Episode 34

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4th May 2025

#34 - Finding Peace in Hard Times with the Maha Mantra, Fasting, and Prayer

Fasting day three, cold toes, soggy Wales, open heart. From a mossy temperate rainforest we talk honesty, body jitters at 5 p.m., and the sweet relief of sacred sound. Letting go of old stuff, counting pennies, finding warmth in a tiny pub and a cup of tea. A Cyndi Lauper hook floats in, time after time, and points back to the Friend in the heart who waits, always.

This is a simple share for Easter weekend. If your mind is loud or your body aches, pick up beads or your fingers and chant with us. Pray in your language. Ask for strength, peace, shelter. Offer hurts, regrets, and love. Forgive someone today, or ask to be forgiven. We try to do the same.

Sādhana bhakti, japa, the Maha Mantra, all welcome here. No hard rules, only sincerity. Join the chant, softly or out loud:

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

May this practice steady you through grief, fasting, travel, money stress, near misses, and tender marriage moments. May the birdsong guide your breath. May the Supreme Architect hold you, time after time.

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hey Mark hey Namaste

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peace be with you and upon you

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I'm struggling with my body a little bit

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we're on day three of a fast and it's at that time

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that 5 and six PM where you know

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I'm used to having a little bit of supper

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so I'm trying to keep my mind

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uh that's where chanting and on your beats

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and engaging the senses can be really helpful

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cause you know

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the truth is if we're all living in this material world

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we've got these meat puppet suits on

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they're very good ones cause they're human form

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which is meant to actually

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for cultivation of spiritual life

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love for God recognize who I am

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who others are who God is

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what's our relationship what's our function position

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you gotta make it easy

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my eyes go weird

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cause I've had bad eyesight since I was a kid

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got this pump on that itches

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my feet are cold

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I haven't been able to use a proper

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toilet in three days you know

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just on the road

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stuffed into a van

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it's very wet in the UK you go outside

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you get wet you come back inside

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you get cold

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but I was at this Maria wanted me to talk about this

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and she's been really struggling

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cause of letting go of a lot

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going through a lot of her past

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in association with some of the things that we've

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been letting go of and selling

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cause we can't keep them anymore

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we don't have anywhere to store them

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it's 200 pounds a month to store them

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they've been sitting there for two years

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getting dusty and old

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give another three years and they won't even be usable

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it's just dump for them so

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I'm proud of her for addressing this and letting it go

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it was no longer necessary

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certainly was an expense that wasn't needed

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I'm glad cause we can take that those

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that those pounds or euros or whatever

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and then put them into getting some nice

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wholesome foods to offer and then offer to others

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which we love to do for shalom

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the lord's mercy

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thank you of the lord's mercy

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we were in a pub or a this place that

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there's some pubs around where we can get warm

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go to a bathroom

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wash our face and all that second stuff

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probably having a cup of tea or something

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um the Cindy Lauper song came on time after time

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it's always one of my favourite songs

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material songs

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and I think the history is that

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you know her partner

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business partner

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boyfriend at the time was helping her with this song

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the lyrics are you know

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if you fall I will catch you

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I'll be waiting time after time

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I kind of

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in that is this transcendental knowledge

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that's kind of like God's position and functions

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he's there for us all the time

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he's in our hearts

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says the parama of the Lord in the heart

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the representatives of god and Scripture

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I've certainly confirmed this in my own experience

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inside

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we can turn to him

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he's always just waiting for us patiently there

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instead of turning to an outside source

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or some famous person or some money

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or some some semblance of safety and security

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which we struggle for in the material world

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he's just waiting for us to turn to him

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and he's always there

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he's just like no matter how far down you go

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God is waiting there for you to turn to him

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and so this Easter weekend

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if you're having a really hard time

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if you're struggling with your mind or your body

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or a family member or a friend

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or maybe you're in a war torn country

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it's so sad I'm so sorry for that

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just some small way

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just trying to encourage you to keep going

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if you have some beads pick them up

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whatever language you're familiar with

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just repeat any of God's names

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pray to him in your heart for strength

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for peace for security for shelter

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because you know

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we almost got hit by a truck the other day

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got some damage to the car

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a little bit here and there

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the windshield stone

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it could have gone through our eye

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if we were riding a motorcycle

