May 15, 2025

The Bearded Mystic's Oneness Conversations with KnoweRata ​

The Bearded Mystic's Oneness Conversations with KnoweRata ​
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The Bearded Mystic's Oneness Conversations with KnoweRata ​

Send us a text Rahul and Knowe Rata explore the dance between spiritual awakenin g and human experience, discussing how to remain authentic while grounded in awareness. They share insights on bhakti yoga, the power of silence, and the nature of consciousness beyond physical death. • Knowe shares his journey into spirituality that began in his teens through meditation and evolved through Buddhist groups and bhakti yoga • Both discuss the importance of looking after the physical body on the ...

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Rahul and Knowe Rata explore the dance between spiritual awakenin


g and human experience, discussing how to remain authentic while grounded in awareness. They share insights on bhakti yoga, the power of silence, and the nature of consciousness beyond physical death.

• Knowe shares his journey into spirituality that began in his teens through meditation and evolved through Buddhist groups and bhakti yoga
• Both discuss the importance of looking after the physical body on the spiritual path without becoming rigid or puritanical
• Bhakti yoga and devotion create profound openings through their meditative singing and surrender to something higher
• Silence emerges as perhaps the ultimate spiritual teaching, transmitting truth beyond what words can express
• They explore how spiritual communities must adapt to artificial intelligence while providing experiences AI cannot replicate
• Death is contemplated as a beautiful reminder of life's temporality while consciousness itself never truly dies
• Both emphasize staying authentic on the spiritual path rather than creating separate "spiritual personas"
• The paradoxical nature of awakening involves being fully human while recognizing one's boundless true nature

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00:00 - Introduction to Noe Rata

02:01 - Noe's Journey into Spirituality

15:09 - Staying Grounded in Awareness

23:53 - Bhakti Yoga and Devotion

35:20 - The Power of Silence

40:44 - Death and Consciousness

53:25 - Role Models and Spiritual Guides

01:35:18 - Concluding Thoughts

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Hello and welcome to the Bearded Mystic Podcast and I'm your host, rahul N Singh.

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Thank you for joining me today.

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I am joined today by Noe Rata, who is an Australian non-dual teacher, a spiritual teacher, and who's pretty big on YouTube.

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But I'm going to let him introduce himself to you and, most of all, before we go to no way, I want you to like and comment on this video and subscribe to both of our channels also.

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So um over to you, no way thanks for who?

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thanks for having me on I, I really appreciate it.

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Um, and to you reaching out.

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And, yeah, for anyone watching that hasn't seen my sharings on YouTube, I guess it's weird trying to describe this thing of what I do, but I guess I create videos and I share videos about the nature of reality and our experience.

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I started uploading a couple of years ago and, yeah, it's been a great journey so far.

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I really share about the nature of being and who we are and the spiritual reality that is behind everything in this world, and I also love to share, uh, about our, our human experience.

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You know, our, our emotional body.

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Um, I think that's that's really important to me as well.

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Uh, to include that side of it and, um, yeah, thanks, thanks for being here thank you, um.

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So what got you interested into spirituality?

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Was it something that you've um?

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Have you grown up in a spiritual household or you know what?

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What did?

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What does it look like for you?

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it's.

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It's yeah, it's funny when you say that because, like, if you grow up in a spiritual household, because it's like you know, then I, instantly, when you say that, I think to like you know, just like random funny stuff happening with my family and completely you know, like not what people would expect.

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You know, like just mucking around and kind of like making fun of each other, like I, yeah, I grew up in a really a really normal, like loving household.

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I have like two really good parents that I'm really grateful and proud to have, and I have a brother, younger brother and sister.

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And yeah, I started, I guess, in my teen years.

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It just started as a really natural unfolding as we all do in our teen years.

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You know, I was having difficulties and stuff at school and just in life in general and that's really normal, but I, uh, I tended to be quite sensitive around a lot of it and that was like forcing, really forcing me into a place of inquiry and I I really remember just you know, sitting in my sitting in my room and like searching on YouTube at 14, 15, like what is meditation and you know, watching.

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There's a guy called on YouTube somewhere.

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I used to watch him like Vishadu Das or something.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, I used to watch his and some other people and also getting into that whole like self-help world because I felt at the time I needed it.

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But you know, I remember just like sitting in my room and closing my eyes and trying to meditate and like at that age being so naive, like even trying to like visualise worlds and stuff like that, and trying to like visualize worlds and stuff like that, and yeah, it really just unfolded from there.

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I became really interested in it and I kind of kept it, you know, a bit hidden from some friends and people in my life.

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And even a friend of mine was like oh, you know, you seem pretty happy, just like sitting in your room like meditating and stuff like that, and I, around about 18, 17, I actually studied a diploma of film.

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It was like filmmaking and there was also some, uh, acting stuff and that's all I did.

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But, um, that as well in itself actually created like such a um, such an opening for me, because it wasn't even like that.

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I realized quite soon it wasn't even that world that I was really interested in.

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It was like there was something in that year of that diploma that was like a mini awakening in itself, because something really clicked when I was, you know, learning about, you know scripts and uh and all of that and emotions, where I realized, like, oh, there's actually something behind this.

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And I actually realized, like, you know, we're something behind this.

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And I actually realized, like, you know, we're all kind of doing that in this everyday life, like this is a really a big play and when you are present in in the moment, you know there's a sort of like there's a life and uh, uh and awareness like behind everything that's happening, and so that was great in itself.

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You know, I thought I might have, you know, a career in that, but then it just I believe that was there at the time to like show me more about beingness and the nature of who we are.

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And, um, you know, I moved to sydney not long after and then, um, I I got involved with a buddhist group here called uh tratna buddhism and that was amazing in itself.

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I was doing like weekly classes, retreats, I got into like bhakti yoga and I was part of a group there and, you know, behind that as well, I was just learning a lot online.

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Like you know, teachers like Eckhart Tolle, rupert Spira, like they've had a huge, huge influence on me and, yeah, it kind of just picked up more and more and then, you know, I had some breakthroughs and then it just felt like a natural unfolding to start sharing, because I felt so much freedom and peace inside, like so much it opened up, um, and so much, yeah, there's just so much freedom and joy.

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It was so unbelievable to me but so natural as well, right, like nothing special at all, but it just felt so liberating like what I was going through and kind of opening to that.

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I just like, yeah, I have to share this and, um, I find great joy in doing that.

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Oh, wonderful.

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So we could say like spirituality is kind of interwoven into your life very naturally.

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So it seems.

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And you mentioned how you did the acting, and Rupert Spire talks a lot about the King Lear example.

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I think you must have heard of it, but that was coming to my mind to that.

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You know, um, obviously the actor will always know that he's playing the character King Lear, and if he starts thinking he's King Lear, that would be a bit strange going home and thinking he's part of that.

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But, um, so that's really interesting that you you mentioned that and you mentioned something about awareness and, um, what I would like to know is, when you started sharing more about this, uh, what you've been going through, um, how did you remain grounded in awareness during during that time, or even now, so to speak?

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Well, that's a really good question because, um, you know, I've I've heard speakers speak about about that before, where you know some people might not be ready to hear some of this or just not in a place to maybe surrender to it fully.

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The mind and our thought streams, our, you know, personal self, like it always wants some sort of, it always wants some sort of proof for everything right, and even in our human reality.

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You know, a lot of us swear by science like it's the new, it's the new God, and a lot of this I think can be a bit destabilizing if someone's wanting an exact proof or written proof, because it just doesn't operate in the level of mind.

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We're speaking about something that is non-conceptual and is just here, it's alive and it's, it's always here, and we all know that and I'm sure a lot watching and yourself that you know the reality we're speaking about is it's purely here and it's um, there's a quality that you can't really.

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You can speak about it, but you can't exactly.

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Um, like, hit the nail on the head and back to what you.

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What you asked is like, how did I stay grounded?

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Was, yeah, really, um, looking after myself, even from a younger age, was, like you know, by no means am I, definitely like, by no means am I like, oh, you know, like trying to be some sort of Puritan or something or saying, oh, you have to do everything really clean.

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You know, that's definitely that's not really the way.

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But, you know, I looked after myself, I kept meditating for years and I, you know, there were certain things that I felt really disrupted my system and my like evolution, one being and I actually spoke about this recently like alcohol, like I stopped that some years ago.

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And again, like there's many like people that are awake to reality that drink, and it doesn't make a difference, but that here, like, helped me a lot and um, just a lot of like self-compassion and love as well.

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Like, when it does get hard, you know it's knowing that you're always, you're never stuck, you're always returning to yourself here, and there will be hard moments, there will be moments where you feel like your whole world is getting torn apart, and that's that's happened here.

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And um, it's knowing that actually, like, in those moments where it's really difficult, there's, there's gold on the other side, right, and it's something I've inquired into a lot, this whole thing of like the you know, the dark night of the soul and the, the shadow and everything like that and like, really like, yeah, what, what is that?

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And I believe it is just something in humanity that exists within the individual, but it exists within the awareness, within the nature of you, just like you know, the happy, great, really joyful things exist within you.

