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Moving Past Unpleasant Thoughts and Experiences · Inspiration and Transformation

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Inspiration and Transformation from the Banks of the
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  Speaker 1: Ganga with Sadhvi Bhagwati Saraswati, an American Sanyasi living at
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  Speaker 1: the Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, India. Sadhvi is president
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  Speaker 1: of the Divine Shakti Foundation, a charitable organization bringing education,
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  Speaker 1: vocational training, upliftment, and empowerment programs to women and children.
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  Speaker 1: Sadhvi is also Secretary-General of the Global Interfaith Wash Alliance
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  Speaker 1: and Director of the world-famous International Yoga Festival. Join the
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  Speaker 1: musings of an American sannyasi as Sadhvi shares the wisdom
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  Speaker 1: and teachings of her guru, His Holiness, Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswataji.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome, everyone, to Inspiration and Transformation, from the holy banks
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  Speaker 2: of the sacred Ganga River in the land of Rishikesh, India.
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  Speaker 2: How do we move past unpleasant thoughts or experiences? The
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  Speaker 2: nature of nature is change. It's like saying, how do
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  Speaker 2: I move past this wave in the ocean? You just
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  Speaker 2: stay in one place. The wave's going to move. It's
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  Speaker 2: the nature of the waves of the ocean. How do
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  Speaker 2: you move past this night? You just stay in one place.
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  Speaker 2: You don't actually have to do anything. The sun is
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  Speaker 2: going to rise automatically. The nature of nature is change.
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  Speaker 2: And that's not only the external nature, but that's the
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  Speaker 2: internal nature as well. And so our thoughts are just waves.
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  Speaker 2: They arise. They're there for a moment. And they go.
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  Speaker 2: You can think of them like bubbles, like kids play
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  Speaker 2: bubbles and they blow bubbles and There's a bubble and
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  Speaker 2: it exists for a moment and then it pops. And
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  Speaker 2: then they blow more and there's more bubbles and they
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  Speaker 2: exist for a moment and then they pop. It's the
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  Speaker 2: nature of it. You wouldn't say, how do I get
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  Speaker 2: rid of this bubble? Just wait a moment. It'll pop.
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  Speaker 2: It's what bubbles do. The problem with thoughts is that
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  Speaker 2: we actually hold on to that. It's not the thought
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  Speaker 2: itself that stays. It's that the mind grabs onto that
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  Speaker 2: pattern of thought because it's a habit, because it gets
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  Speaker 2: something out of it. Being negative and judgmental and it's
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  Speaker 2: really fun and it makes us temporarily feel really good
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  Speaker 2: about ourselves so we keep doing it. Holding grudges and
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  Speaker 2: being angry. It's a good rush of endorphins. Gives us
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  Speaker 2: something to think about that makes us feel very both
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  Speaker 2: righteous and also victimized. So if we are not deliberately,
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  Speaker 2: consciously or unconsciously, deliberately recreating the same thought over and
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  Speaker 2: over and over again, it pops like a bubble. So
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  Speaker 2: if you want to get through a particular thought, just
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  Speaker 2: stop recreating it. Because the individual thought is there and
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  Speaker 2: it goes. It's there and it goes. It's there and
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  Speaker 2: it goes. But if you find that you keep recreating
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  Speaker 2: the same thought, you know, it's like if you get
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  Speaker 2: food poisoning. You ate something bad, something happened, you throw up,
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  Speaker 2: you've got some diarrhea, the body cleanses, and you automatically
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  Speaker 2: feel better. Sometimes it's half a day, sometimes it's a day.
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  Speaker 2: But automatically, that which is in you, that is detrimental
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  Speaker 2: to the system will find its way out. And then
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  Speaker 2: you're better. Until and unless you go back and eat
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  Speaker 2: that same thing again. And so if you knew that
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  Speaker 2: you'd gotten food poisoning and you'd been up all night
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  Speaker 2: sick from something you ate, you'd really have to ask
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  Speaker 2: yourself why you would go back to that place and
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  Speaker 2: eat that same food over and over again. Like what
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  Speaker 2: is it that's propelling you to be sick? And in
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  Speaker 2: the same way, okay, you have a thought, anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, frustration, judgment,
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  Speaker 2: happens to all of us. It arises, it's there, it pops.
