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What is the Most Important Karma? · Inspiration and Transformation

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Inspiration and Transformation from the Banks of the
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  Speaker 1: Ganga with Sadhvi Bhagwati Saraswati, an American Sanyasi living at
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  Speaker 1: Chidinad Saraswataji.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome, everyone, to Inspiration and Transformation from the Holy Bank's
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  Speaker 2: of the sacred Ganga River in the land of Rishikesh, India.
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  Speaker 2: What is the most important karma? So, karma means action.
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  Speaker 2: Karma is an action. What we get in reaction to
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  Speaker 2: the actions is what we call the karmic fruit. When
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  Speaker 2: people talk about getting good karma or bad karma, it's
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  Speaker 2: not actually semantically correct. I'm not a big stickler for semantics,
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  Speaker 2: but what you receive is the fruit of the karma.
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  Speaker 2: What you do is the karma itself.
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  Speaker 3: So what.
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  Speaker 2: Is the most important karma? Meaning, what is the most
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  Speaker 2: important action? Well, I would say the action you're doing
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  Speaker 2: in this exact moment. It's the only one you have
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  Speaker 2: any control over. All of that which I already did
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  Speaker 2: in my past is an arrow that's already flown from above.
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  Speaker 2: It's gone. I can't rewind history. Unfortunately, we don't get
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  Speaker 2: an undo button. I used to know that I was
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  Speaker 2: spending way too much time at my computer when I
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  Speaker 2: would try to Control-Z something that happened in life. Because
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  Speaker 2: on a computer, at least on a PC computer, if
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  Speaker 2: you hit Control and the Z key, it'll undo whatever
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  Speaker 2: the last thing you did is. It doesn't matter what
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  Speaker 2: you did. Hit Control-Z and it's undone. And I remember
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  Speaker 2: many years ago realizing that I was just spending way
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  Speaker 2: too many hours a day at the computer When I
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  Speaker 2: would spill a glass of water or say something that
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  Speaker 2: I wished I hadn't said, and instinctively my mind would say, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: we'll just control Z that. And then I had to
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  Speaker 2: realize and re-remember, you can't do that in life. Life
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have an undo button. You actually have to go
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  Speaker 2: get a sponge and clean up the water you've just spilled.
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  Speaker 2: You actually have to deal with, face the words that
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  Speaker 2: you've just spoken. And so the only karma we actually
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  Speaker 2: have any control over is this one right now. What
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  Speaker 2: I've done, I've done. Arrows that have been flung from bows.
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  Speaker 2: That which I have yet to do, again, I haven't
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  Speaker 2: yet done it. There's no guarantee that a situation is
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  Speaker 2: going to arise in which I'll be able to do it.
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  Speaker 2: You may think, okay, when I wake up in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: first thing I'm going to do is brush my teeth. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: it's a reasonable thought for an action. But that's assuming
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  Speaker 2: that when you wake up in the morning, you've got
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  Speaker 2: an arm that still works. Or legs that still work.
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  Speaker 2: Or that there hasn't been an earthquake and you no
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  Speaker 2: longer have a bathroom. Or that your water hasn't been
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  Speaker 2: shut off. That you've actually still got water coming out
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  Speaker 2: of a tap. Or that something else hasn't happened in
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  Speaker 2: the night to render brushing your teeth no longer the
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  Speaker 2: most important thing first thing in that morning. Because something
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  Speaker 2: else has become more important. So we don't know. The
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  Speaker 2: only action I have any control over is right here,
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  Speaker 2: right now. What am I doing with this very moment?
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  Speaker 2: And I'll give you a little key, a little tip.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually not so much the what as it is
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  Speaker 2: the how. The most commonly used example of that is
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  Speaker 2: if I say to you, well, is it good or
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  Speaker 2: bad if you take a knife and you thrust it
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  Speaker 2: into someone's chest? Well, most of you will say, well, God,
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  Speaker 2: it's bad. It's horrible. Wrong action. But if I tell
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  Speaker 2: you I'm a surgeon, And the person into whose chest
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  Speaker 2: I'm thrusting a knife has just had a heart attack.
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  Speaker 2: And if I don't give him or her an operation
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  Speaker 2: right now, they are going to die. Well, suddenly it's
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  Speaker 2: a great action. Suddenly what I'm doing is saving someone's life.
