All language subtitles for Buddhist Teachings For Inner Peace - Meditation, Karma, Spirituality _ Love _ Palga Rinpoche _ TRS

The lore around Palkar and Pothle is
that it's one soul that's constantly

birth over time. This is your eighth
birth? Yes.

How has your vision of the world
changed?

Now our society, they've started to put
so many masks.

that we've forgotten our true faith.
You're trapped in your own self and your

ego prevents you from asking for help.
To gain peace internally, I think that's

the goal of human life. But how does one
even explain this idea to people still

caught up in the material race?

I don't think everybody can be taught to
become spiritual.

Some people just don't have that karma
from their past life.

If you get to a point of enlightenment,
you have the opportunity to combine the

Himalayan Buddhist deities and their
consciousness.

Yes. Then you see no separation between
yourself and the deity. You see them as

qualities of the true nature of your
mind. It's incredible.

I'm of the belief that if you actually
want love, that's the energy you have to

give out as well. But this is where a
lot of young people end up going wrong

because in that search for love, they
end up settling at just losing.

People generally want to be loved. I
think it's this hunger for love they

participate in such an act and then they
get lost.

What we know, happiness in the mundane
world, they're not real happiness,

they're pleasure. Real happiness comes
from within. The moment you undertake

this inward journey, then you understand
how the world also functions.

You are the only obstacle to achieving
your happiness.

This episode is a deep dive into the
world of Buddhism, most specifically

Himalayan Buddhism.

We're going to understand the concept of
deities and mantras from the

perspective of Himalayan Buddhism. As a
Hindu who's grown up in India, of course

I've been exposed to the world of the
Buddha, to Buddhist values.

But at this phase of my life where I'm
trying to deep dive into my own faith,

Hinduism, Sanatana Dharma.

I've found that my understanding of my
own faith has been heavily benefited

through the study of Himalayan Buddhism
and the Buddha.

That's the kind of conversation I'm
trying to bring to you through this

It's my favorite guest related to this
topic. His name is Palgar Rinpoche.

He's back on TRS. We've created a few
iconic episodes in the past.

This one is our Buddhism special.

There's very intense energy.

Throughout the course of this episode, I
will let you enjoy it. I will let you

learn from it. And I will let you evolve
in your own private space when

it comes to this conversation.

It's a special one with Palga Rinpoche.

I think the world needs Buddhist
philosophy right now more than ever.

Born in a Hindu family, studied a lot of
Hinduism or as we call it Sanatan

Dharma throughout my life.

But discovering Buddhist philosophy was
probably one of the most important

additions to how I live out my
professional life, how I navigate my

relationships with friends and family.

And just about how I look at the nature
of life. I feel like I've seen some

storms recently.

But it was the meetings with you over
the years that helped me navigate these

storms much better. And that's the
intention behind this episode. I hope a

of people get introduced to Buddhist
philosophy through this particular

And I consider you one of my biggest
blessings in my life. The way you

my life and the way...

That helped out my life process.

I just want to give that to every
audience member.

Too many mental health issues flying
around all over the world.

Too much self -doubt.

Too much emptiness.

And I feel people are open to
conversations that are spiritual but

have access to people like you.

Om Mani Padme.

Rinpoche, thank you for being with us.

Would you like to begin by responding to
anything that I just said?

Yeah, I think the issues in our
societies, whether it's in the

East or the West, because now there's
not that much distinction.

Before there used to be distinction, but
we live in a very much of a global

society.

Everything is instantly accessible right
now.

Before news used to fly after weeks,
months.

Now it's instant.

So there's not much difference between
the issues we're facing in India, in the

subcontinent, compared to the West or to
an African country or Southeast Asian

country.

I think it's so many different reasons.

But one thing I noticed about the
Buddha's teachings, a few things I

about the Buddha's teachings, why
they're very unique.

They are universal and they are
timeless. I noticed these two qualities

Buddha's teachings. Obviously, who am I
to judge the Buddha's teachings, but

that's my observation.

Universal because it applies to
everybody.

Everybody has the same issues and his
teachings apply to everybody. It goes

beyond cultures, countries, continents.

Universal. Not only applies to humans,
but also applies to animals, applies to

every living being.

Timeless because, like you said, in
today's world, more than ever, we need

Buddha's teachings, Buddhist philosophy.

It's timeless.

Buddha taught roughly 600 years ago.

That's a long time ago.

How many worlds were created?

How many invasions happened?

How many, in Hindi, you would say,
nakshay change happened?

How many maps have been redrawn?

But the Buddha's teachings have...

retained their quality beyond time. So
it's timeless.

Universal applies to everyone.

Timeless because it's still relevant.

Yeah, so I think in our society, the
issues basically remain the same.

Confusion. We're confused because we
don't understand the phenomena, the

that we interact with. And we also don't
understand ourselves.

We don't understand the object. We don't
understand the subject.

We don't understand these two.

This is exactly where I would like to
take the conversation.

This is what Buddhist philosophy helped
me with.

You understand the world better as well
as understand yourself better to help

navigate through life.

The question I'd like to put in front of
you is what has the teachings of

Buddhism said about the purpose of human
life? It can't be as simple as just

make money and die.

That's a very...

popular question that I get asked all
the time what is the purpose of life

according to Buddhism or in general I
think Buddha never actually I mean

I haven't read all his teachings they're
like volumes and volumes at least the

canon Buddhist canon that we study which
comes from the Sanskrit translation

from Nalanda there are 108 volumes thick
thick volumes what is it called it's

called Kanyush Kanyush the buddhist
canon means command teaching

means translation so basically the
buddhist canon it has been translated

bhoti which we also known as tibetan but
it is studied outside tibet in tibet

obviously bhutan ladakh you know nepal
so many different Himalayan regions.

So I haven't read, I mean, I've read
them all. I've received the

but I haven't had time to stop and
reflect on each and every one of them.

There's so much of them.

So I don't know, maybe in one of the
scriptures, Buddha must have said, this

the purpose of your life. But as much as
I know, from a Buddhist perspective,

there is no such thing as this is the
purpose of your life.

I think the purpose of your life,

You have to give it a purpose.

You have to give it a meaning.

And sometimes you are able to give it a
meaning and to do something

purposefully.

Sometimes even if you want to, you can't
because your karmic conditions don't

allow you to.

You don't have the luxury to make your
life purposeful or meaningful.

You just have to go with the flow
because you have to worry about your

sustenance. You don't have the luxury,
free time to do something very much that

aligns with your thinking or whatever
purpose you feel there is.

So I don't think from a Buddhist
perspective, there is an ultimate

But you have to give it a purpose.

I have to repeat a question from a Hindi
episode.

You said that you're technically not
referred to as a monk. Yes. But you're

referred to as?

Tulku. Tulku.

What does that translate to?

It translates to, from, it's a Boti
word, and it translates to magical

born, magical body, magical birth.

Basically Nirman Kaya, you know, it's a
reincarnation. So that's the technical

definition of what I am. Do you feel
like that on the inside? Not at all.

No, I don't. I feel, I feel it's a big
privilege given to me by my Guruji, His

Holiness, the 12 Galwan Rupa.

He discovered me.

I belong to the Drupal lineage and
Palkaran Puche has been reincarnation,

avatar, guru of Drupal lineage.

He found me, he discovered me.

I've been bestowed the blessing by him,
responsibility by him. But I've never

felt very special or anything
extraordinary.

