January 28, 2024 • 19 mins
Recommending a biography on George Harrison focused on his spiritual life & a book on the history of Indian music in the west (or music in the west inspired by Indian music). Live 6.25.2023
0:00 – Shri Krishna Sharanam Mamah (Ashtakshara Mantra) 7x, show in honor of Global Beatles Day, hat of "Kashmir the Live Led Zeppelin Tribute Show Featuring Jean Violet"
1:29 – Childhood introduction to Beatles & George Harrison
3:04 – Beatles are one of the greatest & most influential rock bands
4:26 – George was special, referenced final performance of "All Things Must Pass"
7:19 – George helped bring Hinduism & Indian culture/music to the world, referenced Indian music history book "The Dawn Of Indian Music In The West" by Peter Lavezzoli
11:26 – Recommended biography "Here Comes The Sun: The Spiritual And Musical Journey of George Harrison" by Joshua M. Greene
16:55 – Recommended biography "Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: The Biography Of The Man Who Gave Transcendental Meditation To The World" by Paul Mason
18:53 – Closing thoughts
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(00:01):
Johnny Shri swaminarayan, namaste.
Shri Krishna sharra, namaha, om Shri Krishna Shara namaha om
Shri Krishna Shara namaha. Om Shri Krishna shot.
(00:25):
A namaha om Shri Krishna Shadow namaha.
Om Shri Krishna shot animal. Om SRI Krishna, shadow namaha.
may we always seek shelter underthe Lotus feet of Lord, Krishna
(00:49):
So I'm wearing my rock and roll had today, it's cashmere the
live, Led Zeppelin Experience, featuring Gene Violet and also
basis, Felix Hanuman of zebra. This is closest.
I can get to today's theme because a few days ago was
Global Beatles day. I don't have a Beatles hat.
(01:11):
So you get Led Zeppelin tribute band instead.
And I wanted to share a book today that might be of interest
to those of you who are interested in is gone, sniffing
adharma and the Beatles. First of all when I was like, I
(01:33):
don't know, five years old, my mom bought for me 5c piece.
And I mean, those little single records because I had a little
record player It was Hall & Oates, forget the song, We Are
the World, so I just dated what year this was.
(01:55):
Let's see Whitney Houston, what is the song?
I believe, the true, don't know,the future, blah, blah, blah
blah, whatever song that is and Twisted Sister.
I don't know if it was forget, what was it?
We're not going to take it or maybe something else.
I don't think she realized what type of band is was because we
didn't have MTV and George Harrison's.
(02:19):
I Got My Mind Set On You. And I would just spend those and
I had all these little records, and I'd spend them all the time,
and I loved George Harrison's album.
And then when I finally saw the video, how can you not enjoy
that video? It's just so much fun.
I also had some EPS. It was my mom's when she was
(02:41):
young, some Beatles songs I had like, Hey, Jude and I Am The
Walrus. And on the B-side to one of them
was the Inner Light which struckme as so.
Very interesting. I would just kind of listen to
that, that would be like my private song.
When you know, I was in my own little five-year-old space.
I never really gravitated to TheBeatles.
(03:06):
They're one of the greatest bands out there.
Without doubt. Anyone who says they're not
doesn't understand their crafting of songs, their lyric
writing their growth as musicians, not to mention how
they completely changed music 100%.
And we're not talking about likeNirvana how they were an
influence. No, no.
The Beatles literally completelychanged music and inspired
(03:30):
people. ER Sergeant Pepper.
What year is that 66 or early 60s?
You hear so many musicians talk about oh yes.
After hearing Sergeant Pepper. I decided to be a musician.
I decided to get into a band andthere is suddenly a bubble of
bands that are created. I think of yes I was a big yes
(03:52):
fan growing up and that man was spawned many of the members,
John Anderson, as some of the others were inspired.
Sergeant Pepper. They wanted to do that.
That album inspired. I think Pink Floyd was also
inspired to become a band, so the Beatles changed everything,
plus the whole rock and roll. Star just went into orbit with
(04:16):
them them and Elvis. Like no one had never been a
rock and roll star before. Really.
