22: Spiritual Experience Isn't Cheap!

Live from the Wisdom of the Sages annual Tuscany retreat, Raghunath and Kaustubha take questions from their live audience. Four questions: When Krishna takes something away — is it punishment or love? How do you know if you're actually making progress on the path of bhakti? How d ...  Show more

That is the signature of real love — not what you get out of it, but how impossible it feels to ever pay it back. Arthur Ashe, dying, wrote to his young daughter: "You gave me so much happiness I can never repay you." He raised her. By any accounting, she owes him. And yet the gi ...  Show more

We’ve been taught to look for our happiness in outside things: money, power, romance, approval. That’s the first thing we need to understand if we want to come awake, which is the same thing as saying: if we want to love, if we want freedom, if we want joy and peace and spiritual ...  Show more

Sooner or later there arises in every human heart the desire for holiness, spirituality, God, call it what you will. One hears mystics speak of a divinity all around them that is within our grasp, that would make our lives meaningful and beautiful and rich, if we could only disco ...  Show more

David introduces the concept of spiritual challenges and growth, guiding listeners through the experience of tests and the journey of overcoming negativity. He explores the significance of consciousness shifts and the role of soulmate connections in spiritual evolution. The ep ...

We're all on our own journey when it comes to spirituality, and it's not going to look exactly the same for all of us. So, tune in this week to discover what might be missing from your current experience of spirituality, and how you can work toward your own spiritual awakening ...