I've always tried to be humble, live,
you know, think of myself as a normal

person and try to live like one.

But that's what people believe. That's
what my community believes. I think the

overarching name of this sect of
Buddhism is Himalayan Buddhism.

Across the Himalayas, they follow a
shared sense of what Buddhism even

And Buddhism is one of those faiths that
has really spread far and wide

geographically, especially in Asia.

And wherever it spread, it's taken on
the nature of the local faiths as well.

They've mixed into it.

I have a couple of questions.

The first question is, what's the
commonality in all the Buddhists, right

Sri Lanka up to Japan, in China, in the
Himalayas, in parts of India?

And the second question is, obviously
with respect to the Himalayan Buddhist

faith, how does this one stand out?

Okay. Common thread would be that

Because Buddhism, I see it as water.

Buddhism is not exactly a religion like
the other religions.

It is not exactly a faith also because
there's not that much

element of believing, just raw
believing.

Buddhism is based almost entirely on
logic. It's a very logical philosophy.

philosophy, a way of life. It's very
difficult to define Buddhism in one

So for the sake of conversation, people
see it as a religion and people call it

a religion.

But I see Buddhism as maybe the
essential spiritualism.

The essence of spiritualism. That is the
way I see Buddhism.

And I see Buddhism or spiritualism Like
water. It can fit any vessel you pour it

into. That is why it has been adopted by
so many different regions and cultures

in Asia, across Asia, over the times.

That's why you see so many flavors.

If you're into computers, it's like
Linux.

Open source. So you can compile it in
any distribution you want.

You're not stuck to Windows 95, 98,
whatever it is, Windows 11.

It is more like Linux, open source, and
you can compile it to any distribution

you want.

So Buddhism is a bit like that.

So the confusion also there is because
there are so many different flavors and

you don't know which one you should
follow, which one is right for you.

The common thread between them, there
are so many of them.

Major common threads, you would say, we
take refuge in the Buddha as the guide

in some cases.

And as the destination, Buddha, in some
cases. We take refuge in the Dharma as

the path to reach that state, to become
like our inspiration.

And we take refuge in Sangha.

Basically, taking refuge in Buddhism can
be defined as getting the help of,

taking support of.

So, you take the support of Sangha to
understand the Dharma, to become a

buddha dharma sangha it is like going
across this river the boat and the

or the sailor so the sailor is like the
sangha who will help you use the boat

which will help you navigate across to
the other side which is buddha which is

enlightenment so that is a common thread
between all flavors of buddhism can i

just recap this a little bit and then
please correct me if i'm thinking okay

wrong

the overarching goal of every Buddhist
and I'd also honestly say every

Any of the faiths that have come out of
this land, the goal is the same, which

is getting out of the cycle of birth and
death by reaching that point of

enlightenment.

Within Buddhism, it's believed that the
Buddha or Gautam Buddha, as we

know, is the ultimate inspiration.

Equivalent of God.

Not really.

We don't see the Buddha as a God.

When you talk about God, you
automatically think about somebody who

world, who will destroy the world, who
will punish you, who will benefit you,

reward you.

We don't see the Buddha in that way at
all. In Buddhism, we don't have this

belief in such an entity.

So Buddha to us, he was the first
teacher.

A great guide, a great example.

And basically that's it. And he taught
us how to achieve the state that he

achieved. And we are trying to follow
that path. Is there any element of an

omnipresent higher divinity?

Not in the same sense that you talk
about God, no.

Okay. Yeah. Not like the creator and the
destroyer and the, you know, yeah,

punisher. Could you think of it as a
state of evolution for...

Every human being?

Buddha.

This divinity.

Could it be a, you said that the boat is
rowing towards one point. Yes. So the

goal is to get to that point of complete
divinity. Yes. Which you can read

through enlightenment.

Yes. We call it enlightenment.

When you say divinity, it's also a bit
confusing from a business perspective.

So we just call it enlightenment.
Basically, fulfilling your potential.

So right now,

We think that we know ourselves.

When I pointed my hand at you, like,
what's your name? You think Rinpoche is

talking to me.

And my name is Ranveer. I come from such
and such.

I'm this and that old.

That is your ever -changing identity.

Your age changes.

Your name that has been given to you by
parents was given after your birth.

That is not your essential name.

And even if you feel your nature is
calm,

How is Ranveer? Is he a calm person? Is
he an aggressive person?

He's a very cool person. He's a very
calm person. But depends.

Depends how you agitate him.

Tomorrow if he becomes very agitated,
maybe he won't be as calm.

So in that way, we think that we know
ourselves.

But we actually don't. Our real nature,
our essential nature doesn't have any

name. It doesn't have any changing,
impermanent characteristics.

It is...

very universal it is very pure that is
what we call enlightenment so basically

it is like this gold hidden in a rag so
the whole process of buddhist practices

is to unravel this rag so that you see
your true potential so the journey is

very much outwards but it's more inwards
understood okay and as

for the sangha sangha right

Is it equivalent of the people around
you or the guides?

Yes. Yes. So there are different
definitions of Sangha. There are

varieties of Sangha.

From a very common perspective, you have
monks, you have teachers, you know, who

dress like us, who practice, who study
and then try to help somebody enter the

path. But then you have more evolved
Sangha like Bodhisattva, like

Avalokiteshvara. Like Tara.

They are also Sangha. Because they are
with you. As a community.

They don't see you as an exclusive.

They don't see you separate. They see
you as one of them.

They see every sentient being. Doesn't
matter which religion, which faith. As

long as you are in Samsara. They see you
as one together.

That's what we call Sangha.

So these beings are highly evolved.

Basically that's you after maybe 1000
years of evolution.

Let's just say. On the spiritual path.

So you have achieved.

You've gone beyond your biological
forms.

Your consciousness has reached a state
that is very fluid. And you can take any

shape and form you want.

They are almost perfect beings.

They are almost like supernatural
beings.

And they manifest in different,
different forms. And they are beyond our

comprehension. That is why we cannot see
them directly.

That is why we construct statues and
write paintings.

Tara's painting, Tara's statue, you
know. But that's what we call

That is the enjoyment body. That is the
body that they live in.

That is the mystical body that they live
in.

But through our naked eyes, you can't
see it.

Is this the defining factor of Himalayan
Buddhism?

Not the defining factor.

Himalayan Buddhism or Vajrayana Buddhism
goes deeper.

So you take the idea of reaching the
other side, practicing the Dharma with

help of your community.

And on top of that, now what kind of
dharma do you focus on? Do you focus on

very simple ones or do you employ many
different tactics in order to reach your

goal? So in Vajrayana Buddhism, it is
the most skillful method -wise, skillful

Buddhism, also the most flexible.

It is a little bit like the end
justifies the means.

Obviously, not everything can be
justified.

But in terms of achieving your goal, We
practice tantra, mantra, yoga, we wear

yantras, we do lots of breathing
practices, visualizations. So we employ

every method possible to achieve
enlightenment within one lifetime.

The goal is still enlightenment.

Yes. The dharma or the path is still
full of Buddha's teachings.

Yes. So the road is the same. Like if
you want to go from here to Andheri, the

road is the same.

But maybe if I use skillful means, I may
take a Ferrari, which is faster.

You're not very skillful. So you will
take an auto.

Maybe the next person will go on a
bicycle. So who will reach faster?

If the road is empty, I will reach the
fastest.

So that is the basic idea.

