Episode 3

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10th Mar 2025

#3 - The Gentle Secret of Immortality: Kirtan, Mishaps, and the Wisdom of Bhagavad Gita 2:20)

Breath slow and easy with us under the olive trees, as we gather in episode 3 of Maria and Mark’s Juicy Magik on the Daily. Whether you come for peace, kirtan, or just the healing sound of sacred names, you’re at home here. We start light with greetings in many tongues, then drift together through Gouranga meditation, laughter, and honest stories of pain, mishap, and gratitude. Our spiritual toolbox today: chanting, Bhagavad Gita, mantras, and that loving nudge to rest in the company of one another—alive, imperfect, and spiritual at heart. Stay for the stories, the mantra practice, and the gentleness of friends not pretending to have it all together. Just more soul and less strain, breath by breath, day by day. If you’re looking for a soft place to land, or a mellow community to sing, grieve, and find grace with, welcome. That’s what this space is for.

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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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uh

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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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uh

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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

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if you like it kind of makes a loop of energy

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just relax and while breathing in

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and obviously on the exhalation

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you're going to be relaxing the shoulders

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relaxing the face and just saying the name Goranga

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so breathing in

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sorry my insulin pump went off there

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thinking of the sound Goranga breathing in

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two more times

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Haribo nice

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thank you Uranga

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so we'll see you tomorrow

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uh in Shala

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as they say God willing

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don't fall down the stairs tonight please

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no no

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

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I need you to stay

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

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

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yeah yeah yeah

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so um

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uh peace be with you and namastay

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namastay and we'll see you tomorrow

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alright bo bye

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