I mean, you had great players but this was just a whole nother
world, but I never really got into them.
I could give or take them honestly.
Lee. I was always the Fallen to the
cliche a Rolling Stones fan, I love the Rolling Stones.
(04:37):
They're awesome. They're they're cool.
Most of the time and their solo stuff even and all that I just
really admire them and whatever but I love me some George
Harrison. Maybe it's because of that EP
that got me hooked. Maybe it's because I eventually
(04:58):
found myself in the same religious path as George.
I don't know. But today the thought of George
Harrison kind of just like I would be speechless if he stood
in front of me right now. I don't know what it is about
(05:20):
him. There is a video online and you
can hear him sing. It's his final live performance.
It's just him an acoustic guitarand some TV show and I forget
the song he's doing and I'm thinking about this right now,
I'm actually starting Mike here.My eyes are welling up with
(05:41):
tears right now, just thinking about him.
And whenever I walk to this song, when I watch this
particular performance, it's an interview.
And then at one point, he sings,I Cry.
I also cried, when I watched a 68 Comeback Special over.
I was Presley, I should confess and my girlfriend's is I cried
(06:04):
too many movies and TV shows butThere's something about George
Harrison, I don't know what it is and maybe it's the spiritual
thing and how he broke out of that star mode or tried to or
try to make it something else for good or bad.
(06:27):
And I say that because there is a point in his career, when he
could not sell out a stadium, John Lennon, could Paul
McCartney, could, but George wasalbums, didn't do so well, they
weren't really that good. And he couldn't sell out shows,
he would actually have to cancelshows, because people were
(06:47):
saying enough of the Harry Krishna, let's have some good
music. He worked against himself.
At one point, he was trying to do stuff and I'll be honest, his
early lyric writing, maybe isn'this best.
He got better. As a lyric writer.
Yes, Here Comes. The Sun is very beautiful, but
(07:08):
there's some other stuff that's me, it's okay, but he became, he
became a better writer as he gotolder.
Why am I mentioning him on this show?
Well, should be obvious. I think, when it comes to the
world of spirituality, if we didn't have the Beatles, the
spiritual world, the religious world the society as we know, it
(07:33):
would be 100% different. I'm not choking.
George Harrison help bring Indiato America and to Europe and to
the world. That is not a lie.
If you want to talk about the history of Swami's and people
(07:53):
coming to America and Mike Maharishi, Mahesh Yogi and
Swami, prabhupada or Vivekananda, before that,
everything changes when George Harrison arrives, When George
Harrison pays to record the Harry Krishna chant.
And while know that Harry krishnakant maybe doesn't end up
on the greatest hits albums of his at the time, it was
(08:18):
revolutionary and people heard that and they flocked to Eastern
religions. We may not even know who Mojave
she Mahesh Yogi was if it wasn'tfor the Beatles. and, George
literally brought. Indian culture and in in
relation to the west and turned so many people onto the
(08:40):
tradition of sanatana-dharma like never before.
And you know yes we had folks like Allen Ginsberg who were
dancing with Swami prabhupada and in New York City in his
first year and we had, you know,the mystical stuff of the
Grateful Dead and Timothy Leary but George Harrison.
(09:05):
On a different level because he was bringing a tradition with
him, he was finding a tradition,he goes, this is it.
I love this and I'm going to make it basically my life and
people are inspired by that. And maybe also because he was
the quiet. Beatle the whole mystical thing
that just grew around him, may have whatever, but if you write
(09:29):
a history of religion in the west and do not include George
Harrison, you are literally, it's like charting the history
of rock and roll and skipping, Elvis, Presley, and Jimi
Hendrix. Something is going to be
horribly missing or writing the history of 80s hard rock and not
(09:50):
including Kiss Aerosmith or Van Halen or writing the history of
grunge and not including Kurt Cobain in Nirvana.
