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[Assistant] Well, this is amazing. Absolutely amazing. I've never seen anything like it. Neither have I, sir. What's his temperature, matron? Normal, sir. You feel all right? I feel fine.


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[Assistant] Yes. They've been quite decent to me, not like the Hurons.


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[Assistant] Boxing career was over. It wasn't like he was into drugs or drinking. He didn't smoke. So even though he was in his late thirties, he was able to mount this comeback because he was serious.


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[Assistant] Colonel Monroe's compliments, Major Hayward. We've been searching for you and the Colonel's daughters for two days now.


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[Assistant] When they left the port, they were attacked and massacred by Hurons.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm honored to be here and I will, uh, share whatever I can. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, and then I'd like, right after I went like to the bathroom and washed my face for like an hour and like looked in the mirror.


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[Assistant] There's a, there's a racist band I like called A-Sub-Bass.


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[Assistant] And they hit him up, and he was like, oh yeaah, I know, I don't give credit to people, and then he just deleted the shit, so. I don't know, I mean, that guy's whatever, honestly, I'm not gonna talk shit about him, like, I've seen him do interviews and he's funny.


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[Assistant] Content or whatever and like they're making tons of money off of it. I mean that's cool. I guess you figured out how to do that. It's like.


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[Assistant] In one regard, I think it's, you know, I can respect it.


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[Assistant] And then in the other regard, I'm just like, fuck you bro. Like, I make this shit and I don't get hardly anything out of it.


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[Assistant] Right, like that's part of, that's the other thing like that's on me is like if I'm making something, then I have to be okay with like if I'm putting it on the internet, fucking people are gonna post it and I'm not gonna really get credit, you know. Unless I'm like watermarking it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I feel like a lot of comedians are, you know, dealing with like a lot of shit and they get into comedy and laughs to like deal with that shit. To not blow their brains out. Do you feel that way at all? Like you kind of-


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[Assistant] At first, it was killing me. And I've been smoking cigarettes for like 15 years. And I was like, the fuck, but then I had to get all nerdy and like learn about it and watch YouTube videos. Yeah, my roommate's big in the video game. Oh, okay.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm bummed about this. I think this sucks, but I'm off the cigs. The cigs are killing me. I think so. There's like different studies saying that.


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[Assistant] I don't know. It's just, there's definitely not like ammonia in it and shit like that.


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[Assistant] Uh, I must have been like 12 maybe. You were killing an animal? You don't seem like the type. What'd you, what'd you kill?


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[Assistant] But that's the difference between a serial killer and a, like, everyone's killed an animal, but then a serial killer kills like a cat and then is like, that was so tight, I'm gonna do it again. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Use your power, you know, and then you realize, like, that it's, you have to be careful.


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[Assistant] That's why I worry about like the next generation cause they just imagine being like 6 years old and you can just go watch like anything on the internet.


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[Assistant] I think banning Tyler the Creator is racist. I don't know why, but I feel like it is.


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[Assistant] Yes, yes, yeah. Yeah, I guess you could sum it up that way.


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[Assistant] Oh, that was very thorough. Well done. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Hare Krishna. I benefit so much from your teachings, so thank you. It's been an honor to be on your podcast.


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[Assistant] Then after averaging 27 points and 20 rebounds in his junior year at the University of Massachusetts, he unleashed his unsung above-the-rim theatrics on the professional ranks. Over the next 16 seasons, the doctor's playground game electrified both black and white audiences while his pride, intelligence, and cool made him a mythic figure.


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[Assistant] In 1971, Julius Irving traveled to New York City to answer a nagging question.


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[Assistant] At the University of Massachusetts, Julius was disempowered by the NCAA, since his most intimidating weapon, the dunk, was prohibited.


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[Assistant] When he signed with the Virginia Squires the fledgling ABA, only those who had seen him play unchained at the Rucker knew what he could deliver.


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[Assistant] Julius was seen as a messiah to the failing ABA. His flamboyant style stimulated the gait and raised the quality of play.


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[Assistant] America may have loved the doctor's cool, revolutionary image, but his friends weren't buying it.


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[Assistant] Dr. J would soon have to change his style to fit a new role on another stage.


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[Assistant] In five seasons, the doctor earned three scoring titles, three MVPs, and won two league championships. The operation was a success, but the patient, the ABA, was near death. Irving was ready to take his practice uptown.


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[Assistant] The doctor would get his wish in 1976 when the ABA was swallowed by the NBA and Irving was sold to the 76ers. It was instant showtime in Philly.


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[Assistant] Doc led his counterculture squad against Bill Walton's Trailblazers.


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[Assistant] In the 1980 finals against LA, Irving tried to win it all by himself, pushing his game to its outer limits.


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[Assistant] The Lakers won the series behind Magic Johnson's 42 points in Game 6. Magic made it look easy. As for the doctor, nothing but broken promises.


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[Assistant] The combination would prove to be devastating. After breezing through the regular season, the 76ers faced their old rivals, the Lakers, for the 1983 NBA title.


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[Assistant] 1983 would be Irving's only title in the NBA. A new era was approaching and the doc at age 33 would have to adjust.


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[Assistant] Growing up in the working class suburb of Roosevelt, Long Island is usually contained personality found expression on the basketball court.


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[Assistant] Dr. J's court personality was developed during a childhood filled with no small measure of deprivation and misfortune. His parents were divorced when he was three. He barely knew his father.


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[Assistant] When Julius left to play basketball at the University of Massachusetts, his presence was missed at home, especially by his younger brother Marvin.


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[Assistant] Marvin was afflicted with lupus. He would be in and out of hospitals for the next three months.


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[Assistant] Will be measured by his peers as a player and a man.


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[Assistant] Leading the way for a new generation that would find fulfillment in Michael Jordan. He likened himself to a painter when he played. What the doctor didn't mention was that while he painted, he changed the landscape of the game.


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[Assistant] This is the guy with the huge afro and the goatee who looked like a Black Panther. He was a symbol of this rebel kind of ball, this new ball, funk ball.


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[Assistant] Dr. J is one of the first athletes who wasn't a boxer. I remember being a sex symbol.


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[Assistant] Portland team that plays very traditional basketball versus the craziest NBA team of all time maybe.


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[Assistant] Even though there were white players on the Sixers, there was this great white hope thing about Portland versus the evil, disrespectful kind of ball that the 76ers played.


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[Assistant] People who really disliked the kind of ball he played and what he seemed to represent to a lot of the purists said, oh, see, you can't play that ball and win at this level.


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[Assistant] This is something that he very consciously went after. I mean it was a very clear vision of


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[Assistant] Taking the excesses of who I was and stripping those down or smoothing those out to become something acceptable to America.


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[Assistant] I called Dr. David Thomas Edison a basketball because he invented so much. He took a game which had been played on the schoolyard level in New York and other places and he brought it to the national stage in the


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[Assistant] Julius was the first mass consumption pro basketball player for a lot of us. At that time you did not have...


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[Assistant] Kevin B is on a dangerous mission with the Bundeswehr in Mali.


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[Assistant] Five years ago, Tuareg fighters occupied the northern part of Mali. They were replaced by the Islamists.


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[Assistant] German troops are helping to secure the peace, but many local residents say that the soldiers should do more to fight terrorism.


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[Assistant] Lock and load. Kevin makes sure his weapon is ready. Anything can happen here.


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[Assistant] Just a few days ago, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a government military camp not far from the German base. More than 80 troops were killed.


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[Assistant] Kevin, a 29 year old sergeant, is responsible for getting his men safely back to their base again.


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[Assistant] For this patrol, he's chosen a route that seems safe.


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[Assistant] But the soldiers have to keep an eye out for Improvised Explosive Devices, or IEDs.


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[Assistant] Some IEDs are powerful enough to damage even armored vehicles.


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[Assistant] There were 138 attacks by insurgents in the Gao region last year.


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[Assistant] And reports just come in that two suicide attackers are headed toward the airport.


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[Assistant] Currently a lot of German troops are being rotated in and out of the area.


