For several years, meditation has really given me an entrance into this arena of a totally new paradigm of what love is,

which scriptures describe as devotional service, service without any selfish considerations.

I'm really excited about sharing this interview with all of you because I'm sitting with the one and only Garangadas

who inspired my whole month journey, the person who individually captivated me so early on in my life when I was 18 years old,

and when I heard him speak many, many times and interact with different people, inviting me to spend some time in India,

and just inspired me on my whole school journey and literally changed the trajectory of my life,

just simply meeting him for a week in London completely changed what I wanted to do and became my role model and inspiration in life and still is.

And I'm excited that you finally get here from it and I get to ask you a few questions.

Hopefully this is going to be a bit of fun as well. He's a hilarious, so if he doesn't, that out, then he's just being respectful.

But I'm really honored and humbled to be sitting with you.

Thank you so much. Thank you so much, J for welcoming me and speaking those words.

I've been so grateful that I've had you in my life since I was 18 years old in so many different ways.

And I can honestly say that you have been there for me every stage of my life.

And I think that's a very special thing because I think so many of us today in the world are looking for mentors.

And I'm so fortunate that I met one of my biggest mentors in life so early on.

So I just like to honor you and share my gratitude and thank you and thank you today for all of this help you've given us this week and allowing us to film the eco village.

And I want to start with talking to you about how what people I've mentioned about you before what I've spoken about you.

But people may not have as a perception of monks. I think people often think of monks as either we know nothing about them or we think maybe they're lazy and they don't want to do any work or we think maybe they're uneducated and they didn't have another path.

Or maybe we think they were very religious growing up.

But when I met you, what I got fascinated by is that you didn't really fit into any of those categories.

You were extremely educated, you are extremely educated. You come from a spiritual background, but it's not that you were you were a normal person at college growing up.

I just want to hear a bit about how you decided that this path was right for you because when I heard what you've done, I was so impressed that someone of your caliber who had everything that me and my friends were seeking were able to give it up so easily for this life.

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