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8th Mar 2025

#1 - Sunset Stories & Bhakti Beginnings: Our First Juicy MagiK Conversation

There’s a quiet kind of magic in just sitting together at sunset, letting the world’s noise drift away. This is our first on-camera conversation as Mark and Maria, sharing simple joys and deeper stories from our spiritual travels, soaking in the small wonders (like finding the perfect stick or wild lemons hanging heavy from a tree). We talk about retiring from "regular life," wandering off to peaceful places, and what the soul looks for when outer life gets noisy. Bhakti yoga, chanting, bits of the Bhagavad Gita, and the grace of regular, messy life all meet here—equal parts smile and soft reflection. Sometimes it’s a story about dodging dogs in Greece or monkeys in India. Sometimes it drifts to the rich medicine of spiritual practice, or just a laugh about the adventure of trying not to block the sunlight.

If you want a place where you don’t have to be anyone but yourself, where joy is welcome and there’s always time to chant or just listen, join us. This is an open invitation: come sit for a minute, breathe, ask us questions, sing, or just enjoy the view. We’re grateful for every soul that takes a moment to hang out here. Haribol.

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is it wet no

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just cold a little bit if you sit on the

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I know it's against the sun

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but if I have to the sun

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my head is gonna be cut off though

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we move it a bit

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ah stop it stop it

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you're cheeky

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how about like this yeah this is good

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you don't want the hair to be cut off

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no no

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it's perfect this sunset

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so what are we gonna talk about

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oh it's already recording

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is it yeah it's okay

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I can cut that

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hello wait I'm not ready yet

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what are you ready

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when are you ready I'm ready okay

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you ready just go three 2:01

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hello

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Rhea is blocking the sun yes

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I am but look at this sunset

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yeah there we go

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we're not we're not trying to take a

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we're not trying to take main stage here that

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that's the main stage there no

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no don't block it okay

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let them see the sunset please okay

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yeah yes

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I mean it's nice to see Maria too

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but the sun's pretty nice

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so hello Namaste

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peace be with you

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I'm Mark

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and I'm Maria and this is Juicy Magic on the daily

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so we've decided to

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we've retired from regular life

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I suppose but there's no such thing as retirement

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I mean the living entity

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the soul is active by nature

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so we want to stay active

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but we want to offer uh

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our joy

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our offering is our joy every day to hang out with us

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to hang out in beautiful places quiet

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simple peaceful places as a bit of an antidote to uh

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no matter where you turn right now

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you'll see chaos quarrel

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confusion in

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in every way in media and social media on the internet

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just a never ending stream of of um embrollos fighting

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quarreling murdering

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killing destruction death

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and so

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we're just going to hang out around the beautiful

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subject matters of freedom

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peace and joy technologies

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inner and outer wealth

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evolution technologies let's call them

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they're they're

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they're not

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we're not evolving so much as we are uncovering

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and offering to you the opportunity to

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sit together

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and I will always ask a question

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Maria loves to ask questions yes

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I love to ask questions

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and Mark will answer

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and I will fuck him with explaining it more

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yeah so and you know

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if you have any questions or comments

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or topics you'd like to see discussed here and offered

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or sometimes we may just sit and do a little

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transcendental

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sacred meditation on transcendental sound vibrations

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mantras

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I'd like to offer my respects to all of my

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spiritual masters

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and to all the beautiful scriptures of the world

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in particular Bhagavad Gita as it is

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the Shrimah Bhagavatam and the chetanyacharanida

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maybe we could read some things out yeah

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yeah well

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since this will be daily

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we might we're just evolving the format

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we just wanna start we wanna sit with everyone

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every day

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uh no

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no more than 10 minutes 10 to 15 minutes enough

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you can you can hang out with us on your lunch break

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you can hang out with recess time

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instead of a smoke break I know some colleagues

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when I used to work in sales office

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they used to go for smoke breaks

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and I lobbied that

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I could go and go for exercise breaks

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if they were getting time to go and smoke

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then I could go and have time to

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to run around the building or stretch my muscles