I actually have a book, I probably should quote it, but I
don't think know if I have it here that talks about the
history of Indian music in the west and it starts from, you
(10:12):
know, the 1800s and violin players and people who would
come over and it would be a little trickle in Indian comes
here and Indian plays music theytour for a while they go home
and it's just it was very smart,it was more of a like an elitist
thing. It was more of a classical music
thing and then when George Harrison came and he brought
Maharishi and he Not the world to the foot of Swami prabhupada
(10:36):
and he recruited Harry crucifixion and he started
including satar's in his music. Things changed literally the
book like talks about how that was the change of Indian music
in the west. Now suddenly everyone was doing
it, everyone was interested because of church Should be
noted though he wasn't the firstto use satar's in music.
It was actually, the birds were already doing that, but it
(11:00):
didn't catch on. It's David Crosby who introduced
Church Harrison to the sitar andplaying the sitar and
incorporating it into the music and and but George was the one
who made it famous. So we need to honor George
Harrison and and being that its Global Beatles day where it was
on the 22nd here in June even miss me an opportunity to help.
(11:27):
So I wanted to share a book today for all of you who are
Beatles fan and spirituality fans, it is just an awesome book
on George Harrison. And it is a unique book.
So I don't even know how many biographies and autobiographies
if any there are on the Beatles.Probably just as many as there
are on the Rolling Stones and some other huge bands, just
(11:47):
countless countless countless and many of them are good and Of
them are bad, but there's one particularly that I picked up
some years ago, that is very unique and it is this one, it is
called Here Comes the Sun, the spiritual and musical journey of
George Harrison by Joshua Greene.
(12:08):
This was published in. Let me take a look, I should
have looked before it's those little things I forget to do,
2006. This is the spiritual biography
of George Harrison, and that's it.
So, the author even says, he does not go into like the
(12:32):
rooftop concert or life on the road, or recording the last
album, or whatever. Because we've talked concert
doesn't have any spiritual significance in George's life
that can be seen. Maybe he said a prayer before
hand, but it wasn't in his spiritual life, therefore, it
(12:53):
doesn't make this book. Even the relationships.
He had, like, with Patti Harrison are touched upon only
in context of how they relate toGeorgia's spiritual life.
This is literally a history of George.
Through his Spiritual Development and his what he did
(13:17):
in the spiritual world. So it goes into detail on the
recording of the Harry crucifixion.
It talks about his buying, the home, or donating, the home, to
the iskcon and England. It talks about things like the
ban jeeva and I actually used toknow one of the guys in jeeva
jeeva. Was this band?
He may not recognize the name, that's the soul and Hinduism
(13:40):
that were very spiritual and he produced Chiva even though we
don't really remember them therementioned because that's what
was a spiritual thing. It talks about how you know,
when when George died his or gnashing 10 when he died, when
he was had an attacker in his house.
And the guy caught him in the throat, he was cranking Harry
(14:00):
Krishna while driving down the street, it details all his
spiritual life and it is such a Fascinating book and I've
actually read a couple biographies of The Beatles.
But this one to me was the most interesting, it details him
dealing with the hairy krishna'sand hanging out with them.
(14:24):
You don't get that in other books because most books I think
four Beatles fans. They want to talk about the
music. They want to talk about the
tour's the people, but this is not like that, you know, it has
sentences like George was excited to finally meet the
Krishna Guru Swami prabhupada. He was also distracted.
(14:47):
As his mother had been recently diagnosed with brain cancer.
And and they talk about, you know, John's heroin addiction
and how that was affecting his spirituality and they talk about
all these little things. The guy talks about like I
mentioned earlier how George would put on these concerts but
people wouldn't go. They would literally Riot
(15:09):
against saying we're done with this.
We're sick of this stuff. And what did George do?
And George have built a relationship with prabhupada
based on the guru's Purity and love for God.
Nothing had changed that but theworld around them had changed
(15:31):
gone. Were the missionary days of the
60s gone to were George's, burning questions about life's
mysteries. He had learned as much as he
cared to know. Now, he just wanted to live the
truth. He had already discovered Are
you ever going to stop traveling?
(15:52):
George asked Swami prep upon theteacher replied if that is
krsna's desire. That's wow.
