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Wednesday 31 May 2017
KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
Posted: 09 Jan 2013
Three Types of Intellect
This whole creation is made up of one energy. Everything is made up of just one thing.
Whenever anything bothers you, if you come back to this one principle - there is only one energy which everything is made up of, so there are a lot of possibilities; that brings great relief. Are you getting what I’m saying?
There are three types of intellect.
One is an intellect which is dormant or doesn’t function at all; sleepy, in slumber and only into negativity. This is Tamasic Intellect.
Then there is Rajasic Intellect. Most people have a rajasic intellect. Rajasic intellect means seeing everything as different – This person is different, that person is different, this person behaves that way, that lady behaves this way; dwelling on these differences. Thinking there are so many people, so many personalities, and seeing that as reality. Doing this sometimes you go very high and sometimes you go down. This is rajasic intellect.
Then there is Sattvic Intellect, which is the goal of evolution.
Sattvic intellect sees there is only one thing that is underlying all other differences. That is the reality.
There is one underlying truth. That one thing has come up in so many forms.
Let me give you an example. Have you seen a puppet show?
A rajasic intellect is seeing all the puppets as different characters. A sattvic intellect says there is only one person who is making all these dolls dance. Actually it is a Mono Act.
One person who is behind the curtain, is making with his ten fingers all these different stories happen on the screen and is making them dance.
Have you seen those puppet shows? They tie one thread to each of the ten fingers and they make all the puppets run around.
So a sattvic intellect is seeing that there is only one thing, one truth, one reality, one consciousness that is underneath the whole creation. When this truth is well lodged in the mind, though you see the differences, dwell in differences, you will be unshaken.
A house that has a very good foundation does not collapse in an earthquake. It has a shock absorber. A real shock absorber is deep inside knowing that all this is made up of one consciousness.
All of matter is one consciousness. I am that one consciousness and everything is that one consciousness. One who knows this is free. It is called freedom. ‘I’m so free. Nothing bothers me.’
The Sattvic intelligence, Sattvic intellect, when it dawns, that is called Sattva Shudhi. When the pure intellect dawns in you, it brings enormous freedom from inside; freedom from physical garbage, freedom from emotional garbage and freedom from conceptual garbage.
We create so much garbage in our head. We assume people’s nature to be like this or like that when it may not be so. And we assume people to act or react in a particular way. Why should that be so?
Life has many surprises for you. Sometimes you think someone is a very good friend of yours, and suddenly you turn around and see that very friend is creating a lot of trouble to you. How many of you have had this experience? (Many raise their hands)
(Sri Sri responds laughing) Look at this.
Because it is One consciousness which turns the whole wheel, turns the whole universe.
One who experiences this in the heart and feels it in oneself, says, ‘Aah! Freedom! Now I don’t have to sit and think about this person, and that guy, and that lady, and that person.’
All of this occupies your head. That does not have to happen. Everything is One consciousness. Everybody is part of the finger of one little doll, jumping up and down, acting this way and that way, and their karma make them all act.
Doesn’t this knowledge bring freedom? Enormous freedom!
So what type of freedom does it bring? It brings freedom from the cravings, it brings freedom from aversions.
When you know this, on the physical level all the cravings for alcohol, drugs, and all these sorts of unhealthy bondages we have created in our own mind will just drop out. Then emotional garbage – That person looked at me and that person did not look at me. I love her and she did not respond to me. Before, they were loving towards me but now what happened to all of them – all these things will not happen. This emotional garbage that we harbor in our head, trying to prove our love and asking for proof for someone else’s love, all this will drop off.
Then conceptual garbage. Huge volumes are written; so many books are written, all on concepts. It is like a person who has never seen an elephant is writing volumes about an elephant.
Just imagine, there was not even television, one has only seen a picture of an elephant, a hand drawn sketch and they are writing a thesis on elephants, its behavior and how it should be handled. This is exactly the situation.
People who have the least understanding about consciousness are writing books and books and volumes, and they become bestsellers also! This is the funniest part of it. So you get that freedom from conceptual garbage – Listening to this person, that person and that person, no!
Everything is made up of One thing.
Isn’t that beautiful? Very nice!
|| Jai Guru Dev ||
Tuesday 30 May 2017
KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
Posted: 02 Jan 2013
Conflict And Innocence
Fights can only happen among equals. When you fight with someone, you make them equal. But in reality there is no one at par with you. When you keep people either above or below you, then there is no fight. When they are above you, you respect them. When they are below you, you love them and you feel compassionate. Either submission or compassion can take you out of a fight in no time. This is one way to look at it when you are tired of fighting. When you are well rested, just fight and have fun.
The same is true of the mind. As long as the mind thinks it is equal to the senses, there is conflict. When it realizes that it is bigger than the senses, there is no conflict. And when the mind is smaller than the senses, like in animals, there is no conflict. When the mind is caught up in the senses, there is constant conflict. When it transcends the senses, it comes back to its true nature, which is innocence - in no sense.
