Cultural Integration Fellowship Talk: Challenges We Face, Individually, Collectively and in the World at Large in Light of the Mother's Work

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So the Cultural Integration
Fellowship, which is sponsoring

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this program, was founded by
Doctor Hari Das and Beena

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Chowdhury, And I have a personal
relationship to that.

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When I came to the United States
to take up this work actively in

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the 1970s, there were a few
centers around run by

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forerunners, you could say, who
came here and presented the

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teachings of Shrioro Bindu and
the mother and developed various

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things.
There was the Sedona Center with

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AB Purani.
There was Mata Giri with Eric

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and Sam, and Doctor Tieberg in
Los Angeles and Hari Dawson,

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Vina Chaudhary in San Francisco.
And what's interesting is that

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all of those forerunners had
their own unique perspective on

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things and started various
centers and programs and

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lectures, whatever.
But Doctor Chaudhary had a

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larger vision.
He didn't found a center, he

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started an institution.
And that institution is vibrant,

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active and powerful in the world
today through the California

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Institute as well as the
Cultural Integration Fellowship,

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in bringing this new light into
the world.

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In the 1970s, I was living in
Southern California.

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I had a much closer relationship
with the East West Center at

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that time.
But whenever I came to San

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Francisco, I would meet with
Doctor Chaudhary.

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I've stayed at the Fulton Street
address at the Cultural

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Integration Fellowship when
Pondici gave his talks there.

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I was present at that.
And at various times I assisted

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Dr. Chowdhury to my great
benefit in running his book

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table for him when he was giving
lectures at various places.

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So the relationship was very
close and very formative for me

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as a young person to come into
the sphere of influence of such

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a a luminary.
And so I am so grateful and so

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moved by the work that he has
done and that Bina carried on

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that It's my pleasure to
introduce our speaker today,

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which is Santosh Krinsky on the
platform of the Cultural

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Integration Fellowship.
I don't have any wise words or

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sayings or poems from Doctor
Choudhury which our friend

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Kundan normally presents.
So with that, I think we'll just

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get started.
Oh together may He protect us,

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together may He possess us.
Together may we make unto US

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strength and virility.
May our study be full to us of

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light and power.
May we never hate Ohm.

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Peace, peace, peace.
So the topic today is we live in

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challenging times.
What do we do about it?

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How do we face that?
People think that there are so

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many dangers, so many risks, so
many problems in the world that

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it's impossible for little
people like us to do anything

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about it.
And on the same token, we often

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feel victimized by those forces
and we feel stress, we feel

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anxiety, we're worried.
In many cases, those macro

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forces impact us in our daily
lives, whether we want to

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recognize it or not.
We think, well, I don't get

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involved in politics and I'm not
involved in the whole economic

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thing and I can't solve war and
peace, so I'll just go and do my

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little thing somewhere and try
to pretend it doesn't exist and

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doesn't affect me, but it does.
The pollution of our

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environment, the microplastics
are entering everybody's body

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and changing the DNA of
humanity.

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We may think that we're immune
to that, but we're not.

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It's affecting us and the issues
of war and peace, with the mass

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migrations, with the destruction
that's taking place, the climate

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change, that some people simply
say that if we ignore it, it

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will go away.
But the effects are real.

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Several years ago we had a
pandemic and the whole world

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basically went through a trauma
and societies virtually shut

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down and every person on the
planet was essentially affected

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by it.
Some of these things happen

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because of changed disease
vectors that occur because of

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climate change.
Some of these things occur

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because of the chemicals that
we're putting into our lives and

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into our world.
Some of these things happen

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through pure greed and
mismanagement of the vital

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nature of humanity.
Where some people just feel like

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they have to take over and
control everything and everyone

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else can just starve and suffer
and die.

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So it affects the world, it also
affects us.

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And we say, well, these are
unique challenges, and in a

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certain way they are, but in a
certain other way, they are part

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of the pressure of the birth of
a new consciousness.

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If we look back when things are
going easy, when everything's

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fine and, you know, we've got
money and we've got our lives

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and our friends and our family
and we feel good, we frequently

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forget sadhna.
We frequently forget to focus on

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the spiritual efforts that we
need to make.

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Life is too easy.
We want to kick back and enjoy

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it, and that's OK.
That's that's human nature.

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But it takes that pressure of
circumstance to force us to do

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something different.
In the darkest of times, we find

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that the greatest spiritual
progress can take place.

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Just think about it.
The Bhagwad Gita, one of the

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greatest texts on how to live
human life and take up a

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spiritual standpoint in life,
was presented on the battlefield

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of a great civil war where
teachers and disciples were

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going to be killing each other,
where elders and grandparents

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were going to be killing their
grandchildren and vice versa.

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And yet this great spiritual
text was brought forward at that

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time, coming a little closer to
our age and time in the 19 teens

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we suffered through the war to
end all wars, World War One.

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It was terrible.
It was horrible.

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I don't remember it personally,
but I've heard a council of it.

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And if we look and see, Shrioro
Bindo was alive at that time and

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he didn't feel victimized.
He didn't feel like there was

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nothing he could do.
He was writing the Life Divine

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in the midst of that darkness.
Think about that.

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He was writing the Life Divine.
In World War 2, another one of

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these major disasters, the
Mother took up the challenge and

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started what eventually became
the Mother School, the education

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facility that we see today in
Pondicherry.

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As a result of taking in
families, changing the entire

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nature of the ashram and
expanding her work dramatically.

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We can say, well, OK, she
responded.

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She didn't look like a victim
there, she responded to it.

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I won't get into the action that
Trioral Bindo was taking from

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his room.
The focus he made on bringing

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down and focusing a greater
light to confront that greatest

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darkness.
But it was there he rose to that

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challenge, and he met that
challenge with spiritual

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development and growth, not just
for himself, but for humanity.

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During that time, Trioro Binda
was writing Savitri, a legend

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and a symbol.
What better answer to the Nazi

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Holocaust than to bring down the
light that Savitri represents

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for all of humanity and its
future?

