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Oct 2020
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268: Now Here You Go Again, You Say You ...

RAGHUNATH CAPPO & KAUSTUBHA DAS
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owls are dangerous / our desires get in the way of our making sense of the universe / pure soul theory - we're not born sinful / the spiritual metaphor of Dogface208's viral video / Bhagavad-gita 18.63 - deliberate on this fully, and then do what you wish to do / the attraction of Krishna's detachment / romance - micro & macro / the metaphor of the musk deer / Bhagavatam drops the pin in the material GPS

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