Speaker 1: While his words were filled with wisdom, it's honestly how
Speaker 1: he lived that taught me the most. Watching him move
Speaker 1: through the world was like witnessing someone in constant prayer,
Speaker 1: through presence, through humility, and through joy. You can only
Speaker 1: truly touch someone's heart if you live in full integrity.
Speaker 1: And integrity means your thoughts, your words, and your actions
Speaker 1: are all in alignment. I'm Radi Wukiah and on my
Speaker 1: podcast A Really Good Cry, we embrace the messy and
Speaker 1: the beautiful, providing a space for raw, unfiltered conversations that
Speaker 1: celebrate vulnerability and allow you to tune in to learn,
Speaker 1: connect and find comfort together. Hey everyone, and welcome back
Speaker 1: to this week's episode of A Really Good Cry. Now,
Speaker 1: this week, I'm going to do something a little bit
Speaker 1: different because for the past two weeks, we have had
Speaker 1: our spiritual teacher, his Holiness, rather than Swami, living with us,
Speaker 1: and I feel so incredibly blessed and so deeply fortunate
Speaker 1: that I got to spend this time with him, and
Speaker 1: so I wanted to share some of the lessons that
Speaker 1: I learned from him, his his words, his wisdom, and
Speaker 1: honestly just the reflections that I've had from being in
Speaker 1: his presence, and I feel like sharing these things is
Speaker 1: part of my reciprocation and my way of showing gratitude
Speaker 1: to him by sharing his words, his wisdom and everything
Speaker 1: that I've learned with other people in hopes that it
Speaker 1: helps to connect them to their own spiritual path. And
Speaker 1: I really think that the things that I will share
Speaker 1: will hopefully help you do that. So let me give
Speaker 1: you a little bit of background about rather Thanaswami, because
Speaker 1: I know I've spoken about him a lot, but if
Speaker 1: this is the first time you're hearing about him, he
Speaker 1: has been among for over fifty years. He is a
Speaker 1: spiritual teacher, an author, a philanthropist and a humanitarian. He
Speaker 1: has a food distribution initiative called Anamorta that serves a
Speaker 1: million meals every single day to people in India. His
Speaker 1: social initiative Godvid and Eco Village. This is actually the
Speaker 1: Ushrom that me and Jay visit every single year. We
Speaker 1: go there to start our new year and it is
Speaker 1: just one of the most beautiful places ever. It's what
Speaker 1: I imagine India used to be in like back in
Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of years ago. It is in the
Speaker 1: middle of a forest, there is a beautiful ushroom where
Speaker 1: you can meditate with monks, where you can learn from them.
Speaker 1: But there's also a beautiful Arababic spa where you can
Speaker 1: get physical treatments done. But on top of that, the
Speaker 1: United Nations have actually recognized the eco village as a
Speaker 1: model of sustainable living. So what they do is they
Speaker 1: create all these amazing processes, and they create all these
Speaker 1: systems because a lot of the monks there are actually
Speaker 1: from it, which is the equivalent of MIT in the US.
Speaker 1: So they are so smart, so accomplished, and they use
Speaker 1: all of their skills in service to others. So whether
Speaker 1: it's turning sewage water into drinkable water and teaching villages
Speaker 1: around the area how to utilize that, or whether there's
Speaker 1: different sustainable farming systems that farmers in different villages can
Speaker 1: use to make money for their family. They kind of
Speaker 1: use this as the hub of creating that technology and
Speaker 1: creating those systems, which is actually amazing. But honestly, beyond
Speaker 1: all these accolades and all these accomplishments, what makes him
Speaker 1: truly extraordinary is just the way that he lives. He
Speaker 1: lives with such deep compassion, radical humility, and unwavering service
Speaker 1: to other people. So rather Than Aswami is also the
Speaker 1: author of A Journey Home, and he tells his story
Speaker 1: about being born Jewish in Chicago during the counterculture and
Speaker 1: deciding to go on a journey of self discovery all
Speaker 1: across the world from Chicago, traveling to Europe, through Iran,
Speaker 1: through Pakistan. He's been through so many places and all
Speaker 1: the way to India where he was mainly hitchhiking his
Speaker 1: way across and really with the desire to explore and
Speaker 1: dive into different religions and practices and paths, with the
Speaker 1: deep desire to just find himself, to understand the divine,
Speaker 1: to understand what his spiritual connection was, and what his
Speaker 1: purpose in life is. And I won't give too many spoilers,
Speaker 1: but rather Than Aswami and his book have significantly changed
Speaker 1: and impacted my life in a way that nothing or
Speaker 1: nobody else has. It really changed the trajectory of my
Speaker 1: life once I read that book. But while he was
Speaker 1: living here, every single night we'd walk together or sometimes
Speaker 1: we'd just sit, sometimes in silence, sometimes in deep conversation
Speaker 1: for hours, and while his words were filled with wisdom,
Speaker 1: it's honestly how he lived that taught me the most.
