MALE SPEAKER: Good afternoon.
It's my pleasure, privilege, and honor to welcome to the
Googleplex Radhanath Swami, a renowned Vedic scholar, bhakti
yoga teacher, and an author.
I first came across Radhanath Swami in a Burning Man video.
Believe it or not, he does get around.
And in that video, he said a statement that a stuck with me
for a very long time.
And that statement was, everybody
is looking for happiness.
But to find your happiness, you don't need to change your
externalities.
All you need to do is to change your consciousness.
And the second time I came across Radhanath Swami was at
the Wanderlust Festival at Lake Tahoe.
So I told you, he does get around.
And he was there with Moby and Ziggy Marley, and he was give
a talk on environmentalism.
And at that time, he gave me a copy of his book, "The Journey
Home, an Autobiography of an American Swami."
And it's an extraordinary story in this book of
adventure, of love and mysticism.
And in this book he talks about, I read with
fascination, of how a young man called Richard Slavin from
the suburbs of Chicago, a little hippie--
he did have long hair back then, should-length hair,
believe me--
left on a trip around the world, seeking something,
something that is calling out to him.
And he went on this trip through Europe, Western
Europe, Eastern Europe, Central Asia through Iran,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, and finally found himself
meditating in a cave in the Indian Himalayas.
And along the way, he lost all of his possessions and his
diaries at least five times, sometimes just washed away by
the River Ganges.
And yet, when you read this book, you'll be struck by how
striking is his recall of minute details,
going back 20, 30 years.
And through this journey that he documents in the book--
you can get a copy of the book at the back--
Radhanath Swami discovered that the fundamental problems
in life are really caused by what he calls the frailties of
human nature, and that there is a path to happiness, and
that there is a path to solving world problems that
entails what he calls shifting your consciousness.
And to talk about that more, please help me welcome to
Googleplex, once again, Radhanath Swami.
RADHANATH SWAMI: [CHANTING IN SANSKRIT]
It is my great pleasure and honor to be
with all of you today.
This company, Google, started in a small way not long ago.
And it's come to a level where it practically influences, in
every aspect of life, almost everyone on Earth.
I have observed this as I travel around.
Even little swamis like me, when I come to speak to
somewhere, almost everyone says I googled
you before I came.
Not to speak of buying things for the household or making
investments.
Such a great power of influence your company has on
so many lives throughout the world.
I'd like to begin by speaking something about networking
from the perspective of nature.
Just a few days ago, I took a walk with one of my very dear
friends to a redwood forest.
Have you been to Muir Woods?
Every year I go with one of my dear friends while I'm in this
area to the Muir Woods, just to get away from everything
and the beauty of nature.
And there, some of the largest and greatest trees on the
entire planet have been standing for hundreds or even
thousands of years old.
And as you're walking along the little pathways, the bark
of the trees is so thick, and there's so many such trees
hardly any sun comes down, because it's blocked by all
the leaves and branches.
And footsteps are kind of absorbed in this thick bark.
So it's a very mystical silence.
And as we were walking, we came to one of the largest
trees in the forest.
There was a group of Chinese tourists in a circle around a
park ranger.
And I happened to stand just behind the tourists to hear
what he was saying.
He was about to tell what he said the underground secret of
the redwood trees.
Now an American coming from the 1960s, I still have an
inclination to hear underground secrets.
And he asked a question.
He began by telling how these trees in this forest have
stood over hundreds or thousands of years through
massive snow storms, windstorms, and devastating
earthquakes, and yet they keep growing bigger and higher and
higher and higher.
Now for most trees to have strength, they need roots that
go very, very deep.
But the redwood trees, their roots do not grow very deep,
and they're in an area with very loose soil.
And it's a hilly region.
How do they withstand these storms and earthquakes and
keep growing?
And then he paused for about a minute so that we could all
ponder this question.
How do they survive?
And as I was pondering, I was thinking of all the storms
that come in life, individually, collectively,
socially, nationally, internationally.
Then he revealed the secret.
The roots of the redwood tree, they grow outward underground,
reaching for the roots of other redwood trees.
And as soon as they come in contact with each other, they
intertwine and make permanent bond between them.
They're interlocked.
This means that one tree is locked in its root system with
another tree on one side and on another
side with other trees.
And the trees that are on the other side of the trees that
they're interlocked with are interlocked with other trees.
