Sense of Soul - Connect to Your Inner Guru

Episode Date: August 4, 2023

Today on Sense of Soul podcast is Akash Sky, he is a spiritual coach and author. He was born as Akash Thapar in South London, England. His career path is Chartered Accountancy, where he specialises in Financial Investments. The beginning of his life changed direction after his Dad passed away. He experienced an intense yearning to know who he really was, the meaning of life and his relationship with a greater power followed. In 2016 he was connected to the essence of Guruji, the Avatar of Hinduism’s Lord Shiva, in a formless relationship.  During the year, Guruji guided him to study A Course in Miracles which is dictated by Jesus Christ. Over 5 years of disciplined self-study internally with Guruji & Jesus Christ, he made many memoirs, notes, and a scrap book of experiences, which lead to the existence of this book, Introducing You to Your Own Perfection.

His book was written under challenging circumstances. It was as if it came out of nowhere, or now-here. The book began in the UK’s national Coronavirus Lockdown, as the writer had an 18-month-old baby, a pregnant wife expecting another, a full-time career in Finance outside of writing and a normal householder life with all the regular maintenance to uphold without his wife heavy lifting. Akash did not expect a book to emerge from this intense busy period of life.
Today, Akash continues his career in Finance and is a family man who writes and discusses mystical experiences with other spiritual seekers. Order his book here: Introducing You to Your Own Perfection: A Guide to Walking the Path to Peace with Our Inner Guru (Spirituality) Follow his journey https://www.Instagram.com/akashsky.awakening https://www.tiktok.com/@akashsky.awakening https://www.youtube.com/@akashsky.awakening Learn more about Sense of Soul Podcast: https://www.senseofsoulpodcast.com Check out the NEW affiliate deals! https://www.mysenseofsoul.com/sense-of-soul-affiliates-page Check out the Ethereal Network! https://www.mysenseofsoul.com/ethereal-network Follow Sense of Soul on Patreon, and join to get ad free episodes, circles, mini series and more! https://www.patreon.com/senseofsoul  Follow Sense of Soul on Social Media! https://www.mysenseofsoul.com/sos-links

Hello, my soul-seeking friends. It's Shanna. Thank you so much for listening to Sense of Soul podcast. Enlightening conversations with like-minded souls from around the world, sharing their journey of finding their light within, turning pain into purpose, and awakening to their true sense of soul. If you like what you hear, show me some love and rate, like, and subscribe. And consider becoming a Sense of Soul Patreon member, where you will get ad-free episodes, monthly circles, and much more. Now go grab your coffee, open your mind, heart, and soul. It's time to awaken. Today with us, we have Akash Ghai. He is a spiritual coach and a self-aware author. Akash also has a career in chartered accountancy where he specializes in financial investments

and he's joining us from the UK to share with us his journey of discovering his inner guru and his study in the course of miracles. Akash is also the author of the book introducing you to your own perfection, a guide to walking the path to peace with our inner guru. And I can't wait to hear about Akash's book, which he says was unexpected, which I can't wait to hear the story behind it. So please welcome Akash Guy. Akash, thank you so much for joining me. I appreciate you being here. No, thanks for having me. I really, really appreciate you having me on your show. I also saw that you had Neil Donald Walsh. Oh, my goodness. Can you get any bigger than that? I mean, Neil Donald Walsh,

you know, he is an absolute legend, isn't he special yeah I feel so blessed I mean I get to be student you know to amazing teachers around the world and have amazing conversations with people like you how long have you been doing this for them so four years and you've done so many episodes haven't you you know I just it's amazing because it's like I'm a student constantly learning and expanding my consciousness. Yeah. We're really happy on behalf of everyone that you do this for all of us. We really appreciate you. Yeah, so I definitely do as well because our specific field is quite specific, isn't it?

