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 This is episode number 1,216 with guru-dev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
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Welcome to the School of Greatness.
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My name is Lewis Howes, a former pro-athlete turned lifestyle entrepreneur.
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And each week we bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness.
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Thanks for spending some time with me today.
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Now let the class begin.
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 Welcome back my friend.
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Today's guest is very special.
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His name is Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and he is recognized globally as a humanitarian, spiritual leader and peacemaker.
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He has touched the lives of more than 450 million people around the world
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 resolving conflicts through dialogue and self-awareness, teaching positive approaches to living, including techniques to alleviate stress and anxiety, and by his example of selfless service.
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His organization, The Art of Living, is best known for their Sky Breath meditation program that we get into.
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And he's also released his new book, An Intimate Note,
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 to The Sincere Seeker, which I've been diving in and loving reading.
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It's really inspiring.
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In this episode, we discuss what he believes happens when we die and how we should think about death, the importance of meditating and how to tap into your meditative power, why we're bad at being happy, and a few simple practices to bring more joy into your life.
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 how to find spiritual abundance and so much more.
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I was really moved and inspired by this message.
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Okay, in just a moment, the one and only Guru Dev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
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I read in your bio
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 that you graduated college when you were 17, I believe, and you also studied physics, but you're also a very gifted spiritual leader.
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So I'm curious what you have learned from physics and spirituality about death and what happens when we die.
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This has been something I've been very curious about.
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I've heard lots of different answers out there, but I'm curious from your experience and your wisdom, what happens when we die?
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 You know, by physics we know matter and energy, they're interconvertible, and you cannot destroy them, right?
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So our spirit is nothing but energy.
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So it's just parting way with the body, the spirit.
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It stays on.
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The energy stays on.
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I would say it's just like a mini-sleep.
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You know, when you go to, every night when you,
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 knock the pillow, and then you are off for, you know, so many hours, you don't know where you are, and then you wake up.
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In the same way, think, but with little more intensity, with little more awareness.
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Little more awareness.
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Death is parting away from the physical body.
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It appears to be so painful for, once you have not had that experience.
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 But people who have had near-death experiences, you might have heard from them all, that it's a very pleasant thing.
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So also in meditation, when you go into deep meditation, you can see that there is a difference, very notable difference, and it's not as painful or ugly as one thinks.
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Do you think we should fear it or be more excited about death?
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Neither.
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Just take it as it is.
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Just take it as it is.
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I heard, I don't know if this is 100% true or not, but I heard that the country of Bhutan is supposed to be one of the happiest places in the world.
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I'm not sure if that's 100% true or not.
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 And I heard that one of their practices or philosophies is to think about their death multiple times a day.
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I don't know if it's three times or five times a day.
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And I don't know if the whole country does this or if this is just a practice that some people do.
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Why would it be valuable to think about our death multiple times throughout the day or the week?
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 You don't have to think multiple times, but time and again reminding ourself that we are in a transit launch, my dear.
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We are going to exit from here sometime.
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And the life here is temporary, you know.
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It's a few medical.
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When this idea comes to our mind, what happens is those unnecessary things that we get embroiled into, they just drop off.
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 So more purposefulness starts coming into our life.
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And we think, hey, wait a minute, what is it I want?
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Is this really what I want?
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These questions rise up within you.
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Because you know life is short.
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And you want to get maximum out of it.
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Was there ever a point in your life where you didn't know what you wanted or why you wanted something?
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 Not since I was a child.
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Always had an idea, you know, what's going to happen.
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 There's a lot of people that seem in the world that seems like they're struggling to figure out their mission or purpose or what they want.
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They're kind of scattered or they're just unsure of what direction to go.
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It seems like you didn't have that.
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I didn't have that problem.
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So for people that have that problem, how can they start to figure out at least just the next step towards a direction?
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You know, confusion is very good.
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It's good.
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They should feel that they should be lucky that they got this confusion.
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Why is that?
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 Every confusion tells you that you are growing.
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You're not happy with what it is, what is, you're not contented, but you're looking for something more.
