Our Challenges Are Here to Reform Us
4/22/20261 hr 1 min
What's standing between us and our genuine happiness isn't our circumstances, it's our false pride. Bhakti Yoga has a radical insight into this — and that the difficult moments of our lives, the humiliations, the losses, the things that knock us off our pedestal, are not punishments. They are invitations to let go of the false sense of self that was blocking us from what we actually want. In this episode Raghunath and Kaustubha explore that teaching through a stunning passage in the Srimad Bhagavatam, where Indra — the powerful king of the heavens — comes to Krishna in shame after his pride...
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First 90 secondsKastuba Das· Host0:00
At every stage, what, what the world has thrown our direction is there to reform us in a way.
Raghunath· Host0:05
Mm.
Kastuba Das· Host0:06
The, you know... A- a- and, and we always... Particularly those challenging things in life. Um, the pain that we experience, the loss that we experience.
Raghunath· Host0:15
Sure.
Kastuba Das· Host0:15
And, uh, we all have the opportunity to either accept the reformation a- a- and, and transform, or to harden a bit more or turn away a bit more.
Raghunath· Host0:26
Mm.
Kastuba Das· Host0:27
And that's our choice, I suppose. Right.
Raghunath· Host0:29
I guess forgiveness is part of, uh, what we sign up for when we say, "I want to be a devotee." [Chanting] Live from Super Soul Farm in Upstate New York, this is Wisdom of the Sages, a Bhakti Yoga podcast, with your host Raghunath and co-host and senior educator at the Bhakti Center in New York City, Kastuba Das. Welcome to the show. Today, it's Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026. It's episode 1,760. Welcome to the show, beautiful people. We're having a walk-on Wednesday today.
Pranapriya· Panelist1:23
Yeah.
Raghunath· Host1:24
But before we introduce our guest, Pranapriya, do we have any announcements?
Pranapriya· Panelist1:29
We do.