KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Guru in two perspectives

In the Orient, having a master is considered a matter of pride. A master is a symbol of security, love and a sign of great wealth. Being with the guru is like being with one’s higher self. Not having a master was looked down upon as being an orphan, being poor and a sign of misfortune. The word "anatha" in Sanskrit, means one without a master. Those without a master were considered to be orphans, but not those without parents.

But in the Occident, having a master is considered a matter of shame and a sign of weakness, for masters are known for enslaving people. In the Orient people take pride in having a guru and there is a guru for every discipline – a religious guru (dharma), a family guru (kula), a rajguru (guru for the kingdom), a vidyaguru (guru for a particular discipline) and a satguru (spiritual guru).

In the Orient, masters made you feel powerful; in the Occident, masters made you weak. In the Orient, there was a deep sense of belongingness that would enable one to dissolve the limited identity into infinity. But in the Occident, a master was a motivator and one who provoked competition.

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GURU PUNCH YOUR DAILY INSPIRATION

POSTED ON: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Every individual is in search of happiness. Even people who are doing bad things are doing it in search of happiness because they don't know that they won't get happiness out of it. If they knew that, they would never do bad things.

- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV POSTED ON: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2018 http://qawithgurudev.blogspot.in/

WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2018

A teacher is one who simple teaches, but a Master is one who guides. A teacher gives you information or teaches you some skills, but a Master makes you reach your destination.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2018

KARMA

The word destiny means Vidhi, this is how it is. The word Karma has several different connotations. It can mean action or latent action. The impression of an action that might give rise to another action can also be called karma.

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GURU PUNCH YOUR DAILY INSPIRATION

POSTED ON: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2018

We all want happiness, and yoga is the way for that much-needed happiness factor in life.

- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV POSTED ON: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2018 http://qawithgurudev.blogspot.in/

WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2018

Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2018

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)

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POSTED ON: TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2018

God is not sitting somewhere in heaven. God is in every particle of this creation. Just like the dance and the dancer cannot be separated, the creation and the creator can never be separated.

- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV POSTED ON: TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2018 http://qawithgurudev.blogspot.in/

WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2018

If you are friendly then you exuberate friendliness. You become friendly with anyone who comes in front of you. Then your friendships will have no expiry date or any manufacturing date.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 2018

How does a desire arise?

* A desire arises with the memory of a pleasant experience and past impressions.

* A desire might arise through listening.

* A desire can be triggered through the association of certain people and a place.

* Someone else's need or desire may manifest in you as your own desire, e.g. when someone is hungry, you get a desire to feed them or someone wants to talk to you and you get a desire to talk to them.

* The destiny or a happening in which you have a part to play may trigger a desire of which you have no idea. For example, a gentleman in Quebec, Canada kept making roads and working on a farm for 30 years, not knowing for what -- for it was destined to become our Canadian Ashram.

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POSTED ON: MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 2018

First believe that the whole world loves you and you too love this world, then you can call yourself a devotee.

- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV POSTED ON: MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 2018 http://qawithgurudev.blogspot.in/

WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 2018

When you are on the path, when your heart is clean and when you are meditating, there is no way that you will fail. If it appears as though you are failing, that failure is only to get you towards higher success. This is for sure!

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018

Respect and Ego

There are two types of respect.

Respect that comes to you because of your position, fame or wealth. This type of respect is impermanent. It can be lost once you lose your wealth or status.

Respect that comes because of your virtues like honesty, kindness, commitment, patience and your smile. This respect, no one can take away.

The less you are attached to your virtues, the more self respect you have. If you get attached to your virtues, you look down upon everybody else, and the virtues start diminishing. Non- attachment to virtues brings the highest self respect.

Often one confuses ego with self esteem. Ego needs the other for comparison; self esteem is just confidence in oneself. For example, a gentleman claims that he is thorough in Mathematics or Geography, this is self esteem. But to say that I know better than you, that is Ego.

Ego simply means lack of respect to the Self.

Ego upsets you very often. Self esteem is immune to getting upset by external factors. In self respect, everything is a game, winning or losing has no meaning, every step is joy, and every move is celebration.

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GURU PUNCH YOUR DAILY INSPIRATION

POSTED ON: SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018

Often, people spend half of their health to gain their wealth. Then they spend half their wealth to gain back their health. This is not a sign of success.

- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018

The world of the Gods is inches away from you. Just lift your eyes from the mundane and take a look at the sunrise, it will uplift you. It will take you to something ethereal, to something beyond!

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 2018

Truth

Truth is that which does not change. Examine your life and identify all that changes as not truth. With this outlook, you will find that you are surrounded by only untruth.

When you identify that which appears to you as untruth, then you will become free from it. When you don't identify the untruth, you cannot become free from it. Your own experiences in life make you identify your own untruth. As you mature in life, you find everything is untruth - events, situations, people, emotions, thoughts, opinions, concepts, your body - everything is untruth. It is only then the satsang (company of truth) in the real sense happens.

For example, a mother cannot see the child as untruth until the child becomes an adult. For a baby sweet is not untruth, and for a teenager sex is not untruth.

Question: Is Knowledge also untruth?

Sri Sri: Yes, if it is words, it is untruth. But as existence it is truth. Love as an emotion is not truth, as existence it is truth.

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