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#8 - The Sweet Glow of Gaura Purnima: Reflections, Rituals, and Rest
Episode 815th March 2025 • JuicyMagiK On the Daily • Juicy MagiK
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Celebrate Gaura Purnima and the sweet, winding path of bhakti with Mark and Maria at sunset. We share flowers, olive leaves, soft laughter, and a little holy chaos, live from our hilltop in the north. Lose the day’s tension, breathe in the golden stillness, and chant along as we honor Lord Chaitanya’s birthday with heart, humor, and gentle stories. We talk about sleep and simple living, the language of trees, and why odd-numbered flowers just feel more honest on an altar. If you feel at home in gentle togetherness and devotional conversation, you’re welcome here. Bring your tea, a shawl, or just your open heart—catch all the warmth and peace we can gather.

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ready ready ready

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hello Namaste everybody

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ariwo hello

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happy day I'm Mark

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and I'm Maria and this is Juicy Magic on the daily

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thanks so much for spending some time with us

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we greet you we welcome you welcome

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you know in as they say in

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it's true in God's kingdom everyone's welcome

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and today

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actually is a really special day here on Friday

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here where we're living in

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in the northern European hemisphere of the world

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for now we do move around

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but we're celebrating something called Gora Purana

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it's kind of like Christmas

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like the birthday of Lord Jesus Christ

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and we have Lord Chaitanya's appearance day

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in 1486 in Nabadwip Mayapur Nadia

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the Lord the Lord appeared to Chaitanya

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also known as Goranga and Nima

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he was born under a neem tree

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and recently we were visiting two museums yeah

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there's there's two places that claim to be the

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ha ha ha ha ha

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God's got a really good sense of humor

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ha ha yeah

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um but yeah

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we brought some leaves back from the

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from both trees and uh we keep them on our altar

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it's really a beautiful reminder of our

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our mission and our purpose

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our function

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our natural eternal

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inclination

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to love and serve the Supreme person

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with all our hearts minds and souls

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and then to love others as much as we love ourselves

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did you notice the butterflies today

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the yellow one well

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there was another orange one on really too yeah

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yeah yeah

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I just saw the yellow one

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wasn't it beautiful very beautiful

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I didn't know they had so many butterflies here

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well it's getting warmer here

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so we're noticing a plethora of bees buzzing around and

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it's partly why we you know

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it's actually encouraged by teachers and scripture

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and you can confirm this it takes some time to adjust

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but if you're always around a busy

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you know how are you

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how do you feel about you know

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being around really crowded

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busy places I just want to get the heck out of there

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the heck out of there

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yes so it's actually encouraged to avoid crowds

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I mean it's different

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if all there's a crowd of people

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engaged in spiritual activities

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it's different

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like chanting and dancing and singing and offering

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but for the most part you know

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even nowadays with so much terrorism and

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you know bombings and there

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the mob mentality can be very frightening

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and mobs can be swayed and can move quickly and

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and crowds can change and so

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we love to retreat to

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and spend most of our time in quiet places

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they're more in the mode of goodness

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you know sunsets and sunrises

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if you can modulate your life

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just like we're trying to do

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with our sleeping patterns

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you know go to

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go to bed early get up early

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trying I mean

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my favourite after spending many years in

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in in an ashram

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in meditation centers

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I became very used to getting up at 3:30 in the morning

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and usually

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there was a little break in the middle of the day

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a little bit after breakfast and a little bit at

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in the midday and then

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you know go work work

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do one's devotional service until 9:30

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10 and then if I was asleep by 9:30

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10 I always slept really deeply

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they say that the hours

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before midnight are worth two hours after midnight

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so that's our our tip for today with Juicy Magic really

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is just try to regulate your sleep cycle

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try to go to bed at the same time every night and

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and try to get up at the same time every day

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and this has a really modulating effect on

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on on behaviour

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and is that the topic of today

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yes sleep ha ha ha ha

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well actually it's

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it's Lord Chitany's appearance day

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so in Celebration of his day

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I actually this morning I was up early

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I was walking around this beautiful property

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chanting on my beads and I picked these lovely daisies

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nine of them I don't know why it was drawn to the No. 9

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but that you know

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that I think they say odd numbers of flowers look good

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better together

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I once spent some time with a florist

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at the Omega Center in

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in in Reibek

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New York in the late 90s early 2 um

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I brought them in and I offered them up to

