Tuesday, 31 May 2022

KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR


KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR
POSTED ON: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2022

The Washing Machine

Our body is like a washing machine, our mind is like cloth, each lifetime is one run or cycle, and Knowledge is detergent. The mind comes into the body to get cleansed and pure. But instead of detergent, if you use dirt, then you have dirty clothes.

Pure water is like love, Knowledge is like detergent, mind is like cloth, and the body like the washing machine. If you put in mud instead of detergent, your clothes become dirtier than before.

You will have to go on putting clothes in the washing machine to get them cleaned. And the process repeats again and again. Similarly you will have many more births until you stop repeating the mistakes that you have made.

II JAI GURUDEV II

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QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV


QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV
POSTED ON: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2022

Q: Can you talk about certain rituals performed while doing pooja?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

There are some rituals which you can fathom with your intellect, yet some others are so intuitively profound that you can only merge in them and enjoy.
On a very gross level, Pooja is imitation of what Divine or Nature is doing to us. Divine offers us all kinds of fruits and flowers, bestows rain, worship us taking millions of stars around us. An imitation of this divine phenomenon, expressing our gratitude, is pooja.
Yet, it is good not to get stuck in too much of rituals. Your feelings are good enough for a pooja to happen. However a little bit of rituals at home, like burning incense sticks, keep the spirit of the place high.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

 

WISDOM QUOTE BY GURUDEV


WISDOM QUOTE BY GURUDEV
POSTED ON: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2022

There is no giver of happiness or misery. You create your own happiness and you become miserable on your own, and nobody can stop you from being miserable.

~ Sri Sri

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WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR


WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
POSTED ON: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2022

Service is an act done without wishing for something in return. This act is very important. Service purifies our karma.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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Monday, 30 May 2022

KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR


KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR
POSTED ON: TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2022

Thank Superficially

Sri Sri : Which is better, to thank deeply or superficially?

Everyone in unison : Deeply!

Sri Sri : No, superficially. (Everyone is baffled.) Thanking needs a separation. Thanking means there are two. If you are deeply thankful, it means you deeply feel the separation.

Deep within there is no need to thank, because there is one-ness. But superficially you can thank. Thanks are like ripples on the surface of the water.

When you say "Thank you," you complete something. You are finishing a transaction, a relationship, a process. "Thank you" is like "good bye." You can complete all transactions at a surface level, but deeper inside is only one-ness.

Thankfulness always exists in relation to something else. You don't thank for nothing at all, you thank for something. But in this case, something is less than nothing! At the deepest level, thanking has no meaning. Does one hand thank the other hand? The deeper you go, you see there is no "other" to be thanked.

John : So we should thank superficially and feel deeply?

Sri Sri : Feeling is also superficial. If you think the feeling is the depth, then you have not gone deep. Feeling is deeper than thinking. But feelings change. Whatever is the deepest doesn't change.

So thank superficially, not from the depth. Deep thanks indicate deep separation!

Steve : Maybe we should say, "I thank you from the tip of my tongue"! (Laughter.)

II JAI GURUDEV II

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QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV


QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV
POSTED ON: TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2022

Q: I do not know how to express my feelings and emotions. As I was trying to hide them, all the stress goes into myself. I do not know what to do with this. Is it very difficult to empty my mind even while meditating with your guidance?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

If you get too many thoughts, there are certain reasons. One of the reasons, for getting too many thoughts, is when your bowel is not clear, when your stomach is upset, constipated. If your bowel movements are not ok then you get too many thoughts. If there is no proper blood circulation in the body, then also you get too many thoughts, yeah? So, yoga and pranayama will help. Proper food and diet will help. Show to Ayurvedic doctor, he will say if there is too much pitta in your system, then he will suggest the food, which will also help.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

 

WISDOM QUOTE BY GURUDEV


WISDOM QUOTE BY GURUDEV
POSTED ON: TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2022

Give in such a way that the other does not even feel they have taken. This is generosity, and this is beauty.

