EPISODE 31 - Aditi Nirvaan
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🌟 Welcome to Episode 31 of Casual Temple! In this enlightening episode, we are joined by Aditi Nirvaan who is a seasoned professional in mindfulness, shadow work, self-actualization, and energy alchemy. Aditi shares her personal journey marked by traumas and an awakening that began in her mid-20s. She discusses the continuous journey of enlightenment, experiences of Kundalini awakening, and moments of spontaneous Satori.
Aditi delves into the role of the ego in one's life and spiritual journey, revealing how it surfaces when one is feeling victimized, depressed, or has had tremendous success. She shares her approach to coaching and mentoring, focusing on helping clients uncover the drivers behind their choices and behaviors, change their relationship with themselves, discover their bliss, and realize their highest potential as human beings.
She emphasizes the importance of having a support system during the spiritual journey, crediting her partner's support during her spiritual experiences.
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00:00:01 Merrily
Welcome to Casual Temple podcast episode 31, and I'm your host, Merrily Duffy at Casual Temple. Our mission is to discover our connection to the unseen world of spirit, and how that empowers us to know our true selves. But before we start a little favor, please take a moment to review our show on YouTube, Apple Podcast, Spotify, or your favorite podcast platform.
00:00:20 Merrily
Our most awesome guest this week is Aditi Nirvaan who is a seasoned professional in mindfulness, shadow work, self actualization, and energy.
00:00:28 Merrily
Alchemy. In this episode we learned about Aditi and her awakening, which began when she started questioning many aspects of her life in her mid 20s. This LED her to the spiritual world where she found answers and began her journey of self discovery. Ad shares her perspective on the process of enlightenment, emphasizing that it's a continuous journey, not a final destination, and how being comfortable with this.
00:00:48 Merrily
Comfort is crucial for spiritual growth. Join us on the Casual Temporal podcast where we like to delve into the deep end.
00:00:57 Merrily
These are scheduled simple. Our our guest today is Aditi Nirvaan who has spent over 20 years in mindfulness, shadow work, self actualization and energy alchemy. She's been a therapist, healer, facilitator and coach. Her work might primarily involves helping people self actualize, transform, and wholeheartedly embrace themselves.
00:01:17 Merrily
The multi award recipient for her contribution and impact in the world of therapy and coaching, Aditi is a master trainer with accreditation from IP. Hmm.
00:01:26 Merrily
International practitioner of Holistic Medicine UK for designing and delivering original content in her private mentoring programs, certification courses and retreats and all her work. She focuses on clarity and thought, speech and choice alignment with your highest self and recognition of the work you are here to do, all steeped with a deep sense of meaning.
00:01:46 Merrily
In fulfillment, Aditi welcome to the casual temple. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, I'm really looking forward to hearing more about you and how you, how you help people connect with spirit. I found you on Instagram and saw, like, quite a few of your videos. And they're very.
00:02:04 Merrily
Like you're just like this. This is it. This is how you do it. And like, it's very logical. And I love that approach.
00:02:13 Merrily
So yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. So kind of like kind of where we start is, can you kind of tell us a little a little bit about your stories so we can get to know how you ended up on your current spiritual path and becoming a mentor?
00:02:30 Aditi
Well, like you said, it's been 20 years of doing this work and I wasn't always how I am right now. In fact, the first half of my life was quite the mess I was. I will be very forthright in who I am. I don't like hiding, and I don't like.
00:02:51 Aditi
You know, inflating things you know, and making myself very spiritual or anything like.
00:02:58 Aditi
Right.
00:02:58 Aditi
The point is that I was very real from the beginning and it's not something that a lot of people around me could digest.
00:03:07 Aditi
And and it was often mistaken as extreme stubbornness or rigidity. Or you're not just being a problem child like she really wants to have her own way. Yeah. And for me, I was like, no. But there is something inside me that tells me what to do, you know? And that if I don't do it.
00:03:18 Merrily
Right.
00:03:28 Aditi
I know it'll get messed up.
00:03:30 Aditi
And it took me a really long time to understand that that's instinct.
00:03:37 Aditi
You know, or the voice of my soul, or the voice of my spirit, or my inner voice, and it it. It's not 100 names, right? Right. So, but by then I had already faced a lot of stuff in my life. And because of all of the traumas that I went through, I have been. Yes. I mean, I have been abused.
00:03:59 Aditi
And I have been through.
00:04:01 Speaker 3
Very closely through through two wars.
00:04:04 Aditi
In my life, and in fact, I was in New York during 9/11 and I unfortunately saw the whole thing happen and I was there for work and then that left a deep impact on my.
00:04:15 Aditi
Life.
00:04:16 Merrily
Yeah.
00:04:16 Aditi
And then I was involved with the Gulf War in 1990.
00:04:21 Aditi
I was in my teens.
00:04:23 Speaker 3
Right. So where, where, where?
00:04:25 Aditi
Where where I went, disaster seemed to kind of follow, you know, and by the time of my 20s, I had already been physically abused, sexually abused. I had had a litany of traumas, like a long list of them, and by my 20s.
00:04:43 Aditi
I really thought if this is my life, I don't think I really have the strength to go on. Yeah, you know, and I had no guidance in my life at that point and I turned to alcohol and I turned to smoking and.
00:05:00 Aditi
I was a ******** party animal. You know, I would show up drunk at work and it wasn't really pretty.
00:05:05 Merrily
Yeah.
00:05:06 Aditi
And I was very angry. I was a very angry girl. And, you know, being the eldest daughter, we are almost Half Men.
00:05:15 Merrily
Yeah.
00:05:16 Aditi
Yeah, in the way we are brought up, right, so.
00:05:18 Speaker 3
MHM.
00:05:20 Aditi
Happen, you know all of that and so.
00:05:21 Aditi
So actually by my mid 20s I started questioning a lot of things in my life and I never thought for a moment in my life that I would even meditate like meditation was for losers. And that was for people who were boring. And I was like, OK, your life must be a big mess. I'm OK.
00:05:42 Aditi
You know, so then I got to that place and because I was dating somebody who was in it at that point, I got.
00:05:49 Aditi
Introduced to that word.
00:05:51 Aditi
And you know you do stupid things for love. So I turned out to do some nice things for love and that really helped. I later on did marry the man and then much later divorced him. But.
00:06:03 Speaker 3
The the the.
00:06:04 Aditi
Point remains is that when I I just when I have all these questions, I couldn't find answers. I know I had to go beyond what I knew.
00:06:13 Aditi
Yeah. And then Journey began and well, there's no looking back. And then I got educated in, like, a long list of things, you know, and and certifications and therapy work. And. And anytime you go and learn any therapy, you have to do it on you. So I discovered a lot of gems.
00:06:32 Aditi
There, right there was a.
00:06:33 Aditi
Treasure chest waiting there to be explored and I had just been handed the treat.
00:06:39 Aditi
Wow, it's been 20 years doing that. So we're we're certain people see me as coming to.
00:06:39 Speaker 3
So.
00:06:47 Aditi
A certain place in life, I don't see it from our perspective. I still see myself discovering things every day and still on the same journey, you know? And that's it. Yeah. Mentoring is happening now because I genuinely feel I have a lot to share with people. And I I think there are many, many more people deeply passionate about taking this work forward.
00:07:09 Aditi
And those who resonate with me join me and that's.
