#43 - Reflections from the River: Water, Consciousness, and Living in Newmarket, Canada

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hey

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Haribo Namaste and peace be with you and upon you

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I'm Mark and behind the camera is Maria

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and this is Juicy Magic on the daily

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so we're back we took a little break

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we did the Bitcoin and Freedom Technology Summit

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thanks to all who showed up

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we got a lot of requests

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head over to Juicy magic.com J U I C

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y m a G I k dot com head to our agora

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that's Greek for like marketplace or community area

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it's our uh members area

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you can follow us there and and uh

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if you put in your email

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we'll send you more updates and things like that

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and just

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you'll just start having a building relationship

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that's what Juicy Magic's all about

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uh at the essence of Life Essence

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position and function is based on relationship

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and here I am I'm standing in a river Ho ho

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and my toes are loving it

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it is a beautiful river that my father David

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uh helped restore and

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and he had a

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part of the Lake Simcoe Conservation Authority

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which manages the watersheds between Lake Ontario and

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Lake Simcoe

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Lake Simcoe's north of us

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Lake Ontario's south of us and we have the privilege

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pleasure and honor to live in a land

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where we have the most fresh water in the world

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in the Great Lakes area and water is precious

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but more than important than water is life

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there's a sign nearby that says if there's

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any magic in the world it must be in the water

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I think that's kind of funny

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because it's not really correct

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water is a material element

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and it's governed by

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the personality of the mother Earth

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of Bumi Devi

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but all of that is under the purview of the Supreme

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being the Supreme Lord God

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and what's really precious is the life force

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life flows

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life force flows close to everything and everyone

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but it really becomes

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apparent when it's surrounded by a plant body

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a mineral body

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a fish body a fungal body

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algae body

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animal body human body and beyond

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there's a great roomie poem about that

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we'll have to quote it someday

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but uh it's all about at what point did

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did the process of death not benefit us

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and in the right consciousness

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certainly we can become more elevated

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after we leave this material body

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but I'm standing in the river here because it's fun

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and in fact

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part of Juicy Magic is helping and encouraging you

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um and with all love and respect

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we just want to encourage you to simplify your life

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it's actually

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the simple aspects of life that are most precious

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and wonderful going for a walk in the park

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being barefoot standing in a river

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and there aren't like

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there's a junk floating down here

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there's there's all these water bugs

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I saw a garter snake just the other day

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there's all this life it's teeming with life

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there's frogs at night there's fireflies

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it's precious and we're just north of Toronto in Canada

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for six months of the year

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we're at the center for abundance and Transformation

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Technologies here

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and it's an absolutely stunning place to be

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we share a space that an upstairs apartment

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my mother lives there and we help look after her

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just like back in Europe

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we help look after Maria's mom who also is called Maria

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my mom is Erica with a K she's quite a feisty one

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we love her she's amazing

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she's hard to follow man she's fast

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we call her hosenfuß cause she's a lucky foot lucky

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lucky uh

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Hosen is is rabbit in German

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so I'm gonna come in from the

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you know

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and obviously you can't walk around barefoot everywhere

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but fortunately here I've picked up a lot of garbage

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it's very very clean there's no sharp objects and uh

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it's such a lovely feeling on a on a summer's day

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now

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there's probably someone cutting the grass or whatever

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so you might hear some noise

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like we do in the material world

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which is why the main process of achieving

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transcendental knowledge and transcendental science

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and really understanding who am I

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who is god what's my relationship with him

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what's my position

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and function in relationship with him

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and relationship to all other beings

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all of his children

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and we don't discriminate in the Vedas we're taught

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and we can experience this truth too

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that wherever there's life

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there's a person

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it's the matter forms around the life particle

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not the other way around

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life does not come from matter

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I've seen many people leave their bodies

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and as soon as they leave

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all the material elements are still there

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but that that body just displays its natural tendency

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which is inert it's dead matter

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right now I can move my hands because I'm in the body

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I'm not the body but it's like a a vehicle

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and I pay all my respects to all my spiritual masters

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to our parampara

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our disciple succession and to the Vedic scriptures

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the shastras and of course to the Lord in my heart

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who's also in the heart of every living entity and yes

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there are some

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wee creatures that don't technically have a heart

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but he's in this

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he's in the center place of their of their breathing

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where their life force emanates from

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and one of my teachers once likened um

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the living entity in the body to like a microphone

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the microphone has all the

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constituents to transmit sound

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but what it's missing is the current the electricity

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when you plug that microphone in

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don't don't be in front of the speaker

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cause you'll get feedback

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I see a lot of people do that by mistake

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but when you plug that electricity in

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and you put the volume up

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you got you know

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a little receiver

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then all of a sudden

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the microphone can be used without the

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electricity you can just talk into it

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but it's not amplified

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so without the life force in the body

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the body just disintegrates back to its natural