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  Speaker 2: So actually in the karmic scheme of things, it's the
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  Speaker 2: how more than the what. The Mahabharata, the epic of
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  Speaker 2: the Mahabharata, especially the Bhagavad Gita where we're taught about it,
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  Speaker 2: but the epic where the action takes place is a
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  Speaker 2: perfect example of the how actually being even more important
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  Speaker 2: than the what, that the intention behind something, the meaning
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  Speaker 2: behind it, the presence, of the divine there behind the
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  Speaker 2: action being much more important than the nitty gritties of
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  Speaker 2: the actual action. So the most important karma is that
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  Speaker 2: which you're doing right now. But not just what the
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  Speaker 2: body is doing. What is the mind, the attention, the intention,
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  Speaker 2: the self-experience doing in this moment? I may be doing
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  Speaker 2: a great action. I could be making sandwiches for poor
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  Speaker 2: people to go take out and feed them. I could
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  Speaker 2: be writing a check to some wonderful nonprofit organization. But
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  Speaker 2: if in my mind I'm begrudging them or I'm feeling
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  Speaker 2: resentful about it, Or I'm feeling arrogant about it, like
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  Speaker 2: aren't I so great? Why isn't the world seeing me
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  Speaker 2: and recognizing all these sandwiches I'm making or all this
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  Speaker 2: money I'm donating? If my mind is filled with anything
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  Speaker 2: other than that total surrender and the joy to serve, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'll still get what we call punya, sort of karmic
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  Speaker 2: bonus points for having done the right thing, but not nearly,
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  Speaker 2: not nearly the merit that you get for having done
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  Speaker 2: it with your mind in the right place. There's that
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  Speaker 2: great story of the two friends, two guys who were
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  Speaker 2: gonna spend the evening together And one of them says,
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  Speaker 2: I have a perfect idea for our evening together. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go to the brothel. And the other one says, God, no,
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  Speaker 2: of course you can't go to the brothel. That's sinful.
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  Speaker 2: We should go to the temple instead. And the first
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  Speaker 2: man says, ah, you only live once. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: the brothel. And he heads off to the brothel, and
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  Speaker 2: the other guy says, thinking, oh God, I can't believe
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  Speaker 2: I was ever friends with somebody like that, heads off
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  Speaker 2: for the temple. So the first one spends the night
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  Speaker 2: in the brothel doing what they do in brothels. The
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  Speaker 2: other one spends the night in the temple, praying. Some
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  Speaker 2: point later, they both die. They find themselves heading into
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  Speaker 2: the afterworld. The one who went to the brothel finds
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  Speaker 2: himself escorted into the heavenly realms. And the one who
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  Speaker 2: went to the temple finds himself escorted into the lower realms.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, he's furious. He can't believe it. Like,
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  Speaker 2: how is this possible? And he takes it up with God, furious.
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  Speaker 2: I did all the right things. This guy went to
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  Speaker 2: the brothel. You took him into the heavenly realms. I
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  Speaker 2: went to the temple. Where am I stuck now? And
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  Speaker 2: God said, you were in the temple. Your body was
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  Speaker 2: in the temple. But you spent the entire night sitting
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  Speaker 2: in the temple thinking about that guy in the brothel.
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  Speaker 2: He went to the brothel. His body was there. But
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  Speaker 2: he spent the entire night thinking about you in the temple.
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  Speaker 2: And so when we talk about karma, it's not just
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  Speaker 2: what are my hands doing or my legs doing. But
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  Speaker 2: how am I doing it and who is doing it?
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  Speaker 2: Who's the I I'm identified with? Who is doing it?
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  Speaker 2: And the only karma I have any control over is
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  Speaker 2: right here and right now. So you make this very
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  Speaker 2: moment one that is filled with awareness, with consciousness, with love,
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  Speaker 2: with truth, with sincerity. And then that moves into the
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  Speaker 2: next moment. And you fill that one with awareness and
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  Speaker 2: consciousness and love and truth. And that moves you into
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  Speaker 2: the next moment. And the next moment. And then each
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  Speaker 2: moment becomes your most important karma. And before you realize it,
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  Speaker 2: you've created your entire destiny from those actions, moment by moment.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to Inspiration and Transformation. I'm so glad to
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  Speaker 2: have you all back here with me. Which is worse?
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  Speaker 2: Failing or never trying? Never trying is absolutely worse than
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  Speaker 2: failing for one very specific reason. Failing or succeeding is
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  Speaker 2: not in our hands. It's in the universe's hands. It's
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  Speaker 2: in someone else's hands. I may take an exam. The
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  Speaker 2: person who's grading the exam decides that what I've written
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  Speaker 2: is not what they were asking and they give it
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  Speaker 2: an F. I might prepare a project, an idea, a presentation.