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They're just, it's just part of the play and, um, the waking up out of that is is seeing that it is some sort of like creation and arising and that nothing is fixed and it's just a wave that's coming.

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And I guess the more someone, the more you can come back to that place of like not getting so lost in what's what's appearing.

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Then you're able to find that, that like peace that never leaves you.

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It's just always kind of there in your experience and it's what we are all right now and you know we just feel that we don't have to try and understand it, even through what I'm saying.

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It's just something that is felt.

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It's interesting because when you speak of this awareness, when you speak of the inexpressible, those that get it, they can actually feel what you're saying right now.

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Like you know, I could experience exactly what you're experiencing, because it is beyond location and beyond time and space and and all that, and so, uh, that's important.

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What I really liked about what you said and which I felt was really, it's important, sometimes overlooked it's actually about looking after the human body, uh, whether pre or post awakening, because just because you know we are not the body and mind doesn't mean that we just can do whatever we want and indulge and uh, or even abstain, uh, if you're doing it, for you know, as you mentioned, puritan reasons like that would be, uh, that would be going on the other side.

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Uh and um, and I can somewhat, um, relate to the whole.

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You know, not drinking alcohol can be beneficial.

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Um, right now I'm going through this thing of not eating any sugar.

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Um, not, it's very difficult as that's like a drug in itself, um, so, um, but it's just watching the body and yes, and I still have yeah, I still have moments with sugar as well, where you know my, my partner, will bring home like brownies and then it'll be every second day eating a brownie or or something like that, and it's also that's part of the joy and fun is like letting yourself and you're not just like if it feels like you know, of course, if it feels like there's just a desire there, you want to have a brownie or an ice cream, then have it and explore those kind of feelings of like you know, holding back and then enjoying.

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And yeah, yes, you're off, though sorry no, no, no, no, that's absolutely fine.

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Um, and I think, uh, and yet just remaining in awareness when those desires come up, when that feeling of wanting, which has been quite regular, like I just want to eat something sweet and I think of different ways of how to do it, or I just scroll on TikTok and look at desserts, and you know but I'm observing my mind doing all this and it's amazing that, while being on this path, that I can remain in awareness and let the mind go wild and yet still have like absolute control, and it's just.

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It is a paradox in itself and I think that's only come about for me more in more recent times when I'm able to let the mind go places but also kind of remain grounded in in awareness.

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Uh, you mentioned that you did a bit of a bhakti yoga and you know what, whenever I hear someone's done bhakti yoga, I get really interested, because I don't hear a lot of um, as you know, non-dual speakers actually go into bhakti.

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I think bhakti is very important, especially if you're preparing or even after awakening too.

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Tell me a bit more about your bhakti yoga and what that looked like.

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Yeah, well, it was with a group here in Sydney called the Bhakti House and it was just such a warm and vibrant community to get involved in.

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And it's actually funny.

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I remember at one stage telling my mum that I was going there and she was like because some people from those older generations might have, I think, like it was shown on tv years ago, like 20, 30 years ago, in a certain way, like, oh, these people like walking down the street and like chanting all these stuff, and she's like, oh yeah, like isn't that the hari krishnas or or something?

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And like like thinking I've like joined some cult or something.

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And, um, I was like, no, I just like, I just like going.

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But it was like such a warm community and like.

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So what I found so profound when a kirtan is being done, because it's like a, I felt it opened up so much, because it's like a singing meditation, you know, with the instruments and the music, and there is something because it's so devotional and it has like this meditative quality.

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There's something that just like opens so much.

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When you do that, you just feel so much, like so much energy and love.

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And I, you know, read the Bhagavad Gita and I was like, yeah, you know, I'm not surprised why this like has the effect that it does, and yeah, I learned so much from that and I really all of those paths you know there's, there's so many that I really I really admire and you know think are really special and I always wanted to come back to that in myself, like I kind of knew, you know, and at least for now, like I I'm not just going with one specific, like I guess I'm devoted to this path, which is really life, like it's just being devoted to, to life.

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Um, but you know, I I had friends, even through buddhism, that were, like you know, so devoted with that and I always admired it so much because it's such a surrender to do that and I think it's so beautiful and there doesn't need to be this tension maybe in these worlds of like, oh, this is the right thing, this is wrong, and we all know that they're all just speaking about this timeless truth.

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Um, and you know, one path might take someone further up the mountain than another, and that's how it is yeah, um, yeah.

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However, you know, I agree that Whatever takes someone to that peak of the mountain, so be it.

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As long as you don't get halfway up the mountain and think you've reached the peak, all is good.

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Yeah, and I actually, in more recent times, I felt like a real affinity towards bhakti, towards devotion, like there is a thing about I've been reading some works of shri ramakrishna, paramahansa and um, you know, and he was swami vivekananda's guru, so he would talk about wanting to be with the divine mother or with god, and would talk about connecting with god, merging with god.

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And I've recently, as much as I love the kind of the logical and rationality of non-duality, but when you add bhakti to it, the devotional aspect, the oneness that you feel with the supreme and the so-called limited self that's in this body really there isn't any but that oneness when that merging happens there is a profound sense of peace, calmness, boundlessness that I don't think just comes with the purely rational non-duality.

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Sometimes I feel that can be missing, that boundlessness and the inner peace that can come from being devoted to something higher, even though, yes, at the end, you know, there's no such thing as higher or lower and there's no such thing as limited and limitless.

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It's all one, uh that play that you do in bhakti, it's it, I feel.

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I feel like it gets rid of a lot of the maybe the shadows, um that people go through, like I never had to do shadow work and I wouldn't know what to do in that um, but all I know is that bhakti kind of helps with all of those um, those vices or negativity or or that dark energy that can possibly consume uh, the mind um.

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So yeah, I like I mean I think giddin helps and chanting mantras and all that yeah, and it can give some structure.

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It can give some structure around it and I, I guess, like we're in a really interesting time where it's like there's there's so much on the internet now like you can just find anything, and you can find any teacher and really like find what resonates for you and what doesn't, and it's so like individual in that sense.

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And I had this conversation with a friend who, um, you know, was part of this buddhist group that you know I, I was also part of for a bit, and like I guess, and like he maybe struggled to understand like that part of the internet.

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Um, that is more like our culture is a lot more individualistic now, but but I don't really see it in that way, like it's taking away from the path.

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In fact, I think it's even better for people because there's just so much that's accessible there and I really, you know, I really feel and I feel this in what I share like there's so much connection there and space for people to just like carve their own way and you know, we can find a place where we can all share really what's worked for us and what hasn't.

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Um, and that's like getting rid of dogma, I guess, is like all sharing from the same space, like we all know that, and even the younger generations that grow up now they, lots of them, like they.

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They won't really have to go through this like discovery thing.

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It's going to be like that the shift is really and I don't want it to sound pretentious like, oh, the shift is happening, you know when people like it really, it really is in in some sense.

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And, um, you know around the world like it is just growing, this sense of like understanding more about ourselves and why we're here.

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So these younger generations will just grow up and they maybe have to like go through this whole seeking journey as much.

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It'll be more about like play and kind of expression of that beingness and that awakened, enlightened place that we're all in already yeah, for for sure, um, yeah, if you think about it, with artificial intelligence and chat, gpt, um, I think I I am interested to see how uh the spiritual institutions are going to um cope with this.

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When I say cope, cope is probably a bad word, but like more how they're going to deal with this, because you will now have, uh, I hope, um more rational if their seekers would be more rational and more, uh attuned to the language.

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Um.

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But the only thing that's going to be missing is the experience, and that's where I think a community comes in, and the community can give a real good experience, as you mentioned, of sharing ideas, sharing experiences, sharing just the energy.

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Sometimes it's just as simple as that.

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I think, yes, in on the internet, if it's, and I think it is being done by a few.

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I think a few of my friends have been able to set up some real good spiritual communities.

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I think one of them's on schoolcom, sunny, um, he's got a good community there, um I think I yeah I saw that because I I I tried a school thing for a bit and I just felt like it was the wrong timing and it was.

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It was good to start with.

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But yeah, sometimes we need to do that.

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You know, try different things.

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But yeah, I've ran it, bumped into his, yeah yes, yes, um, and I think if we can cultivate those communities as long as it's not around a personality alone, that it's actually around the teachings I think that can be really beneficial, especially with the rise of artificial intelligence, because, yeah, you could ask chat gpt about the nature of awareness, but the only thing is it will never be able to give you the experience of awareness.

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It can tell you about what the experience will feel like.

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It'd be very data driven, but not, um.

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You won't be able to experience it, and that's, I think that's where the community has to be ready for those type of that type of audience as well, which I think is going to be more um prominent, actually than than not, for the younger generation.

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Yeah, what?

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what do you mean by like that type of audience?

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Like what will they be ready for?

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What do you mean in?

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that I think, I think for the um, for going into the experience of awareness and being grounded in, in that aware, in in consciousness, and um being able to experience the boundlessness of consciousness, the formless aspect, where they can actually transcend the body and mind and be able to do the work necessary to remain in that state.

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Let me take it even a step further.

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I understand.

