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May 2023
55m 18s

1046: Mind Experiment: We're Ants on an ...

RAGHUNATH CAPPO & KAUSTUBHA DAS
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Are we was so focused on achieving that we're missing some great point about life? / Mind Experiment: We are ants in an alien ant farm. Are we learning the lessons we're meant to learn, or just working aimlessly? / What good is speeding if you're heading the wrong direction? / The satisfaction of devotion makes material success and liberation seem insignificant /  Bharata's last prayer as a deer / "happiness arose out of all I didn't want or need, not all I did. - Pico Iyer

SB 5.14.44-46

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