00:07:12 Speaker 4
Like.
00:07:15 Merrily
Yeah. What, what a story. Yeah. So much of that struggle. And then you figure, you know, figuring it out along the way and still figuring it out. Right. I love that you.
00:07:24 Merrily
Said that because.
00:07:25 Merrily
I think it's. I think it's always you're not like at the top of anything. You're just like I'm still figuring it out, yeah.
00:07:34 Aditi
Very true.
00:07:35 Merrily
Yeah. So I know you said that kind of I guess in the first, uh, you know, half of your life or 20 years of your life or it sounds like you didn't really have any support, but did you have any support or guidance, you know, kind of in your journey?
00:07:49 Merrily
Me. You know that helped you or inspiration or anything like that?
00:07:55 Aditi
Yeah, I did. I actually did have a guide or a teacher you could call him. Some people would call him a guru, but I hesitate using that word because I find it a little old fashioned.
00:08:09 Aditi
And you know.
00:08:12 Aditi
There was this whole thing about.
00:08:14 Aditi
Me surrendering to the guru which never actually happened. I was not able to do it, you know, because I always felt very strongly that it's very difficult for me to surrender to someone who still is very much.
00:08:28 Aditi
In his ego.
00:08:30 Aditi
You know, and my instinct kept saying, no, no, no, no and.
00:08:34 Aditi
By then, I knew I had to listen to it, so it was a very, very, very conflictual relationship. And there was a lot of back and forth and there was a lot of anger. And then there were moments of peace and learning and all of that.
00:08:48 Aditi
But it finally ended a few years ago and I think when there isn't A1 single teacher and you're left on your own, the struggle is much harder.
00:09:00 Aditi
But the journey is actually 100 times more beautiful. So. So he was not the only one. There were always a lot of other teachers that I learned from and.
00:09:10 Aditi
I was inspired by.
00:09:11 Aditi
And I continue to be inspired and I learned from them as well even today.
00:09:16
Yeah.
00:09:16 Aditi
And every teacher has a beautiful essence of their own that I love to bask in and.
00:09:22 Aditi
Yeah.
00:09:23 Aditi
Like we discussed, I mean the learning continues.
00:09:25 Merrily
Yeah. Well, I love that you pointed out. Obviously the like noticing that sort of ego in your guru because you know there's a lot of people that are talking about like gurus now and they're like, oh man, they did this, they did this, they did this.
00:09:40 Merrily
And it's, you know, because like you you you saw. I was like, oh, there's a lot of still ego happening there and I don't the surrendering is hard. Right. Like you can't do it if you're like well.
00:09:51 Merrily
They're deeply flawed, but they have such great teachings. You know what? A struggle.
00:09:57 Aditi
Factly, which is why it was so conflictual.
00:10:00 Aditi
Yeah, you know.
00:10:01 Aditi
Ever since I was a kid, I could see through people very easily. I can still do it and but I never knew that that.
00:10:11 Aditi
Ability that I had then could actually translate to the work I do.
00:10:14 Aditi
Now I never connected it. You know it. It came about much later. And so when I would see people and I would call out on their BS, it would completely shock them, the threats. So I had to learn to keep my track shut. I realized that, OK, I'm really triggering. I really.
00:10:30
God.
00:10:34 Speaker 4
Just keep quiet.
00:10:35 Merrily
Oh Oh my.
00:10:36 Aditi
Gosh. And then I discovered one day that ohh I get can I can get paid to do this. That's not too bad.
00:10:45 Merrily
You get paid. The bigger people are, you know like.
00:10:45 Speaker 3
But.
00:10:48 Merrily
Like pull out their the things that you notice that's too funny.
00:10:52
Yes.
00:10:55 Merrily
Oh man, yeah, I'm thinking about because I've I've been in, I'm in the corporate world still, but I've learned a lot of lessons and one of.
00:11:00 Merrily
Them was that.
00:11:00 Merrily
Right. Because I, you know, as an intuitive person, you I would start talking to somebody and then there would be this like running dialogue in the back of my head telling me about the person. Right. Like all this information. And I was like.
00:11:13 Merrily
And then it would blurt something out, you know, like blur. And then it was like, and then they get offended or hurt. And I was like ohh.
00:11:20 Speaker 3
Yes, every time.
00:11:26 Merrily
Ohh man, I just thought I was really blunt was like my I I'm just blunt. You know? I don't know. Yeah.
00:11:32 Merrily
That's not fun.
00:11:33 Aditi
I've been told that a lot, and I've also been called very intimidating and you know, yeah. And it's because when you call out.
00:11:41 Aditi
People's BS, you know, they don't know how to show up.
00:11:44 Merrily
With you, yeah.
00:11:46 Aditi
Because they're really trying to hide everything. And my point has always been you don't need to hide because I'm not going to judge you for.
00:11:53 Aditi
What I see?
00:11:55 Aditi
You know, and it takes a bit of time for people to understand that and that's OK, honestly. I mean. But The funny thing is, the moment they get to know me and they know that there is a.
00:12:04 Aditi
Lot of love.
00:12:05 Aditi
Actually there, then. Oh my God, I can relax. You know, it's not that bad, you know? Yeah, I actually bettered a.
00:12:11 Aditi
Lot. So I was like, oh, OK.
00:12:15 Merrily
Wow.
00:12:16 Aditi
I'm sure you know what that feels like. Yeah, I'm.
00:12:18 Merrily
Oh, my gosh. Yeah, I'm feeling a lot like I'm also an oldest daughter, the oldest child's daughter. Yeah. So I was like, Yep. Like, yeah, tough toughing it up. And. But I'm very sensitive, you know? So it was.
00:12:25
Wow.
00:12:32 Merrily
Yeah. It's hard to balance, yeah.
00:12:32 Speaker 3
Yes.
00:12:34 Aditi
I know. Oh my God.
00:12:41 Merrily
So I don't really want to talk about your awakening experience, but before we move on, were there any I love talking about books because I love books. Were there any sort of inspirational books that you read that was like, wow, like, opened up some doors for you?
00:12:57 Aditi
I know that at the beginning of my journey I did read a lot. I cannot remember their names and I cannot remember the authors, but one of the things that also happens when you're on the awakening journey is that you don't actually remember a lot of things because you're also so, so many times you're being in the moment.
00:13:16
Hmm.
00:13:16 Speaker 3
That it doesn't.
00:13:17 Aditi
Really leave an imprint on you.
00:13:20 Aditi
Because you're not triggered, nothing is happening. You're just being 1st and then you're like you.
00:13:24 Aditi
Don't have anything to.
00:13:25 Aditi
Carry with you. Yeah. So I actually don't remember a lot of them that I started with. I do know a lot of them that I've read recently. In the last maybe five or six years. So like you, I'm a voracious reader.
00:13:36
Hmm.
00:13:40 Aditi
My weekends are filled with, you know, lounging on the couch and having at least three books to read, and I keep switching between them and I have some.
00:13:48 Aditi
On the Kindle as well.
00:13:48 Speaker 3
Hello.
00:13:49 Aditi
Right. Yep. And phones on silent and people are banging at the door like we're trying.
00:13:54 Speaker 3
To call you. Where the hell are you? Ohh, you're.
00:13:57 Speaker 3
Right, you know, so I do.
00:13:59 Aditi
Have my favorite authors, and they're like a strange mix.