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  Speaker 2: The person I bring it to or the committee I
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  Speaker 2: bring it to deems it, nah. They throw it in
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  Speaker 2: the trash can. Both of these are what you would
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  Speaker 2: call failure. And yet, it has nothing to do with me.
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  Speaker 2: I've done my part. I've done it to the best
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  Speaker 2: of my ability, we hope. If not, then I haven't
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  Speaker 2: been sincere. But assuming that I've been sincere in my effort,
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  Speaker 2: I've done the best that was called upon me to do.
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  Speaker 2: But I have no control over the external world. And
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  Speaker 2: so while we certainly may be disappointed or annoyed or
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  Speaker 2: even hurt sometimes when the universe doesn't see what we've
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  Speaker 2: done as worthy of an A or an A +,
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  Speaker 2: or being accepted or being loved. Nonetheless, we are able, hopefully,
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  Speaker 2: to realize that it's not about me. It's about them.
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  Speaker 2: My teacher may have had a massive fight with her
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  Speaker 2: husband or his wife that day. that put them in
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  Speaker 2: an awful mood. And due to that awful mood, they
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  Speaker 2: failed me on the exam. Has nothing to do with
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  Speaker 2: how well I studied, has nothing to do even with
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  Speaker 2: how intelligent what I wrote was, and everything to do
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  Speaker 2: with my teacher's cranky mood. Similarly, the boss in front
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  Speaker 2: of whom I present A paper, a report, a proposal.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe in a cranky mood that day. May have had
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  Speaker 2: a fight with a loved one. May, for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 2: not like me. Maybe they're prejudiced. Maybe they discriminate. Maybe,
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  Speaker 2: who knows? And for those reasons, they fail sometimes. Or
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  Speaker 2: they cause me to fail. But that has nothing to
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  Speaker 2: do with me. It's like doing your very best to
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  Speaker 2: plan a beautiful wedding, a beautiful outside wedding, and you
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  Speaker 2: do all your due diligence. You plan that wedding for,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the time of year when it never rains.
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  Speaker 2: and you plan it all beautifully and then it rains. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it could be said to be a failure as far
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  Speaker 2: as the fact that you may feel horrible, oh my God,
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  Speaker 2: this whole thing was a failure, we planned it and
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  Speaker 2: then it rained. But when you get out of that
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  Speaker 2: emotional reaction for a moment, you realize I really did
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  Speaker 2: my best. There really was absolutely no way of knowing
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  Speaker 2: that it was going to rain. It's never rained on
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  Speaker 2: that year. I mean, just this year, for example, end
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  Speaker 2: of October we were having rain. Now, I've been in
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  Speaker 2: India 26 years. It never rains in October, ever. Theoretically,
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  Speaker 2: the monsoons end September 15th. We've had rain up till
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  Speaker 2: end of September over the last several years. This year,
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  Speaker 2: literally by last week of October, we had pouring rains.
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  Speaker 2: Never happened. But I mention it because if you had
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  Speaker 2: planned a wedding, you would have done it with the
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  Speaker 2: most sincere, skillful, efficient, effective, proper planning. But it's out
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  Speaker 2: of your hands. The universe decided it's going to rain.
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  Speaker 2: Climate change. What are you going to do? But we're
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  Speaker 2: able to realize when we take a deep breath that
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  Speaker 2: it's not about us, that we are not failures, that yes,
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  Speaker 2: it happened as things happen, but we are not the
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  Speaker 2: ones at fault. It's not me who failed. On the
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  Speaker 2: other hand, if I don't try, that's all on me.
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  Speaker 2: That's 100% on me. I did not try. I did
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  Speaker 2: not have the courage to risk failure. And so I
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  Speaker 2: didn't try, meaning I did not embrace failure. my possibility,
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  Speaker 2: my potential, in some cases even my dharma, because I
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  Speaker 2: was so afraid of failure. That's on me 100%. And so, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's much worse not to try because that's the stuff
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  Speaker 2: at the end of your life. I've never heard of
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  Speaker 2: anybody on their deathbed say, oh my God, I can't
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  Speaker 2: believe that stupid teacher failed me or I can't believe
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  Speaker 2: that my boss didn't accept that proposal. Or even I
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  Speaker 2: can't believe it rained on that wedding day. There's a
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  Speaker 2: bit of wisdom that tends to come at the end
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  Speaker 2: of life. And we tend not to hold grudges about others.