That's lovely. You're not going to get this
than any other spiritual book. So I just wanted to highly
recommend this book and on EarthBeatles day, Global Beatles day
(16:15):
and there, maybe I believe thereis another spiritual book out
there on George Harrison or something kind of that overlaps
with this. I have not read it.
I'm not familiar with it. I know this one, this one makes
me very happy and I learned so much about George.
And I'm looking at the picture here in my video screen of me
(16:40):
and I my tears, my tears are coming back.
Just wanted to recommend this. I can't, I can't recommend it
enough. If you want to really know
George on a deeper level and be inspired by him and he is an
inspiration. I also want to recommend one
more Book for a slightly bigger View and that is a book of
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. So this is a book.
(17:03):
I have written some years ago, Ican, I should prep a little more
through these things. This was published in 1994.
I've mentioned this book on thischannel before this is Was a
hurry. She the biography of the man who
gave Transcendental Meditation to the west, by Paul Masson or
Paul Mason. And This is not a gushing,
(17:30):
Praise of Maharishi. Those books exist of all the
gurus out there. They have a team of players or
themselves who write gushing biographies.
They're fun to read. Whenever I find one that's not.
I pick it up. Doesn't even matter who the guru
is. This one is an
honest-to-goodness. Look at my hubby.
(17:50):
SRI good. Bad in between.
And there is good. He wasn't a con man, he wasn't
all bad. There's some great things
Transcendental Meditation has its benefits and As I said it
would be watching David Lynch movies.
So but there's good bad in. This is a really good biography,
(18:13):
very honest. Take there may be other
biographies out there on him which give an honest take of
Maharishi but this one's the oneI've discovered in the one I
know. And yes, it talks about the
Beatles in here and it's really good.
It gives you a lot of a lot of him.
And it's, it's, I mean, you see if I can find Anything here.
(18:35):
I hear it is the blessing of theBeatles.
There's like a couple chapters dedicated to him. so, Yeah,
definitely check this out. If you want the bigger picture,
it is well worth. So that's all I wanted to share.
Today was just my love of GeorgeHarrison and this really great
(18:59):
book, that should be on your shelf, you definitely love it.
If you are into Sinatra, the Dharma and into Georgian into
the Beatles. So sorry before I start crying
again and making a fool of myself.
Let me Say, thank you for watching all the best to you and
(19:21):
your spiritual journey via whoever May inspire you.
And yeah. Chai SRI Swami.
That I am Jai Shri Krishna Hari.Krishna Hari Krishna Krishna.
Krishna Hari Hara, Hara Rama. Hare Rama Rama.
(19:44):
Rama had, he had a oh, Lord, O Krishna.
I've Got My Mind Set On You. I've Got My Mind Set On You.
Johnny Shri swaminarayan, namaste.
Shri Krishna sharra, namaha, om Shri Krishna Shara namaha om
Shri Krishna Shara namaha. Om Shri Krishna shot.
(00:25):
A namaha om Shri Krishna Shadow namaha.
Om Shri Krishna shot animal. Om SRI Krishna, shadow namaha.
may we always seek shelter underthe Lotus feet of Lord, Krishna
(00:49):
So I'm wearing my rock and roll had today, it's cashmere the
live, Led Zeppelin Experience, featuring Gene Violet and also
basis, Felix Hanuman of zebra. This is closest.
I can get to today's theme because a few days ago was
Global Beatles day. I don't have a Beatles hat.
(01:11):
So you get Led Zeppelin tribute band instead.
And I wanted to share a book today that might be of interest
to those of you who are interested in is gone, sniffing
adharma and the Beatles. First of all when I was like, I
(01:33):
don't know, five years old, my mom bought for me 5c piece.
And I mean, those little single records because I had a little
record player It was Hall & Oates, forget the song, We Are
the World, so I just dated what year this was.
(01:55):
Let's see Whitney Houston, what is the song?
I believe, the true, don't know,the future, blah, blah, blah
blah, whatever song that is and Twisted Sister.
I don't know if it was forget, what was it?
We're not going to take it or maybe something else.
I don't think she realized what type of band is was because we
didn't have MTV and George Harrison's.