Speaker 1: Watching him move through the world was like witnessing someone
Speaker 1: in constant prayer, through presence, through humility, and through joy.
Speaker 1: I remember one time in a class years ago, when
Speaker 1: I first started listening to him speak, he said, you
Speaker 1: can only truly touch someone's heart if you live in
Speaker 1: full integrity, and integrity means your thoughts, your words, and
Speaker 1: your actions are all in alignment. At that time, I
Speaker 1: understood that intellectually and theoretically, but it was only when
Speaker 1: I got to observe him that I realized that it
Speaker 1: is actually possible, Like it's actually possible to connect your
Speaker 1: thoughts to your words and then have actions that represent both.
Speaker 1: And sometimes for myself when I reflected on that, many
Speaker 1: times where my actions don't meet my thoughts or the
Speaker 1: thoughts that I'm having, even if I have a deep
Speaker 1: intention to do something, my actions will show something different.
Speaker 1: And actually, when all those three have been in alignment,
Speaker 1: you know, in ebbs and flows. In my life, I've
Speaker 1: noticed such a shift in energy, so such a shift
Speaker 1: in focus and a shift in the ability to truly
Speaker 1: connect to people. But imagine living with that day in
Speaker 1: day out, having that true integrity every single day. How
Speaker 1: deeply you can live your life, but then also how
Speaker 1: deeply you can impact other people's lives too. And the
Speaker 1: one thing that I absolutely love, and I think is
Speaker 1: what attracted me to his way of living from the beginning,
Speaker 1: was that he's never preached. He doesn't tell people how
Speaker 1: to behave He just embodies it, and in doing so,
Speaker 1: he makes you want to be better. He makes you
Speaker 1: want to live a better life, to be better to
Speaker 1: other people, not out of guilt or pressure, but from
Speaker 1: pure inspiration. And so his entire life has been devoted
Speaker 1: to sharing God and goodness in every single breath and
Speaker 1: every day that he lives, in every moment when he's
Speaker 1: interacting with people. And I don't know about you, but
Speaker 1: I've never seen that around me, and so when I
Speaker 1: experienced that, it was like a breath of fresh air,
Speaker 1: but also felt like a glimpse into what the possibilities
Speaker 1: are when you truly deeply connect to God, to nature
Speaker 1: and devote yourself to practices that allow for that. And
Speaker 1: so on one of our walks we start talking about
Speaker 1: the true meaning of religion and spirituality and how a
Speaker 1: lot of the time, unfortunately religion ends up separating people
Speaker 1: and causing turbulence between people rather than uniting them, and
Speaker 1: sometimes when being part of something like that, you end
Speaker 1: up losing sight of what true divinity means. And so
Speaker 1: he said that true religion and true spirituality isn't about
Speaker 1: claiming superiority through your label. It's not I'm Hindu, or
Speaker 1: I'm Christian or I'm Muslim, and therefore I have love
Speaker 1: of God. It's about actually striving for that love and
Speaker 1: living a life that makes you worthy of that love,
Speaker 1: not by perfection but through sincere effort. And you know what,
Speaker 1: I feel like that makes so much sense because if
Speaker 1: you decide to hang around with a whole bunch of accountants,
Speaker 1: it doesn't make you an accountant. You have to do
Speaker 1: the work to actually become one. And so in the
Speaker 1: same way, when you belong to a religion, it doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that you've arrived spiritually. It doesn't mean that you've
Speaker 1: become enlightened once you join that community. But sometimes our
Speaker 1: spiritual identity can actually distance us from the essence of
Speaker 1: the teachings because we end up confusing group belonging with
Speaker 1: personal transformation. And so the question isn't do I belong
Speaker 1: to a community? It is this community helping me to transform,
Speaker 1: and that can be applied into a religious community, a
Speaker 1: spiritual community, a friendship group. But I think that's really
Speaker 1: important when it comes to practicing a religion. I think
Speaker 1: if there's a community or group that's constantly telling you
Speaker 1: you're better because of this designation, it's not necessarily sharing
Speaker 1: the word of God in that way. Because you know,
Speaker 1: one thing I also really appreciate about rather Naswami is
Speaker 1: he always quotes and shares from different religions, not ever
Speaker 1: to criticize them, but in a total sense of adoration
Speaker 1: and love and understanding of that practice and actually wanting
Speaker 1: to take on those teachings and imbibe them in his life.