You're skillful and you're not very
ashamed to use a loud V12 Ferrari and,

know, consuming a lot of fuel. Your
intention is that you see life as a very

precious commodity, very precious
opportunity to reach your goal as fast

can. Because next life, you have no idea
where the karmic wind will take you.

I mean, you can prepare yourself.

but not entirely it's up to you. So
you're not sure.

Even though you try your best in this
life to prepare yourself for your next

life, you try to give it a direction,
but you don't know whether the

will be favorable or not.

Okay.

I'm trying to find words to describe my
own understanding of Vajrayana Buddhism.

I have experienced it in Dharamsala a
little bit. I've experienced it through

conversations with you.

For me, what speaks to me a lot, again,
because I'm from a Hindu background,

I'm...

obsessed with the Dharma that Buddha
taught the world about. In fact, I have

friend of mine, Acharya Prashant. I
think he's one of the most well -read

when it comes to Hindu scriptures.

And he had said this on a podcast. He
had said that Buddhism is the essence of

the Vedas as well. So the absolute way
of life as described in the Vedas is

embodied in Buddhist teachings anyway.

I think that one can only benefit

irrespective of what faith they belong
to. I think one can only benefit from

understanding Buddhism more deeply. As a
Hindu, I've tried understanding

Vajrayana Buddhism much more deeply.
I've tried reading about the deities

especially because we have deity culture
in Hindu lore as well.

We have mantras here as well.

How do you explain a mantra to a Western
audience?

That's my first question.

And secondly, based on what you just
said about the Himalayan Buddhist

I believe that they are manifestations
of certain good thoughts.

Like the manifestation of compassion is
ablution.

Similarly, Tara would be? Activity.

Okay. Wisdom, Manjushree.

Got it.

Now the thing is, these are higher
beings, supernatural beings.

Our human brains, our biology is not
capable of perceiving them because we're

not evolved yet. But you can put
yourself on the path of evolution and

eventually you will start perceiving
them as well.

If you get to a point of enlightenment,
you have the opportunity to combine with

their consciousness.

Yes. You, then you don't separate.

You see no separation between yourself
and these deities or whatever you want

call them. You see them as qualities of
the true nature of your mind. So the

compassionate quality of the true nature
of your mind would be Avalokiteshvara.

The wisdom quality of the true nature of
your mind would be Manjushri.

Power quality aspect of the true nature
of your mind would be Vajrapani.

Activity aspect of the true nature of
your mind would be Tara.

So you would see that way. But along the
path, you may see them as deities that

appear to you in your dreams, in your
meditation.

They may guide you, but essentially
they're not separate from you. They've

always been a part of you.

So the higher you go in spirituality,
especially in Buddhism, you see a lot of

paradoxes. So it's a bit confusing.

Sometimes it appears to be one way, but
then it's not.

So there are lots of paradoxes in higher
levels of spirituality.

Another thing about evolution would be
like an ant, a small ant cannot

understand how the large hadron collider
functions.

Particle acceleration, Higgs boson,
quantum computing.

You cannot teach to an ant.

To an ant, the world is very abstract.

It just knows how to take care of, of
course, it's a very complex creature.

It works in its own community, takes
care of its nest, very complex, but it

cannot construct a bridge. It cannot fly
a rocket to the moon.

It will not understand. Even though the
rocket exists on the same planet that

the ant is busy building its nest, it
may feel the vibration of the rocket

taking off, but still it has no
understanding.

Where the flight is, rocket is going,
what its purpose is, or how does it

function. So, from our perspective, we
are a little bit like the ants.

That's a very crude metaphor, but we are
a little bit like the ants.

These things appear.

They can be loud. They can be very
ferocious sometimes.

You're talking about the deities. Yes.
The manifestations.

So, yeah, I mean, it can be very
confusing sometimes, but it'll take us

understand, to evolve so that we can
fully comprehend what these are.

And then, yeah, so that's one thing.
Mantras.

To the general audience who don't have
any idea about mantras, mantra in

Sanskrit, it's a Sanskrit word, mantra.

And in Boti, it is translated as, or in
English, protection of the mind.

To protect the mind. So, we chant
mantras to protect our mind from bad

emotions, bad thoughts. Yeah.

Negative emotions.

Medicine for your internal world. Yes.

Yes. It's quite simply put. So,
chanting, for example, Avalokiteshvara,

Chirithik, Buddha of Compassion, it's a
very good antidote for anger.

Om Mani Mani Om Mani Padme Om. Yeah. So,
if you are facing anger issues, What I

suggest people.

Don't react.

Don't react immediately.

Take a deep breath.

And just close your eyes.

And just chant.

Internally. You can chant it verbally.

You can chant it like a meditation.

But chant it.

Just the chanting utterance of the
mantra. The frequency it carries.

The connection it has to.

An aspect of the true nature of your
mind. It will.

It has the power to.

calm you in a very effective way.

So you can chant Om Mani Padme Hum when
you're feeling a little bit troubled,

angry. If you want to grow your wisdom,
you can chant the mantra of Manjushri,

Om Ara Patana Di.

Om Ara Patana Di.

It's very good for your wisdom,
especially when you wake up in the

at dawn and you chant the mantra so we
usually chant the last syllable multiple

times

yeah

you

can look more into the mantras and they
help i don't know how it happens it

unlocks something in your consciousness
helps you grow more in terms of your

wisdom so that the world makes more
sense to you.

Is there a certain time you're supposed
to chant a mantra for?

Not really.

Not really.

No, you can chant it anytime you want.

Mantras are timeless, universal.

So you can chant them anytime you want.
How much time should you give your

practice ideally?

It depends on you. But what I usually
suggest to people who are new to

meditation and spirituality or chanting
mantras, you don't do it for like very

long duration because you're not used to
it. It's like working out.

Let's say today is your chest day.

You can't do chess for like three hours.
You will die.

But if you're like Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Ronnie Coleman, you can

three hours. And they can lift very
heavy.

So you're not trained to do that. So I
suggest you do it for maybe 10 to 15

minutes. Take a short break. Go to the
washroom.

Stretch your legs a little bit. Couple
of minutes. Come back. Again, sit down.

But when you do it, you do it with
totality.

You don't move here and there.

You don't watch your phone.

You don't check your, you know, feed.

nothing you don't respond anything
you're completely locked in so it's good

put your phone on airplane mode not even
dnd airplane mode completely maybe

preferably in the next room quiet place
eventually you'll be able to do it in

very noisy situations you can do it in
the park in the traffic at the airport

i do it all the time whenever i feel
like it so because i'm i can tune into

because i'm used to it now

In the same way that Ronnie Coleman and
Anusha Srinagar will be able to bench

press at the airport, in the bus
station, you know, wherever they are,

find a workout.

So likewise, I can do it wherever you
can, but I've done it for many years.

So initially you should do it in short
duration, multiple times.

10 minutes, take a break, 10 minutes,
take a break, 10 minutes, take a break.

you get used to it. Then you can slowly
increase the duration.

Let's try understanding mantra practice
more deeply.

I think it's a very doable act for
people all over the world. If they're

to actually dive into the world of
mantras and practice it, there's a lot

benefit that they can experientially
see.

Even a week of mantra chanting, but
putting your own emotional self into

mantra chanting session can create magic
in your life.

Okay. I know that there's multiple
deities in the world of...

Now, sometimes when I am having to
explain Hindu Tantra to some of my

friends, I tell them that, see, the
ultimate goal is enlightenment, moksha,

nirvana.

