1772: Everyone Worships Something | Free Will and the Object of Our Affection
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
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🗓️ 20 May 2026
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Everyone worships something. The rock star, the ideology, the bottle of wine, the beautiful person across the room. Dostoevsky identified it as an incessant, painful longing: so long as man remains free, he strives for nothing so persistently as to find someone worthy of complete surrender. We have free will — and where we invest our affection becomes our most important choice. In this episode Raghunath and Kaustubha explore that longing alongside the Vedic text's most sacred passage — where the gopi girls of Vrindavan invest everything in the very source of rasa itself.
Srimad Bhagavatam 10.29.12-19
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| 0:00.0 | we're all searching for happiness. |
| 0:01.5 | We're all searching for bliss. |
| 0:03.5 | And we're searching for some kind of shelter or some kind of, |
| 0:08.6 | something that sustains us and nourishes us and satisfies us. |
| 0:15.6 | And so, you know, as long as we're free, we're striving incessantly to find that. |
| 0:22.6 | And the, you know, it's interesting that you talk about Shelter because even if you look at, |
| 0:28.6 | let's say like yours and say like Parmenunda's kind of, who's been a member of both your |
| 0:37.4 | bands, kind of like the progression, you know, when you get. who's been a member of both your bands. |
| 0:39.1 | Kind of like the progression, you know, |
| 0:41.1 | when you get to Babu time, it reveals that here's the progression that things go through. |
| 0:45.9 | They go from, let's say, karma to Ghana to Bhakti. |
| 0:51.8 | Like, what is Utha today and what is straight edge? It's Ghanic, right? It's like a refusal. Ghanic means it's negating everything. And so we don't do this, we don't do that. Actually, that was like the minor threats. I don't. I don't do this. I don't do that. I don't do that. |
| 1:11.7 | At least I don't do this. |
| 1:13.4 | Or, |
| 1:13.6 | yeah, |
| 1:14.1 | actually it's kind of like, yeah. You know, I don't smoke, don't drink. What do you do? You know? In other words, your whole, the whole movement was about what we don't do. and it was and that was good |
| 1:26.2 | it was like those are things |
| 1:27.8 | that were good not to do |
| 1:29.1 | you know and that's what |
| 1:30.6 | Guiana is it's like |
| 1:31.5 | we do. And it was, and that was good. It was like, those are things that were good not to do, you know. And that's what Guiana is. It's like we, we will not try to enjoy the things of this world. We realize the folly in that, right? So, so we don't do this. But Bhakti is the positive of alternative. And that's what Shelter was, right? Shelter wasn't just saying, |
| 1:44.6 | don't do this, don't do that. We don't do this. We don't do that. It was like what we do, |
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