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Speaker 1 (00:00):
the eyes are the
windows of the soul, and this is
very true.
When we communicate, we lookinto people's eyes, don't we?
We get those feelings of trust,of love.
You know, we're not looking attheir big toe, we're looking in
their eyes and I perceive theirsubtle vibration that they
emanate.
Okay, which is a condensed,subtle version.
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I would write that in word orsyllable form and that would
formulate your own personalmantra.
You're not using an artificialtool, and this is what makes our
system so very different.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
You are using your
own vibration to grow yourself
what makes faisu meditationdifferent from any other forms
of meditation?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Okay, I think the
most important thing at our is
that we give individually, sopractices are given depending on
the person.
So the course is very similar,but fundamentally we use a
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mantra, which is a string ofwords or syllables that we
repeat in meditation.
Now, in most other systems,these are what's called Bija
mantras.
They come, they're consideredto be primal sounds that were
there when the universe wascreated and, yes, they have some
significant emphasis, but it'snot your sound.
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You know what is your uniquevibration.
What is your unique vibration?
So if we were to condense youphysically, mentally,
emotionally and spiritually intoa sound, into a vibration,
because of our uniqueness, whichwe have found through
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neuroplasticity, which ourfingerprint confirms, the iris
in our eye and our DNA, they allconfirm that, even though you
and I are related as thebrotherhood of man, we are
totally unique because thatneuroplasticity, which gives us
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the ability to adapt to newsituations, has been such a
profound part of our survivalsystem and therefore we have
found that individuality.
Now our path is to go fromindividuality to universality,
but to do that we need to useyour unique vibration, so we
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need to condense you.
So if you come to learn inFaisu, you'll be asked to supply
a photograph, without glassesor contact lenses, of your eyes,
because one of my countrymen,who you will know very well, so
william shakespeare, has saidthe eyes are the windows of the
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soul.
Okay, and this is very true.
When we communicate, we lookinto people's eyes, don't we get
those feelings of trust, oflove?
You know, we're not.
We're not looking at their bigtoe, we're looking in their eyes
.
True, true, um, and that's howwe communicate.
So the windows are really, theyare definitely the windows of
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the soul.
So I meditate on that person,on their photograph, and I
perceive their subtle vibrationthat they emanate.
Okay, which is a condensed,subtle version.
I would write that in word orsyllable form and that would
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formulate your own personalmantra.
So, in fact, you're not usingan artificial tool, and this is
what makes our system so verydifferent.
You are using your ownvibration to grow yourself, so
to speak, to unfold yourself,because the essence of that
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vibration is divine, it isuniversal, but the personal
mantra helps you draw veryeffectively on that divine,
universal level and, as we said,bring those energies to a
higher level that we can usethem in our daily life to better
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ourselves and better thosearound us.
So that's how we're really,really unique.
You know, my guru trained mefor this.
This was his system.
Okay, um, that that he createdand, of course, for me, I'm a.
You know, when we say guru, umspiritual teacher or guru, it's
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a wonderful word.
It's two syllables, goo and rue, and they're sanskrit words,
and goo means darkness and ruemeans light.
So guru is just someone wholeads you from the darkness to
the light.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Simple enough.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Through my own
realizations and reaching that
enlightened level, I can havethese abilities to perceive
those subtle vibrations.
And not only perceive them them, but give them a boost, give
them force and awaken that forcein you.
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And that's the key once you arespiritually awakened,
everything changes in your life.
Okay, so when we're practicingregularly, but then you know we
start off with a simpletechnique, then we go to the
more advanced techniques withthe personal mantra, so that
you're prepared in that journey,and then this takes you to
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completely new levels ofself-discovery, of spirituality,
of consciousness now you said,the personal mantra is unique
for everyone no duplicates, okay, no duplicates
Speaker 2 (06:13):
no duplicates same
right um.
You mentioned your guru, and hedevised this system yes, yes um
, where, where did hisinspiration come from?
How did he?
You know, like I'm just tryingto understand as far as um, with
his background and yeah how didhe come up with a fayasu
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meditation?
What influenced that?
