The Spartan Mind Strength Podcast with Tim & Vie: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Wellness

Episode Topics

• Real Ayurveda For Mental Health
• 50% off Sale on our Ayurveda | Dosha Fundamentals Online Course until June 26
• The root cause of disease according to Charaka
• Imbalance between you and your environment
• Loka Purusha Vaisamya (Sanskrit)
• Purusha is your inner strength, your consciousness, in Sanskrit
• The more out of balance you are, according to Ayurveda, the more you crave what keeps you out of balance
• If you are not content with your life at least 80% of the time, Ayurveda says you need to make changes
• To help your mental state, at the end of every day, take inventory of your day
• Did you make the most our of your day?
• Are you content with the way you controlled your emotions and your thoughts?
• Could you have done better in terms of your behavior?
• 50% off Sale on our Ayurveda | Dosha Fundamentals Online Course until June 26
• Dr R. H. Singh's books on Amazon
• Email us your feedback and any questions you may have at: [email protected]
• May we all be well, adapt and thrive! - Tim and Vie

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The Spartan mind strength podcast the podcast

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for mental grit and resilience

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hosted by Vie Binga and Tim Ganley

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Hello, this is Tim. And this is Vie, and we welcome you

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to another episode of the spartan mind strength podcast.

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And what's today's podcast on ayurveda

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for mental health sweet now tell me

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before we go into it. What is

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our sale our sale is on our

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ayurveda Dosha fundamentals course. It's one of our

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the sale goes on from when this

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way of learning

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ayurveda in the real sense

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of ayurveda as charaka was intending

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it to be so no woo-woo-ness in

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through the course, you can start making changes in

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your everyday life to be

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on your way of being a great

ayurvedic practitioner practitioner.

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Very nice. Okay, we will be right back

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to go over ayurveda and mental health

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stay tuned.

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And we're back. So we're back to talk about

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how ayurveda looks at mental health.

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So this is a look

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at ayurveda, but it's not just ayurveda. This is a look at

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how the original ayurvedic

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concept texts yeah talked about it. So this

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comes from characa. Yes, did I pronounce that

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Right? Yes. I know. I always bastardize his name. So Charaka the

original ayurvedic physician. Yeah,

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and it also comes from Dr. Singh.

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Yes, who you trained with for for quite

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a while Yes at Mount Madonna Institute. So

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who's Dr. Singh real quick doctor Singh is

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one of the very few activated professors

who still teaches following

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Charaka Samhita following

the book the text that

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charaka wrote and he has

done a tremendous amount of research compared

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to other professors. On

ayurveda, actually showing that

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what charaka was saying works today

Okay, so and

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we'll list some of his books that he's

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written in the podcast

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the show notes Yes definitely So so this

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doesn't come from just out of

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your ass. You actually you actually neither my ass.

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Nor yours. Yes, definitely not mine. So this

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is information that comes from

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the original ayurveda. Exactly. Okay.

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I just wanted to get that through before we start

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talking that this is documented. Yes. This

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is documented and verified. Okay, so

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tell me how does Charaka

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talk about

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Mental Health

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characa says that disease happens

due to

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lack of balance due to

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imbalance between the person and

their environment and there's a

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fancy Sanskrit word for that. Yes. The expression that

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charaka uses is loka purusha vaisamya

and that means vaisamya

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means imbalance lack of

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balance. Okay, Loka means environment

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loka loka. Yes Shakira sings

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a song about that. Yeah. That's a good song

purusha purusha It's

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very interesting that charaka refers

to the person as

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purusha because purusha is also

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the word for God.

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What charaka wants to say is that

when there is lack of balance between

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you as

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your Consciousness you as

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your own God you you as your own God because

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even Christianity says that God is within

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us God is within us. Yes.

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When there is lack of balance between you as

your own tiny little

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God and your environment bad things

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happen now. No, I

don't want

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people to think. Oh my God, I'm screwed. Right

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there are always things. I don't like people I don't

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like foods I shouldn't be eating things I shouldn't

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be doing. But just because you don't like somebody doesn't mean that's

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an imbalance. That means you're probably balanced because you're saying

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oh s***. I don't want to be near that person. Exactly, exactly.

I have that many times. Yes, so

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that's the thing.

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Also also what is

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lack of balance right when

ayurveda

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also says that when you are relatively

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balanced you can tell what's

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not good for you.

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And what's what's good for you. You can

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tell that but when you are out of

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balance, you cannot. So the whole

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concept that the people say, oh, you know what

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you're your body will tell you what you like exactly only

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is true if you are balanced exactly. So all these

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people that are eating crap because they think

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that that's what their body's saying if they're out of

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balance their body is just literally trying to get them more out of balance

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exactly. Or the people that do

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the yoga practice that all it does is

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aggravate their Vata Dosha,

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right? So that's that's not being

balanced. That's not knowing What's

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good for you. So so it's

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it's a fine line right when there

is lack of balance between you

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as your own little God and your environment

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disease can happen. But how can you

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tell when there is that lack of balance right

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because

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when you are out of balance, you are not

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your own little purusha anymore.

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Right. You are your own little devil. the Consciousness. Yes.

The Consciousness cannot manifest

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itself.

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Does that make sense? we are our

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own little God. We have God within us

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right our Consciousness. Our strength

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is within us but when we are so screwed up

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that our own little Consciousness cannot

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manifest itself, then what happens

you are in a vicious

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cycle.

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that's

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the fine line, so can you

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tell when that is switching or okay. So

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how is that so? You like that

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how is that so, we have

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the answer right the meaning of life, not that I didn't know

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that the meaning of life is about to manifest

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itself.

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if you are not

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happy if you are not content

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80% of the time in

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your daily life. If you are

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not content 80% of the time at

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least 80% of the time in your own

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daily life so it can be 100% it can be.

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But pretty usually not. Yeah, if

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you're not content because I'm about a hundred percent content. Yes,

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we are talking about regular people. Oh

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Not Perfection. Yeah, right. If you are

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not content at least 80% of the

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time in your daily life.