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[Assistant] The patrol is monitoring the radio traffic from the control tower.


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[Assistant] They're also keeping an eye out for suspicious persons in vehicles.


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[Assistant] Some of the soldiers say that they've been out here too long today, and their position is exposed.


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[Assistant] We're headed toward the Niger River, the largest in Western Africa.


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[Assistant] French troops drove Islamist insurgents out of this village four years ago. But the memory of their presence lives on. Local residents gather round the visitors.


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[Assistant] Zainab Touré describes what life was like when the Islamists were here.


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[Assistant] And they don't want these people to be subjected to any more of this kind of abuse, particularly the children.


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[Assistant] The soldier's main task is to protect Camp Castor, where both German and Dutch troops are based. If insurgents took over this hill, they could fire rockets into the camp.


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[Assistant] The local residents realized that the foreign troops can only do so much.


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[Assistant] A few kilometers away, German soldiers are preparing a Heron surveillance drone. But there are some technical problems. They can't contact the airport control tower.


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[Assistant] A few hours later, they're finally ready to go. They're just waiting for the flight plan to be cleared.


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[Assistant] That information could be vital to the foreign troops here. And it could make the difference between life and death.


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[Assistant] The people here in the market can't see the drone. It's flying at an altitude of seven kilometers.


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[Assistant] Particularly after reports that the insurgents had cut off a man's hand as punishment.


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[Assistant] After a local radio station owner refused to broadcast Islamist propaganda, insurgents fired gunshots at him.


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[Assistant] Meanwhile, two kilometers away, the German patrol is headed back to base. There's a lot of traffic near the camp right now.


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[Assistant] But suddenly there's a huge explosion. The soldiers react just as they've been trained to.


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[Assistant] This day went well for Kevin and his men. But they'll be back out on patrol again tomorrow.


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[Assistant] Akkan has cracked, hacked, and changed the game's code and content and illegally uploaded our game.


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[Assistant] Climate change is hurting us in subtler ways, too. Warmer temperatures have contributed to the spread of Lyme disease. Ticks can reproduce and spread farther, so the number of cases has tripled since the 1990s. Look, if climate change had to be great for some animal, why couldn't it be puppies? The only thing they spread is joy. And rabies.


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[Assistant] How did you like that? Shall we go again?


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[Assistant] Can, how Krishna conscious is actually universal.


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[Assistant] Or how Krishna consciousness can not only be made accessible to East and West, but also can integrate


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[Assistant] Uh, the best of the East and the West. We see in today's world, there's a lot of polarization, lot of sectarianism.


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[Assistant] And uh, that leads, that's leading conflict even within countries, within families.


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[Assistant] And within our movement also to some extent it is happening.


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[Assistant] So three things first, you know, how is Krishna Conscious Universal? How can that universality be made accessible? And then how can that universality


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[Assistant] Help in resolving some of the sectarian conflicts in today's world. Something like that I thought we could discuss. What do you think?


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[Assistant] In today's world, people often say that we are a part of the same global family, we are a part of the same human family. Some people say that we are a part of the Earth family. So,


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[Assistant] At a foundational level, Krishna consciousness is universal because we understand we are all living beings are souls.


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[Assistant] So, and if you understand that there is one ultimate reality, one divinity, Krishna, known by different names.


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[Assistant] We all are the basis of its universality. We all are souls. We all are parts of one God.


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[Assistant] So we could say these three foundational truths are universal in Krishna Consciousness. So I would start from that foundation and then move ahead. What do you think?


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[Assistant] Well, that's a big leap. Therefore, that we are all searching for Krishna.


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[Assistant] Things, food and heart, or thoughts you could say. So that which sustains us, that which


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[Assistant] So, objects, sustenance and the hearts, thoughts, emotions, feelings.


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[Assistant] So, and it's significant that Prabhupada also says in the purport over there that the Krishna Consciousness movement is sustained.


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[Assistant] By these is nourished, nourished, nourished by these six four loving exchanges.


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[Assistant] And this applies across the, across the gamut of human society.


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[Assistant] One of the reasons why people take to a spiritual movement or they explore spirituality nowadays is because they want a sense of community.


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[Assistant] They want to belong to something bigger, especially with the family units, either becoming smaller or even fragmenting. People want to be something, part of something bigger. So if we consider, uh, in we read Chaitanya Charita Amrit for example,


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[Assistant] Now, what attracts the heart over there is not the specifics of which food they ate.


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[Assistant] So, so, I never thought of these three as progress, of course the third is the closest, but you could say that they are progressive. You can give, except gift from many people, but how many people would we invite for a, for a meal or something like that?


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[Assistant] But, uh, this aspect, I never thought about it. I know that, uh, this is so important.


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[Assistant] I'll just, just food, dress and language and terminology and things like that. So if we start with this as the foundation, see our purpose is that we


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[Assistant] So how we are sustaining our relationships, that is the essence of Krishna Consciousness. Ultimately, Krishna Consciousness is about relationships.


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[Assistant] Not many devotees may leave because suddenly they start doubting if Krishna is God or they suddenly start doubting am I the body or am I the soul.


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[Assistant] But usually when somebody, somebody close to them, some devotee doesn't behave in a proper way, behaves harshly, behaves in a...


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[Assistant] That means that which sustains Krishna Consciousness, that which helps Krishna Consciousness to flourish. So my understanding was that this would be the central aspect.


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[Assistant] So there are scholars of, there are linguists who say that if you're writing, making a dictionary or you're writing a book about writing rules,


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[Assistant] So broadly there are two traditions they say, they call it, there is a, not two traditions, two schools of thought.


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[Assistant] So, say for example, don't end a sentence with the preposition, with two. Don't split infinitives. There are so many rules like that.


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[Assistant] Some, some English scholars consider that their primary job is to make sure, to give prescriptions and to make sure the prescriptions are, are implemented.


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[Assistant] So gradually words which are which are being used in common language.


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[Assistant] So sometimes the descriptive change, sorry, the descriptive change is the prescriptive.


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[Assistant] That means what was considered wrong English 100 years ago may be considered standard English today.


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[Assistant] And sometimes the prescriptive changes are descriptive. People learn, okay, uh, that, uh, okay, this is not the way to speak. So for example,


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[Assistant] Recently I did this podcast with Hanumit Prasik Maharaj or Shakespeare.


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[Assistant] So it seems there was a time in English history where constantly there was a debate between should you use, uh, can I or shall I or may I?


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[Assistant] So this is slightly changes from your point that, so I would say the painting metaphor is that it's largely, uh, it's, it's there and this is what it is. We just have to understand it. So I would say the painting metaphor goes toward the prescriptive. This is what it is.


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[Assistant] Krishna Himself manifests as Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagwan.


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[Assistant] The actions that he did are the, now we won't say the words are the adjustments, but the actions that he did are what he recognized as necessary.


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[Assistant] So now is the Acharya's primary definition, the one who teaches, does the Acharya's primary teach, primary legacy?


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[Assistant] Are the Acharya's primary legacy the teachings, sorry, the, the, yeaah, the lewd example or the, what the, or the written words? So that also becomes a big question.


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[Assistant] Prabhupada said this, but he did this. Like you give the example of that.


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[Assistant] So what should we do? We could say as his followers we do both. We can emphasize the sanctity of marriage when we are


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[Assistant] But when we are dealing at the individual level, we may also have to manifest the sensitivity to the case.


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[Assistant] So here we could make sense of the difference between the two. That it, it depends. That is the principle being taught and then how the principle has to be applied is seen according to time-play circumstance. Or how much the principle has to be insisted on can be seen according to time-play circumstance.


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[Assistant] Can we talk about some other examples of say difference between his words and his actions?


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[Assistant] Yeah, so for example, Prabhupada made certain statements about, uh, about blacks, which seem to be in today's world is very, very politically incorrect, very almost offensive. But then Prabhupada never acted that way with anyone.


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[Assistant] And he had, he had disciples from African backgrounds.


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[Assistant] Achar eclipses the, again Prachar is a very sacred word, but his actions far overshadow his words. So that could be an example and I don't think anybody would oppose this point.