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Instead of chat GP, chat GPT, like being a teacher to someone, yeah, yeah, and there's some people now even who they say, well, could AI chat GPT, like develop, you know some sort of with how fast it's advancing, like some sort of like presence or consciousness, and maybe it can mimic it like really, really well.

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But you know, it's like what we're in now is like a natural and even using that word natural like what we're in now is like the all we're in, we're in the quantum field and even techno, like everything is being created from that.

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You know, this is like a creation from the spiritual dimension and you know gaia, but then we've created technology and it's really just an extension, this technology, of the gifts we already have within us, which is that infinite, you know all-knowing, like love and um power within us yes, um, yeah, actually, the word that you just used, now love, um, that is one thing I don't think artificial intelligence can ever express or explain to you what it feels like.

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Um, love is something that is incredibly individualistic in one sense, um, because until you experience it, only then you can watch that love expand into realizing actually, it's everywhere and in everything, and it's present even in the things that we probably disagree with or do not like at all or despise.

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It's even present there, um, so I think, uh, and that's the same thing with, I think, uh, spiritual enlightenment, or even um, consciousness, um, I, there's a swami that I interviewed him and I attended his retreat, swami server brian and g you probably have seen him around I saw, I saw your your video with him.

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I like watched a bit of it and I have seen him yeah he didn't mention once that.

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Um, apparently, sam altman, who is the I think he's right now, he's the ceo of open ai.

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He was asked what's the one thing that chat, gpt or artificial intelligence will never know, and he just said artman equals brumman.

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So, uh, in in, so to speak, that it will never get to know consciousness in itself, that, yes, it will know itself as a limited being, maybe, but you'll never know.

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Actually, that is actually everything and that can only come from, I think, human, the human life is the one.

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So in indian spirituality they say this human birth is so special and so rare that this is the only one where you can actually get to know your true nature.

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Um, I can only say that's true because I'm a human being right now.

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So, but, um, but, but the understanding that it's a rare opportunity.

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I don't think a lot of people really understand that either in today's world yeah, and what.

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What I'd like to see is like what you just said, which is like you know this, uh, you know, in this, um, in this teaching, you know it's like, yeah, human life is one of the rarest, most precious things we have is like really, it has technology advances like also, which we, we know is happening, like just our love for ourself and you know the and life and the mystical, and this world like just grows and grows and grows.

00:31:18.461 --> 00:31:44.451
So it's it's almost like running parallel to the increase of tech, because we kind of have to, as a species, to really evolve and go to the next level in our multidimensional selves and, you know, to not do what has happened in the past, you know, to damage the planet and all these other things.

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And, yeah, really, I really can see and believe there's like something really amazing and and wonderful coming.

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So yeah, yeah, I think it's going to be up to the likes of um content creators and um to make sure that they create communities which make the experience accessible, and make it when I say accessible, I mean the actual experience accessible.

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I'm not saying that there shouldn't be a paywall or anything like that.

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I'm not talking about that side of things.

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I'm talking more about that, when you're in a conversation with someone that they can take you to that experience, they can take you to the direct realization of what one's true nature is.

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And even without words, like we can get to that point where we just kind of, even without words, like we can get to that point where we just we just kind of we know, through feeling and sharing our being, that we're in the same place and that we're we're connected and yeah, it's so true, okay.

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So this is uh, I'm gonna take you here now um silence.

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It's got to be the greatest teaching ever.

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I mean I don't think there's anything close to it yeah, and that's what's funny about all all you know, even sharing online.

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Like you know, we use words and we use language, you know, every day and to you know, convey ideas.

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But you're right, like silence is so powerful and just teaches so much.

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And so there's part of me that almost feels like using words and speaking online, like I just want to sit there in silence.

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But I also think there's ways we can use language that really can like create a, create a space that actually goes beyond the words or opens people to that right.

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That it's.

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It's not just the words that's being spoken, it's the place in which they're arising from, and that's what I, that's what I try and do, that's that's I mean, that's what I feel.

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Every, every video, it's like it's got nothing to do with what I say.

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It's like how I'm feeling and just really like it's just a sharing with the other, with you, with the camera, with myself.

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That is just from that place and, you know, maybe that will open someone to that.

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Yeah, for sure.

00:34:29.576 --> 00:34:46.708
I mean, I can recall moments when I would ask my guru a question, and sometimes it's just maybe like a few moments of silence, um, but there was such that silence had such a vibration.

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I think no word could ever get you to or no pointing could get you to.

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Uh, when, when, when it was just silence there, um, I just it was like as if the whole universe is teaching.

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I could feel it.

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I could sense it.

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I could like I was taking it all in and that was just in, and it didn't matter what words my guru was going to say next, because that was um, and you know some.

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And also I think my guru was a bit cheeky because he also smiled a bit afterwards.

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So it's kind of like you knew what, I knew what he was doing.

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But that transmission that happens in silence, even when you use words, like you mentioned in your videos.

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Like I can sense that when I watch your videos it is coming from a place of silence.

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It's not coming from oh, this is the response I want from my audience.

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It's not that, it's coming from a much deeper place and um and I wish silence was um exploitable yeah, yeah, exactly, and that that place is is freedom, like even even when we are speaking that, that silence, you know, beingness is always there and I guess what you are and what lots of us are doing, and even those just in their everyday life, is we're transmitting that.

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Right, we all have that radio tuner that can tune into that, into that space of beingness, like we can, you know, turn it up, up or down and, um, yeah, that's that's really what we're transmitting, uh, all the time, and it's it's sharing that place of freedom.

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And that's what I'm really wanting others to do is like I know we were saying before about, like you know, how people, how people share, but it's like what I'm, what I'm, what I'm wanting is like others to be in that place as well and so, like they can do their work, the creative work, or share from that place.

00:37:09.237 --> 00:37:19.483
And it's quite a there's quite like, it's quite a dance, and something I'm dancing with is like you know, how free can I be in this video?

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How free can I be in the sharing?

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How creative can I be, uh, when in this kind of like matrix construct, you know, we're a little bit like um, it's a little bit limited in some way in terms of like.

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You know, sometimes when someone expresses so much or really like is so bright or there's so much play like it can like.

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Maybe others might think, oh, something's off here, but then you know, you're really entering that space of freedom, really entering that space of of freedom.

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So I think we're going to learn more about play a lot, of, a lot of our this space and our culture where we can just like break the mold a little bit.

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And, yeah, for me it's a balance between, like at times I felt like, you know, there is that responsibility because I am sharing with people, um, you know, and it does have an effect, and there has been questioning quite a bit of, oh, you know, should I have said that or all of this stuff, and I think that's so normal, but also not getting too tight, like letting yourself be free, you know, yeah free.

00:38:40.016 --> 00:38:40.856
Um, you know, yeah, I agree with that.

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No way, because, um, I've, at times, when it's come to like my own videos, sometimes I can, I feel like I stop myself from expressing the the fullness of the truth because I'm like, well, I don't know if my audience is ready to hear this, and I still know that people are on the journey and they're not going to understand when I talk about the nature of consciousness in its purest and most, uh, wonderful, uh way.

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They just will.

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You know, they, they're still in the head, so to speak, and I've got to kind of address that.

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But then, you know, what you said is also true.

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Like, sometimes I feel like you know what we'll see.

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If it, if people get it, they get it, if they don't, they don't, that's not going to matter to me.

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Um, and I think, yes, just um, and I think, yes, just being able to play with the fullness of this consciousness, this awareness, is possibly an interesting way for content creation.

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I think, so to speak.

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And, yeah, I think you do have to be playful with it, because I think it can become really dry as well, so if you're, really serious you like like sometimes you're going.

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Yeah, I, I like, I like to have fun as well, like we all do, and I mean to me, like I, I just don't think it would be worth it.

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And I love, I love having fun and, you know, enjoying myself and you, we all have different styles, but I think, yeah, it's like, I guess it feels good, like we want to wake up and have fun, we want to have something to like, look forward to Right and to me, this path, non-duality, spirituality, it's, it's exciting and I love it and I, I really do feel like it's something that's fun and we can learn to have more fun with um.

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And then, you know, some people might look at some I know this isn't the case, it's back to what we were saying like it could just be something I think, but, um, you know, some people could look at some sharings or or or a certain style of um sharing something and think like, oh, you know this is too far, or this is um, you know this is wrong or incorrect, but like, maybe that person just needs to to see that at the time and just, that's not the right like thing they're meant to tune in with Um, yeah, yeah, no, absolutely.

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Um, and and you know, I also truly believe that when we share the truth, um, you cannot guarantee how the audience is going to take that and what they're going to get from it, and it also depends on their mindset, what they've gone through the day, god knows what they've experienced, um, and there's so much uh, factors that go in into how somebody will receive your message and your sharing and um, but all we can do is be mindful of that, but still share and and and you know, just, I guess just be mindful of it and can't do anything else really you know what I think will be possible, which I can't wait for, like with this whole.

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Some people might, fair enough, think like, oh, you know, that's like we don't want that.