Speaker 1: And he was sharing about how the number one kind
Speaker 1: of principle of Christianity is to love God and the
Speaker 1: second one is to love your neighbor, and one cannot
Speaker 1: be true without the other. And so if you are
Speaker 1: not loving to the people around you, no matter what religion, past,
Speaker 1: or race they are, then how are you able to
Speaker 1: love God? Because through loving your community is the opportunity
Speaker 1: you're being given to actually show your love for God.
Speaker 1: And so I thought that was really interesting because a
Speaker 1: lot of the time when you look in the world,
Speaker 1: a lot of things are done in the name of God,
Speaker 1: but sometimes it's because there's been mistranslation of what loving
Speaker 1: God actually looks like, and it's been taken and put
Speaker 1: into a sense of superiority rather than connection how to
Speaker 1: actually love everybody around us. And so I think that's
Speaker 1: a really important lesson to learn and something I always
Speaker 1: reflect on whether my community is creating connection with people
Speaker 1: or whether it's taking me away from people or creating
Speaker 1: anger or aggression or negative emotions towards another group of people.
Speaker 1: And if it is, then it's a place for me
Speaker 1: to reflect and think, maybe this is not actually doing
Speaker 1: what I want it to be doing, and maybe this
Speaker 1: community isn't the community for me. Maybe the path is,
Speaker 1: but maybe the community isn't. And so I think that's
Speaker 1: a vital part of when you're trying to find your people,
Speaker 1: or the religion or the spiritual path that you are
Speaker 1: going down, or a spiritual teacher. Is this person helping
Speaker 1: me to love others more or to dislike other people more?
Speaker 1: And I think that's a really simple way of being
Speaker 1: able to tell whether it's something that is for you
Speaker 1: or not for you. I'm that's saying, well, rather than
Speaker 1: Sam started speaking about the word spiritual and that the
Speaker 1: word spiritual is obviously spirit and ritual. And he said
Speaker 1: that these days many people focus only on the spirit,
Speaker 1: the intention, and the feeling, and they dismiss ritual. Many
Speaker 1: people are turning away from going to churches, going to
Speaker 1: places of worships, doing the process it required to actually
Speaker 1: build commitment and love for gods. But both are actually essential.
Speaker 1: Ritual is actually what grounds our spirit and it anchors
Speaker 1: us in practice. Without it, intention can just float away. Sometimes.
Speaker 1: You know, you can have the intention for a lot
Speaker 1: of things, but how can you take intention and create action. Well,
Speaker 1: taking intention and creating action is in the ritual. And
Speaker 1: he stopped in front of a set of solar panels
Speaker 1: and he started smiling, and we were just looking out
Speaker 1: these solar panels and he says, you see those solar
Speaker 1: panels over there, and we all said, yeah, we see them.
Speaker 1: He said, they just sit there, open and exposed to
Speaker 1: the sun. They absorb its energy and then they distribute
Speaker 1: it as power in the form of heat or light.
Speaker 1: He said, that's what sadna is. Sadna is our spiritual
Speaker 1: practices or our ritual that we do daily, he goes
Speaker 1: these spiritual practices are how we absorb divine energy and
Speaker 1: our character and our service. That is how we distribute it.