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  Speaker 2: Just a moment. But if you find that you keep
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  Speaker 2: creating these, then you've really got to ask yourself, why
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  Speaker 2: am I doing this? It's not one thought that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: go away. It's that I keep creating more and more
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  Speaker 2: thoughts around the same subject. And if I know it's
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  Speaker 2: hurting me, why am I doing it? So to get
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  Speaker 2: through it, All you've got to do is be there.
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  Speaker 2: Like the night turns to day, like the waves move,
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  Speaker 2: the thoughts arise, they pop, they are over. But you
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  Speaker 2: need to be conscious and present enough, mindful enough, to
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  Speaker 2: be aware if you keep generating the same ones. Where
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  Speaker 2: are they coming from? Why are you doing this? What
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  Speaker 2: is the thought manufacturing factory within you that keeps sending
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  Speaker 2: you down that path. And in terms of getting through
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  Speaker 2: negative experiences, well, it's actually the same. Whether it's an
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  Speaker 2: internal experience or an external experience, it's happening in my
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  Speaker 2: mind or it's happening in the world around me. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to change. Nature of nature. Hate winter? No problem.
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  Speaker 2: Just sit tight for a little while. It'll become spring
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  Speaker 2: then summer. Hate summer? No problem. Sit tight for a
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  Speaker 2: little while. It'll become autumn and then winter. Whatever you're
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  Speaker 2: going through, the key is always just be there, be
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  Speaker 2: present with it. Don't try to push it away because
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  Speaker 2: we cannot actually push away thoughts. All you can do
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  Speaker 2: is have a better one. But if I say, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to think about chocolate cake. Just try that.
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  Speaker 2: Not going to think about chocolate cake. Whatever you're going
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  Speaker 2: to do, just don't think about chocolate cake. No chocolate cake.
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  Speaker 2: Push it out of your mind. Right? So what happens?
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  Speaker 2: All the mind is full of is chocolate cake. You
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  Speaker 2: can't push it away. And in the same way, you
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  Speaker 2: can't push away experience. We're not here on earth to
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  Speaker 2: push life away. The way that I like to think
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  Speaker 2: about it is, so here's a glass of water. Let's
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  Speaker 2: call this your experience of yourself, your experience of your life.
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  Speaker 2: Your world. Now, rocks fall in the glass. We'll call
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  Speaker 2: that negative life experiences. Life happening to us. I'm holding
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  Speaker 2: this glass under an avalanche. Rocks are falling. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to cause the glass, the water, to splash all over
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  Speaker 2: the place. That's how most of us live. In that
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  Speaker 2: experience of life happens and we spill all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: Lots of waves, lots of turbulence. What most of us
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  Speaker 2: try to do is push those rocks away. We're in
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  Speaker 2: the glass trying to do this. But instead, since you
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  Speaker 2: can't actually do that, All you can do is shut
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  Speaker 2: yourself down and that's obviously not what we're here for. Instead,
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  Speaker 2: if you dropped those same rocks, instead of in the glass,
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  Speaker 2: if you dropped them in the ocean, what would happen? Right?
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  Speaker 2: Would it overflow its edges? Would there be a lot
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  Speaker 2: of turmoil? No. Big waves. They'd fall. Tiny little ripple.
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  Speaker 2: Barely noticeable. And certainly not noticeable at all if you
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  Speaker 2: were down in the depths of the ocean. And so
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  Speaker 2: the key to getting through life's bad experiences, negative experiences,
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  Speaker 2: dealing with them, has become the ocean. Just realize you're
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  Speaker 2: not a glass, you're the ocean. And yeah, annoying people happen.