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  Speaker 2: It tends to be much more regret about what we
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  Speaker 2: didn't do. I didn't take that risk. I didn't have
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  Speaker 2: that courage. I didn't step up, stand up, open my heart.
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  Speaker 2: That's the stuff we regret. So in the decision between
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  Speaker 2: not trying and possibly failing, Always. Always try. Now, that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean be reckless. It doesn't mean be stupid. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean jump into the deep end when you've never
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  Speaker 2: learned how to swim. It doesn't mean take all your
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  Speaker 2: money and invest it in one stock on a whim
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  Speaker 2: because you thought, you know, well, hey, let me try
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  Speaker 2: the stock market. It doesn't mean recklessness. Recklessness. It means
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  Speaker 2: a courage of knowing that there's an intelligence in you.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same courage you can think of as that
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  Speaker 2: a caterpillar would use to climb the tree and weave
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  Speaker 2: a cocoon, not knowing what it's going to become when
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  Speaker 2: it comes out of the cocoon. not even knowing it
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  Speaker 2: ever is going to come out of the cocoon, never
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  Speaker 2: having seen a butterfly that it identifies itself. The same
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  Speaker 2: courage you could say that a tree uses when it
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  Speaker 2: grows sideways instead of straight up, which you see sometimes
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  Speaker 2: when you walk through the forest, right? Those are my favorites.
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  Speaker 2: Because they're the trees that somehow have that intelligence that says, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I know everybody else is growing straight up, but if
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  Speaker 2: I do so, I'm going to suffocate and die. My
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  Speaker 2: light is that way. And against everything that you think
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  Speaker 2: trees are supposed to do, which is grow up, she
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  Speaker 2: grows sideways. So when I think of trying and I
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  Speaker 2: think of courage, it's that. It's the acknowledgement of an
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  Speaker 2: intelligence in the self, what Pujya Swamiji calls the inner GPS.
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  Speaker 2: That inner knowing that even though as a caterpillar, all
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  Speaker 2: of my family of caterpillars are still here crawling around
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  Speaker 2: as caterpillars, but I'm going to climb the tree. Or
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  Speaker 2: as a tree that even though everyone else is going up,
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  Speaker 2: I know I need to go sideways. That knowing in
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  Speaker 2: the self, you could call it intuition. It's a way
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  Speaker 2: of knowing. That sense within us that says, I just know.
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  Speaker 2: And then of course, the cultured, indoctrinated part of us says,
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  Speaker 2: who are you to know anything? And it scares us
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  Speaker 2: out of that. And it pushes us away from our
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  Speaker 2: own inner voice. And it says things to us like,
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  Speaker 2: what are the neighbors going to say? What are your
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  Speaker 2: parents going to think? What if you don't make any money?
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  Speaker 2: What if people laugh at you? And it says all
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  Speaker 2: of those sorts of things to us in order to
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  Speaker 2: distract us from that sense of inner knowing, in order
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  Speaker 2: to scare us, in order to keep us in line.
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  Speaker 2: It would be like the trees shouting at the one,
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  Speaker 2: who are you to grow sideways? Don't you know trees
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  Speaker 2: don't grow sideways? What are you, stupid? But she knows.
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  Speaker 2: She goes that way. So always try. Don't worry about failure.
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  Speaker 2: But make sure that you're connected to inner intelligence rather
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  Speaker 2: than a rebellious recklessness. That tends not to get you
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  Speaker 2: very many places. But that inner intelligence I'll show you
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  Speaker 2: where to go. And sometimes it succeeds and sometimes it fails.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it rains on picnics you've planned or weddings you've planned.
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  Speaker 2: But at least you know at the end of your
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  Speaker 2: days that you've stepped up. You've stepped up to every
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  Speaker 2: plate of your life that the universe has offered and provided.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back. This is Sadhvi Bhagavati Saraswati with inspiration and transformation.
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  Speaker 2: Our surroundings impact us. They increase temptation. We'll take the
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  Speaker 2: temptation first, then the anxiety. They increase temptation, they impact
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  Speaker 2: us energetically with their values. As you say, they compel
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  Speaker 2: me to take a cigarette. It reminds me, very funny
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: true story. A man I know, a spiritual teacher, he
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  Speaker 2: used to live in California. He had a friend. He
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: used to tell this story about his friend. Every day
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  Speaker 2: on the way to work, this friend would take the bus,
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  Speaker 2: get off at his bus stop, walking to work. But
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  Speaker 2: right at his bus stop, there was this big pastry store.
