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What is the Significance of Kalp-Vriksh, the Wish-fulfilling Tree? · 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 training, 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. What happens when perfectionism leads to such disturbance inside that
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you end up quitting? Perfectionism is actually a defense mechanism. We yearn for
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perfectionism, we learn for perfection. Rather, we learn for perfection because inside
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of us we feel lacking in some way and so that constant, constant drive
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that everything has to be perfect. Everything I do has to be perfect,
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everything everyone else does around me for me has to be perfect. This is
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actually a defense mechanism keeping me from having to sit in my own humanity,
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because the truth is the only thing that's perfect is God. So on the
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core level, we're all perfect, like every flower is perfect, every tree
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is perfect. Everything in creation is perfect at the car as our attachment to
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the body, to the story, to the role, to my identification,
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this false identification as my body, as my career, as my role,
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as my bank account, as my name, and fame, popularity whatever,
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as that grows, well, I want it all to be perfect because striving
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for that perfection keeps me from having to sit in the awareness of my own
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humanity, of that sense inside me which most of us have on some level
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or another that I'm not quite good enough, not quite beautiful enough, not
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quite smart enough, not quite successful enough, not quite popular enough. And
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so if I can just make everything perfect, then I don't have to look
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at that inside of me. So I'm all for sincerity. We should do
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our best. But perfectionism actually is a virus. It does lead to disturbance.
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It does lead to suffering, because almost nothing in life can't not be
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improved upon, right, I mean, the only things really that could be
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quote unquote perfect would be things that are like solutions to math problems, where
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there actually is only one absolute solution. Otherwise, you have a beautiful garden,
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it's gorgeous. Could you improve? Of course, you're a beautiful singer.
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You're amazing. Is somebody out there better than you are? Of course?
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You're baking a cake, it's wonderful. Is it the best cake ever
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baked? Does it have absolutely exactly the perfect blend of sugar to this to
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that? Then probably not? But does it matter? We give up our
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joy and our peace in this unfulfillable craving for perfection that will really never come
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unless you're solving a math problem instead of that, as far as who you
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are, as far as your spiritual practice, realize you're already perfect because you're
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divine your consciousness. What is not perfect about a soul? What is not
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perfect about consciousness? There's no where to improve that which we're working on our
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human existence a skill, we have a task, we're doing, a job,
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we're doing some ask respect of our emotions. Well, it's great,
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do your best, learn as much as you can strive. This is what
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Bugwan Krishna tells us in the bug of Aguita. Stand up, do it
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to the very best of your ability. But you don't have any control over
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that outcome. And as far as you're in your humanness, you're never going
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to be perfect. And so in our humanness we have to work on letting
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go of enjoying the journey, the work, striving, doing our best,
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fulfilling our highest potential than raising the bar going even higher. Why not keep
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learning, keep improving? Why not? It's beautiful, But never ever ever
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hold perfection as the goal A You'll never get there be it's going to constantly
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disturb you. And see if you find that you are a serial perfectionist,
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it means there's probably some stuff inside you need to look at. Can you
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exhale into your humanity? Here I am and yeah, I get angry sometimes
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Here I am can't carry a tune. Here I am you know, good
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at some things, not good at other things, touched by some things,
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not touched by other things. Here we all are in our humanity, and
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it's beautiful. Like any flower garden or fruit garden, different types of fruit,
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even within the same species of fruit, different sizes, some are juicy
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or some are less juicee It's part of the package. But find within you
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that perfect vine, because that's the core of who you are. It's already
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perfect, regardless of your bank account, regardless of your career, regardless of
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your physical body, regardless of your followers on Facebook or your relationships or anything
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anchor into that. And then enjoy your humanity. Do your best at the
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things you're good at, learn to do things that you're not so good at,
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but give up the whole idea of perfection. The only thing you should
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try to be perfect about is your sincerity. If you can't do it sincerely,
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don't do it at all. Be perfect in your sincerity that whatever you're
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doing, you're giving it. You're all. Bakito is just in God's hands.
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transformation. I'm so glad to have you all back here with me. So
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there's two pieces and they are equally important. Number one, we are not
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separate from the world. There's not world. And then me we are part
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of the world. We are in fact creating the world. Each of us
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is an active co creator of the world. And what that means is that
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when that world is in trouble, we need to access our tools, our
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resources, our energy, our abilities to actually help solve the problems in the
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world. The highest spiritual goal is not how can I coexist in peace detached
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from our world which is falling apart. That is not the highest teaching.