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  Speaker 2: Fires happen. Illnesses happen. Getting fired from jobs happens. Stock
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  Speaker 2: market crashes happen. People you love betraying you, abusing you,
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  Speaker 2: harming you. It happens. But if you're the ocean, then
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  Speaker 2: those rocks fall. It's not that we are numbing ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: It's not that we're in denial or we're repressing it
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  Speaker 2: or pushing it away. You're just expanding your experience of self.
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  Speaker 2: And this is a practice that I have found on
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  Speaker 2: so many personal levels, so many times, where the mind
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  Speaker 2: feels so troubled typically by sort of either-or situations. You're
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  Speaker 2: stuck in this bind. And what you realize is the
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  Speaker 2: answer is not. To push something away, the answer is not.
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  Speaker 2: to somehow try to fix the bind, but to realize
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  Speaker 2: that there's actually enough spaciousness in you for it all
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  Speaker 2: to exist. We swim in the ocean. We love the ocean.
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  Speaker 2: And there are sharks. And there's jellyfish. And you can
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  Speaker 2: melt into the waves. You can float on the waves.
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  Speaker 2: You can merge into the ocean. We dive deep and
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  Speaker 2: there's sharks and there's jellyfish and we bathe in ecstasy
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  Speaker 2: in the ocean. And it's just about there being a
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  Speaker 2: spaciousness in which, yeah, this is happening and It's not
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  Speaker 2: the only thing happening. There's a spaciousness in me in
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  Speaker 2: which this can also be happening. And my awareness and
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  Speaker 2: my joy and my experience and my truth and my
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  Speaker 2: love is also happening. So focus on that Just think,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a glass. I'm the ocean. And this too,
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  Speaker 2: this too shall pass. It's a wave. It's a wave
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  Speaker 2: in the ocean. Whatever it may be. But I'm not
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  Speaker 2: the wave. I'm the ocean.
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  Speaker 2: boundaries at the same time? How do we balance divine
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  Speaker 2: love with the human physical need and longing for a
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  Speaker 2: romantic partner when the ideal is to love without expectation
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  Speaker 2: and attachment. So last night, we were talking about the
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  Speaker 2: need for a companion. Someone had asked, do we really need,
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  Speaker 2: do we need a companion in life? I've had bad experiences.
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  Speaker 2: a kind of expanded version of that, a deep, deepening
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  Speaker 2: version of that, because I had spoken last night about, yes,
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  Speaker 2: you need connection, but ultimately the connection is with God.
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  Speaker 2: And even if you've got a companion, a spouse, a partner, Nonetheless,
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  Speaker 2: that partner should bring about a connection with God. So
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  Speaker 2: tonight we go into the layer deeper of that, which
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  Speaker 2: is if I've got that connection with God, or I'm
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  Speaker 2: working on that connection with God, if bhakti is a
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  Speaker 2: part of my path, a deep part of my path,
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  Speaker 2: how do I also bring in actual human relationship? Is
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  Speaker 2: it enough to just have bhakti? And if within bhakti,
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  Speaker 2: for the divine, there's also a sense of yearning for
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  Speaker 2: that connection with a human being, how do we deal
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  Speaker 2: with that? So we remember that ultimately the highest, deepest
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  Speaker 2: goal of our life, purpose of our life is experiencing
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  Speaker 2: oneness with God. Like that's why we're here. Nobody is
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  Speaker 2: put on earth with the explicit duty of you must
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  Speaker 2: fulfill this particular career. You must become a CEO of
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  Speaker 2: this or a president of that or the inventor of
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  Speaker 2: this or the billionaire of that or chairman over here.
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  Speaker 2: And similarly, we're not put onto this earth with a
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  Speaker 2: sense of you must become the companion of this one
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  Speaker 2: or the husband of this one or the spouse of
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  Speaker 2: this one. These are all different aspects of ways in
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  Speaker 2: which we fulfill our karmic journey. They're all different threads
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  Speaker 2: in the tapestry of our karmic journey, but ultimately, the deepest, highest,
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  Speaker 2: truest reason we're here is to wake up into the
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  Speaker 2: truth of our own divinity. That two becomes one in
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  Speaker 2: the experience with the divine. The awareness that I am
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  Speaker 2: One with God. Now where does relationship fall in with that?