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And confusion is that state in between two steps of progress in life.
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So, if you're confused, know that it's just a momentary phase.
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 and something of the past you are ready to let go.
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And you're looking for something different in the future.
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So it seems like you weren't really confused that much, because you knew what you wanted to create, you knew what your direction was, and you've been on that journey for a long time.
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Yeah.
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It's another aspect within us that is intuitive power.
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Intuitive power.
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If we tap into our intuitive power,
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 then you know, not much confusion is there.
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Besides meditation, because I'm assuming that's a big part of it, how would we tap into our intuitive power more powerfully?
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Live in the present moment.
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Keep your mind more focused in the now and here.
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Be with the nature.
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And keep aside for some time.
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 that buzzy mind which says, I have so many things to do, they want to do this, do that, do that.
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Say, okay, I'm not going to do anything now.
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How about not doing anything for a few moments?
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Getting off of that coat that you wear all the time, that gives you an opening into a space that you really seek for.
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 And then there you get the intuition.
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Deep relaxation, deep rest, is very essential in life.
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 I mean you're a world leader who's helping people relieve stress and anxiety, solving problems, massive problems in the world for people, for countries, for governments, for businesses.
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How do you create the space and time for yourself to rest, to be present when more and more is demanded of you potentially of people needing your service?
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 You know, one thing I know is whatever demand is put on me, I have that energy and capability to do that.
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You have the energy and capability to do it, yeah.
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I believe that.
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Otherwise, it wouldn't be put on you.
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Otherwise, nature won't put those situations in front of me.
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So, I'm not bothered.
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Second is, I'm not bothered about the outcome either.
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The outcome.
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 You know, if you're worried about the outcome, that's when your energy gets strained.
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And when you're confident, your outcome is going to be the best.
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And it happens so.
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Yeah.
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What do you worry about then?
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Nothing.
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 If at all you had to worry, I would say, you know, you should worry big.
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You should worry about the planet, about the environment, about the violence in the world.
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These are some big worries it's worth having.
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 And once we think in these lines, then that gives you a lot of energy.
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It motivates you, like you motivate people to do things, you know.
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It's a self-motivating factor when you see world with a wide-angle lens.
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 It motivates you more when you focus on bigger challenges in the world as opposed to focusing on yourself.
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What happens when we just focus on our needs, our own goals, and not also supporting others?
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Well, you don't realize your full potential.
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 If you're just thinking about yourself, your little things that you need to, anyway you can achieve it, anyway you can do it, you're going to have what you focus on.
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But it cannot give you that satisfaction which you get by sharing with everyone, with the whole world.
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 There is a formula to get depressed.
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That is, just think only about yourself.
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What about me?
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What about me?
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You are bound to get depressed.
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 And today, in our world, this is the biggest challenge.
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People who are only thinking about themselves, they're more depressed than those who are focused on some social activity, some service activity.
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It's really hard to be depressed when you're in service to someone else, when you're helping others, when you're giving, when you're listening to people.
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It's really hard.
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Yeah, it doesn't happen that way.
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It doesn't happen, right.
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 Has there ever been a time where you've doubted yourself?
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You know, doubt is just low prana.
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Prana is energy, I would say.
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Low prana?
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Low prana.
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What is prana?
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Prana is a life force.
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When your life force is low,
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 Then you doubt.
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You doubt yourself, you doubt others, you doubt everybody.
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The best way is to do some breathing exercise at that moment.
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And right there, you are out of that doubting mind.
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You know, another thing is we must understand that mechanism of doubt itself.
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Say that again.
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 We should understand what doubt is all about.
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What is it?
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It's always about something positive.
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Have you thought about it?
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Give me an example.
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You know, someone doubts the honesty of someone, but you don't doubt the dishonesty of somebody.
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Right.
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See, you hear from somebody, so-and-so is dishonest.
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You don't go, really?
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Right.
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Same way, you know, someone tells you, I love you so much, you ask them, really?
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 We doubt love, we never doubt hatred.