There are multiple pathways to that
goal.

The simple, close pathway is be a good
person. Do what's good in the world.

Purify your mind, purify your heart,
purify your actions.

If you want to do it faster, perhaps
meditate.

Yes. And another way of doing it even
faster is go about tantric practices.

Yes. Now tantra includes mantras as its
very core aspect.

Yes. And then the physical objects
within your practice, these are called

yantras. Yes. They use the correct...
technical guided usage of yantras and

mantras leads you to that point of
enlightenment perhaps faster than even

meditation. Yes, a very good
understanding.

Now, when we speak about deities within
this whole process, they are higher

beings that assist you on that journey.
Yes.

But every time you are using a
particular mantra associated with a

will definitely have impact on your own
reality, on your own internal world as

well. So in my eyes, I feel like when
you go about deity -based mantras,

performing chemistry and chemical
experiments with reality.

That's how I look at it in my mind.

Every mantra bends your reality a little
bit. Every mantra session bends your

reality even more.

How do you know which deities to
incorporate into your practice and how

even choose the deity that's right for
you?

Or do you have to just choose one and
hang on to it?

Very good question.

See, we are human beings.

We have preferences.

We have favorites.

Like, our favorite club is Manchester
United.

My favorite player is Bruno Fernandes.

Even though our club is doing really bad
right now, I still like him a lot.

Even though we have 11 players, they
don't perform very well all the time.

Bruno doesn't perform well all the time.

But I like him.

He's my choice. I like the way he works
hard.

I know he can be a bit annoying to some
people, but that's it.

Personality, that's the passion he
brings.

So he stands out. Even though you need
11 players to win a game, Bruno cannot

win it alone.

In the same way, on the spiritual path,
there's so many deities.

You need all their assistance as much as
you can because you are completely

powerless right now, spiritually.

You need the power, you need the help of
higher beings, evolved beings who

possibly live in a very different
dimension.

But they can access your dimension at
certain times with certain practices.

That's why we do those practices.

We chant the mantras while performing
certain rituals, tantra, where we have

lots of objects, yantra.

Then you kind of call them from their
dimension into our dimension. And then

have an interaction.

In the same way that you can go to Old
Trafford and watch the game live.

You have to buy a ticket, you have to
wait for your turn, blah, blah, blah.

You can also watch it on TV, but it's
not the same thing.

But then you need 11 players.

So you need the help of all the deities
you can.

But obviously as human beings, you have
a certain connection to somebody.

So then you may have a preference for a
deity or you may feel very close to a

certain deity for no reason.

Me, when I was young, I have been
practicing Mahatara since I can

Every day at 5 o 'clock in the morning,
in my small monastery in Jwalsar,

Himachal Pradesh, in Zikar Gumpa, I
would wake up. At the first gong, you

I would wash my face.

Until the gong is finished, I would go
to the temple with all the monks and we

would do Tara's practice.

So that's all I can remember. So I have
this natural connection to Maa Tara.

My favorite color is green.

Especially dark green, which happens to
the color of Tara, the main Tara. There

are 21 different Taras, but the main
Tara is green.

Why are there 21 different Taras? I
mean, no obvious reason, frankly

But there are different manifestations
of Tara to assist beings.

I don't know exactly. There's no obvious
reason why there are 21 aspects of

Tara. But the main Tara is green Tara.
So I love green color. I'm close to

But then I also practice Om Mani Padme
Hum.

Avalokiteshvara. I feel very close to
Avalokiteshvara also.

Manjushri obviously when I was young.

You know I chant his mantra. I read his
scripture.

You know that's the word. The scripture.
Very good to grow your

wisdom. Your mind. You know.

Sometimes you.

prefer a deity and then you practice it
or sometimes you feel just naturally

connected and then you practice it you
know it depends so you can also ask

yourself after you get some introduction
to the different deities in buddhism in

vajrayana buddhism especially and then
you look at them and you chant the

mantras you just feel which one is
vibing with you you can stick to that

don't constrain yourself just to that
After practicing, after getting a good

foothold, get teachings of the different
deities, you need to receive the

abhishek. You need to receive the
empowerment of the deity.

You can chant the mantra of the internet
in your room, but it doesn't have the

same effect as receiving the abhishek,
the introduction of body, speech and

mind, the introduction with the deity.

Once you receive the abhishek, it is
like pouring water into water. How do

receive it?

You have to approach a guru, a qualified
guru.

Most of the times the gurus give it in
the public.

Which are permissible to be given to the
public, they give it in the public.

So in Ladakh, I give a lot of
empowerment at the end of retreat to

people so that people can chant,
practice more effectively.

I've given it multiple times.

And of course, Guruji also gives, you
know.

So it is given to a public in a public
setting.

and people receive the body's patient
basically it's more more than that

abhishek you are basically getting the
body's patient mind of a deity literally

being poured into your body's patient
mind water and water so then you won't

able to tell which water is from ladakh
which water is mumbai that is the whole

idea so once you become one with the
deity you have to literally brainwash

yourself thinking that i am tara i feel
like tara whatever i say is tara

You know, then you see your abode as
Tara's abode. This is what we call pure

view. Very difficult.

And you have to see everybody as Tara
also, as Avalokiteshvara, which is

impossible, especially when somebody
tries to harm you. You see them as evils

and you don't see them as bodhisattvas.
You don't see them as deities.

But that's the idea.

And that's what you should endeavor to
visualize, to practice.

Very tough. But you can start by
basically chanting the mantra, receiving

abhishek. empowerment chanting the
mantra learning how to visualize yeah

then uh getting the instruction for a
tantra so that you can practice in a

or then eventually you can practice it
yourself so the

the um abhishek that you give is for the
tara mantra Yeah, I give Taras,

which I received from my own Guru, His
Holiness.

I received the empowerment of Tara,
Avalokiteshvara, you know, many

Bodhisattvas. So I practice them. Then
as a Rinpoche, I am, you can say,

to give to other people also. Yeah.

I have many more questions, but I'm
going to pause this and request you to

the Tara Mantra for us.

Because for anyone listening to you for
the first time, I just want them to

experience the energy in their own
earphones or in their own rooms or cars,

wherever they're listening to this
podcast.

And I know I've asked you to do this
before on the show and I would direct

audiences to our old episodes as well.

But I will ask you to repeat the Tara
Mantra once for us.

Satsang with Mooji Satsang with

Mooji

Satsang with Mooji Satsang with Mooji

Thank you.

You said that Tara is the manifestation
of activity.

Is that execution upon creativity?

Yeah, you can also say that creativity,
the technical definition would be

enlightening activity, not mundane
activity, enlightening activity,

that propels you and all beings towards
enlightenment.

So Tara is the manifestation of
enlightening activity.

That's what the green also represents.

I mean, I can't say that if you pray to
Tara, you'll become very active. But

I've honestly felt my activities growing
the more I practice Tara.

My work increasing, my reach expanding.

You know, you just grow a lot in terms
of your activities.

So whether it's mundane activities or
spiritual activities, you literally grow

lot. So those people who feel stuck.

who are not able to reach growth, I
would suggest maybe try chanting Tara

Mantra.

Not just with a sense of, you know,
greed.

Transaction. Exactly. Not a
transactional one that I will chant so

mantra. I want to become active, but
just chant it and pay attention to the

activities. I'm sure your activities
will grow a lot. When you break down the

mantra.

each syllable has a meaning yes and it's
beautiful it's basically not om when in

in english when we write we write it
wrongly we write it om we it actually

should be written a u m it is body
speech in mind in buddhism

we call it the three doors

Three doors.

