1769: Answer the Call of the Heart | The Bhaktivedanta Path of Renunciation
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
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Summary
Life is kind of empty if there is not something so meaningful and beautiful that we feel a calling to give everything out of love. We spend our lives looking for that higher cause — or feeling empty if we haven't found it. The total giving of the self is what Thomas Merton calls a blind spiritual instinct. And when you actually follow it, people may think you've gone crazy. Raghunath and Kaustubha explore that calling alongside Krishna's flute-song call of love to the gopis, instigating a "terrible act of thievery" by stealing their sobriety, shyness, fear and discrimination. Through this pastime the Bhaktivedanta tradition shares one of its most radical teachings — that true renunciation can only be the result of pure love, and that renunciation is artificial if it is not a derivative of such devotional love.
Srimad Bhagavatam 10.29.2-5
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| 0:00.0 | I thought this sentence was powerful. |
| 0:01.7 | Because we were made for eternal life, we are made for an act that gathers up all the powers |
| 0:09.1 | and capacities of our being and offers them simultaneously and forever to God. |
| 0:15.2 | It's like if you had a horse and the horse never ran. |
| 0:18.4 | It's like that horse is made to run. |
| 0:19.9 | A race horse. |
| 0:20.4 | A race horse. Yeah, like A race horse. A race horse. |
| 0:21.0 | Yeah, like a race horse. |
| 0:22.3 | Yeah, right. |
| 0:22.9 | Or a Lamborghini. |
| 0:24.1 | Like, these people driving Lamborghinis around New York City and you can only go to the next life. I've ever seen that before. You ever see that? It's like, why? You got to open that thing up. Open that thing up. Get out of New York City. |
| 0:35.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:35.7 | And so if we have powers and capabilities and we never engage them, then there will be a sense of emptiness. |
| 0:45.1 | And here, you know, you're using the word bigger and bigger. |
| 0:48.8 | And I think it's not necessarily externally bigger, right? |
| 0:55.9 | Like Mother Teresa said, you know, she spoke about doing small things with great love, right? |
| 1:04.1 | Small acts or something like that with great love. |
| 1:06.7 | We may not all be starting some kind of movement or, you know, leading troops into battle. |
| 1:15.1 | You know, you see something like Braveheart, right? |
| 1:16.9 | There's a movie. |
| 1:17.4 | You're talking about movies, right? |
| 1:19.0 | Right. |
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