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are you ready yeah

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come thank you

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okay

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namastay namastay haribol and peace be with you

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so many beautiful words for peace in this world

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whether you're speaking the English

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the Russian the Arabic

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the Sanskrit language the Hebrew Aramaic

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Spanish French

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welcome

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welcome to Maria and Marks Juicy Magic on the Daily

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Nice Episode 3

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episode 3

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this is a work in progress

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so first of all thank you so much for tuning in

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we're not into the tune in

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turn on and drop out we actually want you to tune in

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turn on and drop in drop into yourself

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so thanks for your time your energy

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your being and your presence

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and for joining us in this community of like-minded

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people

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and we're gonna start with a little uh

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Go Ranga meditation yeah

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you have your guitar over there

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you want me to well

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we'll do the we'll use the guitar in a little bit

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but we're just gonna start with Go Ranga breathing

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okay twist my rubber arm

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if Maria asks she gets please

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okay

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so we're just gonna do garong meditation

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he whose body is more beautiful than molten gold

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it's a reference to Lord Chitanya

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as well as the Supreme person

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and it's like a beautiful bubble of sound around you

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so we're gonna four syllables

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go Ra angah go ranga and um

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we're gonna breathe in

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actually you know what I'll say and sing the word

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the name Goranga and then Maria will repeat

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and I'll listen very intently

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oh so you wanna do a kirtan yeah

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we'll do a little kirtan to start

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why not so that's a kirtan yeah

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we're gonna do a kirtan

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kirtan is the process of wherever two or more

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one of our favourite teachers

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Jesus e Shua bin Yusuf Emanuel Moshiach of Bethlehem

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Nazareth

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he said very wisely and he often quoted scripture too

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of course but so I'm sure it was said before by others

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uh wherever two or more are gathered in my name

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there I am between them so

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the beautiful thing about Kirkton is

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we chant God's names and in the more the merrier

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but you only need two for a Kirton

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I'm happy with two again Shravan

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I'm Kirton and Vishnu Smart

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I'm hearing remembering and chanting

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the names of god is the first three steps in

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in Sadhana Bhakti in devotional service so here we go

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that was the Caret top part

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and you can sing with us

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Goranga goranga goranga goranga goranga goranga

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goranga goranga

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goranga goranga goranga goranga goranga

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goranga goranga

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goranga

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Goranga Goranga Goranga

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Goranga Goranga

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Haribo Haribo

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so that's a it's really nice that you you make it fast

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you make it slow you make it loud you make it quiet

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it can be everything it doesn't have to be so serious

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well the nice thing is that that's just a taste

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so thanks for

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enjoying the taste of the Holy Names

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they're all powerful they don't require

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our really having to other than surrendering to them

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and enjoying and appreciating

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being enveloped in them

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they really go beyond our own strength

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and you know

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my body is now 53 Maria's

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whatever she is 50

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50 okay

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she said it I

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I know it's not polite to say other people's ages

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we're eternal we know we're eternal

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we're the living entity but

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you know um

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you may know people out there who are hurting

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or infirm or sick sometimes they lose their voice

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or their ability to speak

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uh or even to see

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but science has confirmed

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modern science of course

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ancient science too

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confirms that the first sense to develop in the womb

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around the living entity that the body

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is the sense of hearing

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children often remember

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or they recognize the sound of their parents

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after they come out of the womb

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so you know

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be really sweet to those in the room and

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and chant to them and

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and then also

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the last sense to shut down before we exit our body

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before we leave our body otherwise known as death

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we'll get into that today in the Bhagavad Gita

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but um

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the last sense to shut down is hearing

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so even if you're in a coma

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someone's in a coma or you know

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you're by someone's bedside

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and if you live long enough

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this will happen

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I highly recommend you hear and repeat and sing

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or say any of God's names

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if they have a favorite prayer like the say

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Psalm 23 or the Lord's Prayer

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we chant the Mahamantra

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but whatever scripture that you practice in your faith

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or whatever uh japa

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whatever mantra whatever meditation

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whether it's the rosary or the zikir

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or in our case we call it Japa Mala

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you can sing or say or repeat those

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and you need the modern

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the beauty of modern technology is that you can replay

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on repeat

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uh these sounds

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these transcendental sound vibrations

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and at this point

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meditation becomes sacred and transcendental meditation

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which helps us to transcend the material field

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which

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you want to tell them what happened last night

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when you went out to

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I mean this is

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this is a precarious world

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we're living in this we're living in this gorgeous

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I mean

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these cute little homes that our landlord has built

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and he's such a lovely person

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we're very grateful to have come to him

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and he's originally from Persia

