1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Good morning boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Progressive. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:10,000 This morning I wanted to touch up briefly on what I received as the uniqueness, 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:14,000 how unique each one of us really are in this world. 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:24,000 So even if you take number of points of view of perception and evaluation of how unique we really are, 5 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:33,000 number one, even we can take the Vedic Astrology perspective, we could take the Psychological perspective, 6 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:41,000 we could take the Family perspective, the Lineage perspective and your unique soul imprints or samskaras, 7 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:48,000 we call it in Sanskrit, the soul impressions in the soul, memories that person brings into this lifetime. 8 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:57,000 From other lifetimes you can take one or more or combination of all of this and still you will be the most unique person in the world 9 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:05,000 and no one, I mean really no one will be able to understand you fully and that's the beauty part of it 10 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,000 and that's the most loneliness part of it as well. 11 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,000 This is what we struggle with as human beings the most. 12 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:17,000 Let's take an example, let's take an example of you being born in a family, you are in a family, wherever you are, 13 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:22,000 you have siblings, let's take the Vedic Astrology perspective first. 14 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:30,000 Let's say you are born of the same Ascendant as well, so you are born in the same family, you are born in the same Ascendant 15 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,000 but your planetary structure will be different. 16 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:42,000 So let's say your planetary structure is different and so you are different people even though you might be brothers, 17 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:52,000 even though you might be of the same gender, same parent, same parents and same upbringing and same lineage and same perspectives, 18 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,000 yet your DNA is different. 19 00:01:54,000 --> 00:02:00,000 Even if you have the same Ascendant, even if you have the same planetary arrangement, even if you are in the same family, 20 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:09,000 yet you have a different inheritance and DNA level, two siblings don't inherit the same level of DNA. 21 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Let's say you are twins, identical twins, so your identical twins born with a couple of minutes gap between your birth time, 22 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,000 so you will have slightly different Ascendants but pretty much the same degree of planets, 23 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:30,000 but yet you are born as souls with different Samskaras or what we talk about soul memories, 24 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:36,000 you have come as different souls, you not necessarily come as one soul, you are in two separate bodies, 25 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:44,000 even if you are identical twins or conjoined twins even, they will have different personality types, right? 26 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,000 And then you grow up differently because of it. 27 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:59,000 So the uniqueness, we can go on and on like this, but the uniqueness is what has to be, is one of the most difficult parts to embrace 28 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:06,000 because it seems like such a lonely trip in the world because you know there is nobody to understand you really, 29 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:13,000 we look for that understanding but we are looking for understanding of pieces and parts of ourselves by others. 30 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:24,000 You may call it a spouse, you may call it a parent or a sibling or friends, 31 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:32,000 any number of friends that we hire in this world on and off to understand pieces and parts and connect with, 32 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:37,000 you can make all these connections in life and yet they are all fleeting, 33 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:41,000 they are all people on a long journey from birth to death. 34 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:53,000 It's not really that you are seeking anybody to understand you, only you know you best because you are only sharing tiny pieces of how you are growing 35 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:59,000 whenever you are growing, what you think was right and wrong which keeps changing throughout life 36 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:09,000 and how you make this journey of life through your joys, through your sorrows, through your questioning, through your understanding, 37 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:16,000 through what you think of each day and feel each day about the world, about the situation around you, about your memories, 38 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:26,000 all of these things make you an extremely unique individual and the uniqueness is the part that is most difficult for people to embrace. 39 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:35,000 To think that you are a face in a crowd of 7 billion people on earth or even if you are living in a city of 15 billion for example, 40 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:40,000 15 million, there is no city of 15 billion fortunately. 41 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:52,000 So it's embracing the uniqueness which is the most tough part because it feels like you are a very lonely journey 42 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:56,000 when nobody knows who you really are. 43 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,000 At many times it can feel like this. 44 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:08,000 Nobody cares about who you are or what kind of things you do or don't do and it may feel like that. 45 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:14,000 That wound of loneliness is stemming from your own uniqueness. 46 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:22,000 This is the reason why people refuse to embrace their uniqueness and go around copy pasting all of the other personalities 47 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,000 or what seems like the next bright shiny thing. 48 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:30,000 Let it be in your work, let it be in your education, let it be in any one of these things. 49 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Let it be even in your hobbies or arts or music or any number of things. 