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If you look at our our scriptures, take the bag of a Gita spoken
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on the battlefield of the war of Take the Ramayan, Take so many of
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the poor danas. The stories. There are stories for the most part of
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divine incarnations doing battle with demons and killing them. Whether it's a specific demon,
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whether it's simply those who have gotten swept up in the demonic forces.
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You could say, of ignorance, of greed, of lust. So,
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whether it's an actual assorda daksha, whether it's Doriada in his in his ignorance,
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in his greed, in his ega, what you've got is divine incarnations
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actively engaged personally as well as through inspiring others. Right, Baguan Krishna inspires
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Argune in the pond this, but guan Ram gets an entire army of the
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animal kingdom to join him in this fight. None of them are saying,
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Oh, don't worry, sit this one out, it's fine. Yes,
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let the demonic energies. Let the dark energies just win over killing people and
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bringing violence and adharma to the land. Now the teaching is always stand up,
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fight this, bring back light to the darkness, bring back dharma to
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adharma. And so when the problems of the world are there and they impact
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us and we feel sad, we feel angry, those are catalysts to action.
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Those are very different from being angry because someone you know was rude to
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me in our board meeting and made me look really stupid in front of the
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boss, Or angry because someone posted a nasty comment, you know, and
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tweeted something obnoxious about me, Or angry because you know, the person driving
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in front of me was so slow that I was late for the airport and
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missed my flight. The anger that we feel about poverty in the world,
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about injustice in the world, about the destruction of our planet Earth, that's
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a catalyst. That's a catalyst to action. That anger is energy. The
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tears that we cry when we see children begging on the road, when we
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see our planets water drying up. This is an energy. It's an energy
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to catalyze action. And so the first part of what to do is figure
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out how you can act, because we can't all do everything. And so
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if we don't get really clear with what what abilities I have, what opportunities
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I have, what resources I have, then we do feel despair because then
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it feels helpless and hopeless. There's too much. It can't make a big
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enough impact in enough different sectors, and so we feel despair. So we
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need to be able to figure out, with what I've been given, what
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can I do, how can I align my energies with forces that are working
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for good? And so, whether it's making sandwiches and feeding them to the
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poor, whether it's buying a bunch of blankets and going out and distributing them,
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whether it's starting an NGO, whether it's starting a tech startup and giving
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all the money you make to an NGEO, whatever it may be. We've
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all got different skills, different opportunities, different abilities, different resources to serve
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in the world. What my hands can do, my liver cannot. But
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what my liver can, dons cannot, and I actually need them both for
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the body to function. And so in the world we need everybody doing every
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thing that is their dharma. So figure out what can you do and then
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do that with as much sincerity as you possibly can, with as much efficiency
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effectiveness as you possibly can. And the second part, though, is to
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realize simultaneously, not either or not, like a ping pong ball back and
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forth, but simultaneously to realize it's all God and it's all perfect. And
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the reason it has to be simultaneous us is if I simply think it's all
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God and it's all perfect, well, hunger is absolutely not perfect. Violence
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against women is not perfect, and it's all God and it's perfect. Meaning
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if I've got them both simultaneously, what it means is that my anger,
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my pain at that which is happening in the world, and my focus on
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what I can do to be of service is a crucial part, a fundamental
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part of the perfection of the universe. We are not separate from God.
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If it's all God, we are God. If it's all perfect, we
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are perfect. So is that anger, So is that pain? So is
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you deciding and pledging to work to bring about change. If I don't fulfill
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my dharma, then it's no longer all perfect, because then I've dropped the
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literal ball on my part of that perfection. I am part of that perfection.