00:14:03 Aditi
Of the ******** spirituality and you know the psycho spirituality or the psycho emotional or transpersonal psychology because I love both and my work also involves both. So I read people. So the real hard to spiritual guys are like Ramana Maharshi Nisargadatta.
00:14:23 Aditi
Maraj Neem Karoli Baba all of his books.
00:14:27 Speaker 4
And then there are the.
00:14:28 Aditi
Western guys, so there's Rupert Spira. I really love. I love Ken Wilbur. I love Robert Augustus masters. I love you know about him. But he is a PhD in transpersonal and he's awesome. He does a lot of shadow work, so if that's something you really love, that you should.
00:14:46 Aditi
You know, check out his books. I've read all his books. I have all these books and then I adore this Canadian woman, Daniel LaPorte. And I read her book. White hot shoe.
00:14:59 Aditi
Just when I had quit the whole Guru Ashram thing right and the entire book is about how spiritual bypassing happens in ashrams and with gurus. And I was like wait ago women thank you for blowing the little of.
00:15:00 Speaker 3
To.
00:15:12 Speaker 3
Those things, yeah.
00:15:12 Merrily
What? Ohh amazing. Ohh wow.
00:15:16 Speaker 3
Yeah, I love.
00:15:18 Aditi
I love her stuff. She's like a high priestess. I'm spiritual and she's ohh. She's got away with words I love.
00:15:25 Aditi
Ohh man, I really really love it so.
00:15:28 Merrily
Now I'm going to add add some books to.
00:15:30 Aditi
My collection, yes, absolutely. And then I also like a lot of creative people. So I'm a huge fan of Julia Cameron and all her work. And I've signed up for her classes as well. So I have a creative side as well. Writer. I'm an artist, so.
00:15:44 Merrily
Yeah.
00:15:48 Aditi
And I find that when you're on the spiritual path, so to speak, you do.
00:15:52 Aditi
You have a creative side that genuinely just opens up because you need to express who you truly are. Just comes out.
00:16:00 Speaker 3
Yeah, so a few.
00:16:01 Aditi
Years ago I started writing and then I wrote for a lot of international portals, so I'm a published writer, not an author.
00:16:10 Aditi
In that sense.
00:16:11 Merrily
OK.
00:16:12 Aditi
And then recently I started liking Stephen Cotler. So he writes a lot about flow.
00:16:21 Aditi
And how to create more flow in your life. So a lot of us genuinely have flow and we have moments of flow where it comes when.
00:16:28 Aditi
It comes, yeah.
00:16:29 Aditi
But we don't know how to purposely create it to maximize your potential and.
00:16:35 Aditi
I love the guy for nailing that and getting that out there. So Steven Butler is not the one that I read. So yeah.
00:16:43 Aditi
These are all the.
00:16:44 Aditi
Guys that are there in my.
00:16:45 Merrily
Bookshelf. Wow. Ohh man. Yeah. I'm so excited. So many things. Like I haven't read into the subjects that you said you talked about, but now it's like I need to know more. And that's the subject area. So I love it well, especially about flow, because that's something I need. And you know, I'm always working on because it's like.
00:17:04 Merrily
For me, you know, I was gonna push out, right? Uh, push it out. I like, gotta focus on like, what a, you know, make it happen. You know, instead of like, allow.
00:17:13 Merrily
You know, just like.
00:17:14 Merrily
Having it happen. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:17:18 Speaker 3
So this is actually how.
00:17:19 Aditi
To be productive the the hustle.
00:17:24 Merrily
Love it, I love.
00:17:25 Merrily
That.
00:17:28 Merrily
OK. So can we go into sort of you know, my question is sort of like what is an awakening experience in your view? Like how would you describe it to somebody?
00:17:36 Speaker 4
Oh.
00:17:40 Aditi
Something which is actually very, very hard to put into words.
00:17:44 Merrily
Yeah.
00:17:45 Speaker 3
I would say.
00:17:45 Speaker 3
That.
00:17:46 Aditi
My understanding of it is.
00:17:48 Aditi
It's an acute awareness of your true self.
00:17:49 Speaker 3
Aware.
00:17:52 Aditi
It's it's an awareness of who you are with your light and your dark both.
00:17:57
Mm-hmm.
00:18:00 Aditi
And it's an embracing of that. It's not a, you know? Ohh I have shame associated with these areas of my life. So I don't want to talk about it. I'm just going to push it, you know, right in the top spot which no one ever goes to and I'm going to let it remain there. So it's never that it's more about.
00:18:11 Merrily
Yeah.
00:18:19 Aditi
Ohh I have shame there. So let me take a look at that. You know that's when you're really interested in waking up.
00:18:26 Aditi
From this blindfold and you know that we've had all our life, this wheel that we've had all our life, and it's really more about finding your truth, embracing yourself wholeheartedly, and then what happens is we go beyond the relationships that we are in. We go beyond the work that we are in, our relationship to money.
00:18:49 Aditi
All of these things changes.
00:18:52 Aditi
And when you actually start choosing different things in your life than you used to, and you never ever think that you would have.
00:18:58 Aditi
Ended up where you are.
00:18:59
Hmm.
00:19:00 Aditi
You, you know, so the whole Awakening journey actually starts with asking questions. So if I had to put it in one line, awakening is a process.
00:19:12 Aditi
Of having a **** load of unanswered questions about yourself, about your life, about your choices, about everything, and then starting off on the journey, discovering what the truths of those questions are, and that takes you somewhere.
00:19:31 Aditi
You know, but it always starts with a bunch of questions, and it can be as simple as why am I here? Is that is this all that there is to my life? I mean, there has to be more than this. It.
00:19:43 Aditi
Can't be this this.
00:19:45 Aditi
Is nonsense. I did not sign up for this. No, it can't be so much pain.
00:19:51 Merrily
Hey.
00:19:51 Speaker 3
You're kidding, right?
00:19:53 Aditi
And then it goes on to. So what's my purpose? I don't have joy with what I do.
00:19:58 Merrily
Mm-hmm.
00:19:58 Aditi
And then I think ultimately we start questioning the fabric of reality.
00:20:04 Aditi
You know, that's when we start to realize the difference between when our ego is speaking and when spirit is speaking through us.
00:20:04 Merrily
Yeah.
00:20:14 Aditi
Yes, when you get to that distinction, you start finding peace.
00:20:20 Merrily
Hmm.
00:20:20 Aditi
A few moments here and.
00:20:22 Speaker 3
There. Yeah, it's never permanent. It's always a loser.
00:20:27 Merrily
Right, exactly. Ohh man.
00:20:30 Merrily
Like Ohh I oh, I was feeling peace, but Oh no thank.
00:20:30
Oh.
00:20:33 Speaker 3
You like like peace? I was so.
00:20:35 Aditi
Peaceful. And I was having, like my lemon mint soda. And then I thought I need to pay rent next Monday with money and then it's.
00:20:43 Aditi
Gone. Yeah, right.
00:20:48
Ohh yeah.
00:20:50 Aditi
So to me.
00:20:50 Aditi
That's really what awakening is, and honestly, it's can take from a single moment of your lifetimes for sure. Yeah, actually, I think.
00:20:52 Speaker 3
Yeah.
00:21:02
Oh.