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[Assistant] That here is a clear example of Prabhupada's actions need to be given far more important than his words.


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[Assistant] So if we consider, now just going back to this point that Prabhupada, uh, how did he further Krishna consciousness?


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[Assistant] He furthered Krishna, or he spread Krishna consciousness, we say it is his purity, of course that is true, but it was...


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[Assistant] Was, did Prabhupada further Krishna consciousness because he taught devotees, like you said, to clean up, clean up and to wear a particular dress or to adopt a particular lifestyle?


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[Assistant] Or was it that because Prabhupada lovingly connected with devotees and that loving interactions, that was what inspired people to take to Krishna consciousness. So if you consider the primary motive


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[Assistant] Force in Krishna Consciousness, and I mean the motive means, uh, the force is not motive in the sense of the primary force that moves.


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[Assistant] To focus on the point that there had to be loving interactions.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm just trying to understand how this would deal with, deal with, uh,


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[Assistant] The specific concerns and this is a very endearing and inspiring example of humility and saintliness.


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[Assistant] And how would that relate with the issue of which aspects of Krishna Consciousness are


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[Assistant] Can be, as you say, uh, can be adjusted according to time, place, or circumstance.


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[Assistant] Whatever is required for placing Krishna at the center, whatever is required for doing the service of Krishna that is core. Yes. But somebody might say that


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[Assistant] You know, serving Krishna means wearing a particular kind of dress. Serving Krishna means doing a particular kind of things.


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[Assistant] So the cultural core is that we should serve Krishna. So broadly in my interactions with devotees, if I may just mention this before we move ahead, they, especially western devotees, there are five items


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[Assistant] Which they find as, which create obstacles for people to


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[Assistant] Uh, to, there could be many to connect with, to see the universe as Krishna consciousness. There's the dress, there's the food, there's the music.


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[Assistant] Then there are the names itself that we have.


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[Assistant] The names of people themselves are like very long from a western perspective, difficult to pronounce. And then our forms of addressing each other.


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[Assistant] So would we put these as part of the shell?


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[Assistant] Going to initially present, you would definitely not emphasize the dress or even the food for that matter. That's okay. We would focus on the core teachings of Krishna. In fact, so the concept of that our consciousness doesn't come from matter.


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[Assistant] Or that there is, uh, there is an ultimate reality who is, who is loving, that is Krishna. So that is what we would emphasize. So we could say that we will present the core first, and that's important, but then, would the shell have to come after that?


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[Assistant] Does that mean, is that a preference or is that a principle? Because Prabhupada liked kachoris, so all of us have to like kachoris.


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[Assistant] Not just from the perspective of Krishna consciousness being a relation, but Rasa and Rasa theology are also central to our particular Gaudiya tradition.


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[Assistant] That is what is the most conducive for the upliftment of consciousness. And that would be at the core. So yes, if, uh, one of the things that people feel, uh, how culture alienates is that


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[Assistant] If, uh, if some people don't feel included, if some people feel that you're just, uh, you're speaking a language that I don't understand.


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[Assistant] You are using not just a different language in the sense of.


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[Assistant] Understated aspect of culture in the debates about what culture is and if we could emphasize that adequately.


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[Assistant] That is not something, so we could say that Radh, we can look at it in terms of his teaching.


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[Assistant] What did he teach? Did he write in his books that all of you have to eat kachoris?


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[Assistant] Uh, principle could be by looking at, uh, not just how frequently he did it himself, because something he might have done throughout his life.


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[Assistant] Now did Prabhupada at any time, uh, ban any instruments?


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[Assistant] Could be that Prabhupada did them and they are also mentioned in his books occasionally.


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[Assistant] So, so then what we would, what we would ultimately have to do is again,


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[Assistant] Prabhupada wanted people to become Krishna conscious.


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[Assistant] So in India, I'll maybe I'll just make this one point and then you can respond that.


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[Assistant] Dukaram Maharaj in Maharashtra and say Kanak in Karnataka or Narsingh Mehta in Gujarat, did all of them wear the same dress?


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[Assistant] Being closer to our tradition, is there any evidence that when Lord Chaitanya travelled to South India or North India, I presume that even 500 years ago,


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[Assistant] People would have had their own dresses. So, Chaitanya Chaitam said they all started chanting Hare Krishna and became inundated with love for Krishna.


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[Assistant] There is no common culture in terms of dress among the various saints of India and nor is it that when those saints went to different parts and they attracted followers that they specifically insisted that their followers, I don't know if,


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[Assistant] Getting their followers to change their dress or something like that.


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[Assistant] Now the congregation preaching ministry has a quote from Chaitanam Charita Amrit which states, you know, that stay where you are and practice Krishna Bhakti. That stay in your ashram.


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[Assistant] They were not the, you could say the best specimens of western culture.


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[Assistant] In one sense even the basic human hygiene and basic human, basic habits, those were also not there. Not necessarily in terms of morality, but just in terms of cleanliness and hygiene and things like that.


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[Assistant] So in that sense, teaching the culture was necessary, teaching the culture was necessary for them, necessary for Prabhupada. But if Prabhupada


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[Assistant] Now that becomes a very big hypothetical question.


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[Assistant] When Prabhupada met life members and different life members became, actually none of his life members really became his disciples, very few.


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[Assistant] I don't think Prabhupada made that an issue in India also. Somebody was in a South Indian lungi or something like that.


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[Assistant] And they were having that and they were, would be watching my everything. Prabhupada would have objected to that as far as I can understand.


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[Assistant] So my understanding is that when I first saw Hare Krishna rock bands, I was a little taken aback.


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[Assistant] But then over a period of time what struck me is that, uh, it's a matter of remembering Krishna.


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[Assistant] So, now rock we could call it as a little bit more passionate form of music, but if somebody is, what do you say, sitting on a piano and playing a piano,


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[Assistant] And if that they are singing some songs in English about Krishna and they are remembering Krishna by that.


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[Assistant] That's a, we are, our core identity is non-material, we are parts of Krishna and in loving Krishna, we are parts of one, one God, Krishna and in loving Him, we can find a supreme fulfillment.


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[Assistant] And then you may, uh, we talked about various things, but you said culture is, uh, that culture is how we deal with each other. Say somebody inviting for a, how do we deal with them?


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[Assistant] So that is what will encourage people to become Krishna conscious.


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[Assistant] So there are some, even when what he did, some things could be his personal preferences, some things could be his, could be principles. So to understand that again we have to look back at his teachings.


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[Assistant] So whether it is, so that is how the culture has been in the tradition also, whether, so if you talk about a particular dress.


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[Assistant] Yes, it has, it has to be, there has to be some common sense. Prabhupada did wear dhoti's always, but then he wore warm clothes, warm upper clothes whenever he was in a cold weather, cold part of the world.


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[Assistant] So we discussed about food and music and other things and dress especially elaborately, but the point is that


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[Assistant] The universality of Krishna consciousness is that everybody gets to develop their love for Krishna.


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[Assistant] So whatever particular context of particular


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[Assistant] You see, so, it's the poor who feel all these, uh, effects. So it's, it's for us to organize, it's to have to get informed, it's for us to have to be active, so that we get things done. Otherwise, there is, we can't promise our kids anything.


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[Assistant] No, I didn't mean anything like that. He can't have thought of me like that. He's much too... He's quite grown up.


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[Assistant] Northanger Abbey. Is it haunted?


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[Assistant] And I've heard that he is here, in Bath. Should we go to the pump room and see if we can see him? Perhaps your Mr. Tilney will be there too. He's not my Mr. Tilney, Isabella. Indeed, you mustn't say he is. Isn't he?


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[Assistant] Are they following? No. They're going towards the churchyard. Good. We are rid of them. Now if we turn down there, it will bring us to Milson Street.


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[Assistant] What would the men think if they could see us now? How can I ever face the Tonys again?


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[Assistant] The fire pronounced the magic words and a thick smoke arose over the magic mirror. At length he beheld Antonia's lovely form.


