The Gouranga Experiement

Hey, it's Dr. Tommy Goranga, and today I am in St. Andrews, which is somewhere up north from where my caves are, and it's freezing. It's actually freezing fog out here today, and I'm out here for the same purpose.

I'm going to find some rich St. Andrew's students and ask a few questions about the self. Try and learn a little something and carry on with part one of the experiment. Just try to find a few more people.

Ask them a few more questions about the self, about consciousness and about the body. I tell you, it's freezing cold today, even worse than it was in Perth. it's like supposed to be minus nine tomorrow now I don't know maybe you guys are watching this in Alaska or something I must sound like a like a wimp you know but uh it's pretty bitter out here put it that way there must be somebody who wants to speak to the good doctor hey it's dr. Hey, it's Dr. Tommy Goranga.

How's it going? Doing good. Coffee. Hey, it's Dr.

Tommy Goranga. One sec. Can we do a little experiment? It's for the internet, dude.

Sorry. Hey, it's Dr. Tommy Goranga. Hey, my name's Dr.

Tommy Goranga. Would I be able to do a really quick little experiment on the street with you? What kind of experiment? really simple. Hey, it's Dr.

Tommy Goranga and I'm here with, what's your name my friend? Jordan. Jordan, okay, nice to meet you. So, can I just do a really quick experiment with you?

Just ask you if you could point to your arm. Okay, whose arm is this? That's my arm. Point to your leg.

Whose leg is this? My leg. And point to your head. Whose head is this?

My head. Okay, can you point to you? Okay, that's your chest. Point to the general me.

Okay, you know like when we say my arm and my leg, it's like belongs to me, right? We don't say I arm, but everybody thinks this body is me, but then we don't talk about it like it is us. We say it's like belongs to me, right? Even like my body, my head.

So who is the who am I who am I you know like who is the self what do you think about that I would describe the self as the soul soul and it's basically the part that isn't the body would you say that the soul is the consciousness I think it's deeper than that I actually think it's it's pointless having a soul if it doesn't lead you to anywhere if it's there's no purpose that you could yeah what is the meaning of life that's a really yeah well for me it's basically to serve god and to serve jesus hey it's dr tommy garanga and uh i just met this cool dude what's your name ronan rona thanks to meet you this is ronan it's from michigan so what wanted to ask ronan could you can you point to your arm to my arm yeah okay whose arm is this Mine. My left arm.

Your left arm. Great. Can you point to your leg? Sure.

Whose leg is this? It's also mine. Can you point to your head? And whose head is this?

Hopefully mine. I'm using it. Fantastic. Okay, so can you point now, Ronan, to yourself?

So you're just trying to find out where people point? Like most people point to their heart or... or yeah but like where who what is the self like you know like when when we say my arm yeah my leg it's like that's a physical but you know like the way we say my like it belongs to me right like my body but who who is the owner of it you know like we don't say i head well you are your personality so yeah but i mean are we the body though are we the like we are the person but the the body seems to be something else, right? Well, the mind and stuff isn't there to run it. It just would lay there, so.

So do you think that the self is something different from the mind, from the body, sorry? Like, say your relative was dead, their body would be there, everything would still be there, but something's missing, right, the person? Yeah. So who is that person, you know, that's missing?

What's the difference between a dead body and a living body? What do you think? It's sort of like loosening your arm, except it's more. You're actually, you can't operate anymore.

Do you believe like the consciousness moves on? Yeah. After death? Yeah.

Interesting. I'm just trying to provoke thoughts, you know, and speak to people about this. I've got a YouTube, I have a YouTube channel. Yeah. just like discuss about the self and philosophy and stuff and i'm just come out and i'm trying to meet different people you know this is really interesting thank you very much ronan thanks man can you say goranga goranga it's an ancient mantra yeah from india it means i'd be happy goranga to you thank you very much dr tommy goranga i'm in saint andrews today what's your name my name is nathaniel kerr and i'm a student at the university of saint andrews wow and i want like, coordinate the people of this world to start eating food together, simple, healthy food together, and that in itself will start bringing a spirituality.

We see all these shops. There's no connection to them. There's no relationship from one shop to the next. Yeah, and it's all really...

There's no feeling of sharing. It's a feeling of every man for itself, and man isn't real. Life is real, and we need... It's a lot of consumerism, right?

Yeah, and we need to, you know, work our ways out of that. You know, like, the self, right? Everybody's just external. They have a very limited concept of what the self is.

I'm leaving for New York tomorrow for Christmas break. Oh, congratulations. And Christmas, I'm flying home, you know, and shopping season. All the corporations are like, oh, come, bye, bye, bye.

This will make your family healthy and happy. They love it. Why do we lose our innocence after such a short lifespan of 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, 50 years? How do we get jaded?

How do we close ourselves off? It's unfair. Can you? There's one mantra can you say Goranga.

Goranga. Goranga means be happy. Goranga. It's kind of like makes you feel happy.

How do you say it? Goranga. Goranga. Yeah.

It's like G-O-U-R-A-N-G-A. Goranga. Can you chant Goranga a few times? Goranga, Goranga, Goranga, Goranga...

Fantastic one. Hey, how do you feel? Good, man. Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.

Can you point to your arm? Point to my arm? Yeah, yeah. Whose arm is this?

This is an arm that is supposed to inspire people to use their hands instead of their minds. Who does it belong to? This mind is made of earth and stars and sunshine and plants and minerals. Whose arm is it?

Whose arm is it? I mean, we shouldn't even get to such a complicated... Like, someone would just say, like, most people I ask, they say, it's my arm, right? Right, well, this is...

But, I mean, when you say my, it's like it belongs to me. So, who is me? Who am I to you? I haven't surrendered to that answer yet.

Okay, okay. It's important to surrender to the answer, but not to surrender to the lower self's answer. Right, right. And the higher self, the lower self immediately, socially...

I'm looking for in these towns, you know, because I'm going to different towns in Scotland been to Perth this week And this is this next one of doing st. Andrews, you know, I'm trying to meet up with my new people like you We need everyone needs to come together We need to understand why the Internet has come into being we need to not judge the evil forces around us And you don't need to call them evil. We don't need to judge the materialism We need to realize what is the materialism trying to spark within us to change about ourselves It's not that this is a bad story like I was saying earlier. Just the way you use it, right?

It's how I react to it that's bad. Like a knife, right? In a surgeon's hand, a knife can save someone's life. In a killer's hand, it can kill someone.

The knife is neither good or bad. It's just the function. It's just how the consciousness reacts to the surroundings. I'm not consciously standing here.

I'm consciously reacting. But the thing that's holding my conscience, the cradle of my conscience, is infinite. Hey, this is Dr. Tommy Goranga, thank you, with Nathaniel.

Thanks a lot Nathaniel. Hey, it's Dr. Tommy Goranga. So it's been very interesting here in St.

Andrews today, beautiful quaint little town. And yeah, it was very interesting speaking to these interesting open-minded people on the street.