And the little baby trees, their little tiny roots, these
big ancient giants wrap their roots around them.
In this way, practically every tree in
the forest is connected.
Their unity is their strength.
Even through storms, winds, and earthquakes, they hold
each other up and keep growing and growing and growing.
This is nature's lesson of networking.
United we stand.
Divided we fall.
In our lives, our heart is like where our roots are.
And when the roots of our care, our concern, our
affection actually connect with each other, we can
develop such incredible strength.
Even when the storms come-- the storm of temptation, the
storm of fear, the storm of reversals and challenges--
we can hold each other strong.
And this is very much a spiritual principle.
There's a very beautiful verse in the "Bhagavad Gita." When I
first heard this, I thought, this is what I've always been
looking for.
You see, I was born in a Jewish family near Chicago.
And in my life, I had a natural inclination towards
spirituality.
But I saw so much hate and division in the name of a
loving God.
This was extremely disturbing to me.
Either I have to reject the whole concept altogether, or
is there something deeper, something that actually is
there, in an essence, that unites us and awakens real
character and real love, something common?
I believed in that essence, and I was
seeking that essence.
This is written about in this little book I wrote.
I hitchhiked from London through Europe through the
Middle East, travelled through India, studying various
religions under various masters, trying
to find that essence.
And a particular verse in the "Bhagavad Gita," when I heard
it, I was thinking, yes.
This is what the world needs.
This is what I need.
Would you like to hear that verse?
In Sanskrit, [SPEAKING SANSKRIT]
Real wisdom, it is defined not by how much data we collect
within our brains.
Real wisdom is not how many degrees we have.
Real wisdom is not how many followers we have.
It is to the extent we have the capacity to see every
living being with equal vision.
Whether one is man or woman, black, white, red, yellow, or
brown, whether one is from the East or the West, whether one
is a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim or Hindu a Jain or a
Buddhist or a Zoroastrian or a Sikh or an
agnostic or an atheist.
The "Gita" goes so far to say, whether one is a human or an
elephant or a cw or a dog or a cat.
Wherever there is life, it is sacred.
Life is sacred.
When we understand how our own life is sacred, we will
understand that sacredness and respect it wherever we
experience life, in every tree, in every plant, in every
living being.
And then the "Gita" goes on to explain, what is
the nature of life?
[SPEAKING SANSKRIT]
That the conscious force that's seeing through the eyes
and hearing through the ears and tasting through the
tongue, touching through the flesh, thinking through the
brain, loving through the heart, that
living force is divine.
It is Sat Chit Ananda, eternal, full of knowledge,
and full of bliss.
It's indestructible.
The body is constantly changing.
The mind is constantly changing.
The witness of these changes is constant, and that witness
is our true self.
[SPEAKING SANSKRIT]
That means it cannot be cut into pieces by any weapon.
It can't be moistened by water.
It cannot be burned by fire.
And it does not die with the body.
According to the "Gita," the body is like a
car or motor vehicle.
Some drive Mercedes, BMWs.
Some drive Fords.
Some drive Volvos.
Some drive Hondas or Toyotas.
And some drive Hindustani ambassadors.
According to how much money we have and according to the
choices we make, we get a particular type of car.
The "Gita" explains similarly, according to the choices we
make and according to what we've invested in, in what is
called karma, for every action there is an equal reaction, we
get a particular type of body.
And there are so many different varieties of bodies.
And there are so many different differences,
differences in the ways religions describe things,
their languages, their rituals, differences in habits
and cultures, in ways of life, in physical appearances.
But to understand the unity within diversity is the secret
of actually finding peace and being an instrument of peace
within this word.
That atman, or that living force, that
soul, is the true self.
And at the time of death, according to the "Gita," when
this car of the body is no longer suitable to us, we go
into another car, according to the choices and the desires we
have created in this life.
Human life is very special, because we have such a vast
capacity of free will.
You'll never see a cow jumping on rabbits and devouring them,
and you'll never see a tiger grazing on grass.
Because they are programmed--
you people are the best computer people in the planet,
so you'll understand it better than me--
with a particular consciousness.
But a human being has such free will.
We could be saints.
We could be serial killers.
We could be envious.
We could be everyone's well-wisher.
We could be respectful and self-controlled, or we could
be completely wild and impolite.
But with that power free choice comes responsibility.
The Bible says, as ye sow, so shall ye reap.
