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Your Body is a Vehicle

“Perfection starts with the perfect understanding that I’m not the body. That’s a perfect truth, a perfect realization.” If you don’t know who you are, how could it ever be possible to know where to go and what to do with your life? Without knowing who you are, you cannot solve any of the problems…

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Awareness and Self-awareness

This video discusses, the subject of awareness and self-awareness. Awareness is the natural characteristic of the soul. Just as wetness is an inseparable trait of water, so awareness springs and comes with the spirit soul, the self. There is a distinction, however, between spiritual and material self-awareness. While we are in this world, we are…

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Death of a Loved One: a Conversation with Family Left Behind

Losing a loved one is one of the hardest things we go through in life. A few months ago we recorded episode #29 with Madhavendra Puri dasi as our guest, where she spoke about living with the terminal disease of ALS and facing death without fear. This time we’re joined by a family who suddenly…

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Self Love: The Goal or Self-Imposed Deception

The questions posed in this video relate to the popular subject of “self-love”. We are taught by the mainstream that we should shower our own person with love and make it the basis of our life. The reality is that for love to occur, there need to be two individuals – it’s a double way…

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There is Hope

There is really no hope—for the material body. Nor for the material utopia we sometimes dream about. But there is real hope for you, the spirit soul. What is that hope? Coming to know about and gradually realize your true nature as eternally joyful, vibrant, and youthful. And we can move forward in that direction—if…

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How to Build Internal Strength

We can always find excuses to not do what we should do. But if we’re wishy washy, we are not going to be successful in life. Building internal strength and determination is an absolute necessity, and we do that by following the time-proven and scientific Bhakti Yoga process. Highlights – 0:00 Intro – 1:47 If…

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Hiking Diary #1: Facing an Ice Storm

“The wind picked up more and more. And snow is one thing, because it doesn’t hurt your face, but this was ice-water-snow. So it hurts your face that much you have to cover it all, and when that ice slush hits your glasses those get totally covered as well. But just that feeling of having…

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Lust vs Real Love (Part 2)

We are all hungry for real love, but nothing but the real thing will ever satisfy that hunger. In that way, lust is not bad, it’s just a manifestation of an inner spiritual hunger, a desire that comes out in a perverted or distorted way. The good news is that all we need to do…

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Lust vs Real Love (Part 1)

Real love has become so rare that we barely even know what it means any more. What we think is love is often just lust in disguise; that is, based on mutual exploitation and sense enjoyment. Consequently, instead of living the life we are meant to live—a life of inner satisfaction, contentment and harmony—we suffer…

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Connection Between Food & Mental Health

If we want to feel good and be happy, what we eat is one of the most important factors to consider. We all know that some foods are healthier than others, but fewer know that different foods will impact our mental condition in a specific direction. Depending on what food we eat, we come under…

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