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  Speaker 2: And every day, the guy would go into the pastry
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  Speaker 2: store as soon as he got off work and buy pastries,
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  Speaker 2: and then go to work and eat them. When he
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  Speaker 2: went on a diet, he had to stop going into
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  Speaker 2: the pastry store, even though it was right there when
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  Speaker 2: he got off the bus. And he found that he
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  Speaker 2: couldn't stop going into the pastry store. So he went
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  Speaker 2: to this man I knew, the spiritual teacher, and he said,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to help me. Somehow do something to help me.
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  Speaker 2: He said, every day I decide I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: buy pastries today, no pastries today. And then every day,
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  Speaker 2: without even realizing it, I find myself sitting at my
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  Speaker 2: desk with this bag of pastries. And so... The spiritual
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  Speaker 2: teacher said to him, well, I have an idea. He said,
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  Speaker 2: why not leave your wallet at home? And this guy says, what?
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  Speaker 2: You want me to steal them?
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  Speaker 9: The idea that I wouldn't get pastries is so impossible.
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  Speaker 2: So inconceivable that if you're telling me to leave my
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  Speaker 2: wallet at home, it must mean that you want me
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  Speaker 2: to steal them. The surroundings impact us. Absolutely. We are
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  Speaker 2: energetic beings. Sit in a library full of people studying.
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  Speaker 2: You're much more likely to study than hanging out in
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  Speaker 2: your dorm room. full of people drinking alcohol and dancing
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  Speaker 2: and listening to loud music. But just because the environment
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  Speaker 2: impacts us doesn't mean it compels us. Just because there
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  Speaker 2: was a pastry store did not mean the guy actually
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  Speaker 2: had to walk into it. Just because you are surrounded
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  Speaker 2: by people smoking does not actually mean you have to smoke.
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  Speaker 2: Any more than sitting at a table of people eating
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  Speaker 2: non-veg does not mean that you need to eat a hamburger.
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  Speaker 2: I cannot tell you how many tables of people I
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  Speaker 2: have sat at. I go to a lot of conferences,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of events. I move through a lot of
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  Speaker 2: different environments. I have sat at a lot of tables
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  Speaker 2: with people who are eating non-vegetarian food. It never would
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  Speaker 2: occur to me in a million years. Oh, well, they're
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  Speaker 2: all doing it. Therefore, why don't I also have a
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  Speaker 2: chicken McNugget or a steak? I mean, you just know
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  Speaker 2: I don't eat that. That isn't food to me. Doesn't
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  Speaker 2: matter how many people I'm surrounded by who might be
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  Speaker 2: eating hamburgers. There's no chance. that I would eat them.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't say that in terms of I'm a
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  Speaker 2: better person, but just in terms of perspective of when
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  Speaker 2: you realize that something is absolutely not you. Doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: how many people around you might be doing it. You're
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  Speaker 2: no more likely to do it. That doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 2: it isn't more difficult. If you've got a desire, a temptation,
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  Speaker 2: an inclination to smoke, even if on your own you wouldn't,
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  Speaker 2: and you surround yourself by people who are, yeah, of course,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be harder. But what you have to
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  Speaker 2: realize is life is about what I call package deals.
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  Speaker 2: One of the really very large and I think I
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  Speaker 2: think very damaging messages that a lot of people are
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  Speaker 2: being given these days. Under the desire to make people
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  Speaker 2: feel empowered, I think we're actually crippling them. Because the
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  Speaker 2: messaging that a lot of people are getting these days
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  Speaker 2: is basically, if you can see it, you can create it.
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  Speaker 2: If you can envision it, you can manifest it. That
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  Speaker 2: essentially you can have anything and everything that you want
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  Speaker 2: as long as you can envision it. Now the dilemma
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  Speaker 2: with that is I may envision being able to rub
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  Speaker 2: my nose like this and kind of simultaneously live in
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  Speaker 2: two or three different places and, you know, like Tabitha
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  Speaker 2: and Bewitched and I could envision being able to do
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  Speaker 2: that and live in different planes of existence simultaneously or
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  Speaker 2: beam myself from one place to another. But the truth
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  Speaker 2: is that life is actually packaged heels. It's not a buffet.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't mean that to disempower us, but rather
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  Speaker 2: to re-empower us to actually live in a truthful situation,
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  Speaker 2: being able to make empowered decisions based on the reality
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  Speaker 2: of a situation, which is I've got to choose a package. Now,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't mean that there's not adjustments that can be made,
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  Speaker 2: but you cannot, for example, simultaneously live in two different places.
