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Staying Joyful Despite the Drama · Inspiration and Transformation

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Welcome to inspiration and transformation from the banks of the Gunga with Sadvi Bagwati Saraswati,
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an American Sanyasi living at the parmarth Nikitan Ashram in Rishikesh, India.
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Sadvi is President of the Divine Shakti Foundation, a charitable organization bringing education,
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vocational trainee, upliftment and empowerment programs to women and children. Sadvi is also
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Secretary General of the Global Interfaith Wasash Alliance and director of the world famous International
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Yoga Festival. Joined the musings of an American Sanyasi as Sadvi shares the wisdom
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and teachings of her Guru, His Holiness Pujiaswami Chintenant Saraswatiji, Welcome everyone to
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inspiration and transformation from the holy banks of the Sacred Gunga River in the land
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of Rishikesh, India. Giving and giving and giving and serving and serving as
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our dharma. And so he says, well, what if the person you're
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serving is taking advantage of you, then what Well, there's two pieces to
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that. The first pieces that's their karma. What you are doing is your
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karma. What they are doing is their karma. You have to answer for
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your karma. They have to answer for their karma. We are not here
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responsible for someone else's karma. So it's not about well, you're taking advantage
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of me. Therefore, I'm going to teach you a lesson. All right,
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how many of us think, oh, Macy Kongi, Macy Kadunga made
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the kadunga. I will show them, Well, that's not our job.
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We're not here in charge of someone else's karma. We're here in charge of
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our own and our karma. Our actions are meant to be in service of
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our dharma. So, beautiful, beautiful little Manta who just Swamiji gave me
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right in the very very beginning when I first came. He said, here's
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the way to live. Engage yourself in karma, an action under the shade
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of dharma with an awareness of Brahma. Engage yourself in karma under the shade
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of dharma with the awareness of Brahma of God. So keep doing your actions,
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keep acting, keep acting. At that point, I had not yet
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read the bug of a Gita, so I didn't know that Burgwan Krishna makes
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it so clear in the Ghita that in fact we can't not act. We're
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always acting. The only choice we have is is that action conscious or is
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it unconscious? Is it karma yoga or is it unconscious action. I remember
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growing up in California, you'd hear a lot of people say, I'm not
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a human doing, I'm a human being. I need to do less and
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be more. And of course what that meant was I need to work less
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and lie on the beach more. I need to work less and drink tea
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or pina coladas or whatever it was more. Now, what the spiritual teaching
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is is you're always acting. You're always doing. Lying on a beach is
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doing. Sipping a pina colada is doing. You're always doing. The question
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is how can you be while you are doing? Meaning? How can that
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which I am doing be done so consciously with such awareness that I am doing
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but I'm being. It's like that beautiful line in our prayers here in the
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morning, muk komei hoddam nam Adam savahatna. God's work is in your hands,
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but your lips are chanting God's name. I am being while doing.
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I am doing what I'm doing consciously. So you have to keep acting,
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engage yourself in karma always, not nine to five, not five days a
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week, six days a week, not every day, but you're off engage
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yourself in karma, but under the shade of dharma. So the first pieces
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we are always acting, always serving. That's what karma yoga is is.
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It's when the action becomes yoga, when that action is under this shade of
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dharma. It's according to my dharma, and it's bringing me closer to true
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yoga, true union, and it's a rising out of yoga out of an
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awareness of our awareness. So as I serve, it has to be under
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this shade of my dharma. Now we've got universal dharma, which is be
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kind, be generous, be compassionate. But then we've also got individual dharma.