(02:19):
I Got My Mind Set On You. And I would just spend those and
I had all these little records, and I'd spend them all the time,
and I loved George Harrison's album.
And then when I finally saw the video, how can you not enjoy
that video? It's just so much fun.
I also had some EPS. It was my mom's when she was
(02:41):
young, some Beatles songs I had like, Hey, Jude and I Am The
Walrus. And on the B-side to one of them
was the Inner Light which struckme as so.
Very interesting. I would just kind of listen to
that, that would be like my private song.
When you know, I was in my own little five-year-old space.
I never really gravitated to TheBeatles.
(03:06):
They're one of the greatest bands out there.
Without doubt. Anyone who says they're not
doesn't understand their crafting of songs, their lyric
writing their growth as musicians, not to mention how
they completely changed music 100%.
And we're not talking about likeNirvana how they were an
influence. No, no.
The Beatles literally completelychanged music and inspired
(03:30):
people. ER Sergeant Pepper.
What year is that 66 or early 60s?
You hear so many musicians talk about oh yes.
After hearing Sergeant Pepper. I decided to be a musician.
I decided to get into a band andthere is suddenly a bubble of
bands that are created. I think of yes I was a big yes
(03:52):
fan growing up and that man was spawned many of the members,
John Anderson, as some of the others were inspired.
Sergeant Pepper. They wanted to do that.
That album inspired. I think Pink Floyd was also
inspired to become a band, so the Beatles changed everything,
plus the whole rock and roll. Star just went into orbit with
(04:16):
them them and Elvis. Like no one had never been a
rock and roll star before. Really.
I mean, you had great players but this was just a whole nother
world, but I never really got into them.
I could give or take them honestly.
Lee. I was always the Fallen to the
cliche a Rolling Stones fan, I love the Rolling Stones.
(04:37):
They're awesome. They're they're cool.
Most of the time and their solo stuff even and all that I just
really admire them and whatever but I love me some George
Harrison. Maybe it's because of that EP
that got me hooked. Maybe it's because I eventually
(04:58):
found myself in the same religious path as George.
I don't know. But today the thought of George
Harrison kind of just like I would be speechless if he stood
in front of me right now. I don't know what it is about
(05:20):
him. There is a video online and you
can hear him sing. It's his final live performance.
It's just him an acoustic guitarand some TV show and I forget
the song he's doing and I'm thinking about this right now,
I'm actually starting Mike here.My eyes are welling up with
(05:41):
tears right now, just thinking about him.
And whenever I walk to this song, when I watch this
particular performance, it's an interview.
And then at one point, he sings,I Cry.
I also cried, when I watched a 68 Comeback Special over.
I was Presley, I should confess and my girlfriend's is I cried
(06:04):
too many movies and TV shows butThere's something about George
Harrison, I don't know what it is and maybe it's the spiritual
thing and how he broke out of that star mode or tried to or
try to make it something else for good or bad.
(06:27):
And I say that because there is a point in his career, when he
could not sell out a stadium, John Lennon, could Paul
McCartney, could, but George wasalbums, didn't do so well, they
weren't really that good. And he couldn't sell out shows,
he would actually have to cancelshows, because people were
(06:47):
saying enough of the Harry Krishna, let's have some good
music. He worked against himself.
At one point, he was trying to do stuff and I'll be honest, his
early lyric writing, maybe isn'this best.
He got better. As a lyric writer.
Yes, Here Comes. The Sun is very beautiful, but
(07:08):
there's some other stuff that's me, it's okay, but he became, he
became a better writer as he gotolder.
Why am I mentioning him on this show?
Well, should be obvious. I think, when it comes to the
world of spirituality, if we didn't have the Beatles, the
spiritual world, the religious world the society as we know, it
(07:33):
would be 100% different. I'm not choking.
George Harrison help bring Indiato America and to Europe and to
the world. That is not a lie.
If you want to talk about the history of Swami's and people
(07:53):
coming to America and Mike Maharishi, Mahesh Yogi and
Swami, prabhupada or Vivekananda, before that,
everything changes when George Harrison arrives, When George
Harrison pays to record the Harry Krishna chant.