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During the 1950s, we had the
Cold War, we had nuclear bombs

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being tested.
We had the Korean War, we had

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all kinds of cataclysms that
were intensifying the pressure

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in our world, and during the
1950's the mother declared the

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descent of the Super mental
consciousness into the material

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world.
How do we understand these

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juxtapositions between great
darkness and consciousness?

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During the 1960s, worldwide
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Societies were thrown into
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There were riots, there were
mass protests, there was the

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Vietnam War and its effects all
over the world, and the mother

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founded Oroville.
In each instance, people

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experienced tremendous pressure,
and the response was to go

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deeper, to dig deeper, to focus
more intensely on the birth of

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the new consciousness that
needed to come about.

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You know, I'm reminded of
Charles Dickens in his Tale of

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Two Cities.
He wrote, it was the best of

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times, it was the worst of
times.

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And that pretty much summarizes
it for us.

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So we think that we're living in
a time of great upheaval and

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disaster and difficulty and we
don't know what's going to

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happen.
That's true.

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We are.
And that's our opportunity to

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step up to the birth of the new
consciousness.

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The the challenges we face are
unable to be solved by the

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physical consciousness, by the
vital consciousness, or even by

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the mental consciousness.
When we try to do that with the

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mental consciousness, we come up
with gridlock.

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We come up with conflicting
ideas that essentially stop each

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other from acting.
And then the solution to that in

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many people's minds is let's
have a dictator who can just

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tell us what to do and we'll all
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That's not a solution.
It doesn't solve humanity's

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problem.
It's simply creates another

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mental opportunity for
unintended consequences and

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failures.
So at the same time, if we look

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around the world, we see
particularly young people

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yearning for something new,
something different, for a new

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consciousness, for a spiritual
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They abandoned the traditional
churches and they take up

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spiritual practices, whether
it's yoga or Zen or the Chinese

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martial arts or whatever it
might be, because they are

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seeking.
They feel this urge to do

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something different, to grow in
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And this aspiration leads to
what Trior Obindo called the

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adventure of consciousness.
However people take it up and

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whatever method or practice or
option they choose, they are

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exploring consciousness and
they're doing it because they

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can't do otherwise.
They feel that pressure.

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The Mother called for people of
goodwill, whoever they are, not

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devotees of Srioro Bindu and the
Mother necessarily, but people

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of goodwill.
She said the world is preparing

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for a big change.
Will you help?

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What is that change?
Is it a new economic system?

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Is it a new political system?
Is it a new way of creating

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technology that's going to
magically solve our problems?

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No, it's none of those things.
It's the birth of a new

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consciousness that is based in
what Trioro Bindo called the

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Super mental.
Essentially meaning it is the

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consciousness at the next stage
above the mind.

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And this process is part of the
evolution of nature.

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We see life evolving out of
matter, we see mind evolving out

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of life, and we see the Super
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And this is the natural
progression.

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The the issue, or the problem if
you will, is that the pressures

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we're under are existential
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They're pressures that lead us
into what we currently see as

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the 6th planetary die off.
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The world, it's an enormous,
fast changing, powerful

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destructive force that can
destroy humanity and we can't

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wait for the long March of
evolution to accomplish this.

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Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
recognize that, and they said

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that through conscious
participation, through yoga,

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through the individual focus, we
can speed up within ourselves

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the natural, slow evolutionary
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And therefore, to meet the
challenge of the times, we are

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all called upon to help to
practice the yoga, to integrate

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this spiritual principle so
deeply embedded in our lives

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that it radiates out from us.
We've all heard of the 100th

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monkey phenomenon, where a
monkey was washing his fruit and

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another monkey took it up and
another one in the same group,

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and then at a certain point
enough monkeys were doing it in

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that group that the whole
world's monkey started washing

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their fruit.
Now whether this is factual or

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some kind of urban legend, it
doesn't really matter because

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the principle is the same.
We live in one unified sphere of

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consciousness, and the more
people that take up this

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practice, the more people who
actually try to live according

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to the force that is descending,
a supra mental force, who try to

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understand the principles of
harmony, the principles of

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collaboration, the principles of
oneness, and who try to live

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according to that, the more
chance we have of creating a

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shield for the world from these
destructive forces.

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Each evolutionary stage involved
tremendous cataclysmic changes,

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and some people say, well, what
can we do to stop all these

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changes?
Actually, some of these changes

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are part of the evolutionary
process.

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When life evolved out of matter,
various forms of matter were.

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Radically changed.
They were no longer what they

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were when they started.
When mind evolved out of life,

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life also changed and matter
changed.

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And now we dig into the genetic
code and we do all kinds of gene

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splicing and we design new
things, we create new things, we

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create new forms of matter.
Microsoft the other day came out

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and said they've developed a new
form of, of matter other than

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the ones that we're used to.
Someone else found out that

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light was now able to be
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just the three or four that
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So mind changes life and matter,
and we have to expect that the

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Super mind, the Super mental
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matter itself.
How is it going to do that?

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What impact does it have?
We saw in World War 2 that the

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cities of Germany were totally
destroyed through day and night,

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carpet bombing, total
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powerful society.
That doesn't justify the

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suffering, but it points out
that in some cases, in most

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cases, you have to remove
obstacles that our habits, that

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our ways of doing things that
our institutions have created

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that are no longer solutions to
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They say that humanity is always
fighting the last war, not the

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next one, and it's the same way
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societies and consciousness and
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We're trained as young children
and all through our lives to

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live a certain way based on the
institutions and the forms that

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have accreted over time and
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And yet these very forms, in
many cases are are the obstacles

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to the next evolution.
And so our challenge is, can we

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find ways to evolve without
necessarily disrupting the whole

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world with suffering and change
those institutions?