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[Assistant] She was undressing to bathe herself and the amorous monk had full opportunity to observe the voluptuous contours and admirable symmetry of her person as she drew off her last garment. At this moment a tame linnet flew towards her.


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[Assistant] Nestled its head between her breasts and nibbled them in wanton play.


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[Assistant] Ambrosio could bear no more. The blood boiled in his veins and a raging fire rushed through his limbs. I must possess her, he cried. No, no Ambrosio. I shall no longer be able to combat my passions.


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[Assistant] It reminds me of the south of France, the Londres. You know?


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[Assistant] Do you really believe that? Oh go on, don't wait for me.


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[Assistant] Because I think you like to tease me. Because the real world's different from the world in stories.


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[Assistant] Of course it is. I love to read, Mrs. Radcliffe, but...


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[Assistant] I don't know. I'd like to think not.


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[Assistant] The monk reeled from the unholy sight. Receive this talisman, she replied. While you bear this, every door will fly open, and walls will melt away.


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[Assistant] It will procure you access tomorrow night to Antonia's bedchamber.


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[Assistant] I'm sure they'll be very happy for James. But my fortune will be so small. How could they consent to it? Your brother. He might marry anybody.


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[Assistant] Surprised at you being so disrespectful to your older brother. Anyway, how could you know what he was like as a baby? When he was a baby, you were not yet born.


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[Assistant] You've heard from James? And my parents have consented? Yes. Your father has been very good. James is to have a living worth £400 a year.


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[Assistant] But I suppose everybody has the right to do what they like with their own money. I'm very sure that my father's promised as much as he can afford. But Mr. Allen, I was sure, would do something for James. Perhaps he does not approve of his choice of bride. Why should Mr. Allen do anything for James? Or for any of us? He was very kind of Mr. and Mrs. Allen to bring me to Bath, but none of us has any expectations from Mr. Allen.


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[Assistant] I think Mrs. Allen and your mother are expecting us. Will you come, Isabella? You go, and tell them I'll follow.


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[Assistant] Horrors. There's no time to hold it then.


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[Assistant] Tolerably large indeed, sir. But I don't think I've ever been in so large a dining room as this one.


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[Assistant] Though I never loved it then, as I've loved it since. Her death must have been a great affliction. A great and increasing one. What was she like? Did she look like you? I wish I could show you her portrait. It hangs in her private chamber. I suppose you were with her to the last?


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[Assistant] No. I wish I could have done. Perhaps it would help me to think of her at peace. Yes. I should like to see her room, if you're willing to show me. You never go there. It is my father's wish. But see her picture.


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[Assistant] I hope everything goes well with you and with James and that your brother is not too much offended with me.


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[Assistant] Northanger Abbey is all that I expected it to be, and Eleanor and her brother very kind.


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[Assistant] I cannot write more now. Send me your news. Your loving friend, Katherine.


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[Assistant] When we were coming to Northanger Abbey, you said that the house held secrets.


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[Assistant] No, it is my brother's handwriting.


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[Assistant] Look here, dearest Catherine, beware how you give your heart.


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[Assistant] What is her fortune? Are they a wealthy family? No, not very. I don't believe Isabella has any fortune at all. You think your father will forbid them much? I doubt if the matter will reach his ears at all.


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[Assistant] He is the only man I ever did or could love and I know you will convince him of it. I most certainly shan't.


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[Assistant] So, Frederick is safe from her. I can't say I'm surprised. Aren't you? I am very. I wish I'd never known her. You'll soon be as if you never had. There's one thing I can't understand.


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[Assistant] What has Captain Tilney been about all this time? Why should he pay her such attentions and then fly off himself? He has his vanity as


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[Assistant] I'm surprised you should have stooped to such an easy conquest. Really?


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[Assistant] And I'm sorry for Isabella. I'm sure she will be over it soon enough.


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[Assistant] It was very big and strange with lots of empty rooms and secret passages.


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[Assistant] And I did think there might be ghosts. But there weren't any ghosts, really.


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[Assistant] People who read too many stories imagine all sorts of horrid things about ghosts and murders. And it is very wrong of them to do so and it can get you into serious trouble. So let me not hear of any of you being so silly. Now, what else would you like to hear about? What games did you play?


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[Assistant] Uhm, we played ice spy and charades. We went horse riding and got ourselves very muddy indeed. Was Mr. Turley very handsome Kathy?


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[Assistant] Yes, I think so. Very handsome and very kind and everything he should be.


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[Assistant] Of course not. Don't talk such nonsense. Now, into your beds, all of you.


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[Assistant] I thought you were so angry with me you told him what you knew. Which would have justified any discourtesy.


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[Assistant] Now his body and voice show the strains of age. But Joe's still in the game, training local kids in a neighborhood that's seen better days.


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[Assistant] Born in 1944, Joe Frazier grew up in South Carolina.


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[Assistant] The youngest child of 11 and a family of rural sharecroppers.


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[Assistant] After Ruben Fraser lost his arm in a shooting accident, Joe became his father's close companion, running errands with him on the farm, making moonshine in the backwoods.


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[Assistant] Watching the Friday Night Fights on TV, family members noted Joe's physical resemblance to legendary champ Joe Lewis.


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[Assistant] Taking their words to heart, Joe made a punching bag out of corn cobs, moss and bricks, and hung it from a tree.


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[Assistant] Determined to develop his skills in the ring, Joe left school and moved north at age 15.


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[Assistant] He settled with relatives in Philadelphia, a boxing mecca, where he began training at a police athletic league gym.


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[Assistant] Joe's childhood sweetheart, Florence Smith, joined him in Philadelphia, where they married in 1962. To pay the bills, Joe worked at a slaughterhouse, practicing his jab against slabs of meat, and staying in shape by running the streets of the city.


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[Assistant] In 1964, he became a sparring partner for US Olympic heavyweight contender Buster Mathis. When Mathis hurt his hand in training, Joe took his place.


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[Assistant] He kept the entry secret from the fishers, going for the gold with a fractured fist.


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[Assistant] After winning an Olympic gold medal with a broken thumb, Joe Frazier returned to Philadelphia, confident that his future was secure.


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[Assistant] But veteran trainer Yank Durham saw things differently. He and Joe struck out on their own.


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[Assistant] With Yank in his corner, Joe developed his signature style. Closing off the ring, then connecting with power.


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[Assistant] In 1967, Muhammad Ali was stripped of his title and banned from boxing for refusing military induction on religious grounds, with Ali on the sideline.


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[Assistant] Then, in 1970, the Supreme Court upheld Ali's religious rights, allowing him to return to the ring.


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[Assistant] Now the two undefeated champions squared off for a battle like no other.


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[Assistant] Frazier had befriended Ali during his exile, publicly supporting his right to fight, privately lending him money to survive.


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[Assistant] But once the match was set, Ali cast himself as a symbol of black pride, and Joe Frazier as an Uncle Tom.


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[Assistant] But as the buildup to the fight reached a fever pitch, Joe's family received death threats.


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[Assistant] The fight of the century. A sellout crowd at Madison Square Garden. 300 million others tuning in from around the world.


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[Assistant] Joe Frazier had won the fight of the century, but his battles were far from over. Joe Frazier beat Muhammad Ali. Who could possibly beat him?


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[Assistant] After beating Muhammad Ali in the fight of the century, Joe Frazier was determined to be the people's champ.


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[Assistant] He and Florence moved to the Philly suburbs with their five children.


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[Assistant] Frazier fiercely defended his crown. To fellow fighters, he seemed all but invincible.


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[Assistant] In January 1973, Joe took his son Marvis to Jamaica to see his first fight, a title defense against George Foreman.


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[Assistant] Seven months later, trainer Yank Durham died suddenly of a heart attack at age 52.


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[Assistant] In 1974, Frazier and Ali met for a 12-round rematch. Though neither was a champion anymore, the bout filled Madison Square Garden and ended in a decision for Ali.


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[Assistant] But in or out of the ring, Ali vs. Frazier was still primetime drama.