00:21:02 Aditi
I sorry, really envy those teachers who had spontaneous enlightenment. And I'm like lucky ********. Ohh.
00:21:14 Speaker 3
You know, people like.
00:21:14 Speaker 4
Nice, yeah.
00:21:16 Aditi
And Byron, Kitty and I was.
00:21:17 Aditi
Like oh.
00:21:19 Merrily
Yeah.
00:21:21 Merrily
That was what I was going to ask, or not asking. Just talk a little bit about because I think at least.
00:21:26 Speaker 3
It's.
00:21:27 Merrily
You know, this is my perspective, right? Like, I don't know if everybody thinks it's, but you know, because we talk, you know, there's a lot of people interested in, like, kundalini awakening. I had a guest on the show who had a kundalini awakening. And I think everybody thinks enlightenment is like a lightning bolt, like that right. Kind of like what you just said, like. And then, oh, I'm enlightened, right. But even my guest who had Kundalini awakening.
00:21:48 Merrily
It's a process and you just pointed it out. It's a process, and so it doesn't mean you're you're like a guru where you sit on top of the world and you have no problems. It's a process and most likely a very uncomfortable process.
00:22:00 Aditi
Yeah.
00:22:02 Speaker 3
Horribly.
00:22:04 Aditi
I think it.
00:22:05 Aditi
Really creeps and takes over your life if you have the willingness to be uncomfortable.
00:22:11 Merrily
Yeah.
00:22:13 Speaker 3
A lot of people.
00:22:14 Aditi
Hate, discomfort, hate, change, and that actually suppresses the whole journey. It pushes it away from you, and that's when pain actually occurs the.
00:22:23 Aditi
Most yeah.
00:22:25 Aditi
When you realize that you can be comfortable in being uncomfortable all the time.
00:22:31 Aditi
Then the journey.
00:22:32 Aditi
Is a little better a little bit.
00:22:34 Merrily
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
00:22:36 Aditi
Yeah. And yeah, there have been a lot of moments where.
00:22:42 Aditi
A lot of crazy **** has happened. I mean, like your other guest on the show who spoke about Kundalini. And I mean, I've had that, but I've even had what in Japanese Zen with is called Satori.
00:22:58
Oh.
00:23:00 Aditi
And Satori is like a very, very brief window of.
00:23:05 Aditi
Real scene. I don't like calling it enlightenment because that feels like it's the end of the journey and it's the be all and it feels very egoic to call it that. Yeah. You know, but this is where there was like a there was like a few hours, in fact around I think probably like a whole day.
00:23:25 Aditi
Where I was.
00:23:27 Aditi
Able to see this character called Aditi.
00:23:32 Aditi
And I was able to see how her mind works. And I I can't even say I was able to see it. It's more like it was able to see me. Yeah. Language fields here. Yeah, totally. Like I wait. No, not I. No. Yeah, exactly. Because there's there's no I at that point. And yeah, I think for almost 12.
00:23:52 Aditi
Hours. I have only laughed.
00:23:56 Aditi
Yes, I have only laughed because I thought the whole thing of being in a body and having this mind and all of it was so bloody ridiculous.
00:24:07 Merrily
It is.
00:24:08 Aditi
Where I I I, you know cause this thing where I I well I could see me for all. Yeah. Lots of words right now but this character is ******* and moaning over things that are so irrelevant in our.
00:24:21 Speaker 4
Please.
00:24:22 Speaker 4
Life, you know, and she's just complaining and she's not happy. And it's like, what is there not to be happy about? And there was so much.
00:24:31 Aditi
Happening.
00:24:32 Aditi
In those 12 hours but.
00:24:34 Speaker 4
I literally found everything funny.
00:24:39 Merrily
Ah.
00:24:41 Speaker 4
And there was.
00:24:41 Aditi
A. There was a complete disassociation with the body.
00:24:45 Aditi
Complete.
00:24:47
Hmm.
00:24:47 Aditi
It's like I'm looking at it and it's like ohh, this is interesting.
00:24:52 Merrily
What's this? Yeah.
00:24:53 Speaker 3
It's like I wonder what this does. Wow.
00:24:57 Aditi
I stood under the shower and it was the most.
00:24:59 Aditi
Fascinating thing in the world.
00:25:01 Aditi
Like it's like you, you know, if you put a puppy or a baby under a shower and the way it would experience it, I kind of got how it would be for them.
00:25:07 Merrily
Hmm.
00:25:13 Merrily
Hmm yeah.
00:25:15 Speaker 4
So there was like this.
00:25:16 Aditi
Absolute wonder about everything I was. So I've happened like a couple of times in my life and.
00:25:20
At the.
00:25:23 Aditi
There was no trigger.
00:25:25 Aditi
There was no pain in my life that was going on at that time. Nothing. So it was spontaneous, literally.
00:25:29 Speaker 3
Mm-hmm.
00:25:32 Merrily
Yeah.
00:25:33 Aditi
You know and and it just happened. And and yes, after that there have been a lot more insights and after the first one, I think the distinction between the voice of the ego and.
00:25:45 Speaker 3
Hmm.
00:25:47 Aditi
Voice of the soul.
00:25:48 Aditi
Became clearer. Much clearer. Yeah.
00:25:50 Merrily
Yeah.
00:25:52 Merrily
Yeah, because you could step into, you know, whatever that was and like, see that difference?
00:25:56 Aditi
Yeah. No, I don't think that's accessible at the moment. The doors are shut. Yeah, but that momentary opening the Satori was.
00:26:07 Aditi
Because you step away, yeah.
00:26:10 Speaker 3
You see the full character.
00:26:13 Aditi
And it's been so glory.
00:26:15 Speaker 3
Right. And you wonder what the heck is?
00:26:16 Merrily
Grace.
00:26:18 Speaker 3
The fuss all about why?
00:26:19 Aditi
Is it in?
00:26:21 Aditi
And it's so funny. And you see the mind like it's running on a treadmill like, you know, 12 miles an hour. And it's scared it's gonna fall off. And you wanna tell it, OK, listen, the speed. It's OK. No, I gotta get there. That's my goal. I have to be there and.
00:26:35 Aditi
It's like, OK, well, it's ridiculous what you're doing. You get it. So the entire thought process, the mind itself, became so funny to see.
00:26:39 Merrily
Yeah.
00:26:47 Aditi
And I was like, what would I not give to have that again? And I'm like.
00:26:50 Aditi
OK, that's my ego.
00:26:51 Merrily
Nope. Stepped in again, yeah.
00:26:56 Aditi
So yeah, that has also happened along with Kundalini and Illini is very hard. Yeah, it's indescribable, actually.
00:27:07 Aditi
It doesn't lock more to the body.
00:27:09 Aditi
And then just to the mind, right? Uh, so I've had experiences even at home and I'm a lover of crystals. I have a lot of crystals in my house. So while having those experiences, I actually had like a couple of crystal geodes around me break on their own. Yeah. So there was a lot of raw power.
00:27:29 Merrily
Huh.
00:27:30 Aditi
And my partner, my current partner, he actually witnessed one of the episodes and.
00:27:36 Speaker 3
He was so scared for a few.
00:27:38 Speaker 3
Days that he was like, what am I dating?
00:27:42 Merrily
What did I get myself into?
00:27:45 Speaker 3
But I was.
00:27:46 Aditi
Thinking to tell him what he needed to do and he did it and he could handle it. That's the.