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If someone says, I'm so, I'm mad at you, you never go, really?
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You know?
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You wonder about the...
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 those wonderful qualities that we have.
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And so we doubt them too.
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We doubt the honesty of a person.
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We doubt our own happiness.
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If someone asks you, are you happy?
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You say, well, I'm not sure.
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 But you're so certain about your depression.
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No one ever says, I'm not sure whether I'm depressed.
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You're confident in your depression.
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You are confident.
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You are so sure about your negativities.
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But you're not so sure about the positive.
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Why is that?
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That's the nature.
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That's how it is.
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So when we understand this, then you know we get a very different perspective of doubts.
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We rise above them.
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 And breathing techniques help in a big way.
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It takes your self-doubt away.
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It brings the intuitive ability in you to trust others.
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And then you trust in a bigger power.
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 the highest self.
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Do you ever doubt yourself when you're called upon to help bigger problems in the world?
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 very important people in the world come to you and say, please give us the answers, and they're expecting you to give them the solutions.
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Do you ever feel insecure or doubt yourself and your abilities?
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This has never happened.
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Never?
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Never, never happened.
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Because I know someone is asking me something, and nature has given those things to me.
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That's why they're asking.
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See, nobody will come and ask you to treat someone if they know you are not a doctor.
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 They see you have some ability, that's why they come to you.
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And so, you give your ideas, you give your mind, you know, you give your thoughts to that, and you give 100%.
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It seems like there's a lot of people in the world who just doubt their abilities.
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They doubt their abilities, their skills, their talents, and they feel insecure about
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 if they are capable of creating and accomplishing or achieving their dreams and goals, why do you think that people doubt that?
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It's all because you are so conscious about your own image.
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What will happen if I fail?
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The fear of failure creates the doubt in oneself.
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But when you take life in its totality, life with all its ups and downs,
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 But you don't wonder, I mean you don't worry if a failure sets in for a little while.
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Never mind.
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You do your best.
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See you go on a running race and if you keep worrying will I lose the race, you'll never be able to run.
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 Right?
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So you do your best, you give your 100%.
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Doesn't happen.
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What's been the biggest challenge you've had to overcome so far in your life, your adult life?
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Prejudice.
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Prejudice.
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Prejudice.
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People have lots of different type of prejudice.
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 of race, religion, culture, language, gender.
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And this is what I feel is a hindrance to our society.
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World over, every country, there are prejudice.
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All type of prejudice.
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People who think they know and they don't know that there are paradigm shifts and things to keep happening differently.
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 This was what we had to face in the beginning, you know, when I used to talk about meditation and yoga, breathing.
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40 years back, people thought it's... It's not for normal people, it's a little weird.
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It's not for the normal, you know, common... The mainstream masses, yeah.
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The mainstream.
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And now yoga and meditation's everywhere.
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Everywhere.
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You can't go down the street in L.A.
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without seeing a yoga studio.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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 This type of prejudice, when we see this sort of prejudice about gender, what we see in Afghanistan or some other Gulf countries against women in Africa, I mean, it pains, you know?
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It's painful.
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They should all be treated equally.
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Justice should prevail.
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How have you dealt with prejudice over your life then?
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 with patience and perseverance.
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And not let that preoccupy you.
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You see prejudice, but don't pay too much attention to it.
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You just keep going ahead.
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And it gets sorted out by itself.
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That's beautiful.
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Do you feel like it's
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 Harder now?
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Do you face more prejudice now or 40 years ago when you were getting started in this?
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I think in the beginning it was more.
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Why do you think it's less now?
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 I think people are more exposed to a wide range of information.
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The internet and media has played a good role and people like you have all done greatness schools and brought more awareness to people about the real values of life.
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 It has made an impact.
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And young people today are much more aware.
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Young people seem to want, at least in this country, they seem to want to manifest abundance in their life.
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It seems like they want more financial abundance, more abundant health, abundance in their relationships.
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 Why do you think humans are wired for more?
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Wired for abundance?
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Why is it so important?
