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- I have discovered a secret oracle in India
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that has on it the name of my mother, the name of my father,
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my name, my brother's name, my wife's name,
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all the details about my life from the moment I was born
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and right into the future.
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And it even told me the time of my death
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and, to access this oracle, allit needed was my thumbprint.
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(upbeat music)
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I'm here in India on myfirst mystic journey.
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In the UK and USA, Jane and I are known
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as the most psychic couple on the planet.
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We've had some crazy times and had the opportunity
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to give readings to A-list celebrities.
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- I really enjoyed the reading with Craig
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because he hit some real accuracies
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about my father and our relationship.
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They are the real deal.
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And it kinda blew my mind a little bit.
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I'm not a mind blower, you know, by nature,
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but, you know, it was real.
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- We have both had a fruitful life
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and seen many mystical things.
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But my trip to India has certainly opened even my eyes.
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As psychics, we have both been invited to do many TV shows
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about the paranormal, but what I'm about to experience
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in India is absolutely astonishing,
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so astonishing that even my wife, Jane,
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couldn't get her head round it.
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Is it possible to know the future?
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Can my destiny really be changed?
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Jane and I have been to India before,
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but, this time, I face this journey alone.
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I'm already exhausted from the plane trip
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and I haven't even started yet.
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Well, here we are, we're here.
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This is India.
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India's never as you expect it to be, I think.
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A mixture of new roads going in, really old areas.
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Old people carrying all sorts of stuff everywhere.
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Mad traffic as usual.
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Still feeling prettytired after the journey.
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It's a long haul.
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It seems even in a big city,
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everywhere you go, there's gods.
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Saw Ganesha straight away as you come out the airport
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and then there's all the gods lined up.
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I mean even adverts seemto have the gods on 'em.
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It's amazing.
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That's the thing with India, it seems to be everything.
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Now matter howcommercialised it gets,
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it seems to always retain its spiritual roots
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even in the industrialised parts of India
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like Chennai is here.
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(horns honking)
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I'm here in India because an ancient
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Indian astrological oracle says that I can influence
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my destiny by performinga series of rituals
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and charitable acts.
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Enjoy it while you can, Craig,
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because it's going tobe a gruelling journey.
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Now, this Nadi Oracle, as it's called,
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that's driven me here was written down some 5,000 years ago
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on a sort of parchment made from palm leaves.
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My wife Jane and I are no strangers to the paranormal,
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but what it said shook me to the very core of my being.
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Here, in this nice hotel, the grime of the real India
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feels a long way away,but the oracle predicts
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that I'm about tobegin a scary adventure
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that is going tochange my life forever.
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About a year ago, an Indian friend of mine called Vivek
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wanted to set up a new service to introduce to the west
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the idea of these Nadi Oracles.
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Now, he did ask me if I could test his reader for him
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and find out if the guy was, you know, a fake or real
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or doing what the sceptics would call cold readings
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and things like this.
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And I've tested other mediums and psychics in my time
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so I seemed to be in a position
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where I was very well-qualified to know
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if these people were real or not.
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Now, we set up a consultation on Skype and he connected me
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with an Indian Nadi reader in Tamil Nadu.
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Well, I connected with the reader
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and he started going through the leaves, one at a time.
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They're palm leaves that have been written in Tamil,
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old Tamil, translated from Sanskrit.
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And, according to legend, been rewritten every 500 years
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and stretch back in time, they claim,
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five to 10,000 years ago.
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He started by going through and reading the leaves
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one at a time andwould ask me questions.
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And, I thought, here we go, cold reading.
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Are you a miner?
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No, no, no.
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Do you import precious metals for a living?
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No.
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And he went on like this with all sorts
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of strange questions, but it seemed meaningless
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and then one leaf comes up and says,
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was your ex-wife's name Tina?
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Well, yes.
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Nobody knew that.
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That's something certainly not published about me anywhere.
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Was your mother's name Ethel?
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Yes.
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Was your father's name Donald?
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Yes.
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Is your name Craig?
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Yes.
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Were you born at 1:30 in the morning
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on the 24th of January 1954?
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Yes.
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And he reeled off facts like this, names of my brothers,
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my sisters, things thatI'd done in my life.
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Had your father worked in this profession
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and that profession?
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And gave a whole list of not just me,
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but my family, thingsyou could never research
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even with the Internet at your disposal,
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remembering also that I'd given him no information
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whatsoever about who I was.
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So there was no way he could look this up.
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So you could imagine, here was a message being sent to me
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in a set of palm leaves that are allegedly 5,000 years old
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with my name written on it and all he had was my thumbprint
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to go by.
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In a few moments, I'm going to meet the Nadi leaf translator
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who read the first leaves for me and the remedies
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for the first lot have been done
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and he's going to be bringing a special amulet.
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When you do the reading,do you also have to look
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at the astrology as well or is that in the leaf already?
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You just read what's in the leaf?
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- You only read what is in the leaf
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and, if there are some doubts,
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we can clarify using astrology.
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- I see, I see, so you can use--
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- If we have some doubts, if the astrologer has some doubts
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related to planetary position, it may change some.
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One or two person, theremay be some change,
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so, to clarify that, the astrologer may use
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the basic astrology, if he knows.
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- Okay.
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Mr Santosh makes thesepredictions, but does not claim
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to be psychic or have clairvoyance.
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He simply translates what is said on the leaves.
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In my case, this included things about my life
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such as the occupation of my father when I was a child,
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how I'd been a painter, how I'd worked in the media,
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the illnesses I've had in my life,
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how I'd been a single parent, how I had dedicated my life
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to working as a psychic medium,
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and told of my career as a writer.
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Mr Santosh was one of three readers
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in different parts of Indiathat I had contacted anonymously
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and yet all three readers had given pretty well,
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the exact sameinformation and forecast
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with a similar destiny,including the agewhen I will die.
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Some people would find it rather worrying
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knowing when you're going to die and what illnesses
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and troubles you're going to have in the future.
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Mr Santosh has done someof these remedies for me
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and has brought me a special talisman that was made
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during the fire rituals he had performed on my behalf.
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Vibhuti?
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- Yes, Vibhuti.
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- And that Vibhuti is put on there afterwards, yeah?
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I keep it in the Vibhuti or?
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That's from the fire, is it?
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- Talisman was taken from the fire
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and, after that, Vibhuti was put on it.
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- Put onto it.
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How would I use this now?
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What would I do with this?
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- [Mr Santosh] You can roll it.
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You can roll like a small cylinder
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and you can buy a cylindrical tavis.
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- [Craig] Okay.
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- [Mr Santosh] And you can put it in there.
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- So you roll it up and put it in there.
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And this has writing on it, I see.
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- Yes, the mantra.
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- [Craig] So this is the mantra?
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This is a protected mantra?
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- [Mr Santosh] Yes, thisis a protected mantra
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of Lord Shiva.
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- Yeah, wonderful.
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It's so nice to receiveit in person like that.
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I so thank you for all the effort you made.
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And I'd love to come back again to you
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later on to do some morewith the beliefs further
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because there's other cans now to open, isn't there?
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- Yeah.
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- Thank you.
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- [Mr Santosh] Thank you very much.
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Namaste. - Namaste.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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Before I start my questand perform the remedies
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to clear my past life karma, I visit the holy ruins
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of Mahabalipuram and make a prayer
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to the Indian elephant god, Ganesha.
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Mahabalipuram is an extraordinary, ancient temple complex
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that was carved out ofsolid rock and granite.
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So this was a cave? - Yeah.
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- Originally, and it has been carved
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from a cave into a temple?
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- Yes.
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- So all these stones would have stood here
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centuries and centuries?
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- Thousands of centuries.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- And this is the one they carved out of solid rock?
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- Yes.
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- To make the temple.
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- This golden tank, first known buttermilk tank.
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- Buttermilk?
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- Yeah, making butter for the butterball.
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- Did that on a big scale, didn't they?
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So they make masses of butter and that's used for what,
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the blessing or?
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- Butter, eat.
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- Oh, for eating?
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So it is actually practical.
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(calming music)
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So this is Vishnu?
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- [Guide] Vishnu.
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- And the next one would be
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Shiva.- Shiva.
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So Vishnu and Shiva.
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And that would be Brahma? - Yes.
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- [Craig] So why is Brahma not in the middle of them?
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- [Guide] This always Shiva, the first.
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- [Craig] Yeah?
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- [Guide] Vishnu (speaking in foreign language)
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- Right, they did thingson scale, didn't they?
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I mean that is like
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a lorry full of butter, isn't it,
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to put on the lingam.
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I presume it would all come
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pouring all down here.
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- [Guide] Yeah.
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- The Nadi leaves have prescribed a list
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of ancient temples I'm to visit and perform rituals.
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This complex is seeping with the energy of the past
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and is a starting point where I can take in the wonders
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of India's past and also seek a blessing
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for a successful journey.
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I believe in Hindiusmthat the first creation
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had an elephant holding the world up?
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- [Guide] Yeah.
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- So would that be that?- Yes.
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- This part of the temple complex
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is where they used to do the ohms.
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I can't resist this, I've gotta do an ohm.
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I've gotta do an ohm.
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Ohm.
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Ohm.
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Just as a Christian maypray to St Christopher
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before starting ajourney, the god Ganesha
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represents the aspectsof the one universal God
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that clears the obstacles in the path.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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I have no problem with praying to an elephant-headed God
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as I believe it's the same one God that can be found
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in all religions, but he, she, comes in many forms.
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This is a divine symbolic act to clear my path.
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So this is the first stage of the remedies of the Nadi
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and the first place I have to visit
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is Bhagavan Ramana's ashram.
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I've got a three and a half hour drive,
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so it's a bumpy road, wish me luck.
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An ashram is a hermitage, a spiritual retreat,
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that is usually centred around a holy man or guru.
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I'm visiting one at the base of a sacred mountain
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called Mount Arunachalathat I hope to climb
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as its powerful energies are said to awaken the spirits.
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Ah, there's the mountain now.
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This is my first good look at the landscape of India.
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I feel excited because I'm soonto meet another Nadi reader
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who is going to guideme through the remedies
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and help me with the rituals I have to perform
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in the days ahead.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- His first task is to take care of you.
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First, health and then the surroundings, environment.
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And then the travel, spiritual events, all those things.
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- Yes.
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- It might be--
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- Fortunately, Gopienath speaks reasonably good English
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and explains that tomorrow morning,
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we will be walking roundMount Arunachalaman
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and visit Ramana Maharishi's ashram afterwards.
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We will set off at dawn.
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These first energetic remedies are designed
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to help my health now and in the future.
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Some of my family thinkI'm completely mad,
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but the leaves gave me such amazingly accurate information
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about my life that Isimply cannot ignore it.
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There's a lot of good things ahead for me
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until my predicted death at 3:00 a.m. in the morning
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in the winter monthsas I approach about 82,
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but there's also a few things that I need to sort out
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that are the result of my karma from past lives.