In the Vedic text, this is called the laws of karma.
For every action, there's an equal corresponding reaction.
But the soul, the atman, is beyond all these things.
But when the atman, due to the ahamkar, or the false ego,
identifies with this temporary body and this mind, instead of
understanding I am in my body, when we think I am this body,
I am observing life through this mind, I am this mind,
there's a big difference.
If we identify with it and forget our true nature, then
we're deeply affected by every situation that comes to us.
Yoga means to reconnect.
And interestingly, the Latin word religio, which is the
root of religion, means to bind back.
They really mean the same thing.
They don't mean just to be a particular sectarian group
that feels that I have knowledge
and nobody else does.
Religion actually means to reconnect with our own
essential self and with the grace of God and to be an
instrument of that grace in whatever we do.
And when we make that connection with ourself to
understand our own eternal, pure, loving nature, then we
can actually see it in everyone in a dormant state,
and then even nature, our environment, our ecology.
When we're in harmony with our self, we'll be in
harmony with nature.
We'll be in harmony with each other.
I write about this in the book.
In 1971, I got a very wonderful lesson from an event
that we might see every few days something like this, but
we don't really take it seriously.
The Bible said, seek and ye shall find.
If we're really seeking wisdom, it's amazing where
we'll find it.
We'll find it everywhere.
I was sitting on the bank the River Ganges.
It was the summer, very hot, probably 110 degrees
Fahrenheit.
And nobody else was there at the time.
It was actually at Prayag, the place where the Kumbh Mela
takes place.
I was just at Kumbh Mela.
And the day I bathed in the same spot, according to the
government 35 million people bathed.
35 million humans bathed in that place on that day.
But in 1971, when I was sitting there, I was the only
one around.
A hawk was flying overhead.
This hawk was hovering lower and lower and lower till he
was just a few meters above me.
I looked up at him.
He had brown, what, and kind of gold feathers, with his
wings expanded, and extremely sharp claws.
And its beak was curved down and pointed very sharp, and
yellow eyes that seemed to be unblinkingly gazing at me as
he was coming lower and lower and lower.
So naturally, I was thinking, maybe he's hungry.
Maybe I'm his food.
Suddenly, he dove right into the water and went
underwater a little.
And there was a skirmish.
And about 30 seconds later, he emerged from the water with
the flapping fish in its claws.
That fish was about a foot long.
And it was really bewildered.
It was just a few yards in front of me.
And I looked into the eyes of that fish.
He or she--
I couldn't tell.
And I don't want to call it, so I'll just call him he, just
for conventional purposes.
That fish looked so disoriented and bewildered.
And I was thinking, he was probably just going about his
day like every other day, swimming upstream, swimming
downstream, maybe with family, friends,
looking for food, playing.
Did not expect that at the least expected moment it would
be a ripped out of its complacency
by the hawk of destiny.
And I was thinking how many people I know, how many people
I hear about.
Very much like that fish, they're just going about their
days, and all of a sudden they're diagnosed with a
terminal disease, or they're betrayed by a loved one, or
they get in an accident, or there's an earthquake that
devastates everything around them.
It happens every day.
No one expects it.
That hawk of destiny is kind of flying over everyone's head
and could come down to get us.
And I was thinking how we shouldn't be complacent.
We should make priorities in our life of what really is
sacred, what really is important.
I remember Martin Luther King speaking.
He said, if you do not have an ideal you're willing to die
for, you have nothing meaningful to live for.
Do we have that ideal?
Moments pass, and we're just so preoccupied with
superficialities.
How much time do we really invest in trying to discover
what's really meaningful and important in life?
And then I reflected how if that fish was swimming deeper,
the hawk could not reach it.
And similarly, if our fulfillment, if our pleasure
and meaning in life is deep, then whatever happens in this
ever-changing world cannot really disturb what we have
achieved within ourselves and cannot alter the integrity and
the character in which we live.
This is a beautiful building.
But how many of us are thinking how wonderful the
foundation is?
The foundation, like the roots of those redwood
trees, cannot be seen.
It's something deeper than what the eyes can perceive.
But yet, the integrity of the building is completely
dependent on the strength of the foundation.
The Bible tells like this, build your
house on solid rock.
Then any storm that comes will not--
It may disturb it, but it's just a temporary disturbance.
But if you build your house on shifting sand, then when the
storm comes everything crumbles.
