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Sonali Sharma
@authorsonali · 0:41
In conversation with Jude D'Souza 📚Ft. Values and Spirituality
Ancient sculptures and monuments are a boon to nation's heritage. No matter what the religion is. The roots and morals somewhere aligned to a point to strengthen our moral and the virtues of our wellbeing and living. Spiritual values when aligned with the universe gives you the confidence to believe in yourself. In today's interview we will be talking about the lives of Catholic saints. Stay tuned. To know more about what values and teachings Christianity has to offer. We will be discussing about the book focus
Sonali Sharma
@authorsonali · 1:03
Hello and good evening everyone. Welcome back to yet another interesting interviews talks with me, your host sonali. How was your day? Well, I don't know about your day, but what I can definitely guarantee is that your evening is going to be better by today's conversation around spirituality and values, I would like to welcome Mr. Zhu D'Souza, the author of Focus, Focus, Focus, Focus, Focus, spiritual Truths Revealed, calling to be a Preacher
Jude D'Souza
@Judeld11 · 1:43
And I grew up admiring people who are in the literary field. Mostly I liked English, english as a subject in schools and my vocabulary to improve with reading many books. As a result, there were many books that I read and mostly autobiographies and biographies. They help you understand what people are, what you become and compare to them, what your anecdotes are similar and you end up becoming like them. Like history repeats itself. There is a certain thing to history
Sonali Sharma
@authorsonali · 0:41
So, like, what are the niches you write content on and what is your favorite niche or topic when it comes to literature or when it comes to writing? What is that particular field in writing that you enjoy writing the most and you enjoy reading the most?
Jude D'Souza
@Judeld11 · 2:15
And I grew up in a pious family, if you can call it. And it was quite an experience. So I thought, why not write about it? And I was guided by Mother Mary to write about it. As I knew many mysteries, I thought it would help the audience and the readers grow in the spirituality
mannya nayar
@shesalliwannabe · 0:15
Hello, sir, and a very good evening to you. I would like to ask, what do you think is the actual relation between literature and history? Why do you think history repeats itself, like, you know, throughout decades? Thank you
Jude D'Souza
@Judeld11 · 2:19
Then a few of the things like they it is written in the book, as I have listed a few, there are many actually the graces, like make them feel like you are close to God and you have a bearable sickness, illness or any problem and he helps you out in all this. And there was communication from him like it was actually limited to saints. Like you would feel a great tiredness in you when you are going against God's will
Jude D'Souza
@Judeld11 · 1:08
And this makes sense that certain things work according to God's plan and is creativity can be seen. So this makes it obvious that history also has a pattern and these patterns work well in every life of some people. And this is a great question. Thanks
Cherry Gupta
@cherrygupta · 0:41
Good evening, sir. And Cherry Gupta. So, sir, you said that your family came from a literary background and your father also taught you about literature and you also had interest in English. So I wanted to ask you to what extent is one's family occupation helpful or restricting in helping the child achieve their dreams? Like you said that your father taught you a lot of things, so that was good for you. But there might be many instances where the family acts as a restricting factor
Jude D'Souza
@Judeld11 · 1:51
A great feeling and you can express to people what you can do and what you can write and opinions and views can be given to people but in the sense like a child can take his own path in life but it need not be forced on them. What they do is up to them but nice way till a good graduation or post graduation can be given to them. Till then, they decide what education helps them further
reader 75063
@reader75063 · 1:22
We're all connected, interconnected, and this is the universe that we live in and this is the world and earth we live in. So everything is connected. So hello to Jude de Soza I really am struggling to ask you a question, but I will ask you one. Spirituality, what I have understood is something related to the Spirit. So it is not anything directly connected to a god or spiritual being or celestial being or anything like that. I believe that it is connected to the Spirit
Jude D'Souza
@Judeld11 · 1:52
Just like spirit. Spirit beings exist, but God is the supreme of them. Like in Christianity. God sits on a throne lit with fire and is made of embers. Glowing embers. And he can is omnipotent omniscient omnipresent he has all the qualities. And he can help people who do his work on the earth and he can send angels, celestial beings to them. And though it is related to the Spirit, it lacks God. If you go spiritual if you go in a spiritual way
A very good evening to you Judait sir. I am Kathambre Gupta and I would like to congratulate you for your book focus spiritual truths Revealed. Question to you sir is what's the difference between religion and spirituality? As I have seen that, you know both these words are often used interchangeably. So if you could please tell us thank you so much
Sonali Sharma
@authorsonali · 1:11
That's quite an interesting background. And yes, one thing that I so much agree with you is when it comes to observing things around and observing doesn't just means looking at that particular thing while sitting, but observing close enough and trying to understand what the element or what the scenario is, trying to convey, understand its perspective, and then portray your thoughts. And by doing this, when the content comes out, the audience really likes it
Jude D'Souza
@Judeld11 · 1:05
There are certain rules by which we have to live and it becomes worthwhile and is beneficial to everybody around around world without wars or strife or problems is possible. If we stick to religion what is written in the religion? It is like a user manual for everything
Jude D'Souza
@Judeld11 · 1:33
Then having a childlike innocence and graces to bear everything that only he can take, what the illness he has given and a prayerful life. And so serious with prayer they were. So all these things they understood from these anecdotes that they are going to be saints one day. And it was limited to intellectual saints because they read a lot of books and understood through these books that it was what they are going to be. So it helps in reading biographies and autobiographies
Sonali Sharma
@authorsonali · 0:48
What were the difficulties you faced during the publishing phase of your book, and what did you learned while publishing the book? And, yeah, publishing the book in itself is an achievement. So we would like to know what were the difficulties you faced, what did you learned, and how was your journey throughout?