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Or are the cataclysmic type of
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the way of the divine to clear
the deck, so to speak, so that

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the new consciousness can
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Now there's probably some truth
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So it's something for us to to
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Not all destruction is bad if it
is taking away things that are

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hindering the next step.
It needs to be done now to to

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give sort of a gruesome example
of in the 1700s in France they

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had a king and they had
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everything and the people were
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They were totally destitute.
They had no political power,

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they had no economic power.
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of ease and joy, with endless
amounts of money they could

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spend on frivolous things.
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so aggrieved with their own
poverty and destitution and

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suffering that they undertook
what we know of as the French

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Revolution.
And they employed a destructive

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technique called Madame le
Guillotine to ensure that those

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aristocrats could not retake and
regain that power over them.

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Now, I'm not a revolutionary in
the sense of lopping off

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people's heads, but I use that
as an example of what happens to

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forward change in the world.
Now we can see and we can we can

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even argue that the people who
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aristocrats were gone had their
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In fact, they reproduced a lot
of the abuses at their level

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that the former king and
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grew up in that system.
They didn't evolve beyond the

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system.
They simply replaced the rulers

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of the system.
And so that was not a solution.

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We see today in the world
retrogressive forces, forces

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that say we want to go back to
the way it was 50 years ago or

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100 years ago.
That was such a better time.

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Well, what they're really saying
is that change has moved so

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quickly in our society that they
cannot address it or adapt to

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it.
They have a conservative

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mindset, habituated and
acculturated in a particular way

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of seeing and doing things.
And the fact that life in the

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1920s and life today are so
different than people born in

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the 1920s who are still alive,
find it virtually impossible to

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recognize the world and and deal
with it.

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They feel lost.
They feel like what is going on?

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Everything is moving so quickly.
We've got rocket ships, we go to

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the moon.
We've got atomic weapons and

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we've got threats.
We've got genetic engineering.

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We've got pandemics.
What what's going on here?

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We've got technology we can't
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We've got AI that is able to,
I'll think most of us.

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So of course, people who grew up
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that societal background, in
that economic and political

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background find it impossible.
It's like, well, back in those

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days we didn't have black people
running things.

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We didn't have women out there
making themselves known in the

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society.
We didn't have all those things.

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These are just terrible things.
These people think they're not

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terrible things.
They're progress of humanity

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recognizing our inherent oneness
and the oneness of our mental,

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vital and physical capabilities,
regardless of the physical form

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that we happen to take.
But that resistance creates a

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lot of problems.
And the reason it creates

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problems is that essentially
these are the people with the

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power.
They've got the government in

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their hands, they make the laws,
they enforce the laws, they've

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got policing power, they've got
economic power.

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And those who have used that and
developed and implemented these

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new technologies have tremendous
powers of control over all of

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the workings of society.
And so they think the solution

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to all this is to suppress all
these progressive things that

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are going on and create a new
aristocracy and a new

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dictatorship.
And they think that by doing

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that, the world will be a better
place, a better place 100 years

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ago.
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It isn't going to happen.
It's not the movement and trend

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of history.
So the mother says the world is

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preparing for a big change.
We recognize that.

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We see the change.
We see the opposition to the

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change.
And so the question then is what

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can we do?
And the first thing is sincerity

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in the practice of the yoga
within ourselves.

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And the second thing is
radiating that into whatever

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spheres of society you're in.
In a time of great darkness, we

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need to spread light.
In a time of ignorance, we need

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to bring forth knowledge.
In a time of ugliness, we need

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to manifest beauty.
In a time of disharmony, we need

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to manifest harmony.
In a time of hatred, we need to

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express love.
If we do those things, we will

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have an impact.
We think we're just small people

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and we're hidden away.
Well, consciousness is

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universal, and the more
powerfully we integrate these

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things into our awareness and
consciousness, the more

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powerfully we act upon them.
The more powerfully we stand up

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for these principles, the more
impact it has.

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You may not see it with all the
chest beating and trumpets

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blaring and drums drumming
everywhere of the vital

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consciousness trying to hold on
and hang on in its last gasp of

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trying to manage the world.
You may not see it, but it's

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active nevertheless.
That is why the mother could

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declare that the Super mental
consciousness has manifested in

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matter and we see the changes
over time, the evolutionary

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changes that are happening with
revolutionary speed, the

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yearning of the young people for
spiritual development, the

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growth of a movement around the
world towards understanding and

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oneness and mutuality.
Despite the control of oligarchs

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and Dragons who sit on huge
piles of money and let everyone

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else starve, we see this.
We can't control them, but we

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can be true to what we see, what
we understand, and what we know.

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The new consciousness is
farther, seeing wider, harmonize

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conflicting ideas, and able to
see a way forward that we cannot

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see with our mental
consciousness.

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It's able to resolve imbalances.
And so if we align ourselves

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with that, if we begin to try to
widen our perspective, become

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more inclusive, look at the
habits that are ingrained within

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ourselves, that maybe just
breathe these instant reactions.

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And as we look from within, we
say, oh, maybe I can change that

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reaction within myself.
And who knows?

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You or I or some other person we
don't yet know becomes that

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100th monkey who flips the
script unconsciousness on the

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planet.
We see the catastrophic forces.

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I look at it as the birth pangs
of the new consciousness.

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Any woman who has undergone
birth of a child knows what I'm

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talking about.
The birth pangs, I know it's

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sort of vicariously because I
was there when my wife gave

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birth to her two children and it
was pretty intense.

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It was very intense.
They say that the pain threshold

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that women undergo in childbirth
is greater than the pain

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threshold or virtually any other
pain that we undergo.

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And yet they they do this and
bring forth new life and New

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Hope.
Swami Vivekananda tells us be

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fearless.
The mother asks us to

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collaborate in the changes, side
with the future.

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If it seems impossible, if the
existential threat seems bigger,

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it's because the opportunity is
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So what can we do?
We need to not surrender to the

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darkness.
We need to not give up hope.

