Episode 80

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29th Apr 2026

#80 - This Beautiful Place in Albania Reminded Us Why the World Doesn't Satisfy

A playful selfie stick moment at Albania's Blue Eye turns into something much deeper, a soft, honest reflection on sweetness, suffering, sacred sound, and the kind of love that actually lasts. In this JuicyMagiK On the Go episode, Madhumangala dasa and Srimati dasi return to a place they couldn't fully visit before, near Sarandë, Albania. What starts with light banter and travel notes slowly opens into a heartfelt conversation about temporary life, harsh material culture, longing for real relationships, and the pull to go back home, back to Godhead. There's humor, tenderness, a bit of road-worn truth, and that familiar ache for something pure. If you're drawn to bhakti yoga, mantra meditation, simple living, sacred travel, or just want a grounded spiritual talk in nature, this one carries a lot.

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oh

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wow party ball sweet souls

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introducing a new technical gimmick

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a selfie stick Namaste peace be with you and upon you

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I'm holding this selfie it's funny

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selfie sticks are funny

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so I'm Madhu Mangla Das and I'm Shivangi Das

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and we are juicy magic on the go

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and today we're on the go in Albania

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I'm having really fun with this selfie stick okay

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we keep it yeah yeah it's really cool

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it's your selfie stick now

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so we are at a very sacred site called the Blue Eye

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not far from Soronda about a half an hour drive

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the funny thing is is we were here about 16 months ago

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and Maria Shmaty Dasia just had her

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like a lot of surgery on her teeth

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and she was such a bad way

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so we went we got as far as the parking lot

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we never got to visit so it's kind of a nice day

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we're gonna visit another town called zerocaster

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which we also just kind of pulled up to

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but then had to leave

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because it just was not an appropriate time

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for Shimati to be walking around

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that was hard

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but we're back

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and today we are visiting this amazing area

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noted for its diversity but if you notice

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like if I didn't have sight

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all I could hear there's

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there's a lot of work being done in the offseason here

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so there's a chainsaw and a sander and saws

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and it's great it's really loud

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it's nice that they're they're adding

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I will cut in the videos that we took from there

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I like they're

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they're improving the infrastructure here for tourists

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and the nice thing is that we're here in the off season

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where there's not very many people

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the downside is that

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they're doing a lot of construction work

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it's like darn it

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we can never quite find a quiet

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there's no quiet in this world anymore

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we have traveled all across the globe

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and um

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it's why Harinama Sankirtan this process

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that was inculcated by Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

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Nimai Goranga

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such a sublime method for easily and quickly

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obtaining the company of the Lord

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in all kinds of weather and sounds and places

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it's very dirty it's a very dirty age we're in

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you notice how dirty it is

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and harsh it's poo everywhere poo everywhere

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everywhere it's like on the walls

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on the floor people stepping in it

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and we noticed too the harshness of everything

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the hard heartedness

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and that's actually what we're looking for

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is the sweet sweetness we're looking for nectar

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yeah

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I was searching for something sweet on the road here

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and I saw this rose bush or sun bush

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and it has the sweetest flowers

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and I stopped and I thought

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finally something sweet in this harsh world

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and then I realized Madu

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Madu Mangle's name means honey in Sanskrit

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and mangle means suspicious

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so I'm married to the honey pot

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ha I have sweetness right next to me I'm so blessed

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it's funny growing up

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you know I got engaged in things like sports and hockey

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and debating and

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you know competitive things

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and it's really funny how I just want

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I was just wanting sweetness

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my happiest times were just being sweet

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with my cat on my lap you know looking for

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eating marzipan

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crepes with Nutella I was always looking for sweet

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sweet the sweetest

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and the sweetest is actually

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in the transcendental mellows of the spiritual abode

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particularly Goloka Vrindavan

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the topmost spiritual planet

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where the Lord exists eternally in his two handed form

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he's simultaneously in every atom

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and following every living entity around

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all the universes in everyone's heart

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as Paramatma

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he's also this white light

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this ocean of a fulgence of

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of white light

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a nirvanic flame known as the Brahma Joti

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he's all three features at the same time

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it's inconceivable it's a chintya

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and the Chinta beta beta Tatva means the inconceivable

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simultaneous oneness and distinction of

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of the Lord and his creation

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of the Lord and the Jeeva Atma