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so yeah but it's also

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we discuss so many things everyday

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and I just keep thinking oh

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that would have been a good podcast yeah

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and so we we uh

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as part of our um mission or lifestyle yeah

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I just wanna share that to share to share together um

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just our growing appreciation for the beauty

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and majesty of god

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and all of his creation and all the living entities

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nothing in existence is outside of God's domain and

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we can take this down the path

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all kinds of wonderful things

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discussing things like karma

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who are we who am I

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identity function position

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who's god

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how do we develop our relationship

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our genuine relationship with him

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free from all the temporary labels

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that get associated with this body

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and thus end up really causing a lot of division

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there's only one team and everything

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and everyone is on it

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some are leaning into that

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and some are leaning away from it

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so just like the sunlight here is illuminating

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we wanna share just how wonderful

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the practice the sadhana

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the practice of Bhakti yoga

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devotional service and love to the Supreme Being

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that's our sadhana of Bhakti is

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is evolving and

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and we want to share that with everyone in the world

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who wants to join us in nice settings

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we're not here to impress you with our

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our looks or our clothes or lavish lifestyle

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because we don't

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we don't really find any happiness in that we're

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we're um

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yeah but also

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maybe you can elaborate

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about the importance of a really good stick

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oh yeah

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today we were so joyful today

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we went for a walk and you got the stick

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and it's just a perfect stick

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and we had a funny conversation about it

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well you know

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it's so it's not just serious

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I I really don't know

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it's fun we really wanna have some fun

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and share our fun with you

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yeah the

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the the spiritual journey is not a dour one

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it's one of a lot of magic and surprise

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there are some austerities

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obviously yagnas

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yagn yagn uh

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means to sacrifice

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but in this age

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the sacrifices are really easy because we're in

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we're in such a you know

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we have such a short duration of time in our bodies

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on maximum 100 years for most people under 80

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and in a lot of developing countries under 40

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40 is is the age of death when people leave their body

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when their body is just used up

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because of so much stress and poverty

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this is a magic time of awe and wonder

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and living in the Maas

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we say the magic on wonder in our pause in our primal

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authentic wild self which is who we are

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where the not wild is an unruly

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but there's a certain joy in living in the mystery and

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magic of god

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and surrendering slowly in time are our bodies

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our minds our hearts

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our our senses to him

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and um

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really trying to get to the heart of

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of Christ's teachings

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which are to love god with all your heart

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mind and soul the Supreme Person ABBA

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as Jesus called his father

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our father everybody's father

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the Supreme being there is only one god had many names

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many qualities

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just still the same person though

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yeah and we're travelling to find him

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in many different places

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so maybe we can elaborate on our travels too

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and back to the stick I mean

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we got out at a place

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we went to an abandoned village in

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in this beautiful rustic area far away Greece

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apparently there are protests in Athens yesterday

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hundreds of thousands of people

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we all we heard were a few dogs barking up here

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but haha and we're not making fun of anyone

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we just we have found that we

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we we

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find more appreciation and joy and gratitude in life

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when we're away from crowded places

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things that speed us up agitate us

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we we try to avoid them

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you know and um

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but we still want to interact and engage

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and build community around

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the the freedom and and peace and joy technologies uh

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like a good stick

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so today we we also

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there was a tree hanging over into the public domain

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just overloaded with lemons

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and you know lemons we really both love lemons

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they're they're a great part of our diet

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they're high in vitamin C but these are like wild big

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just bursting I mean they don't look pretty

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as pretty as the store bought the lemons

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but they're so full so much more full of of uh

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I'm sure all the wonderfulness inside they're

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they're so tasty and strong

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strong medicine

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but I had also to think of the monkeys in India yeah

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or in Cambodia so maybe we can also reflect on the yeah

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let's just say a good

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a stick is really great for many reasons

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you can use it as as to hike

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I'm I'm older

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my body I like to have a bit of a stability tool

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I'm not always uh

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my body has had type 1 diabetes for 30 years uh

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going on my 31st year and you know