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So yes, it's all God. It's all perfect in the big scheme
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of things. When we have the ability to see the full tapestry and all
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of our threads interweaving together and in this intersection of time and space right here,
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right now, on this physical plane of existence, there's a lot to
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be done, and so we use all of that as catalysts for the energy
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to do that which must be done as our our thread, our perfect thread,
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This is Sadvi Bagavati Saraswati with inspiration and transformation. There is a really tragic
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irony about the fact that whenever especially young people die because older people, we
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all sort of expect that eventually older people are going to die. But when
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especially someone who we don't expect that they're going to die, gets very sick
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or dies almost inevitably, it seems that they were the sweetest, the purest,
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the most good, the most giving, the most honest, the most
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caring. And it is this really interesting, tragic irony as you say that
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so many people who are really good people suffer, and then those who,
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as you say, are really bad people don't seem to suffer. Now,
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the dilemma with that is our definition of suffering and our idea of what determines
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a karmic path. So if we understand karma simply to be that wealth,
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health, success, longevity are rewards, an illness, failure, loss,
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early death are punishments, then it makes no sense those who should be rewarded
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are being punished, those who should be punished or being rewarded. And yet
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that's not actually how it works. The law of karma has nothing to do
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with rewards and punishments. There's no objective sense that wealth is good and poverty
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is bad, that health is good and sickness is bad, that success is
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good and failure is bad. Our karmic journey has one goal and only one
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goal, in mine our ultimate freedom, ultimately our moksha, our enlightenment,
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our god realization, self realization. Now that which we get in life,
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that which manifests as the current destiny, based on all of my past karmas
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from this life and other lives is exactly that which is most conducive for me
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to take my next step closer to awareness, to awakening. And for some
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it happens in poverty, for some, it happens in wealth, For some,
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it happens in illness, for some it happens in vibrant health. It
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depends where we are on our karmic journey. But you could look at somebody
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who's succeeding, and I have no idea where they are in their karmic journey
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and what role this current very sort of superficial level success is playing in their
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ultimate karmic journey. Versus someone who's failed or lost. We have no idea
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what role this very momentary, superficial level of failure or loss, What is
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that playing? What role is that playing? We don't know. But what
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we do know is that whatever befalls us, our question always needs to be
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the same, which is, how can I use this experience to get closer
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to God? How can I use this experience to peel back the layers of
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me, of ignorance, of false identification. The second piece about this that's
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important is when we see someone who, as you say, as a bad
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person, meaning they're dishonest, they're cruel, they take advantage, they harm
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others, and we see them succeeding. We look at them and we think
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they're being rewarded. They're doing such bad things, but they're being rewarded.
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But what we don't know is what actually their internal experience is about. I
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tell you this personally, I've been in so many situations, so many where
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we arrive in some city, let's say many many, many members of the
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community are there to receive the home to which we're going. Let's say is
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a home of people who are seem to be leaders in the community, very
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very successful, very very well to do. You know, lots of fancy
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cars in the driveway, big big house. Everybody comes over, and you
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know that everybody else is thinking, Wow, I wish we could be like
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them, aren't they lucky? And yet the moment everybody else leaves and we're
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left just sitting with that family, the tears start and you have no idea
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the suffering that is happening in those homes. They don't share it. They
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don't tell iejetto maintain Cardinal We're very worried. Kisamnie while Ka soochangay sadiejit ChEI.
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So we put on this happy face, especially if we look like we're
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big, big successes. But what I can tell you is that inside story
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is actually how much suffering there is the other last piece of this, because
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of course we know that the law of calm is perfect, we just don't
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know when things are going to blossom. You plant seeds, Some of them
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blossom right away, some take months, some take years. Somebody cheats you
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today, there's no way of knowing when that seed is going to blossom.
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Somebody helps you today, no way of knowing when that seed is going to
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blossom. But the last peace of this, when we think about people who
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are very very good, very wonderful, and especially in younger ages, when
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they suffer so much disease death, remember that, according to our philosophy,
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the whole teaching of karma and reincarnation, we're actually only here in a physical
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body in order to work our way through all of our karmic debt. We're
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here because we have to be here because in our last birth we didn't quite
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get full moksha, full freedom, full enlightenment. We didn't finish our karmic
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debts in the last life, so we came back. But we have a
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lot of people who in their previous life were very very very close. Maybe
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there were just one or two remaining karmas that needed to be worked out,
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or something left in a karmic bank account that needed to be withdrawn before they
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ultimately attain moksha and stop stop the cycle of birth and rebirth. And these
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tend to be in many cases those who suffer and die young. Their work
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was done. They came as these almost enlightened being. Hence the fact that
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they were so good that they were the ones who were like angels on earth.
