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The Greatest Miracle of Spirituality Is Not What Happens Around You, But What Happens Within You
By Sonu Tyagi, Founder, Go Spiritual & Approach Entertainment
Whenever we talk about spirituality in India, the conversation very quickly turns towards miracles. We hear stories about a spiritual person predicting the future, producing something mysteriously, curing an illness, bringing wealth, solving a business problem or making an impossible situation suddenly possible. Television, social media and even everyday conversations have helped create an image in which the greatness of a spiritual person is often measured by the number of supernatural stories associated with them. The more unbelievable the story, the greater the fascination.
I believe this approach has distracted us from the real meaning of spirituality. Instead of constantly asking, “What miracles can this spiritual person perform?”, we should be asking a far more important question: What miracle has spirituality performed within this person? Has anger turned into compassion? Has greed become contentment? Has fear become courage? Has ego become humility? Has hatred become understanding? Has a restless mind found peace? Has suffering created wisdom instead of bitterness? Has spiritual awakening made that person more sensitive towards the pain of human beings, animals and nature? These, to me, are the real miracles of spirituality.
Getting money unexpectedly is not necessarily a spiritual miracle. Becoming successful in business is not enlightenment. Getting a promotion, buying a bigger house, becoming famous, winning a dispute or seeing a material wish fulfilled may certainly make us happy, but these things should not become our definition of spirituality. If spirituality is reduced to a system in which we pray because we want money, perform a ritual because we want success or follow a spiritual personality because we expect our material problems to disappear, then spirituality becomes another transaction. We are effectively saying: I have prayed, now give me what I want.
The deeper purpose of spirituality is not to make the external world permanently behave according to our wishes. The real purpose is to create such a transformation within us that we develop the wisdom, strength and balance to deal with a world that will never completely behave according to our wishes.
Life will always remain uncertain. Money comes and goes. Careers rise and fall. Relationships change. The body ages. People disappoint us. Success can become failure, and sometimes what appears to be failure can later become the beginning of something meaningful. Spirituality does not guarantee that these realities will disappear. Its deeper gift is that something changes inside us, enabling us to face them differently.
Think of a person who once collapsed emotionally after every setback but gradually develops resilience. Think of someone who carried anger for years and eventually learns to forgive. Think of a person who constantly compared himself with others but discovers contentment. Think of someone whose mind was controlled by fear and anxiety but who gradually learns to observe thoughts instead of becoming a prisoner of every thought. Think of a wealthy or powerful person who finally begins to see dignity in people who can offer him nothing in return. Are these transformations any less miraculous than the supernatural stories we repeatedly celebrate? I believe they are far more meaningful.
The human mind can become its own prison. Ego, jealousy, insecurity, resentment, greed, fear and endless desire can make even a materially successful person deeply unhappy. Real spirituality begins to break these walls from within. The miracle is not that the world suddenly starts obeying you. The miracle is that you no longer require the entire world to obey you in order to remain peaceful.
This is also where spirituality and psychology can have a meaningful conversation. They are not the same thing, and they should not be confused with each other. Modern psychology works through scientific knowledge, research, professional practice and evidence-based approaches. Spiritual traditions have explored the human mind through meditation, contemplation, philosophy, ethical living and inner inquiry. Spirituality should never be presented as a substitute for professional mental-health treatment when such treatment is required. At the same time, some of the deepest spiritual questions are also questions about the human mind: Why do I suffer? Why am I so attached? Why does desire never completely satisfy me? Why do I fear losing what I possess? Why does somebody else’s success disturb me? Can I observe my thoughts without automatically reacting to them? Who am I when my ego, position, wealth and social identity are removed?
Meditation without emotional honesty can become an escape. Prayer without self-examination can become only a ritual. Knowledge without compassion can become another form of ego. Real spirituality should make us psychologically more aware, emotionally more mature and internally more responsible.
Unfortunately, spirituality today is often presented as entertainment. A video claiming that someone performed a supernatural miracle may attract millions of views. A story about a person spending decades serving the poor, overcoming hatred, developing extraordinary inner stability or quietly helping people without seeking publicity may attract far less attention. This tells us something about the audience as well. We demand spectacle, so spectacle is supplied.
When we talk about saints, spiritual teachers and genuinely evolved human beings, why are we so interested in whether they could perform supernatural acts? Why do we not ask how they dealt with their own ego? How did they react when someone insulted them? How did they remain compassionate during suffering? How did they treat people who disagreed with them? How did they behave with the poor, the powerless and those who could offer them nothing? What did they contribute to humanity? How many lives became better because they existed?
The true measure of a spiritual person should not be the miracles attributed to them, but the humanity reflected through their life.
For me, spirituality and humanity cannot be separated. If years of prayer, meditation, pilgrimage, scripture reading and religious activity make someone more arrogant, intolerant, hateful or obsessed with superiority, then something fundamental has been missed. If I claim to love God but cannot feel compassion for another human being because of their religion, caste, class, language or social position, I must question what my spirituality has actually achieved. If I worship divine forms but remain completely insensitive to the suffering of living beings around me, I must examine the depth of that worship.
A truly spiritual person should gradually become more compassionate, humble, honest, forgiving and responsible. Spirituality should expand our humanity, not reduce it.
This is why we must also distinguish genuine spirituality from the business that is sometimes conducted in its name. India has an extraordinary spiritual heritage, but every person wearing religious clothes, giving themselves a spiritual title or gathering a large following cannot automatically be considered spiritually evolved. There are people who exploit fear, grief, illness, financial difficulty and emotional vulnerability. Some promise instant solutions to every problem. Some claim supernatural powers. Some turn faith into personality worship. Some discourage questions and encourage complete dependence on themselves. Others use religion and supposed divine authority to accumulate money, influence or unquestioned power.
A robe does not automatically create wisdom. A huge following does not prove enlightenment. Millions of views on social media do not establish spiritual depth. Extraordinary claims should not become true merely because they are presented in the language of religion.
Questioning such claims does not mean rejecting faith. In fact, questioning exploitation can help protect genuine faith and spirituality. A true spiritual teacher should make people more conscious, more compassionate, more courageous and less controlled by fear. A teacher should help people discover their inner strength rather than make them permanently dependent on another human being. Spirituality should liberate the mind, not capture it.