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I make the good happen and the bad fall away
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and I need to do these remedies.
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The first step is to build up lots of good energy
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which means visiting some holy places.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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My first stop is the holy mountain of Arunachala
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and the Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi Ashram at its foot.
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(calming music)
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Below me, I can see the Shiva temple at Thiruvannamalai
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where I am, tonight, to perform some puja ceremonies
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with the priests after MrPrakesh performs a simple remedy
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here on the holy mountain.
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On this mountain and, particularly, at the dark
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meditation room at the top, I seem to be aware of the energy
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that plugs right intomy mediumship abilities.
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Right here and, also, while walking,
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I can feel the closeness of the spirit people near me.
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I've just been at the top of the mountain
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where there's atremendous energy there.
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I'm still a little bit woozy from it.
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It's just the most incredible energy
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I have ever felt in my life.
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Incredible, incredible feeling.
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Never known anything like that, never.
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As part of the rituals and, you know, the remedies,
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I must be given a stone from the mount.
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Mr Prakesh has read in my Nadi leaves that a number
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of these rituals have to be performed at a specific time.
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His astrology almanack is consulted and now is the exact
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right time to get my stone.
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We descend the mountain path and as we enter the ashram,
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are greeted by some clever monkeys.
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Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi, the founder of this ashram,
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believed in the unity of all things
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and that, if we askourselves the question,
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who am I?
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We will come to realisethat everything,
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including the person asking the question, is God.
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Ramana believed that animals are as much
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a part of God as we are.
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(water splashing)
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This is the meditation hall of the Rama Krishna Ashram,
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and we're gonna spend a little bit of time now meditating
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in the place where Rama Krishna used to meditate.
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(religious chanting)
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Where I sit I can see pictures of Ramana on the wall
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and a golden statue of him in the altar area.
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At the age of 16, Ramana had something
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like a near death experience in which he entered
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into a state of divine consciousness
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and realised the true nature of the self.
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He became aware of a divine current within him
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that could never die.
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Soon after he came to this spot at the base
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of the holy mountain, hedecided to remain here
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for the rest of his life.
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For long periods of time, his mind was in such a state
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of transcendence that he completely neglected his body
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and he was incessantly bit by ants.
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Some people found him and realised
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that this was a holy man who was to become
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one of India's greatestspiritual teachers.
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(calming music)
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It was a nice experience.
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We did what they call thearathi, where they put the fire
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across the face and cleanse through the fire.
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So it was a verynice experience.
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Here we are now at the Triveni Mali Temple.
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(calming music)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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We went in and we've done some Archana,
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which is like part of the Nadi clearing.
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It's part of the remedies and we've been in front
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of a number of Indian gods and done some amazing things.
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And, actually, I feel very almost high from it.
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It's an amazing place with an amazing sense of atmosphere
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and real, deep sincerityfor the priests
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that are working there.
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It's been a hard day climbing the mountain
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and a late night on thetiles of the temples,
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but now it's 3:00 a.m. rise to walk
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around the holy mountain.
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And I'm shattered before I start.
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There is definitely something special
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about the subtle energy here.
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Even though the scenery is mainly sort of streets,
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there's a feeling of the energetic presence
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of the mountain with every step I take.
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Legend has it that MountArunachala is the place
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where Lord Shiva manifested as a column of light
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to settle the argument between the god Brahma and Vishnu.
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It is one of theholiest places in India
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and many great saints and sages
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have lived here in its caves.
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The act of walking around it is called Giri Pradakshina
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and it is said to removethe sins and desires
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and bring freedom from rebirth.
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One step, they say, brings happiness in this world,
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a second happiness in heaven and, a third,
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gives the bliss of Satyaloka, the ultimate heavenly plane.
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It is best to walk around slowly in silent meditation
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or chanting a japa mantra.
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Now, we've gathered the spiritual energy from temples
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and the Holy Mountain,the Nadi Oracle tells me
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that I must now seek out a holy man.
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Mr Prakesh has checked his almanack and the timing
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is now just right for us to do this.
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It's a long journey in a hot car with lots of detours
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and it seems to me that Mr Prakesh is using his almanack
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like a sack now.
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We drive across swamps, waste lands and dirt track roads
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in search of these elusive holy men.
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(horn hooting)
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Then he spots the placewhere the Nadi leaves
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say that the guru will appear.
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It's a rough dirt road and the engine sounds a bit strange.
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(engine rumbling)
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We are part way up the hilly, dirty track
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of the sacred Mahadeva mountainand the car's broken down.
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Got to take our shoes off for in the Ashram and, really,
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this ground is like a grill.
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It's terrible.
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I'm not putting this on.
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It really is bad.
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I'm just beginning to thinkthat providence has stopped us,
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but now I see this ash-covered guru appear from nowhere.
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If we hadn't brokendown at this exact spot,
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we would have missed him completely.
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When I arrive at his ashram,
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I'm told that he hasn't been seen for nearly a year.
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Normally, he does not leave his cave
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where he's been living since 2002 where he gave up a life
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of luxury and wealth.
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But, somehow, we've arrived at exactly the right moment
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he's decided to turn up.
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The Nadi oracle saw thisexact moment coming.
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It seems I've now moved from sneaking up on the guru
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to a frenzied chase around the temple as he activates
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all the shrines to the various gods.
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Everything has gone kind of wild.
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(energetic drumming)
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(religious chanting)
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(energetic drumming)
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All this racket is to wake the gods in the shrines.
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(energetic drumming)
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And we line up for moreblessings and dash off
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to follow the holy man through this maze of shrines.
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(energetic drumming)
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(bells clanging)
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(energetic drumming)
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Time for a quick touristsnap and we're ready
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for the holy man to emerge.
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(gong clanging)
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(energetic drumming)
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My head is beginning to ring with all this noise,
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but, wait, I see him coming towards us.
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(gong clanging)
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By any standards, Maha Ananda Swami is an odd-looking guru.
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He's what's called a Siddha Yoga.
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That's someone who has special psychic powers
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and miraculous abilities.
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One of these is the ability to meditate or sleep
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in a pit of fire.
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(gong clanging)
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I'm beginning to think this is all sounding
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a little bit crazy, but another power is his ability
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to tell the future of anyone who touches his feet.
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(bells ringing)
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This yogi is also the custodian
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of ancient medicinal remedies and makes use
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of many rare herbs to cure all sorts of ailments.
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He also feeds people sacred ash, called Vibhuti,
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often to cure infertility.
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Maha Ananda Swami is already very old and it's said
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that on midnight of the25th of December 2002,
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Lord Shiva appeared before him and had decreed
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that he will live foranother thousand years.
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(bells ringing)
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He certainly has a strange aura.
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I feel it's like he's angry with everyone,
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but it's a sort of divine anger,
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perhaps, somehow tryingto shake everyone
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out of their spiritual sleep.
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I am told that this yogi never eats and it is said
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that he has not eaten or taken water for a number of years.
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At temples, they usually give out what's called prasad,
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which is a holy meal.
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This is usually just a taster, but here they serve
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vast quantities of freefood to worshipers.
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(energetic drumming)
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They say this man doesn't just walk through fire,
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he actually lays down in it and can sleep in the embers.
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(energetic drumming)
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(religious chanting)
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I can see that he's going into a trance
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and I hope he may startto make some prophecies.
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(energetic drumming)
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(religious chanting)
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(bells ringing)
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I feel he's showering blessings to anyone watching.
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This sight of a guru theHindus call Darshan is amazing.
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And then I'm called to touch his feet.
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Of all the people here,I couldn't believe
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that it was me that he would call.
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As I touched his feet, a divine energy
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seemed to sweep through me.
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He had a message for me thathe told to Mr Prakesh in Tamil.
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It turned out to be exactly the same predictions
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that the other Nadi readers had already told me.
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This temple complex or Ashram is based around the idea
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that the Yogi, the city Yogi, who's a sort of a power yogi,
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stepped into the fire which was built for Shiva
516
00:32:45,034 --> 00:32:47,936
and merged with it and became flame himself.
517
00:32:47,936 --> 00:32:50,739
And this was witnessed by a whole group of people
518
00:32:50,739 --> 00:32:54,576
and he was treated as an incredible saint.
519
00:32:54,576 --> 00:32:56,678
Now, we have the blessings of a guru,
520
00:32:56,678 --> 00:32:59,081
the Nadi remedies now charge me to get
521
00:32:59,081 --> 00:33:01,216
the blessings of the planets.
522
00:33:01,216 --> 00:33:04,586
So it's a paddle in the water and into another temple.
523
00:33:04,586 --> 00:33:06,821
Here, I'm to reduce the negative effects
524
00:33:06,821 --> 00:33:08,657
of the Planet Mercury.
525
00:33:09,891 --> 00:33:12,827
(crowd chattering)
526
00:33:32,081 --> 00:33:34,883
This Nadi oracle is completely different
527
00:33:34,883 --> 00:33:37,086
to the way Western astrology works.
528
00:33:37,086 --> 00:33:41,356
The sun, moon, planets and the stars are represented by gods
529
00:33:41,356 --> 00:33:43,925
and they, in turn, symbolise our good and bad
530
00:33:43,925 --> 00:33:47,362
past life karma that will influence our future.
531
00:33:47,362 --> 00:33:50,865
According to the Nadis, I had past lives in India
532
00:33:50,865 --> 00:33:53,802
and some glorious and some not-so-glorious past lives
533
00:33:53,802 --> 00:33:57,139
and the planets in my horoscope reveal the areas
534
00:33:57,139 --> 00:33:58,773
I need to work with.
535
00:34:00,375 --> 00:34:03,945
Bad aspects, shown in theposition of Mercury in my chart,
536
00:34:03,945 --> 00:34:05,880
will weigh down my ambitions.
537
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:10,051
So pujas done here are said to speed up my success.
538
00:34:15,924 --> 00:34:17,892
We've come out of the Temple of Mercury,
539
00:34:17,892 --> 00:34:19,261
done puja there.
540
00:34:19,261 --> 00:34:21,596
And this is for thingslike quickness of mind.
541
00:34:21,596 --> 00:34:23,698
It's for speed of actions of things,
542
00:34:23,698 --> 00:34:26,401
many medicinal things associated with it,
543
00:34:26,401 --> 00:34:29,738
and a general quickeningof our actions.
544
00:34:30,939 --> 00:34:34,409
Behind is a Shiva tree of healing.
545
00:34:34,409 --> 00:34:38,413
And, in particular, it's for healing for children here,
546
00:34:38,413 --> 00:34:40,915
for fertility, hence the cots.
547
00:34:42,584 --> 00:34:45,154
(gentle music)
548
00:35:19,020 --> 00:35:22,491
My mystical journey takes me deeper into sacred India
549
00:35:22,491 --> 00:35:25,627
to discover its secretsand find out more
550
00:35:25,627 --> 00:35:27,829
about the hiddenoracle of India.
551
00:35:27,829 --> 00:35:30,232
There's spiritual work ahead.