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And this is where that being taken advantage of peace comes in, because
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if someone is taking advantage of you on the karmic level, that's not my
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responsibility, that's theirs I'm serving. People take advantage of me, They've got
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to answer for that. I only answer for the fact that I am serving
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in alignment with dharma. However, in my individual dharma, I have to
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realize that I did not come on to Earth with fulfill someone else's agenda stamped
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on my rear end. That's not actually why we each take birth. It's
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not, oh, you want me to do this, Okay, I guess
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that's my dharma. Oh, you don't want to have to face your own
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issues, your own fears, your own challenges, and so you're going to
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have me keep dancing, doing whatever you want, however you want it,
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whenever you want it, just so that you don't have to face your own
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internal lack of peace. Well, that's not your dharma. Our dharma is
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not to prevent others from having to do their work. And sometimes simply dancing
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according to everyone's tune, is actually that which is protecting them. We think
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we're protecting them, when really we're simply preventing them from doing the work that
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they need to do. If I can make you do ast on the number
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of people you've scared into doing your bidding, it's not oh, everyone does
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what she says, so she doesn't have a fit. Great, give this
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one enlightenment. So you've got to find that that space within you, and
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there's no proper equation. You'll know what are you doing that is really karma?
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Yoga? And what are you doing that simply preventing someone else from actually
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experiencing what they are supposed to experience. I mean, we deal with this
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a lot with parents with adult children who just don't want to get a job,
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who just you know, are really to live at home and let mom
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and dad take care of them well into you forget, their twenties, well
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into their thirties as they sort of figure out what they want to do with
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life. Now, on the one hand, you could say, well,
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that's really loving of the parents to, you know, keep supporting them.
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It's beautiful, generous, loving carrying Karmayova. But on the other hand,
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you'd say, you know what, at some point, this kid really needs
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to take responsibility for their life. They really need to figure out how they're
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going to be a contributing member to society, and you continuing to simply provide
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everything for them is preventing that from happening. So that's where we have to
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figure out where am I helping serving and where am I simply enabling someone else's
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dysfunction. So engage yourself in karma under that shade of dharma, with the
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awareness of arma that whatever we're doing, the awareness that I'm not the doer,
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I'm just an instrument, Nimita matra. I'm just this instrument in God's
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hands, and I'm so blessed to be able to be used by the Divine
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as that instrument. So if you take that as your as your mantra,
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it'll help you figure out where to draw the line, because spirituality doesn't mean
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you become a doormat. Giving and giving and serving and serving doesn't mean you
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leave yourself out of the picture. When we say serve, serve all,
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well, surely you are in that all. Have compassion for all, well,
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surely you are in that all. But we forget that. So bring
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you back into the equation, the divine you, the you with the awareness
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of Brahma, and then the right way to move. Full your eyes.
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station. Welcome back to inspiration and transformation. I'm so glad to have you
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all back here with me. When you heard the motivational speakers say, don't
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take your life too seriously, I hope I assume that what he or she
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was referring to is the the ego, the story, the drama. We
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don't want to take that very seriously. Take your psychology lightly, Take your
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story, your identity, your personality lightly, Take your desires, your attachments,
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your neuroses. Take them lightly right, They're they're just aspects of the
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particular role that we are playing in this particular act of our karmic journey.
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But take this life very seriously. And the reason is this life has been
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given to you for you to wake up, for you to experience the divine
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truth of who you are. The ultimate goal of moksha freedom liberation is that
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which if we don't dedicate our lives too. Don't think that just by losing
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the body you're going to get it. It's not the body that keeps you
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from enlightenment, what's the mind. So take your life very seriously, as
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in am I using every minute, every moment as an opportunity to surrender more,
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to be less stuck with my ego, less stuck with my story,
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less stuck with my way of identifying, less stuck with my psychic dramas,
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and more focused on using that minute and moment to actually connect through karma,
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action, through love and devotion, through wisdom and insight, with the truth
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of who I am. Because if you don't, you're just gonna have to
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come back and do it all over again. I mean, at some point
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you're gonna have to take your life seriously. If you don't do it this
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time, all right, you'll do it next time, but at some point,
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if ultimately your goal is to attain moksha, at some point you will
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have to put the mind to it take it seriously. So I assume that
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that's what they meant. Now, as you say, you have others saying,
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well, if you don't take it seriously, you won't succeed, which
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is true. But the question that it begs is what's our definition of success?
