Wisdom of the Sages

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead." Oscar Wilde / we're zeros desperately searching for 1 / the variables that generate our unique blend of thoughts - the physical elements, nature, the original cause, culture, destiny, time / stepping back to see ourselves separate from our desires /developing a strategy to respond to the challenge of the minds programing / Vasudeva - everyone dwells in Him, and He dwells within everyone / If we don't realize that the soul of the universe is within our own bodies, that is very sad SB 5.11.11-14

we have 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day, 80% are negative, 95% are repetitive / Bhagavatam predicted Kali-yuga minds would be always disturbed - the National Science Foundation confirms it / technology has created a bizarre world, and it's driving us mad / yogis are in the business of retraining our thoughts / the senses are channels to the mind / we can consciously design our mind's programming / the mind can be the cause bondage or liberation / we need a game plan, otherwise the team of the mind and senses are going to crush us / swipe right for Krishna SB 5.11.8-10

"We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge." - John Naisbitt / do we have the cognitive ability to distill information into wisdom? / we're not asking all the most important questions / mental stability through knowledge of matter and spirit / the materialistic mind covering the living entity's soul carries it to different species of life / we're trying to find our tribe at a costume party / wrapping our heads around the idea that we could take birth as an animal / Prabhupada's distinction between Hinduism and Sanatana Dharma / your mind is a pond and your emotions are the fish / Mara's mind stretch SB 5.11.6-7

Why is there conflicting information about the practices and regulations in Bhakti-yoga? / How to root out "false Bhakti" in oneself?

Bhuta Bhavana Das (Ed Anobah) graduated in Philosophy and Economics at the London School of Economics and is currently responsible to training 47,000 leaders in a global financial organization. He's also been practicing Bhakti-yoga for over 25 years. In this episode he discusses parallels in leadership from both modern and Vedic sources, especially regarding the importance for leaders in developing unity while honoring diversity. Ed Anobah Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ed-anobah-podcast/id1520006462 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/edanobah/

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." Marcus Aurelius / "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." - F. Scott Fitzgerald / our minds have been corrupted (made unreliable by alterations) / how the 3 gunas corrupt the mind / Without yoga, we're helpless / Don't get pulled into a bird body SB 5.11.4-5

"In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank / this world moves in cycles / the remedy for hate is spiritual insight / material awareness is like a dream - when we realize that material happiness is insufficient we begin to wake up SB 5.11.1-3

release the ego and sing with the devotees / functional identity vs fundamental Identity / we've got to simultaneously hold both the conventional perspective and the transcendental perspective / seeing the world through the perspective of what we hear from Bhagavatam / Bhagavad-gita's formula for receiving spiritual insight / spiritual insight = seeing all living beings as part of the Supreme IG: keshava_rgm SB 5.10.23-25

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman / "Kṛṣṇa is compared to sunshine, and māyā is compared to darkness." - Sri Caitanya / "Whatever appears to be of any value, if it is without relation to Me, has no reality. Know it as My illusory energy, that reflection which appears to be in darkness." Sri Krishna / seeing everything (family, money, property, responsibility) through it's relationship to Krishna is the key to the code / seeking clarity between alternating conventional and transcendental contexts / material attachments lead to material suffering SB 5.10.19-22

"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you." —David Foster Wallace / do we point the truth only at others, or can we point it at ourselves? / Jada Bharata accepts karmic responsibility for his own circumstances / "Is everything going well in your endeavor to conquer the repetition of birth and death?" / King Rahugana bows down / Rahugana's only fear, offending a truth speaker SB 5.10.14-18