552
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,068
My journey will take meoff the beaten track,
553
00:35:34,068 --> 00:35:37,806
but first we find a place to buy the materials and flowers
554
00:35:37,806 --> 00:35:40,375
we'll need to perform the puja.
555
00:35:42,511 --> 00:35:45,347
These I've been doing on the advice of the oracle.
556
00:35:45,347 --> 00:35:48,183
It tells me that I was once a holy man
557
00:35:48,183 --> 00:35:51,253
and will become a holy man again.
558
00:35:51,253 --> 00:35:54,088
When the pujas are performed, you pay the priest
559
00:35:54,088 --> 00:35:56,157
to perform a personal blessing.
560
00:35:56,157 --> 00:35:59,328
Money changes hands, but the effect is that the temples
561
00:35:59,328 --> 00:36:02,764
have money to feed the poor and do charitable work.
562
00:36:02,764 --> 00:36:05,234
In this way, money comes and goes,
563
00:36:05,234 --> 00:36:07,236
but virtue comes and grows.
564
00:36:07,236 --> 00:36:08,637
They're gonna do the puja now
565
00:36:08,637 --> 00:36:12,040
and then they will give me the garland.
566
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:15,610
A lot of poor and destitute people hang around the ashram
567
00:36:15,610 --> 00:36:18,280
as here people are fed twice a day
568
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,715
ever since his death in 1823.
569
00:36:22,651 --> 00:36:25,887
Initially, I get a personal blessing by the temple priest
570
00:36:25,887 --> 00:36:28,189
and then a second blessing by the sadhu
571
00:36:28,189 --> 00:36:32,327
in the nearby shrine, but there is a great mystery here,
572
00:36:32,327 --> 00:36:35,530
for it is claimed thathe never actually died,
573
00:36:35,530 --> 00:36:37,999
but went through a sort of resurrection
574
00:36:37,999 --> 00:36:40,935
in which his whole physical body was transformed
575
00:36:40,935 --> 00:36:42,904
into divine light.
576
00:36:42,904 --> 00:36:45,073
He then locked himself into a room
577
00:36:45,073 --> 00:36:48,443
and told his followers never to open it.
578
00:36:48,443 --> 00:36:51,145
When the authorities insisted it be opened,
579
00:36:51,145 --> 00:36:53,114
the room was completely empty.
580
00:36:53,114 --> 00:36:57,252
They say he continues to live with us in a body of light.
581
00:36:59,954 --> 00:37:03,124
I get my blessing that the Nadi oracle asked for
582
00:37:03,124 --> 00:37:06,027
and the priest gives me some books too.
583
00:37:06,027 --> 00:37:09,698
I feel instantly connected with this dead saint.
584
00:37:09,698 --> 00:37:11,666
He is said to have never eaten
585
00:37:11,666 --> 00:37:15,103
and, eventually, becamea being of light.
586
00:37:15,103 --> 00:37:18,373
All strange stuff, but what a wonderful god,
587
00:37:18,373 --> 00:37:21,276
not to eat, but tomake sure everyone else
588
00:37:21,276 --> 00:37:23,778
is fed long after you're dead.
589
00:37:26,114 --> 00:37:30,452
I've just done the pujanow for Ramalingaswami
590
00:37:30,452 --> 00:37:32,287
and they've given me a book as well.
591
00:37:32,287 --> 00:37:35,223
A very rare book in English so I can learn an awful lot more
592
00:37:35,223 --> 00:37:39,394
about this incredible saint that dealt with jyoti, light.
593
00:37:41,296 --> 00:37:43,765
Every step on this spiritual journey,
594
00:37:43,765 --> 00:37:46,368
doors just seem to swing open.
595
00:37:46,368 --> 00:37:48,937
(gentle music)
596
00:37:51,506 --> 00:37:54,976
It looks like the poor are gathering for meal time.
597
00:37:54,976 --> 00:37:59,080
There's facilities here toaccommodate hundreds every day.
598
00:38:00,515 --> 00:38:03,918
This is the Samadhi tomb of this incredible saint of light
599
00:38:03,918 --> 00:38:05,854
and we might think of it as a tomb,
600
00:38:05,854 --> 00:38:07,522
but it's a natural fact.
601
00:38:07,522 --> 00:38:10,592
He was locked into a room or locked himself into a room
602
00:38:10,592 --> 00:38:13,495
and his body just disintegrated into light.
603
00:38:13,495 --> 00:38:16,230
And when they did open it up, there was nobody there.
604
00:38:16,230 --> 00:38:19,167
It's an incredible miracle.
605
00:38:19,167 --> 00:38:22,203
As we are leaving, the Nadi oracle has prescribed
606
00:38:22,203 --> 00:38:24,439
yet another puja blessing.
607
00:38:24,439 --> 00:38:26,908
By now, I can really feel the energy
608
00:38:26,908 --> 00:38:29,944
surrounding us start to build and I'm sure
609
00:38:29,944 --> 00:38:33,715
this must be having some tremendous effect upon my spirit.
610
00:38:33,715 --> 00:38:37,318
And, with my karmic debts, I'm definitely buzzing
611
00:38:37,318 --> 00:38:41,255
with energy and feel really ready to burst.
612
00:38:41,255 --> 00:38:45,093
I can feel the energy changing in me as we draw closer
613
00:38:45,093 --> 00:38:48,196
to starting the Nadi remedies proper.
614
00:38:49,931 --> 00:38:52,200
So we've been given Vibhuti in a packet
615
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:53,868
and this is like the symbol of Shiva
616
00:38:53,868 --> 00:38:56,571
and you put it three lines across the forehead here
617
00:38:56,571 --> 00:39:00,675
and also to here and this is used as a symbol of Shiva.
618
00:39:02,043 --> 00:39:03,578
This is actuallythe Samadhi tomb
619
00:39:03,578 --> 00:39:05,414
and not manyWesterners get into it.
620
00:39:05,414 --> 00:39:07,281
So this is it.
621
00:39:07,281 --> 00:39:09,183
On the wall here, we have all the stories
622
00:39:09,183 --> 00:39:11,786
and miracles of Ramalingaswami.
623
00:39:15,056 --> 00:39:17,492
And they are also giving me permission
624
00:39:17,492 --> 00:39:20,629
to see areas restrictedto the normal visitor
625
00:39:20,629 --> 00:39:23,632
and some sacred trees and herbs that have special
626
00:39:23,632 --> 00:39:26,935
medical and spiritual properties.
627
00:39:26,935 --> 00:39:29,504
(gentle music)
628
00:39:39,581 --> 00:39:42,316
That is the neem tree, the neem tree that they grow here,
629
00:39:42,316 --> 00:39:44,285
which was there at the time of Swami.
630
00:39:44,285 --> 00:39:48,457
So when you touch it, it contains some of the blessing.
631
00:39:49,891 --> 00:39:53,895
Ramalingaswami dissolved into light after his death
632
00:39:53,895 --> 00:39:56,798
and, at his temple here now, regular miracles happen
633
00:39:56,798 --> 00:40:00,201
in which people see a light here.
634
00:40:00,201 --> 00:40:02,804
(gentle music)
635
00:40:09,010 --> 00:40:12,547
Once a month, the saintcreates the lights here
636
00:40:12,547 --> 00:40:16,117
and thousands of people gather to watch the light appear
637
00:40:16,117 --> 00:40:19,621
in front of thesedoors, regular miracles.
638
00:40:23,958 --> 00:40:25,894
And there's one other thing that I find
639
00:40:25,894 --> 00:40:27,629
personally rather incredible.
640
00:40:27,629 --> 00:40:31,332
This miracle happens every 24th of January.
641
00:40:31,332 --> 00:40:35,504
That's my birthday, another weird Nadi coincidence.
642
00:40:41,075 --> 00:40:44,012
Back in the grounds, the destitute continue to gather
643
00:40:44,012 --> 00:40:45,580
for their evening meal.
644
00:40:45,580 --> 00:40:47,949
It's nice to thinkthat the money you give
645
00:40:47,949 --> 00:40:52,120
in these ceremonies helps to put food in hungry bellies.
646
00:40:54,088 --> 00:40:57,258
One thing they have thatwe don't have is time.
647
00:40:57,258 --> 00:41:00,294
These guys have been waiting all day.
648
00:41:01,195 --> 00:41:03,765
(gentle music)
649
00:41:06,968 --> 00:41:09,003
On the way out, we stop again.
650
00:41:09,003 --> 00:41:10,972
What I thought was a public toilet
651
00:41:10,972 --> 00:41:13,642
turns out to be another small temple.
652
00:41:13,642 --> 00:41:16,911
It's getting really late now, but we have a few more
653
00:41:16,911 --> 00:41:20,414
specific pujas to do before moving on.
654
00:41:20,414 --> 00:41:23,051
To be honest, I've losttrack of what's next
655
00:41:23,051 --> 00:41:25,286
on the remedy list, but I have heard
656
00:41:25,286 --> 00:41:28,690
we have a big day tomorrow, a very long drive
657
00:41:28,690 --> 00:41:33,227
through the night and a fire ceremony in the morning.
658
00:41:33,227 --> 00:41:37,131
I get my blessing and the gods get my garlands.
659
00:41:42,003 --> 00:41:45,940
(speaking in foreign language)
660
00:42:09,964 --> 00:42:13,034
(religious chanting)
661
00:42:37,291 --> 00:42:41,062
Well, it's early morningand I've gone native.
662
00:42:41,062 --> 00:42:43,632
This stage, we've got tonow start the remedies
663
00:42:43,632 --> 00:42:46,901
in of themselves so I have to dress appropriately.
664
00:42:46,901 --> 00:42:49,738
So I'm looking here like Sri Baba.
665
00:42:52,741 --> 00:42:55,276
So now it's another long journey.
666
00:42:55,276 --> 00:42:58,312
We have one more templestop ahead and then I do
667
00:42:58,312 --> 00:43:02,150
a very specific fire remedy to clear my karma.
668
00:43:03,584 --> 00:43:07,622
Our first remedial step is to pay homage to the leagues
669
00:43:07,622 --> 00:43:10,625
and to the Maharishi who wrote them.
670
00:43:12,994 --> 00:43:15,897
We start by visiting thetemple that was built
671
00:43:15,897 --> 00:43:18,900
by the great king who is responsible for safeguarding
672
00:43:18,900 --> 00:43:23,071
the Nadi leaves and preserving them for posterity.
673
00:43:23,071 --> 00:43:27,976
Today, there are Nadi readers absolutely everywhere in India
674
00:43:27,976 --> 00:43:31,579
and only a tiny, tiny fraction of them
675
00:43:31,579 --> 00:43:33,915
are true practitioners.
676
00:43:33,915 --> 00:43:38,086
Most are just ripoff artistswho will fleece people like me.
677
00:43:39,754 --> 00:43:43,124
It's interesting, though, how much value the ancients
678
00:43:43,124 --> 00:43:45,626
placed on these leaves that were protected
679
00:43:45,626 --> 00:43:48,730
by the kings of old whoworshipped the leaves
680
00:43:48,730 --> 00:43:52,633
and built great temples like this one.
