Ishwar

And who will you be, um, telling us about today?

Uh, I wanna talk about my grandfather, specifically on my dad's side of the family.

He was really the first, um, loss that I had to someone that was really close to me, and I experienced this loss as an adult.

Um, so it wasn't young.

I grew up with my grandfather.

So I almost wanna pay homage to him by talking about him here, because he was an amazing person, and he passed away, um, what was it, like, three years ago? Yeah, I love him so much, and I think about him all the time.

What was his name?

His name was Ishwar.

Uh, people referred to him as Ishwar Bhai.

In our language, bhai means brother, so people always referred to him as Brother Ishwar.

[chuckles] If you want translation, Ishwar means God.

So his name was directly tied to source.

Can you tell us about Ishwar while he was here on Earth?

Yeah.

Uh, so before I was born, a little bit about my grandfather, I guess, his life.

My family is from a village in Gujarat, and my grandfather was essentially the first person to get our family out of the village.

And back then, that was unheard of.

That was, like, dreaming big, and, like, you got a lot of hopes and dreams there.

So he, he was a trailblazer, essentially, in our family.

So he's like, "Okay, no, I don't care what you guys have to say about how impossible this sounds.

I'm gonna make it happen." So he got our family out of the village and into the city.

And fast-forward, my dad was the one to get us out of India, so kind of like a lineage of trailblazers he raised here.

He grew up with a lot of charity and generosity, and he continued that on.

He was always a very giving and charitable person.

If, you know, anybody in the village needed help in terms of financial or emotional or just support, they would go to my family, and he carried that on.

And who will you be, um, telling us about today?

Uh, I wanna talk about my grandfather, specifically on my dad's side of the family.

He was really the first, um, loss that I had to someone that was really close to me, and I experienced this loss as an adult.

Um, so it wasn't young.

I grew up with my grandfather.

So I almost wanna pay homage to him by talking about him here, because he was an amazing person, and he passed away, um, what was it, like, three years ago? Yeah, I love him so much, and I think about him all the time.

What was his name?

His name was Ishwar.

Uh, people referred to him as Ishwar Bhai.

In our language, bhai means brother, so people always referred to him as Brother Ishwar.

[chuckles] If you want translation, Ishwar means God.

So his name was directly tied to source.

Can you tell us about Ishwar while he was here on Earth?

Yeah.

Uh, so before I was born, a little bit about my grandfather, I guess, his life.

My family is from a village in Gujarat, and my grandfather was essentially the first person to get our family out of the village.

And back then, that was unheard of.

That was, like, dreaming big, and, like, you got a lot of hopes and dreams there.

So he, he was a trailblazer, essentially, in our family.

So he's like, "Okay, no, I don't care what you guys have to say about how impossible this sounds.

I'm gonna make it happen." So he got our family out of the village and into the city.

And fast-forward, my dad was the one to get us out of India, so kind of like a lineage of trailblazers he raised here.

He grew up with a lot of charity and generosity, and he continued that on.

He was always a very giving and charitable person.

If, you know, anybody in the village needed help in terms of financial or emotional or just support, they would go to my family, and he carried that on.