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Welcome everybody to Ramdhas here and now, and I'm Raghu Marcus. This talk from Ramdhas

today is back to August 1989. I'm going to call this talk Implications of a True Spiritual

Journey. He talks about how we, many of the time, on our day-to-day practices, our spiritual

practices, our spiritual perspective on our lives. We run through things a little bit

on a road basis, or we get sometimes, and he didn't really say this, but I would say,

and talking about myself, very much so, that we get a little blase, shall we say, about

the work, quote unquote, spiritual work that we're doing. He talks about, we keep closing

off our door of entry, as we might call it, because of the fear of the implications of

a true spiritual journey. We just think about, we've embarked on a game that is much more

profound than we usually think we are on. We're ready to slip by and make everybody feel

good. We're all on the spiritual path, isn't that nice? Of course, I'm giving you

at a very negative accent, and it's a bit judgmental, but still, I think this talk really

emphasizes, actually, through the metaphor of the Bhagavad Gita. This is a wonderful metaphor

that Ramdas is using here, and I think it's based on a book by Swami Vivekananda, who wrote

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