Dwarka

And so he felt that India was most definitely the next part of his journey.

And so he arranged passage on one of his uncle's ships, and he traveled essentially from Alexandria to Dwarka, which is on the sort of like western part of India, and And that is when his Indian journey began.

Now, Indian journey deserves its own video.

So we're going to cut this one short.

Radharani, I'm happy, I'm with my Lord, but I'm not in the place where he can manifest as my lover.

I'm with my friend in Dwaraka.

No, it wasn't Dwaraka's Vaikuntha, I think.

No, Ayodhya.

I'm with my Lord, but he's not in the place where he can fully manifest himself as my friend.

And seeing that dilemma, Lord Brahmachandra, in compassion, told him to go to Dwaraka, where his Lord is manifest, Krishna.

And then he went, and he starts to observe the Yadavas, which are more intimate than a Yodja or a Hashtag, because the relationship is familial, it's family.

And it's watching them enjoying themselves and, He went everywhere there and he just never saw anything with such madrinam, parakashta, all kinds of perfection, of charm, of sweetness.

She got it.

She merged in Krishna in Dwarka.

So yeah, I think we are all blessed.

In this, uh, DNA age, we are pulled towards spirituality so strong together.

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instead the southern, uh, mutt in Sringeri, uh, east in Puri, the north in Badri, and the west in Dwarka.

He was literally, I think, marking the perimeter of the sacred geography.

Mm.

That was very close to Som- uh, in Somnath actually-

Yeah

... uh, though he was in Dwarka.

And he comes, uh, you know, hobbling around, and i- in one place, uh, he leaves his mortal coil where there's a Gita Mandir-

Those you know are going to be absolutely exceptional moments of being with Swami.

Whether Swami went to Badrinath or Somnath or Kanyakumari or Dwarka.

It is really a fortune of many lifetimes to be with Bhagawan in These trips are so, Bhagawan knowing how the devotees feel, he himself has written and he is telling Swami, I am sad, I was not destined to join.

This is how every devotee feels and Swami says, why are you sad for it? Listen to the account and be happy.

It's a web of consistency, structures that line up, layers that repeat, artifacts that form coherent assemblages, the right mix of tool types, food remains, and domestic debris all sitting where daily life would have left them.

Now shift again, this time back toward India, but to a very different kind of controversy, the famous submerged city of Dwarka off the Gujarat coast.

Here we're not talking about early Holocene settlements.

We're talking about claims that align with much later mythic and textual traditions.

The site has produced stone blocks, walls, and harbor-like structures, and some researchers argue for historic or proto-historic occupation.

But Dwarka also shows how messy this game can get.

There are real structural elements on the seabed near modern Dwarka, blocks and alignments that look plausibly human-made.

There are anchors and ceramics.

He came down at the end.

Krishna Das had gone on yatra with Ram Dass and Ramesh and Dwarka.

They had gone on yatra with Muktananda, and they had just come back from the yatra.

And so he came to Bombay, and he was gonna go up to Muktananda's ashram.

Well, I'll take the bus.

I'll take the regular bus then," [laughs] you know.

But then when I had said that, I guess he relented, and he said, "Okay, she can come with us in the bus." So I went up with him and Danny and Ramesh and Joe Dwarka.

We stayed at the Evelyn Hotel, and then I think the next day we went and saw Maharaji, and that was the first time I met him.

So this amazing abhuta, amazing, wonderful.

So anyway, when Narada Muni He finally goes to Dwarka, then he sees Ugrasena.

Ugrasena said, Udava.

He's always besides Krishna's side.

Do you have a friend that is so close to you that you spend so much time with that they almost feel like a sister or brother? Do you sometimes wish they were your sibling and they could live with you forever? Well, Krishna had a friend just like that.

Long before Krishna lived in the magnificent city of Dwarka, he and his brother Balaram went to study at the Gurukulam of Sandipani Rishi.

Now a Gurukulam was very different from the schools we have today.

There were no school bells, no lockers, no laptops and definitely no one saying, did you upload your homework? Students lived with their Guru.

Krishna and Sudama said a teary goodbye and their lives went in completely different directions.

Krishna's life, as we know, became extraordinary.

Eventually he lived and ruled the magnificent city of Dwarka.

Sudama's life was also very different.