00:27:48 Merrily
Yeah.
00:27:51 Merrily
I knew with.
00:27:53 Aditi
That he was the one I was supposed to be with. That's when I knew.
00:27:56 Merrily
That's amazing. I know. There's like rocks breaking around you and.
00:28:00 Merrily
Like he's still around around.
00:28:05 Aditi
Like different kind of girl.
00:28:10 Merrily
Oh my goodness. Well, can you kind of give us an idea? And I say spiritual path, but kind of what your your spiritual path is like today or sort of, you know, even if it's not a path it's, you know, some predefined path, but any sort of practices that you kind of do like your day-to-day or week to week, kind of what does that look like?
00:28:31 Aditi
For me, what do I do? Yeah, yeah. Ohh. OK. I actually don't do anything in particular. Very honestly, I don't have any rituals per say.
00:28:42 Aditi
UM.
00:28:44 Aditi
I meditate when I get the inner calling too, and that could be like a whole day in it or nothing for several days, yeah, or just few minutes in a day.
00:28:57 Aditi
For me, now it's not like ohh I have to meditate on the clock like I used to have apps before. And you know all of that and now no more. Now it's really more about I find my energy being pulled within. It's like a withdrawal from the outside world. Like I lose interest in the world outside for a few moments.
00:29:16
It's.
00:29:16 Aditi
It's like someone is saying something and I'm like, OK, I have no interest in listening to what you have to say right now. So I need to go and meditate and if it's my partner, my son, my friend, they get it, they get, yeah, you know that I'm cooking and crazy and they're like, OK, you need to meditate. Let her go, you know, so I'll just move to another room and I'll just sit. And it could be sitting and watching.
00:29:37 Aditi
A bird outside? Yeah. Or it could be petting my cat. Or it could just be with my eyes closed and just simply being aware.
00:29:47 Aditi
And you know the days of guided meditation are over long ago. I don't in fact, have interferes with my own peace.
00:29:56 Aditi
Yeah. And yeah, I mean, otherwise I have. In fact, I I do weight training. Yeah. Working out is one of my meditations because it forces me to focus on the breath. It forces me to focus on how my body is moving and become very, very self.
00:30:18 Aditi
Where I like that I love it. For me, it's actually a very in practice and I I do, I do cheat long as well. I've I've learned cheat Gong and I've learned.
00:30:20 Merrily
Hmm.
00:30:29 Aditi
Itchy. So I do keep going when I feel I'm not able to get a handle on my emotions. Moon and Pisces. So my emotions are all over the place. Yeah, I need to get a handle on them sometimes. So Yep, chicom really helps and so does backlog.
00:30:35 Speaker 3
Hmm.
00:30:49 Aditi
Therapy. So I use it for these two and handle that. Ohh and when I have crisis, I have a couple of friends who are really, really good therapists.
00:31:01 Aditi
And there's like a 911 message that goes out.
00:31:01
What?
00:31:07 Merrily
Wow. Yeah, I like the. Well, I'm too many things that you say. Things I'm like. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. The same thing. Similarly with meditation. Like I was meditating for hours a day for a couple years and then now it's like.
00:31:23 Merrily
You know I'm not, and but I do strength training. I do similar and I found the same thing I and for hours I'm at the gym for like 3 hours lifting weights like, yeah and like. But I love it. And it's very meditative. It is. And connecting with the body which, you know for me is heat.
00:31:35
Oh wow.
00:31:43 Merrily
And I think for.
00:31:44 Merrily
A lot of people is huge, like a huge thing, like getting into the body. Yeah, it is. It is.
00:31:50 Aditi
My partner is he's also an athlete, so for him. Yeah. So for him, it's very important to, you know, for him, meditation, is that right, you know?
00:32:00 Aditi
And I was like when I initially met him, I was like, seriously, I do the same thing.
00:32:06 Aditi
So he's like, OK, then we should go out.
00:32:09 Merrily
You and me.
00:32:15 Merrily
I thank you for sharing that. I'm so I'm so jazz like you also like to lift weights because I love it so much. Oh my God.
00:32:21 Aditi
Yeah, I'm not. I'm not your typical spiritual yoga girl. In fact, I'll be crazy about rock music and I use profanities.
00:32:35 Aditi
I'm not your typical spiritual girl. I'm a very foul mouthed.
00:32:39 Speaker 3
Mom or teen boy?
00:32:41 Speaker 3
Yeah.
00:32:42 Merrily
Your language is colorful and probably very relevant. You probably pick up all the good slang nowadays.
00:32:49 Aditi
Yes, I do. And I'm learning from Jen. You know Jen C and.
00:32:56 Speaker 3
I don't understand a lot of that stuff, but I try to.
00:33:01 Merrily
Yeah.
00:33:03 Merrily
Yeah. Thank you for walking us through that. And so how would you say and you had a video on this, so which I loved on Instagram, but how does somebody know when they are on the right path in their?
00:33:17 Merrily
Life.
00:33:20 Aditi
Oh my God, I got so many I get so many people asking me this, especially coins. I want to be on the right.
00:33:27 Speaker 3
Path. You never know.
00:33:31 Speaker 3
Are you freaking kidding me? I still don't know, right?
00:33:35 Merrily
Yeah, yeah.
00:33:37 Aditi
That's the thing. The honestly, the answer is you don't. You don't know if you're on the right path and you never will.
00:33:45 Aditi
The only time that you'll see that you may have made some right choices and that right is also a very judgy kind of a right. You know, because it depends from what filter or what perspective you're looking at the whole situation.
00:33:54 Merrily
Yeah.
00:34:02 Aditi
You know, like now when I look at it.
00:34:05 Aditi
Uh.
00:34:06 Aditi
Did I make the right decision to marry the man that I married? Not really, but was it the right decision spiritually? Yes, because he introduced me to this world, you know? So it.
00:34:17 Speaker 4
Depends from which perspective of asking.
00:34:19 Aditi
The question so right is never.
00:34:24 Aditi
It's never.
00:34:26 Speaker 4
The truth.
00:34:28 Aditi
You know, it can be true for one thing, and it can be true for something else, but it's never deep truth. The truth is just one thing, and something that's true can be true for very different things, right? So it really depends on where you're looking at. But I also feel that if you're asking the question.
00:34:48 Aditi
You are probably doing it from your, from your ego mind, because the spirit honestly doesn't give a damn right. It's only the ego that looks and says well. I think I made the right choice, I think.
00:35:03 Merrily
Yeah.
00:35:04 Merrily
You could.
00:35:04 Speaker 3
For me. Yeah. Yeah, so.
00:35:08 Aditi
So honestly, we're all jumping off cliffs and growing wings on the way down.
00:35:15 Speaker 3
Right. Yeah, we have no clue where.
00:35:17 Aditi
We are and we don't even know where the heck the path starts and even.
00:35:21 Aditi
Even if there.
00:35:22 Speaker 3
Is 1.
00:35:23 Aditi
Right. If you feel that you're on a path and you feel that it actually disappears.
00:35:29 Aditi
Then that is the point that you have actually surrendered and now you're being LED.
00:35:35 Merrily
Hmm yeah.
00:35:37 Aditi
And you have to then learn to trust that instead of asking if you're on the right path.
00:35:44 Speaker 3
Like I don't see a path anymore. I'm just taking a wild guess. Maybe if we continue, we might just get to where we're supposed to.
