1813: The Philosopher vs the Mystic | Understanding the Passion of the Gopīs

We're gonna hear about the greatest mystics of all, right? Now, the gopis, they have nothing to do with philosophy externally, although the philosophers are studying them, right? The, the Vedantins, the, the, the mo- the swan-like Vedantins, the, the Paramahamsas-

Hmm

... are reading Srimad Bhagavatam.

Yeah, it's true.

This is the book that's written for the Paramahamsas, right? It's, it's not just for, just for philosophers or just for sages.

It's for the highest level, those that really know what's the most relishable part of it, right? The swans, they, they say they can, if you pour milk into water, they can drink it, and they can just take the milk right out of the water.

Isn't that interesting?

Yeah.

They got something in their mouth, some kind of-

Yeah.

It's like, uh-

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these great poets who write these books, they o- they n- they're really connected with animals.

They always know this.

Yeah.

[laughs] Yeah.

So, so, so, so similarly, it's said that right from the beginning, Vyasa is making this clear, 'cause he's written all these books.

And he's saying this book that we're reading every day on the podcast, this Srimad Bhagavatam, is for those Paramahamsas, for those great swan-like, um, philosophers, if you wanna use that word, who are extracting the, the essence, the highest essence, the most concentrated essence of all of Vedanta, of all of the great wisdom.

And it-

[coughs]

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it manifests what there is to know-

Right

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