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And the Mother confronted the
forces, and they brought light,

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and they brought harmony.
And they've told us the way

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forward.
The Mother set the stark truth

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before us.
We have an existential choice,

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she said.
Truth or the abyss.

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And that's our challenge.
So thank you.

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Let's open it up for discussion
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And I'm not really experienced
with all these hand raisings and

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callings on people.
Let's just try it.

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Let's see what happens.
Good morning.

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Thank you so much for the
overview.

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Two things came up that I
thought might be helpful for

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references for future thought
and that is some of us are

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familiar with the human cycle.
And for me, I just say a lot of

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what you have expressed the the
dilemma of the everyday response

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versus the opening to the
descent, what I think Shrier

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Bindo, first of all, many of us
didn't know, we know the

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spiritual side of Shrier Bindo,
We know the poetic side.

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We don't necessarily know his
genius with understanding the

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movements of civilization,
especially political.

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So for me, it just gives you
that Longview so that you can

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see forces like you were saying
when just in our time, but in a

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longer period of forces coming
together, what creates that

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tipping point?
So it it helped me, let's say

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context, it really helped and
and I'm just putting that out to

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the group.
And the last thing that you were

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quoting a lot about from the
Mother in her view of what's

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happening and, and how to
prepare or how to do your

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practice in the Mother's vision,
there's actually a passage about

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how to deal with catastrophe,
which mirrors a lot of what

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you've said today.
That and, and she says she uses

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it specifically and says Sri
Rabindra did this during World

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War 2.
So what I'm trying to say is

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that you have brought through a
context and a view that is

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really practical and can really
support not only our individual

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practice, but our collective.
And as someone who it is not

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given to a calm temperament or
is not given to being objective,

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the practice of yoga makes life
so much more doable.

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And, you know, that's, that's
very true, that the human cycle

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is powerful in its understanding
and widening of our view of the

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movements of civilization.
Actually, in tomorrow's blog

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post, which I was writing this
morning or or maybe this

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morning's blog post, I sometimes
lose track of time.

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There's a passage from the
mother in there and she's

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talking about does the best
always happen?

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OK, Is everything that happens
for the best?

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And what she says is very
interesting.

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After the fact, what happened is
what had to happen.

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But at the time of the event,
depending on your standpoint and

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state of consciousness, you can
impact that.

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And in the blog post I pointed
out that in quantum physics they

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say that the observer changes
the result and so.

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If you look at yourself as a
participant or observer and you

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see that the event coming, you
can change that.

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And so the mother was more or
less describing in human and

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yoga terms the what we see the
scientists describing in quantum

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physics, and that is that you
can change the event by your

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state of consciousness.
That's exactly what she says in

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this writing at the end of the
mother's vision on catastrophe.

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One last thing, you may recall
this more accurately, but I

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think I recall that the mother
said to Shri Rabindo was kind of

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complaining why did it happen
this way?

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And Shri Rabindo said it was the
best the grace could do in the

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circumstances.
Exactly.

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It's it's really true.
We're living in a world that is

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very complex with forces working
over millennia, and we can't

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simply wave a magic wand over it
and expect it all to transform

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magically and instantly into a
land of rainbows.

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I mean, it just doesn't work
like that.

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And so you take incremental
development.

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You take sometimes unseen
incremental development and

456
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:57,160
that's why they say you have to
have the faith that what you're

457
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:01,600
doing is going to have that
longer term benefit.

458
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:06,360
And that's why I always talk
about what I call the 1%

459
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:10,760
solution.
And that is, you make 1% change

460
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:15,720
today, and over 3 or 400 years,
you've got a huge difference in

461
00:42:15,720 --> 00:42:22,040
the slope of the change.
So we're not expecting that

462
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:29,800
magically the greed and the
bullying and the anger and all

463
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:33,040
those other things are magically
going to go away and we're going

464
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:34,760
to have a world of total
harmony.

465
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:40,200
We're expecting that over time,
humanity will come to recognize

466
00:42:41,240 --> 00:42:46,640
that that is not the way to live
and coexist and thrive.

467
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:52,440
And they will make that change
because you and I and so many

468
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:56,440
other people are expressing
that.

469
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:00,280
And exactly.
Thanks.

470
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:10,240
Thanks Santosh for for the whole
framing.

471
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:16,000
I very much agree with all of
your analysis or or

472
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:19,800
presentation.
A couple of different things

473
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:21,480
came up.
You know, one of them maybe

474
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:23,560
we'll we'll come to this if
there's more time.

475
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:27,920
But I'd like to hear more from
you later about what you said

476
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:30,720
about mind changing life and
matter.

477
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:34,000
And I'll rephrase this in a, in
a, in a way.

478
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:41,480
But before that, I just
wondered, yeah, what Margaret

479
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:45,760
was just saying.
I think part of part of this is

480
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:51,840
also the fact that what we call
good or bad is, is, is not that

481
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:55,480
simple.
You know, it's more like an

482
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:58,720
egoic framework, you know, that
we use.

483
00:43:58,720 --> 00:44:03,160
I, I remember Tibetan Buddhist
story, I won't go into it, but

484
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:08,640
there's a whole series of events
happen when one person tells the

485
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:10,840
other, Oh, it was so good that
this happened.

486
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:13,400
And then, oh, it was so bad that
it happened because as time

487
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:17,400
progresses, a new context
develops and you look back at

488
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:21,640
what was good and what was bad,
and you see it in terms of the

489
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:23,760
consequences.
And you say, oh, by the way, it

490
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:27,200
wasn't that bad, You know, and a
lot of us do this in our lives,

491
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:30,240
you know, we look at what we
think were difficulties or

492
00:44:30,240 --> 00:44:33,120
problems or turning points in
our lives which were difficult.

493
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:36,400
But once we see the new
consequences, we can say, oh,

494
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:40,680
after all, it wasn't that bad.
So I think it's kind of hard to

495
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,080
for me to kind of make those
judgments.

496
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,720
I sort of suspended as much as
possible.