And while know that Harry krishnakant maybe doesn't end up
on the greatest hits albums of his at the time, it was
(08:18):
revolutionary and people heard that and they flocked to Eastern
religions. We may not even know who Mojave
she Mahesh Yogi was if it wasn'tfor the Beatles. and, George
literally brought. Indian culture and in in
relation to the west and turned so many people onto the
(08:40):
tradition of sanatana-dharma like never before.
And you know yes we had folks like Allen Ginsberg who were
dancing with Swami prabhupada and in New York City in his
first year and we had, you know,the mystical stuff of the
Grateful Dead and Timothy Leary but George Harrison.
(09:05):
On a different level because he was bringing a tradition with
him, he was finding a tradition,he goes, this is it.
I love this and I'm going to make it basically my life and
people are inspired by that. And maybe also because he was
the quiet. Beatle the whole mystical thing
that just grew around him, may have whatever, but if you write
(09:29):
a history of religion in the west and do not include George
Harrison, you are literally, it's like charting the history
of rock and roll and skipping, Elvis, Presley, and Jimi
Hendrix. Something is going to be
horribly missing or writing the history of 80s hard rock and not
(09:50):
including Kiss Aerosmith or Van Halen or writing the history of
grunge and not including Kurt Cobain in Nirvana.
I actually have a book, I probably should quote it, but I
don't think know if I have it here that talks about the
history of Indian music in the west and it starts from, you
(10:12):
know, the 1800s and violin players and people who would
come over and it would be a little trickle in Indian comes
here and Indian plays music theytour for a while they go home
and it's just it was very smart,it was more of a like an elitist
thing. It was more of a classical music
thing and then when George Harrison came and he brought
Maharishi and he Not the world to the foot of Swami prabhupada
(10:36):
and he recruited Harry crucifixion and he started
including satar's in his music. Things changed literally the
book like talks about how that was the change of Indian music
in the west. Now suddenly everyone was doing
it, everyone was interested because of church Should be
noted though he wasn't the firstto use satar's in music.
It was actually, the birds were already doing that, but it
(11:00):
didn't catch on. It's David Crosby who introduced
Church Harrison to the sitar andplaying the sitar and
incorporating it into the music and and but George was the one
who made it famous. So we need to honor George
Harrison and and being that its Global Beatles day where it was
on the 22nd here in June even miss me an opportunity to help.
(11:27):
So I wanted to share a book today for all of you who are
Beatles fan and spirituality fans, it is just an awesome book
on George Harrison. And it is a unique book.
So I don't even know how many biographies and autobiographies
if any there are on the Beatles.Probably just as many as there
are on the Rolling Stones and some other huge bands, just
(11:47):
countless countless countless and many of them are good and Of
them are bad, but there's one particularly that I picked up
some years ago, that is very unique and it is this one, it is
called Here Comes the Sun, the spiritual and musical journey of
George Harrison by Joshua Greene.
(12:08):
This was published in. Let me take a look, I should
have looked before it's those little things I forget to do,
2006. This is the spiritual biography
of George Harrison, and that's it.
So, the author even says, he does not go into like the
(12:32):
rooftop concert or life on the road, or recording the last
album, or whatever. Because we've talked concert
doesn't have any spiritual significance in George's life
that can be seen. Maybe he said a prayer before
hand, but it wasn't in his spiritual life, therefore, it
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doesn't make this book. Even the relationships.
He had, like, with Patti Harrison are touched upon only
in context of how they relate toGeorgia's spiritual life.
This is literally a history of George.
Through his Spiritual Development and his what he did
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in the spiritual world. So it goes into detail on the
recording of the Harry crucifixion.
It talks about his buying, the home, or donating, the home, to
the iskcon and England. It talks about things like the
ban jeeva and I actually used toknow one of the guys in jeeva
jeeva. Was this band?
He may not recognize the name, that's the soul and Hinduism
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that were very spiritual and he produced Chiva even though we
don't really remember them therementioned because that's what
was a spiritual thing. It talks about how you know,
when when George died his or gnashing 10 when he died, when
he was had an attacker in his house.
