A sunset Christmas check-in from San Salvador, with travel talk, hammock dreams, and a real-life reminder that the holy name is the way through it all. Come chant with us, find a sweeter mood on your beads (not on autopilot), and ride that quiet winter-solstice energy into the next season, sewer smells and all.
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merry Kalikimaka Merry Christmas from San Salvador
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I'm Madam Angela Das
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and this is juicy magic always on the go
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ready on the go
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always ready yeah
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I have to be always ready when I'm traveling with you
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hahaha yeah yeah
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so it's our last night in San Salvador
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it's a winter solstice begins
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our winter starts tomorrow
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so winter solstice and we're really grateful for autumn
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it was a great season wasn't it
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yes the last three months have been amazing
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we tend to
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sort of chart our life in a 90 day increments
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every quarter especially around the seasons
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and now winter is coming winter is coming
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and it's 23 4 degrees Celsius here at six PM not bad
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we're actually it's a little hot for us during the day
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so we're looking for going up to a place called uh
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Berlin Berlin
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imagine that founded by German of course
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ship shipwreck
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German came ashore and started renaming things
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imagine that
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but it's supposed to be a very beautiful
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coffee growing region and it's a little cooler
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about 4 5 degrees Celsius cooler
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so we're really gonna be enjoying the day
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the nights are not actually
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it's about the same 1819 Celsius at night
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which is perfect
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perfect weather but it's about you know 25
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26 max which is perfect
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we're really looking forward to it
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we're gonna be there for seven days
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we hope to make some nice videos
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talk to celebrate Christmas
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Christmas Eve they have hammocks
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they have hammocks hanging everywhere
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oh maybe we'll have to do a hammock video
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would you guys like a hammock video
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yes
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we can do some swinging back and forth
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oh today we were reading something really interesting
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tell us about teaching to chant in a certain mood
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so we can chant in a proper mood
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not just repeating the names like parrots mechanical
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yeah I mean
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it happens
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it's always good to bring our attention back to
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I'd read that it's nice to touch our beads
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as if we're washing the feet of the Lord
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sweetly massaging the feet of the Lord and um
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of course Lord Chaitanya's third prayer
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one can chant the holy names of the Lord
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in a humble state of mind
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and uh yeah
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to do it sweetly and as if we're singing softly
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yeah with some longing
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and some desire to be close to that Supreme
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this person
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some desperation of when when can I be with him
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when can I meet him when can I go home
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see him when can I
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touch the dust of the streets and places and
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and that holy place where he's at home
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kolokavrindavan by kuntaloka
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yeah so it's amazing that the kingdom has
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or the the highest
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all places have names just like all people have names
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the highest spiritual kingdom is described as Goloka
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Vrindavan or Gokula or uh Vrindavan yeah
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so we aspire for this
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or we aspire to aspire to aspire for this
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and the way forward is always through the Holy Names
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so we hope you'll chant with us
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chant the Holy Names and uh
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wishing you to develop some very very
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enchanting
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desiring divine moods yeah
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to get away from this place
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I mean here we are in this beautiful location
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and I can smell the sewer yeah
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it just came all of a sudden this wave of sewer came
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we got you know
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you might think oh
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they're in this beautiful place with this mountain
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everything's perfect
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it's just never perfect in the material world
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there's always something either the body
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the mind or some other being or
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or calamities dogs whining or children screaming
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so one of or the smell of septic
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just one of my senses is always a little bit ah
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which one yeah
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one of them right now it's the nose
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ha ha yeah
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so with that we wish you a really good uh
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hope that the beginning of in
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in the southern hemisphere
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obviously this is the start of summer tomorrow
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today it's tomorrow is the beginning of winter tomorrow
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and we're grateful winter
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for us
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is always a period of really quiet contemplation
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preparing for next year and next spring
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when things get lively again expansion
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contraction expansion contraction
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Winter's very much a contraction period for us usually
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and we go try to deepen our practices and chant more
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chant more so lots of
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now I will put more attention on the moves
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I will how
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how I say something not just what I'm saying
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but how and what
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in what mood of
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so nice the bells here are ringing for church
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and that's a really nice sound
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we'll leave you with that
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Harry Kristen
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Harry Ball
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Namaste peace be with you and upon you
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thanks for joining us on our adventures with Juicy