497
00:44:45,720 --> 00:44:50,000
But one thing that I'm very
convinced about for some reason,

498
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:55,720
and I want to hear from you on
this, is that I, I want to hold

499
00:44:55,720 --> 00:44:58,960
on to my own little version of
truth consciousness as much as

500
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,080
possible.
In looking at all these things,

501
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:07,880
I actually see very small people
in these great figures in

502
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:10,720
politics and, you know, all the
news and stuff like that.

503
00:45:10,720 --> 00:45:15,440
I don't see great human beings.
I see angry and unhappy people.

504
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:20,320
I, you know, they have the
reins, they have the power, but

505
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:25,680
I feel no jealousy whatsoever
for their condition and their

506
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:27,320
state of mind.
You know, the only thing I'm

507
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:30,960
concerned about is the harm that
they do to others, you know,

508
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:41,440
and, and, and so, so is there
any use in, you know, by the

509
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:45,040
way, I should also add that I
also see what's going on right

510
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:49,280
now as a new manifestation of
the Prince of Falsehood.

511
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:52,720
I think I see every sign of
that.

512
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:57,040
I won't go into that, but do you
think there's any chance in our

513
00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:02,080
little yoga to, to do some
opposition to these forces by

514
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:05,240
sort of maybe holding on to
truth consciousness to begin

515
00:46:05,240 --> 00:46:07,720
with?
Because much of the world is in

516
00:46:07,720 --> 00:46:10,280
such delusion about what they're
seeing.

517
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:14,240
That seems to me that holding up
the truth, even in your own mind

518
00:46:14,240 --> 00:46:17,320
is a great exercise.
You know, 'cause we might, we

519
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:20,320
might wobble from that from time
to time as well.

520
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:25,000
But any opposition actually from
a yogic point of view, in our

521
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:28,800
small ways, do you, what do you
see about that?

522
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:35,400
Do you recommend that?
Well, I don't recommend anything

523
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:39,880
particular to anybody.
What I recommend is you look in

524
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:45,520
your own heart and see what your
moved and what's your mission

525
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:50,440
and what your focus is to do.
And if you're called upon to do

526
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:53,880
that, I would wholeheartedly
support that.

527
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:59,520
But not everybody can take up
opposition.

528
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:03,920
Some people are not meant to be
spiritual warriors in that

529
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:13,360
sense, and they will just get
basically beaten down if they

530
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:18,000
take it up.
Others have a stronger vital

531
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:22,560
capability of withstanding that,
and they can take that up.

532
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:26,880
But if you're not prepared for
it, don't go there.

533
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,480
Do something in a field where
you are prepared.

534
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:35,920
If you're an artist, do art.
If you're a musician, do music.

535
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:40,280
And if you're a spiritual
warrior in the political and

536
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:44,400
economic world, well, so be it.
You'll have our blessings and

537
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:46,480
support as much as we can give
that.

538
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:49,720
Yeah, yeah.
That's exactly my concern, you

539
00:47:49,720 --> 00:47:51,360
know.
But I'll, I'll wait for my

540
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:54,680
second question because I see
Roger raising his hand.

541
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:56,320
I'll I'll come back if there's
time.

542
00:47:57,240 --> 00:48:05,320
OK, thank you.
Hi, this is I really appreciate

543
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:09,400
it, this conversation and it's
been up for me a lot.

544
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:13,120
You know, there's so much doom
and gloom out there amongst

545
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:18,520
people I know, people I don't
know out there in the Internet,

546
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:22,320
a lot of doom and gloom.
People have very dreary

547
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:25,720
responses to all this.
And I've been responding without

548
00:48:25,720 --> 00:48:31,120
getting deeply philosophical.
I mean, even the 12 step program

549
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:34,480
has bottoming out.
You have to bottom out before

550
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:38,400
you can transform.
Dark Night of the Soul.

551
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:46,080
You know, we, we, these concepts
have been with us all along.

552
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:49,280
And sometimes it's just a, a
slight change in perspective.

553
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:53,600
You know, we talked about those
polarities before disharmony to

554
00:48:53,600 --> 00:49:00,080
harmony and hate to love.
And I was thinking how sometimes

555
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:06,120
the opposite of love is not
hate, it's fear.

556
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:10,600
And there's, there's and
sometimes just a little change

557
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:14,640
in perspective could have such a
big impact.

558
00:49:14,720 --> 00:49:18,440
I, I saw something on the
Internet this morning.

559
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:25,520
There was a woman in pre World
War 2 Germany and, and during

560
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:29,880
the war, I forget her name, she
was an American that went to

561
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:35,400
Germany before things started to
collapse to study some

562
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:37,440
discipline.
I don't remember what it was.

563
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:41,080
And she stayed there as the
whole thing was devolving.

564
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:44,440
And she created a little mini
movement.

565
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:50,040
She brought together a very
diverse group of people,

566
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:53,040
artists, politicians, writers,
philosophers.

567
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:55,280
And they created a resistance
movement.

568
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:58,000
They got a lot of Jewish people
out of Germany.

569
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:00,720
And she had a a big little
impact.

570
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:07,320
And eventually she was arrested
and she was convicted and Hitler

571
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:10,480
overloaded the conviction and
instead of sending her to

572
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:16,040
prison, she was executed.
And I was thinking of people,

573
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:20,600
look at this story sometimes
some people and, and it's oh,

574
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:22,920
how terrible.
But I'm thinking what a

575
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:27,920
satisfying life she LED.
I have, I have a, a feeling, my

576
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:32,440
projection is, is that she died
with a certain sense of

577
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:35,440
satisfaction.
And I and I see it as a positive

578
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:40,760
story and the kind of impact
that her life and her activities

579
00:50:41,240 --> 00:50:46,240
and other people kind of helping
this movement along.

580
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:54,920
And so, yeah, I, I, I don't
know, sometimes when I'm not

581
00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:59,680
caught up in the doom and gloom
is, is that my kind of Reichian

582
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:06,440
armor and my, my denial and my
kind of male insensitivity or by

583
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:09,560
seeing things in a, in a deeper
kind of appreciation.