50 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:39,000 Originality has to come from you to the rest of the world. 51 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:43,000 You are the light that shines into the rest of the world in your uniqueness. 52 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:51,000 This light that you carry, this light of uniqueness that you carry has to be studied, has to be understood by you 53 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:57,000 and only you can evaluate who you are, where you come from and how your life has transpired. 54 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Nobody, not even the best astrologer can tell you what your real nature is, what you bring to the planet. 55 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:08,000 They can only give you some predictive stuff based on planetary arrangements. 56 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,000 This is the reason why I don't do predictive astrology much or readings much 57 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:22,000 because it destroys your sense of uniqueness and where you come from and how you can choose to guide your life 58 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,000 or embrace yourself as a unique person. 59 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:33,000 Uniqueness is one of the most difficult things for a person to handle. 60 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:40,000 Yes, it's all fine to put a tagline saying you be you or be the most unique person you are. 61 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,000 But where is the uniqueness involved? 62 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:47,000 Do you know the A, B and C's of this uniqueness about yourself? 63 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:52,000 Do you know where you really could shine in terms of your talent? 64 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:57,000 Do you know what you could recalibrate those talents into higher forms of evolution 65 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:01,000 where you could bring out something unique in this world? 66 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:08,000 The reason why probably the creator in all his wisdom has made this unique perspective 67 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:13,000 for every single of the 7 billion of us here right now 68 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:19,000 could be one of the reasons is that we need all these 7 billion pieces 69 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:26,000 as part of a large jigsaw puzzle where we are bringing different points of view, 70 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:30,000 7 billion different points of view into one big jigsaw puzzle. 71 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:36,000 The whole puzzle is scattered in 7 billion pieces. 72 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:42,000 So here we are trying to make a sense of our individual life, individual place in the family, 73 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:47,000 in the culture, in the city, in the town, in the neighborhoods that we live in. 74 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:54,000 And we are trying to connect the dot in a very, very multidimensional way, very, very expansive way. 75 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:59,000 So you have to learn to understand the uniqueness will always be there 76 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:03,000 simply because you are not sharing yourself completely with anyone. 77 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:11,000 And they are each one of your even the best, most heart connected relationship with a spouse or a partner that you might have. 78 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,000 Even they are in their own process. 79 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:21,000 It's like a large river of life and everybody is bobbing up and down this river of life at slightly different places. 80 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:27,000 And they are all having a different unique experience as received by them from life. 81 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:33,000 You are having an extremely unique experience considering not all we have spoken of so far, 82 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:40,000 the lineage, the soul memories, the samskaras, your DNA, your planetary level, your ascendant, 83 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:44,000 which nakshatra you are part of, what is going on in your life. 84 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:52,000 This picture is extremely deeply rich and complex for every single individual. 85 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:58,000 That's the beauty and that on one side, the flip side of it is beautiful. 86 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,000 This also means what else can this mean, this uniqueness. 87 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:05,000 Understand that this means that nobody can really judge you. 88 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:11,000 You can throw out all the judgments that everybody has ever given you in life out of the window right now. 89 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:20,000 None of it means anything because the person who was judging you, let it be a parent, let it be a spouse, friends, 90 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:28,000 workmates, boss, colleague, any number of people, whoever is being judgmental of you, 91 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:36,000 who is putting guilt, shame, blame, all these kind of lower energies since childhood and all the wounds that it has created in you 92 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:41,000 is really meaningless. It was their point of view. 93 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,000 One ascendant, everybody is to be born in a certain ascendant. 94 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:49,000 One ascendant cannot judge another ascendant simply because that is another point of view. 95 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:52,000 Everything is just a limited point of view. 96 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:55,000 It's a point of perception and nothing more. 97 00:09:55,000 --> 00:10:05,000 Please understand this. There is nothing more to it about all your past judgments other than their point of view of who you were. 98 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:10,000 And at that time, since the time a lot has passed in your life, a lot has passed in their life, 99 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,000 hopefully they have learned something about themselves. 100 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:17,000 Many people don't. Many people don't bother about things like whatever I'm talking about. 101 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:21,000 They will never come to a talk like this and try to understand anything. 102 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:32,000 So it means your uniqueness is so beautiful and so unique that you can never be completely understood by any other person. 