How much are we really taking seriously developing the
foundation of our lives, a deep inner fulfillment?
In 1971, I lived with Mother Teresa for some time.
And I remember she said something to me
that was quite profound.
And it was the same thing I was hearing from so many great
sages in the Himalayas, that the greatest problem in this
world is hunger, not hunger of the stomach,
hunger of the heart.
What is the one thing that nourishes the heart?
Love.
It's the most essential need for all of us, to
love and to be loved.
If we have everything else but not that, there will be no
fulfillment to the heart.
And if we have that, whether we have everything else or
nothing else, there's an inner fulfillment.
Because fulfillment it's not the ever-fleeting experiences
that come before our eyes or that we touch with our skin.
Those things are fleeting.
Or even fame and prestige, they come and go in the mind.
Fulfillment is a thing of the heart, to
love and to be loved.
And the origin, the universal principle of all these great
spiritual paths is to the origin of that
love is within us.
It is our inherent nature.
In the theistic paths, it is to experience the infinite
love of God, who has many names, who has appeared in
this world in many times in many forms to feel that love
and to love.
And the "Bhagavad Purana" tells that when we experience
that love and we reciprocate with that love, it's like
watering the root of a tree.
When there is love of God, it naturally extends to every
living being, just as watering the root of a tree that water
extends to every leaf, every flower, every
branch, every twig.
It doesn't discriminate.
It's natural.
According to the yoga principles, it is that
spiritual experience that is the deepest fulfillment.
And when we find that deep fulfillment within ourselves,
then the ever-changing world and all the challenges that
come cannot disturb it.
The hawk of faith cannot go deep if the fish are swimming
in a safe place.
But if our happiness and our purpose and our meaning in
life is based on all these ever-changing, superficial
conditions, at any moment it could be changed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, he said the reason why our society
lacks unity and lies broken and in heaps is because man
has lost connection with himself or herself.
This is a transcendental universal principle, to
actually connect to that essence of who we really are.
If a person has chronic boils, boils are extremely painful,
and you have to let them go through their natural course.
I've had many in my life.
We have to treat the symptoms.
We put salve on it.
We treat that boil in a particular way.
But if the cause of the boils is a disease in the blood,
unless we treat that, then there will just be
continuous--
We treat one, we make it better, and another comes.
Some years ago, I was sitting in the New Delhi Airport.
I had just taken a pilgrimage of several thousand people for
about two weeks in a place called Vrindavan, and I was
really tired.
I was waiting for a flight to get back to where I live in
Mumbai, and I was really happy to kind of just be alone
waiting for the flight.
And then somebody came up to me and said, the Union
Minister of the government of India for the environment
wants to speak to you.
So I said, OK.
And she came up, and she challenged me.
She said, what are you swamis and yogis doing for the
environment?
The rivers are polluted.
The oceans are polluted.
The ground is polluted.
The air is polluted.
And you're just sitting around chanting your mantras and
meditating and doing your pujas, your rituals?
What are you doing?
We need action.
So that was a challenge.
It's kind of like a storm.
It's like an earthquake, actually.
Very powerful lady.
And she stared at me, waiting for an answer, because she
really cared.
She really cared about the environment.
And I remember responding by using the same example.
When we're covered with boils, we do have to treat the
symptomatic problem.
But if the cause is a disease in the blood, we
have to treat that.
What is the cause for all of this crime and all this hatred
and hypocrisy in the name of religion?
What is the problem with the greed on Wall Street that's
actually creating such a
destabilization in our own economy?
What is the problem in India among politicians who for
bribes are willing to compromise and
let the people suffer?
And what is actually the reason why
there's all this pollution?
It's a pollution within the human heart.
When our heart is polluted, through our words and through
our actions and through the decisions we make, we're going
to pollute the world.
Because what's in is expressed through what we do and say.
We have to address, we have to educate people how to live in
harmony with ourself, how to live in harmony with each
other, how to live in harmony with God, and how to live in
harmony with nature,
And today's world now, it has come to a point with all of
our incredible science and our incredible technology and the
unbelievable development of industry and the armies and
the weapons and the bombs and the incredible power of
communication.
If we don't use these things with the right attitude, with
the right motives we have the power to really cause serious
destruction.
The purpose of religion, the purpose of spirituality, the
purpose of yoga is very simple.
It's not a sectarian idea.
