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🗓️ 17 December 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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0:00.0 | This phase of my life is called returning to God. |
0:08.0 | And I've never felt so grounded or comforted and supported in my life so far. I feel I have arrived on |
0:21.8 | a path where I can focus just on taking small steps in the various avenues of my life while God paves the road in front of me and does the unthinkable and the |
0:37.6 | unimaginable on my behalf. |
0:47.0 | Let me ask you, with everything that is happening around the world right now. |
0:56.0 | There's a lot of inequality, there's a lot of unimaginable cruelties that are being inflicted upon populations around the world. |
1:09.7 | So there are things happening on the macro and there are things happening on the micro and |
1:16.4 | I feel that there is a connection between what is happening on the macro and what is |
1:22.0 | happening on the micro. |
1:24.0 | At least from my vantage point I've noticed that with regards to traditions from India and sort of looking at how things have evolved. |
1:42.0 | When they come from India to the West, usually there's a conceded effort to take out God from the equation. |
1:59.8 | In India, yoga, is connected to devotion and God. |
2:08.0 | When you take out God from yoga, it becomes an exercise, it becomes a flexibility practice in the West. |
2:20.0 | When you take out God from Tantra, it becomes sensuality, sexual practice. |
2:30.0 | When you take out God from Ayurveda, it becomes nutritional advice. |
2:39.8 | In India, on the other hand, God is connected with all these different practices. |
2:50.0 | But I must say that in India God is treated a little bit differently than how it is in the West |
3:01.6 | or at least in the Abrahamical religions. |
3:05.0 | I've noticed that overall a lot of people, especially the young generation, have lost faith or maybe they have lost trust in what they consider |
3:17.7 | God because of X, Y, Z reason. |
3:22.4 | But the truth is that God does not have to be that heavy. Because in |
3:30.1 | India at least you have a choice. It's called Istadevitha which means you get to choose who you |
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