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Then your

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little purusha your deep down Consciousness is

not manifesting itself.

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Then there are things ayurveda

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says charaka would say you need

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to address.

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Okay, characa says that you should

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be content most of the time and that's

where we are going with the 80/20.

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Yeah, because 8020 has always been a good number exactly.

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Exactly. Charaka doesn't say 80/20.

That's that's us.

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So you did pull that out of your ass that came out

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of my yes the 80/20

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but that is true yes, that's so

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if I'm not happy or content because

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happiness is different than content content. If I'm

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not content most of the day and night

then my body is or

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my mind or my whatever is

off-kilter. Exactly and there's

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a good chance I would be then sabotaging

myself with that off-kilter exactly.

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You would be sabotaging yourself long-term Should

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you continue in that path. Okay.

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So that's that's something that you want to look at

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in a day every day. Exactly

every day. I know that they talk about

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in the morning Some people say you should write notes and

stuff but or the night before

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but that is something that they could do is at

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the end of the night. How content was I

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today exactly. So instead of writing notes about blah

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blah blah. How content was I today

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exactly and

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Can I be more content tomorrow exactly? That's

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the idea that we can always become

healthier and healthier mentally

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physically and otherwise

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emotionally and emotionally as we

go so we're not

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perfect the way we're so we are not perfect the way

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we are that's number one and number

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two is

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Things don't start going South as you

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age. Yep, that's the other misconception so

we can become older and

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happier more or more

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content day by day. We can also

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become older and stronger exactly we can become older

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and more mobile exactly we can become older and this

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one is should be it's smarter exactly smarter. Yes.

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So every day working on

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something to become better is a

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good thing. Is a good thing. There are there are...

Episode Topics

• Full Moon on Tuesday June 14, 2022
• Sun (soul) in opposition to moon (mind)
• Astrology vs Jyotish
• The ayurvedic energies of this full moon and how they can affect your mental health
• Moon in Sagittarius (fire mutable sign) and the Vata dosha
• Sun in Gemini (air mutable sign) and the Vata dosha
• Tuesday, the Norse God Tyr and your mind
• How to make the best out of this full moon
• Ayurvedic Astrology for Mental Health
• The unfair advantage of knowing what to expect
• Email us your feedback and any questions you may have at: [email protected]
• May we all be well, adapt and thrive! - Tim and Vie

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This series is brought to you by Yoga Energy School. It can be found at http://YogaEnergy.com

Yoga Energy School is offering Private Online "Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy" Yoga Alliance registered 200-hr and 300-hr teacher trainings and continuing education courses. They can be found at http://YogaEnergy.com

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Episode Topics

• Real Ayurveda is now more important than ever due to widespread mental health issues
• Real Ayurveda works in conjunction with yoga and astrology (real yoga and real astrology)
• Real Ayurveda helps us strengthen our mind so we can adapt to our ever changing world
• Real Ayurveda gives us tools that we can use for mental strength
• Real Ayurveda wants us to be the best we can be for our sake and for our community's sake
• Real Ayurveda is simple as opposed to the commodity Ayurveda
• Charaka (the ancient Ayurvedic Physician) teaches that our body, emotions and mind are all purely physical
• Real Ayurveda is based on "consciousness"
• The more balanced our body, emotions and mind are, the closer we can get to our "consciousness"
• Real Ayurveda is a science and an art
• Real Ayurveda is a science because it is based on blueprints
• Real Ayurveda is an art because it needs to adapt the blueprints to the individual
• Real Ayurveda's view on "consciousness" continues to be verified by quantum mechanics
• Email us your feedback and any questions you may have at: [email protected]
• May we all be well, adapt and thrive! - Tim and Vie

Other Resources

This series is brought to you by Yoga Energy School. It can be found at http://YogaEnergy.com

Yoga Energy School is offering Private Online "Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy" Yoga Alliance registered 200-hr and 300-hr teacher trainings and continuing education courses. They can be found at http://YogaEnergy.com

Find us on Rumble at: https://rumble.com/c/yogaenergy

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Transcription

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Hello, this is Tim. And this is Vie and we're back.

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We are back. Yep. It's been what nine months. It's been

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yes since October.. Yeah, we've

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had a lot of things going on. So we were stuck not

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being able to do this. We sold our property we moved

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we

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Didn't sell the property we moved back. We sold property

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we moved. We didn't sell the property we moved back and now

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we sold the property. Yep. For good. So we had to do

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a lot of packing unpacking getting things

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ready and now we're done and we're

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back in podcasting world. Yes,

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so we'll be going back to doing every

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Thursday every Thursday and it's going

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to be on ayurveda and yoga and it's going

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to be marvelous.

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It's gonna be way more fun than it

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was. Yes, no more having to work on

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selling the property less vata derangement

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Yes. Less. Not no

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vata derangement just less so with that

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We're going to start a little series on ayurveda

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for mental health, and so we're going to

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start that just after this message.

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Stay tuned. We'll be right back.

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And we're back and we left a subliminal

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message in the music that said share our

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And give us the greatest reviews ever ever.

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So what I want to do before we start talking

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about yoga and ayurveda is a little bit about what

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we've done.

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So we sold our work live. We're no

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longer there we closed our studio.

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We haven't opened

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a studio.

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We've moved we're no longer in Saint Pete, which is

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a great great town. But it changed so

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dramatically in the last couple years. It's huge

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compared to what it was. We're now

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living a little smaller life

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in a little town

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trying to figure out what we want to be when we

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grow up. Exactly. That's what it feels like. Yep. We

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got a puppy. Yes. Because we're not traveling anymore.