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  Speaker 2: You cannot simultaneously have two different full-time jobs. You cannot
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  Speaker 2: simultaneously be a full-time stay-at-home mother and a full-time high-powered
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  Speaker 2: CEO career person. You can choose. You absolutely have the
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  Speaker 2: power to choose which one you want to be. And
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't mean that as a high-powered CEO career woman,
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  Speaker 2: you can't also have a child. But you just can't
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  Speaker 2: be a stay-at-home full-time mother. You've got to choose. And
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  Speaker 2: in the same way, you're going to have to make
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  Speaker 2: a choice and say, okay, this package deal of my
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  Speaker 2: profession that feels like my identity, that feels like who
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  Speaker 2: I am, comes with it. This stuff that I wish
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  Speaker 2: the package didn't include. But you don't have a magic
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  Speaker 2: wand to make people in that industry stop smoking or
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  Speaker 2: stop drinking or stop doing whatever they're doing. You don't
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  Speaker 2: have a magic wand to change that environment. What you
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  Speaker 2: do have the power to do is to change you
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  Speaker 2: and also to decide, is this a package that works
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  Speaker 2: for me? Because you're not stuck. A lot of us
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  Speaker 2: think we're stuck when we're not stuck. You need to
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  Speaker 2: ask yourself, What works for you? And if that is
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  Speaker 2: a package you want to stay in, then figure out
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  Speaker 2: to work on yourself. I mean, on a personal level,
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  Speaker 2: when I decided to live in India, well, if I
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  Speaker 2: had a magic wand, I have to, in all honesty
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  Speaker 2: and transparency, if I had a magic wand, there's a
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  Speaker 2: few things I would change. Not just about India, there's
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  Speaker 2: a few things I would change about anywhere I've lived
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  Speaker 2: in the world. But as a package deal, I would
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  Speaker 2: much rather live here than live anywhere else in the world.
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  Speaker 2: As a package. But since those things are things that
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  Speaker 2: I cannot change because I don't have a magic wand,
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  Speaker 2: and it's not a buffet but a package deal, my
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  Speaker 2: only option then becomes to change myself such that those
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  Speaker 2: things don't bother me. such that they don't steal my peace.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: And that's, if you want to stay in that package,
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  Speaker 2: that's what you've got to work on, is how to
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  Speaker 2: not have the anxiety, how to not feel like you
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  Speaker 2: have to smoke just because everybody else is smoking.
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  Speaker 8: Actually, the thing is that the negative vibes rub onto you.
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  Speaker 8: And you just, I remain silent. I do not back
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  Speaker 8: answer nor do I retaliate because I don't want to
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  Speaker 8: become them.
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  Speaker 2: So I just keep quiet. That is the reason that
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  Speaker 2: I get anxious that why is the world like that?
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  Speaker 2: And that leads you to smoke then?
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  Speaker 8: That leads me to go on to take a smoke.
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  Speaker 2: So in that case, what it means is.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to work on your anxiety, which is to
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  Speaker 2: realize I'm not in charge of them. I'm only in
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  Speaker 2: charge of me. I can be a transmitter of energy.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Rather than sitting alone, having anxiety and smoking and feeling like,
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  Speaker 2: why are they like that? If instead, I could use
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: that time to meditate, to connect with myself, to recharge myself,
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  Speaker 2: so that when I go into that environment, I can
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: share and spread love and peace and good values, that's
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: gonna not only be beneficial for you, but it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: actually impact the environment. And so what that means is,
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  Speaker 2: that what you've got to do is work on the
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  Speaker 2: internal part. Let's say telotika mange. You're going to stay
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  Speaker 2: in that environment. Accept that you're not going to change them.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: Accept that the change needs to come from within. Accept
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  Speaker 2: that your swastati is not going to be determined by padastati.
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  Speaker 2: that the external situation is not going to determine your
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  Speaker 2: internal situation, but rather that you're going to carry your
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  Speaker 2: swastikas into that padastati and change them. Without the agenda
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  Speaker 2: that I'm going in here to change them, but just
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  Speaker 2: you're going to carry the love, carry the peace, carry
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  Speaker 2: the clarity into that situation, That will vibrationally change.
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  Speaker 2: 757-622-PETA Welcome back. This is Sadhvi Bhagavati Saraswati with inspiration
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  Speaker 2: and transformation. If we were given the opportunity to be
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  Speaker 2: happy all of the time, should we take it? Of course.