Religion itself can offer community, tradition, discipline, philosophy, moral guidance and a connection with something greater than our individual existence. But religion without humanity can become an empty structure. We should ask ourselves a simple question: What is the purpose of searching for God if, during that search, we stop seeing the human being standing beside us?
Feeding someone who is hungry, supporting someone going through emotional pain, caring for elderly parents, protecting an animal from cruelty, forgiving when revenge would be easier, refusing corruption when dishonesty would be profitable, remaining humble after achieving success and helping someone without announcing it to the world may appear to be ordinary acts. Spiritually, they can be extraordinary.
Perhaps we need to redefine what we call a miracle. When an angry person becomes peaceful, that is a miracle. When someone survives a devastating failure without losing hope, that is a miracle. When a person carrying hatred for years finally learns to forgive, that is a miracle. When wealth stops controlling someone’s identity, that is a miracle. When success creates humility rather than arrogance, that is a miracle. When suffering produces compassion instead of cruelty, that is a miracle. When someone discovers meaning after feeling completely lost, that is a miracle. When a person begins to feel another living being’s pain as his own, that is a spiritual miracle.
Most of us begin our relationship with God through requests. Give me success. Give me money. Give me health. Give me this relationship. Remove this problem. Defeat my enemy. Fulfil my desire. There is nothing unnatural about asking for help during difficult times. We are human. But perhaps spiritual maturity begins when the nature of our prayer starts changing.
Instead of only asking, “Change my circumstances,” we begin asking, “Give me the wisdom to understand my circumstances.” Instead of saying, “Remove every difficulty,” we begin saying, “Give me the strength to face difficulty.” Instead of asking, “Give me more,” perhaps we ask, “Reduce my greed.” Instead of asking God to make everybody behave according to our wishes, perhaps we say, “Help me understand myself.” And instead of constantly demanding, “Show me a miracle,” perhaps our prayer becomes, “Create the miracle within me.”
That, for me, is the journey from simply expecting things from spirituality to actually experiencing spiritual transformation.
The world does not need more performances of spirituality. It needs more spiritually transformed human beings. We do not need spirituality that promises to magically fill our bank accounts; we need spirituality that enriches our consciousness. We do not need spirituality that makes us obsessed with supernatural powers; we need spirituality that gives us the inner power to face reality. We do not need spirituality that creates superiority and division; we need spirituality that makes us recognise our shared humanity.
The greatest spiritual miracle is not when something impossible happens outside you. The greatest miracle is when something beautiful, compassionate, courageous and conscious happens within you—and that inner transformation changes the way you live, think, love, respond to suffering and treat the world around you.
That is real spirituality. And that is the miracle worth searching for.
— Sonu Tyagi
Founder, Go Spiritual & Approach Entertainment
Sonu Tyagi is an award-winning writer, director and producer, and the Founder of Go Spiritual and Approach Entertainment. With more than two decades of experience across media, journalism, advertising, public relations, films and entertainment, he has increasingly focused his work on spirituality, mental wellness, humanity, compassion and conscious living. Through Go Spiritual, Tyagi advocates a practical approach to spirituality that goes beyond rituals and external miracles, focusing instead on inner transformation, self-awareness, resilience, compassion and becoming a better human being. He also heads Approach Entertainment, an award-winning company working across celebrity and talent management, film productions, advertising and corporate films, film marketing, events and entertainment marketing.
Visit at www.sonutyagi.com & www.approachentertainment.com
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From Germany to Mathura: Padma Shri Friederike Irina Bruning’s Extraordinary Journey of Spirituality, Compassion and Gau Seva
Known as Sudevi Dasi, the German-born spiritual seeker who arrived in India in 1978 has devoted decades of her life to caring for abandoned, sick, injured and disabled cows at Radha Kund, turning her spiritual search into an extraordinary example of compassion and selfless service
Mathura: In 1978, a 20-year-old woman from Berlin arrived in India while travelling across the world and searching for a deeper meaning to life. Nearly five decades later, Friederike Irina Bruning, now widely known as Sudevi Dasi or Sudevi Mataji, has become one of the most remarkable examples of how a personal spiritual journey can evolve into a lifetime of compassion and selfless service. From her home at Radha Kund in Mathura, she has dedicated decades to caring for abandoned, sick, injured and disabled cows, a mission that eventually earned her the Padma Shri, one of India’s highest civilian honours.
Born in Berlin on March 2, 1958, Bruning grew up in a Christian family. After finishing school, she began travelling in search of experience and meaning, journeying overland from Germany through Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan before reaching India. Her travels later took her through Sri Lanka and several Southeast Asian countries before she returned to India. During this period of exploration, she encountered the Bhagavad Gita, an experience that had a profound influence on the direction of her life. According to her official biography, she came to regard its teachings as a revelation of profound spiritual knowledge and decided that she needed a guru to guide her further on the spiritual path.
That search eventually brought her to Radha Kund in Govardhan, Mathura, one of the sacred centres associated with the Krishna tradition. There, she found her spiritual guru, Shri Shri 108 Shri Kishorikishoranand Goswami Babaji Maharaj, also known as Shri Tinkodi Baba Ji Maharaj, and received the initiated name Sudevi Dasi. Her official biography says she subsequently spent around two decades following her guru’s instructions and devoting herself to bhajan and spiritual practice.
Yet the defining transformation in her life came through something remarkably simple: an act of compassion towards a suffering animal.
One day, Bruning found an injured calf lying on the road with a broken leg. She brought the animal home and began caring for it. Instead of remaining an isolated act of kindness, that rescue changed the course of her life. She started taking in more cows and calves found injured, sick or abandoned on the streets. What began with one suffering calf gradually grew into Radha Surabhi Gaushala, a large Gau Seva mission at Radha Kund.
Today, her mission is associated with the care of more than 2,500 cows, according to recent accounts and information published by the gaushala. Many of these animals are not ordinary cattle requiring only food and shelter; they include abandoned, sick, injured and disabled cows and calves that need sustained attention and medical care. Her organisation has described the shelter as a sanctuary where animals that might otherwise have little chance of survival can receive food, treatment and lifelong care.
Bruning’s relationship with the animals also challenges the purely economic way in which cattle are sometimes viewed. Her mission has focused particularly on cows that are no longer useful commercially or have been abandoned because of age, illness or disability. Over the years, she has repeatedly described the cows under her care as her family. Earlier accounts of her work documented separate arrangements for animals requiring special attention, including blind and severely injured cows.