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Yes. We got a wonderful puppy named Freyja. She

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is what next week

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Well when this podcast is out, she's gonna be three months

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old. Yeah, and she's a border collie mix

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we don't know what exactly she is yet

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or how big she's gonna be. She looks like

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she's gonna be big. Yes. We got her from a Kill shelter. Yeah, so

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which

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Was bad that it's a Kill shelter, but

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it's good because they don't do anything unless they

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really really have to yes, so they hold

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on to dogs and cats for a very long time and

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take care of them and try to get them owners. Yes. So

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we got a puppy if you

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go to our Facebook or our Instagram. Yeah, you

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can see pictures of her because she's the ayurvedic

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puppy. She's yep completely ayurvedic puppy and

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we're just doing construction and things

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like that. So now we

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can get back into talking about

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Our beliefs in yoga and Ayurveda. Yes. So

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one of the things that we have seen is that

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ayurveda is extremely

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important today compared to say

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three years ago. Yep, so I will

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go with Vie

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You're an ayurvedic expert. Please tell me

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why true ayurveda or real

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ayurveda is so important to the world

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now.

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well

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The world is obviously shifting in many many

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ways. So no matter where

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you actually live. I'm sure

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you have seen major shifts in

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your world in

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the last couple of years and these shifts keep

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increasing and keep increasing.

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A lot of times it feels like there

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is nothing you can do about it about those shifts

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and very often That's true

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right there is nothing you can actually do.

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Or it feels it feels like there is nothing

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you can do. You can't make these shifts stop,

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right?

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But what you can do is actually

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adapt to the shifts and

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keep improving your

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life and your community's life by taking

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certain actions.

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That's what ayurveda says that's what

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charaka says that you have

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to actually figure out ways

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to always adapt to

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the changes that are happening to keep

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making yourself healthier and

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happier and your community healthier and

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happier.

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So charaka says you pay

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attention you pay attention you study and

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you figure things out

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because there are always ways to do that. And I

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know that in our yoga that we taught we worked

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a lot on strength to make your body stronger. Yes.

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We also worked on making our

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body more mobile not flexible, but mobile

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big difference huge difference. We also

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worked on making our lungs our breath stronger

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last longer be more

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adaptable actually. Yeah, and we

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also worked on making our mind through meditation

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through different mantras

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mudras things like that to be able to stay focused

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longer. Yes, so and not be stressed

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exactly. So that was our style of

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yoga and I know that our style of ayurveda works

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a lot again on making giving our body

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the right Foods in order to build

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Muscle to assist the body in feeding itself

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properly to become better mobile to

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also give the brain the ability to

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become adapt quicker. Yes and to

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also become more agile.

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I would say yeah. Yeah brain agility.

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yeah it's huge and with that Also We

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also use astrology. Yes

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because astrology I like how you always say

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it's a unfit or un Something challenge or

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what? It's unfair Advantage. Yeah, that's it.

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Yes because it tells you what tomorrow

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might be exactly because

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it's all based on statistics exactly and statistically this

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could happen tomorrow. Yes. It's a

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higher statistic and I know that when this

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comes out, we're in a pretty s***** time.

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Yeah. It's actually rough

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time the next few months are pretty rough.

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So with that you can actually see it and

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work with it and then you it doesn't

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affect you and make you more it actually

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assists you from not becoming depressed or

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not becoming weak or not becoming something because

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you already know that it's gonna happen exactly. It's

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a like the Marcus Aurelius

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meditations, right Marcus Aurelius would get

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up every morning and he would tell himself

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that his day was gonna consist of

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people who were going to try to hurt him

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you know, kill him

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execute him and all these and he

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would also encounter people who were gonna help him all

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that stuff. So he was preparing himself

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mentally, right? So nothing would

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throw him off. That's that's how

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I look at astrology. Yeah, and it

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gives us the ability to see that okay like today

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when we're recording this

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It says we shouldn't really be around people right? Yes.

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So it's a good day to stay in or

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hang out without people around

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exactly and if you encounter a

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possible confrontation just change

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the tune so that it

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doesn't escalate that's all it is

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So with that you

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combine

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The yoga we teach along with the ayurveda we teach along

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with astrology in order to help you not

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become stressed and to get

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rid of depression and to help yourself to become

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the healthiest

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Person that you can be. Yep. And so

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with that that's what we're going to be talking in

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This series is using those three things. Yes.

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Am I correct in using those three things? Yes, absolutely

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to be able to be the best You can

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be exactly is that an Army commercial be the best you can be

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be the best you can be. Well, yep. Actually that's what ayurveda

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says, ayurveda says you always wanna be

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the best you can be for yourself

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and for your community and that's

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why we named the podcast also Spartan mind

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strength because that was the idea of the Spartans

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to be the best You can be not just

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for yourself

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For yourself within your community.

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So ayurveda looks at

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looks at everything

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you can do within your environment

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in order to make your body

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mind and emotions healthier.

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Because there are always Solutions your

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environment gives you but what happens

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is most of the time we miss them right?

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We don't see them and what charaka

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did is he documented as

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much as he could from his research

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and his travels and everything in order

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to give people that information.

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Because he could see that people were missing

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out on amazing things that

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they could be doing that they were not doing.

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Okay. Now with that is it

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difficult real ayurveda is

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very simple. The reason

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that real ayurveda is so simple is

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because it is a...

Episode Topics

• Who is Mercury
• Ancient Greek God Hermes and Norse God Odin
• Knowledge requires sacrifice
• What is Mercury Retrograde
• What is the Shadow Period
• The meaning of Mercury Retrograde
• The meaning of the Shadow Periods
• Ayurvedic Psychology and Mercury Retrograde
• Horary Astrology and Mercury Retrograde
• Hello Darkness, my Old Friend
• The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel
• Horary Astrology, Jyotish and Unfair Advantage
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Episode Topics

• Happy Navaratri!
• The 3 nights of goddess Saraswati
• Navratri and Ayurvedic psychology
• Saraswati, language and communication
• Saraswati and analysis
• Saraswati and concentration
• Saraswati and humility
• Om Aim Saraswati Namaha
• Navaratri in today's world
• Navaratri and Ayurveda as written by Charaka
• The episode we did on Navaratri And ayurveda the previous year (2020) Happy Navaratri - The Nine Nights of Kali, Lakshmi and Saraswati
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Episode Topics