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individual constituents of molecules and atoms

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and all the things that make up a material body

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and this is true of all wherever you see life

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wherever you see life there's a person

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and the emanation of the person is the fault

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of the person

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and that's the impersonal aspect of ourselves

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I have a Halo curly in photography shows that all of

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anything with life in it has this Halo of color

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it's a Halo

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it's more pronounced in people that are really really

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really uh have a very clean heart

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clean consciousness

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the Halo starts to get really bright

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and you'll see in old orthodox paintings of

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of in in Christian uh paintings

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you'll see that

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that the saintly persons have halos around them

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and of course you can see it

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I've been around a few saintly persons in my life

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and they shine so bright and they're heavy too

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they're powerful beings

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and their power comes from the Supreme Being

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they're not

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trying to trick you into thinking that they're God

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we're like sparks from the fire or drops of water

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ocean water from the ocean

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but we're persons and ultimately god is a person too

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he has an impersonal energy

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he has a localized aspect in all living beings

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as the Paramatma and he also has his

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his personal form Bhagavan in his supreme abode

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Goloka Vrindavan or Vaikunth Loka

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and so amazingly

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he can do all these things simultaneously

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he can be distinct and one at the same time

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and this is known as Achinta beta beta Tatafa

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this is the teaching of Lord Chaitanya

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who came in the late 1400s

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so I wanna say peace be with you and upon you

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greetings to you

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we're gonna do a little meditation right now

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we're gonna do some goronga breathing

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we're gonna

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it's a really nice way to surround yourself with sound

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and not material sound but transcendental sound

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so the transcendental sound descends

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into the material world

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in the beginning was the word

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the name the logos

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and the word was with God

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the name was with God and the name was God

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the name the logos

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the word was God God and his names are non different

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it's different than the material world

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in the material world my name and I are different

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but in the spiritual world

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uh in the spiritual conception

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God's name and god are non different

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they're the same they're one and the same

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so we can experience this

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which as our dear friend

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George Harrison from the Beatles said

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the proof of the pudding is in the tasting

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it's called a rasa or taste

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it's a flavor

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and you can't take wetness away from water

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or sweetness away from sugar

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just like you can't take

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the life force away from the living

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entity

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the living entity is eternal

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and it's so important to have this fundamental first

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uh understanding and experience

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because all the other foundations are built upon it

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seek ye first the kingdom of god and its righteousness

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and all things will be added unto you

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look within the kingdom is within you

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but if the heart if the mirror is really dirty

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and it tends to be because we're

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we're all uh

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very fallen

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and we've all done all kinds of things in this world

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in this life and in our past lives in other bodies

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that's called karma

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good and bad karma require a body to sow

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to reap what we've sown as you sow

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so must you reap and as you're reaping

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so must you have sown

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so accepting this fundamental responsibility

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for everything that's happened to you

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now of course

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there is Grace and miracles and God can do anything

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he can take away someone's karma

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he can appear before them

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he can take the lowest fallen person

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and elevate them to Saint

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um but that's a rare and we don't assume that's us

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hahaha so we need all the help in the world we can get

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and certainly we need the help from out of this world

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as Einstein said we cannot solve the problem

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from the level of consciousness that created it

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so we can't get out of our problems and troubles

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without really

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surrendering first and being humbled

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and I know that's not a very popular teaching right now

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in the world of manifestation and attraction

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and you're just gonna do all this stuff

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and I'm the doer and I'm all powerful

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I'm gonna separate the clouds with my mind

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and it's like I'm gonna find a parking spot

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all this total ridiculous nonsense

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which really puts you further and further away from

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not being in fear

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most of this stuff you know

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trying to be famous and powerful

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it's just projecting your own fear

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of not being important of not being seen or recognized

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of not being liked or loved

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but that's why

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studying the saints and scriptures is so important

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Saint Francis says no

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let me let me seek to love and not want to be loved

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let me seek to understand and not try to be understood

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and that takes a real change of heart

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and so

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changing our heart starts with cleaning the heart

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if you really wanna see the heart

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and the mirror in the heart

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and the light and love in there

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along with the Supreme being

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we have to act in such a way that he sees us

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rather than be like hey hey come here

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I wanna see you right now

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get here you like it's like we're you know

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we're bossing

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it's like he's a he's a waiter and we're the manager

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and you're like just get over here

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I want you to wash the dishes come on over here

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get me a Diet

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Coke and you know get me some tofu while you're at it

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you know it's like we're the order ordered

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we're sending the Supreme being

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the most lovable being in the world away from us

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because of our arrogance and our rudeness

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and just just mean

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being ugly being mean act not being ugly

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but acting ugly acting mean you know

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this is all conditioning

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this is called conditioned life so we'll start with

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just do a little cleaning of the heart

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you know if we want to get away from conditional life

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which comes with a lot of suffering and misery

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some temporary thrills and chills and pills and whoo