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But with vr kind of progressing and that whole world, like you know, 20 years from now you can have like some headset on it, like scans your full face, like full photo, realistic, and you can all feel like you're like sitting in a space, you know, like this, like beautiful big space together, but you're like in different parts of the world and you can like have some sort of like immersive sharing, like I think that's that's the benefit to these kind of things is like that will all be possible and yeah, I'm like that'd be like a big a big satsang and it's like it's like

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mystical jungle, and yeah yeah, yeah, I mean, and it's possible.

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I mean I don't think, um, I don't think that's far away, to be fair, I think that's pretty, pretty close.

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I think you could be looking at next five to ten years when people will um, will have that um, and what'd be interesting in that in that is, do we add another layer of existence when it comes to VR?

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You already have this world, then on top of that, you got this VR world.

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Then do, does, when do?

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Are we able to maintain, to maintain, uh, grounded in awareness during that time?

00:43:37.268 --> 00:43:50.541
Because that would be an interesting thing to also see whether we create a new vr kind of um character, uh, so to speak, because that can happen with people if they're not awakened.

00:43:50.541 --> 00:43:59.152
It's very easy to create a new persona within the persona you already have yeah, interstellar, I was getting inception there.

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Yeah, on a deeper level, you know, it's like on a sorry, on a smaller scale, like that's already it's happening in some way online, right, like people online social media and like that's, that's okay.

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That's just how naturally the ego works, as it wants to be seen a certain way, and I've always tried to remain like true to who I am and what I'm sharing and, you know, not putting on anything and, um, it might resonate with some and others it doesn't, and I guess I share from that place and um, yeah, so it's like that's happening on a small scale and, you're right, like it could be in those worlds.

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Yeah, people try, people um kind of create another version of themselves, but that in itself will be like an awakening because, like, we're getting then into that creative space where we realize like, oh, things are not really fixed, like what we immerse ourselves in, the identity is really, it's really fluid and um, like the creative, like place we can get to, where we feel that peace is.

00:45:11.063 --> 00:45:28.822
Like noticing awareness is the power behind that right, and the more we can be in awareness, the more we can create, the more, the less we take um things about ourselves seriously and uh, we could just enjoy.

00:45:28.842 --> 00:45:33.989
Um, yeah, yeah no, I totally agree.

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I think, uh, yes, and social media does create, um, on a smaller scale, a different sense of self and um, and, and I find it quite interesting, because, no matter if you have a social media, actually that's the one thing that I felt like with spirituality since I got serious about it that you can't be, you can't be of two different characters, like there's not a spiritual me and then a work me, a family me, whatever me, a family me, uh, uh, whatever me.

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Like they can't be two or three.

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You can't have two, three avatars in your mind.

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Uh, you can if you're truly on the spiritual path.

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I think the safest way is just to be yourself and just be one, whether, but if the workplace doesn't accept you, it's never going to accept you.

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Whether, but if the workplace doesn't accept you, it's never going to accept you.

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Then you know, don't take it so seriously.

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If your family doesn't take you seriously after that, well, what can we say?

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You know, like you.

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you've got to be authentic on this journey, I feel.

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And I think if we're not honest, if we're not authentic, being spiritual and getting yourself to remain in awareness is a difficult task, because one will always be in the ego game.

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Yeah, and it'd be masquerading as awareness in a weird way and it's like it's when, when you, when that person on that path like is uh honest with themselves, like, and then they're speaking from that place, that you can, you can feel it Right and um, I think, like you know, we all are in that place, but the more we can like be honest with ourselves and what we value and yeah, not not lying to ourselves, like reality does have a truth to it and it speaks from that place.

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And I think this is how we get free now, especially when we're entering a world where the biggest thing that people will struggle with is like deciphering what is what's true and what's not.

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You know, you now have all these um, it's like a bit of a different topic, but you have all these like deep fake you know ai videos and you see some of them.

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And then there's like all these older people like oh, my god, like what's what's happened.

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And then there's people just like, no, that's, that's ai and it's.

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It's a similar thing with ourself is like when we can just be grounded in ourself, be honest with what's happening in our experience, then you know we just get more free.

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And I think when we get more free and this has been part of the journey here and it is with, with everyone.

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You know, when we can get more free and honest with ourself, like these layers fall away and we just lose that fear.

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We lose that fear more, we start opening to life more.

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And you're right what you said before, that I don't believe there are no set characters.

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You know that would be some.

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That's, I guess, an idea we have, that there's some fixed character, like it's just life, it's just awareness expressing itself in that way, right, and just learning about itself.

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It's just that mirror, like the world is the mirror and it's just the self, the largest self learning about itself and it's it's fun and it's a joy.

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And even when it feels serious or darker or heavy, you know, like usually if someone is, if that's part of their journey, there's something there for them to see that that's not actually the reality of what's here, right, like it's like breaking out of that kind of like story or identification.

00:49:49.795 --> 00:50:02.585
So my question here would be um, have you um or have you done anything specific, uh, where you've maintained your authentic self, like you mentioned you?

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You know you got your parents, you got siblings, you got a partner.

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Have you, um, how have you made sure that you remain as an authentic person, because also they can be um a spiritual uh like, um, some people can put on a spiritual personality uh, so to speak.

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So have you made sure?

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that you've maintained being you, uh, the, the personality that you've been blessed with, rather than adorning the spiritual attire, so to speak yeah, that's, that's a really good question and I think it's like an important one for, like, all of us to ask.

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And I have a lot, you know, because I think like, the more you share, the more openly you express, like the, at least here, the more I've actually like kind of checked in with myself like am I, like, what place is this coming from?

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And I think that's very normal, like on a human level, and it's just being honest and even asking those around me close to me like to, hey, like you know, pull me up, pull me up if I'm, if I'm saying anything, um, you know that is me up, pull me up If I'm, if I'm saying anything, um, you know that is a bit off, or I'm, I'm not being true to myself, I'm not like saying that all the time, but I've like mentioned that before and I just trust that with those around me.

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I guess I've had that supportive environment growing up and I love being honest about my human reality and experience as well.

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Um, you know, even with my partner that's what I've like learned with her.

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A lot is, like you know, really like being honest with your human experience and like what's arising.

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And you know, yes, there's one side to this path, which is, like, you know, you discover awareness, but like you've still got your human life here and it's just, yeah, like I guess it's always just coming back to that place of like why am I doing this?

00:52:08.887 --> 00:52:35.210
And like my intention, and like, even being younger and you know, going and studying, like um, filmmaking and acting for a year, and like I did lots of creative work, like artwork, then it's like always been to like, you know, have some effect or to create something that's actually going to, uh, inspire others or yeah, and it's for myself as well.

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So I think, like having that core, like that core foundation and intention, like it's always the bedrock.

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And you know, I like I've said, like I've had a couple of moments where I have felt quite out there and you know like it has been difficult at times, but that's so normal as well and it's important that I say that.

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You know so others don't think like, oh, it's just me going through some crazy thing, you know so I'm really glad that you've mentioned what you have and I think it's yeah, it's so true, like one, you know, making sure, uh, I do believe that, um, you know your parents or your family, your friends, they, they can tell you when you, when they feel like ego is coming up or uh, they can, uh, I've had comments like oh, uh, this is not what you said on the podcast before, um, or this is not what you say in your podcast.

00:53:41.128 --> 00:53:52.545
You're acting a bit different, um and so that's when you kind of think, okay, um, you can then inquire is my, was my behavior actually different?

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Was it just perceived differently?

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And we can go through that inquiry.

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Or if actually being a father has been the number one, I would say the teaching, as well as my son being the teacher, because I think they say the guru is always a mirror and you know whenever I'll be like you know, three o'clock in the morning, he's woken up for probably the fifth time and you're super annoyed, uh, you want to go back to sleep, you're cranky, and then you kind of realize, well, if you get angry one, he's not going to understand that, he's not going to understand why you're angry, he doesn't understand that you, you haven't slept um.

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But if you go and then notice when I'm angry he gets, uh, he gets more annoyed and cries more.

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But when I'm calm he settles and I'm like, oh, you know, it's such an easy thing and I think.

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So fatherhood, um, I'm not saying I'm a pro now that I'm always calm, but like um, but he's been a great teacher and I think, um, our humanness can actually teach us more about our connection of oneness with each other than than, say, sometimes, just meditating alone or doing self-inquiry, so to speak.

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Um, so I'm glad that you, you, you have those parameters where that's a good sign.

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Um, I think we should always have that like, yeah, just call me out if I'm being a prick, you know or something like that.

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Yeah and um, yeah, it's so true like our life experience can really just teach us so much, and I've met people on this path and like I've met someone before I'm thinking about specifically who, like you know, they haven't really tried, they haven't really tried to follow spiritual path, it's just a lot of people actually.

00:55:55.496 --> 00:56:11.565
They naturally open to this kind of like more life, you know this, more fulfilling, like a live presence, through not even following any of this stuff, just through life experience, just through learning.

00:56:11.565 --> 00:56:16.460
And yeah, thanks for sharing that with your son.

00:56:16.460 --> 00:56:19.775
That was really like beautiful to hear and that's something I'm looking forward to.