681
00:43:52,633 --> 00:43:55,704
Again, we plunge into the dark heart of the temple
682
00:43:55,704 --> 00:43:59,841
that houses a huge lingam which is a phallus-like stone
683
00:43:59,841 --> 00:44:04,012
that is an abstract representation of the gold Shiva.
684
00:44:05,579 --> 00:44:08,249
I do the puja rituals in front of the lingam
685
00:44:08,249 --> 00:44:10,785
in the inner temple and, next, have a chat
686
00:44:10,785 --> 00:44:15,656
with my interpreter Gopienath who explains where we are.
687
00:44:15,656 --> 00:44:18,292
So one of the biggest temples in India,
688
00:44:18,292 --> 00:44:19,193
called the,
689
00:44:20,695 --> 00:44:22,697
- Gangaikondacholapuram.
690
00:44:24,365 --> 00:44:25,633
- You got that.
691
00:44:25,633 --> 00:44:27,936
And, inside, is a giant Shiva Lingam
692
00:44:27,936 --> 00:44:31,139
which we've done our puja to and this was the temple
693
00:44:31,139 --> 00:44:34,909
built by the king that protected the Nadi leaves.
694
00:44:34,909 --> 00:44:37,478
With some of these impossible to pronounce names,
695
00:44:37,478 --> 00:44:39,714
it's not surprising that I sometimes feel
696
00:44:39,714 --> 00:44:42,316
completely lost in India, but I'm sure
697
00:44:42,316 --> 00:44:44,452
Gopienath can help me.
698
00:44:44,452 --> 00:44:46,587
Viewing the incredible temple,
699
00:44:46,587 --> 00:44:49,958
I'm impressed by its scale and grandeur.
700
00:44:49,958 --> 00:44:53,261
I've unnoticed that no matter what position the sun is,
701
00:44:53,261 --> 00:44:56,097
these temples never cast a shadow.
702
00:44:57,799 --> 00:45:00,301
And, now, is the timeto take a bit of a break
703
00:45:00,301 --> 00:45:05,006
and contemplate where we'vecome from and where we're going.
704
00:45:05,006 --> 00:45:07,608
(gentle music)
705
00:45:18,953 --> 00:45:22,723
But my next stop is to take in some of this spiritual energy
706
00:45:22,723 --> 00:45:25,726
that we've been accumulating and float for a while
707
00:45:25,726 --> 00:45:29,497
through the tranquillityof the mangroves.
708
00:45:29,497 --> 00:45:32,100
(gentle music)
709
00:45:43,211 --> 00:45:46,547
So what's this all been about so far?
710
00:45:46,547 --> 00:45:49,650
There were some pretty far out predictions in the oracle
711
00:45:49,650 --> 00:45:52,686
that was initially readto me by Skype at home
712
00:45:52,686 --> 00:45:55,990
and transcripts sent to me by email.
713
00:45:55,990 --> 00:45:58,492
(gentle music)
714
00:47:26,814 --> 00:47:29,750
The oracle tells me of much spiritual work ahead
715
00:47:29,750 --> 00:47:31,619
for my wife, Jane and me.
716
00:47:31,619 --> 00:47:34,155
We've been working veryhard with our mediumship
717
00:47:34,155 --> 00:47:37,191
over the years, but it says that, in the future,
718
00:47:37,191 --> 00:47:40,528
we will be able to do our work for free.
719
00:47:42,396 --> 00:47:45,299
This will be achieved, it says, by setting up
720
00:47:45,299 --> 00:47:48,736
a charitable trust, a foundation, so that we can travel
721
00:47:48,736 --> 00:47:52,907
and do our work and open centres around the world.
722
00:47:55,343 --> 00:47:57,145
- [Man] Yeah, yeah.
723
00:47:57,145 --> 00:47:58,012
Yes, right.
724
00:47:58,980 --> 00:47:59,813
Ah, yeah.
725
00:48:01,282 --> 00:48:02,951
Yeah.
726
00:48:02,951 --> 00:48:03,784
- Ohm.
727
00:48:08,189 --> 00:48:12,093
(speaking in foreign language)
728
00:48:17,231 --> 00:48:20,268
The Gayatri mantra is very beautiful
729
00:48:20,268 --> 00:48:24,338
so long as it's chanted by someone other than me.
730
00:48:28,809 --> 00:48:32,746
(speaking in foreign language)
731
00:49:01,242 --> 00:49:04,078
These rituals at Mr Prakesh's offices
732
00:49:04,078 --> 00:49:06,614
are the start of the remedies proper.
733
00:49:06,614 --> 00:49:10,151
The first step is to pay homageto these incredible leaves
734
00:49:10,151 --> 00:49:12,987
that have been transcribed down through the centuries
735
00:49:12,987 --> 00:49:15,423
and hold the secrets of my past life,
736
00:49:15,423 --> 00:49:17,958
my present life and my destiny.
737
00:49:17,958 --> 00:49:20,794
And, of course, we bowto the great Maharishis
738
00:49:20,794 --> 00:49:24,965
whose incredible clairvoyance made all this possible.
739
00:49:30,038 --> 00:49:33,941
(speaking in foreign language)
740
00:50:15,749 --> 00:50:18,319
(bell ringing)
741
00:50:23,191 --> 00:50:27,095
(speaking in foreign language)
742
00:50:32,500 --> 00:50:35,736
Once this rather smoky procedure is complete,
743
00:50:35,736 --> 00:50:39,673
we can do my first major karmicremedy by doing something
744
00:50:39,673 --> 00:50:43,111
that will completelychange a person's life.
745
00:50:43,111 --> 00:50:47,548
In India, the old and the destitute have no big pensions
746
00:50:47,548 --> 00:50:52,286
and welfare, but, if they own a cow, they are set up
747
00:50:52,286 --> 00:50:57,258
as it provides milk, fuel and a guaranteed income.
748
00:50:57,258 --> 00:51:01,429
Buying a cow at a good price from someone in debt
749
00:51:01,429 --> 00:51:04,965
can also free them from problems too.
750
00:51:04,965 --> 00:51:06,700
So let's go do a remedy.
751
00:51:06,700 --> 00:51:08,936
Let's buy a cow and a calf.
752
00:51:10,271 --> 00:51:13,941
For a few moments, we actually own a cow and a calf,
753
00:51:13,941 --> 00:51:15,409
part of the remedies.
754
00:51:15,409 --> 00:51:18,179
And we've also been waiting for the planets to move,
755
00:51:18,179 --> 00:51:19,880
for mercury to get in the right place
756
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:22,082
for the right time to give this cow and calf away
757
00:51:22,082 --> 00:51:23,517
to a poor person.
758
00:51:25,853 --> 00:51:28,422
(horn honking)
759
00:51:30,591 --> 00:51:32,626
The lady's just arrived, she doesn't speak English,
760
00:51:32,626 --> 00:51:34,695
but she's a poor ladyand we're gonna give her
761
00:51:34,695 --> 00:51:36,130
the cow and the calf.
762
00:51:36,130 --> 00:51:40,134
And, hopefully, they'll completely transform her life.
763
00:51:41,835 --> 00:51:44,838
If you directly do someone a good turn,
764
00:51:44,838 --> 00:51:48,942
they will often thinkgood thoughts about you.
765
00:51:48,942 --> 00:51:53,113
We spiritualists believethat thoughts are things
766
00:51:53,113 --> 00:51:56,617
so that these positive thoughts will uplift the giver
767
00:51:56,617 --> 00:52:00,053
and also help to break their karmic bonds.
768
00:52:11,665 --> 00:52:14,368
- [Man] You guys cantouch it and look at us
769
00:52:14,368 --> 00:52:16,637
and we'll take some photos.
770
00:52:28,482 --> 00:52:31,051
(gentle music)
771
00:52:37,358 --> 00:52:41,529
- [Craig] I'm feeling a little bit choked up actually.
772
00:52:45,666 --> 00:52:47,335
Very sensitive cow, I think.
773
00:52:47,335 --> 00:52:48,168
- [Man] Yeah.
774
00:52:48,168 --> 00:52:50,137
- Very sensitive.
775
00:52:50,137 --> 00:52:52,706
(gentle music)
776
00:53:19,700 --> 00:53:22,570
I found the whole actionof giving the lady
777
00:53:22,570 --> 00:53:24,905
a cow and calf quite moving.
778
00:53:24,905 --> 00:53:27,841
Perhaps, it was energetic changes to my karma
779
00:53:27,841 --> 00:53:29,943
or maybe it was the feeling of honour
780
00:53:29,943 --> 00:53:33,281
that came from being able to do something so humbling.
781
00:53:33,281 --> 00:53:35,449
I changed a person's life.
782
00:53:35,449 --> 00:53:38,352
That's a big deal to take on board.
783
00:53:39,887 --> 00:53:44,658
(speaking in foreign language)
784
00:53:44,658 --> 00:53:47,261
(gentle music)
785
00:54:06,747 --> 00:54:07,748
Quite teary.
786
00:54:15,456 --> 00:54:16,290
Em.
787
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:22,029
(horns honking)
788
00:54:27,801 --> 00:54:30,170
A few days ago, we got stuck on a dirt road
789
00:54:30,170 --> 00:54:32,239
on a mountainside with a boiling radiator
790
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:33,841
and, now, we've got allthe luggage coming off
791
00:54:33,841 --> 00:54:36,377
and trying to rope it back on from the car
792
00:54:36,377 --> 00:54:38,712
after leaving a ropey hotel.
793
00:54:40,781 --> 00:54:43,617
(energetic music)
794
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:02,202
Now, for my next remedy.
795
00:55:04,004 --> 00:55:05,639
We strip to the waist.
796
00:55:05,639 --> 00:55:10,277
I reveal my flab to the world and we begin the ceremony.
797
00:55:10,277 --> 00:55:14,247
A great deal of preparation has gone into this ceremony
798
00:55:14,247 --> 00:55:17,418
and we have gathered together many special herbs
799
00:55:17,418 --> 00:55:19,086
from all over India.
800
00:55:20,287 --> 00:55:23,090
Everything here has beenspecially put together
801
00:55:23,090 --> 00:55:27,728
for the ceremony and will be dismantled afterwards.
802
00:55:27,728 --> 00:55:31,632
(speaking in foreign language)
803
00:55:43,377 --> 00:55:47,014
My finger is tied as a symbol of being connected
804
00:55:47,014 --> 00:55:50,050
to the benevolent powers from the gods.
805
00:55:50,050 --> 00:55:52,319
It's a bit like the tying of the knot
806
00:55:52,319 --> 00:55:55,423
from a pre-Christian wedding ceremony.
807
00:55:55,423 --> 00:55:58,892
I'm not sure why I haveto bang my temples.
808
00:55:58,892 --> 00:56:01,562
Maybe an awakening of some kind?
