Barefoot on the tidal flats at St Michael’s Mount, we share a simple beach prayer, a little grounding, and why salt water steadies the body. We talk lymph flow and dry brushing, then lay out our Easter water fast plan with care and clarity. Autophagy, simple supports, and gentle rhythm. We offer stories, chant the Holy Names, read with the saints, and speak about prasadam, incense, and offering food with love. Not medical advice, just our lived practice and a humble invitation to join in spirit. Peace to you and yours.
peace be with you and Bonnie
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:I'm Mark and I'm Maria
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:and this is to see magic on the daily
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:we're at ST Michael of the mount
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:southwest England absolutely stunning day
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:lots of holidays right now
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:so there's a lot of people out on the beach
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:lot of people in different forms
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:bird bodies dog bodies
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:everyone's running around trying to enjoy
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:it's really nice to ground and earth
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:and it's safe and appropriate to do so
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:onto the ground or in the water
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:salt water is wonderful I felt a little bit nauseous
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:but after walking on the beach for a while
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:I felt better yeah
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:so I said Maria
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:take off your shoes let's go
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:let's get barefoot stay warm
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:and I'm top ah
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:yeah if you're sick
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:you're not well the cold water can be a bit of shock
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:but if you're well
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:alternating hot and cold water is actually
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:way to effectively move lymphatic
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:around the body the lymph system doesn't have a pump
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:like the heart on blood
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:it needs you to move hot and cold
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:alternate deep breathing diaphragmatic breathing
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:there's lots of ways but those are the best ways
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:dry brushing
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:oh yeah
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:we wanted to do the dry brushing
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:yeah we'll show
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:we'll show y'all how to do some dry brushing
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:we'll do it but we won't do it naked
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:typically you do it naked
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:but we'll just show you in our
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:you know when we're close how we do it
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:do an example and then we'll
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:you can do it on your own
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:it's great
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:it's really great practice to help the limb move
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:so it's Easter weekend coming up
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:we're getting ready for a water fast
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:from Thursday night to Monday afternoon
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:so we're starting to pray and prepare ourselves and and
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:and
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:sort of slowly lean ourselves away from heavier foods
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:yeah can you explain why you're doing this
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:well
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:uh
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:autophagy
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:happens when the body starts to eat all the dead
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:and cells that are weak or sick or deadly
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:after 48 to 36 hours of fasting
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:um and this is not medical advice
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:we're not giving financial
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:legal
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:counting tax or health advice
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:just we're
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:just for information and entertainment purposes only
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:one thing we do is is when we fast
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:that it puts the body into a place
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:where it starts to really clean out all the old stuff
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:and a 72 hour water fast
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:drink a little salt in the water uh
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:we can have black coffee black tea occasionally
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:that can help to kind of move things through you
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:you can do an enema to help
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:you know it's not
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:doesn't have to be
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:but there's certain things you can take
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:little supplements and things that can help the fast
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:and help your body really cleanse itself
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:and Easter weekend you know
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:Christ was according to the story
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:the Christ of Nazareth was crucified on a Friday
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:resurrected again on Sunday came to
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:his disciples on Monday so we're a
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:definitely not trying to emulate that
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:that's a very high level of forgiveness he exhibited
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:but we can do that in our regular life we want to
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:offer a sacrifice known as a yagna
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:in solidarity with our dear friend
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:Lord Yushua ibn Yusuf Emmanuel the Christos
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:the Messiah of Nazareth
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:of Bethlehem on this period of time
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:and we're gonna retreat to a safe
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:quiet place yeah
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:so we're gonna spend a lot of time in prayer
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:in meditation in Transcendental Meditation
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:do some kirtons we'll be reading some scriptures
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:we just got some great books on Saint Ignatius and also
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:uh
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:Saint Julian of Norwich beautiful saint
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:and person from the northeast side of England
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:no and I have a book uh Theresa
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:Theresa Baviera so
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:that my mom gave me yeah
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:so we're gonna spend time together
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:uh we're gonna have some hot showers
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:uh when we can at rest stops
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:but mostly stick to ourselves in the woods
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:observe the the day coming into being
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:the evening and the night coming into being
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:the moon rise the moon set
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:the sunrise the sunset and to praise
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:the name of Ishaq ibn Yusuf using the Lord's Prayer
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:a father who art everywhere
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:hallowed be thy name yes
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:your name is glorious it's all purifying
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:and so we'll be using the name of Jesus Christ
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:as well as Lord Chaitanya and the Mahamantra
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:over a very concentrated period of four days
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:and I'm sure it will be difficult at times
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:but it's also gonna be really amazing and exciting
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:and it's really nice to do that with
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:um if you have a partner
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:a best friend who's in the prayer and meditation
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:then this is a wonderful time to accelerate
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:augment concentrate
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:we also offer a humble obeisance
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:to the mercy of Lord Jesus Christ
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:in his amazing capacity for forgiveness
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:that people were hurting and torturing him
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:and he was asking god to forgive them
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:god did not forgive them
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:but he asked them on his behalf to so
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:if you come across a saintly person
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:please don't hurt them or harm them
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:and try not to hurt or harm any living entity
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:you know
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:we even try to avoid stepping on people with ant bodies
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:unnecessary
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:there's killing even in plants when we take the
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:cut the plant
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:so that's why we have this process of taking plant
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:vegetarian raw to vegetarian foods
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:and offering them to the Supreme Person
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:in love and devotion through our Param Paramara
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:our decided succession
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:and through all the sages and sages
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:and just humbly ask if you accept those foods
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:they become purified by his power
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:and then they become a karmic
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:no karma no effect from the killing of the plant
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:yeah you can even test it
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:no
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:we encourage you to take the same
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:take the same tomato one you offer and the other one
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:and try it
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:you can taste the difference
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:there's so many scientific studies that show that
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:prayer before food
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:has a big positive impact on the body
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:on water and on water all these studies
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:water isn't everything
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:and Baha'i Gita Christian says
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:if one offers me with love and devotion a little leaf
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:fruit flower
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:water I will accept it
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:it's all his anyhow so
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:we come humbly before him and ask him to accept
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:our prayers our foods
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:our life our energy
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:our money
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:engaging our energies and our resources in trying to
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:our best to serve them with love
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:I made the experience
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:when I really offer food that is offerable
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:and I wait so you wait until it's accepted
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:you don't eat it right away or how often I eat
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:so
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:you wait a couple seconds until you feel it's accepted
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:and then you eat it I need to eat less
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:I'm less hungry I don't eat that much
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:it's actually taking the remnants of the food
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:offered to God that's what we do
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:and then we offer that food to others
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:it's called pashadim for the lord's mercy
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:we do that with incense as well too
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:we offer and then we put it out
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:all the living entities get to smell that
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:this morning
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:there were some people in human bodies around us
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:and we had this incense burning that we had offered
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:and they were all getting to smell
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:the transcendent abode
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:and we we are attracted to god
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:in different ways we have to start somewhere
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:whether it's through hearing or smelling or tasting
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:so take your your
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:your food stuffs no
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:no meat fish or eggs or rennet or gelatin
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:just wholesome vegetarian milk products
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:yogurt cheese without rennet in it
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:rennet to bi product of slaughtering process murder
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:the killing process yeah
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:I didn't know that I was so shocked yeah
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:they put it into a lot of stuff anyway
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:we wanna wish you a blessings for you and your family
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:friends community
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:extended community to the universe
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:and all universal are of our relations
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:as they say in the native tongue
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:all are my relatives all are
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:all are related so Haibo
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:Namaste and Happy Easter yeah
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:may you all be blessed may you be blessed
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:easy
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:easy