• Happy Navaratri!
• The 3 nights of goddess Lakshmi
• The Nine Nights of Navaratri (Navratri)
• Navratri, Ayurveda, Charaka
• Asuras vs Devas
• Capitalists vs Marxists
• Navaratri and Ayurveda as written by Charaka
• The episode we did on Navaratri And ayurveda the previous year (2020) Happy Navaratri - The Nine Nights of Kali, Lakshmi and Saraswati
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Episode Topics

• Happy Navaratri!
• The 3 nights of goddess Kali
• The goddess Kali is the most compassionate of all deities
• The creation of Kali, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva
• What Kali represents and why she is misunderstood
• Kali and Nietzsche
• Strength, discipline vs shadows / daemons
• Kali and the American Gods
• Kali as the observed
• Navaratri and Ayurveda as written by Charaka
• The episode we did on Navaratri And ayurveda the previous year (2020) Happy Navaratri - The Nine Nights of Kali, Lakshmi and Saraswati
• Kali's mantra: Om Kreem Kalikaya Namaha!
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Audio Transcript

Hello, this is Tim 

And this is Vie and we welcome you to another episode of the spartan mind strength podcast,

And this is episode 2 of 4 on navaratri.

Stay tuned. We’ll be right back.

And we’re back. And we’re going to be talking about navaratri.

Navaratri, the nine nights, 10 days.

And when is navratri this year?

Navaratri, this year starts October 7th.

So it’s very soon. 

Yes. It’s in a week.

And each year it’s a little bit different though.

Yes, because it goes by the Hindu calendar and it’s usually September, October.

Okay. And, and, and, and, and it’s, it’s related to three goddesses. 

Yes. 

And they are

Kali, Lakshmi and Saraswati.

And today’s all about

It’s about Kali because the first three nights of this nine night - 10 day celebration are dedicated to goddess Kali.

Yep. And last year we did one on navratri also. So we’ll put that link in for last year’s, because it was also related to 

Ayurveda and Navaratri

Yes. So now tell me about Kali. Because when I grew up in the seventies, eighties, Kali was basically here in the states was more represented, like, you know, punk rockish like rock and roll and drugs and sex. So it had this weird concept.  And then in some of the old movies with, you know, like, not Batman, but, there were certain ones where Kali was, Kali was like the evil God. 

Yeah. 

But that’s not who Kali is. 

No Kali is actually the most compassionate of all the goddesses. Kali is completely misunderstood because it has to do with, it has to do with the aspect of discipline. 

Kali, Kali makes us look at who we truly are. And most of the time who we truly are, we don’t lie unless we’ve done a  lot of work on ourselves.

And Kali is also strength.

Kali is about strength.  Kali, in terms of ayurveda, Kali is all about the aspect of health, physical, emotional, and mental.

And I know that, in one side of her body, in her hands, she holds everything that gives life. And in the other side in her hands, she has everything that takes lives.

Exactly, because Kali is all about the, the giving mother and the disciplinarian mother, Kali wants to bring the best out of her children. Kali wants to protect her children. And the only way for Kali to protect her children is making them strong, physically, emotionally, and mentally. And if there is no discipline, how are you going to develop strength, right?

So if you get mad, because somebody says something that makes you mad, that’s not Kali.

No, it’s not Kali, that’s your weakness coming out.

So if you offend me, Kali’s going to be pissed because I got offended.

No, Kali county is going to be pissed at you, for being - exactly, exactly

So this world needs a lot more Kali right now. 

Exactly.

It is so interesting that Kali is actually our dark part and our dark part is what creates our weakness.

I, I forget who said it, but we were listening to someone yesterday to a really intense scholar. I should remember the name, but he said, that’s actually, I believe it was Nietzsche. I believe it was Nietzsche, who said that our issue is not actually fear as humanity, our issue is laziness.

Yes, that was Nietzsche.

That was Nietzsche, ok.

That we’re more, it’s because we’re lazy is

Exactly. We are lazy physically, emotionally, and mentally. And that’s who Kali is.

Is the one that takes that away. 

That takes that away.

Kali kills, if we allow her to, Kali kills out daemons.  But we need to be able to identify our daemons, right?

We can’t, we can’t do anything if we can’t identify them. 

So if you see yourself as perfect the way you are, you’re not identifying any daemons.

No.  Exactly. And just the mere fact that we are humans means we have a shit load of daemons. 

So that’s what Kali does. And, how are you going to be able to see what’s dark in you if you don’t shed some light, righ?

And so the Navaratri is all about the nighttime, the nine nights.

Exactly.  Because what the navaratri represents is our battle against our shadows, our battle against our daemons, against our darkness.

And I know that in one of the stories of Kali is - she was born out of fear, fear of the other gods. The other gods were so afraid, that Kali was born.  Which reminds me of, from the American gods, anger gets shit done. 

Actually it wasn’t out of fear. It was out of anger. 

Out of anger.

Out of anger, she was created.

Yes. Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva helped create Kali because they were so pissed off, they were so angry at the asuras.

And then it goes into what, what was his name, it was an African God, oh, I’ll remember his name shortly. but anyways, he said, anger gets shit done. 

Exactly.

And then the gods after Kali was born, gave her all their weapons that they liked best so that she could fight daemons in all different ways, because your daemons can come in all different forms. 

Anansi, Anansi,  yup. Yup, he was the God from the American gods.

But anyways, so she received all of these weapons so that she could fight each of the daemons that she runs across and we’re given and the representation of that is we are given all these different weapons through our mind to be able to fight any issue that we need to fight. 

Exactly. But it takes courage. It takes effort. It’s not easy. It's simple, but it’s not easy.

And the only way you can get shit done is you have to get angry. You can’t see yourself as being perfect. Oh, I’m perfect. I love myself. And then just go back to being who you were. You have to say, yes, I am good, but I can be better. So you have to get that umph to be able to see more, to see yourself to be able to be more.

Exactly. And that’s one of the things they talk about Kali is,  in the commodity world is, oh Kali helps you get rid of your ego. And everyone talks, all the aspiring yogis, talk about letting go of the ego and all that stuff.