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  Speaker 2: You know, The point of spiritual practice that brings us
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: closer and closer to truth is to experience joy. Ultimately,
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: what do any of us really want in life? We
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: want to be happy. If you go around and I say,
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  Speaker 2: all right, you know, tell me your goals. Some of
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  Speaker 2: you may have goals that say, I want to become
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  Speaker 2: the CEO of a company. Somebody may have a goal
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: that says, I want to lose 10 pounds. Somebody may
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: have a goal that says, I want to make this
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  Speaker 2: much money, or I want to help this many people.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: or be of service in this way, or I want
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  Speaker 2: to get married and have these children, or whatever goal
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  Speaker 2: we may set for ourselves. Ultimately, if you look at
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  Speaker 2: why you want it, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: it's so I can be happy. And there's nothing wrong
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  Speaker 2: with that. It's actually really kind of a tragedy that
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  Speaker 2: we feel embarrassed You know, when you say that, that
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  Speaker 2: the bottom line of all of our goals, even if
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  Speaker 2: they seem selfless, even if they seem altruistic, the bottom
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  Speaker 2: line is so that I'll be happy. And there is
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  Speaker 2: nothing to be embarrassed about by that. Happiness is actually
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: our birthright. It's our nature. But it's important to be
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: honest with yourself and realize whatever I'm doing, whatever goal
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  Speaker 2: I have, I've made that a goal because I believe,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's true or not, but I believe that once
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  Speaker 2: I accomplish that goal, I will be happy. Whether I
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: will be happy because I will have more money and
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: be able to buy more things, and I think that
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: things make me happy, Or whether I think that power
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: is going to make me happy, that getting people's respect
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  Speaker 2: will make me happy. Whether it's because I think that
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  Speaker 2: having a spouse and having kids and having that kind
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  Speaker 2: of family life will make me happy. Or whether it's
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: because I've experienced that when I give to others, I
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  Speaker 2: feel happy. Whatever it is, at the end of the day,
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: whatever my goal is, it's so that I will feel happy.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: You know, people say to me sometimes, God, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you left everything back there in America and you came
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  Speaker 2: to India. How did you leave everything? And it's a
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  Speaker 2: really skewed and quite incorrect way of looking at things.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm always... sure to point this out politely, of course,
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  Speaker 2: but to point it out because this idea that somehow
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  Speaker 2: leaving what you could consider a world of material prosperity
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  Speaker 2: for a world of spiritual prosperity, the idea that somehow
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  Speaker 2: that's a great sacrifice and that I've left everything and
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  Speaker 2: that there's something very noble about that, that I've somehow
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: made a great sacrifice. And what I always tell people
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  Speaker 2: is I actually made exactly the same choice everybody makes,
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  Speaker 2: which is what package deal of life is most likely
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  Speaker 2: to give me the most happiness? It's not that I thought, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'll have the most happiness in America, but I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to live in India anyway. just to be noble or
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  Speaker 2: just to sacrifice. It's that I looked around and realized
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  Speaker 2: this life, in its simplicity, in the opportunity to actually
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  Speaker 2: be of service to people, in the connection spiritually to God,
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  Speaker 2: to a community, actually makes me more happy, both on
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  Speaker 2: a minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour basis, as well as on a bigger
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  Speaker 2: picture level, than the life I came from in America
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  Speaker 2: or the life that I continue to see when I
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: go back and visit. So there's nothing to be embarrassed
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  Speaker 2: about or ashamed about in realizing that we make the
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  Speaker 2: choices we make because at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: we think that they're the ones that are going to
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  Speaker 2: make us the most happy. So why would we not
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: choose to be happy all the time, right? For those
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: of you who just came in, the question was if.