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  Speaker 2: If I'm on that path, where does my relationships fall in,
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  Speaker 2: my marriage fall in? So it falls in in a
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  Speaker 2: couple of places. First of all, for some, as we
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  Speaker 2: were talking last night, it's not necessary. Those are the
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  Speaker 2: ones with the dharma to be monastics. The sannyasis, the monks,
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  Speaker 2: the nuns, those for whom the connection is just with
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  Speaker 2: the divine. And then there's the vast majority of others
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  Speaker 2: for whom their dharma really is meant to be unfolded
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  Speaker 2: in relationships. And so there's two main ways that that
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  Speaker 2: relationship becomes part of our core deep dharma rather than
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  Speaker 2: just drama. Usually relationships are drama. The question is how
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  Speaker 2: to make it dharma rather than drama. So on the
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  Speaker 2: most basic level, it becomes dharma when we are quite
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  Speaker 2: literally fulfilling the grastashram phase of our life. The householder phase,
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  Speaker 2: we get married, we have children, we have careers, we
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  Speaker 2: contribute to society, we raise children with values and ethics
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  Speaker 2: and connection to spirit, sort of doing our part to
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  Speaker 2: serve the world through giving them beautiful beings for the
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  Speaker 2: next generations. But on a really deep spiritual path, for
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  Speaker 2: those who are really deeply spiritually anchored and grounded and
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  Speaker 2: drenched in a way in the ocean of spirituality, the
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  Speaker 2: partnership itself becomes a way to experience the divine. Through
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  Speaker 2: that loved one, you connect with the divine. Now that's
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  Speaker 2: really tricky because of course the loved one is a human.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to be stressed out sometimes. They're going to
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  Speaker 2: be in a rush sometimes. They're going to say things
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  Speaker 2: sometimes that they shouldn't have said, they're not always going
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  Speaker 2: to live up to the standards of the deity you
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  Speaker 2: are worshiping in your temple. And so connecting to God
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  Speaker 2: through them doesn't mean holding them up to the standards
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  Speaker 2: of the God we worship in our.
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  Speaker 6: Temples.
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  Speaker 2: But what it means is seeing them With the eyes
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  Speaker 2: of devotion. And you know, it's really beautiful. I was
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  Speaker 2: talking about this somewhere recently, how we've been given all
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  Speaker 2: of these different manifestations of the divine in the Hindu tradition.
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  Speaker 2: We've got all of these divine incarnations ranging from, not
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  Speaker 2: limited to, but ranging from Bhagavan Krishna, Bhagavan Ram, Hanumanji, Ganeshji, Bhagavanshiva.
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  Speaker 2: But all of these aspects of, avatars of, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: not gonna go into the theological differences here, but point being,
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  Speaker 2: each of them in form has their own characteristics. So Krishna,
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  Speaker 2: when he was younger, is referred to all the time
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  Speaker 2: as being mischievous and naughty and, you know, he's the
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  Speaker 2: one kind of playing his games and his tricks on
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  Speaker 2: his mom and the gopis and their mothers and all
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  Speaker 2: of the other kind of milkmaids to steal what he wants.
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  Speaker 2: And then we've got Bhagavan Ram, for whom the idea
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  Speaker 2: of playing a trick on someone or stealing something is
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  Speaker 2: just as antithetical to the core of who he is
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  Speaker 2: as you could imagine. We've got all of these different
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  Speaker 2: embodiments with different personalities, you could say. And I actually
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  Speaker 2: think it's to give us ways of connecting to the
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  Speaker 2: divine through our loved ones regardless of what they're like.
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  Speaker 2: So if our child is just annoying us to no end,
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  Speaker 2: but we're trying, we're just trying to see them as
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  Speaker 2: divine beings, we can say, oh, look, you're being like Krishna.