Speaker 1: He reminded us that even in the simple act of
Speaker 1: saying a prayer before eating, no matter what tradition your
Speaker 1: part of, it's actually not just a ritual. It's a
Speaker 1: conscious way to set the heart to enter into devotion
Speaker 1: before we receive anything. And I've really gotten into the
Speaker 1: habit of praying or trying to pray, or remembering to
Speaker 1: pray before I receive anything. So whether I'm receiving an
Speaker 1: award or whether it's on a daily basis where I'm
Speaker 1: receiving the food that I'm about to eat, or waking
Speaker 1: up in the morning and taking a breath and before
Speaker 1: you receive the air that goes into your lungs, remembering
Speaker 1: that it is a gift from nature, from God, from
Speaker 1: the plants around us. If we are present and if
Speaker 1: we're able to see it, and we take a moment
Speaker 1: of prayer before receiving anything, we realize how much we're
Speaker 1: actually getting in our life. And so this practice of prayer,
Speaker 1: it's not just let me just say it really quickly
Speaker 1: before I eat, because it's something I've been told to do. No,
Speaker 1: it's how it sets the consciousness of our heart. It
Speaker 1: sets the intention in our mind to actually receive it
Speaker 1: with gratitude and with devotion and appreciate it in the
Speaker 1: right way. One thing that was actually so incredible to
Speaker 1: witness was the way he associated every single thing with God.
Speaker 1: In some way. It was a much needed reminder that
Speaker 1: what you surround yourself with becomes you. He has immersed
Speaker 1: himself fully, so deeply in service and into the Divine
Speaker 1: that his mind naturally links everything back to God. Whether
Speaker 1: it's a tree, whether it's a solar panel, whether it's
Speaker 1: a song, His heart seems to find meaning, reflection and
Speaker 1: connection to the Divine in some way. It's like when
Speaker 1: you love someone so much, every little thing reminds you
Speaker 1: of them. His love for God is like that. He's
Speaker 1: fully immersed and so he's fully in a God conscious
Speaker 1: mindset every single moment of the day. So whether it's
Speaker 1: relating back to a story that he read in scripture,
Speaker 1: whether it's relating back to a lesson that he's learnt
Speaker 1: through his practices, every single thing, even when we're driving,
Speaker 1: there'd be a billboard and somehow what's written on the billboard,
Speaker 1: he'd connect back to the scriptures in some way, And
Speaker 1: so it made me reflect, what is my consciousness, where
Speaker 1: is my head at most of the time, what is
Speaker 1: my mind link things to? What kind of conversations am
Speaker 1: I having? What am I reading? What am I listening to?
Speaker 1: Who am I spending time with? And weighing that up
Speaker 1: the positives and the negative influences on me. And that
Speaker 1: was the other thing. Every morning when he would wake up,
Speaker 1: we would hear as soon as he woke up, he'd
Speaker 1: be listening to a class on scripture while he was
Speaker 1: in the shower, while he was getting ready, setting his
Speaker 1: intention for the day, absorbing himself in scripture and practice
Speaker 1: throughout the day, being so mindful about how much he eats,
Speaker 1: what he's eating to fuel his body, eating for fuel,
Speaker 1: not for a desire or sense of gratification, and not
Speaker 1: because he has to, not because he feels like he's
Speaker 1: forced to, but because that is how he wants to live.
Speaker 1: And it was incredible to be able to see someone
Speaker 1: who isn't doing the meditation practice or reading or doing
Speaker 1: all the things that I'm trying to do because I
Speaker 1: know it's good for me. But watching someone do it
Speaker 1: because they've got this full taste, this full excitement and
Speaker 1: joy for doing it. And obviously that comes from consistency,
Speaker 1: It comes from showing up every single day, It comes
Speaker 1: from making all the conscious choices every single day towards
Speaker 1: living that life's choosing the things that support that practice,
Speaker 1: support that ritual, supports that way of living, versus going
Speaker 1: against it. But honestly, just seeing that joy in practice
Speaker 1: is possible and that it doesn't just always feel like
Speaker 1: this slug against something, this resistance, that it doesn't just
Speaker 1: feel like a ritual, but it becomes a joyous part
Speaker 1: of your day that is actually desired. Was everything. I
Speaker 1: feel like sometimes we need to see what's possible and
Speaker 1: see someone at the end of the tunnel or the
Speaker 1: light at the end of the tunnel to help encourage
Speaker 1: us to keep doing that. And we all need role
Speaker 1: models in different parts of our life, whether it's in work,
Speaker 1: whether it's in family, whether it's in spirituality. Finding somebody
Speaker 1: who bodies those qualities but also who gives us that
Speaker 1: glimpse of what's possible by doing what we're doing, doing
Speaker 1: the practices and rituals that we're doing, and you know,
Speaker 1: if you're saying there thinking I don't know any monks,
Speaker 1: I don't know any Swamis, I don't know anybody who's
Speaker 1: religious or spiritual like that. I don't have any connection
Speaker 1: to somebody like that. Or if you're trying to increase
Speaker 1: your association with people like that, people who have an
Speaker 1: elevated mindset, it really doesn't have to be a physical connection.