You know, it's not really pushed out there in the world on, you know, the Sky News or Fox News or BBC. It's not really out there like that and so um you providing this for us it's just incredible we all would appreciate this for sure well thank you very much and i can't wait to hear about your book and who you are and where you're at physically and also maybe just give us a little background about how you came into this. Yeah, sure. So firstly, thank you for having me on your show. I really, really appreciate it. My journey, it's come from a very ego-centered person for about 30 years, really focused on individuality, really focused on being this person, the ego self personality, and really believing that is who I am, you know, and then 30 years at the start, were actually very painful,

there was a lot of suffering in them in so many different ways, you know, you suffer in the careers, you suffer in your relationships, you suffer with body symptoms, you know, so many things happening because you've closed off from everything else. A trigger for me was when I lost my dad when I was 30, because I just looked at him and looked at me and thought, you know, I don't know anything about what I am. You know, I don't know anything about death and what life is about, what the journey is, you know, what's the purpose. And it was actually that that triggered me in to this self-realization journey. I've got to say, it's been absolutely incredible from where I was to where I am now. And so I firstly got connected to a guru and the guru is not a person. It's an essence of a guru. His name is, is Guruji. So my character, Akash,

my personal self is, is a Hindu. And so he affiliates with, you know, Hinduism and, and Guruji is the avatar or the reincarnation of lord shiva and i mean he his body passed away he left his body shall we say in 2007 and i connected to him 2016 as an essence and and i've since then i've just since losing my own dad there's that fatherly figure there that you can just surrender to and then it's it's kind of a life of surrender where you give everything over all the ideas of what you think that you are where to go what to do who to be with and it's that surrendered life that you give over to that and it doesn't have to be good you can choose whoever you want you know everyone has

different symbols that they can use for some it's Jesus Jesus as well it's something that I use because I was guided to study a course in miracles so of course in miracles is a universal spiritual practice and it's dictated to us by Jesus Christ and you know so you learn to love Jesus as well as a symbol that represents the non-ego part of you the holy mind you could say and so you know everyone has their own symbol that they use but effectively what they all are is they're they're the the holy mind that is eternal you know the holy spirit and it has so many different names you know and my life now is really surrendered you know surrendered it's been about eight years where I've been living a life of holy forgiveness. Every pain point in my life, I go inwards and I go into unification and I follow the method of forgiveness through just completely covers you in joy love and peace because you know you eventually get to a point where you're just serving you know there's nothing

to do here except serve because the the identity is just handed over you know the the whole of the body mind so mine mine's called akash you know everything to do with the kash is handed over to that higher self and again you use the symbol that you like and you know every morning i touch the feet of jesus and guruji and say what would you have me do would you have me go what do you have me say i choose you know i choose nothing else and it directs your life you know it's a very peaceful peaceful life where you are healing your inner mind at every external pain point you are uniting with the other you know where there seems to be differences externally between all of us it's the great illusion of relativity you know that tells us that we're all different when actually you know we are all the same you know

I guess that's the journey so far but there's a lot involved in that right so I share the same experience I mean my dad passed away seven years ago and that changed me too and I often say that he gave birth to me twice once in life and once in his death. You know, it's interesting too, I've been told before that if you don't have a mother present for you in your life, you can look for on the other side, like Mother Mary or Mother Teresa. So I like that idea, as you mentioned, also seeing your guru. And, you know, I actually really funny because one of the songs that I love by Sean Johnson and the Wild Lotus Band, we were just talking about this one song he sings, Finding the Inner Guru. Oh, yes. That's what I've got on the cover of my book.

I know. That's why I thought about Sean this cover of my book. I know. That's one of the reasons why I thought about Sean this morning. Oh, wow. Yeah. What a coincidence by the unified field. It sounds really good. And he's on Spotify, isn't it? So I'll listen to that.

Is he on Spotify? Yeah. I'll listen to it after this, definitely. Yeah, you'll like it. The synchronicities that begin to add up when you pay attention yeah it's truly amazing and are a big part of what have led me when you said there's a lot in between right of all the things you just said I'm sure there was many signs and synchronicities that was leading you along the way yeah yeah I mean I tried to put most of it in the book, but, you know, there's only so much you could write about, you know.

And I think what's really interesting is there's actually so many different methods that the world actually offers in order to go into self-realization. You know, so quite typically there's the three yogas from the Bhagavad Gita. You know, you've got the Karma Yoga, you've got the bhakti yoga, and you've got janana yoga. You also have raja yoga. And these all have different forms as well within them. So, for example, janana yoga is the search for who am I, but it's done in a way of only Brahman is the true reality, And the other reality is illusions with relativity. And that works if you kind of have that Hindu mindset. But actually, it's so strange for me, right?

