About this episode

The episode explores how both jñāna and bhakti lead to detachment, with a focus on the beauty of love as depicted in the Rāsa Dance.

"Love separates all things from the soul." Meister Eckhart — fourteenth century Christian mystic, so radical the Pope investigated him for heresy — arrived at the same place as the Bhakti Vedāntins. Both jñāna and bhakti dissolve material attachment. Jñāna does it through relentless intellectual negation. Bhakti does it through love. And love, as the Rāsa Dance shows, does it beautifully. In this episode Raghunath and Kaustubha continue through Canto Ten, Chapter Thirty-Three — Krishna caressing the tired gopīs' faces, the demigods showering flowers from their airplanes, Krishna and the gopīs entering the Yamuna together under the autumn moon. The highest object of meditation, delivered into this universe so we would stop looking for love and beauty in all the wrong places. Srimad Bhagavatam 10.33.12-25 ******************************************************************** 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

• jñāna
• bhakti
• detachment
• love
• Krishna
• Rāsa Dance
• meditation

Keywords

• detachment
• jñāna
• bhakti
• love
• Krishna
• gopīs
• Yamuna
• meditation
• Srimad Bhagavatam

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Srimad Bhagavatam

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