Hammocks on a rooftop, 500 meters from the airport, and the night air is sweet for about five minutes… until the tiny biters show up. So we sit there anyway, laugh a lot, and get honest about what travel actually teaches you (hint, it's not endless pleasure).
In this episode of Juicy MagiK On the Go, Mark (Madhumangala dasa) hangs out with Maria (Srimati dasi) and share a simple, late-night recap from the road, from beach dreams and japa at sunrise to the deeper realization that the "perfect place" doesn't exist in matter. Still, the laughing lizards help.
If you've ever romanticized life on the road, or chased the idea that one more place will finally fix the feeling inside, this one lands gently but straight.
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so I'm Mark my do mangled ass and this is
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and this is juicy magic
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on the go
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and we are in our hammocks tonight
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on the rooftop of our
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literally 500 meters from the airport Airbnb
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say hi to everyone Shermadie Elsie yes
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but we will head inside soon
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because the bugs are coming
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the bugs are coming not Bugs Bunny
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but the bugs no
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definitely not the little ones that bite you
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the itchy itchy witchy cause
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there are 3 main causes of misery
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our own body and minds other living entities and nature
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or the demigods or natural catastrophes like flood
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drought famine
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pestilence etcetera
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hi beautiful sweet souls
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just a little recap of our journey
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Shermadie's gonna do it
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what are some of the takeaways from our trip
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since we left Miami November
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November 12th I think
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it's way too hot
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it's way too hot
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we've discovered that we prefer drier
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Mediterranean type climate to tropical weather
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although the fruits are fantastic
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but it is just we were both raised in northern uh
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northern Canada Northern Europe type communities
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Northern Hemisphere Northern Hemisphere
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thank you
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and I think we just really prefer cooler weather
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yeah there's this dream of living at the beach
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and going on beach walks
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I mean walking on the beach is nice
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that was super nice every day
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watching the sunrise and sunset
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almost every day while doing Japa meditation
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yeah but during the day it's just too hot yeah
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it's I don't know
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we're all these bugs that keep biting you
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the moment you step outside
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so we also want to kind of
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debunk this idea that life on the road is like
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this never ending Cornucopia of pleasure
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enjoying yourself there's no real happiness to be found
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in the material world it doesn't matter where you are
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whether it's Sri Lanka or Japan
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or Canada or El Salvador
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so it's actually more about suffering
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and it's more about where can I reduce my suffering
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that's a good point
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yeah it's like we want positive pleasure
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we want a place where there's no old age
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disease and death and birth
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where people don't leave
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come and go all the time from our life because of birth
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old age disease and death
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I'm gonna miss these laughing lizards though
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they make this funny sound
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there's always a lizard somewhere nearby
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I guess the big takeaway for me was that yeah
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there's this there was still
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sometimes this shadow of a feeling that oh
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I could find the perfect place somewhere
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and I always knew that wasn't true
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but to actually realize it
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it's different
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it's like mental speculation and then realization
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and I think this time it really hit me
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uh very deeply in a realization that there is no
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there's a perfect place but it's not here
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this is not our home
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and it's it's not that it's unnatural for us to suffer
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it's the unnatural that we're here
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this is the prison hospital for suffering
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for getting educated
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that's my takeaway is that I'm
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I've always been looking for Brindavan
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for the Goloka Brindavan for vaikunthaloka
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that place without anxiety
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and that is not here in the material realm
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where can it be found Shimada Dashi
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in Transcendental Sound
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so
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want to thank you for journeying with us along the way
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as we pilgrimage to holy sites and holy people
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and they do exist
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and without them we would be lost
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so yeah
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so maybe we can talk more about how to get there yeah
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and how to connect with those places that are
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more our home than this physical realm yeah
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and I would say we want to share more stories
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over the next several months and years
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about just all the things that we failed at
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all the unsuccessful attempts
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all the hard painful realizations
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the mistakes
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I often have Learned more from people's mistakes
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than their their victories
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it's nice to see the victories
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and the outcome of that is
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is there's so many descriptions of how
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saintly persons act and behave
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and how they speak
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but we wanna we're
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we're on this journey we got the white
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we finally got initiated as disciples
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and now it's kind of like we've got the white belt
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we just got to the beginning of life
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and we want to be very clear and candid
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and open and transparent Frank
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lucid
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um with candor
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heartfelt genuine sharing about oh hello
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how wow
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that light is that's a bright light
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I have oh my God
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Shimada Dasi I've seen the light
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I said hallelujah hallelujah
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oh sorry
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I thought for a second there
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I thought I thought I was in the spiritual realm
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but that's it was just a
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I think it was the security
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it was a security light ha ha ha ha
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OK guys and gals
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we're gonna say goodnight
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Harry Bow Harry Krishna
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thanks for tuning in
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this is juicy magic on the go with Shri Mati Dasi and