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he loves the poetry of Saudi and Rumi

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we've invited him to come meditate with us

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which I think he will do and you want me to tell him

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yeah just

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I'm just the this this

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you know we

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we like to keep these things light hearted and fun

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but there's also a certain sobriety

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and seriousness of being in the material world

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that at any moment

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it accidents happen

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people leave their body every moment

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millions of people are leaving their bodies

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that's just in the human form

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so it's probably trillions of people living

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leaving their bodies at every moment

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and we just don't know how much time we have in

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I mean we're eternal

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we have all the time in the world

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but we're in this current form

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yeah and that's a good place to be to

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it's a taking off point so yeah

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tell them what happened last night

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it was it was it was two nights ago

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was it two nights ago okay

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yes yesterday I was winding in my pain

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aww that was awful

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it was two nights ago no

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two nights ago I wanted to go to the van

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and get something out of the van

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and it was already dark outside

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but I've been only here for already 10 days

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I remember the steps ha ha

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and there was no light and usually when I go outside

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I take my phone with me

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because it has a nice flashlight

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but that time I just didn't

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I don't know why

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you just thought you'd wing it in the dark

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I don't know I wasn't thinking much actually

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ha ha ha ha I just went outside

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I can relate to that yeah

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I just didn't feel so well

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I just I don't know I wasn't thinking much

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and I went down the stairs and then I was like ooh

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I can't see the stairs so I was holding on to the uh

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the wall that's next to it

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and then at the end I thought I must be down already

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ha ha ha ha big mistake

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I wasn't down already um

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I missed took the last step

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it wasn't the last step I mistook it as the last step

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there were five more steps

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that's about 4 to 5 feet high

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it's hot yeah

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and I just thought oh

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I'm there and I checked for oh

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just to be sure I hold on to the wall

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and I held onto the wall and I wanted to step down

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and there was nothing

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and I was inside

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I was inside reading some scripture and

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and I thought

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and I slipped and I thought if there's no step

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I will feel it but I didn't feel anything

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and then I slipped and I just fell down this huge

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and I was inside and I was kind of in a trance

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I was in I was really absorbed

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and I was lying on the floor and I was like ah

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and all I heard was like a thump ah

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but then I thought I didn't hear anything else

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and I went back to doing my thing

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and I really thought that she had

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found something in the van

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and she was you know

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not and I was lying on the floor not

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she was like you know

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going inside the van and finding something in pain

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and I didn't hear anything from her

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so I thought she's fine you know

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and then she got this

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person comes hobbling into the house

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I'm like oh my God

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I was lying on the floor thinking

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will he come out and help me

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but he didn't come and I thought hmm okay

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I felt so bad

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she was actually going out to get something for me

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to help me

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my yeah

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it's my toes and it's okay

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I felt really bad about it yeah

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so I got inside and I was just in pain

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and I thought

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I was just starting to feel better after the sickness

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we caught in India we caught India

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yeah and I just

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I was just thinking before finally I get better

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finally I start to feel better and then I just

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and yesterday I was quite in pain and I thought

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this suffering is not ending

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ha ha and

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you know in the

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in the material world like

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sometimes Grace

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arranges for things

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to actually accelerate our spiritual progress

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um but in this case also there's this

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the trip you know what happened

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what at night I had

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oh right yes

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yes I was in such pain and I was just in pain

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and I woke up at night you know 5

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6 times and every time I had this earworm

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and the first thing I thought of when I woke up was

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Harikrishna

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Harikrishna and I thought whoa

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and I just kept chanting

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and that was the first time I really chanted

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on my beats at night

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it's wonderful so I

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I was really

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I got this yearning out of the suffering

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that just doesn't end

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to just find something that's more

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yeah so

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you know and

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and also recently um

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it's a precarious place the material world

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and we I

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one of my teachers

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certainly

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offer all my respects to all my spiritual masters

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one of my teachers

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he once said that it's never too late

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but it's getting late

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and for anyone over the age of 5 or any

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as soon as you're born this process begins

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we are born we stay for some time

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we grow produce some byproducts

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dwindle and disappear that's the

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the the material body

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we the living entity carry on

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it's known as transpiration of the person

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of the cell

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but um

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just at any moment things can happen very quickly

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so you know

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we try to encourage people to take the opportunity

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while you can and we encourage ourselves to

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to take that advice as well

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my mom who's turning 87 soon

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her body and she's been in there for 87 years

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uh one of her best friend's husband's

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recently left his body and then

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one of my childhood friends from Germany's father

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recently left his body

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in fact a summer or two ago

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we went in to try and visit him

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and I really wanted to give him some

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I wanted to do a little chanting with him

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and give him a little bit of