Because Akash is a Hindu, but I didn't follow that Advaita Vedanta kind of route in Janana Yoga. I actually followed the westernized version of that. And the westernized version of that is A Course in Miracles, where, you know, only the child of God reality, God's reality is the real reality and the other one is the dream, you know. And it was so different because I'm that Hindu Indian, you know, and I didn't take that Hindu. I didn't do any of the yogas, you know, I didn't do any of that. I did the westernized version because it just worked for me.

It's so different. You know, I wasn't really into Jesus, but my life brought Jesus into it when I was younger. So my mum, she's Indian. She insisted on her children going to a Christian school really yeah she said look you were in the UK so it's a Christian country you must go my kids must go so that's when I was you know 12 years old and I and I Jesus was very much a part of my life you know and so when I studied the course of miracles in my 30s it was just like having a big brother with me you know walking me through it teaching me what I am again you know it's giving me the memory of what I am again and

it kind of gives you that whole realization that it's all like a beautiful script that is just flowing through and you've got nothing to worry about ever and everything is is um is falling into place you know just the way it's supposed to and and all the suffering when i was younger well that was incredible as well because that's what drove me to the end of suffering right if i didn't suffer then i wouldn't want to to end it and and so you know and so now i'm in a place where there's not really suffering right because you know everything's coming from you everything you know and you just move into the holy forgiveness the releasing of what you see through your perception and you heal your mind. And what happens with perception is the higher self,

it heals your mind and it gives you, it clears your distorted perception that you see in pain and it gives you loving perception and it replaces it with that because that is what true vision is. It's love, it's unification, it's being with everything, you know, and not being away from everything. And so it's such a beautiful journey and i remember you were talking before about karma yoga wasn't you wasn't it was it bhakti yoga i think you said that um you saw that bhakti yoga wasn't you um which is also another beautiful way uh to to realize the self isn't it you know it's interesting too if you look

at underneath the christian umbrella all the different churches, you know, you have like some churches that are, I mean, wow, the music they're putting out is like a concert. When I grew up Catholic, so going to one of those churches, I was like, wow. So as a child, like experiencing the different churches would say, I think this is because we're all so different. Like what's good for you is good for you in the way that you are. And, you know, in my journey now, I actually had to grieve my religion to truly find who Jesus was to me, like my Jesus, you know, when you say my guru and, you know, I was mad and bitter for a long time because when I began to awaken to my true sense of soul, that I was more than a body, you know,

that I was an energetic being within this body. I was multidimensional. I didn't agree with the separation and the discrimination that I was sensing within my religion. And also, I have found a new Jesus in some of the ancient scriptures, you know, like the Gnostic Gospels. Of course. And I see Jesus as like a Buddha, as did like one of the first books I read early on, Thich Nhat Hanh had wrote, Living Buddha, Living Christ. And same thing. I mean, it's like everything you were just saying when you were talking about the different

kinds of yoga and different ways to bring you inward. And I thought, it's just different language. but a lot of it still leads you to the same thing different branches to the same tree trunk isn't it yeah isn't it yeah I just got the picture of an image of a tree yeah it's different branches to that tree trunk it's funny how we all have different ways to that as well isn't it so the janana yoga the one that i did is known to be difficult because it's extremely intellectual they say do you almost mean like a study or like yes um i would say yes so it goes into the depths of the mind i love that it goes into like perception advaita padanta does talk about the body and the different layers you know

it talks about the physical body then talks about the astral body then it talks about the the causal body it also goes into the five koshas and the five different layers of the body so it goes in it's a lot of you know it's intellectually remembering what you are you know and of course in miracles as well it's there's a lot of text it's a lot of material some people say it's a very gnostic text it was beautiful but it's not it's not serene per se you know another it's not like like it's not a beautiful poem it's an it's honest it's very honest with you you know it's been like a bulldozer. It goes into your ego and says, this is what you think you are. It's a course. It's a course. It's a course.

It takes your time and dedication to do that. I tried it and then I bought, I got the one for the dummies. Oh, did you? Okay. It's so good actually. Yeah. I don't know if it's actually called, no, it's called the course done easy. Done easy. Okay. Yeah. it's called The Course Done Easy. Done Easy. Yeah, it's a great version of it. Yeah.