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  Speaker 2: This is what Krishna did. And we can start to
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  Speaker 2: see them as Krishna. If we've got a loved one
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  Speaker 2: who we may see as a little bit too kind
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  Speaker 2: of Stuck in his ways of doing things or what
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  Speaker 2: he thinks is right. Maybe we want to be a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more flexible, you could say. Adventurous, mischievous even,
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  Speaker 2: you could say. We have this epitome of Dharma in
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  Speaker 2: Bhagavan Ram. We could sort of assume, you know, here
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  Speaker 2: I am married to Bhagavan Ram. He won't even waver
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  Speaker 2: an inch here or there from his path of righteousness.
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  Speaker 2: And we're given these different stories and different personalities, I think,
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  Speaker 2: so that, for one of the reasons, so that as
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  Speaker 2: we're on a path of seeing the divine in our
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  Speaker 2: loved one, we've got all of these beautiful and wonderful
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  Speaker 2: examples to be able to say, oh, you are being
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  Speaker 2: just like God. and to pull a divine example out
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  Speaker 2: of our mind to help us remember that this being,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's a spouse, whether it's a child, is actually
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  Speaker 2: the divine and that our opportunity is to see the
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  Speaker 2: divine in them. So If divine love and bhakti is
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  Speaker 2: your path, don't stop your meditative practices. Don't stop your
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  Speaker 2: devotional practices and put 100% of that energy into your partner.
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  Speaker 2: But allow your partnership to also be an aspect of
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  Speaker 2: your bhakti. It shouldn't be separate. It shouldn't be here's
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  Speaker 2: my devotion over here and then my marriage over here.
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  Speaker 2: You should be able to weave your partnership into your
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  Speaker 2: devotional practice and to see that loved one as an
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  Speaker 2: embodiment of the divine. Not that it means that everything
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  Speaker 2: that he or she does is perfect. And again, we've
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  Speaker 2: got these These examples that were given of when God
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  Speaker 2: gets naughty, right? When God plays tricks, when God is mischievous,
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  Speaker 2: when God is annoying to his parents. And to be
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  Speaker 2: able to just see the divine in the loved one
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  Speaker 2: like that, wherever you look, in the partner and everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's ultimately the highest form of bhakti. is
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  Speaker 2: to actually see God in all. There's this beautiful poem
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  Speaker 2: by a very famous poet named Namdevji. And I have
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  Speaker 2: to learn the poem in Hindi because it works a
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  Speaker 2: lot better in Hindi than it does in English. But
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  Speaker 2: it's a beautiful poem about the poet is making chapatis.
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  Speaker 2: And this dog comes up and steals a chapati. and
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  Speaker 2: runs away with it. And the poet essentially calls after it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh God, you've appeared before me today in the form
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  Speaker 2: of this dog who has stolen my chapati and run away.
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  Speaker 2: And the poet runs after the dog with a bowl
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  Speaker 2: of ghee saying, don't eat it dry. Let me put
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  Speaker 2: some ghee on it. You've appeared in this beautiful form
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back. This is Sadhvi Bhagavati Saraswati with inspiration and transformation. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we all get stuck in thoughts and thought patterns. The
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  Speaker 2: way to break it is the way that we break
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  Speaker 2: any habit. Because The reason that we get stuck in
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  Speaker 2: these patterns is it literally just becomes a habit, like
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  Speaker 2: this is how I think. This is how I am.
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  Speaker 2: them as bubbles, that's really what they are. Each individual
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  Speaker 2: thought is just a bubble. But what happens is my
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  Speaker 2: brain gets in the habit of thinking in a certain way.
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  Speaker 2: a pattern, what you could call a sanskara. Right? It's
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  Speaker 2: an impression. It's a way of moving. In neurology, they
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  Speaker 2: say neurons that fire together wire together. So, for example,
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  Speaker 2: let's say I'm angry and I throw a temper tantrum.
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  Speaker 2: And in that temper tantrum, I've got this huge rush
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  Speaker 2: of endorphins. And in that rush of endorphins, the pain
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  Speaker 2: that I was feeling is sort of numbed. Because as
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: I'm throwing a temper tantrum, I'm hyperventilating. I'm literally causing
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  Speaker 2: a rush of these hormones in the body that block pain.