Jude D'Souza
@Judeld11 · 1:18
My book was pending, actually for six, seven years. So at once I submitted two books for publishers. So it was pending. And I had a lot of questions and some things, some solutions, some ways, some doorways opened. And I was able to publish on bigfoot, very good publishing, a very good publisher. And I managed to write the manuscript later. In some four days, I collected all the references that was pending for this book and sent it to them
Sonali Sharma
@authorsonali · 0:50
So which are the top two autobiographies that you would like to recommend to our audience so that they can read, gain inspiration, learn something and build knowledge and build their personalities as well? So what are your favorite or top two autobiographies that you have read? And those biographies or autobiographies has inspired you a lot and their learnings and principles you have been applying in your life UN
Jude D'Souza
@Judeld11 · 2:05
He laid the foundation for the Catechism of the Catholic Church what it is today, sharma theological publication. Then he explains greatly about virtues and all. He goes deep into all of this. Then I would recommend some knowledge into Saints life or I am Malala. That book is also good, a lot of them actually. And Albert Einstein's biography by Trevor Lipscomb that is also in a way good. You can read about his life and the intellectually was how his life was similar to some
And you said that the reason you are connected to Catholic sense is because you read literature. So there are many other things to read in literature as well. There could have been something particular unique that could have spiked up your interest into reading the autobiographies and biographies of your ancestors or fear or of the particular literature writers. So what was it? And thank you very much
Jude D'Souza
@Judeld11 · 1:27
I read autobiographies and biographies of mostly saints. But I love to read about some scientists, intellectuals, prominent people, or some or some, as I said, revolutionaries, or some people like Martin Luther King. Ro Gerbuns has written about him. So it spiked the interest in me in the sense it was similar to my life, what the saints went through. Those incidents were same to my life
Sonali Sharma
@authorsonali · 1:15
Before asking the last question, firstly I would like to thank you for taking out such a valuable time of yours for adding value in our audience's life and sharing your knowledge with them. I wish you all the very best for future end of yours and best success to your book. Focus, focus, focus. Spiritual truths revealed. The last question I would like to ask as one life mantra or principle that you follow
Jude D'Souza
@Judeld11 · 0:27
It's a life mantra or principle that I follow is put God first in everything. He supplies you with graces to face everything and makes everything, every problems or situations less severe. He bears a part of it so you can take him with you everywhere and build a relationship with him. So thank you. Thanks for your time
Prabha Iyer
@PSPV · 3:31
Ah, good evening sir. This is Prabha here. First of all I would render my sincere heartfelt namaste to you and great congratulations on your book since you are speaking about the values and spirituality. According to my perception, like India encourages all religions and all caste and all kind of people. So India is such a land and when we do this, like when something problem occurs, we all become united irrespective of being belonging to different caste, religion, whatever
Jude D'Souza
@Judeld11 · 1:31
That what they had to do from God. And some built a church. Some united people together. There was a good understanding between them and people of other religion. So kind of they started working unity of the people. And they teach for all mankind that all mankind is good. And people are not differentiated by religion. Like in the Bible, it says is the sun rises on all people, not necessarily Christians. So this is a bit different
Jaya Sharma
@jayasharma · 2:08
I am a Hindu and I feel god. Feel god inside me. They give me strength, power. I trust to God. Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Krishna, Madhurga and a lot of God of Hindu Dharmas. We Hindu do? Worship everything. Just like sun, moon, tree, mountain, river. Our holy river Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswati, Sariu, Narmada, Shipra they are not only river, they are lifeline of our country