Episode 10

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Published on:

18th Mar 2025

#10 - Be God's Groupie: How Devotion and Simple Chanting Transform Everyday Life

Finding shelter and lightness right where you are, with laughter, stories, and a lot of chanting. Here, the talk weaves through peacock feathers stuck into couch cushions, car scratchers that double as dog deterrents, half-forgotten parks in Germany, and the gentle tug of memory back toward childhood. The two of them ramble and tease (and fuss over whether the camera's on) but always come back to the sound that carries them—Gauranga—sung for years and still fresh every time. You’ll hear about being not just seekers, but groupies: standing outside something beautiful, hoping for a glimpse, sometimes only catching a smile carried on the wind, sometimes hearing a name that fills everything up. No need to get precious or complicated or try to climb every mountain. Here’s a space to rest, chant, and remember what’s already inside. If you’ve felt a little skeptical, a little tired, a little out of place: that’s welcome here, too. The hope is you leave this video feeling a bit more at home, maybe humming along, maybe just feeling seen. Thanks for being here.

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we're inside now no

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inside what importance of having the right tool

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okay ready

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oh it's recording

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is it recording yeah

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oh okay

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so three two 1 hello

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Namaste Namaste Haribo

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welcome and may peace be with you and upon you

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I was just thinking

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if you've ever seen one of these little scratchers

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oh my god having a really

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having in the right tool at the right time

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the right place is really amazing

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these things you can go down you can like get the spot

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oh yeah you know

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oh my God oh

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we keep these around the house

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they're great um

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especially in the car yeah

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you get one yeah

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so that's kind of like you know

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the reason why I carry my beads with me at all times

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you never know when

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there's always a really great opportunity

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whether you're

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it's also good you can extend it like keep away

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it's like having a stick

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when you're out walking in the morning

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keep the dogs away

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most dogs are friendly though here

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but so what do we have here

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oh hey

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that's a peacock feather from India

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

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the sound of the peacock

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is actually one of my very first memories

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and it's quite the you know

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peacock feathers are kind of related to Christian

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as a child

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my mom and dad would take my brother

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took my brother over to to Greece

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and I was left in Germany with my grandparents oh

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you swam in Greece back then

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no not in not at 3 or 2 or I was 1 years old

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I think

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so they left me with my own open in Germany and um

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they used to walk me in the Schutt Park I wait

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I recently went back to see this place

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and it's a beautiful beautiful park

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this guy who travelled all around the world

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he put all his money into making this beautiful part

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for the whole town of Lar

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and you they had peacocks and as a kid

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I just some of my earliest childhood memories is like

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yeah yeah

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and it's quite I think it really

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it's when I actually first started remembering

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before this current form

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you know and that's the beautiful thing there's um

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surrounding

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ourselves with the paraphernalia of the transcendental

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realm is really quite something

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it reminds us every day of our true home so

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should we just do a little garonga

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maybe do 4 or five garongas just to get centered

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yeah join us in some garonga

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goraunga to the length of the breath

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he whose body is more beautiful than molten gold

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and I've been meditating on this sound for 26 years

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and I just such a beautiful sound never

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it's always been there for me

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and I offer it to you

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and hope that you take it and use it

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it's soothes the brain calms the heart

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and fills us up with what's

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your experience of chanting garonga

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together and by yourself

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it's every time it's a little bit different

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but the last time we did it

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I felt something really powerful coming down

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it's like something is descending and it's coming down

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and with each karanga

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it just comes down a little bit more

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a little bit more and I was just waiting really like ha

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when does it touch the ground

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you know and when

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when is the point where you totally surrounded by it

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yeah so it's like you're surrounded by it

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but you're also in it and it's like a bubble

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and it's it's really the comfort of a transient sound

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it's a ever fresh it's always deepening and expanding

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and it's true this

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this practice is a descending method

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and you don't have to try so hard

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you don't have to climb the mountain

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the ascending process trying to get up

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up up

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oh I always wanted to do it by myself yeah

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oh my God I remember in my twens and in my 30s

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you know all these courses that are out there

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and you take like every path and you're like

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I have to go up I have to go up

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and you try to push everything up

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and then you come like up here maybe