It's to clean the pollution in our hearts.
Transformation, transformation of arrogance into humility,
transformation of greed, toxic greed that
can never be satisfied.
Being a millionaire, being a billionaire
cannot satisfy the heart.
That's the way greed is.
It's like a fire.
The more you feed it, the hotter it burns.
And selfishness, transforming selfishness into a desire to
selflessly or unselfishly serve others.
Hate into love.
Envy into rejoicing over somebody else's good fortune.
And actually connecting, connecting to a grace, an
energy that is within all of us in everything, that brings
out that love that is within us.
So I told this lady that we're trying to do our part.
And you're doing your part, and we should work together.
Because if we don't clean up the internal state of human
consciousness, even if you clean every river, every
ocean, all the air, and all the ground, as long as that
selfish egoistic greed is there, they're just going to
pollute it all over again.
And she smiled and said, yes, we must work together.
This is the potential of those interlocking roots of the
redwood forest.
We all have our differences.
Some of us are accountants.
Some of us are software engineers.
Some of us are managers.
Some of us are politicians, farmers, scientists,
technologists.
In a human body, every part of the body has a unique
function, but they're not fighting with each other.
It's not that the brain says to the kidneys,
I'm better that you.
You do what I say.
And it's not the liver that tells the heart that you can't
do what I can do.
And the heart doesn't tell the eyes you are low class.
Every part of the body has its own color, its own shape, its
own function, but they all work together for the sake of
the whole body.
And only when that's there is there health.
When we can see beneath the external, superficial
differences that we all have with each other and we
actually understand the essence of who we really are
beneath, as divine, eternal, all-loving beings, then we can
recognize how we're all connected and how every one of
us we could respect each other for what we contribute, like
the parts of the body.
I may not be able to do what you can do.
You could probably do what I do.
Just recently, I spoke at the HSBC Bank headquarters in
London, and there was 900 bankers.
I was supposed to speak to them.
That was the event.
And I actually looked out at them and started laughing.
Even now I'm laughing just thinking about it.
And I had to just be honest.
I said, I don't know why you asked me to speak to you.
You're one of the greatest banks in the whole world, and
you're among the greatest bankers in the whole world.
There were all these department heads and CEOs and
everything there.
And I said, and you're asking me to speak to you?
I have not had a bank account and have not signed a check
since 1969.
They looked at me like I was an alien from a distant
universe, like how do you survive?
Now I can't say to all of you that I have never looked at
Google, because everyone has to look at Google, even people
without bank accounts.
You see, whatever our strengths and weaknesses may
be, cultured humanity is when we honor and respect what a
person can contribute, instead of judging people according to
what I have and what you don't have, what I can do and what
you can't do, where I'm from and where you're not from,
what religion I'm from and what you're not from.
Real love manifests as compassion.
Real love manifests as having compassion with equal vision.
Of course we have to discriminate, but not an
egoistic way.
It's not that you go up to a tiger and embrace it because
we are one.
That's foolishness.
Well, for most of us it would be.
We keep a distance.
I was speaking last night.
I lived in the Himalayan jungles with one yogi, and he
taught me that the leopards and the snakes and the
panthers, they're all around.
You're sleeping under trees in the jungle.
And whether you're awake or asleep, they have greater
power than you.
If you feel that you are better than them, or if you
have any fear of them, they will kill you.
But if you see the sacredness of life and honor and respect
that, don't go start petting the cobras.
Give them their space, and they'll give you your space.
And believe it or not, it really works.
But you know what I found?
That it's much more difficult to do that with humans.
Because humans have really complicated egos.
Animals are predictable.
But that is our potential, and that is how we could actually
make a real difference within this world in
whatever we're doing.
I am just so happy, so grateful I have this
opportunity to be with all of you and to share what I have
learned from my beloved guru, Srila Prabhupada, and from all
my experiences in life.
Thank you very much.
AUDIENCE: Do you differentiate between dogma and
spirituality?
And where do you draw the line?
And the second question is, you talk about us being
greedy, having negative energy.
And the question I have is, any thoughts on why we were
created that way to begin with?
Why be created ill and then be commanded to be well?
RADHANATH SWAMI: Can you say that last question clearer?
AUDIENCE: Why were we created ill, and then we're commanded
to be well?
RADHANATH SWAMI: [CHUCKLES]
Thank you.