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  Speaker 2: we were given the opportunity to be happy all of
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: the time, should we take it? And I said, of course. Now, spiritually,
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: when we talk about equanimity and this way of approaching
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  Speaker 2: and dealing with the ups and downs of life. It
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: doesn't mean seek them out. It doesn't mean give up
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: what makes you happy and be miserable on purpose. Life
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  Speaker 2: is up and down. The only way to actually be
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  Speaker 2: happy all the time is through a spiritual practice of
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  Speaker 2: cultivating equanimity. There's no other magic wand. No matter what
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  Speaker 2: you dedicate yourself to, if it's something in the outer world,
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  Speaker 2: what you look like, how much money you make, how
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  Speaker 2: good your career is, how popular you are, whatever it
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  Speaker 2: may be, it's going to go up and down. There
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: are gonna be moments of sadness, of despair, of anger,
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: of frustration, of jealousy, of competition. The only way to
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  Speaker 2: actually be happy all the time is to cultivate this
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  Speaker 2: equanimity which says, whatever arises, I'm gonna see it with
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  Speaker 2: the same eyes. In the same way that we can
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  Speaker 2: walk through, for example, a flower garden and see roses
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  Speaker 2: and see jasmine and see gardenias and see sunflowers and
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  Speaker 2: maybe you like the roses the best or the jasmine
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  Speaker 2: the best. But that doesn't mean that you're unable to
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  Speaker 2: appreciate the other flowers. It doesn't mean that you're going
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  Speaker 2: to wish that the rose were like a jasmine. Or,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you walk down the fruit aisle of a
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  Speaker 2: grocery store. You walk through a fruit orchard. And you
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: see bananas and you see oranges and you see apples.
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  Speaker 2: And you would never say, my God, why can't this
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  Speaker 2: banana be juicy like an orange? You know, it's a
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  Speaker 2: bad banana because it's not juicy. You understand that bananas
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  Speaker 2: aren't juicy by nature. Oranges are juicy by nature. And
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  Speaker 2: you may have a preference for one over the other,
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: but you're able to see them all in their own
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  Speaker 2: divine perfection as they are. And so the only way
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  Speaker 2: to actually be happy all the time is to develop
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  Speaker 2: that ability to see life like that. I may prefer
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  Speaker 2: success over failure. I may prefer pleasure over pain. gain
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  Speaker 2: over loss, health over sickness, but to be able to
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  Speaker 2: see all of them as just different varieties of flowers
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  Speaker 2: in the garden of my life, each there to offer
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  Speaker 2: me something. So, yeah, if you're offered, if you've got
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to be happy all the time, absolutely take it.
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  Speaker 2: And you do have that opportunity. Not by denying the
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  Speaker 2: sad moments of life. Real joy, real happiness is not superficial.
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  Speaker 2: It's not about denial or repression or suppression. It's about
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  Speaker 2: being able to, even in the face of loss, or
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  Speaker 2: failure or illness, to be able to see that presence
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  Speaker 2: of the divine in all, to see that presence of
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  Speaker 2: your opportunity to get closer to the divine in all.
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: There's a reason that we talk about a dark night
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  Speaker 2: of the soul rather than a bright morning of the soul, right?
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  Speaker 2: Because when we go through these spiritual experiences, They tend
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: to happen a lot more in dark nights than in
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  Speaker 2: bright mornings. So if you've got a bright morning, you
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  Speaker 2: love it and see it and appreciate it and enjoy
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  Speaker 2: it for the beautiful bright morning it is. And when
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  Speaker 2: you've got a dark night, you see it for the
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: opportunity to connect with the soul, to go deeper, to
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: go within, to find the light within. You know, here
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: in India, we worship, we celebrate full moons, the Purnima,
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: but we also celebrate the new moon, the Amavasya. And
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: it's really interesting because you think, well, why in the
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: world would you celebrate a dark night, a moonless night?
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: The biggest celebration of the year, Diwali, the festival of lights,
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  Speaker 2: falls on Amavasya, the new moon. No moon in the sky.
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  Speaker 2: And it's the festival of light. Because it's a teaching
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  Speaker 2: that even in the darkness of the darkest night, there
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  Speaker 2: is light. But that light is inside. That light is
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: in connecting to the divine. So the magic wand for
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: happiness is not there only should be full moons in
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  Speaker 2: my life. It's that when there's a full moon, I'm
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: able to appreciate the light coming from outside. And when
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: there's a moonless night, a dark night, I'm able to
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  Speaker 2: find the light from within. That's the magic wand. It's
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  Speaker 2: the only way. So yes, when you have the opportunity,
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  Speaker 2: you should choose it. And yes, we all have the
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: opportunity all the time. In every moment, we can choose joy.
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  Speaker 2: Not by denial, not by suppression, as I said, but
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  Speaker 2: simply by recognizing, is this a moment? To find joy
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  Speaker 2: in the moon shining overhead? Or is it a moment
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  Speaker 2: to look for the joy in the moon shining inside?
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  Speaker 2: But the opportunity is always there. This brings to a
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  Speaker 2: close this hour of inspiration and transformation. Thank you so
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: much for joining me. I'm so glad to be together
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  Speaker 2: with you all each week. And I look forward to
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  Speaker 2: being together again next Thursday, same time, on OM Times Radio.