1773: Let Your FOMO Be for the Divine | Saint Augustine and the Gopīs
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
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There is a restlessness in the human heart that nothing in this world can satisfy. Saint Augustine called it the clue to our true nature — we were made for God, and until we find that, the searching never stops. Every object has its dharma, its purpose. The sages of the Bhakti yoga tradition say the dharma of the soul is divine love. It's what we're made for. In this episode Raghunath and Kaustubha explore that human restlessness alongside the Srimad Bhagavatam's Rāsa Līlā — where the gopīs of Vrindavan surrender to the calling of what they were made for. Let your FOMO be for the divine.
Srimad Bhagavatam 10.29.21-30
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| 0:00.0 | But you are squirrel master this morning, friends. |
| 0:02.7 | Augustine of Hippo is one of the most important figures in the entire history of Western thought, |
| 0:07.5 | theologian, philosopher, and bishop whose writing shaped Christianity, Western philosophy, |
| 0:12.7 | and even secular thought for over 16 centuries. |
| 0:15.8 | Wow. |
| 0:16.1 | He's considered one of the greatest minds who ever lived, ranked alongside Plato and Aristotle in terms of his |
| 0:22.2 | influence on how the Western world thinks about God, the soul, time, memory, free will, and human |
| 0:27.2 | nature. Now, listen to this, Ragnol. His life's story. He was born in North Africa, modern day |
| 0:34.1 | Algeria, to a devout Christian mother and pagan father he was brilliant from let's |
| 0:39.5 | slow that down yeah he's born in northern Africa in Algeria yes what what is today Algeria okay |
| 0:46.8 | he had a Christian mother pagan father he was mother pagan father brilliant from child that's a mixed |
| 0:53.1 | marriage yes interesting huh yes he was brilliant from child Christian mother, pagan father. Brilliant from childhood. That's a mixed marriage. |
| 0:54.6 | Yes. |
| 0:55.7 | Interesting, huh? |
| 0:56.4 | Yes. |
| 1:03.0 | He was brilliant from childhood, but spiritually restless and morally turbulent for most of his early life. |
| 1:05.3 | He took a mistress at 17. |
| 1:13.1 | You know, it's good to know that Augustine was, what did you say, morally turbulent? |
| 1:17.7 | That will make me, that makes me feel better about life right there. |
| 1:18.0 | Okay. |
| 1:22.2 | I can stop the show right here and go on with my day and have a good day. |
| 1:27.1 | Yeah, but he, but by the time he was like in his 20s or 30s, he got over it. |
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