Episode 6

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13th Mar 2025

#6 - Everyday Bhakti: Incense, Breathing, and the Sweet Rituals of Home

Come gather with us, cup of tea in hand, out on the stone patio overlooking the olive trees and the bright sweep of sea. This is Juicy MagiK on the daily, a place where faith, humor, and gratitude weave into the everyday work of spiritual practice. Today we talk patience, forgiveness, and the art of making simple rituals sacred—from breathing together, laughing at our own flaws, to sharing offered incense and homemade tea. The scent of India lingers, the stories are honest, and the love is a bit messy but real. We’re learning to make every place feel like home, even if it’s just for a night. Heartfelt prayers float out alongside incense smoke: may you feel peaceful, grounded, and blessed right where you are. Thank you for being with us, again and again.

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Speaker:

Namastay Namastay

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carry on and peace be with you

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I'm Maria and I'm Mark

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and this is Juicy magic

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the daily yeah

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we're having a blast doing this

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can't wait to do this every day makes our day

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thanks for tuning in how are you today

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let's just take a moment to relax our bodies

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they might have a cup of herbal tea

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and yesterday's podcast was about making a cup of tea

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and offering it with love and devotion

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and then savoring it you know really appreciating

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the anecdote to those destructive elements of greed

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lust and anger are really

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faith and hope gratitude forgiveness

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patience patience

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Lord knows I've got a lot of work to do

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Maria knows

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actually I'm really grateful

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Maria is one of the more patient people in the world

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and she teaches me every day

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yeah so patience

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oh today I wasn't that patient

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no no

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actually she was not patient today

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but anyway ha ha

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the great thing about um

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acknowledging your own faults

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and really meditating on them

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to some degree is that

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you don't really see the faults so much in others

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you really

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it's such a gift to

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slow down and appreciate life and

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just see the best in others

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yeah I was impatient with you

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it's a very common trait of mine

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but then he made me these wonderful cups of tea

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and everything was well again ha ha

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gotta know how to grease the wheels in a relationship

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no I

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and that's the beautiful

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thing about being in a relationship

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is that it's a

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it's an ongoing process

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it's a daily practice just like our Sathana Bakti yoga

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the practice of

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loving god through devotional service to him

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we're gonna do some elements

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let's start with some garong breathing

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we're gonna do 10 garongas garong

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he whose body is more beautiful than molten gold

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just sit comfortably

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relax your shoulders when you do this exercise at home

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you can shorten or lengthen the breath

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depending on your own capacity

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but just for the sake of this podcast

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we'll do it together

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it's really nice

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wherever two or more are gathered in my name

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there I am between them

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it's a beautiful quote from the Bible

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so the more senses you engage in a process

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the more your senses become absorbed

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so just take some comfort and surround in

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transcendental sound

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oh God

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one more time

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no it felt like some lightning struck me

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it was like boom

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oh my God sorry

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struck down by transcontinental sound

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that's pretty nice yeah

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sometimes that happens yeah yeah

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so what do you wanna talk about today

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well I thought that you know

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we were on this little

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we like to share the little habits and tips tricks

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hacks

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tools throughout the day that really help keep us um

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focused mindful

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humbled

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and um one of these things that we love to do is

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we love incense

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and after being in India we know

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why it's such an important part of temple worship

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is things are so concentrated there

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so intensely

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uh populated

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and a lot of outside noise and quite a bit of dirt

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and I mean there's so much

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so many sacred sites in India

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but it's also from a material standpoint

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can be a very overwhelming place

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and also you get assaulted by some intense smells

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like in the west and in other places

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we often have very much sanitized

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you know and our garbage gets whisked away

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and there when you've got garbage in the streets and

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you know it's just in the middle of the road or it

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it gets pretty intense the smell

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and everybody around is you is sweating

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and even in winter I mean

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that was summer is for us

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it's winter for them yeah

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and everybody 30 degrees and 30 Celsius

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yeah they're like

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it's winter and they're carrying coats

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but you can smell the sweat everywhere

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it was really challenging

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well just like we were offering our tea yesterday

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our herbal tea

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we uh

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couple times a day

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we love to take a little bit of incense

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and beautiful thing about offering in the Bhagavad Gita

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Krishna says to Arjuna

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if one offers me with love and devotion

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a leaf a fruit

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some flower or water I will accept it

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and the sort of just like a child

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often can bring a piece of artwork to their parent

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and

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parent doesn't care about the quality of the artwork

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often at a young age it's

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it's the act of love it's the act of sweetness

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so if we approach the Supreme

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and the Supreme energy and the Supreme being with

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with attempts to feel humble and grateful

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and in awe and reverence

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and this sweetness

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that I am this I am a child of god

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and this is my parents

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my ultimate source of happiness and Protection

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and beauty and wisdom

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so we often just to light some incense

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I also have a love of lighters

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Maria can attest to that and tell her about the lighter

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yeah

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no when you go through an airport

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they confiscate them

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so you always have to replenish your lighters

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and sometimes they don't find them

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but often they just take them away from you

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so if you're burning incense like we do

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we always need to get new lighters

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yes you can take the

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it's another thing you can do while you're doing

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after you're done your garonga

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or just before you do your garonga breathing

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you can take a a nice incense stick

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you can close your eyes

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and with a little love and devotion

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you can offer it

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offer to god offer to all of life

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please accept this offering

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then you can plant it somewhere safe

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you know I never understood that

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he always lit a incense and then he carried it outside

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and I'm like

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why are you carrying it outside and uh you know

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like

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that little bird that hit the window the other day

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every every living entity will smell this

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this is known as prishadam or the lord's mercy

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Prishadam is also usually referred to food

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offered to god and then distributed

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vegetarian food stuffs lacto vegetarian

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but it's also you know

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it's inviting others in

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but it's also so much more because every

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we're travelling a lot so we change places a lot

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sometimes we sleep in different places every day

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and it's unknown and it's unfamiliar

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so so like always when Mike lights an incense

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I I kind of start getting the sense of home yeah

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so it turns

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it turns every space very quickly into a home

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that's nice

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we try to share more tips about really feeling at home

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wherever you go

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simultaneously not home in this world of material life

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but at home in the spiritual world and so um

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with great love and respect

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we offer you a little incense that's been offered oh

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and one thing I Learned in India

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I always just stand there

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but in India I Learned I have to take it yeah

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I have to take it so you can offer this to your spouse

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you just talked to a friend yesterday's he's

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he's new newly married and also going to be

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he's a father but their

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their baby is not yet out of the womb

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and then how nice this is that you can

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offer this to your spouse or your little baby and

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you know and they get the benefit

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and you can do the same with transcranial sound

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I was telling him that in the womb

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the first sense to develop around the

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the living entity in the womb is the sense of hearing

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and it's quite acute

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by the time you're getting ready to deliver the baby

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that that baby can hear so do a little go aranga

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you know um

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and enjoy some offered incense here

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so I'm Mark

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

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and thanks for tuning in

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today we wish for you every happiness

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may all beings be happy peaceful and liberated

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and we say haribol and namastay and peace be with you

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peace be with you I need a bigger potion now

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can you hold it yeah

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go go take it in

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I don't think she's pregnant

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but no

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we've done that part of life

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so anyway no

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okay bye guys bye

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this is a better quality it's also a little

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