Basically, door is where something comes
in and goes out.

A door, body, speech and mind is through
something. You experience something

physical, something verbal, something
mental or you perform something

something verbal or something mental.
It's like a door.

With my body, speech and mind, that's
all you have as a person, as a being.

Tara means swift, fast.

So Tara, if you look at her painting,
she's sitting not exactly cross -legged.

If you look at Buddha and any other,
they sit in a very swift, cross -legged

position. We call it Padmasana.

Some cases we call it Vajrasana. Very
stable.

That denotes stability.

That shows how stable their meditation
is, their enlightenment.

Tara, she sits one leg like this and one
leg extended.

So Om Tara. Tara is represented by her
right leg. That she is swift.

Like a mother.

Have you ever noticed a mother eating in
a restaurant? Or in a house?

She is eating.

Her child is there also eating.

But the mother always has her eyes on
the child.

And is ready to jump out of her seat. To
help the child. The mother will never

be completely relaxed.

So Tara is basically.

motherhood in its essence yeah it's so
beautiful so like a mother she's swift

immediate like our own mothers you ask
them for something they will not delay

they will give you immediately you want
roti you want dal you want love you want

money whatever you want they will give
it to you immediately that is the

of mother so tare represents is
represented by tara's right leg which is

extended so that she's ready to jump out
of her throne To help anyone who calls

to her.

Tu tare.

Tu tare is represented by her right left
hand.

Tu tare signifies protection.

Like a mother.

She is very protective of her children.

Doesn't matter whether she is physically
capable or not. She will fight till the

last breath. And she will protect her
child or children.

So that's protection left hand. Right
hand. Om tare tu tare tu re.

right hand is resting on her knee right
knee denotes giving mudra mother always

gives she is never stingy she will take
out of her own mouth her own pocket and

she will provide for her children she
will not eat but she will provide for

children whatever the child wishes so
that's denoted by her right hand om tare

tu tare ture swaha is i bow down with my
body speech and mind om swaha om tare

tu tare ture swaha with my body speech
and mind i bow down to the essence of

motherhood To Mahatara, who is swift,
who is protective, and who is giving.

So nice.

I feel like asking you to break down
some more mantras. Okay, I can.

There's a mantra, I don't know which
deity it belongs to.

I actually heard it on an audio track by
His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

It's something like, Om Mani Mani Ha
Mani Sa.

Can you say it again?

He is Muni. Muni is Lord Buddha. We call
him

Muni, the saint.

So this is a mantra that shows reverence
to Gautam Buddha.

So it's basically showing your reference
to Muni, the great Muni, Mahamuni,

Swaha. Very similar meaning to Tara.

That you pay your reverence to such a
Tara.

Swift, protective, giving. So you're
paying your reverence to the great Muni,

the Muni, Lord Buddha. So this is a
particular mantra of Buddha Shakyamuni.

Since you've sat in the chair today,
this is the third recording of the day.

I've wanted to bring up Chakra Sambhara
a lot. It's been coming up in my mind

and I've not brought it up until now.

Okay.

Chakra Sambhara is also related to
Kailash Parvas.

We consider it the abode of Chakra
Sambhara, Kailash.

I'd just like to know everything about
Chakra Sambhara today.

Wow.

Chakra Sambhara is not exactly a
historical being.

So you won't find...

biographies of Chakra Samvara written
that he performs such and such he is in

its essence he is a very Vajrayana deity
he is a Buddha not

exactly you know low level deity he is a
complete enlightened

Buddha but the way he appears is in a
very wrathful form and

it's difficult to talk about Chakra
Samvara because there are so many

aspects They are chakra samvara with two
arms, two legs. They are chakra samvara

with multiple arms, multiple legs.

So, chakra samvara is more of a practice
than an actual, you know, biographical

deity that you can talk about.

So, chakra samvara is more of a
practice.

So, to understand chakra samvara, it is
better to practice chakra samvara.

Or at least enter the lineage where
Chakra Samvara is practiced.

So my lineage, Drupa lineage, Chakra
Samvara is our main principle.

Deity, principle, Buddha.

And Chakra Samvara's consort,
Vajrayogini, is the principle female

They are always in union.

Sometimes they are separate. But even in
a separate form, the male or the female

is represented in a very hidden form.

So, for example, Vajrayogini, there is a
very famous aspect of Vajrayogini where

she is standing in a dancing mudra.
Right leg down, left leg up, dancing

with a crooked knife in the hand, one
couple full of blood.

She is very wrathful. You know, she has
three eyes, four fangs with a blood

dripping skull around 50 heads around
her neck. So, she looks very wrathful.

looks very...

You know, in a way, very, you know,
very, very scary.

But if you read her tantra, even her
four fangs represent, for example, the

four, freedom from the four maras, from
the four evils. Yeah. Three eyes

represent seeing the three times.

Yeah. Able to see past, present and
future. So nothing is off limits to her.

can see everything. So it's also, she
has so many different, even her aspect,

just to visualize.

Vajrayogini or Chakra Sambhara it's like
visualizing or

conceptualizing the entire Buddhist
teachings so they're condensed in such a

represented in a deity as a deity as a
human deity human like looking deity

but the moment you visualize them and
you chant the mantras you're basically

trying to absorb all of the teachings in
that very instant so it's very very

powerful very heavy and obviously you
need proper guidance until you reach you

know you become comfortable practicing
that so yeah so Vajrayogini when she's

alone form she has this trikul but it's
not with the trikul with the three

points it's the trikul with the Vajra
and that is Chakra Samvara in a trishul

form that she's holding we call it Vajra
Trishul what is Vajra? Vajra is

Well, you know from Sanatana Dharam,
Vajra is the ultimate weapon.

The weapon of Indra.

You know, Vajra is something that can
destroy anything, but itself cannot be

destroyed.

So, it is basically like this object
here, Vajra. So, he is holding a

but the tip is Vajra, not a three
-pronged trident. So, that is Chakra

in a hidden form, concealed form.

So, to understand Chakra Samvara in
Vajra Yogini, you have to...

practice them it is more of an
understanding than to you know

very deep spiritual level than to know
it from a conceptual level is there a

mantra that you're allowed to share
publicly or are these not really okay

not really because they are uh very high
level practices that in our lineage we

receive the teaching after we complete a
lot of preliminary practice

foundational practice

going about the normal human life, we
can't even imagine how many secrets are

associated with our own faith.

And they'll reveal themselves if you
actually engage with the practices

to your faith.

Often people question why they're born
in a Hindu family or Jain or Buddhist or

Sikh family.

One of the answers is that, hey, you
have access to your ancestors'

but it depends on how much action you're
willing to take.

And it's the honor and pleasure of my
life to get to know About Buddhist

from you.

Because there's so many things I can
adopt into my own practice as well. So

little things.

So that's the beautiful thing about
Buddhism.

Lots of gurus always say that they have
Christian friends, Muslim friends, Hindu

friends, Sikh friends, Jain friends.

And sometimes they say that they are
actually more Buddhist in terms of

than they are some of their own Buddhist
Buddhists.