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But they finished their work quickly. They didn't need a full eighty nine
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hundred years to get through as much of their karma bank account as they could.
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They were done much sooner, and so they left. But we have
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to stop thinking in our minds of illness and death as somehow a punishment.
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It isn't. It's the karmak unfolding of our own path to God. And
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so in order to really understand that, you would have to have to have
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a vision that enabled you to see an entire tapestry. I mean, I'll
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give you a give you an example. So we just finished Navarati, and
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during the time of Navarati we had this beautiful Ramlila taking place. Now,
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of course, the ram Lilah is just the essence the Tsar of the Ramayan.
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There's not actually the time in a couple hours a day of singing and
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dancing and drama to get into all of the details. But for me,
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one of the most powerful teachings in the Ramayan, and it explains to me
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this very very well, is if you begin, you begin with the story
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of when King Dashat had no no officer spring, right, he wanted offspring,
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he had no offspring. Now at that time he's out hunting. At
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the same time that he's out hunting, we have the very very very beautiful
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being whose name is escaping me at the moment sunk it Kumar, Chauvin Kumar.
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Thank you, I remember the Kumar was the Schovin that took a moment.
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Thank you. Chavin Kumar is out. He's carrying his parents on the
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pilgrimage. His parents are blind. He's taking them manyatta. They stop at
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a hermitage. He leaves his parents and the hermitage. He goes to the
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river to fetch water, fetches the water. As he's fetching water, King
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dash It at this hunting he hears a noise, thinks it's a deer,
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flings his arrow from his bow and it hits Chavin Kahmar. Now he rushes
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to see what he thought was going to be this dear and he sees Chauvin
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Kahmar, and obviously he feels horrible. He was a good man. Chauvin
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Kumar says, there's nothing you can do for me. My life is flowing
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out of me. He said, But my parents are in this hermitage.
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Please take this water to them. They're blind. Tell them what has happened.
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So King dasha It takes the water. He goes Chauvin Kahmar's parents hear
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him, and they say, Chauvin Kumar or Chauvin Kumar. What's he going
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to say? Right? So he's silent, and again they say Chauvin Kumar.
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Finally he tells them what happened, and they curse him. They curse
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him that, as we are dying today of a broken heart due to the
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loss of our son, so you will die of a broken heart due to
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the loss of your son. Now we had no sons, but now you
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look at how the entire Karmic tapestry had to be woven. He had just
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been cursed by people of very pure heart that he was going to die of
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a broken heart from the loss of his son. Fast forward, bagwan Ram,
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this embodiment, the epitome, the divine embodiment of righteousness, goodness,
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integrity, honesty, everything we strive for. But Guan Rahm was the embodiment
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of that. You couldn't be more good than Rahm was. Yet what happens
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this day of the coronation. He ends up getting sent out into the jungle
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as King Dashrat watches helplessly as Ram Lakshman Sita go as he cries for him.
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With his final words, he's actually calling out Shreven Komarsni because he remembers.
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And I love that story when we think about the tapestry of Karma,
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because otherwise you look at the Ramayan, you look at bagwan Ram, and
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you say, why, why, Why would someone who's the embodiment of goodness
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forget that he was the divine for a moment suffer so much like that?
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How could he possibly be sent away from the kingdom, sent into the jungle
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Because his father needed to die of a broken heart at the loss of his
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son, and in the same way, when we look at the suffering a
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very good pe If we simply can step back far enough to see where all
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of the karmic threads interweave, we would see a tapestry that would show us
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Of at the Urswati with Inspiration and Transformation cult. Rick literally means the wish
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fulfilling tree. Just last week, a very very sweet young girl was asking
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me whether if we whisper what we want in none the's ear do we get
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it. She was actually part of the part of the ram Leila troop and
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they had gone up to the nil Kandamaha. They have men there. She
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wanted to know whether if she she whispered in none of these ear what she
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wanted, would she get it. And we have in our in our beautiful
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spiritual heritage, all of these different opportunities to get our wishes fulfilled. And
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yes, there's power, of course, whether we say the divine is working
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through a particular type of tree, whether we say the divine is working through
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none, whether we say the divine is just working through the divine, nameless,
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formless, infinite, however we conceive of that divine, can our wishes
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be fulfilled? Of course, the dilemma is we have no idea what to
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wish for, and so we end up really stuck because a sometimes we wish
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for something that we think we want, we actually get it and we realize
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what an awful mess it was. Sometimes, by God's grace, we wish
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for something we don't get it. We realize later, thank God, I
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didn't get it. But the other dilemma is that when we wish for something
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that we don't get, we assume that the divine, whether in the form
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of a tree, whether in the form of a bull, whether in the
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form of any form or no form, that God is like a vending machine
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that we're just gonna go and we're gonna ask for what we want, and
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we're gonna do our ceremonial perichromas around or we'll tie the string, or we'll
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say the prayer, or we'll give our ductiona or we'll do the puja,
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as though we were simply putting money in a vending machine, and then when
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it doesn't give us what we want, we think the machine is broken.