584
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:14,320
And sometimes it's hard to tell,
but I appreciate that, that this

585
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:18,480
conversation is something
anybody can appreciate.

586
00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:24,040
It, it, it, you bring in the,
the deep philosophical context,

587
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:28,680
but most any bright person
could, could be participating in

588
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:30,480
this conversation and get the
message.

589
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:35,040
So I, I, I like the way you're
able to kind of, you know,

590
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:38,560
balance those those elements
very nicely.

591
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:41,480
Thank you.
Well, thank you.

592
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:44,960
That was that was actually a
very motivational story you

593
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:50,800
told.
And I'm very much in favor of

594
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:53,160
people doing what they see they
can do.

595
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:58,120
You know, I said somewhere
recently there's some people who

596
00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:01,920
are called to feed the hungry.
Well, please do that.

597
00:52:02,720 --> 00:52:08,000
There are others who are called
to clean up the environment.

598
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:10,640
Some are called to fight against
big oil.

599
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:16,280
Whatever it might be, if that's
your mission, please carry it

600
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:18,160
out.
Do it with goodwill.

601
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:24,840
Don't do it with falling into
the energy that you're fighting.

602
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:29,800
Don't become that.
Because if you become that, then

603
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:33,800
just like in the French
Revolution, you're just trading

604
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:36,160
one set of oppression for
another.

605
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:41,400
But actually do it without
hatred.

606
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:46,480
As Sri Krishna told to Arjuna,
your job is to kill all of these

607
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:53,840
relatives and respected elders
and and teachers, etcetera.

608
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:59,720
But don't do it with hatred, do
it with respect, goodwill and

609
00:52:59,720 --> 00:53:05,880
love and understanding that your
job is to help clear the field

610
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:12,960
of retrogressive forces and that
he was the spiritual warrior of

611
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:18,680
his day and he carried that out.
So not all of us are called to

612
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:23,960
be Arjuna, but we are called in
whatever field we act upon to

613
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:29,000
bring that new vision, bring
that new consciousness and

614
00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:35,400
manifest it.
Not just meditate and then turn

615
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:38,920
into something else when we go
out of the meditation, but

616
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:44,200
actually begin to manifest it in
every way we can, as much as we

617
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:48,520
can, given that we are human
beings and we too are part of

618
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:52,200
that evolutionary change that's
got to take place.

619
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:02,440
I see Ted has his hand up.
I do, all right.

620
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:03,800
Do you hear me?
Do you hear me?

621
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:05,600
OK.
Oh, you're great.

622
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:10,120
OK this this laptop sometimes
works.

623
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:11,880
If you lose the sound let me
know.

624
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:13,760
I just reboot it and it'll work
fine.

625
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:18,240
I really enjoyed this talk.
You can't imagine how much I

626
00:54:18,240 --> 00:54:22,640
enjoyed this talk.
I miss hard as Chowdhury, I miss

627
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:26,920
the ashram, all the things that
I used to experience,

628
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:30,440
particularly the wonderful
Indian lunches after the

629
00:54:30,720 --> 00:54:35,680
program.
So what I'd like to do is just

630
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:40,040
the reason I, I enjoyed this so
much as it's such a refreshing

631
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:45,280
view.
You know, I'm running a homeless

632
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:48,120
shelter.
So I'm in an environment that is

633
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:52,200
extremely challenging.
And this is really a breath of

634
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:54,600
fresh air.
I, I thank you so much.

635
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:58,160
I just thought I'd like to go
over quickly.

636
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:01,320
To me, the universe is working
just fine.

637
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:05,440
You know, we're about four and a
half billion years into it.

638
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:08,640
The universe is about 50 1/2
billion years old.

639
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:12,080
Everything that we look up and
see probably is totally

640
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:14,080
different now.
You know, it's taking a long

641
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:17,720
time for light to reach us.
So whatever the universe is,

642
00:55:17,720 --> 00:55:21,120
totally is, is obviously
something quite different than

643
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:26,440
what we assume it is now.
The planet Earth has experienced

644
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:31,800
3 total catastrophes where
nearly nearly all life was

645
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:38,520
destroyed and in 15 to 16
billion years, 15 to 16 million

646
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:43,520
years, it came back even better.
You know So what you're what

647
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:48,000
you've noticed is that in
catastrophe at the the

648
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:51,520
catastrophe has some purpose
because everything in the

649
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:54,400
universe is working as it
should.

650
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:58,640
I, I really firmly believe that,
you know, when we get up in the

651
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:03,160
morning every the, the, we are a
visitor in a body that's working

652
00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:05,320
as well as it was the day
before.

653
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:09,760
And we, you know, if we went
through deep sleep, then we wake

654
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:13,800
up, we're still what we were.
We still have that experience of

655
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:20,200
being, which is the essence.
So my take at the moment is that

656
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:25,960
I feel very privileged because I
may witness in my lifetime

657
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:30,200
whether or not the human species
is going to survive.

658
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:37,200
I'm not sure, you know, I don't,
I'm not, There's nothing I can

659
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:42,080
bet on this one.
But if the human species does

660
00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:47,640
destroy its planet and itself,
I'm very, very sure that in 15

661
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:51,240
to 16,000,000 years it'll be
much better.

662
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:56,200
So that's what I tell my
friends, Don't, don't despair.

