I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of

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The whole renowned spiritual leader Deepak Chopra was the inspiration for my trip to India.

He was born in New Delhi in 1947. His father was a prominent cardiologist, his mother, a homemaker.

He began medical school in India and at 22 moved to the United States to continue his studies.

He started his practice in Boston becoming more and more interested in the mind body connection,

eventually giving up his practice to explore this new discipline of alternative medicine.

A prolific writer, he's penned 19 bestsellers selling more than 20 million books worldwide.

Time magazine called him one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the 20th century.

Can you imagine a more perfect setting to speak with Deepak Chopra than here in Jaipur,

at city palace with the exquisite sights and sounds of his homeland all around us.

So this is absolutely amazing to me that we get to sit here with the city of Jaipur in the background.

And we met in 1993. That's right. I can't remember the book, what was the book?

It's this body, timeless mind. At the time, people thought talking about mind body spirit was in the

category. Yes. Yes. And you knew differently. You were ahead of your time. Would you say?

I had this background, this country's background, this rich spiritual tradition of this country.

But I was also feeling it intuitively just by watching my patients and working in emergency rooms

and other places. You see people coming in all stages of distress, facing death and so on. So I

intuitively knew there was some connection between the mind and the body. So we now see the direct

connection between what's happening in the world of thoughts, feelings, images, and the brain,

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