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Because most people's definition of success is all about the superficial story. I
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should be the one to have more money, more power, more things,
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while spiritually I'm essentially sinking. I mean, it's that metaphoric equivalent, right
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of what do they say arranging the deck furniture on the Titanic, right,
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or repainting it or bedecking it with all sorts of gold and jewels. Well,
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the thing is sinking. And if we don't actually put our attention on
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metaphorically the boat itself me who I am, and all I'm doing is focusing
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on this superficial success. I'm literally just making sure that the deck furniture looks
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really nice as the boat of my life sinks. So you've got to ask
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yourself, what's your definition of success Is it just having more? Is it
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better arranged? My deck furniture is bigger than your deck furniture. I've got
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more deck furniture than you have. Situation? Or are you able to look
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at success as something on a much deeper and more permanent level? Which is
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that awareness, that experiential awareness, that knowing, that connection, that drop
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merging into the ocean, that success there There used to live a beautiful,
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amazing saint right across Ganga from us named Swami Dean and Jimahdad, who has
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since left his body. But he used to say, and I still I
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hold on to it very dearly. He used to say, the only definition
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of success that matters is how you respond to the inevitable times, inevitable inevitable
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times that the universe does not act the way you think it should. And
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I love that because when the universe does not act the way we want it
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to, when we are in crisis mode, panic mode, mode of loss,
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mode of failure, mode of house is burning, you can't at that
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time suddenly try to teach yourself how to be a spiritual person. You have
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to have had that in you. Those are moments where our subconscious takes over
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we're panicked, we're stressed, we're on sympathetic nervous system fight or flight overload.
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We are going to react exactly as our subconscious has been programmed to do,
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which means the only way to respond in a spiritual way is because you've
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so completely transformed the very nature of your being that when those things happen.
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Okay, there's a beautiful story that Pujaswamiji tells of Maharishi Maheshiogiji, whose you
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know, Ashram used to be right here of it today very tragically is called
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the Beatles Ostrom, which just makes me feel so sad for him that he
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was this amazingly enlightened master who happened to be the Guru of the Beatles,
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and his entire Ashram is now called the Beatles Ashtram. But anyway, aside
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from that, it's a story of Pujuswamiji was with him when he was still
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here, I think it was, and his secretary came in and told Maharishiji
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that one of their people, one of the people who worked with them,
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had just stolen some enormous sum of money and had run away. Some huge
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sum of money they had embezzled and now had disappeared. Now you imagine what
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the head of an organization who was just told that one of their closest people
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had just stolen this massive amount of money. And Pujuswamiji said, he was
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very calm, and he got this sad look in his eye and he said
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he must have not been met it hating. And I just I love that
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story because you can only respond like that when that's become the nature of who
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you are. Otherwise, what do you do? You swear, you curse,
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you're furious, get the police on them immediately, long before you've had
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a chance to think about how you're going to react, you've already cursed them
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out, you've already yelled, your faces already read. And you think how
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many successful people could be told something like that and respond in that way.