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  Speaker 2: And so, wow, I feel so much better after my
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: temper tantrum. Now what happens? Next time I'm angry, I'm
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  Speaker 2: much more likely to throw a temper tantrum, not because
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  Speaker 2: I have cognitively said, oh, that felt better, but because
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  Speaker 2: I've created a neural network, a pattern that says anger,
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  Speaker 2: temper tantrum. In the West, sadly, in the In the
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: teachings of psychology, we speak a lot about just get
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: it out, as though somehow emotions were things like something
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: bad you'd eaten, some bad food that once you vomit,
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  Speaker 2: you're just going to feel better. But our emotions are
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: not actually like that. You actually can't vomit them up.
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  Speaker 2: You can't have them surgically removed. There isn't a way
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: to just get it out. And the more we get
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: it out like that, all that happens is we become
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: more likely to throw temper tantrums. We're more likely to
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  Speaker 2: do it rather than less likely. Because it has wired
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  Speaker 2: together in my brain anger, temper tantrum, relief. Now that
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  Speaker 2: is how I act. Thought patterns happen very similarly. A
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: thought takes hold in my mind. Life isn't fair. My
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: life especially is not fair. Everybody gets things that are
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: better than I do. People take advantage of me. I
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: always get the short end of the stick. I do
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: good things and bad things happen to me, life isn't fair.
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  Speaker 2: We'll just call that my thought, my thought pattern that
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: is now stuck in my mind. Well, the more I
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  Speaker 2: think that, the stronger the groove in my mind becomes
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: that this is how I think. Now, everything that happens,
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: I trip and I fall and I say, oh, see,
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: I told you, life isn't fair. The guy next to
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: me didn't trip on the rock. I tripped on the
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: rock because life is out to get me. In some way,
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: the universe is out to get me. I'm the one
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: who always gets stuck doing this, doing that. I get
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: no love. I get no appreciation. I get no reward.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: I get nothing. This is every time I think that.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: It gets deeper and deeper and deeper. And the problem
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: is that when I say I'm not going to think that,
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  Speaker 2: I still make it deeper. I'm no longer going to
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: think that life isn't fair. Not going to think that
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  Speaker 2: life isn't fair. Yes, I just tripped, but I won't
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  Speaker 2: think that life isn't fair. So life isn't fair is
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: still that which is flowing through my mind and my thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: The only way to break that habit is to give
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: yourself a different way of thinking. Just a different way.
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  Speaker 2: If you take, well, let's take this piece of paper.
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  Speaker 2: Make it a little thicker. Now imagine that this is
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: somewhat thicker, that it's maybe a piece of stone or
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: a piece of wood or whatever it is. If I
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: took my fingernail or a key or a coin and
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: I went like this over and over and over again
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: in one place, it would make a groove. If I
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: then took water and I poured it over, most of
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: the water would go into that groove. And the more
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: water that flowed in that groove, the deeper the groove
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: would get. And the deeper the groove got, the more
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: likely it was that when I pour water, it's going
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: to go in the groove. This is how river valleys
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: are created, and it's how our thought patterns, our sanskadas,
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: are created. Over and over and over again, an impression
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: in our mind, in our neural networks. Every time I
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: think life isn't fair, it's this. It's this. Then I
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: trip and fall. It means life happens. It's like the water.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Whatever happens when that water falls, it's going to go
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: in the groove. So whatever it is that happens in
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: my life, it's going to come now. into this groove.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: So what do I do? I start creating a new
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: groove over here. I can't yell at this groove and
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: expect it to somehow fill itself back up. You can't
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: yell at your neurons and somehow expect them to stop
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: firing in that way. But you create a new groove
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: over here, deeper and deeper, deeper. I am blessed. The
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: universe is my friend. The universe loves me. Over and
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: over and over. Everything is happening for my benefit. Over
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: and over. And now when you pour water, half of
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: it goes here, half of it goes there. But as
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: I keep working this groove, and it gets deeper than
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: this one, Now more of the water comes here. Now
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: when life happens, it flows here. And because the brain
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: is constantly changing, very much like a natural river valley,
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: not at all like a piece of paper or a rock,
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: this groove will actually fill in. If a river stops
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: flowing in a river valley, over time, Grass is going
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: to grow. Vegetation will come. Trees will grow. Slowly, slowly,
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: the valley will fill itself in. So that's what you do.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: You just choose a different thought. A mantra is also very,
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  Speaker 2: very powerful to break the cycle. If instead of thinking
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: life isn't fair, I start chanting my mantra... It's a
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: very powerful, immediate way of shifting my mind. So even
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  Speaker 2: before you try to give a different thought, you may
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  Speaker 2: just decide to just free yourself from that pattern altogether,
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• 42:45
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• 42:52
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back. This is Sadhvi Bhagavati Saraswati with inspiration and transformation.