A book I would recommend is Gary Renard's The Disappearance of the Universe. Absolutely incredible book. And most people actually go to that and learn side by side with that and the course, which is such an easy way. He puts it in such a beautiful way. It's so easy to understand it all, such a beautiful way it's so yeah easy to understand it all I think so it is a self-study right so it's definitely not a religion at the time I actually didn't tell anyone I didn't even tell my wife I knew that something had come to me which was which is going to transform me and I didn't want anyone to kind of put me off it

you know I wanted to do this because I knew it was best for me. And so I did it. I did it. I learned it in very different circumstances. I couldn't believe how, how it was. So I surrendered to Guruji and Jesus and they, I mean, I got the course, the course is made up of three different elements. You've got the text, you've got the 365 workbook lessons, and you've got the manual for teachers. And so I actually was starting a new job. Guruji gave me a job,

which had a gentler surroundings because the first job was very stressful. When I had lived a life without him, it was a him very stressful fast-paced job so I requested something that would be a bit more gentler and he put me into a gentler environment and that new job was 45 minutes on the train and so what I was told by Jesus and himself was we're going to do the workbook lessons on the train right I said oh my goodness really so how because my life was so fast-paced right it's that london life as we all know the city life you know so fast paced you know we're not not particularly a nun or a monk or that that life the lifestyle is a householder life right i've got kids as well so it's a very different life

um and so you know i learned i would go for the workbook lesson on the train and when I went to the new environment the work it would orchestrate the people around me in order to drum in the lesson that I've learned in the morning and I mean I can give you an example uh workbook lesson 34 I can see peace instead of this so I remember reading it and I remember coming into work and I came into a meeting which was just everyone blaming me right so I'm in finance and everyone's blaming me oh gosh these numbers why did you give them to that person we haven't completed them here the commentary's not finished all this sort of stuff stuff in finance. And all attacks was on me. And I remember what I went through in the morning. I can see peace instead of this.

And so I move into the holy forgiveness straight away and I start forgiving the people and releasing the people in front of me, releasing myself for creating this situation, hiding the pain outside of me. So the pain actually is appearing as this trivial problem in finance really the heart of the problem is the belief that i'm separate from my source as a hidden it's in chapter three of my book that the secret dream right from the course of miracles and so you forgive and you release it in your mind I did it pretty fast and that is performing the miracle that's why it's a course in miracles so that is performing the miracle really I'm being taught by the inner guru right how to do how to do this what we're doing here right and you do

this for like a couple of years right I mean it's dedication but it's beautiful because every day was like an adventure so what are you going to do today you know um and sometimes it was challenging right and it's challenging but you're given the tools you're given the tools in order to use them and to you and you're also given the circumstances in order to use them it's both going on and actually what you're doing is you are releasing the pain in your mind right um you're not doing it you're giving what you see to the higher self who does the releasing for you right but you have to give it to it you have to give it the uh i guess the permission to do it through free will right so you have to express that so so it's it's you know it's your innocent holding spirit all is forgiven all is released i'm innocent holding spirit all is forgiven all is released the separation from

god never happened and we're both in perfect oneness with our creator eternally and basically what you're saying is this what i see in front of me is a lie it's not true you have differences and i have differences here it looks like it but in truth we are in eternity and when we're in eternity there are no differences you and me are the same that's the truth right so you are rejecting this situation to be real you are saying this is false right that's all you're saying you're not saying it's evil you're not saying it's bad you're saying it's sinful you're saying it's a. You're not saying it's bad. You're not saying it's sinful. You're just saying it's a lie. Hey, listeners. Did you know that Sense of Soul has a network of Lightworkers affiliates program?

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the time in my experience there have been observable effects afterwards people woke up two of them came came to me afterwards one of them actually apologized I couldn't believe it right and the other one um they walked with me to get a car I wanted to get a coffee in the morning and they offered me to buy me buy me a coffee you know I just thought this is this is so strange you know and it's because what you're doing is you are you're doing a big it's a it's a what you're doing is incredible because what you're doing is you are, you're doing a big, it's a, what you're doing is incredible because what you're doing is you're releasing them from their chains that they put on themselves. You're releasing yourself from the chains that you've put on yourself.