809
00:56:02,996 --> 00:56:06,199
Next, I have to givemy name, mother's name,
810
00:56:06,199 --> 00:56:09,537
father's name, wife's name and so on.
811
00:56:09,537 --> 00:56:13,441
(speaking in foreign language)
812
00:56:13,441 --> 00:56:14,442
Craig.
813
00:56:14,442 --> 00:56:15,843
- Craig.- Craig.
814
00:56:15,843 --> 00:56:17,545
- Craig. (speaking in foreign language)
815
00:56:17,545 --> 00:56:19,480
- Father's name.- Donald.
816
00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:21,482
- Huh? - Donald.
817
00:56:21,482 --> 00:56:22,550
Donald.
818
00:56:22,550 --> 00:56:24,718
(speaking in foreign language)
819
00:56:24,718 --> 00:56:25,686
Ethel.
820
00:56:25,686 --> 00:56:27,555
(speaking in foreign language)
821
00:56:27,555 --> 00:56:28,388
My wife?
822
00:56:29,590 --> 00:56:32,926
It strikes me that the names and their order
823
00:56:32,926 --> 00:56:35,463
are exactly the same as the details
824
00:56:35,463 --> 00:56:37,498
that were written in the Nadi leaves
825
00:56:37,498 --> 00:56:39,900
when I first consulted them.
826
00:56:39,900 --> 00:56:43,837
(speaking in foreign language)
827
00:56:47,775 --> 00:56:51,411
I tell the priest theinformation, but the Nadi oracle
828
00:56:51,411 --> 00:56:55,583
had known this information thousands of years ago.
829
00:56:57,485 --> 00:57:01,655
It gives me that eerie feeling that the ancient seers
830
00:57:01,655 --> 00:57:03,423
had seen this moment.
831
00:57:05,926 --> 00:57:09,863
(speaking in foreign language)
832
00:57:11,865 --> 00:57:15,669
Strange things run through my mind as we invoke the gods
833
00:57:15,669 --> 00:57:19,540
and I open myself to the hypnotic power of the rituals.
834
00:57:19,540 --> 00:57:21,509
(bell ringing)
835
00:57:21,509 --> 00:57:25,412
(speaking in foreign language)
836
00:57:32,319 --> 00:57:36,857
One priest gives fragrant flower offerings to the gods,
837
00:57:36,857 --> 00:57:40,728
while we prepare to cast 108 aromatic
838
00:57:40,728 --> 00:57:43,631
and medicinal herbs into the fires.
839
00:57:46,667 --> 00:57:49,803
First, I have to carry the fruit offerings clockwise
840
00:57:49,803 --> 00:57:51,572
round the temple.
841
00:57:51,572 --> 00:57:55,475
(speaking in foreign language)
842
00:58:06,186 --> 00:58:08,756
(bell ringing)
843
00:58:13,627 --> 00:58:17,197
These are now put to the consecrated fires.
844
00:58:18,866 --> 00:58:21,869
All this is to help me clear my past
845
00:58:21,869 --> 00:58:25,673
and ward off evil influences in the future.
846
00:58:25,673 --> 00:58:28,909
Like the phoenix, the spirit is reborn.
847
00:58:30,377 --> 00:58:34,281
As the fire burns so does my karmic debt.
848
00:58:34,281 --> 00:58:38,185
(speaking in foreign language)
849
00:58:40,888 --> 00:58:44,057
The residues from herbsand ambers of the fires
850
00:58:44,057 --> 00:58:47,961
are considered especiallysacred and will be used to make
851
00:58:47,961 --> 00:58:52,132
a special paste that I can use later in times of need.
852
00:58:54,334 --> 00:58:58,839
I now bless the offerings that have been assembled.
853
00:58:58,839 --> 00:59:02,509
My soul has been baptised in the fire.
854
00:59:02,509 --> 00:59:05,545
As the sun is consideredto be the source of life
855
00:59:05,545 --> 00:59:08,415
so fire is its agent on earth.
856
00:59:08,415 --> 00:59:11,151
I find this whole concept very inspiring
857
00:59:11,151 --> 00:59:14,688
as I feel it triggers deep down in my own conscious mind,
858
00:59:14,688 --> 00:59:18,759
feelings that put me directly in touch with archaic memories
859
00:59:18,759 --> 00:59:21,662
from mankind's ancient past.
860
00:59:21,662 --> 00:59:24,164
(tabla music)
861
00:59:34,074 --> 00:59:36,476
Some of the things I am placing in the fire
862
00:59:36,476 --> 00:59:38,846
are said to transmit medicinal smoke
863
00:59:38,846 --> 00:59:40,681
that cures lots of diseases.
864
00:59:40,681 --> 00:59:43,383
Some of these herbs are very rare indeed
865
00:59:43,383 --> 00:59:48,221
and found only in obscure areas of the Himalayas.
866
00:59:48,221 --> 00:59:52,125
(speaking in foreign language)
867
00:59:57,530 --> 01:00:00,100
(bell ringing)
868
01:00:57,925 --> 01:01:01,829
(speaking in foreign language)
869
01:01:19,612 --> 01:01:21,681
Geez, that's cold.
870
01:01:21,681 --> 01:01:24,651
I really am gasping for breath.
871
01:01:24,651 --> 01:01:27,554
Talk about an ice bucket challenge.
872
01:01:29,156 --> 01:01:31,759
(gentle music)
873
01:01:48,842 --> 01:01:50,477
- [Man] Stand up.
874
01:01:50,477 --> 01:01:52,012
- Well, that's it, done.
875
01:01:52,012 --> 01:01:55,382
Some of it took me bysurprise, but I did feel
876
01:01:55,382 --> 01:01:59,452
that something was alsohappening on an energetic level,
877
01:01:59,452 --> 01:02:01,922
call it psychological, if you like,
878
01:02:01,922 --> 01:02:03,957
but I felt something going on
879
01:02:03,957 --> 01:02:06,359
in the very depths of my being,
880
01:02:06,359 --> 01:02:09,296
something that is reallyimpossible to describe
881
01:02:09,296 --> 01:02:12,199
unless you've opened yourself to these things.
882
01:02:12,199 --> 01:02:14,467
Okay, well, I'm feelingquite extraordinary.
883
01:02:14,467 --> 01:02:16,736
I mean you don't do that very often,
884
01:02:16,736 --> 01:02:19,973
but, if I think about it, it's a bit really like a ritual
885
01:02:19,973 --> 01:02:23,844
of rebirth because the fire gets rid of the old.
886
01:02:23,844 --> 01:02:26,279
And then you're reborn by water upon you
887
01:02:26,279 --> 01:02:28,348
which is like rebirth in the womb.
888
01:02:28,348 --> 01:02:30,317
So, in a spiritual sense, it's something
889
01:02:30,317 --> 01:02:32,285
that's very, very ancient that would take you back
890
01:02:32,285 --> 01:02:33,653
to the most ancient time.
891
01:02:33,653 --> 01:02:36,289
So it's a very deep-rooted, unconscious ritual
892
01:02:36,289 --> 01:02:40,160
which I certainly feel this happened and worked somehow.
893
01:02:40,160 --> 01:02:42,529
My next remedy is to be conducted
894
01:02:42,529 --> 01:02:45,665
hundreds of miles away at Velankann.
895
01:02:45,665 --> 01:02:48,401
Before visiting more holy places and being thrown
896
01:02:48,401 --> 01:02:52,505
into more rituals, we take a stroll on the beach.
897
01:02:57,410 --> 01:02:59,913
(speaking in foreign language)
898
01:02:59,913 --> 01:03:02,082
Maybe I can buy an ice cream here?
899
01:03:02,082 --> 01:03:04,584
I just love the pageant of India.
900
01:03:04,584 --> 01:03:07,888
You can buy everythinghere except ice creams,
901
01:03:07,888 --> 01:03:08,956
maybe a goat.
902
01:03:10,390 --> 01:03:14,561
I love the way people get into the sea fully dressed.
903
01:03:14,561 --> 01:03:16,930
But, first, a walk alonga delightful clean beach
904
01:03:16,930 --> 01:03:21,101
and broadwalk before visiting a few more temples for puja.
905
01:03:24,404 --> 01:03:27,774
Mr Prakesh tells me about this place and explains
906
01:03:27,774 --> 01:03:30,110
that it was badly hit by the tsunami
907
01:03:30,110 --> 01:03:33,046
on December the 26th 2004.
908
01:03:33,046 --> 01:03:36,083
People were bathinghappily just like today,
909
01:03:36,083 --> 01:03:39,619
when the sea sunk back and then stampeded onto the shore,
910
01:03:39,619 --> 01:03:42,022
drowning thousands.
911
01:03:42,022 --> 01:03:45,758
The sea came right up these streets too and didn't stop
912
01:03:45,758 --> 01:03:49,930
until it got to the church I can see there in the distance.
913
01:03:52,399 --> 01:03:55,468
It is interesting how the Nadi remedies have asked me
914
01:03:55,468 --> 01:03:59,739
to also take in a Christian site as well as Hindu temples.
915
01:03:59,739 --> 01:04:03,043
This is in preparation for my next charitable work
916
01:04:03,043 --> 01:04:06,313
that will be part of the remedies.
917
01:04:06,313 --> 01:04:08,882
(gentle music)
918
01:04:18,992 --> 01:04:21,861
When you think about it, all religions
919
01:04:21,861 --> 01:04:24,064
are much the same at heart.
920
01:04:24,064 --> 01:04:27,434
Their messages are about love and service to others
921
01:04:27,434 --> 01:04:29,802
and they all believe in the one god
922
01:04:29,802 --> 01:04:32,705
- a god that is omnipresent, that is everywhere
923
01:04:32,705 --> 01:04:34,107
at the same time.
924
01:04:35,242 --> 01:04:37,044
And, just like the gods of India,
925
01:04:37,044 --> 01:04:41,514
the one God can take many forms and the universal truths
926
01:04:41,514 --> 01:04:44,217
are expressed throughdivinely charged saints,
927
01:04:44,217 --> 01:04:47,921
teachers, avatars, prophets and messiahs.
928
01:04:47,921 --> 01:04:50,457
It strikes me that they are all saying
929
01:04:50,457 --> 01:04:52,359
exactly the same thing.
930
01:04:56,729 --> 01:05:00,333
I've seen a lot of charitable acts while I've been in India.
931
01:05:00,333 --> 01:05:02,902
I've noticed that some of the poorest people I've met
932
01:05:02,902 --> 01:05:06,773
are the most generous of all and are only too keen to share
933
01:05:06,773 --> 01:05:08,775
the little they have with me.
934
01:05:08,775 --> 01:05:12,946
Now, it's my turn to do anotherof the prescribed remedies.
935
01:05:12,946 --> 01:05:16,849
When you feed a stranger, it is a powerful medicine,
936
01:05:16,849 --> 01:05:20,653
for not only do you help them, but their positive thoughts
937
01:05:20,653 --> 01:05:23,890
towards you help your own spirit to flower.
