{"podcast":{"title":"Wisdom of the Sages","slug":"wisdom-of-the-sages-611126","podcast_index_feed_id":611126,"rss_url":"https://wisdomofthesages.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://wisdomofthesages.libsyn.com/website","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/8/d/6/e/8d6e77a84cd04ad3/MAD_AVE_ITUNES_PROMO_1.jpg","author":"David Ramella","episode_count":1800,"summary":"Truths about life from the timeless wisdom of the Bhakti-yoga tradition - fun, relevant, and deep. Learn about dharma, yoga, bhakti, and how it relates to all the basic questions of life. This show is about how to live your best life, let go of the external distractions, and uncover the spiritual happiness that lies within the heart as the true nature of the soul. Raghunath and Kaustubha's connection goes back to their teens in the New York Hardcore Punk Scene of the early 80s, through serving together as Bhakti-yogi monks in the 90's, to sharing their experiences in the world of yoga in the 21st century.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T04:17:18.519728+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wisdom-of-the-sages-611126"},"episode":{"title":"1772: Everyone Worships Something | Free Will and the Object of Our Affection","slug":"1772-everyone-worships-something-free-will-and-the-object-of-our-affection","published_at":"2026-05-20T13:46:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wisdom-of-the-sages-611126/1772-everyone-worships-something-free-will-and-the-object-of-our-affection","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wisdom-of-the-sages-611126","url":"https://wisdomofthesages.libsyn.com/1772-everyone-worships-something-free-will-and-the-object-of-our-affection","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wisdomofthesages/1772_A_online-audio-converter.com.mp3?dest-id=1755320","summary":"Everyone worships something. The rock star, the ideology, the bottle of wine, the beautiful person across the room. Dostoevsky identified it as an incessant, painful longing: so long as man remains free, he strives for nothing so persistently as to find someone worthy of complete surrender. We have free will — and where we invest our affection becomes our most important choice. In this episode Raghunath and Kaustubha explore that longing alongside the Vedic text's most sacred passage — where the gopi girls of Vrindavan invest everything in the very source of rasa itself. Srimad Bhagavatam 10.29.12-19 ******************************************************************** LOVE THE PODCAST? WE ARE COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AND WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO JOIN! Go to https://www.wisdomofthesages.com WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/@WisdomoftheSages LISTEN ON ITUNES: https://podcasts/apple.com/us/podcast/wisdom-of-the-sages/id1493055485 CONNECT ON FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/wisdomofthesages108 *********************************************************************","meta_description":"Everyone worships something. The rock star, the ideology, the bottle of wine, the beautiful person across the room. Dostoevsky identified it as an incessa…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3350,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/wisdom-of-the-sages-611126/episodes/1772-everyone-worships-something-free-will-and-the-object-of-our-affection/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wisdom-of-the-sages-611126/1772-everyone-worships-something-free-will-and-the-object-of-our-affection.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}