Step into the ancient heart of Messene with Mark and Maria—just two everyday wanderers, bundled in raincoats, feeling their way through stones older than memory. Side by side, they zigzag through a quiet, rain-soaked Greek theater, bringing simple flowers and simple stories, a little offering to the Supreme Person (that's the sweetest kind of ritual). With spring almost here and the whole place shining green, you can hear them sharing what gratitude sounds like in real life: muddy shoes, beans and lentil soup, blue umbrellas, and the easy, laughing peace of just being together in old places.
You’ll get some rain, some chants, some friendly asides about why they turned comments off on social media (less bickering, more true connection), and chances to join in on Gauranga breathing. They speak out blessings as natural as the weather, weaving in little teachings on the sun and the moon, Vedic hints, gentle talk about “agora”—not a mystery school, just a real meeting place, in Greece or online. It’s not showy. It’s just daily life: spontaneous, layered, shimmering with small joys and big thanks.
oh it's recording again yeah
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:it's perfect so I'm Mark
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:and I'm Maria and this is juicy magic on the daily
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:on the daily and here we are in magic ancient Mesena
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:Greece and even growing here
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:amidst these thousands of year old steps
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:behind us is a theater and we thought
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:we're always
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:doing our best to try and find really nice spots
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:to do a little recording as an offering to
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:first of all our
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:to the Supreme Person
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:and also to all of his energies and creation you
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:so thanks for coming out welcome
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:Namaste and Haribol and peace be with you and upon you
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:tell me a little about this place Maria
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:how'd you find it first of all
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:we got some flowers here we're offering them up
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:that's a nice thing wherever there is life
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:there's often little flowers
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:you can
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:you can offer flowers every day to the supreme person
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:then you can give them to others like your sweetie
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:thank you I will
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:so how did you find this place Maria
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:no it's just the biggest ancient place here in the area
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:as we're staying at the Bay of Massini
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:this is ancient Massini
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:and it's very well preserved
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:and it's really nice and beautiful
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:and we came at a rainy day
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:so it's perfect this place for ourselves yeah
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:there's a little tour bus
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:but um we love to travel to places when there's not
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:they're not as busy and that's the amazing thing um
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:what I noticed is is the more I simplified my life uh
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:the more exciting and wonderful
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:the simple joys of just going for a country drive
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:I don't think we've been
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:we've driven for a few days or even a week
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:and we went out on the road and it was rather
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:it was rather
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:wonderful to see all the flowers coming out
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:spring is only two days away
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:and on that note you know
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:following the seasons the moons and the sun
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:it's a great way to live
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:almost all ancient cultures around the world
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:follow the sun and moon and stars
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:we still do to some degree
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:you see it in the
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:in the interest in modern day astrology
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:and it's a bit watered down
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:but what a science you know
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:no matter where you turn there is there
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:you can go deep if you want to
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:I record a little short up there by the waterfall
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:and it's raining today
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:it said that the living entities
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:actually come with the rain
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:enter into the grains then get eaten and and
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:and the grains are um
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:eaten by humans and and that's how we
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:we actually come back
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:so we're very thankful for the rain
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:it gives life
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:literally and figuratively and metaphorically
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:and Maria's back she's got her umbrella over there
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:do you want me to hold the umbrella
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:no you sure
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:yes I must say I really like
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:I really like your blue robe oh
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:so hey get your umbrella
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:I'm in colour today yeah
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:with a blue umbrella and as usual
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:I just kind of threw on what was lying down
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:hung up beside me but so we're here in Greece
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:we're only here for another two weeks
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:and
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:we just want to thank you for joining us on this daily
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:offering
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:let's start with uh as usual
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:we love to do a little wherever we go
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:we love to do some goro Ang goro
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:his body is more beautiful than molten gold
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:it's a lovely sound we're just uh
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:being wet and rainy we probably won't do a long one
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:but let's do three gorongas together
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:you can join us if you like
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:breathing in
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:thinking of the sound goranga and the exhalation
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:goranga ready yes
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:the sound of the raindrops so
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:it just gives peace you know
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:how's your how's your day today
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:let us know if you'd like
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:we one of the reasons we decided not to have comments
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:in the on the main social media is we noticed
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:almost everywhere I go on social media
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:as well as in the regular world
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:digital analog there's so much quarrel chaos
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:confusion it's just a lot of fighting
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:the minute people get together and they're not chanting
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:they're fighting or arguing or speculating or
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:you know in the
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:they're in a mean spirit almost or an agitated spirit
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:and so we welcome you to to
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:to to our website juicy magic.com
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:we have an agora tell us about agora yeah
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:so we just we just were standing on this ancient agora
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:I took some pictures yeah
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:we like the term agora
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:it's not a mystery school cause no
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:we don't make it's a meeting place
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:it's a meeting place a marketplace
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:where people are offering their fruits and grains
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:just like you saw right now yeah
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:so the agora in ancient Greece was like where the
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:everyone came together and they they
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:they they picked up what they needed
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:and nowadays more than ever
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:we need transcendental knowledge
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:we need transcendental science
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:we need to have a taste
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:of the nectar for which we're always anxious
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:and that's why I built an agora on our web page
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:so the agora on our web it's a safe space
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:and this is a way for us to just welcome people to come
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:in the in this in the good spirit
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:if you're interested if this if you have a
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:a curious heart and you're open to learning uh
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:please contact us there's so much more to share but um
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:we we turn the comments off
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:we really don't want there to be a lot of arguing and
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:and a public space that's not
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:you know yeah
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:it's a there's a very unfair
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:unfriendly agora out there these days
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:even in the marketplace people are jostling
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:and what we one thing we love about
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:we wanna thank Greece and the people
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:of Greece
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:is that we've met so many wonderful people here
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:it's such a beautiful uh place weather
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:so much beautiful history and the people
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:they've just been so friendly
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:we're very blessed
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:and we feel very grateful to Greece and uh
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:for the opportunity
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:the privilege and the honour to be here
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:and so I think we'll be coming back here a lot
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:would you just say yeah
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:but we need to keep going now
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:we gotta keep going
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:apparently this place is only open till 3
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:so we need to keep going
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:and there is a little place up there
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:they have been like
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:we're both vegetarian and we really love um
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:the bean soup here in Greece
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:there's lentils and beans and
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:and I know there's a little place up the way
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:where we can get some good soup
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:so let's get a soup let's get some soup
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:we have a little
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:little offering off of the soup and then eat it and uh
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:it becomes really sanctified
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:so we wish for you a blessed day
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:we hope that your day is sanctified
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:and thanks for your time your energy
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:your being your life
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:and for just coming on board
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:and joining the juicy magic
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:on the daily with Mark
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:I think Maria yeah
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:so we say hi Bo
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:Namaste and may peace be with you and upon you
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:I think the battery is up
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:oh yeah just go up there and turn it off
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:ah
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:hello