Okay?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
yeah, well, he was
obviously born in india, born in
the state of gujarat, okay, um,and transitioned to south
africa, um, during the partitionbetween Pakistan and India, and
firstly they went to Durban andthey settled there for a few
months, but they ended up inCape Town and I really think he
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had to be there simply becauseof the apartheid regime that was
there.
He was definitely, like NelsonMandela, a great light in the
darkness down there.
He was threatened with arrestcontinually because he spoke
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publicly about the unity of man,the color of skin didn't matter
, that we're all related as thehuman race, and he was often
threatened.
And that's how I came to knowhim because, as I said, I was a
travel agent and I was asked toget his visas because in those
days if you were a South African, because of apartheid, you need
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a visa for every country in theworld except the UK because of
the colonial links.
So he went there, he started,uh, he had a guru, himself in
india, a teacher, and he, he,from a very early age, had these
realizations as a youngteenager and he wanted to just
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be a monk in in the caves andhis guru said no, this isn't for
you, you have to go to the west, you have to teach, uh, western
people.
You know, you have to bringyour message to a western
audience and that's what hestrove to do and believe you me,
it wasn't easy.
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Um, you know, I the first time Iwent to cape town, just before
I knew about him.
You know, it's crazy things,like on a beach, there would be
two faucets, as you keep them,or taps as we call them in
england.
In england, one will, one willbe labeled colored water and the
other would be water.
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And I was like, what do youmean colored water?
You know, it was for thecolored people to drink from
that tap and they couldn't drinkfrom the white tap, from the
normal tap.
Yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
This was early 80s.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I was there in 85.
85, okay, and this was towardsthe end of of of apartheid, but
yeah, it was all these conflicts.
I mean it's very confusing whenyou get there because in fact
we were breaking the law becausemy wife was from Trinidad, she
was considered colored and, okay, she was partly mixed race, she
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was considered coloured and Iwas considered white and you
were not allowed to haverelationships between coloured
and white.
It was breaking the law, youcouldn't get married, you
couldn't, couldn't do anything.
So in fact we were therebreaking the law officially, um,
but it didn't bother us, youknow, and we saw the contrast.
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You know, I always say there aretwo great men from South Africa
.
One is Nelson Mandela, whoGarage knew, not very closely,
but they had met and Garage,because he brought these
profound teachings to the world,and our organization was born
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from that apartheid strugglebecause he wanted to bring.
You know, why do these peoplefeel like we're different?
Because we don't have a whiteskin?
So that gave him, I suppose,the fodder to say I'm not going
to stand for this, I'm going toteach, I'm going to change this.
And wonderfully, we see now,after him and Mandela you know,
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gone, passed away that there arehuge changes down there, you
know, and that people without awhite skin can be prosperous,
they can have everything a whiteperson can have, and that's
amazing.
But I think it's such anincredible part of our history
that we arose because of thatseparation, of that conflict, of
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that disgusting you know,apartheid, which you know I'm
embarrassed to say it wascreated by the British.
You know, that's one part, onedark part of our past.
But that is the truth and youknow.
But it's gone.
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It's gone.
I mean, we do see those thingsin other parts of the world.
Of course, you know man's fearis prejudice.
You know prejudice is just fear.
You know I'm worried you'regoing to take something away
from me, etc.
So, you know, unless we canovercome that fear within
ourselves and that's wonderfulthing again meditation does it
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makes us more, much morealtruistic.
You know we care about otherpeople more, we're more
compassionate, we're more loving.
Of course, because that's thebiggest change in anyone is that
unfoldment of the heart, sothat love becomes the guiding
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force in our life and thattouches everyone around us.
It enables us to love ourselves, accept ourselves, you know, be
content with ourselves, butthen we begin to radiate that
love to everyone around us,neighbor, anyone who pass in the
street.
I call all my meditators mylittle beacons of light because
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I know that through theirunfoldment and many of them have
been with me 40 years, etc.
And there are 1000s of themaround the world and I see them
as my, my beacons of light,shining love, shining
consciousness, shining happinessand helping to change the world
.