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oh then you're already a master if you're

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if you're above the third chakra right

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the moment you pass your heart

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the moment you pass your fourth chakra

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oh you're in perfect love

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nah you're not

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what what if the truth

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what and what if the truth is a person and can move

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yeah can move away from you or to you

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depending on your Grace yeah

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and you know

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they said like oh

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you have to reach the 7th chakra

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and I reached it and then I thought oh

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there's another chakra here

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ha ha not that one

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and you come here and then you're like

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and now what

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and you're just at the same stage than before

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and for worse yeah

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and then you try to build this channel

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all the way to the heavens

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to the other realms to the divine

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to the void to feel everything around you

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and it just keep climbing up and it's like

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where you can just sit and let

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let let the Supreme being come to you

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yeah through his names

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that was just that experience that I had in India

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this one kirtan

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and we were sitting there

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and all these people were chanting

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and I closed my eyes

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and I just felt something coming down

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and I felt like this is interesting

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what is it and it just felt coming down

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coming down and the moment it touched the ground

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they started the whole the

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the the bells were going on and they

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they drunk the drums car tiles

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and I thought how did they know

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ha ha ha how did they know

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that was the moment it touched the ground

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that's the beauty of kirtimes everyone

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a lot of time everyone's feeling yeah

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and I said what is it

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what is it

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and um yeah

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and now I start feeling it too

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when we're chanting it's coming down

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so what is it Mark

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what is coming down

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and I don't have to try so hard to get up anymore

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well what is it

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the descending process is really a path of humility

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and of attempted humility

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and for the lower

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you know when you're paying your respects

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with your head on the ground

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everything looks up from there

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and it's a much safer practice

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and it's also the recommended practice for the sage

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is the

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god is none different than his names

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his names are transdental

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and we don't

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a great saint once told me that we don't see god first

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we hear him he comes through our ears

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we don't see him first we hear him first

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we hear about him about his past times

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his characteristics his paraphernalia

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his entourage his forms

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his names his activities his abodes

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his uh

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associates

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you know

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um opulent in all six of

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in all opulences but the six main ones are

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are beauty and wisdom and power

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renunciation

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wealth and fame

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and you know

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if someone's famous

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if someone's wealthy or very renounced

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very astute or very wise

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or very beautiful or very famous they're attractive

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that's why Christian's name is Christian

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it means he who attracts all

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he's all attractive has all qualities in full

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and you know

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I mean I was like humble in the beginning

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but now I feel like a little girl

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ha ha jumping around and I'm like

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who's coming who's coming

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who's coming ha ha

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and do you remember when I told you I um

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I uh I

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I can't see him

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I'm sorry I can't

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I can't see him

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uh I mean

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I see a lot of strange entities

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but I can't see Kushna

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but there was one moment last week when I heard

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I heard him smile and I got so excited

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ha ha I was jumping around like having a yes

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you know like we

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like we were watching this disgracious dad

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oh documentary

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documentary and all these people coming there

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and there was just such groupies

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and I feel like a groupies yeah

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let's say be God's Groupie

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maybe that could be the title of uh

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of today's uh

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gathering is yeah

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be God's Groupie get interested in god

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get interested in his his glories

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his fame I feel more like a groupie

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standing in front of the hotel

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waiting for yeah

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waiting for the rock god to appear

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I know he's there I feel the presence

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but I just wait to to see him pull away the curtain

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so I can have a glimpse

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it kind of reminds me of LED Zeppelin

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you know and Robert Plant

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like I'm a Greek god

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like he was considered a rock and roll god

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and actually he's he's gotten

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his music's gotten even better as he's gotten older

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but he does

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he certainly doesn't look like the rock god anymore

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he looks really like a really old man he's

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it's just as he's beautiful too

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but but

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you know that sort of temporary

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the temporariness of this world

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you know our bodies get older

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they deteriorate and we

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and they dwindle before we leave them so um sorry

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I'm excited too much yeah

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yeah let's finish

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let's finish tonight with

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uh or today or this morning

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wherever you're meeting us from

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and we hope to do these more live

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there's just it's amazing

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there's so much to learn about um

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offering this and doing it live

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and then internet

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and probably have to get Starlink at some point

