Episode 9

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16th Mar 2025

#9 - The Magic of Lord Chaitanya’s First Prayer: Bhakti, Nature, and Everyday Peace

Take a seat with us under the glowing sky. We share sweet stories, scattered laughter, heartfelt kirtan, and simple reflections as spring unfolds around us. There’s a guitar on one lap, a moon peeking through the trees, and a flow of memories from last night’s celebration for Gaur Purnima—Lord Chaitanya’s appearance day. This isn’t polished, just true: our guitars are a little off, the chants are heartfelt, and our stories zigzag between devotion, daily life, and those cozy, candlelit moments that make you pause and breathe a little deeper.

Whether you’re drawn into the peace of chanting, curious about the magic of the moon, or just want to feel part of this little circle, this video is for you. We get a bit silly, we get honest about what’s hard, and we keep circling back to simple joys—bare feet, singing together, following the rhythm of nature, and letting spiritual practice soften the world a little. Light a candle with us, offer a blessing (or borrow a few!), and maybe feel more peaceful by the end of it all.

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yeah yeah

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oh we can do both guys the third one

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you know I'm recording already

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are we ooh hey

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it's The Muppet Show ha ha ha ha ha

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hi there I'm Mark hi

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how are you and this is Juicy Magic on the daily

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on the daily yeah

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thanks for coming in welcome

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welcome and may peace be with you always

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may peace be with you and upon you

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you say Harry Bowl chant the Holy names and Namaste

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yeah I got something on my lap

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but I don't want to fall over

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so we're thinking you know

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it's a we had a really great Celebration of

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of of Gora Pormima

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Lord Shaitani's appearance day

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so let's just get right to it let's do a little

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let's do a little chant

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it's known as kirtan

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simply one person chants and the other person listens

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and then the other person chants back

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and the and the first person that was chanting listens

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it's wonderful

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it's wherever two or more are gathered in my name

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there I am between them

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and that's the essence of kirtan

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but the more the merrier

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I've been in some chance with hundreds of people

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and it can be pretty ecstatic

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pretty probably

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some of the highest moments

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I've ever experienced in my life

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and yeah you know

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I tried everything in this life

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it would seem

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so uh

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it's amazing this process just gets sweeter and sweeter

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excuse my amateur guitar playing

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Chetanaya

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Nitchinanda oh

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the channel is Chetanaya Nitchinanda Gore harie

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referring to Lord Chetanaya and his associate

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Lord Nitchinanda and the mercy of goranga

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to Tanya

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to Nana

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oh poor Harry

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Goranga Goranga

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Goranga Goranga Goranga

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Goranga Goranga Goranga

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Goranga Goranga

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Goranga Goranga

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we'll do that next time record some more medication

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yeah yeah

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yeah it's wonderful

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you know the beautiful thing

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about chanting the names of the Lord

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is that there's no hard and fast rules

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Lord Chetan himself said that

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since we were celebrating Gua Pura Nima

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I wanted to read

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on the back of the teachings of Lord Sitania

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there's a beautiful uh

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one of the prayers

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the eight prayers that Lord Sitania left

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they're so

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you could meditate just on these eight prayers

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the rest of your life

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and still have more being revealed to you

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they're so relishable and nectarian and golden

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so uh

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this one of the one of the stances of the

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one of the eight prayers says

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all glories to the Shree Krishna Sankirtan

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which cleanses the heart of all the dust

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accumulated for years together

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thus the fire of conditional life

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of repeated birth and death is extinguished

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this Sancton movement is the prime benediction

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for humanity at large

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because it spreads the rays of the benediction moon

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it is the life of all transcendental knowledge

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it increases the ocean of transcendental bliss

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and it helps to have a taste of the full

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nectar for which we are always anxious

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we're always hankering for pleasure and

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the holy names can give that in full

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transcendental ecstasy

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and last night actually

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maybe you could tell them about getting up really early

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and what you saw early this morning

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you showed me a picture

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last night there was the eclipse

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but we didn't see the eclipse here today

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there's an eclipse of the full moon

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but I again

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I just woke up at 4:00 and then again at 5

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it's a great time to chant on your beads

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yes which I did

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but I went outside to watch the moon

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and we had a full moon and an eclipse

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but here in Greece the eclipse is not visible

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it was visible just in North America

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Ja my mom

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my mom was actually getting up at 2 in the morning

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to see the eclipse good for her

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she's amazing but we talk everyday on WhatsApp

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so yeah

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but here we saw just the lights around

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so there was an orange light around the moon and uh

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it was reflected in the ocean

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in the bay

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and the water was orange and it was just beautiful

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so I was sitting outside a bit and just watch the moon

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you know you'll find as you

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as you as you pull away from

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the web of of media and busy busy

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busy drama

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you can follow the rhythms of nature

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and they're so wonderful they unfold so perfectly

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sun rises and sets the moon rises and sets

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the seasons come and go I mean

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the closer to the equator you are

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the less distinction there is

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but even there there's a rainy and rainiest season