663
00:56:56,200 --> 00:56:59,320
You know, things look really bad
right now, but in the big

664
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:04,200
picture it's really just fine.
Well, that's a great perspective

665
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:09,320
and let me say I I thank you for
your efforts of running a

666
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:13,840
homeless shelter.
The issue of homelessness is a

667
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:18,760
serious one that affects
everybody and it's a human

668
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:23,600
created issue.
I, I, I can tell you the, the

669
00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:27,720
fundamental cause of all the
homeless people that I've

670
00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:30,920
encountered.
We, we shelter 20 and we have

671
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:33,680
over 90.
You know that we service, we

672
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:37,960
have service from six days a
week and we do free Sunday

673
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:42,360
dinners and a lot of things.
We have showers and bathrooms

674
00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:47,720
and laundry, you name it.
But every single individual that

675
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:53,520
I have spent time with has what
we call ACE, that's adverse

676
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:58,520
childhood experiences.
They can be 4050, sixty years

677
00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:00,600
old.
You sit in a car with them for

678
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:04,960
45 minutes on the way to an
appointment and the first thing

679
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:09,280
they will talk about is how
horrible their childhood was.

680
00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:16,320
Yes, these are human caused
issues and it's good that people

681
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:21,320
are taking that seriously and
working with those who have

682
00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:29,120
these issues and who as a result
experienced tremendous physical

683
00:58:29,120 --> 00:58:39,280
and vital and mental suffering.
So thank you somebody else,

684
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:43,320
Andy.
Yeah, I wanted to first say

685
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:46,640
thank you, Santosh.
It felt so good to be here, not

686
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:49,240
only the content of your talk,
but the way you deliver such a

687
00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:52,200
calming energy.
Even though we're talking about

688
00:58:52,200 --> 00:58:56,840
quite challenging topics and I
do, I have a question.

689
00:58:56,840 --> 00:58:59,800
It's a sincere question.
It might be a bit complicated,

690
00:58:59,800 --> 00:59:04,720
but going back to the beginning,
like right in the beginning you

691
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:07,840
talked about all the forces and
things going on in the world and

692
00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:12,080
the way in which we can fall
into victimhood and feeling

693
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:18,040
victimized by it.
So I'm curious to dive into that

694
00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:20,800
a little bit.
And as some context, I recently

695
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:26,600
listened to a lecture by an R
Bendonian who is Indian and has

696
00:59:26,600 --> 00:59:30,280
lived in India their whole life.
And he kind of made a point that

697
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:35,720
said, you know, Westerners often
ask me a lot about self esteem

698
00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:37,720
and how to build people's self
esteem.

699
00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:42,840
And he kind of broke with the
entire paradigm and said kind of

700
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:45,840
cutting to the chase, like when
you're rooted in your Sababa and

701
00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:51,120
your Saba Dharma, like self
esteem is not really even a

702
00:59:51,240 --> 00:59:55,920
relevant concept because you're
really in alignment with your

703
00:59:55,920 --> 01:00:01,720
own soul and with the divine.
And I think similarly, I'm sure

704
01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:04,680
I've been doing the mother often
are constantly offering us this

705
01:00:04,680 --> 01:00:07,160
like much deeper and deeper and
deeper and layered.

706
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:15,120
Nuanced view of the world.
So my question around when do

707
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:18,680
you feel like a victim?
I, I myself think about this a

708
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:22,000
lot.
Like, how do I on one hand,

709
01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:25,120
surrender to the mother and be
in alignment with that, but also

710
01:00:25,120 --> 01:00:28,480
how do I on the human level,
step out of being a victim and

711
01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:34,080
be more assertive?
And the other piece I'd like to

712
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:37,600
say is like culturally, I feel
particularly probably since the

713
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:41,400
60s, maybe it's a timeless
thing, but because of social

714
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:44,800
justice issues like becoming
more and more and more front and

715
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:47,040
Center for people.
But like most social justice

716
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:52,760
issues in a way always involve a
group or a person being

717
01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:57,840
victimized.
And so I think there's just from

718
01:00:57,920 --> 01:01:00,920
from my perspective, that could
be right or wrong or incomplete.

719
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:05,040
Like the sense of being a victim
is more alive in culture for

720
01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:07,680
both very valid and good
reasons.

721
01:01:08,680 --> 01:01:11,840
But also it can be like a really
slippery like to identify as the

722
01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:16,280
victim can be this profoundly
slippery, disempowering place to

723
01:01:17,320 --> 01:01:19,440
become identified with and fall
into.

724
01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:22,680
So thank you for hearing all of
that.

725
01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:25,600
Coming back to the question,
like, you know, in light of

726
01:01:25,600 --> 01:01:27,760
Shere I've been to and the
mother in the same sense of

727
01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:30,480
like, in the way in which self
esteem is like valid on one

728
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:32,200
level.
And on a deeper level.

729
01:01:32,880 --> 01:01:36,800
We can, we can dispense with it
from your from your view and

730
01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:39,080
life experience of intrical
yoga.

731
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:44,320
Other than like, I think we all
align on like faith and the

732
01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:46,960
mother.
There's something deeper going

733
01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:48,560
on here.
Like, is there anything else you

734
01:01:48,560 --> 01:01:52,760
might draw on in your own life
to, you know, if you identify

735
01:01:52,760 --> 01:01:56,000
feeling like a victim in a yogic
way, how you step out of that?

736
01:01:57,440 --> 01:02:02,560
Well, let's let's try.
I appreciate your question.

737
01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:10,320
And my view is that if you're in
a space where you can identify

738
01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:17,560
with your deeper Dharmic mission
and not the ego personality,

739
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:22,320
then you don't have that issue.
But not all of us are there or

740
01:02:22,320 --> 01:02:26,360
there all the time.
And so we still have to struggle

741
01:02:26,360 --> 01:02:30,920
with and deal with the
day-to-day stuff and it's

742
01:02:31,000 --> 01:02:37,720
sometimes very oppressive.
And to deal with that, part of

743
01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:43,040
it is seeing if you can just
shift your standpoint enough to

744
01:02:43,040 --> 01:02:49,400
recognize that that is the ego
and the external nature and sort

745
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:54,280
of play with it rather than feel
like you're controlled by it.

746
01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:58,880
That may help sort of the
separation of the witness

747
01:02:58,880 --> 01:03:00,880
consciousness from the active
nature.