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  Speaker 2: Does denying the needs of the body and suppressing emotions
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: create mental problems? If yes, should seekers renounce? So first
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: of all, renunciation is not the answer to needs of
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: the body or emotional issues. That becomes just repression or denial.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: That's just denial in saffron clothes. That's not what renunciation
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: is about. It's not, oh, I've got these needs or
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: I have these emotions and I I don't want to
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: deal with them. Therefore, I'm going to put on saffron
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: clothes and pretend that I don't have them. It doesn't work.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: As anybody who's ever tried to change their clothes into
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: anything knows, what you wear, it doesn't change what's going
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: on in your mind or in the chemicals of your body.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: It reminds us, reminds us of a path we're walking.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: But if you're angry in jeans and a t-shirt, you're
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: going to be angry in saffron clothes. If you are
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: lustful and greedy in jeans and a t-shirt, you're going
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: to be lustful and greedy in saffron robes. You're just
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: going to be more repressed about it. or you're going
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: to try to hide it more. So that doesn't actually
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: serve anyone. So first of all, denying the needs of
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: the body, does it cause mental problems? Well, first of all,
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: it causes physical problems. The body has needs. Food, water, sleep, oxygen.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: Those are kind of the most basic And yet, in
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: spiritual work, we do for short times deny those needs
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: for a short time. Not long enough to harm the body,
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: but long enough actually to strengthen the mind to teach us, ah,
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: the body is clamoring for food, but I'm fasting today.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: I'm not responding to that. And yet here I am.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: The sky hasn't fallen. I haven't exploded or imploded. The
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: world hasn't ceased to exist. And it's a very powerful
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: lesson because it teaches us that we are not simply
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: Responses to stimuli. We're not like Pavlov's dogs that salivated
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: a bell and, well, we don't have a choice. Yeah,
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: sometimes the body sends a signal. It wants food. It
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: wants water. It wants sleep. It wants sex. It wants this.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: And we act like, oh my God, I had no choice.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: What fasting does in a healthy way What staying awake
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: all night, every once in a while, we do it
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: sometimes on Shivaratri, for example, or Krishna Janmashtami, or certain
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: full moons. There are just very auspicious nights sometimes during
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: the year to stay awake and meditate all night. And
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: they're just very powerful times, not just to be awake
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: in the night, but to teach the mind that just
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: because the body is saying sleep doesn't mean I have
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: to be a robot responding to it. Body can say sleep.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: And I say, not tonight. Not that sleep is bad,
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: not that I'm not going to sleep again, not that
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: we shouldn't get a good night's sleep. We should. And...
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: It's a very powerful way of training the mind to
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: every once in a while engage in these practices, whether
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: it's a short-term fast, whether it's staying awake all night meditating,
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: whatever it may be, but something in which you know
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: you're going to go back to it, I am going
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: to eat again, I am going to sleep again, but
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: simply to train the mind I'm not just a reactionary mechanism.