Speaker 1: I think that's where sometimes we go wrong. I can't
Speaker 1: access this person, so how will I learn from them?
Speaker 1: But association doesn't have to be physical. If you think
Speaker 1: about how much you might adore a singer that you've
Speaker 1: been listening to. All you've done is hear their words,
Speaker 1: hear their songs in your car at home, you've just
Speaker 1: been listening to them. Or if there's a book that
Speaker 1: you've read, if you're a huge fan of let's say
Speaker 1: Harry Potter, you've read all the Harry Potter books. You've
Speaker 1: had created a connection to Harry Potter or the author
Speaker 1: just by reading, and so association doesn't have to be physical.
Speaker 1: That is such a myth. You really can learn from
Speaker 1: people just by hearing their words, listening to classes, reading
Speaker 1: their books, and creates such a deep connection with them,
Speaker 1: I remember rather Notaswami was telling a story about his
Speaker 1: spiritual teacher, Shilaproapad, and he said that he only really
Speaker 1: interacted with his spiritual teacher in person a couple of times,
Speaker 1: but he stayed connected purely through listening to his classes
Speaker 1: and reading his books. So even watching someone online, you
Speaker 1: can start off by watching classes, listen to their words,
Speaker 1: reflect on them, journal about them. It can influence you
Speaker 1: so deeply. And that's when I see how I stay
Speaker 1: connected to him even when he's not here physically. I
Speaker 1: feel like I get even a deeper connection to him
Speaker 1: when I'm listening to him every single day online or
Speaker 1: when he's having classes in different places, because he travels
Speaker 1: a lot as part of being a monk. He's a
Speaker 1: traveling monk, so on top of everything that he does,
Speaker 1: he goes where he's needed and he supports the community there,
Speaker 1: and so he'll give classes there or share words of
Speaker 1: wisdom there and they record them and we're able to
Speaker 1: listen to them online. When Ratheransami described meeting his spiritual
Speaker 1: teacher for the first time, he actually says, I'm just
Speaker 1: going to read this because it's so beautiful and it
Speaker 1: really represents how I felt when I met him, which
Speaker 1: is a lovely affirmation, or it really affirmed the way
Speaker 1: that I connected to him and that he was the
Speaker 1: right person to connect to. He said, when I first
Speaker 1: saw schilaproa Pad, he was sitting on a simple cushion,
Speaker 1: speaking so humbly, yet his words pierced through all my
Speaker 1: doubts and fears. It was the first time I saw
Speaker 1: someone live what they preach with such purity. I wept
Speaker 1: without knowing why. He described, feeling overwhelmed by Schulerpropad's humility, clarity,
Speaker 1: and love, qualities that he hadn't seen in any other
Speaker 1: spiritual figure. And that is honestly how I felt with
Speaker 1: rather than Asami when I met him. It really, really
Speaker 1: deeply affirmed how I felt about him and showed me
Speaker 1: that I was on the right path. You know, one
Speaker 1: thing I've struggled with quite a bit has been this
Speaker 1: ability to be truly present with people in the moment.
