The Hunger for Beauty | A Signal from the Soul
6/9/202653 min
Every beautiful thing we encounter is a signal pointing somewhere. Our hunger for beauty isn't random — it can be read as a signal. In this episode Raghunath and Kaustubha explore where that signal leads — through the Srimad Bhagavatam's Rāsa Līlā, where the gopīs of Vrindavan lose themselves so completely in love for Krishna that they begin acting out his pastimes, declaring to one another: I am Krishna. This is the highest limit of transcendental love. And unlike every beautiful thing in this world, it never fades.
Srimad Bhagavatam 10.30.12-23
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First 90 secondsKaustubha Das· Host0:00
Just imagine two gopis. Their beauty is stunning beyond imagination. And they're, you know, arm in arm pretending they're Krishna and Balaram, whose beauty is beyond imagination. But it's just like now it's manifesting [laughs] in this way, you know? What is going on in the spiritual world- Mm ... is just inconceivable. Just to get a glimpse of it would change our, w- w- would, would change everything, you know? If we can just see it. We have to try to see it in our, in our mind, you know?
Raghunath· Host0:31
Yeah. I guess that's what we're trying to do, huh?
Kaustubha Das· Host0:35
Yeah.
Raghunath· Host0:35
Trying to see this with our minds eye.
Kaustubha Das· Host0:36
Through, you hear it, you hear it, and, and, and you get a picture of it. Th- this is, this is from Chaitanya-charitamrita.
Raghunath· Host0:42
Are you teaching us Raganuga Bhakti right now, Kastuba?
Kaustubha Das· Host0:45
It, it, well, this is- Is that what you're, is that what you're trying to disseminate to us? We want to follow in the footsteps of the residents of Vrindavan, and we need to hear their pastimes and then remember their pastimes.
Raghunath· Host0:56
In our minds.
Kaustubha Das· Host0:56
Meditate. And, and, but when they say remember, it, it also means, like, meditate. It, it, smarna kind of means both, right? To, to, to remember- Yeah ... and to meditate on. This is Chaitanya-charitamrita. "The real purpose of Lord Krishna's appearance was to stage a dramatic performance of his transcendental pastimes in Vraja Bhumi, in Vrindavan, exhibiting the highest limit of transcendental mellow in the exchanges of reciprocal love between the living entity and the Supreme Lord." That's what I was talking about. The Go- it's one thing, in the Bhagavad Gita saying, "See Krishna behind the sun," that's, that's reciprocal love. That,