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: There's some chemical reaction in the body and I jump
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: to attention. The mind says, eat, I eat. The mind says,
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: do this, I do it. So it trains the mind. Now,
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: if you don't give in to the body's needs ever,
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: if you literally starve yourself, you will suffer. If you
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: stop sleeping, you will suffer. There's lots of literature about,
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: I think it's two nights of sleep. I can't remember
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: exactly the statistics, but something like going 24 hours without
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: sleep is something like the equivalent of drinking three glasses
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: of alcohol. You're drunk. The mind and the brain and
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: the body is that badly impaired. So to not sleep,
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: to not eat, to not drink, the body before it
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: even harms the emotions. But in short-term controlled bursts, it's
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: actually very, very powerful as a practice, a spiritual practice
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: to remind us that we are not just slaves. In
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: terms of suppression of emotion, yeah, you get You get
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: mental problems, meaning you become unhealthy. Mental health cannot be
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: achieved through suppression. To simply say, I'm not angry. Somebody
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: says to us, what's wrong? We say, nothing. What is
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: that actually achieved? We know we're angry. They obviously know
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: we're angry. It's achieved nothing. but to draw a wedge
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: further between us and that person who asked. And to
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: deny it to ourselves is just as detrimental. You can't
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: simply decide you are not angry. You have to actually
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: work with anger. You have to make decisions that whatever
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: it is that causes anger, my expectations, my grudges, That
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: I'm actually going to work with those and let them
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: go so that anger doesn't arise. Not just that I'm
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: going to take it and suppress it. So whenever emotions
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: are there, what I always say is allow them. But
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: don't hook the awareness into it. So it arises like
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: a wave on the beach. It comes... and it peaks,
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: and it dissipates and goes. We get stuck in emotions
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: when we hook ourselves into it, when we start telling
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: ourselves a story about it. So if I notice anger
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: is arising, just the pure energy of anger, I'm not
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: going to suppress it, I'm not going to deny it,
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to repress it, but I'm also not
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: going to get engaged in a whole drama around it.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to let the mind get into its
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: whole story of why I'm angry and how dare that
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: person and I'm so nice to them and I do
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: everything and then they treat me like junk and it's
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: not fair and who do they think they are? That's
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: not healthy. All that does is it just keeps creating
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: more and more anger. It just keeps... intensifying it, intensifying it.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: It's not actually helping you heal from it. It's just
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: building it up more and more and more. So when
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: emotions arise, we just notice them. Ah, anger. Okay. And
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: then you just allow it. It's just an energy. Just
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: like any energy. You close your eyes and you allow
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: it to come into the body.
• 54:01
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: And you just stay anchored in the breath. And it'll
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: do its thing. It'll literally rise in the body. You'll
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: feel the breath get a little shorter. You'll feel it
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: heartbeat start to increase a little. You may find yourself
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: a little flushed. But you just keep drawing the awareness
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: to the breath. Not to stop the anger, but just
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: to stay grounded in the midst of it. Literally like
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: you would if there were a big wave in the ocean.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: You just stay anchored and grounded. And it just comes
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: and it rises and it peaks and you're still sitting.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: You're still breathing. And then it dissipates and again like
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: a wave it just goes back out to sea. So
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: that's the way to deal with emotions. Don't repress them
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: or deny them, you'll give yourself not only mental health
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: issues but physical health issues because guess what? The mind
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: and the body are not separate. What we think, how
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: we feel is directly linked to not only our mental
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: health but our physical health. So we allow it. We
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: accept it. We see it. Not suppressing, not denying. You
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: can't renounce anger. When we talk about renunciation, it's a
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: renunciation of different types of attachments. It's a renunciation of
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: different worldviews. It's a renunciation of different activities. But it's
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: not a renunciation of emotion. You can't do that. The
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: only way for them to dissipate is for you to
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: notice them, be aware, allow, and then automatically they wane
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: on their own. If you can just unhook the mind
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  Speaker 2: that wants to keep repeating it over and over and
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  Speaker 2: over This brings to a close this hour of inspiration
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  Speaker 2: and transformation. Thank you so much for joining me. I'm
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  Speaker 2: so glad to be together with you all each week.
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  Speaker 2: And I look forward to being together again next Thursday,
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  Speaker 2: same time, on OM Times Radio.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.