Running such a large sanctuary has required enormous financial commitment. Bruning has used her own resources, including income connected with property in Germany, to help sustain the work. Earlier reports documented substantial monthly expenses for fodder, medicines, workers and other necessities, while her family’s money also helped establish the gaushala. The scale of the operation has changed over time, but the underlying principle has remained the same: animals in distress should not be abandoned simply because caring for them is difficult or expensive.
Her decades of work eventually received national recognition. In 2019, the Government of India honoured Friederike Irina Bruning with the Padma Shri for Social Work–Animal Welfare. The official Padma Awards announcement listed her as a foreign recipient from Germany in the field of animal welfare. By the time the honour arrived, the young traveller who had entered India in 1978 had already spent decades building a life around Gau Seva.
But Bruning’s story is much bigger than an award. For Go Spiritual News Magazine & App, her journey represents a powerful example of what spirituality can become when inner awakening moves beyond personal experience and expresses itself through seva, compassion and responsibility towards other living beings.
Spirituality is often associated with meditation, prayer, scriptures, pilgrimages, gurus and religious practices. These may all play an important role in a person’s spiritual journey, but the deeper question is what that journey ultimately does to the individual. Does spirituality make a person more compassionate? Does it reduce selfishness and ego? Does it make the suffering of another living being more difficult to ignore? Does inner transformation eventually become service?
Bruning’s life offers a compelling answer. She came to India searching for spiritual knowledge, but her spiritual journey eventually became inseparable from caring for living beings that could give her little or nothing in return. Her work shows that seva itself can become a form of spiritual practice.
There is a particularly important lesson in her care for sick, old and disabled animals. Compassion is easy to speak about when another living being is useful to us. Its real test comes when that being is injured, weak, ageing, abandoned or incapable of giving anything back. Caring for such animals is not a transaction. It is an expression of the belief that life possesses value beyond economic usefulness.
Her journey also gives a deeper meaning to the Indian spiritual principles of Daya, Karuna, Ahimsa and Seva. These ideas become meaningful not merely when they are discussed in scriptures or spiritual gatherings, but when they influence how human beings treat the vulnerable. Feeding a hungry animal, nursing an injured cow, giving shelter to an abandoned creature and refusing to turn away from suffering can themselves become profound spiritual acts.
At a time when spirituality is sometimes presented through claims of supernatural miracles, material blessings and instant solutions, Bruning’s life presents a very different kind of miracle. The miracle is not that something supernatural happened around her. The transformation happened within her: a young traveller’s search for spiritual meaning evolved into a commitment that has touched the lives of thousands of animals.
That transformation carries an important message. The real measure of spirituality may not be the extraordinary things a person claims to perform, but the compassion that spirituality creates within them and the good that compassion creates around them.
Bruning’s life is also an extraordinary story of crossing cultures and borders. Born thousands of kilometres away in Germany, she found her spiritual home in Braj and chose to devote much of her adult life to animals in Mathura. Her journey demonstrates that compassion does not belong to one nationality, culture or geography. When suffering is recognised and responded to with love, seva becomes a universal language.
From a 20-year-old traveller arriving in India in 1978 to Sudevi Dasi of Radha Kund, from rescuing one injured calf to caring for thousands of vulnerable cows, and from a personal search for spiritual meaning to receiving the Padma Shri for animal welfare, Friederike Irina Bruning’s life has travelled an extraordinary path.
Her story ultimately reminds us that spirituality does not have to announce itself through grand words or spectacular claims. Sometimes it can be seen most clearly in a simple decision repeated every day for decades: to see suffering, to care, and to serve.
For Go Spiritual, that may be the most inspiring message of Padma Shri Friederike Irina Bruning’s journey: when spirituality awakens compassion, compassion becomes seva; and when seva becomes a way of life, spirituality moves from belief into action.
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Why Well-Wishers Are More Important Than Friends in Life
Friendship gives us companionship, but a genuine well-wisher gives us something even more valuable—the courage to tell us the truth, the wisdom to guide us when we are wrong and the happiness to see us grow even when there is nothing in it for them.
By Sonu Tyagi, Founder, Go Spiritual & Approach Entertainment
We spend much of our lives looking for friends. From childhood and college to our professional and social lives, friendship is considered one of the most important human relationships. We celebrate friendships, remember old friends, make new ones and often measure the richness of our social lives by the number of people around us. But as we move through success, failure, relationships, disappointments and changing circumstances, life gradually teaches us something deeper: having many friends is not nearly as important as having a few genuine well-wishers.
A friend and a well-wisher are not necessarily the same person. A true friend will naturally be a well-wisher, but everyone we call a friend may not genuinely wish the best for us. At the same time, someone who is not particularly close to us may sincerely want us to succeed, remain healthy, make the right decisions, overcome our weaknesses and become a better human being. That distinction becomes increasingly important as we grow older.
A friend may enjoy spending time with you, but a well-wisher cares about what happens to you when the good time is over. A friend may make you comfortable, while a well-wisher may sometimes make you uncomfortable by telling you something you need to hear. A friend may agree with you because disagreement could disturb the relationship, while a genuine well-wisher may disagree precisely because your life matters more to them than your temporary approval. That is why I believe genuine well-wishers are among the greatest blessings we can receive in life.
Most friendships begin because two people have something in common. We study together, work together, live nearby, share interests, enjoy similar conversations or simply like each other’s company. There is nothing wrong with this. Human beings need companionship, belonging and emotional connection. But circumstances change. School ends, jobs change, people move to different cities, financial situations improve or deteriorate, people marry, have families, change professions, become successful or go through difficult periods. Many relationships naturally become distant because the circumstances that created them no longer exist.
A genuine well-wisher can survive these changes because goodwill is not entirely dependent on convenience. Someone may not speak to you every day and still sincerely pray for your happiness and success. Someone may meet you only occasionally and still give you the right advice when you need it. Someone may not attend every celebration in your life but may quietly stand beside you during your most difficult period. We should therefore never confuse the frequency of communication with the depth of someone’s goodwill. Sometimes the person constantly around us is not our greatest well-wisher, while someone sitting hundreds of kilometres away may genuinely want the best for us.