There could be many definitions of dogma.
But essentially, whatever religious or spiritual rituals
or beliefs we have are really meant to be an aid to
transform our hearts.
Just like, for example, you want to
send a letter to someone.
Of course, these days this is not a very relevant example.
In the old days, when I grew up, we used to have envelopes.
And we put the address on the envelope, and we put the stamp
of the envelope, and then we'd send it.
Nobody cares about the envelope.
They want to see the content of what's inside the envelope.
So our aspirations, our goodness, our will to be
purified, our will to love God, our will to be an
instrument of God's grace in this world, that's what
meditation is for.
That's what ritual is for.
It's a form in which we can communicate.
When we identify our religion with the envelope and we don't
really concern ourself with the content of what is our
character, what are we asking for, what are we offering,
what are we giving--
In spiritual life, the envelope of whatever external
forms may be there, it's for the purpose of giving love and
receiving love.
But if the content in our heart is envy or ego,
arrogance, and that's what we're using the envelope of
our religious rituals for, that's not religion at all.
Then it becomes a very empty misused form of dogma.
That's one way to explain that.
As far as the second question, we are not created ill.
The atman, the living force within us is perfect.
It is a part of God.
As we said, it is eternal, full of knowledge and full of
bliss, beyond death, beyond birth.
But we have free will within this world.
And according to the choices we make, it not only creates a
reaction, but it also creates an internal inclination toward
doing the same thing again.
A crude example, most of us are not born with an
unbearable craving to smoke cigarettes.
You make the choice.
It's not that people's shove cigarettes in your mouth.
Of course, people could be all around you smoking, and you're
inhaling it.
But you make a choice at a certain time
to smoke the cigarette.
And as far as I have heard, the first couple cigarettes
people smoke, usually they don't like it at all.
They're like [COUGHING].
But it's kind of cool to do it.
The movie stars do it, and my idols do it, so
I'm going to do it.
And as you make that choice, the inclination to smoke
another one becomes more and more and more.
So we become habituated by the choices we make.
Similarly, when we do good for others, doing good for others
is addicting.
When we criticize other people, every time we choose
to criticize someone, we become more habituated to
respond to a situation through criticism.
This is the laws of karma.
Whatever choices we make, not only does it create reactions
as far as what comes to us in this world, but it creates
inclinations within us.
So the greed and the arrogance and the envy and even the
cruelties of this world, as well as the goodness and the
compassion and the forgiveness, these
inclinations we have are very much due to how we have
programmed ourself, by how we have chosen
to act in the past.
And the present moment is how we're programming the way we
experience and see the world for the future, what is going
to be our inclinations.
You see, you can't change what we've done in the past.
But whatever comes as a reaction, we have the free
will how we're going to respond.
If something negative comes and we choose to respond in a
positive way, then we are creating positive karma.
And not only that, but we will have a greater inclination.
There's a Native American Indian example, which I think
very suitably addresses this question, that there are two
dogs within each of us.
There's a good dog, and there's a bad dog.
The good dog represents our divine nature, forgiveness,
humility, kindness, responsible self-control,
decency in how we do our business.
I know some of the wealthiest people.
They earn their money with integrity, and they spend it
with compassion.
And they're as competitive as anybody could be and
successful as anybody can be, but they built on this
foundation of love.
You see, this bad dog, envy and anger and hatred and
vengeance and greed and selfishness, and then the good
dog is there, which is our good character.
And they're both trying to demand our attention.
I think we all have that experience.
For some people, that bad dog really barks loud.
[BARKING]
And the good dog, [WHIMPERING].
Which dog is going to control us?
Which dog is going to bark the loudest within us?
It's the one we choose to feed.
Real culture, real humanity is to learn the art in every
situation, even if it's challenging, to feed the good
dog within us and neglect the bad dog.
We are inherently good.
We are inherently godly.
To reorient ourself to our true nature, it's the greatest
need for fulfillment within our own lives, and it's the
greatest need within the world.
Within our tradition, we chant these mantras, or the
beautiful sweet names of God.
And the purpose of that is simply like a mirror.
When you look in a mirror, you're
supposed to see yourself.
But when it's covered with dust, you see dust.
When we clean the mirror of the heart through these
beautiful spiritual practices, then we see the beauty of the
love of our true nature, and we could reflect that love in
whatever we do.
I'm so grateful.
Thank you so very, very much.