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some prasadam some food that's been

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offered to god

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and he was so sick he couldn't get out of bed

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and we were knocking at the door and he couldn't come

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and his wife um

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another lovely lady who I grew up knowing

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she wasn't there so he was by himself in the house

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and I never got to I never got the chance to

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to see him again and now he's

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he's left his body so

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um the funerals coming up

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my uncle's going to represent the family

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it's in Germany but um

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I thought about this wonderful text that we read

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that's the foundation of our practice

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Bhagavad Gita as it is if you get a chance

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you can get yourself a copy of the Bhagavad Gita

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as it is by his divine Grace

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AC Baktivi Vanant Swami this particular translation

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there's nothing added nothing taken away

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no speculation it's the perfect

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perfect uh

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scripture to study

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and from chapter 2 oh yeah

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that text is is very

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very special

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I remember when we were reading it the first time

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uh I was just uh

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coming back from the repasan course that I took

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mhm and uh

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at that time I was still a little bit in trouble

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you know

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after after this

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all these energies flowing through me

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after my Kundalini awakening

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and I remember sitting at the repasan now

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course meditating

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and I felt all the cells in my whole body dying

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and you know when

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when you're in your body and

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you just everything is decaying

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and you just realise this pain you're in

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is constant decay constant decay

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in every birth

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there was so much pain going through my whole head

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and then my whole body

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and every time I try to push through it

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somehow I felt all that decay and that

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that really freaked me out and it was really

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really tough um

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but when you were reading this text

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uh it really helped me

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because

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you don't concentrate on your body that much anymore

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because you realise you're not your body

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so I really love this text

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maybe we can print it out and put it in the fridge

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or something or somewhere yeah

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it's a good idea but um

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I've sent this passage to my uncle

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to read at the funeral

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of my friend's father and that's a lovely idea

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I'm also sending it to our friend back in Newmarket

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whose husband left his body and

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yeah it's a tough world

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everyone's coming and going from it

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so from

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first let's offer our respects

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so from Chapter 2 text 20

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the contents of the Gita summarized

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this is a really good one to memorize

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I come back to this all the time

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my body is got type 1 diabetes and it's

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it's in a constant state of falling apart

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it's quite a miracle that 31 years later I'm still here

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and um

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I'm actually really grateful for that

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getting sick so young in what what

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appeared felt so young

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because it really forced me to some degrees

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to my knees and to begin to really

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sincerely seek for answers that I could

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that could give me some shelter

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you know

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I needed I needed something bigger than me

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to help me get through so for 30 years

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this practice of

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of Bhakti Yoga and and mantra meditation

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and reading from the Bhagavad Gita

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and some other beautiful literature

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and kirtan and good association

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and many best association

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been very fortunate that um

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found it very helpful that there are days when I'm very

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it's very frustrating to have a sick

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to be have a sick body and feel so eternal

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it's not the case we're all eternal and we sometimes

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you know we think our bodies can do more than they can

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even when we get older

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so coming back to this text

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it's um

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I hope that it can give you some comfort and a glimpse

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maybe into a higher reality that can help us

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become a little more sober and wise

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about the nature of the material world

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but more importantly and beautifully

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the eternal nature of the spiritual world

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and I won't read the Sanskrit

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I'm not a Sanskrit scholar

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and I don't want to butcher it

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it's such a beautiful language

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this is from the original Sanskrit

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and it's transliterate

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transliterated and then translated for the soul

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there is neither birth nor death at any time

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he has not come into being does not come into being

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and will not come into being

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she is unborn eternal

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ever existing and primeval

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he is not slain when the body is slain

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and there's a beautiful purple here

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couple times a year we'll get together with people

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to have a little retreat

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and we kind of go a lot deeper into these

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into these scriptures and into the mantras

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and we have some pretty awesome kirtans but um

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yeah but that's the point when I concentrated on this

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my pain got better and I looked at where I fell off

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and I realised I was very lucky

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I could have broken some important parts of my body

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so I was literally protected and I I

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I wasn't in the mood of suffering anymore

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I switched into the mode of gratefulness

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and feeling the mercy of somebody much greater

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who still wants me here he still keeps me here

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for some strange reason that I don't get

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and that's when the pain started vanishing

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so it still hurts a bit

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but I'm just amazed that nothing worse happened

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because it could have

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so I felt the mercy and the gratefulness today

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but that's just out of the concentration

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on the transcendental aspect of it

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yeah the um

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the mantras are not from this world

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they are from the spiritual world

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so they have all the potency

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it's sort of like when we want to clean something

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we use the we use water the

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cleaning element of water

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water

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we don't need to make the water work