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That's the definition of success because the universe will always act in ways that are
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not what we want. And so if we keep allowing ourselves to just get
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bounced around like the ball and a pinball machine that you know, somebody's pulled
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back and it just goes like this across the walls, and well, then
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what have we taken birth for? So, yeah, you've got to take
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life seriously or you won't succeed. But you've also got to be really clear
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about what your definition of successes, lest you end up spending your entire life
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running after something that you realize didn't matter, and when it's far too late,
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you realize you've been, you know, arranging the deck furniture on the
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This is Sadvi Bagavati Saraswati with inspiration and transformation. Don't put the remote
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control of your happiness in the world's hands. So the way to stay joyful
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is to find a way for the joy to come from within. If my
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joy is one hundred percent dependent upon watching my favorite show on TV, well,
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then if I live in a place like India where the electricity goes on
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and off, there are going to be times when while my favorite show is
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on TV, the electricity goes off and I am miserable. If that's my
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only source of joy. If my only source of joy is achieving and succeeding
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by other people's standards. In my job, in my workplace, meaning that
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my boss appreciates me, or that I get some raise or a promotion,
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I'm never going to be able to be consistently happy because my boss is also
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human and may appreciate some things, may not appreciate it, may see the
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value in some things, may not see the value in other things. But
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if I've put my source of happiness in things that are external, I've handed
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them the remote control. If I want to be in control, then the
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source of my joy must be from within. So, for example, one
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way of getting joy is for people to appreciate me. But another way of
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getting joy is to appreciate other people. Now that's in my control. I
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have no control over whether anyone appreciates me, but I have full control over
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me appreciating others. And so I develop a habit of making sure to appreciate
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people as much as I can. And I'll tell you something interesting about that.
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It's it's a beautiful practice. It's a practice that actually some of the
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most amazing beings I know do, and it's something that oozes out of their
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happiness and spreads happiness a dear dear friend of mine, doctor Bruce Lipton,
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who's a very very famous, amazing, renowned scientist, author, speaker.
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Being in his presence is almost embarrassing because he is so full of love and
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appreciation that you find yourself saying enough enough, flinging stop stop. It almost
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feels, you know, we're not used to getting that much appreciation, and
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so it's a very interesting place even then to be on the receiving end of
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But it's a an expression of not only his own personal awakening and brilliant but
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a personal choice in life to see that which is beautiful, to see that
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which is worth appreciating. I've seen him appreciate everyone. I mean, it's
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not just that he does it to me. I've been with him as he
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does it to everyone. There's a function that happens. End of the function.
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He's giving the you know, the sound guy, this huge hug and
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just giving him the most effusive, loving praise of what a what an expert,
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amazing sound guy he was. And it's yes, it's an expression of
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the beauty of who he is, but it's also a very conscious choice that
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someone that brilliant has made to live in seeing things that are worthy of appreciation.
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So if your joy only comes when others appreciate you, you're giving them
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their remote control. But if instead you can turn it around and say,
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I am going to commit myself to seeing things that are worthy of appreciation and
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to giving that appreciation to people, not because I'm looking for them to appreciate
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me in return, but because actually, by spreading happiness, which is how
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everyone feels when they get appreciated, by spreading happiness, we actually feel happier.
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It's a beautiful secret of life. The more happiness you give, the
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more happiness you feel. The more love you give, the more love you
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feel. So figure out ways for your source of joy to be within.
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You're waiting for the world to love you, you've handed them their remote control.
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You decide you are going to love the world. That's up to you,
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and have a very clear understanding of who you are. Journal make beautiful
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lists. Who are you? Aside from the divine? Yes, the end
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of the yan Yogic practice of who am I is essentially I'm soul, I'm
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spirit and divinity, But I mean even you in this human incarnation, you,
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in that body, this life. Who are you? What are your
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gifts? What are your virtues, what makes you special? Make sure you
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know what those are, and then keep recognizing them in yourself. So,
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for example, if one of your good qualities that you recognize when you introspect
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is, you know, I'm pretty generous, I'm a I'm a giving and
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sharing type of guy, well, then every time you share, every time
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you give, make sure to notice that not an ego, not an oh
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yeah, look I'm so great, but just in very beautiful, very valid
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appreciation of this, this psyche going through his karmic journey in his human incarnation,
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doing the very best that he can, and here he is sharing with
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others. Isn't that beautiful? And really feel that again, not on an
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ego way, but on just a really true and humble and beautiful way of
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Wow, yeah, look at that. And then of course take that and
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realize that's the divine flowing through you as you are giving and serving. Essentially,
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what you are doing is opening yourself up to the flow of the universe,
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because the flow of the universe is giving. Trees give oxygen, water,
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shade fruit fragrance, rivers give water. I mean, the nature of
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creation, the nature of nature is to give. And so when you give,
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recognize, Ah, that's the divine universe flowing through me. How beautiful
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that I was able to open myself up to that. And when you see
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beauty in others that you appreciate, recognize what you're seeing in them is the
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soul. Their soul in a different human body, different karmic package, going
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through a different journey, doing the best it can. And so whether it's
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on a soul to soul level, you're seeing them, which is also a
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very deeply powerful practice, or even on a my psyche going through its karmic
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journey, sees your psyche going through your karmic journey, and you know what
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you are doing such a great job. I saw how that guy treated you.
