1778: No Monopoly on God | Exclusivism and the God Who Withdraws
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
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🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The moment you think your group owns God is the moment He begins to slip away.understood this. When Bill Wilson, founder of AA and a devout Christian, wrote the program that would help millions get sober, he kept it simple: we have no monopoly on God. We merely have an approach that worked for us. In this episode Raghunath and Kaustubha bring that insight into conversation to it's esoteric pinnacle: the Rāsa Līlā — where the moment the gopīs feel proud of their closeness to Krishna, he disappears. Not as punishment but as mercy. In union you see your beloved in one place. In separation you see him everywhere.
Srimad Bhagavatam 10.29.41-48
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| 0:00.0 | And this line is so beautiful. |
| 0:01.5 | We have no monopoly on God. |
| 0:04.0 | Isn't that great? |
| 0:05.3 | We merely have an approach that worked for us. |
| 0:08.2 | It's personal experience. |
| 0:10.4 | That's remarkable humility for someone who found something that genuinely saved his life. |
| 0:15.4 | He's saying, this worked for me, but God is bigger than my experience. |
| 0:21.4 | Experience of him through my path. |
| 0:23.6 | He's bigger than my tradition. |
| 0:25.3 | He's bigger than my approach. |
| 0:26.7 | I think devotees need to hear this, too. |
| 0:28.7 | Okay. |
| 0:29.2 | Right. |
| 0:30.5 | I think this is good for you, because too, but the moment you think you need to hear it. |
| 0:35.1 | I live this thing, man. |
| 0:37.1 | I was just preaching. I was preaching this weekend to somebody. Okay. You were preaching. Were you shoving it down their throat? No. I was just saying. Okay. No, because the person was, there's a bunch of details. I've seen you on the cover of that No Comprom compromise EP. Yeah, I know. |
| 0:55.9 | I was a fundamentalist at one point. |
| 0:57.0 | I grew past that. |
| 0:58.3 | I'm glad to hear that. |
| 1:00.4 | Someone was asking me about some details about Bhakti. |
| 1:02.2 | I said, do you think God is bigger than that? |
| 1:05.0 | You think God is as narrow as that? You think God's love is narrow? |
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