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Apr 2021
58m 47s

421: Life is Like a Movie & We're Lookin...

RAGHUNATH CAPPO & KAUSTUBHA DAS
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killing 3 billion animals everyday is killing the health of our collective psyche / looking towards our own actions as the cause of our unhappiness / life is like a movie / the rules of Sanskrit drama / the movie is unreal, but the emotions are real / Paramananda's lives through a horror film / established thus one never departs from the truth…in such a position, one is never shaken / in one sense our suffering is comical

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