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but uh

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or hot and hotter but in

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you know in the

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in the

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the further you get to the north and south hemispheres

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the seasons are so beautiful

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they say after every season

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you know there's a reason

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and a time for every purpose under heaven

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and so especially now when all the flowers come out

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yeah in the Northern Hemisphere

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spring is glorious

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I'm sure spring is glorious in the southern Hemisphere

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it just comes around the time of autumn for us

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and we gotta spend spring somewhere down south one day

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be able in in the southern hemisphere

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you know

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but with that in mind you know

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I hope you've been enjoying the beautiful

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waxing of the moon as it gets full

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and we waltz while watching the moon wane

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until it gets to be a little sliver

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and then a new moon

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and we kind of build our you know

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our our

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our life tends to revolve more around the seasons

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and the sun and moon

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as it always has for all the ages

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and what a beautiful thing it is

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just to sit in the open sky under a moon

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there's a great Soufi story

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where thief breaks into the Soufi master's house and

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he comes out with his armful of stuff

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and the Soviets masters there

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and he said

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I just wanted to give you the moon

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you know but take what you want

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and you know

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he knew that there's more glory there's more wealth

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in the stars

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in the heavens and in the kingdom of God within

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um and once the within is like

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is purified the outside becomes like that too

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as above so below

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as within so without

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and as our good friend Dear George Harrison

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Doctor George as I call him

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said that the darkness rises

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but the light rises up to meet it

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and in this age we are so incredibly fortunate

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that Lord Sitanu came over

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only 539 years ago

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and he gave the most sublime simple elegant

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beautiful perfect process for returning home to Godhead

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and to remembering who we are

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and to reignite the

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natural function and position of the living entity

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which is as the loving living

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eternal servant of the Supreme Being

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and to love him and love others

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and to soften our hearts and start to live again

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again well

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as the Sufi say that people

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unless they're awakened to that

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they're sort of like walking dead

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they're not real humans

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and I can see that every time my heart is hard

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hardened or when I've been covered by ignorance

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it's like I'm not alive I'm not really alive to

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to my true nature I remember when I had

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my first soul travel experience when I was in my 20s

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I I came back like you came back from

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from that and you walk around

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and you feel like everybody is a zombie

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because they weren't in touch with something greater

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they're just entangled in material things

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you know now

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I know that these travels can go far beyond

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to what I went at that time

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but even then

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even then I got a glimpse like there was more

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oh my god yes

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I just felt you know

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that there's a life beyond this body

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and even that was already making me feel that

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everybody's running around like a zombie here

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and it was so tough to come back

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and now

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I know there are even more gorgeous places to be

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yeah and we hope to share more of our

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we don't wanna dive too much into our

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all the different things we've tried in our lifetimes

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but the same time we've

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you know it's nice when you come

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come back to a process that's tried and true

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and simple and authorized by Scripture

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and authorized by the acharias

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and the great spiritual masters

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we have a beautiful parampara discipleship succession

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it's teacher and a teacher and a teacher and a teacher

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yeah but first you have to find that

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absolutely so it's not so easy to find it

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oh it's very rare

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well you know

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it's getting uh

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it's getting a bit darker

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yeah we

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should probably sign off for the day

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we just love hanging out with you

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this is our devotional service right now

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and this is how we try to connect with the world

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and try to give the best

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try to create more peace in the world

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cause peace is so wonderful

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you know when you're at peace

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life is really beautiful

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and when things are slowed down and simple

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and get so much joy out of the most basic

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simple things you know

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just I was just thinking we could make a fire yeah

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sit at the fire or you know

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even even you know

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but yeah with that in mind

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we'll just light a candle because you know

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we can't all have fires you know

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we live sometimes we live in apartments

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I've lived in cities we can't just have a bonfire

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we love having bonfires

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it's kind of one of the we gotta have a few criteria

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gotta be able to be barefoot

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it's gotta be warm enough in the winter

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and we gotta be able to be able to have a fire

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cause we love have fires we do yugness sac

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I wanna sacrifice this into the fire

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and but lighting a candle

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I love lighters

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they're really handy to have but you know

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tonight we light a candle

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we light a candle for peace in this world

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and we'll say goodbye

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but if you'd like if you'd like to join us

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you know just if

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it's safe and appropriate to do so

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and you're in a place where there's

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you know make sure you blow the candle out

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and make sure it's put out properly

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but you can just you know

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at night

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instead of watching some show or some TV or whatever

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you can do a little garong meditation

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and you can light a candle

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and it's beautiful offering

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you know this flickering flame is so peaceful

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and you can start feeling the lit candle in your heart

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the transcendent one

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that's so true and

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you know when your heart is on fire and burning bright

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you want to share that light with others

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so tonight we'll light a candle

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maybe you can light a candle too

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when you can later today or tomorrow

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just pray for world peace

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pray for your own peace

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pray for the peace

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and well being of every living entity in the universe

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wish them well

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may peace be with you always

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Haribo Haribo

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and Namaste thanks for tuning in today

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