1788: The Gopīs' Love | The Complete, Concentrated Form of Yogic Awareness

Wisdom of the Sages - Raghunath Cappo & Kaustubha Das

The Gopis embody the highest form of yogic awareness and spiritual love, surpassing even traditional Yogis. Their intense longing for Krishna exemplifies pure devotion that deepens through separation. The episode explore

Key takeaways

• Gopis are supreme yogis in practice and reality

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something really interesting is going to start to happen here is that what the Gopies are doing and how they're responding each of these kind of like really intimate acts it be you're gonna start to hear it now it's gonna start to come that they're kind of showing like the highest reference point of like contemplative life like in other words the highest And the Gopies are kind of going to be compared to Yogis or Veduntans. But really, in comparison, the Gopis are the reality. Like the comparison really runs in their favor. Just like if there's, hey, like that guy's as big as a mountain or something like that. Like the mountain is the big thing, you know? But here when it says like the Gopis are like Yogis, actually they're the Yogiaries. And even that term is going to that term is going to be used to be used. used here, like they're the supreme yogis. And the, but at the same time, it is significant because it is showing us that this again is not just a romance story, but what we're seeing is the fulfillment of Vedanta, the fulfillment of yoga, lived through these most perfect of all, Yogini's, the Gopis. O'namo Baghte, Masudevaya. O'namo Baghavaya! O'namo, Bogavati, Vagha! Come on! Live from Super Soul Farm, this is Wisdom of the Sages. A Bacti Yoga Podcast with your host Raganath and co-host and senior educator at the Bacti Center, New York City. Co-Stubadas. Welcome the show, Tuesday, January 30th, June 30th, January. It's Tuesday, June 30th, 2026. It's episode 1788. Good morning, beautiful people. It is a beautiful Tuesday. It's getting hot. We are going to escape the heat wave that's coming up this weekend to another heat wave in Italy, here with Pranapria and Catherine A. And good morning, Kastuba, how are you, brother? Doing great, Roginoff. Good. The Italy thing is starting to get real a little bit. now. I know. You and I, we live in the moment. We're not in Italy till we're there. That's right. We're here now. Right here now. Yeah. Last minute stuff driving you crazy in your mind? Not now. Before I leave, you're good? No, just the reality setting in, you know, starting to connect with people and make, you know, just, you know, just... start to get things together. But yeah. I'm excited for that Kirtan festival at Villavran. We're not staying at Villavran. No. Which is this big Christiana in Italy. It's quite amazing. Like the devotees and the 80s and early 80s bought this giant villa and turned it into an ashram. And you know what? That was back in the day when there was like hundreds of people were just moving to ashrams. So now it's got like a sort of a sort of a bear-bones crew crew keeping it's but they have yoga retreats and kirtan retreats and stuff like that and there's a big kirtan retreat happening at the same time so I think we're gonna go over there have darshan and I'm singing in one of the one of the days but I think a lot of big kirtan people they're gonna be there that start at the end right of our thing we're going there towards the end I don't know if it's a weekend or not but I think we're going there Friday Is that thing happening at the end of our stay or at the beginning? At the end of the second weekend. Yeah. Well, all right. All right. Prey, do you have some announcements, dear? Yeah, well, there's still some spaces in sage groups left. So if you haven't signed up for a sage group, we are 62% full, I think. Okay. But we have some new groups also happening, including one that's specifically for a beginning bachty group. sage group. I've heard such wonderful things about her. I've never met her before. But everybody's raves about her. And Nunga Mongeri? Yeah. What's your story? She's in England. She's got a very nice daughter that's a devotee. She's just apparently just got very insightful and helpful in so many ways. Yeah, so she has her. Her sage group is a welcoming space for newcomers to the path of Acte looking to explore further. and ask questions and meet like-minded souls. Alrighty. That sounds like a good one. Yeah definitely and then there's also our friend Yamuna Jelly in California. Oh, she's just I know she's the best. We got some good people in our community. If you're not part of a sage group and you feel like well you know I might miss a day I don't know if I can commit just commit just do it. If you miss one you miss one big deal. If you're not part of you're waiting for someone to push you're into the sage group fence people always are grateful they did it and it for some reason you're