Right. And you're going back home. Spirituality has different levels, but this is the one. So there's different levels. Some people like to manifest. Right. So they love to manifest and they love to do all the all the things they want to do here right and in doing that that's that's wonderful if you want to do that that's absolutely fine but it's still a dream that you're manifesting in it's not a real manifestation right so what i'm doing here with the course miracles is is this the end of dreams right you're walking back home and awakening into the creator that that's what this journey leads back to you know it's self-realization and

so that's just one of the examples i did so many on on the train i just thought it's all set up divinely for you to receive and also like experience yeah that's what happened with me with the Gnostic Gospels. As I was reading them, everything in my physical life was starting to materialize to support what I was reading. Specifically in the Pistis Sophia, which is like one of the most hardest books they say in the Gnostic Gospels to grasp and understand. But yet I was receiving it through experiences to go along with what I was reading. So I had full understanding. So kind of like what you experienced that happened to me throughout that entire book. And I'm writing a book about it because it was so incredible. Yeah. You know, and it was like, I can't even believe this, but it was happening, you know,

in just divine ways as well. Like sometimes it was my dream or sometimes it was like the most random thing. I mean, sometimes it was just connecting with the one person who had all these answers and she didn't even know she had the answers for me you know what I mean but everything she was saying exactly it connects you to exactly it yeah and actually one of them Bridget Fink-Clare she teaches the course of miracles and the Pistis Sophia wow like and also when you study these things don't you you think am I going a little bit loopy you know absolutely and so actually when you, you think, am I going a little bit loopy? Oh, absolutely. And so actually when I wrote this book, I said, I have to send it to Gary Renard.

Gary Renard, obviously he's like. The one that wrote the book, The Disappearance. Yeah. So he's the one who wrote that. Right. And he's basically an important author, let's say, of A Course in Miracles. And I thought I just have to send him a copy of this because I believe everything that I'm doing is right. I know it inside. I just wanted to, you know, speak, send it to someone who definitely knows it

and is more experienced. I sent it to him and he wrote, he endorsed it. He said it's a very important book. That felt wonderful. Yeah, it's just, it just feels like surreal. And do you know what the most important thing is about this whole thing is, is the trust. You don't know where this is going. I never knew where this was going.

Even now, I don't know, you know, what's going to happen. But there's just trust that something is taking care of it all, you know. And that's the most important thing. And that higher self is just so loving. And it just takes care of you all the time it's kind of like with my children you know like she's my little daughter she's three years old and my toddler's 18 months and you know when we're crossing the road they you know they look at me first of all because they know that I know more than them and that I'm going to take care of them.

Right. They also know that there's a huge amount of trust there for their dad. Right. And that's the way that I am with the Holy Spirit, with Guruji, with Jesus. You know, I don't do anything without knowing that that's what that wants. Right. And in order to do that, you create good habits, right? Habits such as waking up in the morning, touching their feet or surrender, talking to them in the mind, I give it all to you. I just want you to know that I give it all to you. Habits such as reciting things in your mind, gratitude. Gratitude is, I'm pouring it out all throughout the day you know just thank you I'm so grateful that the creator created me and nothing else created me you know just so grateful for A Course in Miracles and for you know all of the other parts of me that you know that have

contributed I mean Helen Shuckman wrote the book, but obviously she must've had an upbringing with parents, right? She would have had, she's got, she's, she's on her journey. Everyone has slightly inputted into that in some way, right? Their surroundings and, you know, everything, everyone. And it's a thankfulness to all of that and of course and of course miracles calls it the sonship son and daughter we don't really go into gender because what we are has no gender has no body but it calls it the sonship the sonship is all of us right we're all in this together right and we all contribute in so many different ways that we didn't realize

you know they know even the person who made the pen that she wrote down has contributed you know it's something so small isn't it you know but everything has contributed to that we've all done that it's so beautiful when you realize that and we're all together on it. It's amazing. I love that you're bringing this up because it's what I've experienced and you're putting words to it. I was living a life very surrendered, very peaceful, right? Just with my family life, bringing up my children, you know, my wife, the home, you know, that's a normal life. But I was off social media because it just wasn't something I wanted to do but then I had to start it because we've got the book coming along and I was instructed that you have to communicate with others because people there's people out there

