You're Not Unlucky. You're Unexamined. | Karma and Carl Jung
4/8/20261 hr
The unexamined stuff in us — today — is shaping our external experiences tomorrow. We might think of karma like a cosmic scorekeeper out there keeping tabs on us. Like the universe is going to get us back eventually. But Carl Jung saw something more insightful: your inner life doesn't stay inner. Whatever you haven't faced, whatever you haven't worked through — it leaks out and becomes your circumstances. It becomes the people who drive you crazy. It becomes the problems that just seem to follow you around. In this episode Raghunath and Kaustubha explore a passage from the Srimad Bhagavatam — an ancient...
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First 90 secondsKustuba Das· Host0:00
Your inner world affects your actions, and then your actions determine your fate. And so it's, it is inspiring what you're saying, and I, and I assume that that's where he's going with this too, right? Is so if that's a fact, then we really don't have any business complaining about our circumstances or complaining about the people in our lives or, uh, the problems in our life. Um, what we really have to do is to look within and see is there something-- is there the, a lesson that I'm meant to learn. You know, maybe there's one big- Hmm ...lesson in life or maybe there's many lessons in relation to that one big lesson that I'm meant to be learning, uh, that, that my circumstances are designed to help me understand that there is this thing called karma, that there is this cosmic sensitivity training, you know, help-helping me understand better how to relate.
Raghunath· Host0:56
[singing] Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya. Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya. Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya. [intro music] From Nocatee, Florida, this is Wisdom of the Sages, a Bhakti Yoga podcast with your host Raghunath and co-host and senior educator at the