-Get in the van, Chopra!
[ Snaps fingers ]
Move it.
Let's go. Time is money.
-[ Singing ]
Take a sip from your soul
On a metaphysical milkshake
-Is it "Dee-pack" or "Dee-pahk"?
-It's "Deep-ack."
-"Deep-ack."
-Deep.
-Deep.
I think a cooler name
for you would be Deep Ax.
If you had a metal band,
it would be Deep Ax.
-Yeah, well, that's not bad.
-Chop-ra.
See, Deep Ax Chop-ra.
-Chopra.
-Chopra.
-If Oprah
was married to me,
she could be Oprah Chopra.
-She should get married to you.
She doesn't know
what she's missing.
-I asked her,
but she feels that --
-No? Blake Griffin
suggested a mirrorball.
What would you suggest
for the back of the van
to give it that kind of '70s
"Scooby Doo" pimped-out feel?
-Actually,
I'd suggest a starscape.
With the Milky Way galaxy.
And then beyond that, Andromeda,
right to the cosmic horizon,
27 billion light years away,
where galaxies are tumbling
into the unknowable faster
than the speed of light,
because of dark energy
that's ripping space apart.
-Dark energy
is ripping space apart?
Do I need to get
freaked out about that?
-No.
-Who -- Who are you?
-Like you,
I'm a luminous stardust being
that has become self-aware,
and we are two pieces
of stardust
that are having a conversation.
But that is
just a space-time event.
Our real nature
is beyond space and time.
-What did you call me?
A luminous stardust being?
-With self-awareness.
-With self-awareness.
-I'm a luminous stardust
being with self-awareness?
-That's it.
-That's awesome!
-Yeah.
You're the universe
looking at itself.
-I'm the universe!
-You are.
-Wow.
-That's fantastic.
That's the nicest thing
that anyone has ever
said to me before.
And is that real nature
of who we are,
would you call that a soul?
-Yes, you got it.
This is the dream
that the soul is having.
We are in
each other's dreams right now.
Most people are living
in the world of thought,
and thought is either about
the past or the future.
So, they're never actually
in the gap between the thoughts.
If you could go
in that gap,
you'd be really
where you belong.
-In the gap
between the thoughts.
I'm gonna try and be in the gap
between the thoughts
during this interview.
-Yes.
If you're in the gap --
-Watch me.
Am I doing it?
-See, that's the problem.
You don't have to do anything.
-Oh, damn it.
-When you do,
you get out of the space.
-[ Sighs ]
-The gap between the thoughts
is the window,
it's the corridor,
it's the transformational vortex
to the non-local mind,
which is who you really are.
-Well, in a hadith,
the Prophet Muhammad
has said to have said,
"This life is but a dream,
and on death, we awaken."
-It's true.
But we could awaken
if we wanted to
in this dream right now.
-Okay, let's awaken.
-All you have to do is be.
-Mentally say to yourself, "I."
-"I."
-Mentally.
-"I."
-Mentally.
-I'm sorry, I can't --
I can't hold it inside.
-Well, then you're screwed.
-Agh!
You're known
as a spiritual leader,
a spiritual thinker,
but you started
as a man of science.
How did that
transformation happen,
from a med student in India
and in The United States?
-When I started seeing patients
I realized that
you could have two people
who had
exactly the same illness,
saw the same doctor,
got the same treatment,
but could have
completely different outcomes.
So, I realized
that our mechanistic,
reductionist approach
in science,
which treats the body
as a machine,
wasn't really accurate.
-So many people say,
"I don't believe in God,
I believe in science."
How would you answer that?
-God is physics,
chemistry, mathematics,
and quantum mechanics,
all rolled into one.
See, life is biology, right?
Do you agree?
-Mm-hmm.
-Biology is biochemistry.
-Right.
-Biochemistry is chemistry.
-Mm-hmm.
-Chemistry is physics.
-Mm-hmm.
-Physics is quantum mechanics.
-Mm-hmm.
-Quantum mechanics
is mathematics.
-Mm-hmm.
-And mathematics
is in consciousness.
It's the eternal mind.
We are God's dream
in a nanotechnology workshop.
-You're a seriously
deep thinker.
Can you define happiness
in 10 words or less?
-Happiness is divine discontent.
-Divine discontent is happiness?
-Yeah, it's
the creative impulse.
Because if
you were totally happy,
blissed out, then
there would be nothing to do.
You would be doomed
to eternal senility.
So, as long
as you have a little discontent
and the creative impulse,
then you're happy.
And that is really
what divinity is about.
-It's about creativity.
-That God is the creator.
-That's very well said.
-And the universe is creation.
So, when you create,
when you write a book.
-That's it.
-And when I play
a weird character.
-That's it.
-Or I interview someone
in the back of the van.
-You're in touch with God.
-Then I am releasing the God
that is within me.
-Yeah, that's the creative
impulse of God in you.
Yes, you're right.
Absolutely.
-YouTubers,
Deepak defined happiness
in four words -- "happiness is
divine discontent."
You really could have
done it in two.
"Divine discontent."
You try it.
Define happiness
in 10 words or less
on the comment section below.
Give it a for-realsies try.
Let's see.
I'm gonna read
through all of 'em.
Okay, ready, go.
Can I wrestle you?
-You can do whatever you want.
[ Both grunting ]
-I am sitting on Deepak Chopra!
Whoo!
-I'm a lover, not a fighter.
-[ Laughs ]
