May 13, 2026
Life is kind of empty if there is not something so meaningful
and beautiful that we feel a calling to give everything out of
love. We spend our lives looking for that higher cause — or feeling
empty if we haven't found it. The total giving of the self is what
Thomas Merton calls a blind spiritual instinct. And when you
actually follow it, people may think you've gone crazy. Raghunath
and Kaustubha explore that calling alongside Krishna's flute-song
call of love to the gopis, instigating a "terrible act of thievery"
by stealing their sobriety, shyness, fear and discrimination.
Through this pastime the Bhaktivedanta tradition shares one of its
most radical teachings — that true renunciation can only be the
result of pure love, and that renunciation is artificial if it is
not a derivative of such devotional love.
Srimad Bhagavatam 10.29.2-5
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