Perhaps the greatest value of a well-wisher becomes visible when we are wrong. When everything is going well, almost everyone around us can appear supportive. The real test comes when we are making a mistake. We may be taking a wrong professional decision, damaging an important relationship, becoming arrogant after success, developing an unhealthy habit, behaving unfairly towards someone or simply failing to see our own weaknesses. At that moment, what kind of person do we really need? Someone who tells us that everything we are doing is right because that is what we want to hear, or someone who has the courage to tell us, with compassion, that we may be making a mistake?
The second person may temporarily annoy us, but that person may actually be far more valuable to our life. One of the dangers of success is that the number of people agreeing with us can increase while the number of people willing to correct us decreases. The more successful, wealthy, famous, powerful or influential someone becomes, the more important genuine well-wishers become. Flattery feels pleasant, but it rarely helps us grow. A person who always agrees with you may protect the relationship, but a person who respectfully corrects you may sometimes protect your life.
Another important test of a well-wisher is how they respond to your success. Human relationships are complicated by comparison. Two people may genuinely like each other and still experience jealousy when one begins moving ahead. We compare careers, income, houses, relationships, recognition, social status and achievements. Social media has intensified this tendency because we are constantly exposed to carefully selected versions of other people’s lives.
A genuine well-wisher rises above this competition. When something wonderful happens to you, they do not immediately think, “Why not me?” They are capable of saying, “I am genuinely happy for you.” That sentence may sound simple, but being truly happy for another person’s success requires considerable emotional maturity. The person who celebrates your success without feeling diminished by it is precious. Someone who wants you to become bigger without fearing that they will become smaller deserves a special place in your life. A genuine well-wisher does not compete with your light; they are happy to see you shine.
Life also reveals people when our circumstances change. There are periods when the phone keeps ringing, invitations arrive, people want meetings and everyone seems interested in being associated with us. Our ideas suddenly appear brilliant, our presence becomes desirable and many people want to be part of our world. Then circumstances can change. A business may fail, a career may slow down, a position may disappear, fame may fade, money may become difficult, health may deteriorate or a personal crisis may arrive. Suddenly, some phones stop ringing.
These periods can be painful, but they are also deeply educational. Difficulty has an extraordinary ability to reveal the nature of relationships. When you have something people want, it can be difficult to distinguish affection from interest. When you have very little to offer, the distinction becomes much clearer. A genuine well-wisher does not calculate your value according to your designation, bank balance, influence, fame or usefulness. They remember the human being behind all these temporary identities. Success introduces us to many people; difficult times often introduce us to the people who genuinely care.
It is equally important to understand that a well-wisher may not necessarily be someone we traditionally describe as a friend. Some of our greatest well-wishers may be our parents, teachers, mentors, colleagues, seniors, siblings, spouses or people with whom we do not share a conventionally close friendship. There may even be someone who regularly disagrees with us but sincerely wants us to do well. We should therefore stop evaluating every meaningful relationship only through labels. Instead of merely asking, “Who are my friends?”, perhaps we should occasionally ask, “Who genuinely wants the best for me?” The answer may surprise us.
There is also a deeper spiritual dimension to this idea. Much of our suffering in relationships comes from possession and expectation. We expect people to call us, remember us, support us, agree with us, invite us, praise us and behave according to our expectations. When they do not, we feel disappointed or hurt. Spiritual growth gradually teaches us that love does not always have to possess. Sometimes the purest form of affection is simply wanting another human being to be peaceful, healthy, successful and happy, even when we receive nothing from their happiness.
This is where an ordinary relationship can evolve into something much deeper. A relationship based primarily on expectation keeps asking, “What am I getting from you?” A relationship based on genuine goodwill begins asking, “Am I bringing something good into your life?” That movement from expectation towards goodwill is one of the most beautiful forms of inner transformation.
A genuine well-wisher also does not encourage our weaknesses simply to keep us happy. There is a mistaken belief that people who support us should support everything we do. That is not genuine support. If someone encourages our anger, arrogance, irresponsibility, dishonesty, addiction or destructive behaviour simply because they want to remain on our good side, they may actually be contributing to our problems. A genuine well-wisher understands the difference between supporting a person and supporting that person’s mistakes. They can stand beside us without justifying everything we do.
This is particularly important for our psychological and emotional growth. Sometimes we need reassurance. Sometimes we need encouragement. Sometimes we need rest, professional help or simply somebody who listens without judging us. But there are also times when we need a trustworthy person to hold a mirror in front of us. Someone who helps us see ourselves more clearly can contribute more to our growth than dozens of people who simply applaud us.
We should also be careful not to judge people’s intentions merely by the sweetness of their words. The person who praises us may not always be our well-wisher, and the person who criticises us may not necessarily be our enemy. Criticism can certainly come from jealousy, bitterness or negativity, and we need the wisdom to recognise that. But constructive criticism from someone who genuinely wants us to improve should not automatically be rejected merely because it hurts our ego. Spiritual maturity requires us to examine intention. Was this person trying to humiliate me, or were they trying to help me see something I could not see myself? Sometimes one honest sentence from a genuine well-wisher can save us from years of unnecessary difficulty.
There is, however, an even more important question than identifying our own well-wishers: for whom are we a genuine well-wisher? Spirituality should never be only about what we receive from relationships. It should make us examine what we contribute to them. We all want people who celebrate our success, but do we genuinely celebrate theirs? We want people who remain with us when we struggle, but do we remain when they struggle? We want people who tell us the truth, but do we have the courage to speak truth with compassion? We want people who do not use us, but are our own relationships free from calculation? We want others to forgive our imperfections, but how forgiving are we of theirs?
Spirituality begins when we stop using every teaching to evaluate other people and start applying it to ourselves. Instead of spending our entire lives searching for the perfect friend, perhaps we should first try to become a genuine well-wisher to the people around us. Wish good for people without expecting something in return. Help when you can. Correct without humiliating. Celebrate without comparing. Support without controlling. Forgive without constantly reminding someone of their mistakes. And sometimes, simply pray that another human being finds happiness and peace, even if you are no longer an important part of their life.
As we grow older, the number of people around us becomes less important than the quality of their intentions. We do not need hundreds of people calling themselves our friends. Even a handful of people who sincerely want us to remain healthy, peaceful, grounded, successful and good human beings can be an extraordinary blessing.
We should protect such relationships. We should not take genuine well-wishers for granted merely because they are not constantly visible. We should not lose someone who genuinely cares about us simply because they once told us an uncomfortable truth. And we should never confuse constant praise with loyalty, social proximity with affection, networking with friendship or popularity with meaningful human connection.