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we're so marciocca this planet

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is known as the place where death takes place

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and it happens like a thief in the night

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like scripture says it always comes very quickly

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gradually then suddenly as they say

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that's bitcoin parlance but it's true

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you know

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your whole life you've been told that which born

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is born must must pass away

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and you still think this is our home

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and where we can find shelter and safety

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hello hi Bo

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hey Bob

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I was a little uh

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just checking you out just checking me out

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they've got

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there's some very particular bees here in this wetland

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forest

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temperate rainforest and Wales

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magical beyond belief full of light

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full of juiciness full of magic

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just feel the energy running through this place

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all this incredible energy

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and there's always a source of the energy

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a person always is behind that

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the architect

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so pray to the Supreme Architect

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the supreme friend of every living entity

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god is the natural owner

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controller and enjoyer of every living entity

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so give it give up the praises to him

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and offer up your life and breath to him

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and if you have any troubles or sorrows

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today in this moment please offer them up to him

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we we

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we are too

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yeah

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but what if you can't hear him or see him or feel him

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or

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what do you do well

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our process that which we've accepted

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which is known as Sadhana Abaka yoga

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it's the highest form of yoga

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according to scripture and spiritual masters

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and I've experienced that myself

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I've tried every form of yoga

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every path all the different you know the

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our help is in the name of the Lord

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so we god descends as his name

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one of my teachers bakyivladantswami

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always said don't try to see god

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just act in such a way that god sees you

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the quickest and easiest way to get all

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attention of someone is to call out their name

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I dude

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I bug the crap out of Maria all the time Maria

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Maria hey

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hey now she's like ah

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give me some peace

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you know husband and wife stuff

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you know we're regular folks

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we put our pants on one leg at a time

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you know we poop and pee and

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sometimes

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we argue or feel a bit irritated with each other

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it's natural it's just

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you know that's how it is

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but we keep coming back to

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in scripture

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this process we know that god descends us his name

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we're not saying any particular language

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or sect or group it's just

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every scripture I've ever studied in the world

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says the same thing often

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is that there's

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so much power and potency in the holy names of god

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and so we use the Mahamantra

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Mahamantra is the great mantra for deliverance

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in this age

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so should we chance you're welcome to try it

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repeat it if you have some beads you can take them out

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I was taught to offer my respects to my teachers

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on the head bead and to the Supreme Being

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and to this one of this you know one of the great

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promoters of this process

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Lord Chaitanya Uranga

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and his associates Ichinanda Triad Waver

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Garadar and Chuvas known as the Panchita Patta

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we offer our respects to them

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all the great teachers

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who encourage us to chant the holy names of God

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so we'll just do that haribol

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chant the names of God that's what haribol means

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it's like praise the Lord Haribol

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if you don't like the name Haribul

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then just say praise the Lord or Hallelujah

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you know pick something

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no hard and fast rules

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but we do know that the more senses engaged in a

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in a practice or process the more absorbed you become

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so if you're if you're hurting it

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if your body's hurting or your mind's driving you crazy

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just get absorbed in this sound

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give it a try try it for a year

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a month maybe do a certain number of names every day

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it's known as the Rosary or the sicker

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there's so many names for this process

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don't get caught up in the in the language

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just reach deep down into the essence

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God is with you in your heart

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and you can call out to him

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and obviously you know when I

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hey Maria

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the response you don't say that

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I know I know

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I don't I'm just saying that the response is

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generally speaking I try

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I'm not perfect and I always do this

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but I try to when I

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when I say people that

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are very intimate in my life like my mom

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my wife or my sometimes I step dog

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I had such sweet names for them call them hey mom

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hey Maria are you awake

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they're often I don't sleep a lot

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you know

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I'm often up in the middle of the night

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sometimes I want to know hey

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you want to meditate together

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that one's for Joe remember 1999

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Joe hey

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you want to meditate you want to learn how to meditate

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okay

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roughly went

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so yeah let's just chant a little bit

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I through thick and thin through up and down

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when I'm happy when I'm sad

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I I lean on this Maha mantra and I

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I find it helps me get through soul gets

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gets me through everything

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the recent passing of my father

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having a business and relationship fall apart

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I've lost so much in my life

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I'm not blaming anyone else

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you know it's our karma we have we're as we sow