938
01:05:23,890 --> 01:05:26,393
It's an antidote to bad karma.
939
01:05:32,499 --> 01:05:35,002
(baby crying)
940
01:05:42,409 --> 01:05:44,911
It's five o'clock in the morning and I just finished
941
01:05:44,911 --> 01:05:47,514
my Hatha yoga and, now, we're going to do
942
01:05:47,514 --> 01:05:49,416
some meditation on the beach.
943
01:05:49,416 --> 01:05:51,318
This will be like a final rebirth.
944
01:05:51,318 --> 01:05:54,921
The sun coming up, showing the change of the personality
945
01:05:54,921 --> 01:05:57,790
and one's life due to the remedies.
946
01:05:59,892 --> 01:06:02,662
(dramatic music)
947
01:06:08,601 --> 01:06:11,371
After all theserituals, I hope my life,
948
01:06:11,371 --> 01:06:13,973
from now on, will run smoothly.
949
01:06:17,044 --> 01:06:19,746
It's getting to the point now that I'm really beginning
950
01:06:19,746 --> 01:06:22,515
to feel India seeping into my soul
951
01:06:22,515 --> 01:06:25,352
and causing huge inner changes.
952
01:06:25,352 --> 01:06:28,388
There's certainly alight dawning within me.
953
01:06:28,388 --> 01:06:31,058
I feel more and more focused within
954
01:06:31,058 --> 01:06:34,794
so that whatever happens sort of out there in the world
955
01:06:34,794 --> 01:06:38,398
is caused by what'shappening in here in me.
956
01:06:38,398 --> 01:06:40,967
The nature of the self is like light,
957
01:06:40,967 --> 01:06:43,070
is joyful and happy.
958
01:06:43,070 --> 01:06:45,305
Once we are focused on the inner light,
959
01:06:45,305 --> 01:06:47,907
we need travel no further for we have found
960
01:06:47,907 --> 01:06:52,045
an unshakable happinessthat nothing can harm
961
01:06:52,045 --> 01:06:55,448
need we ever move from this present moment.
962
01:06:55,448 --> 01:06:59,286
The past is gone, the future it seems is already set
963
01:06:59,286 --> 01:07:02,755
and may have already happened, but the present moment
964
01:07:02,755 --> 01:07:05,692
is God's gift and is there forever.
965
01:07:07,960 --> 01:07:10,963
There is something deeply spiritual about India.
966
01:07:10,963 --> 01:07:13,533
The official name of India is Bharat,
967
01:07:13,533 --> 01:07:17,204
which itself comes from thename of a god of fire and light,
968
01:07:17,204 --> 01:07:18,938
like the sun itself.
969
01:07:18,938 --> 01:07:22,242
Where else in the world would so many people gather
970
01:07:22,242 --> 01:07:25,011
every morning at aviewpoint like this one
971
01:07:25,011 --> 01:07:27,347
to simply watch the sunrise?
972
01:07:31,284 --> 01:07:34,187
As I wait, ready to setoff to do my next series
973
01:07:34,187 --> 01:07:37,090
of rituals and remedies,dawn brings to mind
974
01:07:37,090 --> 01:07:40,460
notions of illuminationand hope with a chance
975
01:07:40,460 --> 01:07:42,962
for happiness and improvement.
976
01:07:44,731 --> 01:07:47,367
The next remedy I have to do is to wash away
977
01:07:47,367 --> 01:07:50,203
the negative karma from my past lives.
978
01:07:50,203 --> 01:07:52,405
I've been travelling India to do a series
979
01:07:52,405 --> 01:07:55,908
of spiritual remedies that the Nadi astrologers have said
980
01:07:55,908 --> 01:08:00,247
is the result of my former life as an Indian Rishi.
981
01:08:00,247 --> 01:08:03,550
The rituals dictatethat my first step today
982
01:08:03,550 --> 01:08:05,285
must be into the sea.
983
01:08:06,419 --> 01:08:08,988
(gentle music)
984
01:08:11,924 --> 01:08:16,363
My astrology guides are now taking me to new holy places
985
01:08:16,363 --> 01:08:19,766
to learn more of the philosophy of India.
986
01:08:22,802 --> 01:08:25,405
(gentle music)
987
01:09:15,522 --> 01:09:18,258
As I return to the mainland, my thoughts
988
01:09:18,258 --> 01:09:20,960
and feelings are elsewhere.
989
01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:24,163
The Nadi prophecies that have brought me on this journey
990
01:09:24,163 --> 01:09:27,767
are from another time, a time when people could see
991
01:09:27,767 --> 01:09:30,237
the future of all of us.
992
01:09:30,237 --> 01:09:32,972
I wonder what is in store for all of us
993
01:09:32,972 --> 01:09:35,575
travelling together in this life.
994
01:09:35,575 --> 01:09:38,845
We are told by many prophets that there will be cataclysmic
995
01:09:38,845 --> 01:09:41,848
things ahead, but our journey would take us
996
01:09:41,848 --> 01:09:46,018
from the spiritually dark ages into a brighter time.
997
01:09:47,153 --> 01:09:49,656
The Vedic text say that many people will,
998
01:09:49,656 --> 01:09:53,159
like I'm doing here, seek out their own salvation
999
01:09:53,159 --> 01:09:56,529
and personal transformation and this will be free
1000
01:09:56,529 --> 01:09:59,632
of the dictates of sect, creed and cause
1001
01:09:59,632 --> 01:10:03,570
and will unite us all asone family of mankind.
1002
01:10:04,904 --> 01:10:07,474
(gentle music)
1003
01:10:23,155 --> 01:10:27,860
On my return from Rameswaram, I cross the Pamban Bridge
1004
01:10:27,860 --> 01:10:32,231
and I'm reminded that this areaof shallow waters and reefs
1005
01:10:32,231 --> 01:10:36,303
connects in a thin line all the way to Sri Lanka.
1006
01:10:45,812 --> 01:10:48,648
Ahead of me, there's now a long journey.
1007
01:10:48,648 --> 01:10:51,284
I'm heading towards atemple on the way to do
1008
01:10:51,284 --> 01:10:53,753
the last of my karmic remedies.
1009
01:10:53,753 --> 01:10:57,156
It's been a punishing schedule,travelling day and night,
1010
01:10:57,156 --> 01:10:59,359
with journeys back and forth to fit in
1011
01:10:59,359 --> 01:11:01,894
with the bestastrological conditions.
1012
01:11:01,894 --> 01:11:04,897
Driving in India is far from relaxing.
1013
01:11:04,897 --> 01:11:07,634
Sometimes it's a white knuckle ride on roads
1014
01:11:07,634 --> 01:11:11,804
that have huge potholes andsometimes come to abrupt stops.
1015
01:11:13,773 --> 01:11:16,509
Well, it looks likewe've broken down again.
1016
01:11:16,509 --> 01:11:21,514
We've come a few hundred miles and we're in another garage.
1017
01:11:21,514 --> 01:11:25,418
(speaking in foreign language)
1018
01:11:40,433 --> 01:11:43,803
This our luxury Indian vehicle for the next few weeks.
1019
01:11:43,803 --> 01:11:45,304
The only optional extras you need
1020
01:11:45,304 --> 01:11:47,173
are air conditioning and a horn.
1021
01:11:47,173 --> 01:11:50,276
(horn honking)
1022
01:11:50,276 --> 01:11:52,612
Eventually, we're on our way again
1023
01:11:52,612 --> 01:11:55,014
and it's a long drive into the night.
1024
01:11:55,014 --> 01:11:57,216
I'm barely conscious as we speed
1025
01:11:57,216 --> 01:11:59,952
towards our next spiritual destination.
1026
01:11:59,952 --> 01:12:02,422
For me, this journey that's been dictated
1027
01:12:02,422 --> 01:12:06,826
by the Nadi oracles has broughtme many spiritual changes,
1028
01:12:06,826 --> 01:12:09,762
but there's still many things on my mind.
1029
01:12:09,762 --> 01:12:12,765
There's a lot I need to understand and, in particular,
1030
01:12:12,765 --> 01:12:16,235
I need to ask Mr Prakesh, my astrological guide,
1031
01:12:16,235 --> 01:12:19,572
about the things that the ash covered Siddha yogi
1032
01:12:19,572 --> 01:12:22,442
said and what he predicted for me.
1033
01:12:22,442 --> 01:12:27,013
Maybe I will get a chance to ask when we get to the temple?
1034
01:12:27,013 --> 01:12:29,582
(gentle music)
1035
01:12:38,458 --> 01:12:42,395
Finally, we arrive at ourdestination and I feel as tired
1036
01:12:42,395 --> 01:12:45,031
and as exposed as these many stray dogs
1037
01:12:45,031 --> 01:12:47,434
that hang around this place.
1038
01:12:47,434 --> 01:12:50,136
I had no idea where I was being taken,
1039
01:12:50,136 --> 01:12:53,172
but I eventually find out that we are at another
1040
01:12:53,172 --> 01:12:55,207
tongue-twisting Shiva temple
1041
01:12:55,207 --> 01:12:57,977
called Brihadishvara in Thanjavur.
1042
01:12:59,412 --> 01:13:04,016
The locals call it the big temple which suits me fine.
1043
01:13:04,016 --> 01:13:07,954
The Nadi astrologer, MrPrakesh, is now going to tell me
1044
01:13:07,954 --> 01:13:11,824
about what the SiddhaYogi, Maha Ananda Swami,
1045
01:13:11,824 --> 01:13:16,228
predicted for me when Itouched his feet at the ashram.
1046
01:13:16,228 --> 01:13:20,032
Because we've now finished all the remedies
1047
01:13:20,032 --> 01:13:24,203
and we finished all the pujas and everything like that,
1048
01:13:26,205 --> 01:13:28,240
and we've been very lucky, haven't we?
1049
01:13:28,240 --> 01:13:29,275
- Yes.- Yeah.
1050
01:13:29,275 --> 01:13:33,212
(speaking in foreign language)
1051
01:13:49,261 --> 01:13:51,764
- He told you, for all the peoples,
1052
01:13:51,764 --> 01:13:54,000
he's just blessed you with one or two words.
1053
01:13:54,000 --> 01:13:55,702
But he told you a lot.
1054
01:13:55,702 --> 01:13:57,670
That is, your family will be good.
1055
01:13:57,670 --> 01:14:00,339
You won't have any separation in your family
1056
01:14:00,339 --> 01:14:02,909
and your business will be developed into high level,
1057
01:14:02,909 --> 01:14:06,178
but your destiny is to, you have to spend
1058
01:14:06,178 --> 01:14:10,883
your life in spirituality and to do service in spirituality.
1059
01:14:10,883 --> 01:14:12,485
You will be a famous person
1060
01:14:12,485 --> 01:14:15,387
and you will do service worldwide.
1061
01:14:15,387 --> 01:14:16,689
(speaking in foreign language)
1062
01:14:16,689 --> 01:14:19,592
You will have a long life, eternal life,
1063
01:14:19,592 --> 01:14:21,093
as blessed by him.