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[Assistant] In 1975, Frazier and Ali came to the Philippines for their third and final bout. The Thrilla in Manila.


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[Assistant] As Fight Night drew near, Ali let loose with another barrage of insults.


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[Assistant] High blood pressure and arthritis were breaking down his body while a cataract rendered his left eye all but blind.


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[Assistant] With trainer Eddie Futch in Joe's Corner, Frazier and Ali gave it all they had.


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[Assistant] But by the 14th round, a cut over Frazier's good eye had left him nearly sightless in the ring.


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[Assistant] Eight months later, while secretly wearing a contact lens, Frazier got back into the ring with George Foreman. But the lens popped out during the fight, which ended with another Foreman knockout.


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[Assistant] Joe's son Hector and his daughter Jackie would fight professionally.


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[Assistant] But it was Marvis, the family heavyweight, who followed directly in his father's footsteps, despite Joe's misgivings.


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[Assistant] Joe Frazier's life had come full circle, but he had one more round to go.


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[Assistant] In 1985, after 23 years, Joe and Florence's marriage ended in divorce. But Joe's side of the family keeps growing. He has 11 children.


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[Assistant] Their three classic battles have forever linked. Joe Frazier with Muhammad Ali.


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[Assistant] But Joe's bitterness at Ali's insults lasted longer than the bruises from their fights.


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[Assistant] In 2002, Friends brought the two legends together in public at the NBA All-Star game in Philadelphia. Privately, they made their peace.


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[Assistant] In downtown Philadelphia, there's a statue of a fictional champ from the movies. While the real champion, without fanfare, goes on about his business.


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[Assistant] Can you, Ms. Moreland, be prevailed on to quit this scene of public triumph and oblige us with your company at Northanger Abbey?


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[Assistant] Miss Moreland, a thousand pardons for our late arrival. My eldest son must bear the blame. He stays on in Bath. Now, my dear Miss Moreland, I have a proposal. As it is a fine day, how should you like to travel in the curriculum with my son Henry? You will enjoy the air and be better able to see the country. It is of course entirely up to you.


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[Assistant] Well, no doubt the rules of Mr. Allen's are exactly the true size for rational happiness.


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[Assistant] A lot of people in the black community who, at this point, kinda would think it, Clay's a clown, so I'd rather see Liston win.


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[Assistant] St. Louis in the 1950s was a very segregated city. Black people had their enclave where they lived, where they went to school. If you're anywhere out of this area or you're anywhere that people think you shouldn't be, then you're gonna be stopped by the police.


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[Assistant] He may not have acted in such a way that was to his best advantage, but he understood how the world worked. He was also a guy who was kinda witty too.


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[Assistant] This is the first fight between two black men that meant a lot to the public, which one of these guys won.


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[Assistant] There was fear that there would be some kind of war going on between Malcolm X's faction and the Nation of Islam. Liston isn't that great a guy and he's connected with organized crime but that's an evil we know.


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[Assistant] I'd rather have the evil I know than the evil that I don't know. The public really would rather see Liston when...


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[Assistant] Is it possible that some people from the nation visited Sunny Liston and said if you don't lose this fight, we would kill you?


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[Assistant] Is it possible if that happened that Sonny Liston would have been intimidated by it? Yep, I think it is.


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[Assistant] It's not a matter that he lost. You can survive losing as an athlete. You can't survive losing as an athlete if you don't seem to have any honor and you don't seem to have honestly put forth an effort. And that's the image that Liston had.


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[Assistant] Frazier's just laughing at him. Talking to him.


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[Assistant] Best trial attorneys I've ever seen. And Mort Wittgen exposed this chain of circumstances as impossible.


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[Assistant] Oh, it was my fault, Ben, for letting you talk me into showing Shadow. But if this hadn't happened, Smokey would have won. Easily.


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[Assistant] Hello, Seattle boy. Where did you come from? Here, here. What you doing in here? This ain't no place for no doll. Oh, that's all right. Let him stay. Where's Smokey?


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[Assistant] After what just happened at the village, I think the best thing I can do is take Shadow away from here.


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[Assistant] I don't know. Maybe I know Shadow better than you do.


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[Assistant] Yes, sir. Yes, sir, Mr. Smirveth. The chute new here was at this place all right.


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[Assistant] No sir, that was Miss Judy's dog, Shatter. Mr. Rod, he-


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[Assistant] How would you like to have Shadow stay here with you?


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[Assistant] So much of a fighter is that internal mechanism, you know, how he sees himself.


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[Assistant] In which my brother conducted the affairs of the plantation. Julia, the nigger gal, a house girl when I left, was carrying on much of the business.


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[Assistant] I dare say I should have felt a pain in my liver, too, if I had known where it was.


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[Assistant] I was soon at the battery after that and there was the right man, hugging himself and limping to and fro


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[Assistant] He was awfully cold, to be sure. I half expected to see him drop down before my face and die of deadly cold.


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[Assistant] His eyes looked so awfully hungry, too, that when I handed him the file and he laid it down on the grass,


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[Assistant] He was already handing mincemeat down his throat in the most curious manner, more like a man who was putting it away somewhere in a violent hurry than a man who was eating it. But he left off to take some of the liquor.


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[Assistant] I'll eat my breakfast if I're there the death of me, said he.


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[Assistant] I'd do that if I was going to be strung up to that there gallows as there is over there, directly afterwards. I'll beat the shivers so far, I'll betcha.


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[Assistant] He was gobbling mincemeat, meatbone, bread, cheese, and pork pie all at once, staring distrustfully while he did so at the mist all around us, and often stopping, even stopping his jaws to listen.


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[Assistant] Pitting his desolation and watching him as he gradually settled down upon the pie, I made bold to say, I am glad you enjoy it. Did you speak? I said, I was glad you enjoyed it. Thank you, my boy. I do.


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[Assistant] The man took strong, sharp, sudden bites just like the dog. He swallowed or rather snapped up every mouthful too soon and too fast, and he looked sideways here and there while he ate as if he thought there was danger in every direction of somebody's coming to take the pie away.


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[Assistant] Each member firm is a separate legal entity. Please see www.pwc.com slash structure for further details. This podcast is for general information purposes only and should not be used as a substitute for consultation with professional advisors.


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[Assistant] My name is Christine, and this story happened when I was in the 10th grade. I was 15 years old at the time.


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[Assistant] I remember this one classmate I had, Jessica, who had a really weird obsession with my other classmate, John.


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[Assistant] Until one day when John, my classmate, told me he liked me.


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[Assistant] He said it in front of everyone, including Jessica.


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[Assistant] I saw the anger and shock on Jessica's face, her eyes fixed on me weirdly. She was looking at me from head to toe.


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[Assistant] Then, without saying anything, she went home.


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[Assistant] The next day, I had a weird start to my morning. I had to wear the exact same outfit I wore the previous day to school since I didn't have anything else to wear as all my other clothes were in the laundry.


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[Assistant] As I got to school, I saw Jessica, and she was wearing the exact same outfit I was wearing.


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[Assistant] She copied me from how I styled my hair, the way I dressed, and the way I acted.


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[Assistant] It even got to the point where she would post the exact same things I posted on social media.


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[Assistant] There was this one time when I posted the new iPhone I got for my birthday, and not even an hour later, she posted the exact same thing, saying she had gotten a new phone for her cousin's birthday. Which was probably a made-up story, and she even used the exact same caption I used in my post.


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[Assistant] Three days later, I bought two chocolate Labradors, the cutest puppies, and I posted them on social media.


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[Assistant] And as expected, not too long after, Jessica posted the same thing.


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[Assistant] She bought two puppies of the exact same breed that I had bought.


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[Assistant] Two weeks later, both of my dogs got into a fight with a large group of dogs that lived on the street.


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[Assistant] Both of my Labradors died from horrible injuries from the bites of those vicious dogs.


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[Assistant] I posted on social media that both of my dogs had died crying non-stop while sharing the news.