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the living entities which are

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we are all parts and parcels of him

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yeah we're just searching for that sweetness here

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but it's not here here

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everything is not real not

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it's just temporary I Learned from Guru Daily

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that everything that doesn't stay

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everything that changes is not real

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it's just temporary

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we need to find something that stays such a number

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I just remember my whole life

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I always thought I wanted to build something

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but everything just got destroyed or taken away

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or it just yeah

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it just doesn't stay and that's so frustrating

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then the sweetness is gone or you you

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you you feel like you've lost it

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and all that energy was given into something that

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that's just gone and it just makes me cry

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yeah and I don't wanna cry

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I wanna have something that stays

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if you if you want something that lasts forever

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then please please chant

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so I wanna go back to this sweetest place of all

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with the sweetest people in it

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sweetest past times yes

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so that's what we're aching for

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we're aching for the riverbanks

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and that's why we're doing all this

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and that's why we do all this processes

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devotional service we just want to get more sweetness

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let's all go back home to Godhead

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let's go yeah

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let's go home back to Godhead where

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where life is sweet eternally

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and oh goodness

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and our relationships aren't based on commodity

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and commodification and on

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and desires and sense gratification

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there's such

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just a source of sense gratification for others here

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and I'm so tired of it

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I don't wanna be used for somebody else's pleasure

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or use or use anyone else

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for our own temporary pleasure or gain

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there's so much of this commercialization and really

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you know business interactions posing as relationships

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you know it's yeah

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tip for that I give you this if you give me that

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and people really only interested in you

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if you can expand their network

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or their net worth or whatever

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if they have something out of it yeah

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but I don't wanna approach people like that anymore I

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I don't

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it always felt bad and I felt really sad about that

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greasy had to do that as like greasy yeah

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I don't want to see people as clients or potentials or

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or funnels funnels or or uh uh

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what do they used to call it in the sales world

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there was like a lead a lead

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a lead or a lead how many leads did you get today

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how many how many I got I got I got oh

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and how many calls how many phone calls

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I wanna see everybody as they turn being that they are

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that's not changing hey

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there's a time and place if you're in sales

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it's not a slash of sales people

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we all have to make a living

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but at some point in time it's very helpful

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I highly encourage you to at the age of 50

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if you live your life correctly

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start to retire and disengage from this materialistic

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commerce type of relationships that are very temporary

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monetary driven money driven

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live simple

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really get prudent with your expenses

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cut everything that's not necessary and

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and get down to the essentials

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and and spend more time in beautiful

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wonderful natural settings

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which are still governed by the material laws

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but they're more in the mode of goodness

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nature in of itself is not transcendental

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but we can practice more we can go deeper

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and often be more in a peaceful state of mind

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which is a great takeoff point

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it's not the end in itself

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but it's a great takeoff point to begin to ponder

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who am I

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why am I suffering

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why am I dominated by all these big forces

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and what what problem do I need to really solve

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what's the big problem

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not like how much money did I make today

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but the real problems

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like how do I get off this wheel of birth

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old age disease and death

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how do I become really happy fulfilled satisfied

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really happy yeah

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we're just

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not just waffles and whipped cream which are tasty but

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but then you feel bad yeah

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your stomach aches

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everything in the material world is it has a price

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you know we wanna go to the place where there's really

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there's only everything to

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everything has a sweetness to it

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a mellow a transcendental flavor a Ross uh

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yeah

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we want to be in the Rasa Lila

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to dance at night with Krishna in the moonlight

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where can you imagine experiencing the Supreme being

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as your lover

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a best friend or is your child

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a really intimate relationship

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a really intimate relationship with the Supreme Being

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or the greatest boss in in the entire cosmic creation

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that's a that you'll get you'll get real promote

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you'll get real promotions in that job haha

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yeah

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thanks for tuning in

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we appreciate every like

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and comment and follow and share

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and we appreciate growing this

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this trip that we're on and sharing it with you

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you sharing it with us

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everything what we give is freely given

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out of joy of the process itself

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we are so delivered

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there it is okay

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we're gonna say goodbye to some people

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hi bow so hi bow

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hi Christian

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I must say peace be with you and we'll see you soon

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oh wait I gotta do the header thing oh

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I don't wanna be in this thing

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yeah

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that's the real star this flowing river

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