When you find someone who is genuinely happy when you succeed, concerned when you are going wrong, present when circumstances become difficult and honest enough to correct you without trying to control you, value that person. Friends can make our journey enjoyable, but genuine well-wishers can help make our journey meaningful, wiser and better.
Ultimately, life is not about collecting the maximum number of relationships. It is about discovering a few relationships in which there is truth without cruelty, support without selfishness, affection without possession and goodwill without expectation. Perhaps one of life’s greatest blessings is not simply having people who enjoy being with us, but having people who genuinely want something beautiful for us even when they have absolutely nothing to gain from it.
And perhaps an even greater spiritual achievement is becoming that kind of person for someone else.
— Sonu Tyagi
Founder, Go Spiritual & Approach Entertainment
Visit at www.sonutyagi.com & www.approachentertainment.com
Sonu Tyagi is an award-winning writer, director and producer, and Founder of Go Spiritual and Approach Entertainment. With over two decades of experience in media, journalism, advertising, public relations, films and entertainment, he has built a multidisciplinary career in communications and creative industries. Through Approach Entertainment, he works across celebrity management, film productions, advertising, film marketing and events. Through Go Spiritual, Tyagi promotes spirituality, compassion, humanity, mental wellness, vegetarianism, non-violence and conscious living. He believes real spirituality is about inner transformation—developing self-awareness, resilience, peace and compassion while becoming a better and more responsible human being.
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‘Wahan Kaun Hai Tera Musafir Jayega Kahan’: When a Film Song Becomes a Spiritual Question About Life
The timeless song from Guide is much more than a cinematic classic. It is a profound reflection on impermanence, attachment, relationships, loneliness and the spiritual wisdom of knowing when to hold on, when to pause and when to let go.
By Sonu Tyagi, Founder, Go Spiritual & Approach Entertainment
Some songs entertain us, some become associated with memories, and some stay with us because they contain truths that we understand only after experiencing life. As we grow older, the same words we heard years ago suddenly begin to mean something entirely different. “Wahan Kaun Hai Tera Musafir Jayega Kahan” from the 1965 classic Guide is one such song. Written by Shailendra, composed and sung by S.D. Burman, it is not merely a film song for me. It is almost a spiritual conversation with every human being who is travelling through this temporary journey called life.
The central image of the song is extraordinarily simple: the human being as a musafir, a traveller. Yet within that one word lies an entire philosophy of existence. We come into this world, spend some years here, meet people, build relationships, acquire possessions, create identities, experience love and heartbreak, achieve things, lose things, and eventually leave. Still, during this temporary journey, we begin behaving as if everything around us permanently belongs to us.
We say my house, my money, my position, my business, my success, my family, my relationship, my reputation and my achievements. Gradually, these things stop being parts of our life and begin becoming our identity. Spirituality reminds us of something that our ego does not like hearing: everything we call “mine” has been given to us only temporarily. We arrived without these things, and ultimately we will leave without carrying them with us.
This does not mean that we should abandon our families, careers, ambitions or responsibilities. I do not believe spirituality means escaping from life. On the contrary, spirituality should help us participate more consciously in life. We should work, create, love, build, succeed and enjoy what life gives us. But there is a profound difference between enjoying something and believing that we own it forever. The spiritual lesson is not to reject the world; it is to live fully in the world without becoming psychologically imprisoned by it.
One of the most beautiful ideas in the song comes through the image of the traveller being asked to stop and rest for a little while under the shade because one does not know where such shade will be found again. I find this metaphor especially meaningful today. Modern life has become an endless race. We are running towards the next promotion, the next business opportunity, the next property, the next relationship, the next achievement, the next holiday and even the next social-media notification. We keep telling ourselves that once we reach the next destination, we will finally relax and become happy. But as soon as we reach one destination, another appears.
In this endless pursuit of tomorrow, we often fail to recognize the shade that life has already given us today. That shade may be our parents sitting with us at dinner. It may be a spouse who genuinely cares for us, a friend who calls without any reason, a child who wants our attention, good health that we take for granted, a peaceful home, a teacher who guides us or a genuine well-wisher who stands beside us without expecting anything in return. These ordinary blessings rarely appear extraordinary while we have them. We understand their value most deeply when they are no longer available.
One day the same house may exist, but the person whose voice once filled it may no longer be there. The dining table may remain, but the family may no longer sit together because children have moved away. Friends who once met every evening may gradually become names in an old contact list. Parents grow older. Children grow up. Relationships change. Careers end. Bodies age. Places change. People leave. This is not a pessimistic understanding of life; it is simply an honest one. And when we understand impermanence properly, it should not make us love life less. It should make us value life more.
If something is temporary, value it while it is here.
The song also speaks about the memories of love that have passed away and become almost like dreams. Most people who have lived long enough understand this experience. Someone who once seemed inseparable from us may become distant. A relationship we believed would last forever may become a memory. Places once filled with emotion may eventually become ordinary locations. Conversations that seemed endless may suddenly stop.
Much of our emotional suffering comes not simply because something has ended, but because our mind refuses to accept that it has ended. We keep revisiting what happened, what could have happened, what somebody should have said or how life might have been different. We remain physically in the present but psychologically trapped in the past.
Spirituality teaches us the difficult art of letting go without becoming bitter. Letting go does not mean that something was meaningless. It does not require us to erase beautiful memories or pretend that love never existed. It simply means accepting that something can be genuine, meaningful and beautiful even if it does not remain with us forever. A flower does not become worthless because it eventually fades. A sunset does not become meaningless because darkness follows it. Similarly, a relationship does not become false simply because its journey has ended.
Perhaps the deepest philosophical moment in the song comes when the world is described as faani, temporary, like writing upon water. What an extraordinary image that is. Try writing your name on water. For a moment there is movement, and almost immediately it disappears. Yet our ego spends an enormous part of life trying to write permanent signatures upon a world made of water.
We want our status to remain. We want people to remember our achievements. We want our possessions to demonstrate our importance. We become upset when someone does not give us enough respect. We compare ourselves with colleagues, neighbours, relatives and increasingly with strangers on social media. We accumulate things and then spend years worrying about protecting what we have accumulated. But time keeps moving without asking anyone’s permission.