00:56:19.896 --> 00:57:07.295
If that's meant to happen and I've, I've heard that that it can be, it can be a big teacher, you know, and um, like how we, you know, I imagine and I don't know as well because it's not what I'm experiencing, but I imagine, and especially with old generations, you know, when you were younger, if it's like you get angry, um, like, it's like, or there's, you know, the kid is upset and then you get angry, it's like their being doesn't know, and so it's part of like the practice to like, I imagine, just letting it be like letting the full human experience uh take place, and then we allow that in ourselves as well and that's the same with all of these life experiences is like just radical exceptions in a way.

00:57:08.137 --> 00:57:25.217
Um, you know, like when things are challenging with with someone in our personal life or our experience, or there's like difficult emotions, it's just like, it's like allowing, and it's usually like our mind a lot of the time.

00:57:25.217 --> 00:57:44.181
And I still have it here where I still realize things uh, from the past it's not often, but things that just there's like oh little energetic layers there where, like the mind kind of like creates this belief system or this story out of it, like oh, you said this back then.

00:57:44.181 --> 00:58:05.181
Or like this, this happened, and like that was not good, and like we all play these, we all play these stories, and it's like that there's not what, the more you awaken to now to reality, it's like no, there's actually no substance to this and there's nothing to be, there's nothing to be afraid of, like yeah, we're free now.

00:58:05.201 --> 00:58:33.045
Yes, yeah no, what you said is actually really beautiful, that when you are um, in the now, when you you're radically, uh, you know, accepting of the moment, uh, you also one thing that's been very conscious with me has been like I don't want to pass on any generational trauma to my kid, so, uh, to my son or to anyone uh.

00:58:33.125 --> 00:59:11.592
So being conscious of that it meant, it does mean you're coming to the present moment and forgiving everything that has happened in the past and not bringing it forward, not carrying it, saying that baggage go and um, and you can only do that, like you said, when there's radical acceptance and, I guess, radical forgiveness of the person, whether they knowingly, consciously or unconsciously did things or said things, and just moving forward and making sure that one doesn't repeat the same mistakes, which you know we are creatures of habit.

00:59:11.592 --> 00:59:33.847
You know, um, we are creatures of habit and I think, the more we are in awareness, we stay away from building upon those habits and allowing them to express themselves in in what would be unconscious I was going to say negative, but unconscious would be better um, or creating more ignorance, as you mentioned.

00:59:33.847 --> 00:59:51.126
Um, like we call them, uh, kind of vasanas in in sanskrit, is, when you keep, they start off as samskaras, so it's a one-off event, but then and then it gets built up into a vasana and and yeah, there's a lot of vasanas.

00:59:51.126 --> 00:59:52.146
You got it, you know.

00:59:53.168 --> 00:59:58.802
That's the one thing that so is that sorry if I if I cut it, is it, is it?

00:59:58.802 --> 01:00:02.612
Savasana, that is so is is that?

01:00:02.612 --> 01:00:05.998
Is that a collection of samskaras that is built so?

01:00:06.918 --> 01:00:07.179
yes.

01:00:07.179 --> 01:00:10.824
So you could say the snowball effect is the vasana.

01:00:10.824 --> 01:00:13.768
So it starts off as a little snowball.

01:00:13.768 --> 01:00:15.311
It's a one-off uh thing.

01:00:15.311 --> 01:00:39.739
That's happened that creates some skala, like a little imprint, and then suddenly, um, that imprint gets a lot deeper when it's repeated a bit more um, and it then becomes, uh, either characteristic either a characteristic we have or a habit we have, or certain reactions that we tend to always do that becomes a.

01:00:39.739 --> 01:00:42.422
That that's what would be termed as a, as a vasana.

01:00:43.885 --> 01:01:04.744
And what I find a lot, which I could say, if there is a critique I have of the modern non-dual circles, is this that, um, the work on, like our vasanas and our conditioning isn't done before we get to awareness, like in advaita vidanta, in a traditional way.

01:01:04.744 --> 01:01:18.123
You have to kind of be you, um, you could say there's a bit of gatekeeping in a weird way, but it's like you've got to be ready for this If we're going to show you the fullness of your true nature.

01:01:18.123 --> 01:01:36.135
We've got to make sure that your mind is ready for this, we've got to make sure that your body is prepared for this, and so I feel sometimes, if modern non-duality doesn't deal with it beforehand, it should definitely deal with it afterwards.

01:01:36.135 --> 01:01:40.666
But the problem that I find that happens afterwards do you mean sorry, do you mean?

01:01:40.835 --> 01:01:55.128
do you mean, do you mean, if the, the samskaras and sadhasanas are dealt with like before the realization, like that, yes, that's better, better outcome, yes, yes, yeah it's more stabilized.

01:01:55.487 --> 01:01:59.786
Um, one is more stabilized, uh, when those are dealt with beforehand.

01:01:59.786 --> 01:02:10.418
And I guess, like for me it's always been second nature because, um, you know, growing up in in an indian household and indian spirituality is kind of spoken about a lot.

01:02:10.418 --> 01:02:25.427
Uh, I went to a satsang every week still do, I guess those things keep me grounded, but those dealt with those vasanas and also allows certain samskaras to not grow as a result.

01:02:25.427 --> 01:02:40.471
But if I didn't have that and say I watched, let me think of a really like, say, rupert spirey is a really potent teacher, so say I listened to him once and I I can grasp what he's saying.

01:02:40.831 --> 01:03:02.146
But if I haven't dealt with my vasanas, they're gonna still be there regardless if I'm in awareness and awakened exactly, and that's like why we could, we could wake up to like the nature of who we are and we could see all of that, but then our human, like reality is still here.

01:03:02.146 --> 01:03:24.815
So I, I really think, I really believe, like the mastery for me is like the blending of of both, and I actually feel like the more I've gone into um presence and the transcendence, the more I've really come to understand and appreciate and take seriously my human life and reality.

01:03:24.815 --> 01:03:31.269
And, um, you know, a lot of people say this who maybe go to like a monastery or something.

01:03:31.269 --> 01:03:51.403
You know you hear a lot that like they go, they spend a certain amount of time there and then they, they realize it's not what they actually, uh, want to do and maybe for some that's that's the path they, they take and that's fine, but it might a lot might realize like, oh, that that's not the answer.

01:03:51.463 --> 01:04:35.108
In this case it's to, like you know, be in the world and, like you know, experience the gift of life, like through that energy, through that presence, um, and yeah, yeah, it's important that like it's not bypassed the human reality, but like to to also not go so far into it, like to come back to who you are and and really see, and this has been a huge, huge, uh, like teaching to myself is like just seeing the reality behind the you know the narratives, or the mental narratives, and that like wow, they really do these.

01:04:35.108 --> 01:04:44.601
You know the samskaras, they really do carry like a lot of heaviness in them and it does take.

01:04:44.601 --> 01:04:56.074
It takes like a certain level, it takes a certain amount of presence right to see those and then to just to not feed them, to not feed them anymore.

01:04:56.576 --> 01:05:02.523
Yes, yes, no, um, and thank you for being really transparent.

01:05:02.523 --> 01:05:06.250
And um, and yeah, so you know.

01:05:06.250 --> 01:05:43.789
And and, to be fair, uh, what's really interesting is that, uh, they also say that certain vasanas will go into like this pralaya state, like this dormant state, that, just so you can still maintain the human experience, they will be there, dormant, and even though one can be enlightened one One can be enlightened so, for example, say, the Varsana for a dessert will always be there within me, but I don't have to act upon it.

01:05:43.789 --> 01:05:47.851
How you can get so wrapped in the experience of one's true nature that one discards the body.

01:05:47.851 --> 01:06:23.347
And so, to avoid that, I think what they say is that there's these vasanas that are still maintained, just so the enlightened being can actually um, function and still share this message of truth and reality to, to people yeah, and and stay in the human reality.

01:06:23.387 --> 01:06:53.360
Because it's like if, if one which we all are going back to, if one awakens like so fully, a hundred percent, to love and aliveness, right, and there's no, like you were saying nothing, keeping them here, like I'm, every being, every individual expression in this human reality, yes, has those um, whether they're even small little savasanas or samskaras, and that's what keeps us here.

01:06:53.380 --> 01:07:38.436
But, like you know, awakening so fully to reality and to aliveness and it might sound scary for some, but it's really not, because it's like you're just awakening to love and reality it's really like what we see, see as, uh, death in some way, and, like you know, I guess it's like we're kind of like it's a weird paradox where we're like here to experience the human life and it's like a beautiful, beautiful thing even to have those, um, you know, struggles, um, whatever, whatever they are, um and so, but you know, there's nothing to fear at the end of the day.

01:07:38.436 --> 01:08:02.599
Like I think there's so many paradoxes in this where, like some people can awaken into presence and love and reality and it's like whoa, and even I feel like that at times, like there's just so much aliveness, like so much, that I actually feel that it's almost like, you know, that the mind and this doesn't happen, but it's probably possible, you know, the mind can say like you know, this is too much.

01:08:02.599 --> 01:08:28.024
And I think that's where, like, yeah, people, like there's different stages maybe where people might feel like, oh know, like time to go back, you know, into just the human, the nitty gritty a bit, and yeah, I think it's like around, all of this is just that, learning to play and enjoy and there is nothing to fear.