1064
01:14:22,461 --> 01:14:27,099
(speaking in foreign language)
1065
01:14:27,099 --> 01:14:31,270
In Tamil, he told us (speaking in foreign language)
1066
01:14:37,209 --> 01:14:39,879
Means he will live for a long period.
1067
01:14:39,879 --> 01:14:41,347
- Live for long period?- Yes.
1068
01:14:41,347 --> 01:14:42,849
- [Mr Prakesh] This is the blessing given to you.
1069
01:14:42,849 --> 01:14:46,018
- Didn't he say something also about building centres
1070
01:14:46,018 --> 01:14:47,253
and things like this?
1071
01:14:47,253 --> 01:14:48,454
- [Mr Prakesh] Yeah, that we told, no?
1072
01:14:48,454 --> 01:14:50,289
You will be a famousman, around the temples
1073
01:14:50,289 --> 01:14:52,559
you will do service, around the world.
1074
01:14:52,559 --> 01:14:56,195
That is, by spreading the centres, maybe.
1075
01:14:56,195 --> 01:14:58,064
Spiritual centres, maybe.
1076
01:14:58,064 --> 01:14:59,666
Nadi centres, maybe.
1077
01:14:59,666 --> 01:15:01,133
Like these things.
1078
01:15:01,133 --> 01:15:04,604
- This is so interesting becausemy very first Nadi reading,
1079
01:15:04,604 --> 01:15:08,474
that you know nothing about, said exactly that.
1080
01:15:08,474 --> 01:15:11,210
So it's come kind of full circle, you know.
1081
01:15:11,210 --> 01:15:13,012
The first things that I was told
1082
01:15:13,012 --> 01:15:16,182
and the last things Iwere told are the same.
1083
01:15:16,182 --> 01:15:20,386
So it sounds like destiny has played its part here, I think.
1084
01:15:22,421 --> 01:15:24,991
(gentle music)
1085
01:15:31,864 --> 01:15:34,667
I thought I was at the end of my journey,
1086
01:15:34,667 --> 01:15:38,571
but it seems the real journey is just beginning.
1087
01:15:38,571 --> 01:15:41,073
- What our temples (mumbles)
1088
01:15:41,073 --> 01:15:43,209
after getting some goodthings in our life,
1089
01:15:43,209 --> 01:15:48,180
after getting some blessings from them in your life,
1090
01:15:48,180 --> 01:15:50,349
is have a good development.
1091
01:15:50,349 --> 01:15:53,820
Once again, if you worship and thank the gods,
1092
01:15:53,820 --> 01:15:55,154
it will be good to your life.
1093
01:15:55,154 --> 01:15:56,623
(speaking in foreign language)
1094
01:15:56,623 --> 01:16:00,226
It will be highly (mumbles)
1095
01:16:02,662 --> 01:16:06,432
Giving, he says, goodpotential, performance,
1096
01:16:07,734 --> 01:16:09,568
to the other gods.
1097
01:16:09,568 --> 01:16:11,838
(speaking in foreign language)
1098
01:16:11,838 --> 01:16:14,306
- [Craig] Maybe they arejust flatteringly me,
1099
01:16:14,306 --> 01:16:18,811
but all this was already told to me by other Nadi readers
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01:16:18,811 --> 01:16:22,014
that are unknown to my new friends here.
1101
01:16:22,014 --> 01:16:24,516
- And then after fetching all those things,
1102
01:16:24,516 --> 01:16:26,185
it will be good to you.
1103
01:16:26,185 --> 01:16:28,320
(speaking in foreign language)
1104
01:16:28,320 --> 01:16:29,722
God will watch you at all times.
1105
01:16:29,722 --> 01:16:30,556
- Yes.
1106
01:16:31,758 --> 01:16:34,694
- God will watchme at all times.
1107
01:16:34,694 --> 01:16:36,528
What a lovely thought.
1108
01:16:38,798 --> 01:16:41,400
(gentle music)
1109
01:16:54,847 --> 01:16:59,351
What an amazing place to get such spiritual messages.
1110
01:16:59,351 --> 01:17:03,656
In fact, the temple walls are covered in Tamil messages
1111
01:17:03,656 --> 01:17:05,424
to and from the gods.
1112
01:17:07,894 --> 01:17:10,763
This lovely place has the feeling of being
1113
01:17:10,763 --> 01:17:12,832
in some heavenly world.
1114
01:17:12,832 --> 01:17:15,768
The beautiful carvings and the way the soft light
1115
01:17:15,768 --> 01:17:18,404
plays on the stone feels like I'm walking
1116
01:17:18,404 --> 01:17:20,572
through an ethereal place.
1117
01:17:28,981 --> 01:17:32,651
Inside, there's a god to get blessings from.
1118
01:17:41,160 --> 01:17:43,362
And when it comes to Shiva lingams,
1119
01:17:43,362 --> 01:17:46,032
this place goes for it big time.
1120
01:17:47,233 --> 01:17:50,402
My mum would call it a wholesale outlet.
1121
01:17:53,172 --> 01:17:56,575
What I find most interesting is the Tamil writing
1122
01:17:56,575 --> 01:17:58,210
carved on the walls.
1123
01:17:58,210 --> 01:18:01,347
This temple is over one thousand years old
1124
01:18:01,347 --> 01:18:04,683
and the inscriptions are in old Tamil,
1125
01:18:04,683 --> 01:18:09,355
which is a simpler form of writing with no flourishes.
1126
01:18:09,355 --> 01:18:11,924
(gentle music)
1127
01:18:15,461 --> 01:18:19,365
Gopi tells me all about this and how many of these walls
1128
01:18:19,365 --> 01:18:21,968
have similar remedies to the ones
1129
01:18:21,968 --> 01:18:25,271
that are shown in the Nadi leaves.
1130
01:18:25,271 --> 01:18:27,874
(gentle music)
1131
01:18:40,486 --> 01:18:43,455
It makes me think that the Rishis who wrote these leaves
1132
01:18:43,455 --> 01:18:47,827
may have also knownabout places like this.
1133
01:18:47,827 --> 01:18:50,396
(gentle music)
1134
01:18:54,433 --> 01:18:58,137
They say that this placewas impossible to build
1135
01:18:58,137 --> 01:19:00,639
with the technology of the time.
1136
01:19:00,639 --> 01:19:04,210
It is all made of granite and the capstone at the top
1137
01:19:04,210 --> 01:19:07,079
of the temple weighs over 80 tonnes
1138
01:19:07,079 --> 01:19:11,183
and legends say that the ancients used magic mantras
1139
01:19:11,183 --> 01:19:13,352
to levitate it into place.
1140
01:19:15,321 --> 01:19:17,924
(upbeat music)
1141
01:20:10,676 --> 01:20:11,878
One more tea.
1142
01:20:11,878 --> 01:20:14,480
Maybe I can get a loyalty card?
1143
01:20:15,915 --> 01:20:20,052
And I'll have some of your best cuisine to go, please.
1144
01:20:21,320 --> 01:20:23,890
(upbeat music)
1145
01:20:27,293 --> 01:20:29,962
Another journey, another garage.
1146
01:20:31,363 --> 01:20:33,933
(upbeat music)
1147
01:20:41,673 --> 01:20:44,476
There is actually one more last remedy to perform
1148
01:20:44,476 --> 01:20:46,478
and I have a feeling that this is going to be one
1149
01:20:46,478 --> 01:20:50,149
of the most emotionallytesting experiences.
1150
01:20:52,651 --> 01:20:55,287
This is a hospice that'smainly for mentally
1151
01:20:55,287 --> 01:20:58,524
and physicallychallenged children andI know that they keep
1152
01:20:58,524 --> 01:21:00,459
things on a shoestring.
1153
01:21:00,459 --> 01:21:05,231
My last astrological prescribedremedy is to feed them.
1154
01:21:05,231 --> 01:21:08,234
(people chattering)
1155
01:21:21,813 --> 01:21:23,916
- [Man] Yes, that's good.
1156
01:21:36,628 --> 01:21:39,631
- [Craig] Doing this makes me think of Jane back home.
1157
01:21:39,631 --> 01:21:43,402
For seven years, she was a psychiatric nurse for children
1158
01:21:43,402 --> 01:21:45,704
and did lots of work like this.
1159
01:21:45,704 --> 01:21:48,640
It's kind of a strange coincidence.
1160
01:21:58,250 --> 01:22:02,421
I'm thinking of my own children and grandchildren.
1161
01:22:05,857 --> 01:22:08,460
(gentle music)
1162
01:22:15,401 --> 01:22:18,570
What lessons we can learn from these shining eyes.
1163
01:22:18,570 --> 01:22:21,040
How I'd love it if there were more people in my profession,
1164
01:22:21,040 --> 01:22:23,342
that is astrologers, psychics and mediums,
1165
01:22:23,342 --> 01:22:26,112
which would be less concerned about money and kudos
1166
01:22:26,112 --> 01:22:28,114
to actually use some of the proceeds
1167
01:22:28,114 --> 01:22:31,817
from their spiritual work to help people.
1168
01:22:31,817 --> 01:22:34,386
(gentle music)
1169
01:23:00,179 --> 01:23:01,847
- [Child] Thank you.
1170
01:23:13,259 --> 01:23:17,163
(speaking in foreign language)
1171
01:24:04,376 --> 01:24:09,115
- I've now been asked to open the new Nadi centre.
1172
01:24:09,115 --> 01:24:11,683
(gentle music)
1173
01:24:12,551 --> 01:24:14,019
Put this here?
1174
01:24:14,019 --> 01:24:16,522
- [Man] And you can take this.
1175
01:24:16,522 --> 01:24:17,923
They are blessing you.
1176
01:24:17,923 --> 01:24:22,094
And you can take some (speaking in foreign language)
1177
01:24:30,636 --> 01:24:33,205
(gentle music)
1178
01:24:36,975 --> 01:24:39,010
- They treat me like family.
1179
01:24:39,010 --> 01:24:43,081
They have good hearts that shows in their smiles.
1180
01:24:44,082 --> 01:24:46,685
(gentle music)
1181
01:25:03,835 --> 01:25:06,372
Poor people from the village have been invited
1182
01:25:06,372 --> 01:25:10,276
to an al fresco dining on the rooftop.
1183
01:25:10,276 --> 01:25:12,144
If you want to clear your own path
1184
01:25:12,144 --> 01:25:15,781
then there is nothing better than to physically put food
1185
01:25:15,781 --> 01:25:17,883
on a poor person's plate.
1186
01:25:19,318 --> 01:25:23,054
It's all so very, very easy, just get out there and do it.
1187
01:25:24,690 --> 01:25:27,793
And, even if you thinkthat all this astrology
1188
01:25:27,793 --> 01:25:32,231
is just a load of hocus-pocus, you can't deny that this path
1189
01:25:32,231 --> 01:25:35,801
we are following here is helping the world.