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[Assistant] Now, this is where the story gets scary. A few days later, around 2am in the morning, she posted that both of her dogs had died as well, and she said that they


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[Assistant] Fell from somewhere really high and died when they hit the ground. And I'm positive that the story she told was a lie.


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[Assistant] Which was the exact same caption I had put on my post about my dog, but my dog's name was Mochi.


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[Assistant] And to this day, I still don't know what she did to those poor puppies.


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[Assistant] Well, we got our executive officer, Mac. That is, we will have him Monday, I hope.


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[Assistant] Now, when you blow up the ammunition dumps, that'll be my signal to attack the shipping in the harbor. I'll be operating on a split second schedule. Exactly 30 minutes later.


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[Assistant] I am totally in favor of vaccines, but I want smaller doses over a longer period of time.


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[Assistant] Because you take a baby in, and I've seen it, and I've seen it, and I had my children taking care of over a long period of time, over a two or three year period of time, same exact amount, but you take this little beautiful baby, and you pump, I mean it looks just like it's meant for a horse, not for a child.


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[Assistant] Oh, gosh, I'd love to, Snug, but got chores to do.


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[Assistant] Oh, hey, wait a minute. Ma's going in right away. She'll take you. Oh, swell. Gee, you don't look very tidy to be going into town. Well, gosh, you've been plowing all morning. Why don't you dress neat like your brother? Stretch ain't no brother of mine and you know it. Okay, stepbrother then.


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[Assistant] Me? Why, Pa. I throw him back in the creek when I hook him as little as him.


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[Assistant] That's so. Listen, Snug Dominy, you may own them mules, but you don't own me. Look, Rad.


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[Assistant] Oh, Snugga, I've been such a little fool. Such a little hee.


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[Assistant] What do you want? I wanna talk to you, Aurora. What's on your mind? Plenty. Alright, come on in. No, it's business. You come on outside.


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[Assistant] Listen, snug note what he was doing. Them mules will drive.


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[Assistant] You want to stick him back or don't you? If you do, my price is share and share alike.


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[Assistant] You hear me? Won't be no trouble. I could work them mules all day and never sweat. It's easy money too, Laura. Week in, week out. Here's a milk check. All you gotta do is fire him. Leave the rest to me.


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[Assistant] You looking for Tony? Yeaah, have you seen him? Seen him over at the pay window. Said to give you a message. Yeaah? Said to drive the team on home and not to wait. He had stuff to buy. He'd get along home later.


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[Assistant] You can back out on me if you want to. Me, I ain't through yet. And you better not try to cross me, neither. I can't have the mule snug, ain't gonna have neither. And you keep your big mouth shut.


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[Assistant] When he was first diagnosed, he was pretty much pulled out of society. Uhm, we avoided highly concentrated groups of people.


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[Assistant] When we went out, we wore a mask. I mean we really did limit his exposure.


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[Assistant] And we just were so excited for the day when he could start kindergarten so he could have that sense of socialization and community and learning.


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[Assistant] This scene really lights a fuse for the movie. When you talk about a 10 story generator, you're pushing the threshold of what you can actually build. You have to see it through Goon's eyes.


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[Assistant] Without this shot working, we would lose a pivotal dramatic component in the plot of this film. Without nailing this sequence, we'd be left without that turning point.


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[Assistant] Traditionally that's done with a sequence of cuts. We would show Doom coming in, cut to a reaction of him realizing that the door to the generator is open for once, then cover him walking in, and as he comes in, come in close to his eyes and then cut away to his point of view, that shows the place.


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[Assistant] But I knew that this was an opportunity to create a visceral punch. I really wanted to be able to cross the threshold into this generator room and for the audience to believe that this is a grounded space.


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[Assistant] And so I knew the only way I could really pull a sequence like this off was to try to play it all in one. And that means bringing Dune in, and then as he walks in, the camera glides in over his shoulder, and in essence we become his eyes, we become his point of view.


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[Assistant] There's no, there's no cutting around a problem.


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[Assistant] To create this scene, we had to shoot it in four different stages. The first stage was Dune, our hero. We shot him on a set with the rest of the actors who play the pipe workers. That takes us to, uh,


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[Assistant] This takes us to the second element in this scene, which was the bridge


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[Assistant] The base of the generator and the workers who were running around on this bridge. I seem like this is sort of clockwork. You've gotta nail the timing. It was really critical that everyone was in sync, everyone was on their mark, that the cameras were firing on all cylinders, the 75 extras were where they needed to be.


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[Assistant] We must have had at least uhm, 14 or 15 takes. We spent about three quarters of a day on this thing, which might not sound like a lot, but when you've got this many people working on something, you know, we can get, we can get a lot more done in that time than just one shot.


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[Assistant] That meant building a massive structure really that was on its own almost three stories tall there on the set. This is the base of the generator. They...


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[Assistant] Upper part of the generator was created visually, so that didn't exist. This thing was created completely in the computer and integrated into the first and second elements so that we've got a kind of seamless transition from one to the other.


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[Assistant] One of the real problems with pure CG shots is that the camera


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[Assistant] And so it was really tricky and really important that the handoff from the live action plate camera to the CG was done with a real effort to maintain the kind of humanity of the operation.


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[Assistant] Fringe is a new drama on Fox that is generating a lot of buzz.


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[Assistant] Then, one of your daughters will be able to keep her family property and father's house.


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[Assistant] That okay? So would you like to start with historical perspective on failure?


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[Assistant] So basically if we contrast right now.


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[Assistant] These two, you get two examples from the Indian tradition of Jatayu and Abhimanyu.


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[Assistant] This we can associate with the three terms in our tradition, Adhyatmik, Adhibhautik and Adhidaivik.


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[Assistant] That means sometimes nature itself causes failure. Nature, for example, right now people may have worker.


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[Assistant] Years and decades to build their businesses, especially if you're a small business.


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[Assistant] And then a virus comes and just disrupts the whole economy.


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[Assistant] You are playing a cricket match and you are about to win but rains come and the match gets cancelled, abandoned.


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[Assistant] So one is the failure that is caused by nature.


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[Assistant] And the second is failure that is caused by others incompetence or malevolence.


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[Assistant] So we count on them and they don't help us or we count on them and they betray us. That could be called as Adhi Bhautik.


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[Assistant] What would be a Sanskrit word for failure per se? Apayash? Apayash. Apayash is? Labha, labhav, jaya, ajayav. Hani, hani is failure.


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[Assistant] Yes. So, glani is more of decrease or diminution. Hani is destruction or loss. Okay.


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[Assistant] So now if we consider, so, we could call it adhibhautik, adhibhautik hani or adhibhautik


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[Assistant] So when some other person is causing it,


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[Assistant] Uh, at one level it was his actions. He killed his father. It was he cohabited with his mother.


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[Assistant] But, so you could say that he is responsible, but then if you go into the whole story, he did not know it was his father, he did not know it was his mother. So, overall, at one level failure can have different causes.


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[Assistant] If you consider sports because that's where it's like a microcosm of life today, an intensified, amplified microcosm. So if at a winning juncture rains come,


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[Assistant] You might, players might rant at the rain, the fans might rant at the rain, but what can you do? You accept it. But on the other hand, there is a batsman who is batting very well.


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[Assistant] Or if some batsman is batting and he plays a rash shot and gets out and then that causes the loss.


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[Assistant] So what is happening here, there could be different causes and some people


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[Assistant] Might just beat themselves up, you know, why did I do that? Why did I do that? Why did I do that? And they might never recover from it.


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[Assistant] So of course it will be very difficult to separate.


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[Assistant] So, for example, a cricket player thinks, oh, because of my mistake I lost the match.


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[Assistant] And that person might become so depressed and so, so damaged psychologically, they may never be get the confidence to play a game.


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[Assistant] Or sometimes if a player causes a match to be lost,


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[Assistant] And then no matter how well the player performs, that's that that he lost that match.


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[Assistant] For our country that becomes enshrined in the public imagination.


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[Assistant] I mean, in India we say cricket is a religion, but I don't think any player has experienced physical violence. We have had people being garlanded with shoes or their effigies being burnt.