So then you can see that Buddhism is
not...

a religion that you have to convert to
it is not an exclusive subscription it

almost like i said it's not exactly a
religion so it's very difficult to

buddhism it is more a philosophical
spiritual way of life adaptable by

adoptable by anyone so i have some
muslim friends they're very buddhist

mean that they have to give up islam i
have some hindu friends they're very

buddhist they If you look at their
practices, they are 100 % Buddhist.

But then they don't have to abandon
their faith.

As long as it isn't contradicted with
some of the core Buddhist values, you

know, then it is easier to practice.

So in Buddhism, for example, if you take
refuge in Dharma, we say that you

should abandon harming beings, other
beings, harming animals. So try to be

vegetarian and so on.

We try not to unnecessarily cause harm
to human beings and animals and insects,

whatnot. So if you see a mosquito flying
here, we will never squash it. We'll

try to sweep it away. Let it run its own
cycle of life.

You know, it has a right to live. So
there is this respect for life in

That is one of the core codes of moral
codes of Buddhism.

That you respect all life.

That is at its heart.

You know, we've spoken in detail about
so many of these deeper practices. In

past episodes also, we've spoken about
where you go out in the middle of winter

into... It's Tumonli. Yeah, yeah,
Tumonli.

So basically, we receive a very special
set of teachings from our Guru, His

Holiness the Gelwong Rupa.

And if you want to know, honestly
speaking, okay, now this is a good

for me to...

give people a more visual medium to
experience tantric

buddhism vajrayana buddhism himalayan
buddhism however you want to call it on

social media okay so guruji is very
skillful in his own way he

has founded his monastery in nepal and
he believes a lot in

feminism women rights so he has almost
exclusively taken female

monks we call them nuns nuns and Guruji
in his own creative skillful method he

has taught them Kung Fu so they're known
as Kung Fu nuns very famous they've

appeared in multiple documentaries
featured on BBC and so on

You should check them out on Instagram.

They have this page. And they practice
self -defense.

They encourage feminism. They encourage
women's rights.

They do lots of cycle yathras to raise
awareness about women's rights.

They do lots of padhyathras.

And they also, if you check their
Instagram account on the YouTube also,

see a lot of rituals, tantric practices
that they do in the monastery, Guruji's

monastery in Nepal.

So that gives you grim.

into how these practices are done i mean
obviously each and every detail won't

be there but sometimes you can follow it
a live stream you know of a certain

practice you can just watch it on your
ipad or your iphone and you can just

listen to it it's incredible so right
now i'm sure there's so many different

lineages so many different monasteries
who practice the purest form of

but as much as i know in my own limited
knowledge.

The one that is practiced most
faithfully and truthfully are my

sisters, the Kungfunans.

Really, you should check them out. They
are incredible and they do this.

Last year, they got permission to shoot
from far when they were entering

the mountain and coming down.

The beginning and the ending of the
practice.

Obviously, they don't have the
permission to be shot video while they

actually doing it.

But they are incredible.

In Ladakh, there is a place called Kotha
in eastern Ladakh, where even phul

govi, cauliflower, you have to boil in a
pressure cooker, seven whistles.

Only then it cooks.

That is the level of altitude we are
talking about, the level of coldness.

Even cauliflower takes seven whistles in
a pressure cooker to cook. There, they

go to the mountain and they practice
tummo.

And they wrap their bodies with a wet
shawl and they dry it.

with their inner heat.

And they dry it multiple times. This is
out in the open, right?

Out in the open. In the middle of
January.

And they usually start around 11 p .m.
and finish by 7 a .m. At the coldest day

of the year.

And they only employ breathing,
visualization, some mantras preparation

takes place. They do some very specific
practices, yoga practices, breathing,

that they prepare themselves.

unwavering faith in buddha dharma sangha
and our guru and our lineage so that

it's incredible man i mean i you know
it's it's something that you should uh

should look up and um try to get a
glimpse into how many years of practice

it take to even qualify to do uh it
doesn't take that much it's not a very

practice to learn but to perform it
fearlessly without getting scared of

hypothermia and death I mean, it's very
intimidating.

All of a sudden, somebody is telling you
to go to minus 30 in the middle of the

night with a group of spiritual people
who are not talking to each other, just

chanting mantra in their meditation.

You prepare for a month, very strict
diet.

No, I'm not allowed to talk too deep
into it, but basically no external

of heat.

Just internal heat. So you're not
allowed to eat chili.

You're not allowed to bask in the sun.
No sunbathing. You're not allowed to

touch sun rays.

So you have to jump like a ninja from
shadow to shadow.

I felt like Assassin's Creed, you know.

Really, when we were doing this.

Jumping like a ninja. Jumping from
shadow to shadow.

And no heating.

No heating of any kind.

So basically just your practice.

And then you have to perform it.

main reason is to burn your negative
emotions your negative karma all kinds

negativity that is in the past in the
present yeah so it's incredible it gives

you a sense of power it gives you a
sense of confidence that is that is

incredible it's one night yeah they
usually do it for one night yes but

it doesn't take that long to you know to
to understand the practice.

But then to prepare for the practice,
until you receive Guruji's permission,

that can take, I think, a few years,
maybe. You have to do a lot of

preliminaries. You need to have a good
grounding into your understanding of

Buddhist philosophy. Why are you doing
it? Are you doing it for Instagram?

Are you doing it for YouTube?

Are you doing it for mundane, you know,
gratification?

Or are you doing it for spiritual, you
know, purpose?

So if your intentions are right, your
motivation is right, if you're doing it

based on Karuna,

endeavor to achieve wisdom, then you get
permission.

It's incredible.

What do you feel the next day?

Next day, you feel relieved.

You feel, I'm talking from a very
mundane perspective.

You feel happy that you haven't died.

Yeah, but you feel very happy. This
happiness, we call it great bliss.

It just flows in your body, in your
nadi, the psychic channels, because of

breathing, because of your
visualization.

There is this happiness that literally
flows. Happiness literally flows in your

body. And you're not having a coffee.
You're not dancing.

You're not watching a movie.

You're not doing anything sensually
pleasurable. You're just like this and

can't help feeling happy.

Even your pores of your body, you can
feel the hair rising. You just feel this

happiness oozing out of the pores.

It's incredible.

So that's where I discovered that what
we know of happiness in the mundane

world, they're not real happiness,
they're pleasures.

And we think of them as happiness.

So when we watch a nice movie or when we
see something beautiful, like, I don't

know, whatever you want to see, it's
pleasure to the eye sense.

When you wear some nice clothes, when
you go in air conditioning, that is

pleasure to the touch.

When you eat something nice, there's
pleasure to the taste. So these are

pleasure, sensual pleasures.

They're not happiness.

I think real happiness comes from
within.

It is spontaneous.

And you're the only obstacle to
achieving your happiness.

You're the only one that's standing in
the way.

So the moment you change your focus from
outside to inside, the moment you

undertake this inward journey, you start
going deeper and deeper into yourself.

You start... Getting to know yourself
first very well, that gives you a sense

confidence. Then you understand how the
world also functions very easily,

simultaneously.

That doesn't create too much conflict.

You're at peace almost all the time.

So it becomes livable.

It becomes livable in the city.

The world is, as we know, it is very
unlivable.

There's so much grinding that happens
all the time.

Even if somebody asks you, how are you?
You have to smile and say, I'm okay.

But inside, I always say nobody's okay.

Everybody has a crack.

Big crack, a small crack.

Doesn't matter how rich you are.

You've seen.

What does it bring? It doesn't bring
lasting happiness.

It brings momentary pleasure.

But then they become a memory.

And sometimes they become addictive.