And what they are doing is feeding their own ego more and more. The spiritual ego is actually the worst thing. And that’s where they talk about, in the symbolism for Kali fighting the daemons, they were saying how when a demon would get killed, a drop of blood would hit earth and then the daemon would become stronger.

It would be reborn stronger.  And that represents the spiritual ego, as far as you thinking, you got rid of it and now you’ve become this more arrogant person.

Exactly.  So when a lot of the people start  talking about the ego, oh, it’s your ego or my ego that makes me do this, or that person has to work on their ego and all that, you better run away from them because that means that they have way more issues.

Because there is nothing - and then they talk about the Western world, cultivating the ego, there is nothing wrong with the ego in the form of confidence. 

Because the good ego gets shit done too.

Exactly.  We have to be the, we have to be individuals that are able to stand on our own two legs. We have to work independently. We have to get stuff done independently. Otherwise the whole community is going to collapse,

Yeah. So in, in this type of ego, it’s confidence and it’s the ability to do things where the other ego that they’re talking about is arrogance. 

And literally, and I’ve seen this in so many times, the yoga teacher that all of a sudden learned yoga and then took some courses on meditation or whatever. And now they have this spiritual, I’m better than you because I meditate or I’m better than you because of this. I’m better than you. So they have almost a spiritual arrogance to them.

Exactly, exactly. And that’s what Kali helps you identify.  Is what you’re doing good for your community? Is what you are doing good for yourself as a valuable part of your community, or are you just fooling yourself? 

So in terms of what we talked about last time, the observed, the observer and the process of observation, Kali identifies with the observed. Kali is the physical, physical body, emotions and mind.

And from Charaka, it is the --

It's the health. It’s a desire for health because when Charaka talks about health in ayurveda is holistic, physical, emotional, and mental, they all go together. 

You can’t have one without the other. It’s impossible. 

Now there is a mantra. 

Yes. For Kali. And the mantra is -- oh kreem kalikaya namaha -- oh kreem kalikaya namaha 

And it’s going to be in the notes also. 

So now that you’ve given that, say night night.

Until next time, much, much love from both of us. Na’maste kala. May we all be well, adapt and thrive.

Happy Navaratri!  Happy Navaratri!

Episode Topics

• What is Navaratri
• The Mother
• Shakti, Parvati, Maya
• Purusha and Prakruti
• Navaratri and Ayurveda as written by Charaka
• Kali and Ayurveda
• Lakshmi and Ayurveda
• Saraswati and Ayurveda
• Navaratri and Joseph Campbell
• Navaratri in daily life
• Find us on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/c/AskTimAndVie
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Audio Transcript

Hello, this is Tim and this is Vie. And we welcome you to another episode of the spartan mind strength podcast.

And this is going to be a four-part episode even though I held five fingers up, four part episode on -- 

Navaratri, the nine nights of the goddess.  

Yay.

Stay tuned. We’ll be right back.

Navaratri!  Did I say that right? 

Navaratri.  Yes.

Yay. I can speak Sanskrit. 

So we’re going to be talking about Navratri and it’s nine days, it’s a celebration of the three goddesses. And that is -- 

That is Kali, Lakshmi and Saraswati.

And we know that there’s a lot of different ways to celebrate this. There’s a lot of different concepts behind it, but we’re going to be mainly talking about the ayurvedic concept of it.

Navaratri.  Yes. And the reason we are talking about it is because the celebration starts October 7th.

I thought we were talking about it because we just like to talk about it.

Just because, just for the heck of it. Yes. That’s actually a perfect reason to talk about Navaratri.

Okay. So explain to me how we’re going to be doing this because I know we’re going to be doing three more parts after this, but, but put it all together for me. 

Okay.  Navaratri celebrates all different aspects of Shakti, of the feminine energy, of the divine, of the mother. The concept of the mother is very important in Vedic tradition. And the reason it is important is because without the mother, there is no existence.

And I know that not just the Vedic philosophy, every philosophy,  the mother is very important.

Exactly. We talk about mother earth, we talk about mother universe. We come from the mother, we get our mitochondria from our mother. 

Yeah, and I’ve been called a mother ** many times.

Exactly. So the concept of the mother is very, very important for our existence. 

Yes.

Because the father, the male energy is pretty much there. There is, the father, there is no manifestation --

Without mother.

Without the mother. 

Mother is the creation. 

Mother is creation. And, in the Vedic tradition mother, the mother can be referred to as Parvati, or Prakruti the primordial creation or Shakti the feminine energy. I’m sure there are a lot of other names. It can even be Maya, right?

Yes, Maya, because isn’t Maya another word for earth? 

Yes.  Because Maya comes from the root ma and it means to measure forth, which is actually very interesting because our, our experience, the quality of our experience can be measured by our feminine energy.

It can be measured, but only when we use time and space, which is actually also part of the mother energy.

Exactly. So we can’t have manifestation as we understand it without time, space and causality. 

And Mom is all those. 

And Mom is all of those, right?  Mom says how long you are going to do certain things for, where you’re going to do them --

When I have to be back for supper.

And why you can or cannot do them, right?

Time-space and causality. It’s very, very interesting. So that’s what Navaratri reminds us of.  That there are all sorts of aspects to our experience, but they all come from the divine feminine energy.

Okay. And that kicks into ayurveda in a --

Because ayurveda is all about the experience, right.  Charaka said ayurveda is all about a desire for health --

Yes. 

A desire for wealth --

Yes.

And a desire for the other world.

Ayurveda is all about the experience. You can look at it as - it’s all about the observed, all about the observer and all about the aspect of the observation, the process of the observation.

That’s what experience means. Experience, you can’t have an experience -- that’s why Purusha created Prakruti because he couldn’t have an experience without --

Her. 

Exactly. Without her.

Again, it goes back to the male is non-experience in the Vedic philosophy.

In the Vedic tradition, yes, Purusha.

So, Male is always there, but doesn’t actually experience life, happiness, until Shakti comes.

Exactly. Until Prakruti comes. Yes.