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so must we reap as we're reaping

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so must we have sown this is just the law of karma

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good and bad

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so I'm responsible

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but the way out

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isn't through following the dictates of my mind

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or my body the way out is through sacred yoga sounds

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transcendental mantras

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in the Maha mantra the great mantra for deliverance is

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for everybody

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Hari Krishna Hari Krishna Krishna Krishna Hari

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Hari Rama Hari Rama Rama Rama

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Hari Hari this means oh Lord

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Abba Abba Allah oh Lord Krishna

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all attract he who's all attractive

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who attracts everyone god attracts everybody

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that's why his name is Krishna also

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o Lord o energy of the Lord

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please engage me in loving service to you

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and obviously if we're serving him

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we also want to serve his children and others

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our neighbors our friends our communities

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it's thick and thin this is non sectarian

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it's for every it's universal

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this is a universal prayer

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that will help you get out of the morass of material

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nescience and ignorance pain and misery and suffering

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arguments chaos

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quarrel and confusion which we see everywhere

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and put you into harmony with the supreme person

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and with the Lord in your heart

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and then with others

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other living entities

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say Haribo little doggy Haribo Sheepy poo

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Haribo b

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Haribo Maria

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go to the next view

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you can hear the birds sweetly singing

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so why not be like that bird and so sweetly sing a hymn

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a praise to the one who loves us the most

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the Supreme person and on this Easter weekend

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it's one of the true great masters

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Rabbi Yishua

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we offer our respectful obeisances

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they seek your Grace and your mercy

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thank you for your being and your sacrifice

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and for your example

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mostly for your example of such perfect love

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that you can even forgive those who are so

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so so demonic towards you

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if you could forgive others

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certainly we can just forgive someone today

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or ask for forgiveness seek forgiveness from someone

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we can't change the past we've laid the tracks to here

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but we can change the future

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how we are today so

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that's why we chant that's why we fast

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that's why we pray

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we hope you will

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you will as well

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hi Bo

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hi Christian

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Namaste and peace be with you and upon you

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the beautiful whales in the temperate rainforest

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we say blessed be all on Easter

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may we all be humbled by this weekend

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and pray for peace in our hearts and on earth

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that's in the Mahamantra too

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the Mahamantra contains all mantras

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contains all prayers

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when you feed the root of the tree

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you feed the whole tree the leaves

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the branches the trunk everything

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so if you want to feed the root

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just chant the Mahamantra

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in a humble state of mind

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feeling oneself

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to be lower than the straw on the street

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one should be more tolerant than the tree

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devoid of all sense of false prestige

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and ready to offer all respects to others

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in such a state of mind

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one can chant the holy names of the Lord constantly

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I bow

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may peace be with you

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now swaying isn't part of the process

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but I always find sometimes when I get into this state

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I just feel like feel like I'm being held and cradled

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and it's such a gentle swaying

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I want that feeling certainly in my life

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in this moment regret anytime I wasn't

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really treating anyone like that

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so I certainly ask for your forgiveness

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for anyone that I may have offended

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or hurt or harmed in deeds of body

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speech or mind

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there's the Metta prayer from the Bhagavad Gita

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as well as very nice

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seek forgiveness

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and forgive others for any deeds of body

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speech or mind knowingly or unknowingly

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that they've done to me or that I've done to others

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knowingly or unknowingly consciously or unconsciously

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This Easter we fast and pray for that feeling

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feel lower than the straw on the street

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so that we can look up at life with admiration

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and magic awe and wonder

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get back into the primal authentic

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wild self

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the living entity in our true eternal identity

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position and function as God's loving servants happy

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joyful

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and at peace

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thanks for

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thanks for tuning in

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this is juicy magic and I'm Mark

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and we really appreciate your time and coming on board

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I want to thank Maria for doing all the great film work

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and editing

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and I'm just really grateful for this weekend

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I ball I must say

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peace be with you and upon you

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champion

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can you forgive me

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absolutely

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in a heartbeat for being so careless and agitated

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yes I forgive you

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and certainly please forgive me

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would you forgive me

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for anything I've done to contribute to that

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frazzleness

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I call sweet soul

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it's an Easter hug here coming in

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come bring it in for the real thing

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hmm

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wow that was nice

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thank you

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I feel very uh

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very humbled by that

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