And you want to keep recreating those
pleasures.

People get stuck in death and bad
habits.

And it goes pretty much south.

Yeah. You know, one of the words I've
been pondering upon a lot over the last

year is hedonism.

It's something I picked up because of
all the travel I did last year. I

all over the world. I was in Singapore,
Dubai, UK.

And I've traveled a lot in my life.

And I think this is true for human
beings all over the world. You see a

less hedonism in the subcontinent.

And you keep seeing more of it as you go
out. And I'm not...

approaching this from an egoistic
perspective i'm just trying to be

observational hedonism loosely means uh
living life

with the intention to gain pleasures
constantly and for me after i traveled i

realized that this is the biggest beauty
of the subcontinent that yes there is

hedonism but it's slightly lesser than
the rest of the world and it's the

advantage of being born in the
subcontinent I was discussing this with

met in the UK. I was like shooting for
podcasts and I was swimming one day and

met this really cool guy, really buff.

He was working out well and we started
talking about sports.

And then I realized that he's also an
immigrant in the UK. He's from Latin

America. And I asked him this about
hedonism. He's like, actually, there's a

of loneliness in the air.

And that's what leads itself into
hedonism.

I thought about the subcontinent again.
I realized that there is loneliness here

for sure. Everyone's lonely all over the
world.

Slightly lesser loneliness in the
subcontinent because we have a very

sense of community.

India, it's like you have a very
supportive friend circle.

The friendships here are genuinely deep,
which is not the case for the rest of

us. But you understand that when you
travel to the rest of us.

Yeah, I think people generally want to
be loved.

I think it's this hunger for love.

That maybe sometimes, maybe not always,
but sometimes they participate in such

acts. And then they get lost. It becomes
a habit.

And maybe they have the means to
recreate that experience again and

So they keep doing it again and again.
So it becomes addictive.

And they don't know otherwise.

And because they are stuck in this loop,
recreating this experience, physical

pleasure, over and over again.

They stop believing in love.

Or they think love is a fantasy.

I think at its core, everybody wants to
be loved.

Everybody is craving for love.

Love is also very karmic in a way.

It very much depends on your past
connection.

Everything, every relationship.

A relationship between me and my dogs is
also karmic. The love I have for my

dogs is karmic. The love I have for my
parents is karmic. The love I have for

friends is also karmic.

You don't have the same connection with
everybody.

It's very difficult to know what level,
to what degree do you have a strong

connection with somebody.

But then I think once in a while it is
possible to meet somebody.

who is genuinely very lovely, caring,
with whom you vibe very well,

and who treats you with respect equally,
and is not only a loving companion,

but also a good friend.

I think when you engage yourself in
these kind of meaningless, hedonistic,

physical pleasure, recreating again and
again, the chances of meeting somebody

and then that person liking you are very
slim.

compared to if you live a more
disciplined life you know if you don't

necessarily always go after these
physical pleasures maybe there are the

that you will encounter somebody nice
who will love you for who you are with

whom you can have a lovely life
wonderful life uh ethical you know moral

think that increases so i think you're
shutting the door if you are

participating too much in this kind of
hedonistic uh lifestyle i think it's

i'm of the belief that A human being can
manifest every aspect of their life.

I'm of the belief that a human body,
mind and spirit can work as a magnet.

So if you actually want love, that's the
energy you have to give out as well. If

you give out love to all beings, love
will come back to you in some way or the

other.

But this is where a lot of young people
especially end up going wrong because in

that search for love, they end up
settling and just lose.

Yeah, I think this is one thing that has
bothered me. How much do we know

somebody? You know, when you talk about
presenting yourself physically,

mentally, you know, emotionally,
expressing it to attract love, how much

is superficial and how much of it is
actually meaningful?

And also, how much do you know somebody
when you talk to somebody?

Recently, it was Valentine's.

You know, I'm sure lots of people
propose to each other and they always

each other's face into the eyes and then
they profess their love or whatever,

you know, and they think that they know
the person.

But how much of a person do you actually
know? You're only looking at their

face, at their eyes, which is like maybe
5 % of the body.

You have never looked at somebody's
knees, elbows, knuckles, feet and said

oh, you look lovely.

You know, I care about you so much.

But that is also part of that person.

The leg is a part of a person.

The arms, the elbows, they're also part
of a person.

But then we never acknowledge them. We
never, I mean, how much do we know about

people? We think we know a lot about
people, but we always settle only for

appearance, the beautiful makeup, the
beautiful look that you represent to the

people so that you can attract good
companions.

And then it becomes very shallow.

So I think you should look, when you
look at people, not only look with your

eyes, but you should learn to look with
your heart also.

Yeah? Feel how the person is. Not just
see how the person is. Feel how the

person is.

We have known each other for the past
four years now, roughly.

And we have met not that much every now
and then.

But then I feel how you are.

Entire nation knows how you look like
and they may be attracted to you or

not. But I go beyond that. I feel how
you actually are. I can feel you. I feel

you at a very complete level, very deep
level.

So I don't just look at Ranveer with
your hair, with your face, with your

clothes. I feel Ranveer.

I feel your consciousness.

You know what I mean? I'm with you at a
deeper level.

So there is this sense of strong bond.

that's friendship, that's love in a way.
And if you can have something like

that, that kind of affinity with your
partner, with a man, with a woman, I

then life becomes, love becomes real,
you know, a relationship becomes very

meaningful. Then you realize that all
these hedonistic practices are very

superficial and, you know, you should, I
think it's good to be loyal and

dedicated and life becomes very
beautiful. Do you think marriage is good

everyone? I think it's not for everyone.

Because like I say, everybody is
karmically conditioned very differently.

Everybody is.

We don't always have the same
compatibility.

But I think marriage is an institution
that has been happening in societies for

so long. So we are used to that.

I am no authority on saying whether it's
good for us or bad for us. I think, you

know, it is if you meet somebody.

that you really connect with at a very
deep level, I think you should try to be

together with that person in whatever
capacity you can.

And people who do get married, I always
give advice.

Sometimes I'm a marriage counselor, so I
give them advice.

You know, the honeymoon period is going
to vanish soon. That excitement is going

to fade away soon.

After that, what are you going to fall
back on?

What is your plan B?

And they have no idea.

That's when usually marriages break down
because they don't feel the same way

that it felt during honeymoon period.
All of a sudden that physical excitement

is gone because you've been living
together continuously for six months,

year, whatever it is. So I always tell
people, make friendship the base of your

relationship. Whatever relationship you
have, mother, son, husband, wife,

girlfriend, boyfriend, make friendship
the base of your relationship.

You have something to fall back on. It's
built on a very strong foundation.

So tomorrow, even if that excitement is
gone, you will remain friends. You will

care about each other.

Have you ever met a monk or someone, you
know, who's a full -time practitioner

of a faith?

Fall in love with someone else.

Yeah, that happens.

That happens because like I said, karma
is a very strong force.

So there's only so much that is in our
hands.

Sometimes you encounter people.

in your life that you just don't have
any control with. I've seen many.

Are there strict rules when it comes to
Buddhist monks in terms of marriage?

Yeah.

When it comes to the common monks,
normal monks, they have to adhere to

celibacy vows when they are part of the
monastic institution.

And some of them can be quite strict.
They are not even allowed to touch a

woman. be in the same room with a woman.

They're not even allowed to have dinner.

So not only with the other sex, but also
with their eating and sleeping habits.

