Wisdom of the Sages

In the 19th century, British colonial scholars dismissed the pastimes of Krishna as primitive and immoral, and a generation of educated Indians began to believe them. The brilliant bhakti theologian Bhaktivinoda Thakur answered with a book called the Krishna-samhita. His response ...  Show more

In the 19th century, British colonial scholars dismissed the pastimes of Krishna as primitive and immoral, and a generation of educated Indians began to believe them. The brilliant bhakti theologian Bhaktivinoda Thakur answered with a book called the Krishna-samhita. His response ...  Show more

Be good. Behave. Behave yourself. Growing up, most of us heard plenty about our actions and almost nothing about the thoughts that produce them. In this episode Raghunath and Kaustubha begin with Earl Nightingale's 1956 claim that history's great thinkers agree on one point: we b ...  Show more

Most of us long for a quiet mind. But what fills it once the noise is gone? On a solo bike ride across upstate New York, Raghunath finds that solitude alone doesn't bring peace. Left to itself, the mind drifts to its default setting. Raghunath and Kaustubha explore why the path o ...  Show more

When something is wrong and we say nothing, our own inner light begins to fade. But speaking up only heals when it comes from a place of love. Raghunath and Kaustubha draw on an old Quaker insight: love endures and overcomes, while hatred destroys, starting with the one who carri ...  Show more

I'm a man. I'm a woman. I'm American. I'm this, I'm that. Every label we carry colors how we see the world, ourselves and God. Yoga starts from a bold premise: our perception is clouded, and it can be cleared. Bhakti goes further still. As the lens clears, a love unique to each o ...  Show more