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[Assistant] And maybe security has been called to protect their homes or whatever, but I don't think any violence has been done.


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[Assistant] Uh, in boxing or in say, sometimes a player does something unfair, but the referee doesn't notice it. And because that player does something unfair, the other person loses. Now the audience can see that this player does something unfair, but the referee doesn't see it.


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[Assistant] He was clearly, he nicked the ball and the ball, he nicked the ball and the ball was caught by the wicket keeper, but now it was a clear edge.


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[Assistant] And uh, at that time I think the decision review system was not there. So the umpire declared not out. So that became an ethical issue.


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[Assistant] This is umpire's mistake, but after that, he went on and won the match. I think it was against India only. And he was quite hated because of that. So, I wouldn't say.


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[Assistant] Okay, it's nature and the Greek view of life has been called as a tragic view of life. That means life can be a tragedy in spite of our best efforts.


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[Assistant] It can also lead to fatalism which we can discuss later.


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[Assistant] But I think that recognizing that the person alone may not be responsible for the failure. That is important.


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[Assistant] And then if we move forward to the other example of uh, positing a larvas or someone with a Greek general


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[Assistant] There's a Greek Journal in 9th century AD. He lost a battle and he just, he committed suicide.


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[Assistant] It is not that he was captured, he, he lost the battle and could have survived but it was a disgrace.


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[Assistant] So the idea, of course Krishna is talking about there about if somebody is dishonoured as being cowardly.


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[Assistant] If you flee from battle, they never flee from war. So in that sense, I don't know whether failure in war was that dishonorable. Fleeing from war is more dishonorable than failing in war. But either way, the point is that, uh, that


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[Assistant] And that can cause a person to break down emotionally or even end their lives. Yeah. Yeah. I think those two cases of Abhimanyu and Jatayu, we'll analyze when we come to a more spiritual perspective, but this is something that you're talking about Jesus I think.


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[Assistant] They're saying that the first in the eyes of man will be the last in the eyes of God. The last in the eyes of man will be the first in the eyes of God.


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[Assistant] There is some parable also that there was a feast.


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[Assistant] The meek and the humble should, like HL, inherit the Kingdom of God. Now as far as Karma not being present, overall the New Testament,


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[Assistant] But for that matter even the Old Testament are not explicitly philosophical. They are primarily, uh, narrational and ethical to some extent.


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[Assistant] And then the epistles of Paul, which form a major part of the New Testament, they are primarily letters of instruction to various people across the


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[Assistant] So overall, Christians have developed philosophy later.


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[Assistant] But the bible itself doesn't have much philosophy. Yea, but this idea that the failed may be blessed


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[Assistant] It was quite stratified. There were the serfs and there were the aristocrats.


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[Assistant] So the idea that one's present situation may be ordained by God and that this is the way living in this way gracefully, dutifully can give us the blessing of God that to some extent maintains social order.


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[Assistant] But then it can also perpetuate social, uh, social injustice or social discrimination.


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[Assistant] Who first proposed the idea of meritocracy instead of aristocracy. He said that the people


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[Assistant] Interesting that he is often treated more like a villain against whom all of Europe


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[Assistant] Gang together to curtail his ambitions.


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[Assistant] But then the thought that he is inaugurated that has been more or less at least nominally adopted across the world.


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[Assistant] Democratic governments are said to be meritocracies.


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[Assistant] At least the prevailing notion of how society should be organized is meritocracy.


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[Assistant] Among the three factors we talked earlier, individual, social and natural, it's almost in meritocracy, your position in society is seen to be determined by you and you alone.


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[Assistant] And while you can, you can take credit for success, but then you have to take blame for failure.


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[Assistant] Failure may be seen as a defining event in their life. And not just a defining event in their life. Failure may be seen as the definition of that person itself.


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[Assistant] Like you said earlier that some people get called as losers.


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[Assistant] The person might just become de-harsed, disheartened and depressed, disempowered.


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[Assistant] Basically there are two mental health problems according to psychologists that trouble people. One is depression and the other is anxiety.


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[Assistant] So we could say depression in terms of our analysis of failure. Depression is where we think that our past failures are what define us and whatever we do,


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[Assistant] And then they define us and they depress us.


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[Assistant] At one level, almost a routine occurrence in life. Everybody will face failure.


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[Assistant] That could be responsible for a lot of mental health problems.


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[Assistant] Just interestingly about the resurgence of Buddhism in the western world.


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[Assistant] Buddha himself was not very philosophical in what he spoke.


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[Assistant] There are many occasions when he dodged philosophical questions.


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[Assistant] And his focus was on just some observations about life which can lead us to adopt practices


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[Assistant] That can help us face the adversities of life.


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[Assistant] So, later on there were thinkers who added metaphysics to his


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[Assistant] The practical aspects are maybe acceptance, letting go. If we consider mindfulness, which is historically associated with Buddhism.


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[Assistant] Although the Bhagavad Gita can also be clearly said to teach mindfulness in many ways, but


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[Assistant] If we talk about mindfulness, it is remarkably non-philosophical and even non-ethical.


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[Assistant] Learn to let go, breathe deeply, live in the present. So that, it is primarily that aspect that has been accepted.


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[Assistant] So Hollywood, I don't think is ever considering being equipoised in happiness and gain, happiness and loss. Or like Buddha said, asahi paramam dukkham, tirasha paramam sukham. Desire is the cause of all suffering and uh,


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[Assistant] Desirelessness is the cause of, uh, is the cause of joy.


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[Assistant] Uh, the, a certain amount of resilience in the human psyche, because okay, existence is suffering.


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[Assistant] Uh, as they say in contemporary language, you know, SH star star happens, and it happens, why it happens you don't know, but how do you move forward in life?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and uh, the, maybe the Bhagavatam's level of thought is probably the highest, at least in terms of spiritual perspective of life. So, generally, when we consider failure, there is a frame of reference within which we see the failure. Say for example.


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[Assistant] So, if you say a child is driving a, learning to drive a cycle, and the child falls, that's a failure.


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[Assistant] And the child will, uh, child will start riding and riding expertly.


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[Assistant] So if we expand the framework, then we can see failure.


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[Assistant] Not as the enemy of success, but as the entry to success.


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[Assistant] It's this punctuation mark which changes the flow of thought slightly or significantly. End of the chapter not the book. Okay, that's a better way to put it. End of the chapter not the book.


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[Assistant] Or we had earlier discussed about the world is a stage.


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[Assistant] And you have been speaking also on Ubisoft? Yes. So, if, now, if we expand the framework in which we are viewing, then what seems as a failure that, why, are you died?


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[Assistant] So uhm, our vision of success and failure are also shaped by the framework in which we are seeing and expanding the framework.


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[Assistant] So we talked earlier about Jesus also, so we could say that is also an expansion of the framework. That in the eyes of the, most people think of failure and success in the eyes of the world.


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[Assistant] So in the eyes of God, so the expansion of the framework can change our perception.


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[Assistant] That's the point which I thought of adding in response to what you said.


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[Assistant] Generally, we wouldn't introspect when we succeed. We will celebrate.


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[Assistant] And at least the perspective is expanded to the level of heavens, but then it can expand further.


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[Assistant] So spiritual success and spiritual failure. So now spiritual success essentially means connecting with spiritual reality. Connecting with our own spiritual identity.


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[Assistant] Connecting means we develop a steady awareness. Our consciousness becomes steadily fixed.


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[Assistant] And also it means connecting with the ultimate spiritual reality, connecting with Krishna. So, if we connect with Krishna,


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[Assistant] And going through the, going back to the earlier examples which you talked about, the Jatayu and Abhimanyu.


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[Assistant] Jatayu connected deeper with Ram through his failure.


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[Assistant] I know that he performed the last ride, but that Jatayodhana Vatsaleras is quite, it makes a lot of things fall in place.


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[Assistant] It's like a missing jigsaw puzzle piece and so many other things fall in place that way. Beautiful.


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[Assistant] So, so that was a success for him, although it was a failure.


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[Assistant] Same way we could say with Abhimanyu, although of course Abhimanyu did not.


