Wisdom of the Sages

1595: Puranic Mean Girls & Pascal's Take on Our Inner Emptiness


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Gatorade-stained beard? Check. All-night emergency room visit? Check. Spiritual wake-up call in aisle 12? Double check. But behind Raghunath’s dizzy spell and collapse on the floor of Home Depot lies a far more universal theme: our desperate urge to avoid silence, stillness, and the terrifying weight of our own inner emptiness.

Drawing from Blaise Pascal’s haunting insight—that “all of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone”—Raghunath and Kaustubha explore how distraction and diversion keep us from doing the inner work that leads to peace, purpose, and awakening.

Also: a peaceful garden walk devolves into a warrior princess throw-down.

Key Highlights: •⁠  ⁠Is that spiritual ecstasy… or dangerously low blood sugar? •⁠  ⁠Why we flee silence—and how it sabotages our spiritual evolution •⁠  ⁠Pascal meets the Bhāgavatam: diversion as the disease of our age •⁠  ⁠When status, envy, and petty revenge collide—ancient wisdom, high-school drama •⁠  ⁠Level up before the universe has to shove you down

🎧 Listen now and reflect on what’s really keeping you from peace—before your next wake-up call comes in the plumbing aisle. #BhaktiYoga #SpiritualAwakening #WisdomOfTheSages #SrimadBhagavatam #ExistentialCrisis #BlaisePascal #HomeDepotLilas #StillnessAndSilence #JapaNotNetflix

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