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Wisdom of the Sages

1780: Bhakti's Sacred Longing | In Separation, the Beloved Is Found Everywhere

Wisdom of the Sages

David Ramella

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

How can longing be ecstasy? How can absence be the deepest form of presence? This is one of the great mysteries of love — and bhakti yoga illuminates it. When Ram banished Sita, it looked like abandonment. When Krishna disappeared from the Rāsa Dance, it looked like cruelty. But a saint follower of Rama revealed the secret to Radhanath Swami: love driven inward by separation reaches special depths. In union the beloved is found in one place. In separation the beloved is found everywhere. What looks like pain from the outside is the most profound bliss from the inside.

Srimad Bhagavatam 10.30.7-11

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0:00.0

If one has but a little love of Godhead, he can perceive its powerful effects.

0:05.0

It can only be compared to poison and nectar mixed together.

0:10.7

Lord Chaitanya spoke, my dear beautiful friend, if one develops love of Godhead, love of

0:16.8

Krishna, he's speaking like a gopi now, right?

0:19.3

He's speaking just like the gopi spoke.

0:21.7

He says, my dear beautiful friend, if one develops love of Godhead, love of Krishna, the son

0:25.8

of nundamaraj, all the bitter and sweet influences of this love will manifest in one's

0:31.4

heart. Such love of God had acts in two ways. The poisonous effects of love of God to defeat the severe and fresh poison of the serpent.

0:42.6

Yet, there is simultaneously the transcendental bliss which pours down and defeats the pride of nectar and diminishes its value.

0:51.3

In other words, love of Krishna is so powerful that it simultaneously defeats the poison

0:56.0

effects of a snake as well as happiness derived from pouring nectar on one's head. It is perceived

1:02.9

as doubly effective, simultaneously poison and nectarian. If you want to say, I love God, or you read the Cheatania Charging Reader to try to

1:14.8

understand what it's the depths of it, the subtleties of it, the nuances of it.

1:20.3

This is very, very high literature here.

1:23.2

And Bhagwatom, of course, it's all the culture of the Bhagwataam.

1:27.0

It's all derived by and through the

1:30.2

Bhagavatam, which we're reading right now and we'll hear about where it's all coming from now.

1:35.1

Isn't amazing that we just stumbled upon this, you and I? We just like stumbled upon it. It came to us. It came to us.

1:43.6

It just came to us. It just came to us.

1:48.0

Oh, no, bagavate, Vasudevaea.

1:51.0

Oh,

1:52.0

no,

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