even if we're able to clean every river right even if we're able to clean the air in delhi

even if we're able to clean the ganges river and the jamuna river it's so horribly polluted it's like

just heartbreaking even if we were able to clean them all tomorrow if we didn't clean our hearts

then we're just going to pollute them all over again right if we don't let go let go of the greed that we have, if we don't learn to cooperate with each other,

if we don't learn to live more simply and be happy living more simply, et cetera,

we're just going to pollute them.

We're going to elect leaders who promise us the sense gratification that we want,

and we're going to neglect, you know, the ecology again. And, and so he's saying my work has to do with getting

to the root of the problem. And essentially, this is what he was saying, right? If that we don't develop

a higher character, you know, the city is what it is because the citizens are what they are. The

ecology is what it is, the state of it, because of who we are. And so we need

to transform. We need to, yeah, we need to purify our minds. We need to purify our hearts.

And therefore, the sharing of spiritual knowledge, genuine spiritual knowledge, not some kind of

like trying to convert people to your religion, but trying to instill spiritual

knowledge. Hey, I don't care if you're a Christian or Muslim or this or that. Are you understanding

its spiritual essence? Are you understanding that we're not these bodies, that we are these sparks

of souls within? Are you understanding that true happiness is something that is our nature that we

don't need to consume resources like some kind of you know like endless you know bottomless hole

that that that we can turn within and find happiness within live a simple life and then there's an opportunity to

you know hey maybe we all don't need a car maybe we all don't need two cars you know maybe we

maybe we can um live a simpler life living close to home maybe we don't you know maybe there

we don't need all the things we think we need. And if we finally get that,

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