1190
01:25:47,446 --> 01:25:51,049
(speaking in foreign language)
1191
01:25:51,049 --> 01:25:52,851
I've come here now to do the opening
1192
01:25:52,851 --> 01:25:55,254
of the new Shiva Nadi Centre.
1193
01:25:56,688 --> 01:25:58,557
These are the people that did my leaves originally
1194
01:25:58,557 --> 01:26:00,426
and it's a great honourto be doing this really
1195
01:26:00,426 --> 01:26:04,095
because when I first consulted the Nadi,
1196
01:26:04,095 --> 01:26:07,098
I wanted to find a way that I could do my mediumistic
1197
01:26:07,098 --> 01:26:09,601
and my spiritual work free of charge.
1198
01:26:09,601 --> 01:26:11,603
And it's kind of worked out really
1199
01:26:11,603 --> 01:26:14,005
because this is what theNadi people are doing.
1200
01:26:14,005 --> 01:26:15,641
We're doing it for free.
1201
01:26:15,641 --> 01:26:17,843
There's no hidden...
1202
01:26:17,843 --> 01:26:19,411
There's no upsell or anything like that.
1203
01:26:19,411 --> 01:26:21,447
This is done for free to help people.
1204
01:26:21,447 --> 01:26:24,550
And, even here, peopleare being fed as I speak
1205
01:26:24,550 --> 01:26:27,085
and we're going to do a wonderful opening
1206
01:26:27,085 --> 01:26:30,322
and I'm really looking forward to this.
1207
01:26:34,059 --> 01:26:37,263
I pass through the auspicious banana tree gate
1208
01:26:37,263 --> 01:26:39,498
that they've made specially for this occasion
1209
01:26:39,498 --> 01:26:41,333
and take the scissors.
1210
01:26:42,734 --> 01:26:47,473
I now open the puja area where the prayers are given.
1211
01:26:47,473 --> 01:26:49,308
(crowd applauding)
1212
01:26:49,308 --> 01:26:51,943
I declare this Nadi Centre open
1213
01:26:51,943 --> 01:26:54,246
for the benefit of all.
1214
01:26:54,246 --> 01:26:57,082
My hope is that, just assome of the Nadi readers
1215
01:26:57,082 --> 01:26:59,418
are trying to counteractthe ripoff merchants
1216
01:26:59,418 --> 01:27:03,589
in their industry, so too I may be able to set an example
1217
01:27:03,589 --> 01:27:06,658
to Western astrologers,psychics and mediums
1218
01:27:06,658 --> 01:27:08,827
to clean up our act.
1219
01:27:08,827 --> 01:27:13,632
It's okay to earn a living, but also try to put a bit back
1220
01:27:13,632 --> 01:27:15,834
and encourage your clients to join
1221
01:27:15,834 --> 01:27:18,069
in the charitable work too.
1222
01:27:18,069 --> 01:27:20,472
In this way, we all clear the karma
1223
01:27:20,472 --> 01:27:22,974
and have more fortunate lives.
1224
01:27:24,776 --> 01:27:25,911
- [Man] Yes, ready?
1225
01:27:25,911 --> 01:27:26,978
- Shall I say something?
1226
01:27:26,978 --> 01:27:28,246
- Yes. - Yes.
1227
01:27:28,246 --> 01:27:30,749
- May this thrive and may it help everybody
1228
01:27:30,749 --> 01:27:34,019
and may it prosper and may people find themselves,
1229
01:27:34,019 --> 01:27:38,189
their fortunes, their destiny and find their divine self.
1230
01:27:42,861 --> 01:27:43,929
- [Man] Yeah.
1231
01:27:49,267 --> 01:27:53,171
(speaking in foreign language)
1232
01:28:14,693 --> 01:28:17,295
(bell ringing)
1233
01:28:24,670 --> 01:28:28,273
- [Craig] As a final honour, Mr Prakesh is going to give me
1234
01:28:28,273 --> 01:28:31,443
some lessons in readingthe Nadi leaves.
1235
01:28:31,443 --> 01:28:33,979
You don't have to be clairvoyant to do this
1236
01:28:33,979 --> 01:28:36,782
as it's simply a matter of reading the predictions
1237
01:28:36,782 --> 01:28:38,550
and remedies that were written
1238
01:28:38,550 --> 01:28:41,620
in these leavesthousands of years ago.
1239
01:28:41,620 --> 01:28:46,291
Carbon dating shows the leaves to be about 500 years old,
1240
01:28:46,291 --> 01:28:49,761
but the claim is that they have been copied and recopied
1241
01:28:49,761 --> 01:28:53,665
hundreds of times overmany thousands of years.
1242
01:28:57,168 --> 01:28:59,471
He charts the Tamil text to the leaves
1243
01:28:59,471 --> 01:29:01,172
and they're translated.
1244
01:29:01,172 --> 01:29:04,510
Listen carefully, this randomly selected leaf
1245
01:29:04,510 --> 01:29:05,977
could be yours.
1246
01:29:05,977 --> 01:29:09,881
(speaking in foreign language)
1247
01:29:16,955 --> 01:29:18,490
- [Man] Your parents are alive?
1248
01:29:18,490 --> 01:29:19,658
- [Craig] Yes.
1249
01:29:20,559 --> 01:29:22,994
(speaking in foreign language)
1250
01:29:22,994 --> 01:29:25,697
- [Man] It is common, weare telling in common.
1251
01:29:25,697 --> 01:29:28,867
Whatever we are telling to the clients
1252
01:29:30,235 --> 01:29:32,571
when really that is to be done here.
1253
01:29:32,571 --> 01:29:33,505
- [Craig] Okay.
1254
01:29:33,505 --> 01:29:37,342
(speaking in foreign language)
1255
01:29:48,787 --> 01:29:50,388
- [Man] Your second name is Elona.
1256
01:29:50,388 --> 01:29:53,492
- [Man] Second name is Elona.
1257
01:29:53,492 --> 01:29:56,161
First husband is separated.
1258
01:29:56,161 --> 01:30:00,098
(speaking in foreign language)
1259
01:30:02,033 --> 01:30:03,635
- The Nadi palm leaves are all based
1260
01:30:03,635 --> 01:30:06,505
around astrology and they tell you information
1261
01:30:06,505 --> 01:30:10,241
about yourself and, based upon what you've done
1262
01:30:10,241 --> 01:30:12,944
in past lives, determines what will happen
1263
01:30:12,944 --> 01:30:15,013
to you now and in the future.
1264
01:30:15,013 --> 01:30:16,582
And, of course, we're not going to be stuck
1265
01:30:16,582 --> 01:30:18,049
with a bad karma.
1266
01:30:18,049 --> 01:30:20,586
The idea of the leaves is that through a remedy,
1267
01:30:20,586 --> 01:30:23,421
we can change the bad karma and make it less
1268
01:30:23,421 --> 01:30:25,691
and up and increase the good karma
1269
01:30:25,691 --> 01:30:30,629
by doing various good actions and spiritual rituals.
1270
01:30:30,629 --> 01:30:32,864
When a person consults the Nadi leaves,
1271
01:30:32,864 --> 01:30:34,966
if they're unable tocome and do the rituals,
1272
01:30:34,966 --> 01:30:37,368
they can have someone else do them by proxy.
1273
01:30:37,368 --> 01:30:39,137
So a feeding can be done
1274
01:30:39,137 --> 01:30:43,208
or the temple rituals can be done by somebody else,
1275
01:30:43,208 --> 01:30:46,945
but it's far more powerful and far more meaningful
1276
01:30:46,945 --> 01:30:51,049
to a person if they actuallycome here and do it themselves.
1277
01:30:51,049 --> 01:30:54,352
And, even though for me it's been a hard and long journey
1278
01:30:54,352 --> 01:30:58,557
and a hard trip across some very rural areas of India,
1279
01:30:58,557 --> 01:31:01,927
I think it's really worth it to actually get out there
1280
01:31:01,927 --> 01:31:03,895
and do it yourself.
1281
01:31:03,895 --> 01:31:06,898
The physical journeys over and, now, I'm reflecting
1282
01:31:06,898 --> 01:31:09,334
on the inner journey that's happened to me,
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the changes that havetaken place in my soul.
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As a typical Westerner visiting India,
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I feel conscious that Ihave come from a country
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of great materialism and comforts where spirituality
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has been lost and is nowreplaced by rampant rationality.
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If India's temples crumble to dust
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and its teachings where ever lost,
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how poorer still would the world become.
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(gentle music)
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The writing is on the wall.
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We all know that the world is heading towards catastrophe
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if we do not change our ways.
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And, perhaps, these Nadi teachings are there to help us
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to put a brake on materialism and to rediscover
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a spiritual heritage that's there for everyone,
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no matter what yourreligion or nationality.
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(gentle music)
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The Promethean fires still burn and the lost knowledge
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of the ancients is still there for us to discover.
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Treading where holy men have walked
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reminds me that this hasbeen an inner journey.
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My destiny has been predicted and I have been helped
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by the astrologers and their teachings to understand better
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the reason I have beenplaced upon this earth.
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The teachings are as old as the hills.
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The oracle that inspired me is thousands of years old
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and yet there is nothing really new.
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It's the same journey we take now
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as the ancients had to take,
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We just need to have the courage
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to open into the divinity within us.
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In every face I see is a little of that Divine Light
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that India's teachings take us towards.
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Spiritual teachings are not just something remote,
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but are anchored in every day life in the things we do.
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There can be worship even in the simplest of work.
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We are all evolving notjust as physical beings,
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but spiritually too.
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The teachings tell us that our soul has evolved
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from animal into human and our time on earth now,
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in human form, is an opportunityto become fully awakened
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and that's why so many take to the spiritual path,
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touch the feet of gurus and seek the solace of meditation.
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I have thrown myself into mystic India
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and undertaken rituals that many would find perplexing.
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I have had the blessings of the gods and of holy people
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and holy places and have done many rituals to open
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the path that the oraclepredicts will happen.
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Some of this has been a cultural shock,
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but I feel that it isleading me to the light.
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My adventure has taken methousands of miles across India
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and I have enjoyed places that few westerners visit.
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But it has taught me also the importance of charity.
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As we give to others, their good thoughts
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projected towards us help us to evolve too.
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It's a win-win situation and, of course, helping others
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is part of the Christian messagetoo and the Muslim message
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and the Buddhist and Jewish message.
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I think I have learned that there is not much difference
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between it all.
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It's an adventure doing spiritual things
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and, when people get really helped
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and you see their lives quickly change,
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it opens your heart wide.
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Will all these strange astrological remedies change things?
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I have done the rituals and I've burned the karma.
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I have thrown the past into the flames.
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I have taken my journeyand explored my soul.
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I have cut the ties with my karma
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and now a new destiny awaits.
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India's just the start.
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Indian culture believes that it goes back 10,000 years
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to an ancient lost knowledge and that same lost knowledge
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is in other cultures, other religions, other beliefs
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so come with me on my next adventure.
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