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Friday 31 March 2017
KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
POSTED ON: FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2017
Jesus - Embodiment of Love
Love is the most sought-after but least expressed mystery of life. We try to express love in so many ways, still it remains a mystery. And it rarely happens that love is expressed in its fullness, in its totality.
Jesus and love are synonymous. If you say love, you need not say Jesus and if you say Jesus, it means love. Jesus once said, “If you call God in my name, whatever you ask shall be given. For God is love.” You find such a complete expression of love in Jesus. Whatever little glimpses you may get here and there indicates that fullness, that ultimate expression of the inexpressible that life is striving to express all the time.
Love makes you weak, but brings you the kingdom of heaven. However strong you are, you are the weakest when you are in love. Yet love is the strongest force on this universe. Since love makes you weak, it also is scary. Among thousands, just a few followed Jesus. Many heard, but just a few came. Even after performing many miracles, only handful of people could recognise him.
Jesus said, “I have come to put man against man, father against son, daughter against mother.” Very few people have really understood what it means. Whom you think is your friend is really not a friend because he or she makes your faith on the matter strong, and spirit weak. “I have come to put one against each other, I have come to put fire, not make peace.” Jesus said this because he knew the depth of slumber. When you talk something nice, peaceful, everybody will go to sleep and when there is something sensational, people wake up and listen. This is how the human mind operates. And Jesus made all efforts for one to cross the mind and get into the soul, the spirit, the source of life, the Self. You break through the limited identities and recognise the Divinity within you. You are much more than just a human; you are part of the Divine. And you inherit the kingdom. And that kingdom is right here, right within you.
Love has no name, nor form. Love is abstract, yet it is very concrete. It has no name or form but manifests in all names and in all forms. This is the mystery of creation. You can see love everywhere in this creation if only you have an eye to see it. Just see a bird, and a small one in the nest. The bird comes and how it feeds its young one. See how the young one waits for the mother bird to come. There is love in it. There is love among fish. There is love in the sky. There is love underneath the water. There is love on the ground. And there is love in the outer space.
Every form is full of love and every name represents love. And that is how Jesus is One with the Father. Father is One with his creation. In India, the creation and creator are compared to the dance and the dancer. You cannot have a dance without a dancer. Dancer is in every move of the dance. The creator is in every spec of the creation. That is what is omnipresent, omnipotent. If God is omnipresent, he is present everywhere, isn’t it? The creator, if he is different from the creation, then he is not present in his creation. Then he is not omnipresent. The whole definition of God is gone.
Love is present everywhere, but somewhere it finds total expression. And the knowledge of the Self leads you towards that total expression of love, of blossoming of love. It lifts your eyes from all tiny little things. One Divine is providing for everybody. Neither the python goes to work nor the birds toil. Everybody is taken care of. Everything is taken care of.
Jesus said, “Love each other as much as I love you.” What more do you need to see that embodiment of love?
JAI GURUDEV!!!
http://knowledgesheetsbygurudev.blogspot.in
GURU PUNCH YOUR DAILY INSPIRATION
POSTED ON: FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2017
The world has a lot of love and compassion and very less cruelty. You're not in an abandoned world. You're in a world with a lot of love and belongingness. Have faith in the goodness of people.
- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
http://gurupunch.blogspot.in
Thursday 30 March 2017
KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
POSTED ON: THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2017
BLOSSOMING IN LIFE & BREATH
Have you noticed how you breathe when you are angry, or excited, or sad or very relaxed? As you are reading, just observe how you are breathing? There is certain rhythm to our breath. And if one cannot handle mind directly, one can do that through the breath. Yoga, Pranayama and Sudarshan Kriya makes it so easy and fun!
JAI GURUDEV!!!
http://knowledgesheetsbygurudev.blogspot.in
QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV
POSTED ON: THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2017
Q: Why is it so that we don’t feel same for a person all the time? Sometimes we are angry with the same person whom we love.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
You know we go through all different types of emotions. We like somebody and the same person we dislike. We trust somebody and same person we start doubting and so all these mixed emotions keep rising and falling in our mind. Don’t be scared. All these emotions make you strong somewhere deep inside. Somewhere you will come out a very powerful human being. When you are aware that all these moving emotions are just a temporary phase, and that you are much bigger than this, you become strong and centered. Don’t get stuck in any of these emotions or make a concept in the mind.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
http://qawithgurudev.blogspot.in
Wednesday 29 March 2017
KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
POSTED ON: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2017
DEALING WITH BLAME AND ACCUSATION
When someone blames you, you feel a heavy load on your head, and when you talk about it you spread the unpleasant feeling all around you. At this moment wake up and see you are Being and nothing can touch you. This is all just a drama, which you yourself have created. You have gone through this over and over again. All the blames you face in your life are your own creation. Knowing this, you feel free and light.
Owning responsibility for all your experiences in life makes you powerful and will put an end to grumbling, planning counter attacks, explanations, and all those host of negative tendencies. Owning full responsibility you become free.
When someone blames you, directly or indirectly, what do you do?
*Do you register it in your mind and get emotionally upset?
*Do you dismiss them altogether without taking a lesson from it?
*Do you talk about it with people and waste your time and other? time and money?
*Do you pity yourself and blame your shortcomings?
*Do you blame the other person right, left and center?
*Do you generalize and eternalize the problem?
Then you are not living up to the knowledge. You need to do the basic course at least half a dozen times and read all the previous knowledge sheets.
*Do you laugh at it and not even take notice of it?
*Do you treat it as a non-event, not even worth talking about, let alone taking any action?
*Do you treat comments and accusations as passing clouds and more of an entertainment?
*Do you discourage dwelling on unpleasant and negative moments?
*Do you remain non-judgmental and absolutely unshaken in your space of love?
*Outwardly you may be calm, but do you also remain centered and calm within you and not even take pride in your growth or wisdom?
Then you are a pride to your tutor - the Master.
You cannot take credit for loving Guruji or any wise person, as you have no choice at all as it will happen against all odds!
*To love someone whom you like is not a big deal at all.
*To love someone because they love you, you get zero marks.
*To love someone whom you do not like, you have learned a lesson in life.
*To love someone who blames you for no reason, you have learned the art of living.
JAI GURUDEV!!!
http://knowledgesheetsbygurudev.blogspot.in
QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV
POSTED ON: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2017
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Youth is bored and it’s their fortune. If they were satisfied then growth would have stopped. When they are bored then the quest comes in them. They are not satisfied with the things available around. And this is the stage when they can take a step to look within, a leap in their inner journey, a step towards spirituality. An interest in higher growth gets kindled when you are bored with things around. When you find source of joy within, then obviously everything around is also reflecting the same source of joy, then you find interest in everything. Continuous bombardment of senses by stimuli can cause inertia. Inertia is boredom, is a form of boredom. Again when prana level goes up, you move from inertia to enthusiasm.<
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
http://qawithgurudev.blogspot.in
QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV
POSTED ON: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2017
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Youth is bored and it’s their fortune. If they were satisfied then growth would have stopped. When they are bored then the quest comes in them. They are not satisfied with the things available around. And this is the stage when they can take a step to look within, a leap in their inner journey, a step towards spirituality. An interest in higher growth gets kindled when you are bored with things around. When you find source of joy within, then obviously everything around is also reflecting the same source of joy, then you find interest in everything. Continuous bombardment of senses by stimuli can cause inertia. Inertia is boredom, is a form of boredom. Again when prana level goes up, you move from inertia to enthusiasm.<
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
http://qawithgurudev.blogspot.in
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