There's so many rules and codes to
follow.

So then you have many great masters who
are married, who have children.

And in their practices, having a wife or
having a consort really enhances

their spiritual growth.

What has been changing?

in your own mind over the course of this
birth of yours um you briefly mentioned

on a hindi podcast about how sometimes
you feel 400 years old because as palgar

in poche the lore around palgar in poche
is that it's one soul that's constantly

taken birth over time so according to
that logic this is your eighth birth

yeah are you looking at the world
differently and of course You know, we

about all these tantric practices as
well. You've been performing them for

years, technically.

How has your vision of the world
changed?

Wow, that's a very profound question. I
think I have to try to tap back into my

consciousness, maybe some of my archival
data.

I think the world was simpler back then.

People were bothered with simple
distractions.

Now the distractions are more
sophisticated.

More addictive.

Everything has become so layered.

I tell people that now our society, on a
personal level, individually and as a

society, they've started to put so many
masks that we've forgotten our true

faith.

I went to Kumbh and it was a beautiful
experience.

I really...

I think that everybody should experience
Kumbh.

Doesn't matter what religion you belong
to.

Because it is the biggest gathering in
humanity.

And, you know, for a very good purpose.

Execution, I don't know. But the purpose
is very good. For spiritual growth, for

spirituality.

So when I went there, I saw so many
sadhus, saints, completely naked.

Some people see them as naked and feel a
little bit shy because they're

revealing almost everything.

They look very scrawny. They look very,
you know, like physically dirty.

But I didn't see that. I saw, I saw
truthfulness. I saw they were, they had

removed their masks.

Yeah, they were not pretending to others
and to themselves.

Same thing Milarepa did, the great
Tibetan yogi from our lineage.

Naropa did the same thing. They looked
like these sadhus.

They lived very simple lives.

They were more concerned with removing
the masks that they had accumulated

for so many lifetimes than to put more
masks.

In our lifetime, what I've seen as a
Bulgarian pochi in this life, on a

spiritual level, also on a societal
level, people put so many masks here.

And then they forget their own identity.

They get completely lost within.

People who are lost outside, it's easy.
You can use Google Maps. You can find,

go here and there. Somebody will give
you direction. But somebody who's lost

within, you're trapped in your own cell
within.

It's kind of like a spiritual prison, a
mental prison, an emotional prison.

It's so converted. And your ego prevents
you from asking for help.

Because you put so many layers, so many
blankets.

You've literally stuffed yourself under.

10 layers of blanket. You can hardly
breathe.

You can't see anything. It's become so
heavy.

That's what I've seen. So that's the
saddest part. When people lie, they

to be something else.

They lie to themselves.

They lie to their loved ones.

They betray each other.

Whereas life is precious, momentary.

Experiences are beautiful if you allow
them to.

You know, we have this incredible
capacity to understand things.

We can be spiritual.

We can be smart. We can build rockets
and bridges and whatnot.

Yet we still behave.

In Hindi, I say, you know, that even
animals have more insaniyat than humans.

Yeah. So that is a sad part. That's what
I've seen. People putting on a lot of

masks, forgetting their identity,
getting lost, not only outside, but also

especially inside.

What goes on in your consciousness now?

Now?

Actually, nothing, man.

Nothing. You're concerned with your
practice?

No, not really.

You're just flowing.

Yeah, it's a very strange feeling. It's
like, have you been to a very serene

lake? And you see the lake simmering. I
feel a bit like that. When you look at

the lake and it's golden time, golden
hour.

And you see beautiful...

reflections like diamonds and it's
literally simmering there's no big waves

know it's just i feel like that i feel
i'm very calm at the same time there is

this aspect of of sparkles everywhere
you know i just experience it in a very

in a very different way of course things
don't work according to myself all the

time the world doesn't spin around me
around Ranveer Radhabadia the world

doesn't spin around anyone

I understand that. But then it doesn't
bother me as much as it used to.

I have a theory. I believe that any kind
of material growth is always a

reflection of your spiritual growth on
the inside.

I might be wrong, but this is what life
has taught me over the years and even

over the course of this show. I feel
that if one spiritually grows on the

inside, it does reflect in their own
material reality.

Now there's a story from your life where
you were in Portugal for some time and

you left spiritual ways for some time.
Yeah, you can say that.

But you started investing in the stock
market and I don't know polite way of

putting this, but you made a lot of
money. Yes.

In my eyes, that is just a material
reflection of your own spiritual level.

And eventually you tasted that aspect of
life and you realized that no.

The real liquid gold is back in the
Himalayas.

And you came back here.

And now you talk about this
consciousness of yours, which is like a

during golden hour.

Over the course of the podcast, I've
come to realize that I think that's the

goal of human life. You know, to gain
peace internally.

Have you heard of Ankit Bhai Anpurya?
The Ram Ram Bhai Saryane.

You know, the guy who made reels.

He was the fastest growing Instagram
account ever in India.

I'd had him on the show and...

That was his consensus as well, that the
goal of life is actually peace. It's

not just success.

I feel where you are with this internal
golden light lake, this is where every

human being needs to be.

I mean, the goal is still enlightenment,
but this is a very beautiful place your

consciousness is reached.

But how does one even explain this idea
to people still caught up in the

material race for success?

And therefore jealousy, therefore anger,
therefore greed.

That's very tough because like I said,
we are all

karmically conditioned differently.

We have accumulated, we have planted so
many different kinds of seeds in our

past lives.

We don't know what kind of seeds we have
planted, which flower, what fruit.

They sprout every now and then.

So, not everybody is the same. And
hence, I don't think everybody can be

to become spiritual.

Some people just don't have that karma
from their past life.

Not that you should not try. You should
try.

But then, it's not that they are just
evil. It's just that there is no seed in

that pot.

So it doesn't matter how much water you
put, whether you put water from the

Himalayas, Ganga, you know, mineral
water, nothing will grow because there

seed.

But then some people are quite ripe and
you don't have to do too much and they

will grow.

One way to try to bring people towards
spirituality, the inward journey, try

to get them to reach that simmering
golden hour lake is through mediums such

this podcast.

Very effective.

So not everything we have said was in a
very systematic way.

We are having a conversation.

We did not come with a 1 to 10 bullet
points. I didn't come with an answer.

We're just talking as brothers, as
friends, having conversations.

Our experiences are limited.

Maybe they relate to some of the
audience, maybe some they don't. But I'm

some of the things that we discussed
will inspire them to embark on a

journey where eventually,

according to their own karma somehow
they will reach that simmering golden

colleague that is why i love being here
yeah but i think your podcast this

platform reaches so many people you have
helped to impart so many

countless hours of wisdom i don't know
what kind of people you have had Even if

I spend eight lifetimes of Pagal and
Pushya, I don't think I'll be able to

understand everything that you have
managed to communicate through your

But somehow, somewhere, somebody has
benefited.

So, I think this is a very good way that
you can help spread messages of hope,

inspiration, trigger something in their
consciousness so that they will be able

to reach that simmering golden aurca
lake themselves.

That is what Buddhist philosophy is for
me.

All I have to say is thank you.

And I look forward to seeing you again
in life.

Likewise. There's so much else that I
wish to say to you Rinpoche, but let me

just encapsulate all that by saying I'm
on the same mission as you.

So thank you for everything. Thank you
for being here.

Very therapeutic simply talking to you.
So this was much more just for me than

even for the podcast. So thank you.
Means a lot.

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