01:08:28.024 --> 01:08:40.113
You know, it's amazing what's happening, like so many beings are like realizing this and awakening to this, and when we do, like we, we suffer more, uh, we, sorry, we suffer less.

01:08:40.573 --> 01:08:59.666
We don't suffer more, yes, um yeah, that's a good one, um, but yeah, I mean, yeah, the mind may suffer more before it, before he realizes it doesn't have to suffer at all.

01:08:59.666 --> 01:09:17.849
And you know, maybe you mentioned death and it's actually one of my favorite topics to talk about, because we live in a culture where we think we're going to live forever.

01:09:17.849 --> 01:09:27.470
I know that we all know death is around the corner, but at the same time, it's like we accumulate so much where we think we're going to be here for eternity.

01:09:27.470 --> 01:09:35.408
And death is that wonderful reminder that you know this is really temporary.

01:09:35.408 --> 01:09:39.286
It puts you know when you know there's a limited time.

01:09:39.534 --> 01:09:54.048
I know, I find, I found that when, uh, like on the spiritual journey, it's more exhilarating knowing that I only have a couple more years maybe left, or decades more.

01:09:54.048 --> 01:10:08.578
But the thing is, I want to spend the rest of my life being grounded in awareness, if you know what I mean, like that's the, that's the best way for me to live, that's the, that that is.

01:10:08.578 --> 01:10:09.506
Uh.

01:10:09.506 --> 01:10:28.826
It may sound really ideal, but death is my kind of reminder that, uh, you know, if tomorrow doesn't come, at least you can be in awareness today and you can be in the fullness of your true nature today and live a pretty good human life and be a decent human being.

01:10:28.826 --> 01:10:34.577
Um, so I think sometimes our culture doesn't talk about death enough.

01:10:35.217 --> 01:10:41.738
There's a there's a fear around it, you know yeah, and there's a lot in the west that's especially hidden around death.

01:10:41.805 --> 01:10:45.372
And it's like you know, let's, let's cover, let up.

01:10:45.713 --> 01:11:34.047
And you know we don't want to know about it, we don't want to hear about it, but it's the most natural thing ever and even take away that word, because that word has a lot of weight to it it's really just like aliveness and you're so right, it's like it's bringing you know that the gift is like to live this human life like with that aliveness, and to like stay here and to do what you want to do, like we're entering a world now where, yes, on one hand, there's a lot happening that isn't pretty and isn't nice, but we're entering a world where there will be so much abundance, where there will be a lot of really beautiful things, and it like you know to just do what you love doing, like go snowboarding, if that's what you love.

01:11:34.108 --> 01:11:50.028
You know go share, you know amazing art, and I know it all sounds like quite, you know, like like a utopia, but it's definitely like it's quite a possible and probable timeline that we're opening to here.

01:11:50.028 --> 01:12:05.537
And, um, yeah, it's like kind of like the process and this kind of unfoldment, like it's happening for all of us, even if someone doesn't notice it, and it's completely natural and you know, it's um.

01:12:05.537 --> 01:12:09.202
Yeah, I guess we can't do anything about it.

01:12:09.421 --> 01:12:28.176
So yeah, um, yeah yeah, and it's the gift of like, just like you were saying, yeah, like just being a good human being, or like just doing, um, doing good for others and um yeah yeah, yeah, I mean um.

01:12:29.518 --> 01:12:41.917
Yeah, it's interesting because I remember so, my brother, he, my older brother, he, he passed away in 2013, so that'd be 12 years ago.

01:12:41.917 --> 01:12:55.806
He didn't, it didn't feel like 12 years, but I remember saying to him like because he knew he was gonna die, because he had a heart condition, um, and I asked him a number of times um, are you scared of death?

01:12:55.806 --> 01:13:01.864
And he was like no, because I'm just coming, going here, I'm not going anywhere.

01:13:01.864 --> 01:13:06.817
And then at the time I didn't really fully understand what he was talking about.

01:13:06.817 --> 01:13:10.432
But now I get it like, actually, you can't go anywhere.

01:13:10.833 --> 01:13:21.407
Yeah, the human body's gonna break and that's gonna dissolve away and that will enter back into the earth and, um, the mind will diminish.

01:13:21.407 --> 01:13:28.038
But one's true nature does remain and and that's so true my consciousness will always be here.

01:13:28.038 --> 01:13:29.430
It cannot go anywhere.

01:13:29.430 --> 01:13:33.775
When I say mine, there's only the one consciousness.

01:13:33.775 --> 01:13:58.453
And so when my brother said that 12 years ago, I probably didn't appreciate it as much as I do today, where I'm like he he's you know, he was spitting bars just before he's gonna die and um, and I truly value that today because I think, yeah, that's true, I'm, I'm not really going anywhere.

01:13:58.453 --> 01:14:05.649
No one really goes anywhere, um, but at the same time, that doesn't mean that you don't miss the person.

01:14:05.649 --> 01:14:08.113
I think a lot of people think you bypass grief now.

01:14:08.113 --> 01:14:19.960
You still go through grief, but you also understand, um, that that is the natural part of being in, uh, in this world, uh, this human life, uh.

01:14:19.960 --> 01:14:30.666
The fact it has an expiry date is what's beautiful about it, um, rather than what's morbid about it, so to speak yeah, wow, thanks for sharing that.

01:14:30.725 --> 01:14:41.291
I really felt that when you shared that, like, I could feel that like love and power coming through, just even in sharing that.

01:14:41.291 --> 01:14:48.921
So, thanks, and I, I really I feel that as well when you share that, that, yeah, we're not going anywhere.

01:14:48.921 --> 01:14:57.576
And it's only beauty, it's only love, it's only what we really are, that we're actually opening to.

01:14:57.576 --> 01:15:27.037
And I know for a fact that when this body is no longer here, I'll be dancing with all of those that are that are close to me, with, with you, and you know it's like we're just you know we're opening to something really like epic and true and magical, but like for now, it's like you were saying, like it's, it's, it's hard to put that into words in human experience, so it's like just you know, uh, be in human experience.

01:15:27.037 --> 01:15:37.009
So it's like just you know, uh, be grateful for, for each day, and you know, um, bring that knowingness of our nature through through the human experience.

01:15:37.990 --> 01:15:38.934
Yeah, yeah, for sure.

01:15:38.934 --> 01:15:43.853
I mean, like, um, I think I dealt with my brother's death really well.

01:15:43.853 --> 01:15:49.453
Um, the one death which I found very challenging was when my guru passed away.

01:15:49.453 --> 01:15:54.472
He died in an accident and that was a shock and I was very, very close to him.

01:15:54.472 --> 01:16:05.916
And when you have a teacher that you really resonated with, which was like a friendship losing, that was like a big challenge.

01:16:05.916 --> 01:16:12.208
But you know, what's really weird was sharing this with like some friends.

01:16:12.229 --> 01:16:27.051
Like sometimes I feel like in the um, in the middle of the day, I'll just think of him and um, and I just feel like there's an energy next to me or I feel like someone's embracing me, and I said before I would never think that these things can happen.

01:16:27.051 --> 01:16:34.805
But you know, energy doesn't die and so that presence, that individual presence, will never die either.

01:16:34.805 --> 01:16:36.350
That's always going to be here.

01:16:36.350 --> 01:17:04.296
Yeah, it's not going to be in the physical, um, five elemental form, but it's there in energy and uh, um, you know, and I think at the time, I think that's the one death where I felt like, where I was so closely getting counselling because I felt I needed it, but somehow, I don't know, I was able to come out of that.

01:17:04.296 --> 01:17:17.817
But it was because for me it was like, how could my hero go, like, this is a person who I thought was invincible and he's gone.

01:17:20.386 --> 01:17:25.917
But that in itself was the biggest lesson, that if he can go, then anyone can go.

01:17:25.917 --> 01:17:27.328
And he always said that.

01:17:27.328 --> 01:17:33.485
You know, I think in fact he said this when he was in australia on the tour which I think he was in perth.

01:17:33.485 --> 01:17:39.759
He said something like um, you know, I could die tomorrow, I could die in the next second.

01:17:39.759 --> 01:17:41.509
I don't know when I could die, nobody knows.

01:17:41.509 --> 01:17:44.734
And he mentioned this and everyone was like, why did he say this?

01:17:44.734 --> 01:17:46.113
This is, it's like an off-the-cuff remark that he said and it's like, why did he mentioned this?

01:17:46.113 --> 01:17:46.990
And everyone was like, why did he say this?

01:17:46.990 --> 01:17:50.152
This is, it's like an off the cuff remark that he said and it's like, why did he mention this?

01:17:50.152 --> 01:17:55.398
But again, it's those, these tiny lessons that we have.

01:17:56.024 --> 01:18:11.645
But the biggest lesson from that has been that, and the more I've studied non-duality, that the your ishtef, like in bhakti, your the one that you worship, that will always be around you.

01:18:11.645 --> 01:18:21.068
Uh, that can never go, and whether you call that god or your guru, or um krishna or the buddha, whatever you want to call it.

