esoteric stuff,

0:47.2

and in another sense, it's a, it's a bit, more than esoteric, it's even a bit erotic, right?

0:54.1

Right. Easy, right enough. right yeah easy right enough see this is

0:57.0

this is why i'm not qualified so so it has to approach following in the footsteps of how these

1:05.4

great souls tell us to approach it you know with with a real appreciation not to cheapen it, to think, oh, this is like the lust

1:14.1

that I have in me.

1:16.2

No, this is entirely pure.

1:18.1

And so one approaches it with a mood of humility.

1:20.8

But if you approach it with the right mood, then it will purify your mind like nothing else.

1:44.2

Oh, now, Bhagavati, Vasudeva. then it will purify your mind like nothing else. Live for Mugabe, Vasudeva.

1:53.8

Live for Mishikes at the foot of the Himalayas.

1:56.7

This is Wisdom of the Sages, a Bhakti Yoga podcast with your host, Raghanov, and co-host and senior educator of the Bokti Center in New York,

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