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I need a different guru, I need a different man, I need a
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different mon there, I need a different religion. It's not working. This
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vending machine is not working, and we become broken. The divine gives us
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what we need, that which, as I was just saying, is that
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which is the most conducive for us to take our next step closer to God.
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And God doesn't play favorites. So the dilemma becomes if I go to
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the cultiction, I say I should be number one in my class, Well,
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if I get that, that means that somehow God decided that I was
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more important than all of the other students in the class. Also praying I
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should be number one, it would imply that somehow any of these divine embodiments
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were somehow playing favorites. And if you just got there first, that you
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could be made number one in class, or you could be the one who
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got this thing that everybody wants. But God doesn't play favorites. God's not
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going to give you somebody else's job just because you came and prayed at the
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culprish for it, or give you someone else's anything, because that would imply
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that God didn't love that other person as much as they love you. So
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this is where we have to know what to ask for. The wishes that
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get fulfilled are those that are in alignment with the divine flow of the universe.
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If I go and I say to culpric I would like Gunga to start
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flowing in the other direction. Please should go from Gunga Sagar to gomuk Tika
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all fast. I'll do my puja. Justestrascope us up the mountain. It's
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not going to work, because there is a flow of Gunga, just like
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there's a flow of the universe, there's a flow of the divine and God's
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not going to reverse the flow that impacts everybody else on earth just because you
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asked him to. So we learn to pray for actually that which is in
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the divine flow and that which takes us closer to God. So we pray
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for surrender. We pray to be free of our ego. We pray to
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be free of ignorance. We pray to be free of anger. We pray
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to learn how to forgive. We pray to have more and more a buck
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thee more and more gan to be able to have every minute, in every
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moment be karma yoga, to use every action as yoga. We pray to
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make our will God's will to come into alignment with the divine we get.
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We get a full moon when the moon doesn't ever change shape. The moon's
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shape is always the same. But we get a full moon when the moon
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comes into better alignment between the Sun and the Earth. When we have a
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new moon, am of us Ya, you could say the moon had gone
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out of alignment. She was not able to reflect any light of the Sun
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on to the Earth. But could you imagine if the moon and am of
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us Ya said I'm not going anywhere and started trying to make the Sun move.
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I want to reflect light onto the Earth, but this is where I
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am and the Sun has to come to me. Well, she wouldn't get
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very far. She'd never to be able to reflect light because the Sun,
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unlike the moon, unlike the Earth, isn't actually moving in orbit around us.
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So the only way to get that alignment is for the moon to move
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in the same way in our lives when we are looking for that light for
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whatever we are hoping for. Instead of expecting the rest of the universe to
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move, or expecting God to somehow make the rest of them universe move for
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us, we pray for the wisdom, the humility, the ability, the
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clarity to be able to move into alignment. We pray to be able to
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use every minute, in every moment getting closer to God. So if those
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are your wishes, they'll always be fulfilled. And otherwise, yeah, there's
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definitely a power. I mean, there's the power of miracles. God is
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the miracle. So whether it's miracles through the tree, miracles through none of
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the miracles, through any other infinite way, they happen. But as Pujaswamiji
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always says, the greatest miracle is you. So use your wishes to make
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yourself happen and to really experience that miracle of you in this life. This
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brings to a close this hour of inspiration and transformation. Thank you so much
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for joining me. I'm so glad to be together with you all each week,
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and I look forward to being together again next Thursday. Same time on
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