1779: Divine Madness | The Samādhi of the Gopīs
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
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What looks like madness from the outside is the whole goal of yoga from the inside. Jacopone da Todi — Crazy Jim from Todi — found that every door of the senses leads straight to God. The gopīs of Vrindavan, wandering through the forest after Krishna disappears from the Rāsa Dance, singing his name, asking the trees if they've seen him, declaring to one another: I am Krishna — they found the same thing. This is not madness. This is samādhi. This is what love does when it takes over every sense.
Srimad Bhagavatam 10.30.1-6
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| 0:00.0 | Wow. |
| 0:02.0 | It's like what he's describing is like every door you try to walk out of sight, right? |
| 0:09.3 | Sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell, you walk straight into God. |
| 0:14.3 | Like there's no exit. |
| 0:15.6 | Love has completely surrounded him. |
| 0:20.9 | You know, most people would look at it and, okay, this guy has, like, lost his mind. |
| 0:25.3 | But I think about what's actually happening, every single sense pointed in the same direction, |
| 0:32.4 | every experience leading to the same place, nothing pulling him away, nothing distracting him. |
| 0:38.0 | You know what that is, Mr. Kay? |
| 0:39.4 | What is that called? |
| 0:40.6 | That's the whole goal of yoga. |
| 0:42.0 | That's what the entire practice is painting toward, pointing towards. |
| 0:48.0 | This is like a one-pointed absorption where the mind stops scattering everything converges |
| 0:53.6 | on a single object, right? |
| 0:55.0 | Isn't this the goal of yoga, the profession of yoga? |
| 0:58.1 | Yogi spend their lifetimes trying to achieve that type of one-pointedness that our scattered brains do not possess any longer. |
| 1:06.2 | Love just took over every sentence. |
| 1:08.6 | Every door leads to the same place. |
| 1:10.7 | That's the whole goal of Bhakti. |
| 1:12.7 | Love God with your heart, mind, and soul. Not forcing the mind to focus, but love so strong, |
| 1:18.3 | so deeply that it focuses on its own. And they call them crazy, right? But what looks like madness |
| 1:26.6 | from the outside, that's complete unbroken absorption. |
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