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you know to Lord Satania

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I wanted to thank him so very much

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for appearing in this world

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and especially for his teachings

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and he after leaving

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after a wealth of of living in life

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and he left his body at Jaganath Puri

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at the Jaganath temple

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and he traveled a lot around India

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uh before that but

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to celebrate his birthday

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let's do a little gorgona breathing

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we'll do 10 gorgonas

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and we'll leave you with the tip of the juicy

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magic tip of the day so to speak

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is to try to get to bed early every night if you can

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try to modulate your life

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so that you cut out more things during the day

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that are unnecessary

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and so that you can get your work done

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spend time with your your family or do your duties and

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and then to

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and watch more sunsets watch more sunsets and sunrises

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yeah the sun is just setting

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this moment just setting right now

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so it's great time to to channel a little garonga

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you're welcome to join us or just listen

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this process of devotional service of Bhagavad

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Gita begins actually with hearing

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so

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thinking of the sound go Ra onga on the inhalation

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on the exhalation to the length of the breath

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just saying or singing or speaking the

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the name go Ra Onga Celebration of Lord Satania

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and may his mercy

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his mercy is on everybody and everything

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he came here to

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to really save the world with the holy name

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so we celebrate this day with some garam masala

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just surround yourself in transcendent sound

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God

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go

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one more time

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you notice that sunsets and sunrises

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actually the whole all the creatures start their songs

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you know they come in stages

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but you can hear the rooster and the dog right now

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the dogs the

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the birds are all coming back to roost for the night

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they've got lots of questions and answers

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everybody's asking questions and speaking answers

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so on this beautiful blessed day of Gora Pernima

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I wanna say happy birthday Nina

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ha ha ha

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happy birthday Lord Chetanya

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and um over the next couple days

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we'll be also celebrating his life

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and sharing some wonderful teachings

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from this wonderful book

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The Teachings of Lord Chetan Ya

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it's a compiled uh

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book from the Chetan Ya chairman reader by beautiful

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incredible

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Saint

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who left this world in 1977

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the year I was five

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I hadn't heard of him yet

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but I'd heard about him from some of his students

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and John Lennon and George Harrison

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and some of their songs

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maybe we can

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sing that song one day ha ha ha ha ha

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yeah we were singing it

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my sweet Lord

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just thanks for coming out

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thanks for joining us for a nice sunset

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and whatever part of the day you're in

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may your day be blessed

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may your family and friends be blessed

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may your community and culture

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and faith be blessed and please be the peace

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be at peace

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and be the peace you want to see in this world

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we can't fight war with war

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we have to commit gorilla love affair everywhere and

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and try to be at peace and and

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and spread peace wherever we go

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so please

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chant the holy names and chant some Gurung with us

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and we'll see you tomorrow

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and with that we say Namaste

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Namaste haribol and peace be with you always

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why

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and happy birthday Neimei

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yeah happy birthday

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happy birthday to you happy birthday to you

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happy birthday dear Lord Chetanya

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okay oops

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we didn't plan that happy birthday to you

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maybe we can have a cake later

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yeah it's nice

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we can offer a kid egg free cake to Lord Jesus

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or some sweet rice

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but that was what these flowers were for

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you know you

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that's a beautiful thing in the Bible

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Agita Christian says

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if one offers me with love and devotion of fruit

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or some chocolate a flower

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a leaf or water

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maybe we can have some ice cream

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yeah we won't offer the chocolate

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that's the white chocolate

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oh the white chocolate yes

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yes that's wonderful idea

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if one offers me with love and devotion a fruit

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a flower a leaf or

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or water I will accept it

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so everyday you can you can go and offer a flower

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some fruit little water or some

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some leaves I offered some leaves

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today from the olive tree

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I've shined them up

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and literally as I was standing by the tree

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I just felt this the emotion of the

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the person inside that tree so quivering and delighted

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and and truly I could feel this is like yearning

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you've been in this tree for probably 200 years

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or 100 years and just waiting for someone to come and

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very gently offer

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one of the beautiful leaves of that tree to the Lord

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I could really feel the tree getting a beautiful

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blessing and that's wonderful

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and I put my hands on the tree and and hugged it

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yeah I'm a tree hugger

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ha ha ha ha I think this one is too

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the confession of the day yeah

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I'm coming out of the closet

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I'm I'm a bonafide tree hugger

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yeah so let's hug some trees yeah okay

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so bye Ciao

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