About this episode

The episode explores the Rāsa Dance and the profound love of the gopīs for Krishna, revealing deeper spiritual insights.

A first reading of the Rāsa Līlā might suggest the gopīs' love is selfish, irresponsible, even unethical. But looking closer one can find the highest transcendence attained not through grinding austerity but through love so real and complete that everything else simply fell away. In this episode Raghunath and Kaustubha arrive at Canto Ten, Chapter Thirty-Three — the Rāsa Dance itself. Krishna expands between each pair of gopīs. The demigods crowd the sky. The gopīs sing, creating sixteen thousand musical ragas. Rādhārāṇī, tired from the dance, places her arm around Krishna's shoulder. His arm carries the fragrance of blue lotus and sandalwood. Her hair stands on end. She kisses his arm. This beautiful scene is what Vyāsadeva was told to meditate on and share with the world. Srimad Bhagavatam 10.33.1-11 ******************************************************************** LOVE THE PODCAST? WE ARE COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AND WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO JOIN! Go to https://www.wisdomofthesages.com WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/@WisdomoftheSages LISTEN ON ITUNES: https://podcasts/apple.com/us/podcast/wisdom-of-the-sages/id1493055485 CONNECT ON FACEBOOK…

People in this episode

Hosts: Raghunath Cappo, Kaustubha Das

Topics covered

• Rāsa Līlā
• Krishna
• gopīs
• transcendence
• love
• spirituality

Keywords

• Rāsa Līlā
• gopīs
• Krishna
• spiritual love
• Srimad Bhagavatam
• transcendence
• Rādhārāṇī
• Vyāsadeva

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Srimad Bhagavatam

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