Does this make sense? (Laughter)
|| Jai Guru Dev ||
Monday 29 May 2017
KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
Posted: 30 May 2013
Taking Responsibility And Letting Go
Life is a balance between these two things. Taking responsibility and letting go. It's both. That's a fine balance.
For the present and future take responsibility, for the past know that it has to happen that way and move on. So often we do the reverse.
We think that the past was free will and regret and we think the future is all destiny and we don’t do anything about it. But the wise one does you know what? They regard the future as free will, past as destiny and they are happy in the present. So you don’t regret about the past and you know what you want to do in the future and you are on it.
|| Jai Guru Dev ||
KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
Posted: 30 May 2013
Taking Responsibility And Letting Go
Life is a balance between these two things. Taking responsibility and letting go. It's both. That's a fine balance.
For the present and future take responsibility, for the past know that it has to happen that way and move on. So often we do the reverse.
We think that the past was free will and regret and we think the future is all destiny and we don’t do anything about it. But the wise one does you know what? They regard the future as free will, past as destiny and they are happy in the present. So you don’t regret about the past and you know what you want to do in the future and you are on it.
|| Jai Guru Dev ||
Sunday 28 May 2017
Saturday 27 May 2017
KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
POSTED ON: SUNDAY, MAY 28, 2017
The Guru-Disciple Relationship
Have you noticed when you find something beautiful, or when you love something? You want to hold on to it and possess it. Trying to possess love robs the beauty in love and makes love ugly. Then, that same love gives you pain.
Whenever you love somebody, you try to dictate terms to them. In a subtle way, you try to control them. Whatever you try to control, hold on to, or manipulate, turns ugly, because the little ‘I’ in us – I,I,I, - itself is ugly. When you possess something, your love is lost. Hasn’t this been the case?
It starts in childhood with the relationship with mother, ‘Love me and me alone.’ It’s a deep sanskara (past impression). We don’t want to lose somebody we love. Love that has a fear of losing somebody or something doesn’t blossom. It becomes ugly, and jealousy comes. We never love something that is big, that is enormous. As long as you stay small, there is no joy, happiness, or peace. Joy is an expansion, becoming big in your heart. This can only happen in a situation where you are in so much love but you cannot possess it.
You can love a Guru, but you cannot possess a Guru. Having a Guru does something good for you, because you have never loved something and not possessed it. In a Guru, you can experience that love, but you cannot hold on to it. Your mind cannot possess it. Because you are not used to that type of love, your mind may undergo a little strain or frustration in the process. It’s like ‘sour grapes.’ The tendency may be to run away and withdraw. But that doesn’t lead you anywhere either. You came to swim, but instead you wet your feet and then went back, withdrew. You need to learn a new way to love and still be centered. And that is what happens here.
Loving the Guru is the first step. God is so general, so universal, belonging to everybody, the whole creation all the time. You don’t love public places. However, through a Guru there is personal connection, and that bond is infinite. It’s the bridge, because, before you have known only personal connections.
The Guru breaks the pattern of possessing love. Whenever you seem to be dictating terms or becoming possessive, He will do the complete opposite – tighten the screw or loosen the screw, as it is needed. At the same time, a Guru is not doing anything. It is just happening through Him. It is happening through the Big Mind. There is no pre-conceived plan of action. Actions are spontaneous.
Don’t make the Guru-disciple relationship into just another relationship, like father, brother, sister, wife or friend. It’s not like any other relationship. Otherwise, you will get into the same type of possessive attitude.
JAI GURUDEV!!!
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GURU PUNCH YOUR DAILY INSPIRATION
POSTED ON: SUNDAY, MAY 28, 2017
People seeking happiness will have to come to the Guru. People seeking knowledge and a better quality of life will have to come to the Guru. They have to acknowledge the Guru Principlein their life.
- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV
POSTED ON: SUNDAY, MAY 28, 2017
Q: Do you love me?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
I am love, and so are you! love is not an act. In that sense, you are not separate from me, neither are you different from me. What is this silly question: do you love me? Neither I have any choice nor you have any choice. Drop all these silly doubts that get into your head, and wake up. Get a little matured.<
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Friday 26 May 2017
KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
POSTED ON: SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2017
Reverence and ownership
Often you do not have reverence for that which you own. Whatever you revere becomes bigger than you. When you have reverence in all your relationships then your own consciousness expands. Then even small things appear to be significant and big. Every little creature appears to be dignified. It is the reverence in every relationship that saves the relationship. Often you lose reverence for that which you own, and this happens unconsciously.
When you have reverence for the whole universe, you are in harmony with the while universe. Then, you do not need to reject or renounce anything of this universe. Reverence in ownership frees you from greed, jealousy and lust. Cultivate the skill of having reverence every moment in your life.
JAI GURUDEV!!!
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