hesitant I like to be perfect I need to be everywhere on time you know what breathe a little bit be like me miss some things but be on the ball for other things you're it'll only help you join the sage group today do it today they're free some people will only join things if you charge money no yeah it's a thousand dollars to join a sage group You want to buy a bagu geta? How much is it? You know whatever you give. But if you say it's a $5,000 are you kidding is the wisdom of the universe? Really? You know people only want things if it's got a high value. This is free. We're begging you. Join a sage group find like-minded people lift your consciousness in this crazy dark time. True. We're here for you people. That reminds I'll just give a shout out because some people have been asking about Chappuji. Oh yeah, okay. But last night on Zoom she met with, you know, she's got like a whole Spanish speaking audience. She had like over 60 people there last night. Oh wow. Just, and people were waiting for her. She's become like, you know, she's like a bit of a spiritual leader over there, you know, and they're like we need to hear from her. What's going on, people, Venezuelan people, other South American people. And they're things that you're saying, just like you're just saying, you know, you need some sense of community, you need to get together and share in these dark times that we're living in. And it's such hard times there and it was a deeply emotional moving get-together that they had last night. People, I think a lot of people, it was such pent-up stress and emotion and and difficulty processing it, you know, because when you really go through it, it, it challenges your faith, you know, where is God now, you know? And I think she really, you know, she let go and everybody else let go and it was kind of like a real cathartic thing for everyone. So it just shows you the strength of community and what you're stressing these sage groups are important. Kustuba, yes. Let go, let God. Thank you. Did you make that up for yourself? Let God. Just gonna share that with you today. Okay. Thank you. You like that statement? Yeah, I know. All right, you keep it then. You keep it. That's my gift to you. So you're so generous. Yes, yes I am. Any other stage groups you want to highlight? Sure. Let me see. Acadacy Greta, see Greta, still has faces available. She's a great party. She's a wonderful lord, too. Yeah. Proper disciple, you know, she goes back. She's got wonderful children that are devotees. Yeah, also Mitra. Is that the same Mitra that we met in Rieshur. Is that the same Mitra that we met in Rieshur. Mr. Sain? Mr. saying? Yeah, yeah, he's a sage group leader. Oh, he's the best. And Gary Gober down as well. Oh, you know, Gary, you know, I may have met him once a very long time ago. But people have the most wonderful. He's a bromatuary, you know. You know. You know. You know. You know. You know. You know. You know. You know. You know. You know. You know. You know. You know. You know. You know. You know. You know. You know. You know. You know. You know. You know. You know. You know. You know. bromacheres, sometimes a bromachee scare people. Sometimes bromacheres are scary. But he is just like sweethearted and insightful. Yeah. You know what's interesting is he also leads an online grief support group. Grief support. Yeah. Interesting. People are going. It might be helpful for people to know. Online griefs. Here he goes over down is a brilliant scholar. one. What did she say? Mercury is in retrograde began yesterday. Harry, retrograde began yesterday. Harry Krishna. Waw, wah! I'm just thought she'd put up. I'm just going to put a wam, whah. I'm just going to put a wam, that she put that up there. Okay. All right. Should we move on to the nugget? Is this nugget? But the real question is, can Prana Priya pronounce this person's name? The Francois? I don't think Martin would approve. But I'll give it a few. Hey, we need to bring Martin in. Francois de la Roche Foucault. That's pretty good. Well, we don't know for sure. You don't know if it's good or not. It may sound. It was very good. We had it before. He had a really interesting nugget. that had to do with like before you desire anything too much look at the people in life who have what you desire and look at their happiness you know something like that but this one I thought was a boy he really anyway I'll let you read it probably okay so he writes absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones as a wind blows out the candle the bonfire. Read that. Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. That I'm loving this. By the way Martin says well done. Thank you my friend. I'm glad I got her stamp of approval. Well we are in the section of Krishna disappears from the Gopi gaita. or the Bogavatam rather and me and Prana reading every day and it's giving us more and more joy so Christian is leaving and we go through these seasons ourselves in