Answer the Call of the Heart | The Bhaktivedanta Path of Renunciation
5/13/20261 hr 1 min
Life is kind of empty if there is not something so meaningful and beautiful that we feel a calling to give everything out of love. We spend our lives looking for that higher cause — or feeling empty if we haven't found it. The total giving of the self is what Thomas Merton calls a blind spiritual instinct. And when you actually follow it, people may think you've gone crazy. Raghunath and Kaustubha explore that calling alongside Krishna's flute-song call of love to the gopis, instigating a "terrible act of thievery" by stealing their sobriety, shyness, fear and discrimination. Through th...
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First 90 secondsKaustubha Das· Host0:00
I thought this sentence was powerful: Because we are made for eternal life, we are made for an act that gathers up all the powers and capacities of our being, and offers them simultaneously and forever to God. It's like if you had a horse, and the horse never ran, you know? It's like that horse is made to run.
Raghunath· Host0:19
A racehorse. A racehorse.
Kaustubha Das· Host0:21
Yeah, like a racehorse. [laughs] Yeah, right.
Raghunath· Host0:22
Or a Lamborghini. Like, if these people driving Lamborghinis around New York City, and you can only go vroom to the next light.
Kaustubha Das· Host0:28
[laughs] I've never seen that before.
Raghunath· Host0:30
You ever see that? It's like, why?
Kaustubha Das· Host0:31
You gotta open that thing up.
Raghunath· Host0:33
[laughs] Open that thing up, get outta New York City.
Kaustubha Das· Host0:35
Yeah. And so if we have powers and capabilities, and we never engage them, then there will be a sense of emptiness. A- a- and here, you know, you're using the word bigger and bigger. A- and I, and I think it's, it's not necessarily externally bigger, right? Like, like, um, Mother Teresa said, you know, she spoke about doing small things with great love. Right? Small acts or something like that with great love. W- w- we may not all be, uh, starting some kind of movement or, you know, uh, leading troops into battle. You know, you see something like Braveheart, right? Th- there's a m- you're talking about movies, right?
Raghunath· Host1:18
Right. That was a great movie.
Kaustubha Das· Host1:20
[laughs] That's great. So there was a person, he was giving everything, you know, for, because of the love that he had for his wife and the love that he had for his people a- a- and, you know,