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Today my guest is Gore Gopal Das.

Gorg Gopal Das is a former Hewlett-Packard engineer

who joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness as a monk in 1996 in India

since then he's become a popular speaker and motivational coach both on YouTube and giving public presentations all over the world.

With sounds true, Gore Gopoldas has written a new book called The Way of the Monk,

how to find purpose, balance, and lasting happiness.

In this conversation, Gore is at the monastery.

And I'm of course recording from my home in Boulder, Colorado.

And what impressed me so much about Gore, Gopoldas, is his thorough contemporariness as a person.

Even though he's a monk living in a monastery in India, he speaks so helpfully and intelligently

about working with social media in an intelligent way, about how to manage our stress and deepen our faith as a fully modern person.

Here's my conversation with Gore of G Go Baldas.

To begin with Gore, can you tell us how and why you became a monk?

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