We were surrounded by very diverse and religious communities, our friends were Hindus, Jains, and Shia Muslims, all are celebrated, celebrated as we celebrated all holidays. The volley the Hindu festival of light was a major holiday for everyone. And I always remember lots of firecrackers and lots of sweets exchanged from one house to the another. I went to school run by Jane's, everyone from all faiths came to the school. I have many friends from all different religions. And some of them are here and we still keep in touch. So now a little bit about the spiritual tradition that I grew up in. The Sehat family belongs to a mystical tradition within Islam. Similar to the Sufi tradition. This spiritual tradition is called my head with some in no collections to make the sect of Iran It was totally in home grown in India. The Mahadevi mystical movement in India was founded by in 15th century by one of my ancestors, Sayed Mohammad Juwon Puri in northern India, a place south of Naipaul and west of Delhi. So, there was no shortage of mystical movements around that place. The Maha headways practice a form of meditation called Zikr. And consider this the most important part of the spiritual tradition. It is said that the founder was troubled by the lack of mystical and spiritual aspect in Islam in his time and place. So he brought the message of non materialism and spirituality through meditation. The my head waves were persecuted by fundamentalist mullahs over the years and there's a whole history about that. For several centuries, my headways did not build house with foundation, why? To avoid material attachment and probably be able to get up and leave when you were persecuting. This change this change at some point as we know because now we live in big houses. Certainly when our ancestor moved from the state of Rajasthan to Gujarat, my hometown, in 1960s, in 1616, as a spiritual teacher of the royal dynasty of pollen pool, they may have felt protected there, since in 1750, the dynasty built a very tall and strong wall all around the town at that time, with seven gates that therefore garden all times, and one gate is still there. We, I took my husband to see him that this time when we will there our tradition highly recommended the practice of meditation daily around sunrise prayer and sunset prayer. Not everyone does this since we know you cannot make people to set if they do not want to. So some people just participated in different rituals and ceremonies but they didn't really come to meditate, but the people who want to it was available there. So one has to seek out guidance of a qualified spiritual teacher or a guide and the word that was used for that spiritual teacher was motion. And the same vocabulary we use in made wisdom that is in Sufism, so I, I think that there's some connection there. All are free to choose their teacher, and one can find different teachers within the same family. In fact, my mom and dad had different spiritual teachers. And I remember them talking about who's teachable, and it will, it will draw this spiritual bond between teacher and disciple is believed to be lifelong and continues after death. And that was the belief in this spiritual guide or a teacher hops with that medication, if possible, perform ceremonies on 1020 years and for PTSD after that. The Spiritual Guides lineage is highly regarded and recited at the teacher see disciple ceremony. Most followers initial renunciation after retirement or in advance age in to focus on their meditation. And this time when I went there, there was some decisions and some questions and discussions about what do people do with their pensions? Because you're not supposed to have anything. And I don't think I heard what the answer was for that. They also take up periodic solitary retreats. And they also donate 10% of their income to the Neely. So that's also to avoid materialism. The spiritual guys renounced the material attachment at any age when they except that so now a little bit about my grand uncle who was also spiritual health at some point. The first person on my list or chronological order list is my granddad uncle, and He indirectly affected me with my meditation practice. My granddad called was my grandfather's youngest brother, and had profound influence on me and many others, even outside our community and faith. He was born in 1892, had a college degree, taught English to many and was an official tutor to some of children, for pollen, poor states, princely royal kids. As we know, India has some 400 plus, plus states with kings, maharajahs, Navab, until independence from British in 1947, so they consolidated all of them, and they're created one country, India. And pollen poor was one of those states, not very big, but it was still a state and we had our own king. I never met the king because I think he passed away before I was born. My grand uncle was very disciplined about his daily prayers, and he meditated twice a day for two or more hours per sitting, every day, seven days a week. In between, he taught English to students who came to learn. He had a reputation for success for his students. So parents sent them pay him when they were stuck on their exams or in their classes. Also, a lot of I remember a lot of people coming to visit him for different times, some of his students became writers and poets. So they will come back even when he was not teaching, come back to visit and come just people came before his consult, either was a English or something else or, or spiritual. Once a year, during holy month of Ramadan, he did solitary retreat for 10 days in the mosque next to our house. I used to take food to him when I I was strictly instructed not to talk to him. And when I was young, I didn't quite understand but as I got older, I got the idea as to what what was going on. He was always calm, happy, and present, no matter who he was a child or a dignitary. He used to create games for us. And he taught me how to make origami boats. And when it rained, we used to go in the backyard and frog those boats. So that's what I remember about him when I was child. Our life was happy in such an environment and surroundings. And I thought this will go on forever because as a child, you would never think about anything more than what's around you. All this change one day when I was senior in high school,