Speaker 1: It's something that I've really been working on. But I
Speaker 1: can be in a place really trying to look into
Speaker 1: someone's eyes, trying to deeply connect and listen to what
Speaker 1: they're saying, but sometimes my mind just finds it really
Speaker 1: hard to stay focused and be attentive. It can just
Speaker 1: be all over the place physically here, but mentally somewhere
Speaker 1: completely different. But when anyone, any single person, meets rather Naswami,
Speaker 1: it's like he is looking deep into your soul, so
Speaker 1: intensely present in the moment with whoever he interacts with,
Speaker 1: And each person that I've spoken to has had the
Speaker 1: same feeling from the moment they meet him. He doesn't
Speaker 1: rush to fill silences. He's not uncomfortable with stillness, and
Speaker 1: that in itself taught me something that silence is a
Speaker 1: form of trust. You can only be quiet with someone
Speaker 1: you're truly comfortable with. And for him, he is so
Speaker 1: deeply comfortable in himself but also comfortable in the connection
Speaker 1: of soul to soul, heart to heart, not with all
Speaker 1: the layers that cover us up. But he's not meeting
Speaker 1: you as a human or as a physical body, where
Speaker 1: there's so many things that create invisible barriers between us
Speaker 1: before we even speak words. He just sees the soul
Speaker 1: to soul connection, and so I feel like he's just
Speaker 1: so comfortable because he sees God in the other person
Speaker 1: and the God in him, and the God and the
Speaker 1: other person are connecting. He also wastes no words, and somehow,
Speaker 1: in that quiet, whether he says words or doesn't, his
Speaker 1: presence says more than most people say in hours. And
Speaker 1: on the day before he left, we actually gathered a
Speaker 1: group of friends to meet him, and I remember reflecting
Speaker 1: on how different everyone received his words. He spoke, you know,
Speaker 1: for about half an hour, and it was amazing because
Speaker 1: when I spoke to everybody afterwards, the same sentence landed
Speaker 1: differently for each person, depending on their heart, depending on
Speaker 1: what they were going through, how much work they had
Speaker 1: done previously internally, how much therapy they'd been in, and
Speaker 1: what they were ready to actually hear. And I think
Speaker 1: it's because spiritual truth doesn't scream, It just meets you
Speaker 1: gently where you're at. And that's really what the whole
Speaker 1: situation showed me. When I heard everybody's different reflections on
Speaker 1: the same class that they heard, the same words that
Speaker 1: they were all hearing, the amount of people that came
Speaker 1: to me and said, you have no idea, how much
Speaker 1: I needed that, how much clarity I got, or I
Speaker 1: really felt like he was speaking to me after everything
Speaker 1: that I've been through, And I was like, Wow, every
Speaker 1: person's experience has been so different. Not one person has
Speaker 1: been through the same thing, but they feel like he
Speaker 1: is talking directly to them, that it's literally affected their
Speaker 1: hearts so deeply. And that's so magical, isn't it. I
Speaker 1: just I loved hearing that. It just it was really special. Actually, So,
Speaker 1: if we really had to summ up what I've learned
Speaker 1: from being around him in one short phrase, it would
Speaker 1: be this, when you're deeply connected to the divine, to love,
Speaker 1: to patience, and to the right energy, you overflow. You
Speaker 1: are overflowing with the capacity the ability to just give
Speaker 1: to others. And there's never a point in time where
Speaker 1: he says he's tired of being around people helping people.
Speaker 1: You know, usually you go to a social environment and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh God, I need like two days to recover. No,
Speaker 1: he will talk to one hundred people and give them
Speaker 1: just the same amount of attention. He will talk to
Speaker 1: one hundred people and care deeply. You see the compassion
Speaker 1: in his eyes. And I would always say, how is
Speaker 1: he doing this? How does he have this patience to
Speaker 1: listen to people over and over again? How does he
Speaker 1: have the tolerance to accept all the things that people
Speaker 1: say at him? Or to him or around him? How
Speaker 1: does he have that capacity? And I realize it's not
Speaker 1: what he's eating, it's not what that amount of sleep
Speaker 1: he's getting, it's not all those basic human needs. It's
Speaker 1: actually this deep connection to a divine power. It's almost
Speaker 1: like he's got a he's plugged in. You know, he's
Speaker 1: plugged in. He's got this unlimited energy that's being that's
Speaker 1: flowing through him. So it's not actually him, He's just
Speaker 1: an instrument. He is a divine, pure instrument of God's
Speaker 1: message and he's choosing to open himself and be a
Speaker 1: vessel for that. And when I thought about that, I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, so what does that require? Yes, you
Speaker 1: can be plugged in, but have you opened up all
Speaker 1: your channels, all your heart? Are you an open book
Speaker 1: to be able to actually be a full, open, clear
Speaker 1: vessel for God to send his message through? And what
Speaker 1: does that look like? And so think about that yourself.
Speaker 1: What does that look like for you? And I think
Speaker 1: that's really important because it's it's almost like when they
Speaker 1: say you could be receiving all the blessings in your life,
Speaker 1: but do you have the hand your hands open to
Speaker 1: be catching them? And in the same way God may
Speaker 1: be ready to make you, God, the universe, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to call the bigger energy that is the force
Speaker 1: of life. It's all available, ready for you to receive.