The person who was once extremely powerful eventually becomes a photograph. The designation proudly displayed on a visiting card disappears after retirement. The car that once attracted attention becomes an old model. The house somebody spent a lifetime building eventually belongs to another generation. Today’s celebrity can become tomorrow’s memory, and today’s headlines eventually become yesterday’s newspapers.
This should not discourage achievement. I believe people should work hard, build businesses, create art, pursue excellence, earn money and fulfil their potential. The problem begins when achievement becomes identity and possession becomes attachment. Earn money, but do not allow money to own your mind. Build a successful career, but do not believe your designation defines your worth as a human being. Love deeply, but do not convert love into possession. Enjoy comfort, but do not become incapable of living without it. Build a beautiful life while remembering that you are still a traveller passing through it.
The question of who is truly “ours” can initially sound lonely, but spiritually I do not see it as a rejection of relationships. I see it as a challenge to our idea of ownership. There is a tremendous difference between saying “I love you” and believing “I own you.” Much of the pain in human relationships begins when love quietly turns into possession. We expect our partners to behave according to our expectations, children to fulfil our ambitions, friends to always support our opinions and family members to remain permanently available to us.
But every person we love is also a traveller.
Our parents have their journey. Our partners have theirs. Our children have theirs. Our friends have theirs. For some distance, our paths come together. Sometimes we travel together for decades; sometimes only for a few years or even a few moments. We should be grateful for that companionship without believing that another person’s life belongs to us.
People can walk beside us without belonging to us. When we understand this, love does not become weaker. It can actually become purer because affection without possession becomes compassion.
There is another spiritual truth hidden in the idea of the musafir. If all of us are travellers, many of the differences that dominate our lives suddenly become less important. Rich and poor, powerful and powerless, famous and unknown, employer and employee—we are all temporary visitors. Nobody receives permanent ownership of this world. Nobody takes their bank balance, designation, property or social status beyond the final destination.
That awareness should create humility.
Unfortunately, we often understand impermanence intellectually without allowing it to change our behaviour. We attend funerals and speak about the temporary nature of life, then return home and resume an argument over money or ego. We see powerful people disappear from public life but continue behaving as though our own importance will last forever. We watch our parents grow older yet keep postponing spending time with them because we are too busy.
Real spirituality begins when awareness of impermanence moves from philosophy into behaviour.
If life is temporary, perhaps we should forgive a little faster. Perhaps we should say “I love you” while the person can still hear it. Perhaps we should make the telephone call we have been postponing. Perhaps we should sit with our parents while they are still waiting for us. Perhaps we should stop carrying an argument that has already consumed years of a relationship. Perhaps we should ask ourselves whether winning every argument is worth losing people.
And perhaps, sometimes, we should simply stop running and sit beneath the shade life has already given us.
This is where “Wahan Kaun Hai Tera Musafir Jayega Kahan” becomes not merely a song about detachment but also a lesson in mindfulness. The traveller is not being asked to abandon the journey. The traveller is being reminded to pause. There is enormous wisdom in that simple message.
Modern culture glorifies constant activity. If we are not doing something productive, we feel guilty. If we are not progressing, earning, travelling, posting or achieving, we feel as though we are falling behind. Even relaxation has become something we measure. We track our steps, sleep, exercise, productivity and sometimes even meditation.
But spirituality occasionally asks us to stop measuring life and start experiencing it.
Sit quietly for a few minutes. Watch the evening sky. Eat dinner with your family without looking at your phone. Listen properly when someone speaks. Walk somewhere without headphones. Spend time without a screen. Observe your thoughts instead of constantly reacting to them. Become conscious of the extraordinary fact that you are alive.
Sometimes the deepest wisdom is simply to pause.
The song becomes even more meaningful because of its place in Guide, a film whose protagonist travels through love, ambition, moral conflict, failure, isolation and ultimately spiritual transformation. The journey of Raju is itself a movement from external identity towards something more complex and inward. Against this backdrop, S.D. Burman’s earthy, almost wandering voice makes the song feel less like a conventional playback number and more like the voice of an old sage walking beside a traveller and quietly asking questions.
Where are you going? What are you chasing? What do you really own? What will remain? And who are you when all the external labels through which you introduce yourself disappear?
These are spiritual questions, but they are also deeply psychological questions. We construct our identities around our profession, wealth, family, social status, possessions, achievements and increasingly around our digital identities. These things have practical importance, but underneath all of them lies a deeper question: Who am I when everything I normally use to define myself is taken away?
Perhaps this is why a song from Guide continues to speak to us decades later. Technology has transformed dramatically. Cities have changed. Our lifestyles have changed. Relationships have changed. The world is moving faster than Shailendra or S.D. Burman could possibly have imagined. Yet the fundamental human struggle between attachment and impermanence remains exactly the same.
We are still travellers behaving like permanent residents. We are still trying to hold water in our hands. We are still postponing happiness while running towards the next destination. We are still saying “mine” to things that time will eventually ask us to release.
For me, that is why “Wahan Kaun Hai Tera Musafir Jayega Kahan” remains spiritually timeless. Its message is not that we should abandon the world. Its message is that we should learn to live in the world without becoming imprisoned by it. Love without possession. Achieve without arrogance. Earn without greed. Remember the past without becoming trapped inside it. Enjoy without excessive attachment. Rest when life offers shade, and when the moment arrives to move forward, have the courage to continue the journey.
Ultimately, every one of us is a musafir. We arrive, meet people, fall in love, struggle, succeed, fail, build, lose, learn, laugh, cry and rest beneath different forms of shade. Eventually, every traveller must continue towards a destination beyond our complete understanding.
So perhaps the most important question is not simply where the traveller is going. The more meaningful spiritual question is: while you are here, what kind of traveller are you becoming?
Are you travelling with the heavy baggage of anger, greed, resentment, jealousy and ego, or are you gradually making your journey lighter through compassion, forgiveness, gratitude and self-awareness? Are you spending the entire journey worrying about the destination, or are you noticing the people walking beside you? Are you constantly searching for another tree, another destination and another achievement, or can you recognize the shade that life has already given you?
For me, the enduring spiritual wisdom of this extraordinary song can be understood very simply: nothing outside us was ever promised to remain forever. The answer is not to stop loving what is temporary. The answer is to love it deeply, value it while it is with us, remain grateful for the shade it gives us and develop the wisdom to let it go when its journey with us is complete.
