1774: What is a Pure Devotee? / Q&A Vol. 294
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
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🗓️ 23 May 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Recorded live at the Wisdom of the Sages retreat at SuperSoul Farm, this Q&A episode opens with a question that sits at the heart of bhakti — what does it actually mean to be a pure devotee? From there, Raghunath and Kaustubha move through honest questions from the room: how to begin worshiping Tulsi Devi and the deities at home, how a bhakta thinks about hunting and the stewardship of animals, and how to hold firm boundaries with people whose behavior we can't condone without slipping into condemnation. Threaded through it all is a recurring theme — that behind every warped mind is a pure soul, and that the devotees who touch our hearts are the ones who change our lives.
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| 0:00.0 | And one of Prabhā's disciples asked him, he may have not even been called Prabhat. |
| 0:04.8 | Maybe he said, Swamuji, you know, how many pure devotees are there in the world? |
| 0:12.0 | And Shilhpapa said, how many devotees are in our movement right now? |
| 0:15.7 | And they said something like, God, it's about 100 or something like that. |
| 0:18.4 | And he said, well, then there are 100 pure devotees. |
| 0:54.1 | Now, another time, someone wrote a letter, a poem. It was like a poem of a prayer to Christian, and they sent it to Shula Prabha. It was like one of his new disciples. And in the poem, they wrote something like, Krishna, I am your devotee. Not even pure devotee. Prabhu wrote back saying, we don't say, I am your devotee. We say, I'm your servant. Because to be a devotee of Christian is a very high position. We don't, we don't assume that we're, so on one hand he's saying we're all pure devotees. Another hand he's saying none of us are devotees. Now I'm confused. Now I've got a question. |
| 0:57.2 | Oh, no, |
| 0:58.4 | Bhagavati, |
| 1:00.6 | Vasudevaea. |
| 1:03.4 | Oh, |
| 1:03.8 | no, |
| 1:05.3 | Bhagavati, |
| 1:06.8 | Basu Debaea. |
| 1:09.6 | Oh, |
| 1:10.0 | no, |
| 1:12.1 | Bhagavati, |
| 1:14.3 | Basu Debaer. |
| 1:20.5 | Come on. |
| 1:22.7 | I'm from Super Soul Farm. |
| 1:24.3 | This is Wisdom of the Sages. |
| 1:27.0 | A Bakhti Yoga podcast with your host, Raghanaith, and co-host and senior educator |
| 1:29.5 | at the Bokti Center in New York City, |
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