that are relying on your messages and also you will rely on them it's it's it's the sonship it's all working together right don't close yourself off open yourself up right so we went on to social media we're on five different platforms and yeah and it's in the videos every couple of days um of just whatever comes through right just send it out send out posts um unifying everyone you know that everything's going to be fine it sounds like you were an instrument and you really did truly surrender to the process yeah well we can all and we can all do that you know it's really about how much you want to suffer because and that's really to do with conditioning mental conditioning we have created a world where we have acceptance to loss and acceptance to loss is everywhere everywhere right so you know for example my character um it has certain qualities that

it likes but it has rejected the rest right in order to be individual, right? So Akash is a Hindu, but he's rejected the rest in order to be classified as a Hindu, right? So then he's accepting loss. Why is he accepting loss? Because he's rejected the rest when really he's all of them, right? Another example, Akash is an accountant. He's chosen one qualification right rejected the rest right and also when the others talk about what you've selected causes you pain right so basically a doctor can say oh accountants it must be so boring do you see that there's pain there coming at me because i've selected being an accountant right and the same with you know Hinduism if someone was to knock down a temple and build something of their

own over it right acceptance of pain it comes to me and so we accept it don't we but we don't release and forgive it we don't forgive and release what we created as separation our own limitations yeah we don't we don't we don't release it and forgive it we just accept it we say loss is okay it's part of the world actually actually it's not it's not really that way you've made it like this you can unify with everything right it's a mindset option yeah you know it's a mindset you could you cannot accept loss. You know, you can, you know, I forgive and release everything, right? Like a toast. If I wanted to eat toast and my wife's eating the last toast, if there's a subtle bit of pain there, I forgive and release

it. I do. I do because this acceptance of no pain and no suffering, because what we are does not suffer. What we are does not suffer. It doesn't suffer. God did not create suffering. So if there is even a slight bit of pain, it's a forgiven release. It speeds up this journey because if you don't forgive and release it, it comes again in a different form in your life. We didn't come here with an ego. Look at your three-year-old. She doesn't, well, she might be starting to get her ego a little bit. I'm telling you, I want this. No, I don't want that. You know, you didn't come into this earth with this voice that tells you you're not good enough or that you're limited. First few years of my youngest

daughter, I had lost like my, my mama, which I was very close with my dad. And she watched me grieve so much. And she had no understanding or experience of her own for herself other than this. And all I had ever told her is that we were infinite. Just our physical body is not. And, but yet our energy is. So she knew nothing different. And what was really just amazing. Children are amazing. It can be our greatest teachers.

She would remind me in my grief that he'll always be with you. You know, his energy doesn't die at like five she reminded me of this because my humanness and my ego was grieving so much of the loss and she didn't know anything different than what i had told her it's so interesting the narratives that we tell ourselves about loss and about the conditioned mind whenever you were never told that you were separate from anything you know yeah you would be yeah your children may get that opportunity right i mean i've just different generations my oldest you know i was not like that with them but my youngest i was and there's a difference you know in her wisdom

yeah that's definitely true the education system doesn't really do that it teaches us the opposite doesn't it and sometimes teaching the opposite is good having gone through it myself oh no it can't be that surely you know and so then you go inside to see the truth, don't you? And the truth is that, no, we're not separate from anything. Yeah. It does make you wonder what the future will be like for people who are brought up knowing that they have that spark within. I'm sure they're still going to have challenges.

But, you know, what does the future look like if we were all awakened to this understanding that we are consciousness not separated from each other yeah no i mean that would be beautiful i mean i think it starts with yourself doing your inner work yeah and once we do that knowing perception your perception shifts to unification you know um and that inner work is so important you know because the the ego mind it loves to keep you looking outwards right the ego mind has actually designed your body yeah right so notice your eyes are looking outwards your nose it smells from aromas from the outside your mouth it brings objects from the outside in right it is they hear the sounds from the outside skin is for outside sensation right it's all been designed by the

ego to look out right we are not out there we are inside it's that inner work that we need to do you know it's an incredible journey your outside perception shifts into such a beautiful viewpoint when you do your inner work when you do your inner work you just reflect that on the outside you know when you see problematic behavior on the outside you don't go through panic you don't go through anxiety you don't go through conflict because there's a level of understanding that comes through you. This has come from you. You have a perception problem. If you think there's pain, it's your perception. It's your way of looking at it, basically. And it's basically just a trigger to say, come on, come to me. Come to me, let's release this, right? And once you do this all the time, you've just, it's such a peaceful life.