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That was really obnoxious, but you were so kind and you were so
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gentle. I saw that. I see you. That's what everybody wants.
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We want to be seen. It's why so many of us spend so much
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of our day saying, listen to me, right. How many times do
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we tell somebody listen all right. It's why there's a selfie craze. We're
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all dying to be seen. Look at me, see me, acknowledge that
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I exist. This is we're all yearning for and so if you can see
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another being and let them know that you have seen them, it's a beautiful,
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Welcome back. This is Sadvi Baghavati Saraswati with inspiration and transformation. First of
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all, I think that the English translation of demi gods in any case,
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I mean, we're talking about the day of TuS, But I don't think
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demi gods in any case is a right translation. I mean, it's been
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decades since I've studied French, but I know that a demi tas is half
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a cup, like you can have a cup of coffee or you can have
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a demi tas which is half a cup. So whether it means half,
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whether it means significantly less when we think of the day of Thus, we're
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not we're not thinking of them as half a god or you know, a
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significantly smaller quantity of God. There their manifestations. I mean, there's no
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there's no sense that the the divine incarnations are somehow separate from the supreme reality
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their manifestations of it. And we've been given so many possible manifestations, right,
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We've been given all of Vishnus of Tars, which according to some lineages,
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are of Tars. According to the Krishna bats He is the supreme reality.
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What matters, what matters most, is that we realize number one,
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there is nothing but God. That is the core of advite the philosophy.
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The core of Adanta is there is nothing but God. So one of the
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greatest myths about Hinduism is that it's a poly theistic religion. And when you
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start talking about cores of gods, obviously that sounds very polytheistic. Right,
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Anything more than one is many, And if we've got hundreds of thousands of
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them, well surely that's many. So we must be polytheistic. But we
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are not. We don't actually believe that there's that many individual gods. We
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don't even believe that there's just one God sitting somewhere in some capacity separate from
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the world he's created. We actually believe there is nothing but God, and
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so when there is nothing but God, everything is divine. Now that's at
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the very core basic truth we've got within Hinduism. Two core branches. There's
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more, of course, but for the sake of a a short set sung
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answer, we'll stick with two branches, and we'll call them the branches of
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advite them Nondu nothing but God. And then we'll call the other branch the
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branch of dualism. And the branch of dualism is the branch of bukti.
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When I am loving God, i'm loving God as something that is separate from
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me. So those are the two main branches. However, those belonging to
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the dualist buck the tradition, the really deep ones are aware, deeply aware
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that of course there is nothing but God. Of course God is not separate
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from them. But being in love feels so good. So to love Krishna,
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or to love Rum, or to love Shiva, or to love the
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mother Goddess, for so many of us feel so good. And yeah,
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we know, we know it's all one. Yes, yes, I know,
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but it's almost like yeah, yeah, but I don't want to hear
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it because being in love feels so good and it's so much easier to be
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in love if I can hold the beloved as something separate from me. Of
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course, at the core level, I know I'm one with God. But
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that that juicy devotion of singing God's glories, right, I mean, could
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you imagine singing just me, me, me, me, me me me.