00:35:52 Merrily
Go right. Let's try. Yeah.
00:35:55 Speaker 3
Let's just take the leap of faith and try it.
00:35:59 Aditi
You know, so and if you are one.
00:36:00 Merrily
Hmm.
00:36:03 Aditi
Of those people, who's?
00:36:04 Aditi
Also, like me actually, and I love instances that I'm planned and charted and my points and I know.
00:36:12 Aditi
But there's always this space left for it to get completely screwed up.
00:36:17 Merrily
Yeah.
00:36:17 Aditi
It will not go as far what we planned, and that's OK, yeah. Now, will it be, you know, seeing, I I I want to see where this is going to actually take me now.
00:36:28 Merrily
Yeah. So.
00:36:29 Aditi
That too. So there is no right path.
00:36:34 Merrily
Yeah, yeah, I know. I've definitely asked different like.
00:36:39 Merrily
Spiritual healers and I've asked them, am I on the right? I've asked that question for sure. Right. And and it is like funny because you're right, because it's basically, you know, it is now. It's like, well, I'm just kind of doing the best I can with the information I have in this moment. That's all I can.
00:37:00 Merrily
Repeated.
00:37:02 Aditi
Yeah, but this is 1 funny point that you come to in your life and you look back and from where you are then and the mindset you have then and the perspective you have then.
00:37:15 Aditi
You actually start saying that everything that happened was perfect.
00:37:20 Aditi
However wrong it may feel, yeah, however terrible it may have seemed then.
00:37:28 Aditi
You see how magical and perfect it all was?
00:37:33 Aditi
And if you can look back and see that.
00:37:36 Aditi
Because when you have faith and trust, it can't just filter into one area when it comes into seeing your past perfect, you will also see your future as that.
00:37:48 Merrily
Oh.
00:37:49 Aditi
Oh my God, it's always worked out in my favor.
00:37:53 Aditi
It's always worked out in my favor, and if it has till now, it will in the future as well, right?
00:38:02 Merrily
Yeah, that is definitely hard for for people, especially when you're in in a time that's a bit challenging, right? It's super hard to remember that.
00:38:13 Aditi
And you should. You shouldn't be feeling that way if you're going through a hard time, right. Let me say that to anyone in the future who may be watching this. Yeah. And OK, that could be because your life's going well. Hey, you know what? When my life is going ******, I don't feel it either.
00:38:29
Right.
00:38:29 Merrily
It.
00:38:30 Aditi
And if you pretend to feel it, then that's spiritual bypassing, and that's even more damaging.
00:38:36
Wow.
00:38:36
What?
00:38:37 Aditi
Yeah, you have to acknowledge where you are. It's like I'm really in a screwed up place right now and I do not feel that right now. And I'm not even trying to get there right now. Yeah. In this moment, I'm just trying to breathe.
00:38:53 Aditi
And if you can.
00:38:53 Merrily
Do that. That's perfect. Yeah.
00:38:57 Aditi
That's more than.
00:38:59 Merrily
That is good stuff. Oh my goodness. Yeah. Because I think you're right cause.
00:39:03 Merrily
I think a.
00:39:04 Merrily
Lot of times and I've yeah, I'm definitely guilty of this for sure too. When somebody's going through a tough time and you're like.
00:39:10 Merrily
You.
00:39:10 Merrily
Want to fix it with spiritual things, right? But maybe it's just, you know, you sit in, sit in.
00:39:13
Yes.
00:39:16 Merrily
With yourself and I'm just going to do the one thing I know I can do.
00:39:19 Merrily
Very well, which is breathe start from there.
00:39:23 Aditi
That's totally fine, yeah.
00:39:25 Merrily
Oh, I love.
00:39:26 Merrily
Uh.
00:39:28 Merrily
So can you kind of tell us like how do you assist your clients with your coaching and mentoring and all the really cool things that?
00:39:34 Merrily
You do.
00:39:36 Aditi
Ohh God, I honestly I hate this question. This is this was the category of what do you do.
00:39:42 Aditi
And.
00:39:43 Aditi
Yeah. Yeah, because it's like, I don't know how to explain it.
00:39:49 Aditi
OK, so alright playlist. So I think for me I support people at all points of awakening.
00:39:58 Aditi
People do not come to me if they are not awakening. It's as simple as that. You know, I have had people way in the past who came to me. Ohh. I need to fix my boyfriend problems and I'm like I don't have the patience for this.
00:40:13 Aditi
Right I I.
00:40:14 Aditi
Have zero interest in fixing your boyfriend issues, right?
00:40:22 Aditi
So it's like if you're the one who has the problem, the boyfriend doesn't seem to be to be the issue. So let's take a look at what you are going through. You know? So for me, it's always been about.
00:40:35 Aditi
Forget that. Let's bring the focus to you.
00:40:40 Aditi
Because the premise is very simple.
00:40:44 Aditi
You are the experiencer of it.
00:40:48 Aditi
When something isn't going right, there is something there.
00:40:54 Aditi
That is getting you to experience it that way and to look at it that way.
00:40:59 Aditi
We need to take a look at that. So that is what I help people with.
00:41:04 Merrily
Oh. Oh my gosh. And how?
00:41:08 Merrily
That is amazing because it's like, yeah, who is where in here is saying it's not right. You know, like, what's the not right like, what is that? I figure that out that is great. Oh my gosh.
00:41:20 Aditi
Yeah. So what?
00:41:21 Merrily
I can see how that's hard to explain.
00:41:24 Speaker 3
Exactly right.
00:41:28 Merrily
Oh my goodness, that's so magical.
00:41:29 Speaker 4
Always.
00:41:31 Aditi
Yeah, but if I had to put it simply in words, it's like people who struggle with themselves, people with their life, their perception. They don't know who they are. Identity, purpose.
00:41:35 Speaker 3
Hmm.
00:41:43 Aditi
They wonder if this is all that there is to their life. You know, that's a big one. And there's also this whole bunch of people that feel that they're victims. And that's I take them from everything, always. Everything always happens to me.
00:41:52 Merrily
Yeah.
00:41:59 Aditi
I take them to everything always happens for me.
00:42:03
MMM.
00:42:05 Merrily
Yeah.
00:42:06 Aditi
And that transition, although it feels very sharp, it's.
00:42:11
Yeah.
00:42:11 Aditi
Actually a really.
00:42:11 Aditi
Long meal.
00:42:13 Merrily
Right.
00:42:15 Aditi
Yeah.
00:42:15 Aditi
And victim consciousness, something that fascinates me. And I do believe that in one's life where the ego rears its head in its full glory, is when you're feeling like a victim or you're depressed.
00:42:34 Merrily
Hmm.
00:42:36 Aditi
Or you've had tremendous success.
00:42:41 Merrily
Those are some extremes, yeah.
00:42:42 Aditi
OK.
00:42:43 Aditi
1.
00:42:45 Aditi
So those are two times where the ego really is and.
00:42:48 Aditi
It's full glory.
00:42:49 Aditi
And both kinds of people come to me.
00:42:55 Aditi
So then I have to remind them.
00:42:56 Aditi
Of who they really are, right?
00:42:59 Aditi
Yeah. So all of these things, so you see it's a little difficult and I I'm struggling to put my website up because I.