748
01:03:02,720 --> 01:03:06,920
And the other thing is that if
you're called upon to address

749
01:03:06,920 --> 01:03:12,200
this, I, I look at social
justice issues not as being more

750
01:03:12,640 --> 01:03:17,440
prevalent now, but if you look
at the history of humanity,

751
01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:23,400
there's always been all kinds of
oppression in most societies.

752
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:31,280
And the fact that it was
accepted and normal to have

753
01:03:31,320 --> 01:03:35,560
slaves to treat women as
commodities.

754
01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:39,360
I mean, you can go back into
some of the scriptures of some

755
01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:42,920
of the religions and it's it's
like these are just normal

756
01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:47,080
things.
And over time, as we grow in

757
01:03:47,080 --> 01:03:50,680
awareness and grow in
consciousness, it's no longer

758
01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:54,520
normal.
And that's where you become

759
01:03:54,520 --> 01:03:58,200
awake to the feeling of
victimhood because you say,

760
01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:02,880
well, OK, I'm being oppressed.
That's great.

761
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:08,640
That's the first step of
awareness to say that this isn't

762
01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:12,120
the way it needs to be, This
isn't the oneness and the

763
01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:14,040
harmony that we're working
towards.

764
01:04:15,080 --> 01:04:22,880
And therefore it motivates you
to action, to be what you want

765
01:04:22,880 --> 01:04:27,520
to see in the world, to step
away from your victimhood.

766
01:04:27,520 --> 01:04:35,280
Take that as a challenge and
work to create a place where

767
01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:37,600
nobody needs to feel like a
victim.

768
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:42,120
And that's going to take
possibly more than your lifetime

769
01:04:42,120 --> 01:04:46,320
or my lifetime.
But you can see it changing

770
01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:49,720
radically in front of us.
And you can see the reaction to

771
01:04:49,720 --> 01:04:55,760
that in today's society around
the world, where people who are

772
01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:59,800
used to the old ways of looking
at things, the patriarchic and

773
01:04:59,800 --> 01:05:04,200
the controlling ways of looking
at things are gassed.

774
01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:09,440
And they want to do everything
they can to beat this down, but

775
01:05:09,880 --> 01:05:14,200
they can't succeed at it.
Because once people wake up and

776
01:05:14,200 --> 01:05:20,160
realize that the system, the
habits of society, the habits of

777
01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:27,480
humanity are based on a wrong
premise, you can't put that

778
01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:35,480
toothpaste back into the tube.
Thank you.

779
01:05:38,320 --> 01:05:44,240
It seems to me that hi everybody
and I'm sorry for making making

780
01:05:44,240 --> 01:05:49,760
lunch noises at the beginning.
If you heard that I didn't, I

781
01:05:49,760 --> 01:05:54,960
wasn't muted.
Seems to me, you know, given

782
01:05:55,080 --> 01:06:03,000
know thyself that, you know, as
Roger mentioned, powerlessness

783
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:09,000
and helplessness, which are, you
know, part of the victimhood

784
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:12,320
experience.
And we're all, I don't know, I'm

785
01:06:12,600 --> 01:06:17,480
speak for myself, feeling
victimized by the current regime

786
01:06:17,680 --> 01:06:20,240
that's coming in like a
blitzkrieg.

787
01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:27,600
But there you have a feeling
that isn't readily delighted in,

788
01:06:27,600 --> 01:06:30,200
let's put it that way, in our
culture.

789
01:06:30,680 --> 01:06:33,720
And yet here it is.
You know, it's like when it

790
01:06:33,720 --> 01:06:40,280
shows up, especially at a time
of introspection, a time of

791
01:06:40,280 --> 01:06:45,360
quiet, when you can really
explore it or let it speak, you

792
01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:51,320
know, in its language and
prioritize the feel of it rather

793
01:06:51,320 --> 01:06:55,720
than the message.
You know that gets merged with

794
01:06:55,720 --> 01:07:01,480
it from the mental, You know, I,
I.

795
01:07:01,480 --> 01:07:05,040
Don't know of any other way and.
Yes, in the 12 steps, you know,

796
01:07:05,040 --> 01:07:09,120
admitted we were powerless and
that our lives had become

797
01:07:09,120 --> 01:07:16,560
unmanageable as we try to flee
that feeling or fight it and

798
01:07:16,560 --> 01:07:21,040
then, you know, moving on, made
a decision to turn our lives

799
01:07:21,040 --> 01:07:31,200
over to a larger context.
So it's that it's the.

800
01:07:31,200 --> 01:07:34,760
Same work I.
Think yeah.

801
01:07:35,080 --> 01:07:39,160
I mean.
Awareness and and fineness.

802
01:07:39,160 --> 01:07:42,680
Allowing permission.
It's hard work, but it's good

803
01:07:42,680 --> 01:07:46,040
work well.
Thank you.

804
01:07:46,160 --> 01:07:51,440
I think that's a good response
to Andy's question as well.

805
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:02,040
Well, I see we're getting close
to time here.

806
01:08:02,040 --> 01:08:08,960
If there any other people who
want to chime in here, please do

807
01:08:08,960 --> 01:08:12,160
so.
And then if not then we can wrap

808
01:08:12,160 --> 01:08:16,479
it up for today.
And ahead of that, I want to

809
01:08:16,479 --> 01:08:22,279
thank everybody for your efforts
and your the shining light that

810
01:08:22,279 --> 01:08:26,040
you bring here into our
collective gathering, our

811
01:08:26,040 --> 01:08:31,600
Satsang together.
And I very much appreciate that.

812
01:08:32,359 --> 01:08:35,080
Thank you so much.
Thank you, Santosh.

813
01:08:35,680 --> 01:08:39,479
Thanks everyone.
Great to see everyone and feel.

814
01:08:40,640 --> 01:08:42,600
The force working within us.
Bye.

815
01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:50,200
Wellman OK, bye bye bye.
Bye everybody.

816
01:08:51,319 --> 01:08:52,760
You try to find my way.