01:18:21.068 --> 01:18:24.373
Um, that will always be uh with.

01:18:24.373 --> 01:18:28.269
That's something that you can always connect to, and it's taken me.

01:18:28.269 --> 01:18:42.189
My guru died in 2016, so it's taken me, I would say, a good four or five years to get to this place, but it's brought a lot of peace now.

01:18:42.730 --> 01:19:28.657
Yeah peace now, um, and yeah, yeah, and I'm sure what you, what you recognize like, yeah, in your, in your guru, in your brother, right, like it's something that's also like it's them but it's not them and I'm sure, like you know, you see that in in others and yes in everything and you know these um, you know these, these prophets and mystics and um, these people in history, like they were just symbols within of the divine and of consciousness, just like we are, um that were able to merge with that and um, yeah so yeah.

01:19:28.856 --> 01:19:35.292
So, um, I would like to ask do you have particular people that you find, uh, are role models?

01:19:35.292 --> 01:19:53.430
I know that you know everyone is a guru and everyone is a teacher in a way, but is there any people that you specifically felt a real close affinity to spiritually, or has your growth been more like a an organic one, through your own self and your own inquiry?

01:19:55.213 --> 01:19:57.176
yeah, thanks, that's a good question.

01:19:57.176 --> 01:19:58.819
Um, yeah, it has.

01:19:58.819 --> 01:20:00.226
It has been really.

01:20:00.226 --> 01:20:09.603
It has been really organic, uh, through my own inquiry and, um, that's really been at the forefront.

01:20:09.603 --> 01:20:18.206
But I have had people who have been, of course, like people I look up to, people that you know I feel like have been guides in some way.

01:20:18.206 --> 01:20:37.733
Like you know, I would say, firstly, like my parents, for sure, like um, without them, like I wouldn't be here and I wouldn't be, none of this would have arisen, um, and they've been so helpful in this as well.

01:20:37.773 --> 01:20:44.390
Like around the time when I was in teen you know, teen years I was becoming interested in this stuff.

01:20:44.390 --> 01:21:04.653
Like I think my dad was going through a bit of a midlife crisis and, uh, he stopped drinking and everything which I which I really admired as well, and he read the power of now and all of that, and he gave me that book and that was something I was already a bit interested in this stuff, but just gave more of an opening.

01:21:04.653 --> 01:21:42.743
And you know, then I, I feel like you know people like um, people like eckhart and some other teachers, yeah, have been like huge, huge guides and just not even, not even that, just the people that I've met in human life and in the divine as well, and like I was thinking back to what you said before about your brother and how, like you know, when the body does go, like we are still here, we're actually here on like many levels.

01:21:42.743 --> 01:21:45.333
Like it's very multidimensional.

01:21:45.333 --> 01:21:50.235
There's like so many ways in which we exist.

01:21:50.235 --> 01:21:56.637
And I had a friend who I was thinking like, yeah, I should, should share this.

01:21:56.637 --> 01:22:07.604
But, like I had a friend who also like passed away a couple of years ago and I met him on a retreat actually, and I know he was really connected spiritually.

01:22:07.604 --> 01:22:14.009
Um, he, I think he followed bhakti yoga quite a lot and he would just give me advice here and there.

01:22:14.069 --> 01:22:25.774
Like he was in his 40s and, um, I actually went and did a retreat once actually and, um, some people might be familiar with this.

01:22:25.774 --> 01:22:50.787
You know I'm not saying that people should go to anything, but it was involving plant medicine and it was really profound and you're connecting with a larger spiritual reality and I actually had this experience in there where he actually showed up in it and he was like you know, hey, no, I like he's like.

01:22:50.787 --> 01:22:53.375
Yeah, I know this is weird, cause it was like it was real.

01:22:53.375 --> 01:22:57.792
It was real than real and everyone says that, says this about these.

01:22:57.792 --> 01:23:02.929
You know, these things, if that's what someone decides to do.

01:23:03.009 --> 01:23:07.377
And he showed up and he said I know this feels weird, but kind of like keep going.

01:23:07.377 --> 01:23:47.559
And he was like encouraging and I remember I just had like tears rolling down my eyes and I've heard about this with people, not not even through, um, natural medicine, just through like dreams, and you know, maybe you've experienced that yourself in some way is like some form of like connection from the outside which is really here, and that these things just like create more of an understanding that, yeah, you know, um, there is magic and there is like you know, like we all are connected, even beyond this human life.

01:23:47.960 --> 01:23:59.255
So, yeah, yeah, I totally agree, and one thing I was going to say is kudos to your dad for giving you the power of now when you were a teen, because you know what.

01:23:59.255 --> 01:24:15.000
I truly believe that kids deserve to have a spiritual education as well as, uh, you know, worldly education, uh that the the government sets for the for each country, their syllabus and all that.

01:24:15.000 --> 01:24:21.094
But I think spirituality should also be taught, um, on a mainstream level.

01:24:21.094 --> 01:24:28.507
Um, maybe not on the mainstream level, but at least within their homes, um, you know, with that parent even schools.

01:24:28.769 --> 01:24:31.497
I I used to I used to think that, like, why is this not?

01:24:31.497 --> 01:24:33.145
Why is this not taught in schools?

01:24:33.145 --> 01:24:34.550
Like why is this not a subject?

01:24:34.550 --> 01:24:41.655
Like I probably would have loved that and needed that, yeah, in school, because it really wasn't working out for me at the time.

01:24:41.655 --> 01:24:49.836
And, um, you know, like, yeah, it would be great to see something like that in the future.

01:24:49.836 --> 01:24:59.426
And it might not even be, might not even be needed, because there's just more of a natural understanding there yeah, yeah, I hope so.

01:24:59.487 --> 01:25:00.729
So that that's one thing.

01:25:00.729 --> 01:25:03.712
Um, that I think is really good.

01:25:03.712 --> 01:25:06.636
Um, and I'm grateful for my parents as well.

01:25:06.636 --> 01:25:08.958
Um, for that.

01:25:08.958 --> 01:25:13.310
You know where spirituality was always in my life.

01:25:13.310 --> 01:25:18.886
I didn't have to kind of look for it, you know, and I think I'm very grateful for that.

01:25:18.886 --> 01:25:19.966
Um.

01:25:19.966 --> 01:25:27.132
And then um, and yeah, just going on to the point, yes, I totally feel.

01:25:27.594 --> 01:25:46.198
I mean, there's been times when I felt like my guru has been with me in certain situations and actually it's actually more of the coincidence that happened when he was alive, that really I could not explain.

01:25:46.198 --> 01:25:50.229
Coincidence happened when he was alive, that really I could not explain.

01:25:50.229 --> 01:26:01.078
Like there'd be times when I'd be thinking about him and I'd be in tears, um, just, you know the joy of being connected to him, and he would like send me a whatsapp message that morning, or I'd just be like, oh, how are you doing?

01:26:01.078 --> 01:26:05.753
And I'm thinking, how does he know that I'm thinking about him?

01:26:05.753 --> 01:26:11.771
Uh, and that's why I think energy does travel far more than we, um can understand.

01:26:12.613 --> 01:26:46.331
Um, and then the other aspect that I've kind of felt more of is um, so now like, uh, so his daughter's now taken over the spiritual institution now taken over the spiritual institution, and um, and like, sometimes I, when I look at her, I feel his presence and I'm like this is, you know, sometimes I try to be so rational in my head that, um, then I have these experiences that I'm like why do I, why do I even bother being so rational, um, when that that can be blocking me from experiencing something much deeper?

01:26:47.332 --> 01:26:55.560
Um, so, and that only happens if we truly understand that everything is formless.

01:26:55.560 --> 01:27:10.430
In my opinion, when we so stuck on form, um, we will limit it in many ways and be like this can happen, that can happen, that can't happen, that can't happen, and that's what happens.

01:27:10.430 --> 01:27:36.798
But when we allow the experience of life to just be formless and boundless, you know, then, as you mentioned, the aliveness that's felt is beyond description, beyond the bliss that actually comes from it, the joy that comes from that is nothing can come close to that.

01:27:36.798 --> 01:27:37.244
I know that.

01:27:37.244 --> 01:27:53.813
You know, uh, one may find joy from alcohol and, um, from substances of some kind, but I would say, if you've not, if, if you want to try something that's really potent, have spiritual bliss.

01:27:54.594 --> 01:28:00.068
There's nothing, even that, even even those things can be like bliss for that person.

01:28:00.068 --> 01:28:03.592
Yes, like yes you know, that that's I have.

01:28:03.592 --> 01:28:23.185
I know friends have many that are, like you know, so alive and in bliss, and it's like you kind of, at least the journey here, like go past that place of like, oh, this is the right thing or wrong thing, and then you just feel this connection and love yeah, I agree with you like it it is.

01:28:23.386 --> 01:29:06.027
It's like the aliveness that you can feel, which is like I would describe it as like a similar feeling, when, when you feel those ecstatic moments in your life, you know when you're like really in love with someone or you're having like a peak experience, or you know, you just feel so much joy that everything, everything falls away and it's like it's yeah, like like you were saying, it's it's when we, when we take the form too seriously, just like you know it's paradoxical like when we take it too seriously, we can get really lost in it and that's when we suffer.