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but really a lot of a lot of suffering

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so let's get out of that

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gonna take a nice deep breath in and on the

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and and just on the exhalation

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you're gonna relax your body

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you're gonna let the sound come out of you

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and through you Goronga Goronga

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he whose body is more beautiful than molten gold

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and you're just gonna put your mind

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and your lips and your ears

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and if you you know

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you can hold on to some beads

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if you want to count how many

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you know you can do a full round of goronga

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you'll be very very

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very relaxed and at peace after that

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most likely

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certainly

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you'll be in a better place than you were before

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you started

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because just like in order to clean our bodies

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we need some a cleansing agent like soap

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we also need the ultimate cleansing agent

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which is water

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and we don't have to believe in the soap and the water

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for it to work

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so we don't have to believe in the sound vibration

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the transcendental sound vibration

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the sacred yoga sound vibration

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the mantra manas mind tra to give shelter to

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to protect

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what are we protecting the mind from

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well

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just name all the all the woes and

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and doubts and fears you have that are covering you

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and just take a break for a minute with Goronga

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so

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we're gonna breathe in to the length of the exhalation

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you're gonna say speak utter sing sweetly go Ra angah

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I like to keep my eyes half closed

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that way I'm not gonna fall asleep

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but I'm also not like totally being distracted by oh

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there's a squirrel haha I'm easily distracted

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that's why I love

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transcendental sound and mantra so much

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okay

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breathing in thinking of the sound

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keep thinking of that sound while you're breathing in

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ah

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all together

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breathing in thinking of the sound go longer

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go

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it's really noisy outside

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use your finger to close one of your ears

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ah

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two more times

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no go rangga

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relax the jaw relax the body as you're breathing in

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thinking of the sound go rangga

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it's a noisy world

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that's why sound vibration is so helpful

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much harder to do silent meditation

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generally speaking

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silent meditation isn't that silent your mind's going

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sounds are going you're distracted

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you're thinking shut up everyone

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I'm trying to be silent

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so we say Haribo

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Haribo means chant the names of god

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chant the holy names in the Bible

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it says our name help is in the name of the Lord

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from the sun up to the sun down

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the lord's name is to be praised

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and they didn't say that in English

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they usually said it in Hebrew or Greek or Aramaic

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just like Jesus Yeshua

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Ben Yosef

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Yeshua Jesus of Joseph

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Father Joseph Emmanuel God is with us

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Yeshua he who saves

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The Messiah Messiah

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Christos

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Christ is a title given to a person who is very

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very very advanced

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either the Lord himself or the Lord's Messenger

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the Shakti Vishakti

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so all glories to Lord Jesus Christ

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all glories to Guru Dev

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so we give our respects to all the gurus

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guru guru darkness

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RU dispeller

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of all those who dispel the ignorance of Mamon

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the material world Maya

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we don't hate Maya or Mamon

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but we know well the energy that it is

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it's very temporary and we want to

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you really have to experience the beauty and wonder

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even particles of it specs of it

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moments of it of the wonder of transcendental

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um

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energy and being not being in the world but not of it

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yeah

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so thank you for joining us today

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it's I'm Mark

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and I want to thank Maria who's behind the camera

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she'll be back soon

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and this is juicy magic on the daily

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wishing you peace peace be with you and upon you

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as they say in Arabic Salam alaykum

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yes peace be with you

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peace is so is the most precious of qualities

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of course we need freedom

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we have freedom we're given freedom

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free choice

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we have to exercise that freedoms if we really want to

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lean in towards transcendental science

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rather than away from it

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rather than rolling around in the material

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noise and calamity

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and getting all dusty and more dirty

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we want to cleanse the heart

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so if you like please try go Ra on GA meditation

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Transcendental Meditation

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meditation becomes transcendental

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when the object and subject of our focus is god

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any of God's names his forms

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his pastimes his associates

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his histories his paraphernalia

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his abodes anything in connecting

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anything in connection with god

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but we're encouraged throughout all scriptures

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particularly the Vedas to use the name of god

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he said please

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you know it's not

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we don't have to hide it

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there's nothing offensive about chanting God's names

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every language has a name for god

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there are many hundreds and millions of names

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so if you can't count you just find one

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my mom the other day said

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oh I really like the name Govinda

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I was like oh mom

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that's so nice and just focus on that sound vibration

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Govinda

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and she said it and she just smiled

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she was all like she got all

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bright you know

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there's a brightness

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there's a there's transcendence in God's names

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and they're all powerful and they can truly help you

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cleanse your heart of all the dust

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accumulated for years together

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so I thank all my spiritual masters

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all the Vedas

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our wonderful books of knowledge and wisdom and truth

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I thank all the saintly persons that have helped me

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in my life and are always helping me

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and I say Harry bold

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and I must say and peace be with you

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thanks for tuning in we'll see you soon

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