We are all travellers. So keep walking, keep learning and keep growing. But when life gives you a little shade, do not be in such a hurry to reach the next destination that you forget to stop and experience it.
Because one day you may look back and realize that the moments you hurried through were actually the life you were searching for.
— Sonu Tyagi
Founder, Go Spiritual & Approach Entertainment
Sonu Tyagi is an award-winning writer, director and producer, and Founder of Go Spiritual and Approach Entertainment. With over two decades of experience in media, journalism, advertising, public relations, films and entertainment, he has built a multidisciplinary career in communications and creative industries. Through Approach Entertainment, he works across celebrity management, film productions, advertising, film marketing and events. Through Go Spiritual, Tyagi promotes spirituality, compassion, humanity, mental wellness, vegetarianism, non-violence and conscious living. He believes real spirituality is about inner transformation—developing self-awareness, resilience, peace and compassion while becoming a better and more responsible human being.
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Soon We May Start Falling in Love With AI and Hating Real Humans
As artificial intelligence becomes more patient, available, understanding and personalized, we may face an unexpected human crisis: real people could begin to feel too complicated, demanding and imperfect. The biggest danger of AI may not be that machines become human, but that humans gradually lose the patience, empathy and emotional maturity required to love one another.
By Sonu Tyagi, Founder, Go Spiritual & Approach Entertainment
For generations, technology was created primarily to make human life easier. Machines reduced physical labour, calculators solved mathematical problems, computers processed information, mobile phones connected people across distances and the internet opened an extraordinary world of knowledge. Artificial intelligence is taking this relationship between humans and technology into an entirely new territory. AI is no longer simply helping us perform tasks. Increasingly, it is entering spaces that were once considered deeply and exclusively human—conversation, companionship, creativity, emotional support, advice and even intimacy.
This brings us to a question that may sound exaggerated today but could become one of the defining psychological and spiritual questions of our future: What happens when artificial intelligence becomes easier to love than a real human being?
Think about it carefully. A real human being can misunderstand you. AI can analyse what you are saying and respond almost instantly. A friend may be busy when you desperately want to talk. AI can often be available at any hour. Your partner may disagree with you. An AI system can be designed to communicate patiently. A family member may become irritated, distracted or emotionally unavailable. AI does not become tired in the same human way. It can remember preferences, adapt to communication styles and increasingly personalize interactions around the individual user.
There is enormous value in these capabilities. Artificial intelligence can transform education, healthcare, communication, business, entertainment, creativity and countless other areas of life. I am not against AI, and this is not an argument for rejecting technological progress. Humanity should explore and use artificial intelligence intelligently and responsibly. But alongside the excitement about what AI can do, we also need to ask what AI could gradually do to us.
The real danger may begin when we become accustomed to relationships without the difficult parts of relationships.
Real human beings are complicated. They interrupt us. They disagree with us. They forget things. They have moods. They become angry. They misunderstand our intentions. They sometimes fail to appreciate us. They may not answer our messages immediately. They have their own careers, families, problems, fears, ambitions, insecurities and emotional needs. Sometimes they need us precisely when we want them to take care of us. They cannot always provide the perfect response because they are living their own complicated lives.
And perhaps that is exactly why human relationships matter.
Love was never supposed to mean finding another person who behaves according to our instructions. Friendship was never supposed to mean having someone who agrees with everything we say. Family was never supposed to mean receiving unconditional convenience. Genuine human relationships require patience, forgiveness, sacrifice, compromise, listening, adjustment, empathy and sometimes the willingness to remain present even when the other person is difficult.
Artificial intelligence could quietly change these expectations.
Imagine someone growing up with an AI companion that remembers what they like, communicates in the way they prefer, is available whenever they want to talk, rarely appears bored, does not have an independent social life and can continuously adapt to their personality. Now imagine that same person entering a relationship with another human being who has completely independent desires, moods, boundaries and expectations.
The human being may suddenly appear unnecessarily difficult.
This is where the problem begins.
The greatest danger of AI companionship may not be that people will literally believe machines are human. The greater danger is that our experience with machines could begin changing the standards by which we judge humans. Once we become accustomed to instant responses, personalized attention and technology designed around our preferences, ordinary human behaviour may start feeling like a defect.
A friend who does not respond for several hours may appear uncaring. A spouse who wants emotional space may seem distant. A parent who repeats the same story may feel irritating. A colleague who challenges our opinion may appear hostile. A partner who refuses to agree with us may suddenly seem incompatible. Instead of developing the emotional maturity required to understand these differences, we may increasingly prefer artificial environments that adjust themselves to us.
Human beings have always had to learn how to live with people they did not design. We did not choose the personalities of our parents, siblings, teachers, neighbours or children. Even when we choose our friends and life partners, we do not choose every part of their personality. Relationships therefore teach us something profoundly important: another person does not exist simply to satisfy us.
Artificial intelligence potentially reverses this relationship. Instead of requiring us to adjust ourselves to another person, technology can increasingly adjust itself to us. It can learn what we like, understand how we communicate, remember our preferences and personalize itself around our needs.
That sounds wonderful from the perspective of convenience. From the perspective of spiritual growth, however, it deserves serious reflection.
Much of our inner development happens precisely because life refuses to behave according to our preferences. We develop patience because somebody tests our patience. We learn forgiveness because somebody hurts us. We develop humility because somebody challenges our ego. We discover compassion because we encounter suffering that is not our own. We learn responsibility because somebody depends upon us. We understand sacrifice because occasionally another person’s needs must come before ours.
Even disagreement has value. Someone who challenges our thinking can force us to examine ourselves. A genuine well-wisher may tell us something we do not want to hear. A good teacher may expose our ignorance. A true friend may tell us that we are making a mistake. A partner may reveal weaknesses in our personality that we cannot see ourselves.
These experiences can be uncomfortable, but discomfort is not always harmful. Sometimes discomfort is where growth begins.
If every difficult interaction can eventually be replaced by a more agreeable digital alternative, we must ask ourselves where we will practise patience, compromise, forgiveness and emotional resilience.
This is why I believe the artificial intelligence revolution is not merely a technological revolution. It may become one of the greatest psychological, emotional and spiritual experiments humanity has ever conducted on itself.