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sometimes it's not

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it's not happy ha ha ha ha so having a stick is nice

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but it's also a great mechanism for defence

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you know sometimes there are aggressive organisms

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we never seek out a fight

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but we're not afraid to defend ourselves

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and it can be good to have a little stick between you

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and an aggressive dog or monkey

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monkey who's trying to steal your stuff

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uh we just got back from India and it was a

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it was so much to unpack there

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what a trip that was and so this is juicy magic

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this is part of our really

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it's kind of what we created this brand

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what we wanted to describe

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what we really wanted to experience the most

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and it doesn't really have to do with money so much

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or power or fame

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but it's more about just being really awake

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alive and aware and juicy abundant

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full of magic and nothing

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it's not like Harry Potter

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you know

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we're not shooting lightning out of our fingers

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but the other day we were appreciating behind us

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there was this thunderstorm

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and we just

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to sit for an hour and listen to the thunder

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and watch the lightning that was

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breathtaking

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oh and it's the first thing that we do together

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I mean we did some chanting together

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but that's the first format we really interact with

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in front of the camera

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oh this time right now yes

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yeah so

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you know we're committed now to doing it together

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um Maria's been about a lot behind the camera

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and doing a lot of the tech stuff

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but we just really wanted to sit together and share uh

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share community Sanga

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I want to ask my question

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oh yeah

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go ahead how much time do we have left

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not today but everyday

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I will choose a question

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and that will be our starting point

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yeah

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so you can send me some questions

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if you wanna ask Mark or me or us something specific

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then we'll start with the Bhagavad Gita as it is

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we're gonna reach like stanzas from it

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there's great purports unfortunately

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we're very blessed we

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I don't study Sanskrit or um

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Hindi or some of the ancient languages

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but there's there are

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they've been translated by people in our lineage and

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and uh

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perfectly and so we don't have to make anything up

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we can just

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read and ponder and

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quite often

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be amazed at how the very thing we read a year ago is

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is really understood differently in this year

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so we keep going back

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we notice

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people are looking for solid foundations in a topsy

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turvy world

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and this is just a place where we can

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if you like it you don't have to join us

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you don't have to agree

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but if you want to join us in our readings

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in some of our meditations and

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just being in really quiet

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peaceful places

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and we'll discuss some exciting outward technologies

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too uh

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things that we believe are important

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for even

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organizations involved in spiritual matters

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to consider

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things like Bitcoin and

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and other forms of what we see as freedom

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and peace and joy technologies

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they're not the be all end all but they can augment

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they certainly augment you know our life and

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give us more freedom and safety and security

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so that we can continue to deepen our own practice

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as long as we're still in these bodies

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you know

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so part of that is spending a lot of our time in

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I don't know if you can hear the birds but they're just

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a teacher of mine once said

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so lovely all the time

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that everything that breathes praises the Lord

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and I think about that person a lot every

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I met them in 1999

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and I don't think there's a day that goes by in my life

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where I don't think about them

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and give thanks that they were

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that they were able to teach me

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um I didn't understand everything

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they were teaching me at the time

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and I still don't but so much is a

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so much is a so much to appreciate

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when we come into contact with people who

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out of the goodness of their heart

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without anything really to gain themselves

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other than the joy in

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in sharing this transcendent wisdom and knowledge

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which comes from since to us since time immemorial

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through god himself or his messengers

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or his incarnations

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or his avatars and devotees who are spending their

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every ounce of their being engaged in loving service

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to him so

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it's very humbling to be around such people

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or their works

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we're far above 10 minutes

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we said 15 2 right okay

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so more about this today

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the stick if you can a friend of mine Ernie

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we used to work in a sales office together and I got

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I was like always trying to get out of that place

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but we're going to the woods and the two of us

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we just find sticks

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and we would just love having a stick

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you know when I don't know if you when you were a kid

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but it wasn't

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there's nothing like having a stick in the woods uh

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there it's like a good companion

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you know if you can't have a dog

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then the stick is really nice to have

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it feels very Gandalf esque

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you know Gandalf hey

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you see saddhus and different

