Jun 30, 2026 · 49 min · 12 segments
The yogī sits for years, disciplining the mind, trying to bring scattered awareness to a single point of focus. In this episode Raghunath and Kaustubha trace how Śukadeva repeatedly frames the gopīs'…
Something really interesting is gonna start to happen here, is that what the gopis are doing and how they're responding, um, each of these kind of, like, really intimate acts, it be- you're, you're gonna start to hear it now, it's gonna start to come, that they're kinda showing, like, the highest reference point of, like, contemplative life.
Mm
And, and, and the, and the gopis are kinda gonna be compared to yogis or Vedantans.
Just, you know, like if there's, "Hey," like, "that guy is 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 yogeswaris, and even that term is gonna be used here.
And the c- but, but at the, but at the same time, it's, you know, it is significant because it is showing us that this, again, is not just a romance story, but what we're seeing is the, the, the fulfillment of Vedanta, the fulfillment of yoga, [lips smack] uh, lived through these most perfect of all yoginis, the, the gopis.
Something really interesting is gonna start to happen here, is that what the gopis are doing and how they're responding, um, each of these kind of, like, really intimate acts, it be- you're, you're gonna start to hear it now, it's gonna start to come, that they're kinda showing, like, the highest reference point of, like, contemplative life.
Mm
And, and, and the, and the gopis are kinda gonna be compared to yogis or Vedantans.
Just, you know, like if there's, "Hey," like, "that guy is 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 yogeswaris, and even that term is gonna be used here.
And the c- but, but at the, but at the same time, it's, you know, it is significant because it is showing us that this, again, is not just a romance story, but what we're seeing is the, the, the fulfillment of Vedanta, the fulfillment of yoga, [lips smack] uh, lived through these most perfect of all yoginis, the, the gopis.
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