SHAWN: hello akhilbhai..
Akhil TV: ghi shantu
SHAWN: so u r in saputara this morning?
Akhil TV: nope..
Akhil TV: will leave from Valsad at 9
Akhil TV: for sidumbar
SHAWN: you going for long tour.. for the whole week?
Akhil TV: will be back sunday evening
Akhil TV: on tues 22nd will leave for...... Udaipur / Shreenathji / Ahmedabad / Nadiad / Vadodara ..... and return on 30th
Akhil TV: and on 8th Aug will leave for Amarnath / Vaishnav Devi and will return on 16th Aug
Akhil TV: lol
SHAWN: wow so many places to go to..
SHAWN: how do u travel all these places..
SHAWN: u giving manthan show today?
Akhil TV: I am meshed up with couple of takss..
Akhil TV: am not sure will I be able to
SHAWN: ok i guess i better not waist your time and let you do what you are going for..so nice chating with you i probably catch you some other time.
Akhil TV: I am getting mails with request to alter / change the timings of my show
Akhil TV: its.. ok Shantu... am going thru mails and responding imp ones only..
Akhil TV: what is ur opinion ?
SHAWN: about changing the time of the show? i would say depend on your schedule and what is the priority you are traveling so i would say just leave the show or let them see the vedio at this time.
SHAWN: i watched this mornig (mytime) show this after noon jivan..
Akhil TV: ok... so one has to take some pain to catch LIVE ..... else recorded ones are always available..
Akhil TV: shold this be OK ?
SHAWN: well you are traveling and you have to give up traveling for that so i would say yes
Akhil TV: giving up traveling.... is not possible... on the contrary my travelling is likely to increase....
SHAWN: i read your mail about guru purnima this afternoon. and really interesting about the guru's//
Akhil TV: yes.. thanks
Akhil TV: it was an article in local newspaper
SHAWN: yes
SHAWN: i been readin gon akilanews..
Akhil TV: what is their URL ?
SHAWN: www.akilanews.com
SHAWN: try www.robinsharma.com also and listing to his book or read calls monk who sold his ferrari.
Akhil TV: dont you think ...... buying and selling luxury is western culture where as we in India have learnt to keep away from UNWANTED Luxury ??
SHAWN: i guess so but after you reach to certain luxry and give up all that luxury and become monc after word is that challange also.
Akhil TV: I dont think so ...
Akhil TV: the point of saturation will automatically push you away from it
SHAWN: i think when we are studying we wanted to be something but after we come that we change our goal isnt how we look for in our life also.
Akhil TV: and the whole materialistic world would see you giving it away !!!
Akhil TV: That is the result of spiritual thinking
SHAWN: not nessasarly i would say but reach to our goal and make different goal..
SHAWN: like i always wanted to become computer programer and i did then after family life change the whole sturcture how we percive our life
Akhil TV: growing in age will also influence your life style.... depending upon your physical, sentimental, emotional and intellectual aspects.
Akhil TV: which is in my opinion is an example of weak determination.
Akhil TV: just to be somebody with some talent ... is satisfaction and...
Akhil TV: to be OUT STANDIND in that field is an achievement.
Akhil TV: what do you think ??
SHAWN: i guess it all on each individual nessasity;s thing.. in my cenerios that i wanted one of us parents to be dedicated to our kids so i guess i change my self way of earning..
Akhil TV: we were talking about the MONK
Akhil TV: what I mean.... is it is always very very easy to give up things after using it..
SHAWN: ah that i heard his tape and he was very egonastic guy and very high end of lawyer so he did not had any body to look for and he change and give up every thing after he could not function any more in his field at all due to all the stress..
Akhil TV: but very difficult to have an understanding for keeping away from it .. before using it.
SHAWN: yes but its not just to keep it away thing he had goal to reach that and then he gave up..
Akhil TV: . so .... you have answered !!!
Akhil TV: and thats the fundamental difference in thinking in east and west
SHAWN: i guess you can say that since i mainly live my life style here in us as american and try to live my life at home indian..
Akhil TV: dont you think giving ... or donating 1000 from 10000000 is much easier than to 10 from 1000 ???
SHAWN: even with kids at home its hard to keep in gujrati speaking at home but i do try hard to speak about it with all kids and wife both..
Akhil TV: the FIRST teacher of a child is Mother
SHAWN: yes you are absululty right in $ senses.
SHAWN: yes
Akhil TV: and we have grown in India in a very close association with Mother..
SHAWN: very close
SHAWN: even still with mother and father very close
Akhil TV: which such monks have never experienced
Akhil TV: they 99% die of stress developing out of lonelyness..
SHAWN: well that i was just reading his novel that indian robin has written and gives his lecture all over the world..
Akhil TV: where as in India.... rather East ... you will hardly find a lonelt person
Akhil TV: there are many who MINT Dollors and Pounds by SELLING Indian culture !!!
SHAWN: true here people has to advertise to get rid of their boredom..
Akhil TV: and UNFORTUNATELY so called sofisticated materially RICH people applaude him ...
Akhil TV: I pity on them coz... they DO NOT UNDERSTAND
Akhil TV: In my opinion the most important ability that person should have is an ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND.
SHAWN: well its totaly different way to look at them cause we have to live with them day in and day out..
SHAWN: well there are majority whites are not that rich here they live their life day to day..
Akhil TV: I do have western 4 to 5 visitors during year from UK, US, Ger, .... I do have an idea....about ... I am more concerned to NRIs .... and their children..
Akhil TV: especially Gujarati families.
Akhil TV: is your last name Patel ?
SHAWN: well as far as how i see the new indian generationg are is if the family is joint and live very culturly i think that thare are more indian kids are very well bought up in us and they follow how their parents are and intereact with family very well
SHAWN: yes
Akhil TV: ok... Shantu .... now have to get ready ..... will cya later..
SHAWN: ok take care
SHAWN: jai shree krishna
Akhil TV: Jai Shree Krishna