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[Assistant] Considered the parameter of success or failure. And when Kunti says that, uh, that if we have wealth or beauty or high birth or


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[Assistant] So, and of course she says, I will accept adversity because adversity connects me with you deeper. It helps me to absorb myself better, you deeper.


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[Assistant] So spiritual success means connecting with the Lord and that perspective again, if we have


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[Assistant] Then even the greatest mental adversity could be a doorway to spiritual, to spiritual success.


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[Assistant] So, these are just a few thoughts before I address your question of


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[Assistant] So again when Arjuna asked this question, he is talking


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[Assistant] So now the spiritual failure could mean broadly three things. One is that we run out of time and we haven't yet matured in our spiritual connection.


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[Assistant] So that we do not get transported to the abode of the Lord.


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[Assistant] To the, so we don't in that sense attain spiritual success by the end of this life. So it's like you are in a school.


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[Assistant] And you are about, you have to get graduated over from there, but then you're taken out of that school. What happens after that? So that's, you don't complete your spiritual journey. The second is that you voluntarily


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[Assistant] Or because of the restlessness of the mind, we give up the spiritual journey.


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[Assistant] So one is time ends our spiritual journey. The second is our free will ends our spiritual journey. And in that case,


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[Assistant] Not only give up spirituality, but descend to immorality.


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[Assistant] Where they do something which is, which is, which is we could say obnoxious or something shockingly wrong.


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[Assistant] Yes, if they had come from, uh, immoral background or something like that.


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[Assistant] So now in these three cases, we could say that there could be different results.


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[Assistant] So, in the Bhagavad Gita itself, Krishna talks primarily about the first two options. Because Arjuna came from a cultured background.


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[Assistant] And for Arjuna, there is no question of descending to immorality.


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[Assistant] Arjuna was already very dharmic. In fact, we could say that when Urvashi, who was the most beautiful of the celestial damsels, propositioned him, he said no. So he had that level of willpower to say no to temptation. So if you look at those two options, what Arjuna says, uh,


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[Assistant] Maybe you would like to explain the first two options what Krishna says and then I can talk about a third. No, no, no, you go ahead.


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[Assistant] Then what happens? You go to another school and you continue from there.


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[Assistant] So, that spiritual gain is not lost at all. It is, you just straight away resume from where you are.


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[Assistant] Now the second we could say is say a student is in school, in university, and is on the path to graduation, but say this student gets, uh, infatuated sports.


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[Assistant] Now in some cases the students, uh, many of these universities, especially in America,


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[Assistant] I found that people choose universities based on what kind of sports are played over there.


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[Assistant] And there are universities which have sports scholarships. That means you may not have any academic merit. But if you are good at a particular sport,


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[Assistant] Then you don't have to have, you don't have to pay fees, you don't have to have good grades, but still you will come in.


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[Assistant] And then sometimes if the students want to focus on their sports, the university might even say that, okay, you focus on the sports.


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[Assistant] Not material pleasures in terms of immoral or anti-spiritual pleasures but just the good things of life.


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[Assistant] So then Krishna says, if that's what you want, you can have that abundantly.


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[Assistant] Now it's interesting he uses the shashwati, earlier he says that atma is shashwata, is eternal.


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[Assistant] Then you are again born in a family where you don't have to worry too much about the material necessities of life. So either a cultured family or a wealthy family.


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[Assistant] You know, I read that and it makes sense that for people to have a happy material life, there are two things. There are your relationships and your career.


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[Assistant] If you are Shri Matam, you don't have financial worries. If you are Shri Chinnam, you are born in a cultured family.


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[Assistant] It is, it may be a temporary interruption.


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[Assistant] Then what happens? So I think this Vishwanath Chakravorty talker talks about in his commentary to that verse, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, even the low born people are chanting the names of the Lord.


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[Assistant] Then, he says we need to understand they have already done these virtuous activities. The question may come up if they have already done the virtuous activities, why might they be low born at all?


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[Assistant] So, one thing could be that they did the virtuous activities, but they did some, some sinful activity. So because of that they were low born. Another is they were practicing bhakti, they were practicing transcendence, but they did some grievous material wrong.


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[Assistant] They got that birth, but they did not. So they lost their material position, but they didn't lose their spiritual disposition. And that is what we also see in the story of Bharat Maharaj. Because he got attached to a deer. In his next life, he became a deer. So he lost the material position of a human form of life.


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[Assistant] So he generated even further, but he did not lose his spiritual disposition.


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[Assistant] And that spiritual disposition inspired him to even as a deer, not just do normal activity like a deer, but associating sages.


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[Assistant] Although there is a, there is a, we could say a, serious material failure.


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[Assistant] But still, the, there is a spiritual connect, spiritual continuity still happening. The spiritual, what is done spiritually is not lost. So, you wanted to, you were saying from the last point?


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[Assistant] It's a very good point, but how did you connect this with Occupy Street and the changing definitions of happiness within?


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[Assistant] The currency but in terms of the material resources that are available for people.


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[Assistant] So Bhutan, so according to, if just the parameters of success were changed, then Bhutan and Bangladesh are already happy. So why do they have to become like the West?


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[Assistant] So if we see our present situation as in some way a divine arrangement, then accepting it becomes relatively easier.


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[Assistant] Yes. And so if one sees marriage, for example, more as a duty or obligation rather than simply as an option, option or opportunity for pleasure, then, okay, this is not giving me pleasure, let me just break it. But if I see this is a duty,


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[Assistant] And the second that the material definition of the material success will be attainable by your efforts alone.


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[Assistant] And then there is lack of commitment and that we see tremendously in relationships.


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[Assistant] Uh, in many kinds, many, especially software industries, somebody works in the same job for 10, 15, 20 years. People looked at, what's wrong with you?


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[Assistant] It matters of course, but it doesn't matter that much. It doesn't have to be catastrophic.


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[Assistant] In the Bhagavad Gita Krishna says, if you stay connected with me, I will give you intelligence.


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[Assistant] Bhajatam Preeti Purvakam Dadami Buddhi Yogam Tam Yena Maam Upayantite


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[Assistant] If you seek to stay connected with me, then I will give you the intelligence by which you can make further choices to come closer to me.


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[Assistant] And at a practical level, each of these may need to be addressed appropriately.


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[Assistant] Sometimes I really need to become more responsible, learn some skills. Sometimes there might be some people who are toxic in my life. And I might need to distance myself from them. It could be in relationships, it could be a boss.


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[Assistant] Whatever it is, I may have to change my situation. If I, if I'm doing a particular, say if somebody starts a hotel in an area where, where people don't come to eat.


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[Assistant] So then it's not just, you know, you just have to change. Maybe the socioeconomic district changes and then you have to change. So basically, you may have to take an appropriate approach.


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[Assistant] About what happened in the war, whether success or failure.


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[Assistant] So, we can learn from our failures and grow towards success by making the appropriate changes and choices.


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[Assistant] If we have the stability coming from our spiritual connection.


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[Assistant] And the Bhagavad Gita itself describes this model that Krishna tells Arjuna,


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[Assistant] yutva shatruna bhūṅśhva rādhyaṁ samruddhaṁ malai vai te nihatāpūro meva nimitta mātraṁ bhava sa vaisājī.


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[Assistant] So if you become an instrument for me, you will get success also. Not necessarily always. Nobody will always get success because that is not the nature of the world.


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[Assistant] But that is, so if we focus on spiritual connection and we focus on making sure that our spiritual success is our first priority.


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[Assistant] Then we will do what it takes to get material success, learn from material failures and we will be able to do better even in the material aspects of our life.


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[Assistant] I will summarize some things and if you have some things to add, you can feel free to add.


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[Assistant] So basically, we had a planned thought flow.


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[Assistant] That first we look at various historical definitions of success and we look at the contemporary definition of success and how it affects us in terms of mental health and then we talk about the bhakti definition of success.


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[Assistant] So Foculus and Oedipus thought that life is tragic.


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[Assistant] So, even if we mess up in life,