So, in the Vedic philosophy, you have to have what is it, Brahma?

Brahma started it?

You have to have Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. Right. You have to have some process of creation, preservation and dissolution or change. 

It’s all about a cycle. Nothing is linear. And it’s actually all about a cycle at many different levels because back to time, space and causality, it’s just one aspect of it.

So we need the woman.

Exactly. Exactly. 

Got to have the Mom.

Got to have the Mom, got to have Maya, got to have Maya, can’t do without Maya.

Okay. Now with that, there’s three different steps of Navaratri. 

Yes. 

And the first step is about Kali.

Kali. The first three nights are dedicated to Kali. The next three are to Lakshmi and the last three are to Saraswati.

Okay. So the next podcast is going to be all about Kali.

Yes. It’s going to be fun. It’s going to be about Kali Ma or Kali Durga. She’s got many different names.

And then she leads into the next goddess

Yes: Lakshmi

And her, Lakshmi. And then, she does three days also, right?

Yes.

And then she leads into --

Saraswati. But again, it’s not just linear. It’s a cycle. It’s actually a cycle that can be at many different levels. So even though we talk about a cycle, there are still infinite possibilities.

And the reason why these three goddesses are involved in Navaratri is --

Because Kali is all about the aspect of the physical, mental, and emotional existence. The right here, right now.

Kali is about death and rebirth of different aspects. And that’s what we’ll talk about. 

Lakshmi is about creation. It’s all about doing things for the aspect of wealth, right, that comes in many different ways.

And Saraswati is all about the knowledge that you acquire through that experience. It’s all about learning and remembering.

It’s almost like Joseph Campbell’s, the -- 

The hero’s journey, right, The hero journey. 

Yes.

So one way to look at Kali is as the observed, right, this physical, mental, and emotional body, this object of observation, our life, what are we doing.

The way to look at Lakshmi is what you do through the process of observation, right? You have to take action, when you are observing you take action and you do certain things. 

And then the Saraswati represents the observer. Are you able to step back and say, what did I learn through this? What did the process of observation with that particular observed object give me?

So, in other words, the nine days that we’re getting ready to come into is a great celebration. But in reality, we should be thinking about this every single hour.

Exactly. Every single minute. That’s how that symbolism, say, those rituals, those traditions are to say, what are you doing from moment to moment And there is no better way to learn, to help you understand your experience than myth, ritual and tradition.

And with that, this, however you want to call it, is actually a way of living. 

Yes, that’s it, it's a way of life.

It’s a great way of seeing the world and going into the next level of the world.

Exactly, exactly.

Or heaven, whatever you want to call it.

Whatever the next level of the experience, whatever that is, we should actually say happy navaratri all the time, right?

I think I’ll do that and say happy navaratri and you say night night.

Until next time, much, much love from both of us. Na’maste kala.  May we all be well, adapt and thrive

And Happy Navaratri!

Episode Topics

• Happy Ganesha Chaturthi!
• Ganesha is associated with the root chakra
• The elephant symbol and the root chakra are important in many traditions
• Joseph Campbell and God
• Third Eye chakra vs the Root Chakra
• Our Ayurveda and Root Chakra for Business | Ayurveda and Tantra episode
• Our Ayurveda and Third Eye for Business | Ayurveda and Tantra episode
• Saturn, karma and awareness
• The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad and our subconscious
• Ayurveda, kapha and awareness
• Do atheists believe in God?
• Jordan Peterson and ayurvedic awareness
• Ganesha and the NIne Planets, Nava Grahas
• Ganesha can be considered the deity of ayurvedic awareness
• Real Astrology by John Frawley
• The Upanishads by Eknath Easwaran 
• The origins of Ganesha by Indian scholar Y. Krishan
• Find us on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/c/AskTimAndVie
• Email us your feedback and any questions you may have at: [email protected]
• We will surprise you with a gift for supporting your friendly neighborhood podcast
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Audio Transcript

Hello, this is Tim.

And this is Vie and we welcome you to another episode of the spartan mind strength podcast. 

And what’s this episode about? 

This episode is about the Upanishads, astrology, ayurveda and of course Ganesha. 

All in 10 minutes?

All in 10 minutes. 

Awesome. 

Stay tuned. We’ll be right back.

We’re back. And we’re talking about ayurveda, astrology, the Upanishads and Ganesha.

That takes almost 10 minutes just to say.

I know. 

So how are you going to bring all these together?

Well, first we have to start with Ganesha, right?

Of course.  Om Gum Ganapataye Namaha.

Exactly.

Because it started a couple of days ago. 

Yes. Ganesha Chaturthi.

Actually, by the time this comes out, it’ll have already started. 

Yes. So Ganesha the elephant headed deity that -

-- Came from Greece 

Well, from Egypt, through Greece, to India, right?

He’s very often associated with the root chakra, the elephant. And, we mentioned in the previous episode that the elephant is, can be thought of as the essence of the Kapha bioenergy, right. 

So the root chakra is all about faith in a higher power, right? We've talked extensively about the root chakra that’s associated with faith in a higher power. 

Now, the Upanishads say -

-- Ok, I’m waiting to hear this

The Upanishads say that no matter what you do with your existence, right - because the Upanishads are all about the personal experience -

Yes. 

The individual existence, the individual experience, they say, no matter what you do with it, you have to always keep in mind that everything comes from God and everything returns to God and that’s what unites us all. 

So it’s very, very interesting that the Upanishads highly emphasize that. And that is the faith in a higher power, associated with the root chakra. And that’s where a lot of the confusion happens today. When people get into the spiritual affairs and shoot straight for the third eye.

Yes. I know. And it still is, on our podcast, the number one out of the chakras for business is always the third eye.

Exactly. 

Because they know everything else.

Well, to talk even about a way more realistic example, a couple of days ago, there were three aspiring yogis in the studio talking about third eye imbalances for certain people, and they were completely oblivious to the fact that it all starts from the root chakra.

Yup. There wouldn’t have been any third eye imbalance if they would have fixed the root chakra. 