00:43:05 Aditi
Don't know what the heck to write.
00:43:09 Speaker 4
How do I?
00:43:10 Speaker 3
Transfer. Oh my gosh.
00:43:11 Merrily
I know. Oh my God.
00:43:12 Merrily
Yes.
00:43:13 Aditi
So then you put it on the classical signs like I help you with your struggle and you know whatever.
00:43:19 Aditi
So but I do help people uncovering a lot of the drivers behind their choices and their behaviors in their life and help them to release that and change the relationship with themselves, and therefore the relationship with people around them.
00:43:30 Speaker 3
MHM.
00:43:36 Aditi
And discover.
00:43:37
Where?
00:43:38 Aditi
Where does their bliss actually lie, and why are they not there yet?
00:43:45 Aditi
And also what is their highest potential as a human being?
00:43:51 Aditi
And then getting on the path to discovering that because you do come to a point where you don't have problems per se anymore.
00:43:57 Aditi
You've sorted it all out. You've got the tools on how to do it.
00:44:00 Aditi
Now you want to really grow.
00:44:02 Merrily
Right.
00:44:03 Aditi
Yeah, but you don't know where you.
00:44:05 Aditi
Want to go?
00:44:06 Merrily
Where?
00:44:06 Aditi
Like. Yeah, and I have so many people come to me with, like, the way I describe it is they come with like a sully fuel jet pack on their back. But they're strapped to a chair. So they're like, they're struggling. They're like.
00:44:20 Speaker 4
I want to take off but I can't.
00:44:23 Speaker 3
Gotta go somewhere, but.
00:44:24 Aditi
I said I get the urgency, right. I hear you. Let's get to work.
00:44:30 Aditi
So that's a fun group of people to work.
00:44:32 Merrily
With wow, I love that. Yeah, that's a good. That's a good point. It's like more around the question of like, where you want to go. That's a big question because now you're like, well, now I have to have a plan and or not a plan. But like, I have to sort of figure out like, what it what do I want, you know?
00:44:48 Aditi
Yeah, yeah. And I'll tell you something. Most people ask the question, what do you want? Do not have an answer.
00:44:54 Merrily
I know.
00:44:56 Aditi
Do not have an answer and I'm like maybe somebody asked me. I would give you 20 things that I want to do now. I'm like, but I think even helping people discover what they really want is also it takes time.
00:45:06 Speaker 3
Yeah.
00:45:11 Merrily
Oh yeah, for sure. Yeah, I've definitely been that person where I was asked by a, you know, spiritual kind of guided person. Like, what do you what you want and literally vapor lock like, I don't know, you know, that's been my process, you know, for the last however many years, 10 years, what do I actually want?
00:45:29 Merrily
You know, yeah.
00:45:30 Merrily
Yeah. So it's a long process.
00:45:33 Aditi
Today.
00:45:34 Merrily
Ohh wow so I know. I think you have. Can you tell us about you have a beyond the veil webinar coming up and it's about demystifying spirit communication. Can you give us a little bit of like what? What that what that's going to be like for people?
00:45:53 Aditi
So this program was born because me and a friend of mine, who are Co facilitating the program. We both have a capacity with the spirit world, and we've had it for many, many.
00:46:02 Aditi
Many years.
00:46:03 Aditi
Yeah, I have learned many other tools and modalities along the way, but they all had their own limitations and after a point I realized.
00:46:13 Aditi
I had to get into a lot of ritualistic stuff to start using them, so I didn't want to do that anymore. I'm always a person who likes to keep everything very simple.
00:46:23 Aditi
So we created this program which is completely original content based on our collective experience with about 38 years together on this. So I started experiencing spirits when I was, I think three years old.
00:46:39 Aditi
And I experienced the spirit of.
00:46:42 Aditi
Who at that time I called my brother.
00:46:46 Aditi
And he was in my life till I was in my teens. And then he just disappeared one day. And when I was pregnant with my son, I was having a conversation with my mom.
00:46:52
No.
00:46:59 Aditi
And I just completed some healing program. I I can't remember which one it was, but in that it said that abortions and and.
00:47:11 Aditi
Losing a baby. Miscarriages run in the family. Obviously, as a pregnant mother, I was a little, you know, apprehensive. So I just asked my mom. Have you had either of those two?
00:47:21 Aditi
She said, yeah, I had.
00:47:22 Aditi
A miscarriage. I was like when?
00:47:25 Aditi
And she said that was when you were about 3.
00:47:28 Aditi
And she said it was a boy.
00:47:30 Aditi
And initially I was just like, OK, and I was like.
00:47:33 Merrily
Wait.
00:47:34 Speaker 3
What? Wait, what?
00:47:38 Aditi
And she's like, why? And I have a younger sister who's seven years younger to me. So I said this was between me and her. She said, yeah, when?
00:47:45 Aditi
You were three was like.
00:47:47 Aditi
And then I.
00:47:47 Aditi
Shared with her what it was and.
00:47:49 Aditi
She was like.
00:47:50
Why did you?
00:47:51 Aditi
Call me, I said. You guys never listened to me when I was small. You never took anything I said seriously. I said. Now, when I'm pregnant, you'll listen to me just because I'm married and pregnant.
00:48:01 Speaker 4
And I do spirit stuff. So now you know, right?
00:48:03 Aditi
Great, OK, freaked out. But that's when I knew that I was like.
00:48:07 Speaker 3
Oh.
00:48:08 Aditi
And then I realized that when I was in my 20s, an alcoholic, I was actually trying to number everything out because the world was way too intense for me.
00:48:17 Merrily
Hmm.
00:48:18 Aditi
Kept picking up peoples energies and I was I used to see faces in people's faces and I I I used to genuinely think I was.
00:48:25 Aditi
Crazy. I'll drink.
00:48:26 Speaker 3
I will.
00:48:27 Aditi
To numb that out. And then I realized later that that was the capacity.
00:48:32 Merrily
In my own.
00:48:32 Aditi
So it starts from there anyway, so we put all the signs and symptoms and everything that both of us have experienced over the years.
00:48:42 Aditi
Everything has gone into this course that we created and the original course is actually called the Spirit Guide program and it's a certification program and you've become an internationally certified practitioner. So you can actually practice anywhere in the world and you get accredited by iPhone for this and webinar.
00:49:02 Aditi
It's just literally a two hour.
00:49:05 Aditi
Quick peak and experience into what we normally experience every day, we take people into that journey.
00:49:14 Aditi
And many people get to meet their spirit guides for the first time, so it's very fascinating for them. And so many people. Trust me, if you sign up for this class, you'll be crying for two hours because.
00:49:26 Aditi
Your heart will be opening and and you'll be like I met my grandfather. I met my mother. I.
00:49:33 Aditi
The the experiences are so amazing that it's difficult for me and my colleague to even keep a straight face, you know, throughout, because we are crying too.
00:49:42 Merrily
And it it's.
00:49:43 Aditi
Because when you see people completing a journey with a loved one, there's nothing more fulfilling than that, and that happens to a lot of people in this webinar, so.
00:49:54 Aditi
Just needs to come with a disclaimer on me.
00:49:59 Merrily
You're gonna cry. Bring tissues. Yeah. Yeah.
00:50:02 Aditi
So what a lot of people perceive this world to be as dark and treacherous and.
00:50:07 Speaker 3
Listeria.