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different people of different traditions

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carrying different staffs

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in particular in India Barath Varsh

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the holy the land of Barath um

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yeah

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and I'll never forget the first time I met such people

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in 1992 in Nepal

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on Shiva Lord Shiva's birthday

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Shiva Ratri

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it was in February of 1992 and 33 years later

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here we are watching the sunset and we survived India

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yeah well

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there's more on that

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but we've been spending a lot of time pilgrimage

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pilgrimage around the world

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Tirta and it's been very hard on our bodies

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it's certainly been a sacrifice that we want to share

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there's lots of stories lots of fun

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yeah we're still a little bit off

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we're still sick from our time

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but happy

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the body gets goes through phases

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yeah how do you want to wrap it up babe

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I just wanted to ask the same question

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ha ha ha ha ha how do you want to end this

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maybe we find a special way in the next weeks

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sure well

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we can end it why don't we end it with just

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we'll do three uh

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it's really an introduction to one of the Med

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our favourite meditations

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uh it's called Go Ranga meditation

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it's it's a name for god

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it means

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he whose body is more beautiful than molten gold

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it's kind of four even though it's goranga

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it's four syllables goranga

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and we're just going to do three gorangas together

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you could do them on your own

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I mean spiritual life is very much a personal

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relationship with god but it's not a team sport

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but sometimes it's nice to engage in

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transcendental activities together

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yeah the more the merrier

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you know

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and as Lord Chaitanya says that

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you know the transcendental river of love is flowing

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you know eternally

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it's been unleashed on the world and it's never ending

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I've heard it said that you know

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to plunder the storehouse of love

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there's there's

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there's an unending amount of nectarean

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sweetness and love for god in the storehouse of love

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in our hearts

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and through our minds and activities and our

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our actions

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so yeah we'll just do we're gonna

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we're gonna take a deep breath

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in thinking of the sound go Ra ungah

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and on the exhalation to the length of the breath

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we're gonna say go sing or say or chant go Ra ungah

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we'll just do three of those

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and that way you've got a

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you've got a little taste of it

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this is kind of it's not like some uh

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systems where you got to pay more money and get new

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secret

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this is the top most meditation and beginners experts

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those that are self realized fully yeah

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the most powerful thing is given out at first at first

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yeah for free yeah

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there's no mystery here it's a it's enjoy it

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I've been enjoying it for 26 years coming up now

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and and it's still it's always helping me

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you know brings me back brings me back home

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so just come home with us for a moment as we

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as we Chankoranga

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Harry Bowl it's funny how the cough ends by chance

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we've had this horrible cough since since India

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the air pollution there was really

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really really bad

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and it's such a strange land of paradox

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such so many gifts and miracles

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and yeah let's keep that for the next one

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we'll keep that for the next one

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so thank you that was the introduction yeah

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welcome to Juicy Magic on the daily

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I'm Mark and I'm Maria

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thanks for joining us we

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so we really genuinely thank you for your being

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your time your energy and your focus and

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and um

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come come hang out with us anytime

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every time we're on and hopefully

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we can expand what we're offering over the next year

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thanks for tuning in Haribo Haribo

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oh by the way

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Haribo means chant the names of god or praise the Lord

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or sing the names of god

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Ch Chan and be happy

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one more secret revealed

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it's so funny when people answer

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because they think it's some kind of hello

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yeah you know

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we say Harry Ball to lots of people

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including people in dog bodies and cat bodies

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it's like I do what I call drive by Harry Balls

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I love like

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having the window down and I'm hanging out of our van

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like I'm a like a dog

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I like Harry Ball Harry Ball

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these goats you know

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they are everyone they just freeze

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you know so many stories about moose

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and other people in different bodies

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how they react

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but you can say it in a way like kind of like hello

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but hi ball

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and it's really nice it's a reminder of

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of the foundation and essence of our practice

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which is to simply hear and repeat

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and remember God's names of his pastimes

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his forms his characteristics

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but primarily his names so

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let them go yeah yeah

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let them go

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okay we'll see you later

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bye okay

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