Speaker 1: But how are you preparing your body? How are you
Speaker 1: preparing your mind to be a vessel of that and
Speaker 1: to be able to actually handle that energy, to be
Speaker 1: able to handle that message and share it in the
Speaker 1: right mindset with the right people, in the right mood.
Speaker 1: Because what is inside of you will come out of you.
Speaker 1: It's literally, just like simple biology, what you've eaten will
Speaker 1: come out at the other end, what you've absorbed in
Speaker 1: your mind, through your body, through every single sense that
Speaker 1: you have, what will eventually collect in you and also
Speaker 1: overflow through you and out of you. And so really
Speaker 1: it made me think, I've got a lot of work
Speaker 1: to do. We're not in a scared way, in like
Speaker 1: an excited way of Wow. If I do the right things,
Speaker 1: if I channel the right things, if I read the
Speaker 1: right things, if I surround myself with the right people,
Speaker 1: of course, there are going to be so many things
Speaker 1: that come in the way. But with the right intention
Speaker 1: and the desire, He's given me a beautiful insight into
Speaker 1: what that can look like to be a constant, flowing
Speaker 1: instrument of God's love, grace, energy, vitality, energy like you've
Speaker 1: never seen it before. I can't even explain it to you,
Speaker 1: but I've never seen someone with that much energy. He's
Speaker 1: seventy five years old, and he has more energy than
Speaker 1: I've seen most like eighteen year olds have, you know,
Speaker 1: more capacity than I've seen anybody have, and more compassion
Speaker 1: than the whole of America. But together, you know, that's
Speaker 1: just what I continue to strive for to pray for.
Speaker 1: It's like when you don't have it, pray for it,
Speaker 1: kind of like fake it till you make it, but
Speaker 1: don't fake it, practice it, practice it till you make it,
Speaker 1: and pray for it till you get it, and pray
Speaker 1: for the intention to receive it in the right way.
Speaker 1: There's so much we can pray for. I've stopped praying
Speaker 1: for things. I've started praying for, like the vision to
Speaker 1: see the right things, or the intention to be pure
Speaker 1: when I do things. So not just to talk about
Speaker 1: spiritual life, we could talk about things all day, but
Speaker 1: to live one that is so sincere that one day,
Speaker 1: maybe like him, we can become quiet. Invitations for others
Speaker 1: to remember their own spiritual path, and that's really what
Speaker 1: it's about, right, How can I help others see the
Speaker 1: goodness in themselves? How can I help others see their
Speaker 1: own spiritual path, whatever that may be different to mine,
Speaker 1: the same as mine. But how can I help them
Speaker 1: connect to the divine? How can I help them love
Speaker 1: themselves more and others more? How can I help them
Speaker 1: see the world with wonder because every single part of
Speaker 1: the world is so wonderful? And how can I just
Speaker 1: constantly be a vessel of grace and compassion for others,
Speaker 1: what beautiful desire and intention to have? And then trying
Speaker 1: to align our life to support that sounds so easy,
Speaker 1: much easier than it actually is, I'm sure, But we
Speaker 1: can always hope and try, And I think that's the point,
Speaker 1: Always have hope and always keep trying. So I could
Speaker 1: go on about rather Naswami for days and days and hours,
Speaker 1: but I think these lessons are I'm sure, giving you
Speaker 1: so much to think about, and I really recommend going
Speaker 1: through each point and reflecting in your life how it applies.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening and sending your so
Speaker 1: much love. If you want to, you know, find rather Notaswami.
Speaker 1: He is obviously not on his own social media, he
Speaker 1: has a team that looks after it, but he has
Speaker 1: classes on YouTube. He has given talks in so many
Speaker 1: different places, luckily they've been recorded, and his team shares
Speaker 1: a lot of his wisdom on Instagram. And there's also
Speaker 1: this beautiful app called Rise where a lot of his
Speaker 1: teachings live. Try and connect to him and I would
Speaker 1: love to hear your reflections on this as well. Send
Speaker 1: me a DM. I love to receive them. Thanks so
Speaker 1: much guys, and sending you so much love. Have a
Speaker 1: great week.