And the guy caught him in the throat, he was cranking Harry
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Krishna while driving down the street, it details all his
spiritual life and it is such a Fascinating book and I've
actually read a couple biographies of The Beatles.
But this one to me was the most interesting, it details him
dealing with the hairy krishna'sand hanging out with them.
(14:24):
You don't get that in other books because most books I think
four Beatles fans. They want to talk about the
music. They want to talk about the
tour's the people, but this is not like that, you know, it has
sentences like George was excited to finally meet the
Krishna Guru Swami prabhupada. He was also distracted.
(14:47):
As his mother had been recently diagnosed with brain cancer.
And and they talk about, you know, John's heroin addiction
and how that was affecting his spirituality and they talk about
all these little things. The guy talks about like I
mentioned earlier how George would put on these concerts but
people wouldn't go. They would literally Riot
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against saying we're done with this.
We're sick of this stuff. And what did George do?
And George have built a relationship with prabhupada
based on the guru's Purity and love for God.
Nothing had changed that but theworld around them had changed
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gone. Were the missionary days of the
60s gone to were George's, burning questions about life's
mysteries. He had learned as much as he
cared to know. Now, he just wanted to live the
truth. He had already discovered Are
you ever going to stop traveling?
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George asked Swami prep upon theteacher replied if that is
krsna's desire. That's wow.
That's lovely. You're not going to get this
than any other spiritual book. So I just wanted to highly
recommend this book and on EarthBeatles day, Global Beatles day
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and there, maybe I believe thereis another spiritual book out
there on George Harrison or something kind of that overlaps
with this. I have not read it.
I'm not familiar with it. I know this one, this one makes
me very happy and I learned so much about George.
And I'm looking at the picture here in my video screen of me
(16:40):
and I my tears, my tears are coming back.
Just wanted to recommend this. I can't, I can't recommend it
enough. If you want to really know
George on a deeper level and be inspired by him and he is an
inspiration. I also want to recommend one
more Book for a slightly bigger View and that is a book of
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. So this is a book.
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I have written some years ago, Ican, I should prep a little more
through these things. This was published in 1994.
I've mentioned this book on thischannel before this is Was a
hurry. She the biography of the man who
gave Transcendental Meditation to the west, by Paul Masson or
Paul Mason. And This is not a gushing,
(17:30):
Praise of Maharishi. Those books exist of all the
gurus out there. They have a team of players or
themselves who write gushing biographies.
They're fun to read. Whenever I find one that's not.
I pick it up. Doesn't even matter who the guru
is. This one is an
honest-to-goodness. Look at my hubby.
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SRI good. Bad in between.
And there is good. He wasn't a con man, he wasn't
all bad. There's some great things
Transcendental Meditation has its benefits and As I said it
would be watching David Lynch movies.
So but there's good bad in. This is a really good biography,
(18:13):
very honest. Take there may be other
biographies out there on him which give an honest take of
Maharishi but this one's the oneI've discovered in the one I
know. And yes, it talks about the
Beatles in here and it's really good.
It gives you a lot of a lot of him.
And it's, it's, I mean, you see if I can find Anything here.
(18:35):
I hear it is the blessing of theBeatles.
There's like a couple chapters dedicated to him. so, Yeah,
definitely check this out. If you want the bigger picture,
it is well worth. So that's all I wanted to share.
Today was just my love of GeorgeHarrison and this really great
(18:59):
book, that should be on your shelf, you definitely love it.
If you are into Sinatra, the Dharma and into Georgian into
the Beatles. So sorry before I start crying
again and making a fool of myself.
Let me Say, thank you for watching all the best to you and
(19:21):
your spiritual journey via whoever May inspire you.
And yeah. Chai SRI Swami.
That I am Jai Shri Krishna Hari.Krishna Hari Krishna Krishna.
Krishna Hari Hara, Hara Rama. Hare Rama Rama.
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Rama had, he had a oh, Lord, O Krishna.
I've Got My Mind Set On You. I've Got My Mind Set On You.
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