It's a wonderful, wonderful, peaceful life. And you shift through realities and dimensions and your external surroundings are changing to give you the light of what you are. They reflect the light of what you are. It's so beautiful. I really feel like I've connected you in a way that is so familiar to my experience of what I've just gone through as well yeah and again it's through different paths and this is what's so beautiful I think and so divine actually men and women they have a balance of masculine masculine and feminine energy

right so the males you know they actually they have about 51 percent males energy but then they have 49 percent of female energy and it's the opposite with the females right and in society it conditions us to swing that and believe otherwise right so like men are told to be more manly to dress a certain way to be a certain way right and so you you shift into that side and you forget and lose out from the beautiful feminine side you can see that with men you know I go to the gym I see it all the time you know they're not very in touch with it and opposite you also see that with women as well they do that as well and so keeping that balance is really important you know and that balance and also appreciating both sides despite you having the organs of one you appreciate that the energy part of it you know the fact that you are

both so we have the personal identity and being our personal identity um you know we affiliate with a personal god because we have a personal identity right and so if we want to use a woman as a god or a male as a god or i've got a friend who's on facebook who actually um surrenders his life to the mountain mountain yeah and he lives there right and and and that's his that's the non-ego part of him right and and he just he just lives there resides there and he's at one with that like that's his inner guru even you can choose you can choose everyone is and everyone's allowed to be different because we've made ourselves different right and so what the holy spirit does is it uses what we made as different to unify us all and show us that we're not different

yeah you know i always tell people when i have them on my reiki table you know i said there's no you know a specific religion you want to call in mickey mouse go on mickey mouse for you this is your journey right yeah yeah yeah i mean i mean on the surface though i still i still don't reject the religions you know on the surface akash is still a hindu you know i don't although i know that it's beyond religion yeah there are things that would stand out if you didn't do certain things you know it depends on how you want to live your life i guess you know like if i didn't celebrate diwali it would be quite strange so you know there's the earthly part of us that is very deeply rooted but mentally you know mentally you know that i'm not

of here i'm not of here i'm not of here you're right and that's what keeps everything at peace did i still celebrate christmas i'd be a hypocrite if i didn't and easter i love easter yeah right but you know i definitely have told my children the truth even you know we celebrate things yes but i'm like, don't think that Native Americans are thankful, honey. I mean, this is not the truth. But, you know, yeah, you're right. That's something else that brings me back to Thich Nhat Hanh in that book. He said, you know, losing one's religion would be a travesty.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely definitely and notice the principles of religions they all say that there is a god yeah there is something so there is a commonality between them all well in that sense there is a god there is a higher power they all have different versions of it don't they so um but spirituality unites it all doesn't it it does yeah you're right yeah the higher consciousness once you just connect with that there's no denying it's a little bit like a river isn't it so you've got the river here a river here with all the religions and they flow into the ocean that is the same water in all of them that is the enrichment of spirituality is in it's in all of them but it flows into that one ocean and that one ocean is this is the spirituality isn't it you know um and it depends how

how you approach it i think you know and it's funny when i see other religions i i don't look at them as separate anymore i look at the i look for oh this is, I recall this, you know, I see, I remember. When you know truth, you see truth, you know, and you love it. You love them even though they appear different. You still love it. I love it. Thank you so much for coming on to and sharing this. I find you have a lot of wisdom that you've discovered from your inner guru.

Well, thanks for having me on. I really appreciate it and um lots of love to your family uh and to all the listeners as well can you tell everybody like where they can find your book yes so it's um it's introducing you to your own perfection and it can be found on amazon it can can be found anywhere, really, that you can sell a book. And you could find me on social media as akashsky.awakening. And I'd love to connect with you all there. Yeah. And just to receive you. Well, thank you so much, Akash.

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