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There's nothing wrong about it.
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You go for abundance.
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But don't postpone being happy for a future date.
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Yes.
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You have to be happy now, here, today.
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And nothing wrong for you to think about what you need to do five years later or 10 years later.
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I don't know.
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 You can have, you can go for abundance.
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You can go for more and more, whatever you feel like.
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But don't forget there is something much bigger inside of you.
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What is that?
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That you should not forget.
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The joy, the happiness that you get in sharing.
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Now there are two type of joy.
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One is
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 that you get when you get things.
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This is an infinite joy.
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As kids, we all have New Year, birthday presents, New Year gift, Christmas gifts, and you know.
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You are eager to get something.
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And when you get, you become so happy.
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 there is another happiness that's of the grandmother's happiness, grandfather's happiness, the Santa Claus happiness.
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When you give, you find yourself in a better space.
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When you share with others, you feel even more happier.
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That's a mature happiness.
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And that type of happiness we must aim for in our life.
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It's okay, the joy of having
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 Getting more, earning more, nothing wrong about it.
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Don't feel guilty about it.
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You can go on, but make sure you share and get the greater joy by sharing.
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What happens if we don't share?
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You remain very restricted in your personal and social life.
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In our spiritual life, you remain very restricted.
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 I would say, how do you like a friend of yours who is very selfish?
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You don't like them as much.
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You don't like them.
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So, don't you want you to be seen as someone who cares and shares with everybody?
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Is the greater joy in receiving a gift or in giving a gift?
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 The giving joy, the joy in giving is much more, much bigger and much stronger than the joy in getting.
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So if someone said, okay, I understand that giving has a greater joy behind it, but I really want to attract more wealth or attract more opportunities in my career.
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I want to manifest abundance more.
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 what would be the foundation for manifesting?
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Would it be in service, in giving, in gratitude?
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See, though they appear to be completely contradictory, they are not.
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You can't give unless you have.
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That's true.
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How can you give unless you have?
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You can't do charity from an empty bowl.
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Right.
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 You take, but you earn, you focus on getting abundance in your life.
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Abundance is necessary.
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Abundance is not just what you materially have, it's also an attitude in the mind.
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You may have a lot and still you may feel that you lack.
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The sense of lack inside you will eat you up.
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 It will eat the joy.
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It will constrain you in many ways.
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Your communication will break down.
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Your communication with others will break down.
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And it says a lot about your behavioral pattern as well.
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You know, it impacts your behavior.
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But when you have this idea, I want to share,
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 and be part of everybody and everyone is part of you, you know, a sense of belongingness with everyone else.
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That is when really, you know, life is fulfilling.
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 Mm-hmm.
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You hear lots of stories of people who make all the money in the world, but then commit suicide or aren't happy or get divorced.
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They're stressed inside, right?
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Absolutely.
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So how does someone learn to develop spiritual abundance then?
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The abundance inside you're talking about.
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Whether they have all the material things in the world or they have nothing.
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How do we start to develop the spiritual abundance?
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 You need to have balance.
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You can't spend half of your health to get wealth, and then half of your wealth to get back your health.
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So basically, we need to find that balance between work-life balance, and then social life and personal life.
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 You have to balance that.
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Take some time for oneself to go within.
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Meditation will help you a great deal to bring the balance in life.
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And it also will kindle a lot of creativity from within.
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 Meditation is not just sitting and thinking of something.
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It's tapping the source of enthusiasm that you are.
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See, you may have all wealth and all abundance, but if there is no sense of wow in your life, it's all a waste.
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Correct?
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And to be in a perpetual state of wow,
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 is what I would call as a spiritual elevation, or spiritual attainment.
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A consistent state of wow, or awe.
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And then, love for everyone.
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Sense of belongingness with everybody.
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How does someone love the people that do a lot of harm in the world, or that are causing a lot of pain,
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 or that are hurting them personally.
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How does someone learn to love without being taken advantage of or abused or these things?
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When you see someone is doing wrong, you can't love them straight away.
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It's impossible.