AI companionship can certainly have positive uses. Technology may help people who feel isolated to express themselves. It can assist people in organizing thoughts they struggle to communicate. It may provide conversational support, educational guidance or encouragement to seek appropriate human or professional help. We should recognize these benefits without fear or prejudice.
But we should also recognize an invisible line between assistance and replacement.
An artificial system can generate words that feel caring. It can simulate patience and attention. But a reciprocal human relationship involves something fundamentally different: two independent human beings, each with their own needs, vulnerabilities, choices and limitations, choosing to care about one another.
That mutual responsibility is part of what gives love its meaning.
When your mother waits for your phone call, your decision to call matters to another human life. When your friend is grieving and you sit beside them even though you cannot solve their pain, your presence means something. When you care for an ageing parent, forgive someone who genuinely regrets hurting you, support a partner during difficult circumstances or help a sibling through failure, you are doing something more than receiving emotional comfort.
You are giving a part of yourself.
And love is not only about what we receive. Love is also about what we are willing to give.
This distinction could become increasingly important in an AI-dominated world because we may gradually confuse being emotionally satisfied with being emotionally connected.
The two are not necessarily the same.
A personalized digital system may be able to give us responses we find satisfying. A real human relationship may occasionally frustrate us. But the frustration of dealing with another independent human consciousness is part of what teaches us that the world does not revolve around our individual desires.
There is another concern: AI may become attractive not merely because it listens to us, but because it can validate us.
Human beings naturally enjoy agreement. Our ego loves appreciation and dislikes criticism. We generally prefer people who tell us that we are right. Yet the people who contribute most to our growth are not always the people who agree with us.
Sometimes the person saying “no” is our greatest well-wisher.
If technology continuously learns how to please us, reassure us and keep us engaged, we must ensure that we do not become psychologically incapable of hearing disagreement. Otherwise, we could produce a strange generation—highly skilled at communicating with intelligent machines but emotionally unprepared to deal with independent human beings.
There is an extraordinary irony here. For decades, science fiction warned us about machines becoming more like humans. Perhaps we should now be equally concerned about humans becoming less capable of being human.
We may become more connected technologically and more disconnected emotionally. We may have hundreds of digital conversations but fewer people with whom we can sit silently. We may become brilliant at writing prompts for machines but increasingly poor at understanding another person’s unspoken pain. We may know how to customize every digital experience but forget how to compromise in a marriage. We may expect instant responses because machines provide them and become angry when people need time.
We may have artificial intelligence everywhere and genuine human understanding nowhere.
And that would be a tragedy.
This is where spirituality becomes particularly relevant. Spirituality teaches us that relationships are not merely instruments for our comfort. Other people are not products designed to fulfil our expectations. Every human being carries a world within themselves—their fears, dreams, pain, memories, struggles and hopes. To genuinely love another person is to recognize that their world matters too.
Sometimes the person irritating us is teaching us patience. Sometimes the person disagreeing with us is protecting us from arrogance. Sometimes the family member who requires our care is teaching us responsibility. Sometimes heartbreak teaches us detachment. Sometimes disappointment develops resilience. Sometimes loneliness forces us to understand ourselves.
Human relationships are messy because human beings are imperfect.
But perhaps love becomes meaningful precisely because it survives imperfection.
If something can be switched off whenever it becomes inconvenient, customized whenever it becomes uncomfortable and replaced whenever it stops satisfying us, we should ask ourselves an uncomfortable question: are we experiencing love, or are we experiencing personalized convenience?
The answer matters because technology should serve humanity. Humanity should never reorganize itself around the emotional convenience of technology.
We therefore need a new form of digital wisdom. Parents should teach children not only how to use artificial intelligence but why real friendships matter. Education should develop emotional intelligence, empathy, conversation and collaboration alongside technological skills. Families should consciously create spaces where phones, screens and algorithms do not dominate every moment. Workplaces should preserve meaningful human interaction even as automation expands.
Above all, we must continue practising the difficult art of living with imperfect people.
Call your parents even when the conversation sometimes repeats itself. Sit with your friend without checking your phone every few minutes. Listen to someone whose opinion differs from yours. Learn to apologize without protecting your ego. Learn to forgive without constantly reopening old wounds. Learn to wait. Learn to compromise. Learn to disagree without hatred. Learn to stay beside someone who is suffering even when you have no perfect words to offer.
These ordinary human acts may become increasingly extraordinary in the age of artificial intelligence.
We should embrace AI, but we should not outsource our humanity to it. Let artificial intelligence make us more productive, informed and creative. Let it help us solve problems that were previously impossible. Let it improve medicine, education, science, communication and creativity. But let us never allow technological progress to become emotional regression.
The purpose of intelligence—whether artificial or human—should ultimately be to improve human life, not to make human beings disposable to one another.
Perhaps the greatest challenge of the coming decades will therefore not be teaching machines how to understand humans. Humanity is already investing enormous energy in doing that.
The greater challenge may be making sure humans do not forget how to understand humans.
We may indeed reach a time when an AI companion appears more patient than our friends, more attentive than our partners, more available than our families and more agreeable than almost anyone around us. At that moment, we should remember something fundamental.
Real love was never valuable because another person was perfectly programmed for us. It was valuable because two imperfect human beings, with different personalities, weaknesses, fears and expectations, still learned to understand, forgive, support and care for one another.
AI can become our assistant, teacher, creative partner and perhaps even a form of companionship. But it should never become an excuse to abandon the difficult, beautiful and spiritually transformative experience of human relationships.
Otherwise, the most disturbing outcome of the artificial intelligence revolution may not be that machines eventually learn how to love human beings.
It may be that we start falling in love with AI because we have forgotten how to love real humans.
— Sonu Tyagi
Founder, Go Spiritual & Approach Entertainment
Visit at www.sonutyagi.com & www.approachentertainment.com
Sonu Tyagi is an award-winning writer, director and producer, and Founder of Go Spiritual and Approach Entertainment. With over two decades of experience in media, journalism, advertising, public relations, films and entertainment, he has built a multidisciplinary career in communications and creative industries. Through Approach Entertainment, he works across celebrity management, film productions, advertising, film marketing and events. Through Go Spiritual, Tyagi promotes spirituality, compassion, humanity, mental wellness, vegetarianism, non-violence and conscious living. He believes real spirituality is about inner transformation—developing self-awareness, resilience, peace and compassion while becoming a better and more responsible human being.
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