So all the aspiring yogis that think they know everything, they have been practicing a couple of years, all of a sudden know that they’re enlightened enough for the third chakra to be the only area that they need - 

-- the third eye to be the only area that they need to work on.

Exactly. And now you have, you have the whole Vedic literature of the Upanishads talking about, be careful of the root chakra, right, you have other, other world, philosophies and mythologies, right, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Campbell - 

-- who spent almost a lifetime studying 

Exactly, talked about the importance of the root chakra. So you have Ganesha telling you, be grounded -

-- work on your kapha

Exactly. But of course, what do they all know?

What do we know? 

What do we know? So, then the other aspect of the Upanishads is, one of the very, very important teachings, and I’m going to read it because I want it to sound poetic.

Ok. And of course when you read, you are more poetic.

Anything that I say from memory doesn’t sound poetic. 

It says - and that comes from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad which is also translated as the tails of the forest.  So it says - 

you are, what your deep driving desire is 

as your desire is, so is your will

as your will is, so is your deed

as your deed is, so is your destiny

So what makes you who you are is your subconscious. It’s not your conscious.  Your conscious is being wasted most of the time, right. It’s your subconscious, your deep, deep, deep driving desire. That’s what creates your destiny. That’s what creates your karma. So when people, again, in the commodity astrology world talk -

Oh, we’ve just shifted to astrology now, so you had to get that in there.

But I’m going to bring it all together.

Ok.

When they talk -

Because you’ve even touched on tantra with the root chakra - 

When, when they talk about karma and especially blaming Saturn for that, what they forget is that what our subconscious is, that creates our actions that creates our destiny. 

So what karma - and actually karma in Sanskrit means action - Our actions create our karma. That’s our individuality, right? So we have, being part of something bigger, we have what unites us all. But our individuality comes from our subconscious, from our deep driving desire. 

So no matter what we do, no matter what we do, we all come from God and we go back to God.

And actually, even Joseph Campbell says that. And each one of us has our own God. 

Exactly.

So you can’t say your God is, is my God. Because each one of us has our own image of who God is.

Exactly.  Because God is shaped by our individuality. And that comes from our subconscious, from our deep driving desire.

Okay. I want to just see if you can do this in less than two minutes, do atheists then, have a God?

Yes.  They do.  They don’t call it God, but they do have a God. Absolutely.  They totally have a God.  Because they have their individuality and they have their subconscious.

They may not be aware of it, but they still have a God. And that’s where the awareness comes in.  The awareness depends on the person’s individuality, right? What makes it up to the conscious, that’s where the awareness is.  Are we aware of it?  So how much of your subconscious has actually become conscious.

Ok.

And you’ve got to be very careful because when intense parts of our subconscious become conscious, that’s where schizophrenia happens.  And actually Jordan Peterson talks a lot about it, the shadow, right? 

Yes. Yes.

So you have to be, you have to be very careful what you allow there.  So someone who’s claiming flat out that they are an atheist, they still believe in something, but they - 

-- They refuse to give it a name.

They refuse to give it a name, whether consciously or subconsciously or unconsciously even.  

Wow.

They refuse to give it a name.

You did that very quickly. 

So that's where astrology, Ganesha, ayurveda,  your Kapha and the Upanishads are all telling us, they are actually warning us, that we have to work on our awareness.

And awareness is at all different levels.

Exactly.

Because Ganesha is earthly. He’s the God of all of the people. 

Yes.

He has so many different representations. 

Yes.

And isn’t he also the leader of the planets?

Yes. He’s also, he’s also our intermediary with the planets with the navagrahas, the nine planets, seven plus two. We can talk about that in a different episode. 

He’s also the intermediary with the planets because the people realized that they have, yes, they have to tame nature, they have to appease nature, but there is something out there that they also need to work with.

So we can actually say that if we’re bringing in awareness, Ganesha is actually the god of ayurvedic awareness.

He is.  He is the god of ayurvedic awareness. And he operates at many levels. 

Until next time, much, much love from both of us. Na’maste kala!  May we all be well, adapt and thrive.

Episode Topics

• Happy Birthday Ganesha! Happy Ganesha Chaturthi!
• What is the Ganesha Chaturthi celebration
• What to eat on Ganesha Chaturthi
• Ganeshaya Vighneshvaraya Namaha!
• Ayurveda, the Kapha dosha and Ganesha
• Ganesha and Mushika
• According to Ayurveda, Mushika symbolizes our senses
• Why Ganesha is considered the obstacle remover
• Ganesha does not fit the anthropomorphic profile of other Indian deities
• Ganesha in ancient Egypt and ancient Greece
• Bactrian coins with elephant heads
• Zeus, Ganesha and Nike, the ancient Greek goddess of victory
• Shiva, Ganesha and Muruga or Kartikeya (the Indian god of war)
• Is Muruga the male representation of Nike?
• The non sectarian aspect of Ganesha
• The origins of Ganesha by Indian scholar Y. Krishan
• Find us on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/c/AskTimAndVie
• Email us your feedback and any questions you may have at: [email protected]
• We will surprise you with a gift for supporting your friendly neighborhood podcast
• May we all be well, adapt and thrive! - Tim and Vie

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Audio Transcript

Hello, this is Tim.

And this is Vie and we welcome you to another episode of the spartan mind strength podcast.

And this is part two of

Of Ganesha Chaturthi.

Yay. Stay tuned. We’ll be right back. 

And we are back

Ganeshaya Vighneshvaraya Namaha!

Wow. That’s a fancy thing. What did you just say?

Ganeshaya Vighneshvaraya Namaha!

But what is that in English? 

So Ganesha, or Ganeshaya, Ganeshaya.is just more poetic. It’s the, the name of Ganesha.

Vighneshvarara means obstacle remover,

And that’s what he is. 

And that’s who he is.

And namaha is hello, how are you doing? 

Ganeshaya Vighneshvaraya Namaha.

Very nice.

You can say - thank you Ganesha for removing all the obstacles for me.

Very nice.