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It doesn't have nearly the ring to it that Hoddi Krishna does. Right,
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it's so much nicer to sing here than oh no ma Shii rather than
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just me, me, me me. It doesn't it doesn't really ring,
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hard to chant to, hard to dance to, but oh no Ma Shai
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Haddi Krishna. There, there's there's such a beauty in the chanting and the
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singing and the loving. I mean, could you imagine sitting down and anointing
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yourself and doing your own arty and a jeeblagaga you'd feel, you'd feel very
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funny, And I think it would be very difficult to generate that level of
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bov for God, right, I mean, could you imagine doing your own
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arty? Now, that doesn't mean that we don't know that God is in
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us. We do. But it's so beautiful to be in love. And
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so you know, it's interesting when when Krishna says, the supreme reality.
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But in just another breath he's extolling the virtues of buck the yoke, and
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in another breath he's extolling the virtues of karmiog to serve. Well, if
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all we're talking about is being aware of the supreme reality, there's nothing to
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do, no karmiog, no buck the yoke. Then all you've got is
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yan yog. But if you read the geta, he's passionate, ardent in
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how much he wants us to practice buck the yog and carm yoga, and
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how he explains they are one. So when you think about cores of God's
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first of all, really all that means is an infinite number. Okay,
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it's like saying, you know, I love you to the moon and back
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right, Well, what it means is I love you infinitely. It's not
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like I love you you know, however many actual kilometers it is to the
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moon times too. What it means is I of you infinitely. My love
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knows no bounds to the moon and back like, that's infinite. So when
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we talk about cores of gods, it's saying God is infinite. Of course,
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because since everything is God, you want to worship God in a blade
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of grass, go right ahead. You want to worship God in a drop
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of water, go right ahead. I mean, but Guan Krishna says,
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however the devote he worships me, I appear to the devotee in that form,
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not as long as it's one of these seven. I can do these
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seven, but I can't do any others in whatever form. Means an infinite
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number of forms. Presumably with you know, eight billion people or whatever are
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up to now currently alive, plus however many have already died, plus however
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many are yet to come, we start to border on an infinite number of
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ways to worship God. So what we're saying is, however the devotee worships
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me, that's how I appear. So don't get caught up in that.
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Realize there's the supreme reality, and that supreme reality is manifest in everything.
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And so whether we are worshiping Baguan Krishna, Baguan ram Shanka, Baguan Hanumanji,
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mad my College, whether we're worshiping Maganga, whether we're worshiping our grandmother
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or a tree, they're all divine and so connect with that supreme reality in
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whatever form you find it most accessible. Yeah, and I think I think
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the Day of Tuz are here. I think we've got all the stories of
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the Day of Tuz really to teach us, because in many ways they seem
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very human in their in their characteristics and their attributes. Of course they're not,
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and they've all got divine powers. But right, I mean there's fighting,
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and there's jealousy, and there is anger, and there's temper tantrums and
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there's I mean, there's all sorts of things that we go through. And
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I think that we've actually been given I think our recis and sages and saints
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and have given us these these beautiful ways of understanding the nature, the nature
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of life, the nature of ourselves, the nature of the universe, because
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every one of the stories is something to learn from. Right, we read
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the poor Dannas and we learn from them. There's always a message, there's
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always a teaching so as a story. And so I don't think it's so
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much about this is the end of where you're supposed to worship, But it's
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the awareness that we we just keep offering, we keep offering to the divine
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in the form of agny value gel Indra. I mean what what, wherever
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we are right, just all sorts of different ways to just keep offering,
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keep offering, keep offering, keep praying such that every minute, wherever we
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are, whatever we're doing, becomes an opportunity to offer. But let your
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let your devotion, your buckthee, your prayers go deeper than that, higher
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than that. This brings to a close, this hour of inspiration and transformation.
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Thank you so much for joining me. I'm so glad to be together
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with you all each week, and I look forward to being together again next
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Thursday, same time on Home Time's radio. But it can't be because Beak
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can't. We can't kind of game, but I can't be because baby he
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