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Avi GordonSo, Swami Karunananda, first of all, thank you for taking the time to do this. I always love spending time with you. I wanted to start to see if we can get some of your your history, and ask if you can share anything you know about your birth story, like where you were born, and anything you know about your birth, Swami Karunanandamy birth, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, where so many people on this spiritual path seem to originate from my birth story. What comes to mind? If that's the question you're asking, my parents told me that I started speaking when I was six months old, and when I look at six months old babies now, I don't know how that's possible, and they also tell me that when I was three years old, I picked up a newspaper and started reading it out loud, never having been taught how to read. And they asked me, How are you doing this? And I just said, I don't know. I just know, I think they thought I was an alien being who had come in the form of their daughter. But I think...
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