103 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:34,000 Doesn't matter how close they are. 104 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:41,000 At the same time, it also brings you to a place of a different kind of humility within you, 105 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:48,000 a different kind of recognition that what best can I then be if all of us are strangers, 106 00:10:48,000 --> 00:11:00,000 total strangers to one another, then what behavior of mine or what standpoint of mine can I embrace that would be compassionate, 107 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:01,000 that would be kind. 108 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,000 Well, it is kindness itself. 109 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:13,000 This is why the most ancient masters and the masters who have been through every culture and race on this planet have emphasized be kind to one another, 110 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:19,000 kindness which we speak of in the collaborative education series also. 111 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,000 Kindness is an embodiment. 112 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:25,000 It's a way you conduct yourself in the world. 113 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:35,000 The least you can do and the best you can do for another doesn't matter what they are going through or where they are in their life is be kind to them. 114 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,000 You don't know where they come from. 115 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:38,000 You don't know who they are. 116 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:45,000 You don't know everybody when everyone of the seven billion is utterly mysterious to one another at a one on one level. 117 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,000 What can you do? 118 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:48,000 What can I do? 119 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,000 We can be kind to one another. 120 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,000 We can be receptive of another. 121 00:11:54,000 --> 00:12:00,000 We can just be in a neutrality position rather than a judgmental position. 122 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:08,000 You and I are in no position to judge anybody who comes across because we don't know what their battles are. 123 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:09,000 We don't know what ascendents they are. 124 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:15,000 We don't know anything about them as souls embodied souls in human consciousness. 125 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:23,000 We are utterly mysterious creatures and in this new energies that's being even more amplified. 126 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:35,000 People now today in spite of all the fantastic tools of communication and information sharing like we have like all this Facebook, Instagram, YouTube etc. 127 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,000 There are so many platforms where we can share and communicate. 128 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:42,000 We have video communication channels with one another. 129 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:46,000 We can talk over continents in a flash of a second. 130 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:57,000 You might have beautiful communication tools but that doesn't remove the fact that you are still very unique, very different wherever you are. 131 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:07,000 But using all these tools we can develop a sort of a compassionate kindness which has a signature of neutrality about it. 132 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:12,000 The neutral place is the best place to come to balance within oneself. 133 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:21,000 If you are neutral to the person or approach a person like you approach a flower for example which you see growing everyday in your backyard. 134 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:27,000 But you really do not know what that flower is or what that piece of life is. 135 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:31,000 Approach it from like a baby like curiosity. 136 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:40,000 A baby's curiosity has no pieces of words like how I am going on about in this podcast. 137 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:53,000 It has no words. It has no...it hasn't labeled as the baby has not labeled the flowers as petals, as stamen and stigma and as all of these kinds of things. 138 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,000 It has not labeled anything. 139 00:13:55,000 --> 00:14:01,000 It is just observing life in its most raw form and is enchanted by it. 140 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:09,000 If you can follow this energy of just being enchanted by the whole process of life then you are in touch with the rawness. 141 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,000 You are in touch with the rawness of life. 142 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:21,000 Then you can be kind because it is so humbling to see this aspect of life which is such a large part of everything around you. 143 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,000 Immediately everything in front of you. 144 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:28,000 It doesn't matter what's going on in the world or what's going on in your life or in your body even. 145 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:35,000 Life is calling you to engage with itself in its enchantment. 146 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,000 You are enchanted with it. 147 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:43,000 You are struck with wonder about what is all this thing about really? Who am I really? 148 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:51,000 Just staying in that question and being enchanted by the question and just being kind to everyone around. 149 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:56,000 This is the energy which I wanted to share with you today because it came in very strongly this morning. 150 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:01,000 As I was just making my first cup I got to get on to my second cup of coffee now. 151 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,000 I'll leave you with this. 152 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:14,000 Embrace your uniqueness, be kind to one another and embody that kindness in every step you take just for today. 153 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:21,000 And know that all judgments which anybody has made ever against you is completely pointless and rubbish. 154 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:22,000 They don't know anything about you. 155 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:26,000 It doesn't matter how close you think you are to them or they think they were to you. 156 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:27,000 It doesn't matter. 157 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:31,000 It's just different points of view and nothing more. 158 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:34,000 Be safe and have a good day.