This is part two of

Ganesha Chaturthi.

And what does that mean? 

Well, Ganesha Chaturthi is a huge worldwide celebration for Ganesha. Chaturthi is the fourth day of the new moon of a particular month, the sixth month in the Hindu calendar. 

So it comes from the number four in Sanskrit. 

Okay. 

So the fourth day of the new moon that falls in the sixth month of the Hindu calendar, which is usually our August or September is when they officially celebrate the birthday of Ganesha.

And this year it is when?

This year is September 10th. 

Okay. And how long does it go?

And it goes for 10 to 11 days. So officially the end of the celebration is September 21st this year. 

And what do you do on this holiday for 10 to 11 days?

You eat a lot of sweets.

Sweets!

In honor of Ganesha! 

Yes, because Ganesha is the god of sweets. 

Of sweets. Yes. 

Ganesha has a very, very cute, happy belly. And also he feeds Mushika.

Mushika is his rat or his mouse, depending on who you talk to. 

Exactly.  He feeds him sweets, eh, you know, accordingly.  

And I know you brought this up before in teacher trainings, Mushika is considered your senses and Ganesha feeds his senses, which is the rat, but he controls them. 

Exactly.

Ganesha teaches us how to be honoring our senses. So Mushika is the mouse right, the rat, who always likes to gnaw on anything and everything, and he’s all over the place. 

But he also likes to be of service to Ganesha, and they have that awesome relationship that when Ganesha honors Mushika and lets him have his sweets Mushika helps him go places. So if Ganesha just lets Mushika do whatever, eat all he wants, then Mushika is not going to be of much service

He will go nuts basically,

Exactly. So it’s that fine line.

And that’s one of the things that Ganesha teaches us as a - 

As the obstacle remover, right?  In order to be able to move through any obstacles in our life, we have to be honoring our senses. 

And that’s what Ayurveda talks about. 

That’s what Ayurveda talks about.

That’s the whole representation of the elephant, right?  He, he is, he has the elephant head, right?  That’s the wisdom, that’s the grounding aspect. 

In Ayurveda, when you think Kapha, right, when you think of the earth and water elements, the best representation is the elephant. 

Yes. 

It’s, it’s amazing. It’s that grounding that mother nature provides. So the elephant has that wisdom, right. 

Is heavyweight, right, he stands solid, he stands still, but he also has the finesse and that’s where that trunk comes in, right?

He supposedly can pick up a feather. 

Exactly.

So in the last one, we talked a little bit about where he was first brought up and that was in - 

In the Puranas and we gave a little story from the Shiva Purana.

Now, in your studying of Ganesha, you actually came across some people that were talking about how Ganesha doesn’t represent the normal deities of India, because he has an elephant head and a human body, which represents more of possibly the Egyptian gods and or which is something that I never thought, they talked about it even being a Greek god, so he had the influence of the Greek and the Egyptian, not as much as the Indian,

Yes, which is fascinating. 

Y. Krishan, that Indian scholar makes the case that the Indian gods were anthropomorphic. So they had human faces and body..

Human face, human body.

It’s exactly what you said, that’s his fancy word.

But the Egyptian gods and then the Hellenistic gods, especially - 

And Hellenistic means greek.

Hellenistic is the fancy word for Greek. 

And especially the gods that the Indo Greeks brought, when they were in Northwest India fit a lot more the Ganesha profile. Or Ganesha fits that profile I should say. 

And also you talked about coins.

Yes. They have found coins and the listeners can see pictures of those coins. They have found coins that represent - actually different coins, not just one type from the second century BC  - we are talking 170 BC, 180 BC that have Indo-Greek kings or generals. 

And, they have the elephant head on the obverse side, which the obverse of the coin is the important one.  So they have, they talk about, the general Dimitrios who was in Northwest India in around 180 BC. And they have, they have found a coin with his face, wearing a helmet and having an elephant head, the top of the elephant head on top of the helmet. And then on the reverse side, having the caduceus, the staff with the snake.

Oh ok.  Yes.

And then they have found another coin that has Zeus on one side and the other side has an elephant holding the goddess of victory Nike.

And again, it goes back to the whole thing that cultures talked.

Cultures gave and took equally.

Exactly. And the idea is that the elephant throughout those centuries actually was representing mother nature. And the people were trying to actually develop a healthy relationship, understand mother nature. That's why, and obviously they had a lot of elephants in that part of the world, right. 

It’s common sense, right.

Yes, at least one or two.

Common sense.  What makes it very interesting is that a little later you have a coin with Shiva and there is great similarities between Shiva and Zeus,

Yes, there are a lot of similarities.

And you have Ganesha on one side, son of Shiva, like we said, or the elephant. And then on the other side, you don’t have the goddess Nike, the victory, but you have Ganesha’s brother Kartikeya or Muruga, who happens to be the god of war.

Which is?

Which is the male representation now of Nike, right. Because what are the concerns of humanity at that time? Let's appease nature and let’s be victorious in war.

Yes. So there are a lot of similarities between Nike and Muruga or Kartikeya.

I like Muruga.

It's fascinating actually. 

So can we say that Ganesha’s last name could be?

Elephantakos! Right!

The greek word for elephant with a special syllable at the end, to make him even more Greek. I will even say, it’s just fascinating to me. 

I knew I liked Ganesha for a reason. I didn’t know we had similar roots. 

That you were related.

Yeah. It’s all about giving the power to the people, like we already said. That's why Ganesha made it through all those centuries, through all those cultures.

And he’s even got one of the biggest celebrations. 

It’s one of the biggest celebrations, if  not the biggest.  Everybody loves Ganesha. Ganesha is considered non-sectarian.

Another big word, 

Another big word. 

And what does that mean?

It means that it doesn’t matter who you are.  Ganesha loves you and you love Ganesha whether you know it or not.

Very nice. So say happy birthday to Ganesha,

Happy Ganesha Chaturthi!  Ganesha, we love you! 

Until next time, much, much love from both of us.

Na’maste kala! .May we all be well, adapt and thrive.