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1633: Love Hurts & That's the Point: Bhakti, Vulnerability & Risk on the Spiritual Path

· 1 h 00 min · Episode 1633

Episode 1633: Love Hurts & That's the Point: Bhakti, Vulnerability & Risk on the Spiritual Path

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If you want to keep your heart safe, you must give it to no one—but it'll cost you life's deepest fulfillment. In this episode, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore how Bhakti Vedanta reveals vulnerability not as weakness, but as the key to spiritual growth and the soul's highest potential.

They reflect on a striking quote from C.S. Lewis and discuss how the fear of emotional exposure drives many toward impersonalism, while the path of Bhakti embraces risk as sacred. Real love always carries the risk of pain—but in the fulfillment of Bhakti, that pain transforms into something divine.

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