01:29:06.027 --> 01:29:22.407
But it is a bit of a game in some way, and for the game to appear there has to be dualities, right, like um that's how the the appearance of separation appears, and just like a movie, you know um.

01:29:23.247 --> 01:29:31.390
When there's, you know, tom cruise running down a street in a high-speed chase, you know we can get really like.

01:29:31.390 --> 01:29:33.278
You know, heart starts beating like.

01:29:33.297 --> 01:29:45.451
Get really like some people maybe, uh, panicky um yeah but we can kind of forget, we can forget that we're actually the person in the seat, uh, watching the movie.

01:29:45.451 --> 01:30:11.957
And so when we can return to that like knowing that it's an appearance, like it's an appearance that we're like immersing within, like awareness, consciousness being the thing that's immersing within space-time, just like on the movie screen, how it like appears, like there's distance, you know the sounds, everything, the characters, everything that the characters then then we can come back to peace, knowing that you know we are awareness.

01:30:11.957 --> 01:30:25.597
We are the ones sitting in the seat now here, but, paradoxically, like we also want that, like consciousness also wants that right To like to go into the game and like have that experience and do that.

01:30:25.597 --> 01:30:27.329
Otherwise, what's the whole point of it?

01:30:27.329 --> 01:30:46.256
And I do believe like what's happening in the, the play of life and form here, is like we can learn to like have more fun with it now and create it into a like better movie, if that makes sense if yes, so yeah a better sequel

01:30:47.858 --> 01:30:51.122
um yeah, um, that's.

01:30:51.122 --> 01:30:55.167
That's I really um, I really really loved what you said.

01:30:55.167 --> 01:30:58.837
That's something worth contemplating upon.

01:30:58.837 --> 01:31:20.069
Um, and it's interesting because in the upanishads, which is um, I'm sure you must have come across them, um, you know, they say roughly 5 000 years ago, uh, the ancient rishis were meditating and they were asked a question you know, why did brahman create the universe?

01:31:20.069 --> 01:31:20.930
What was the point of?

01:31:20.930 --> 01:31:23.953
Uh, consciousness creating this whole world?

01:31:23.953 --> 01:31:32.091
And um, and the answer was one of the answers were just the joy of rediscovering itself.

01:31:32.091 --> 01:32:16.887
That's why and I think that's true like um, yeah, and yeah, it sounds like again paradoxical, but I think truth is paradoxical, I think reality, life is paradoxical, um, but, yeah, the the fact that when you realize that it's just god finding itself, uh, it becomes, I know it becomes a bit more uh, interesting, um yeah like then, then you don't, you don't get stuck in the weeds of why did I think that answer it's not deal, it's not, you know, like the zen koans, it's not for your rational mind, it's for something beyond that.

01:32:17.328 --> 01:32:25.811
So when I heard the answer, or read the answer that it's just a joy for rediscovering itself, it just made so much sense.

01:32:25.811 --> 01:32:27.676
But it transcended the mind.

01:32:27.676 --> 01:32:33.271
If that, if that makes sense, um, yeah, so I really loved what you said.

01:32:33.271 --> 01:32:35.496
That that just sparked that thought.

01:32:35.496 --> 01:32:39.006
Really, um, yeah, it's beautiful.

01:32:39.006 --> 01:32:49.537
Um, uh, and yeah, I really love movies that take me on that immersive experience, like inception and uh, even like interstellar.

01:32:49.537 --> 01:33:04.717
Um, yeah, like, even the really hard ones, like tenet was a really like christopher nolan has a knack for doing that, but even tenet I really loved because it was messing, messing around with time so much that I just loved that.

01:33:05.306 --> 01:33:11.030
Um, yeah, and some of these, you know, not even movies, like art pieces they can actually like.

01:33:11.351 --> 01:33:41.751
I think the ones that the ones that have so much effect and beauty, are the ones that like bring the person into that experience and almost like collaborate with what they're watching or what they're looking at and like um, you know, we we went yesterday to in sydney like the modern art museum and there was like this um, there was this piece in one of the rooms that was like it was dark, it was like really dark room and there was like smoke everywhere.

01:33:41.770 --> 01:33:49.554
And then there was like a projector with a light that was like a sphere, it was like a cone shining out and you could see all this smoke through it.

01:33:49.554 --> 01:34:00.305
But then when you went into the sphere or near the projector, everyone that goes in like you want to take photos and you want to be creative and play with it.

01:34:00.305 --> 01:34:21.753
And we were saying after, like that's the most, that's the one you remember, that's the most, that's the one you remember, that's the one that is like so powerful, because then you're interacting, you know, you're not just the one like seeing the art, you're just like this world, you're like playing with the form and you're creating with it.

01:34:22.976 --> 01:34:24.890
So, yeah, you're the artist as well as the art.

01:34:25.612 --> 01:34:26.033
Yeah, yeah.

01:34:30.525 --> 01:34:32.488
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

01:34:32.488 --> 01:34:35.673
Um, so, yeah, I think, um, it's been a great conversation.

01:34:35.673 --> 01:34:36.815
We'll wrap it up.

01:34:36.815 --> 01:34:44.171
Um, but um, what I want to ask is how can people um find you?

01:34:44.171 --> 01:34:49.220
Is there anything that you're offering right now which people can sign up for?

01:34:49.220 --> 01:34:56.136
Um and um and any like concluding remarks that you want to give as well?

01:34:57.198 --> 01:35:14.470
yeah, so I have my youtube channel where I do most of my sharings uh noah rata um and my instagram where I have my sharings and lots of memes to uh keep it fun and you, you might like that, you might not, and that's okay.

01:35:14.890 --> 01:35:18.686
Um, and you might like my videos, you might not, and that's okay as well.

01:35:18.686 --> 01:35:24.895
Um, but yeah, and I'm not really at the moment, I'm just creating.

01:35:24.895 --> 01:35:34.416
I'm just creating what I love to share and create and yeah, let's see what happens.

01:35:34.416 --> 01:35:35.930
And thanks for having me on.

01:35:35.930 --> 01:35:38.170
I really enjoyed it.

01:35:38.170 --> 01:35:44.564
It's been a really good conversation and, yeah, maybe we can like come back to it in the future or something.

01:35:44.685 --> 01:35:46.311
Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely.

01:35:46.311 --> 01:35:48.168
I've really enjoyed this conversation.

01:35:48.168 --> 01:35:52.998
I've learned a lot, um, and most of all, it's just um.

01:35:52.998 --> 01:36:02.390
I think it's nice to speak to someone also where you, you know um will understand what you're talking about.

01:36:02.390 --> 01:36:07.945
And, um, and I felt that with you, I felt that with your videos.

01:36:07.945 --> 01:36:09.349
I mean, I really enjoy watching your videos.

01:36:09.349 --> 01:36:25.091
They come up, um, normally when I wake up in the morning, so, uh, I see that, um, and for some reason, youtube like highlights your videos for me, so, uh, which is really sweet, so I get to see it, um, and I've learned a lot from them.

01:36:25.351 --> 01:36:33.712
I really liked a few interviews that he did with Gary and, just in general, I think the wisdom that you share one.

01:36:33.712 --> 01:37:02.694
I think what I really love and I've mentioned this is that the humanness aspect, the humanity that you have, really speaks, and I think that's what really has drawn me to listen to you, and I know that will be the case for my audience as well, because sometimes spirituality can be all airy-fairy or it can be really dry, and I think you've got a good balance.

01:37:02.694 --> 01:37:26.715
Got a good balance and there's um, and you know your wisdom that you share most of all, um is one that can help others to transcend, um, their limited self that they've, um, that they hold to be true, and I think, um, if anyone gets a breakthrough, um, you're one of the avenues that can help them.

01:37:26.715 --> 01:37:30.940
So, um, so, but thank you, thank you for coming onto the show.

01:37:35.386 --> 01:37:41.363
I know that we had, uh, you know, a lot of people don't know behind the scenes, but we had quite a few, uh, scheduling issues, um, to make it happen.

01:37:41.363 --> 01:37:43.809
That's okay and that's in my human life.

01:37:43.809 --> 01:38:03.493
Probably something I'm not as good at is like being kind of consistent with with emailing and all of that, and some people close to me and again, this could just be something I'm telling myself, but you know, might know that, like, you know, you know, getting back to some people, you know, on time and thank you for what you were saying.

01:38:03.493 --> 01:38:19.680
That was really nice and, yeah, we all are, we're all in this together and you know, yes, we're individuals, but also you are me and I am you and we're all here to learn and we're all learning in this human world.

01:38:19.680 --> 01:38:22.875
But, like, we're also opening to something really beautiful.

01:38:22.875 --> 01:38:33.952
And, yeah, thank you for what you do as well and, um, you know you have done a lot of amazing podcasts and videos.

01:38:33.952 --> 01:38:42.199
Um, I've tried to watch some when I can and, yeah, thanks for having me on thank you, thank you.