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it works by its nature

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and in order to really

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for all the lifetimes accumulated

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all the dust accumulated

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the hardness on the heart from all the years

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so many years so many lifetimes of birth

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old age disease and death

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and then of course disappointment

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loss

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frustration

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trying to find happiness

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out here

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these mantras help cleanse the heart of all the dust

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accumulated for years together and

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I'm so grateful for that that I

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I don't have to I don't have to use

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I have to do it on my own

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on my own I don't have to try and pull

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pull myself up by my own bootstraps

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I know that's a the frontier American uh

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value which I really admire

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I really admire the the western self reliant ethic of

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um you know externally

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you know building things and fixing things

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growing things selling things

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but on an internal level I think intuitively

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every one of us can can relate to that moment

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when you're just about to drown

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I've had that happen or you fall down a dark hole

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and instinctively cry out

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often to often during great times of intense activity

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even atheists will sometimes pray to god

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you know

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so if you're feeling a little tired of this world

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or being cheated or

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you know if you're looking for shelter

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we encourage you to join us and take shelter of these

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holy names that's it's really nice

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it's really sweet

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it's very safe and gradual the process

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it's not

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there are some other paths and processes that can

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are quite dangerous and and can lead to great harm

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but this process is at least 5,000 years old

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and according to scripture

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it's it's since time in Memorial

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but we find it very relishable

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it's very sweet it's fun

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you know we can do it together we can do it on our own

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we'll get into that Japa meditation

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and let's to finish off today's uh

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we wanna invite you to just hang out with us

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that's the there's no certification here

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there's nothing to join or quit

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and it's very decentralized

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you can practice these on your own test them out

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you know give them give them some time you know

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give it a go for 30 days do um

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recently yesterday

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I was on the phone with one of my friends in Paris

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and I love to help people that I know

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and he was having some struggles and he was really

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really happy and grateful to get Garonga meditation

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just to which will finish the class today

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the not the class

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sorry this is not the

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it sounds like Van Halen's a hot for teacher

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I don't feel tardy

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no no

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just this gathering today

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thanks for joining us juicy magic on the daily

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and we hope to share lots of stories

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just of life on the road and

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of life on pilgrimage

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and life in what we call the kind of um

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Varna Prast stage of life

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which is starting to remove ourselves from the material

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so many material activities

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so we'll finish today with a little

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just go Ranga breathing meditation

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where on the inhalation

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we're thinking of the sound go raa onga

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and on the exhalation to the length of the breath

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we're saying or singing or speaking the words

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go raa onga the word

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the name

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he whose body is more beautiful than molten gold

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you can you know

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if you wanna you can half close your eyes

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you can focus on the spot between your eyebrows

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where the pineal gland is in center of the third eyes

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they call it the chakra there

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and um

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no hard and fast rules but you can

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you know you can

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you can do a mudra you can put your thumb and ring

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and index finger together

564

00:25:23,066 --> 00:25:25,266

if you like it kind of makes a loop of energy

565

00:25:25,900 --> 00:25:28,000

just relax and while breathing in

566

00:25:28,466 --> 00:25:30,033

and obviously on the exhalation

567

00:25:30,033 --> 00:25:31,866

you're going to be relaxing the shoulders

568

00:25:32,100 --> 00:25:35,866

relaxing the face and just saying the name Goranga

569

00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:37,900

so breathing in

570

00:26:09,766 --> 00:26:11,666

sorry my insulin pump went off there

571

00:26:12,100 --> 00:26:14,366

thinking of the sound Goranga breathing in

572

00:26:47,966 --> 00:26:49,200

two more times

573

00:27:30,766 --> 00:27:31,866

Haribo nice

574

00:27:31,866 --> 00:27:33,466

thank you Uranga

575

00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,600

so we'll see you tomorrow

576

00:27:36,500 --> 00:27:37,800

uh in Shala

577

00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:39,133

as they say God willing

578

00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:41,900

don't fall down the stairs tonight please

579

00:27:41,900 --> 00:27:42,500

no no

580

00:27:42,500 --> 00:27:44,666

I'm just not going outside when it's dark anymore

581

00:27:44,666 --> 00:27:45,466

I need you to stay

582

00:27:45,466 --> 00:27:47,600

I'd love you to stay for a little while longer

583

00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,200

we got things to do I'll stay a little bit longer

584

00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:49,800

yeah yeah yeah

585

00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:50,866

so um

586

00:27:52,266 --> 00:27:56,200

uh peace be with you and namastay

587

00:27:56,866 --> 00:27:59,000

namastay and we'll see you tomorrow

588

00:27:59,366 --> 00:28:00,966

alright bo bye