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we're not entirely sure where we're gonna land

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so we're just doing this on

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on the road and we wanted to thank you for

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for being a part of this and joining us and

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and um

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well you know

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the home you're looking for

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can be found in transcendent sound

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you just let the power and beauty and renunciation

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and wisdom and fame and riches descend into you you

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you have we have all these things in minute quantities

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all these qualities we have in minute quantities

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we don't have them in full like Christian does

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like god does

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but we're also part and parcel of the supreme person

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and so we have these just extraordinary

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innumerable good qualities in small amounts

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but we've kind of covered them up

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through our different activities

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and consciousness that's taking us away from that

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that's already within us that's in you

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that's why we struggled with trying to word it

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it's not like we're evolving in our spiritual life

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it's more like we're uncovering our natural

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that's the difference I think that's a really

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there's lots of differences between the ascending yeah

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unfolding and also uncovering

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like there's

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the main difference between the ascending process

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you have to work so hard I

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I lived in so many different places

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very different practices were really

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really really challenging and

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and the results weren't even

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a fraction of what I've been able to experience

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through the descending process

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of simply hearing and repeating uh

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God's names and through other processes in the

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in sat nav bhakti

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in the practice of bhakti yoga

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which scripture and spiritual masters say is the tamas

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yoga system it's

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it's gonna be difficult to accept this

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if we've heard a lot of other stuff

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but it's beautiful eventually I came to it as well

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and I'm so grateful for that

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just uh

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grateful for you to spend time together

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in this subject matter living our lives

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trying to live our lives in this practice yeah

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I must admit I had some experiences many

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many many years ago and uh

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I was quite judgemental judgemental judgemental

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and it took me a while and I I

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I had a lot of prejudice

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but uh

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I if you

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if you feel the same ha ha

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just try to let go of it for a couple minutes

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and suspend your disbelief here

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like they like when you watch it

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you know you're watching a movie

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and you're supposed to suspend your disbelief yeah

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it's a little different and I

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I thought I always thought I have to fight for it

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I have to work really hard um

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uh I have to deserve it

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you know I have to spend all these hours at night

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programming myself to wake up

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to try again you know

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and um uh

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I I couldn't allow myself that it can be so easy yeah

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that's uh

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if you're if you're tired

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if you're you know

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spending a lot of money on all kinds of far out things

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talking with mamas or I mean

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I live in a lot of different centres and boy

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people would spend an awful lot of money

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on a lot of crazy stuff and it was just ridiculous

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the more ridiculous the more money they would charge

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yeah so just be careful out there

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you know the

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it's often the simple elegant

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timeless things that really work

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and what what was it

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was it who said um

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it has to be as easy

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that a child needs to understand it

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I think Christ said that the king that that that

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you know spiritual understanding

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it should be a children should be a child should be

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would be able to understand

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will is able to understand it

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you know it's not so complicated um

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but we like to make it complicated

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so try something easy yeah

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just for once that's I can tell you it's a really nice

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you might be surprised yeah

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it's such a nice feeling when when you uh

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humility and and Grace and

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and getting back to basic things that really matter

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I think more than ever

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that's what everyone's looking for shelter

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everyone's looking for love

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everyone's looking for a friend

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and Christmas is supreme friend

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and controller and owner of everything and everyone

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so let's do a couple of garangas

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and then we're already it's getting past 15 minutes so

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you know

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you know we just we're here to tell

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you know what

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we're trying our best just to tell stories

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we want to tell more stories and

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and do some meditation together on this process

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back home back to god

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maybe we should separate the meditations

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and make the meditations an extra video

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okay

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so we'll see you tomorrow

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ha ha ha

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it's always I always just I could do that for hours

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it's so nice you know

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we've been celebrating Ortiz

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Tony's appearance day yesterday

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and yeah there was a lot of chatting today so

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the more touch she gets to God I'm happy for yeah

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so thanks for coming today

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we wish for you peace and freedom and joy through love

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surrender devotion

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and I do know

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it's been said that devotion will elevate a person

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whatever you're doing you know

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especially if it's a good thing and good for others

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good now good later

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good for you good for others

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said devotion to that will lead to elevation

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and so peace be with you

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