00:50:08 Aditi
This and scary and all that. It is not any of those things.
00:50:13 Aditi
I must even share with you. You know, I had this one particular reel that went completely viral. It's like at some.
00:50:19 Aditi
6,000,000 views right now and it is about well, it's there on my Instagram account and I had so many people say that you're doing the devil's work. You're doing demons work and I'm like, OK, thank you for your perspective. This is so funny. You've just shown me where you are.
00:50:21
Wow.
00:50:25 Speaker 3
Hmm.
00:50:34 Speaker 3
In life, it's like, you know, you just told.
00:50:37 Speaker 3
Me. Oh, a lot about yourself.
00:50:40 Speaker 3
It's.
00:50:41 Aditi
Right. So I I wanna actually. So I was so tempted.
00:50:45 Aditi
To share with them that.
00:50:46 Aditi
Deals are actually not bad.
00:50:49 Aditi
They are terribly lost. Umm, when the darkness was so, so, so, so, so long they have long. What the light is like.
00:50:58 Aditi
Land, even if you give them two minutes.
00:51:01 Aditi
Of your love.
00:51:03 Aditi
They'll listen to you.
00:51:04 Speaker 3
Hmm.
00:51:06 Aditi
And not because they're supposed to do your bidding or any crap like that, because they just attached to somebody. And I'm like, OK.
00:51:11 Aditi
Guys, it's time to go. They're like, OK, thank you for your love.
00:51:16 Aditi
They're gone. They can actually be real puppies beyond all that scariness that they have, you know, and they will intimidate you. They will scare you. But your job is to remain absolutely steadfast.
00:51:21 Merrily
Hmm.
00:51:29 Aditi
And in Buddhism there is a beautiful system called the Tonglen method.
00:51:35 Speaker 3
Where you treat.
00:51:37 Aditi
The dark side, or the demonic world with 100% compassion.
00:51:42 Merrily
Wow.
00:51:42 Aditi
And you can transmute those energies and put this. Monks have been doing it for thousands of years. How do you think when you're in the awakening process and you're a monk and you have so many of these monks worldwide that are awakened and enlightened, how do you think they deal with that world?
00:51:59 Merrily
Right.
00:51:59 Aditi
They will sit in my car, right?
00:52:01
Yeah.
00:52:03 Speaker 3
They have their.
00:52:03 Aditi
Ways and they are some of the most compassionate people in the world.
00:52:10 Merrily
Amazing.
00:52:11 Aditi
And comparison is what wins over everything the dark side, the light side, everything. So we teach you how to get into that state.
00:52:20
Ah.
00:52:21 Aditi
And that is really, really amazing, because then once you're in that state with the spirit world, you're in that state with anybody in any world.
00:52:29 Merrily
Great.
00:52:31 Merrily
Yeah, if you can be compassionate through demon. Like, come on.
00:52:36 Aditi
They are, I think, the best training ground.
00:52:39 Merrily
Right.
00:52:40 Aditi
That's training ground for fearlessness, for courage, for compassion, for kindness and non judgment. And you will love yourself like a million times more.
00:52:46 Merrily
Hey.
00:52:50 Aditi
If you do this work, it changes you, so it's not just the pretty flowery sweet stuff. It's also the, you know, what is known as the scary stuff. But we teach how to navigate that and become really powerful as a human being.
00:53:01 Merrily
Yeah.
00:53:08 Aditi
And then you realize that you're not actually just this body and this mind. You're like a whole lot of energy that you have not even begun tapping into. So it's a very exciting problem.
00:53:18 Aditi
You almost feel like a little bit.
00:53:19 Aditi
Like Doctor Strange.
00:53:21
Oh.
00:53:21 Merrily
That's. Yeah. Like that. There's different dimensions. Different. Yeah, sure, absolutely.
00:53:28 Merrily
Yeah. Yeah, hello.
00:53:28 Speaker 3
So.
00:53:30 Aditi
I mean, you can imagine when I saw Doctor Strange, I was jumping in my seat in.
00:53:33 Speaker 3
The theater I was. Oh, my God, yes.
00:53:35
Yes, yes, like.
00:53:37 Aditi
They know the bedroom. Oh, my God. Where did they do their research? Like I was speaking out. My friends thought I lost it. Why the hell would be contained?
00:53:45 Speaker 3
Absolutely.
00:53:49 Speaker 3
I don't know why that's speaking all my language.
00:53:52 Merrily
Oh, that's awesome. I love that you're like, person is like Doctor Strange. That's.
00:53:57 Merrily
Cool. Oh yeah.
00:53:58 Aditi
Absolutely. And the entire Marvel Universe sees my man very.
00:54:04 Merrily
Cool. Ohh man. Yeah. So many things. Oh, man. Yeah. Thank you for walking us through through sort of like the dark stuff too, because it's a a part that, you know is hard.
00:54:17 Merrily
And I'm glad that you and your your Co Co host partner has like figured out that it's hard and you have like a system of helping people through that. So I love.
00:54:28 Merrily
Yeah.
00:54:30 Merrily
OK. So we're wrapping up for today, it's been great. Ohh man. Yeah, we have so many things that I'm like. Oh, yeah, we have so many things in common and I love all the stories that you shared, but where can folks find you and learn more about you and all the cool things that you do.
00:54:47 Aditi
So I'm primarily on Instagram. You can find me. My handle is awakened with the tea.
00:54:53 Aditi
And that's awakened with a DITI.
00:54:58 Aditi
And yeah, I post stuff you can DM me there and we can connect.
00:55:03 Merrily
Yeah, I I definitely highly recommend checking out Ad's Instagram. It's awesome. You're like you said, you have some colorful language and like very like to the point and I appreciate that approach. So I love it.
00:55:17 Aditi
Thank you.
00:55:18 Merrily
So you've already shared so much wisdom with us today. Do you have any parting words of wisdom that you'd like to leave us with?
00:55:27 Aditi
Ohh boy ah.
00:55:28 Aditi
OK, let me leave you with a funny one then. Great. Here's one of my favorite quotes. The wiser you get, the more you learn to shut up.
00:55:39 Merrily
I that's a great one.
00:55:44 Speaker 4
But it's true.
00:55:46 Speaker 3
It's true.
00:55:48 Merrily
Listen and observe. It's a good thing.
00:55:51 Aditi
Ohh so much fun.
00:55:54 Merrily
Well. Oh, thank you so much, Aditi. I loved having you as a guest and can't wait to see all the cool things you'll be doing soon.
00:56:02 Aditi
Thank you so much. I had a great, great time. And you're such a lovely human being. I'm much better.
00:56:07
Oh.
00:56:08
Oh.
00:56:08 Merrily
Thank you. Appreciate you so much.
00:56:10 Aditi
The Littleness going and you're also this, you know, tough as nails girl and I.
00:56:15 Aditi
Love all of it.
00:56:16 Merrily
Ohh wow, thank you so much. I appreciate that so much.
00:56:20 Aditi
Sending your big energetic hugs from here.
00:56:27 Merrily
Aditi was such a great guest and I'm so glad we got to have such an interesting conversation. Do check out the show notes to learn more about all the cool things that Aditi is up to you and definitely follow her on Instagram. Do you remember to like, follow and subscribe on YouTube or your favorite podcast platform? It really helps us grow. Thank you for listening and being an important part of the casual temple.