~ Sri Sri

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WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR


WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
POSTED ON: TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2022

If you are trying to get rid of darkness, your attention is on the darkness. But if you turn towards light, darkness automatically disappears. This is what you need to do: take a positive attitude.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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Sunday, 29 May 2022

KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR


KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR
POSTED ON: MONDAY, MAY 30, 2022

Divine music happens when all the seven layers of existence are tuned

After tuning the seven strings of Veena, Sri Sri said, “ This is what needs to be done before playing an instrument – tuning the instrument, and that is what we have been doing here – tuning the seven layers of existence to connect to the cosmic energy. Body, Mind, Breath, Intellect, Memory, ego and Self - When the seven strings are tuned, music happens.

Every creature on this planet brings down a particular electromagnetic wave on the Earth. And even if one creature goes missing, the Earth would not be able to sustain itself. There is pig, snake, mouse, lion, cat, fish and so many others, and all play an important role in maintaining the balance on the planet. That is what scientists say today.

According to the laws of nature, everything radiates energy. In Indian mythology, every god or goddess is associated with a vehicle in the form of animal or bird. The outlook behind this is that that particular animal or bird brings down the associated vibration on the Earth. For example, through the means of tiger, the vibrations of mother Divine or Goddess Durga descends to the Earth. Crows carry the vibration of God Saturn( God Shani), bull descends the vibrations of Lord Shiva, and Mouse that of Lord Ganesha. The Nature has created these animals according to its own rules. Wherever these animals may be, the corresponding vibrations are available to us through those. And this is the logic behind various native cultures worshiping different animals and birds, connecting divinity with everything. Of course, we can’t specifically say which animal brings down which vibes, because a lot of research needs to be done on this.

These are all so important things and we hold on to all unnecessary superstitions and forget the basic essence. The superstitions and distorted knowledge is forwarded, but the main essence is not sent to the next generation. We cannot understand the full essence totally but, when we have some experience then a little understanding follows. The knowledge is infinite and we cannot totally understand it but a little thirst for knowledge should be there.

We should not be totally one sided – neither condemn the rituals nor get too much stuck with them. It is so beautifully said in the knowledge of Bhagwat Gita, “न कर्मणामनारम्भान्नैष्कर्म्यं पुरुषो अश्नुते। न च सन्न्यसनादेव सिद्धिं समधिगच्छति ॥”. The middle path is the Golden key!

Neither with action, nor with money and not even with prosperity, but by getting established in one’s inner self, one can connect to the infinity. Devotion is the primary requirement, and what to do to have devotion? Yoga, Meditation, Mantra chanting and Music. God is delighted by your devotion!

There are two kinds of karma:

Nitya karma – things that you do every day, such as kriya, introspecting on one’s origin, feeding birds and animals, preserving plants and spending sometime in contemplating on knowledge.

Anitya karma – things that you do once in a while. When you participate in the homas during Navratri, it takes care of your Anitya karma

II JAI GURUDEV II

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QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV


QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV
POSTED ON: MONDAY, MAY 30, 2022

Q: What is Nirvana? Or better, give it to us right now!

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

Nirvana is bringing the balance and having no feverishness for any desire. Desire means a lack. When you say, I want nothing, I am content, that is nirvana. But that doesn't mean you shun your duties. You perform your duties well but you are with your center. Even craving for enlightenment is an hindrance to enlightenment. All emotions are linked with people, objects and events. Catching on to objects, people or relationships hinders freedom, liberation. When the mind is free from all impressions and concepts, you are liberated. The state of nothingness is called Nirvana, enlightenment, Samadhi. Nirvana is getting back to me from mine. Who am I? When you go deep inside you, layer after layer, that is nirvana. It is like peeling an onion! What do you find in the center of an onion? Nothing! When you know that everything is changing - all relationships, people, body, feelings - suddenly the mind which clings on to misery comes back to you. The return from mine to me, gives you contentment and freedom from misery. Reposing in that state of contentment is nirvana.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

 

WISDOM QUOTE BY GURUDEV


WISDOM QUOTE BY GURUDEV
POSTED ON: MONDAY, MAY 30, 2022

God's love is a thousand times more intense than the love your parents have towards you.

~ Sri Sri

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WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR


WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
POSTED ON: MONDAY, MAY 30, 2022

The whole world is full of messages of love. We just need the eye to see them and take them into our own lives.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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Saturday, 28 May 2022

KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR


KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR
POSTED ON: SUNDAY, MAY 29, 2022

Tendencies and Influences

Life moves by dual (two) factors:

1. inner tendencies and
2. outer influences

Inner tendencies form your attitudes and behavior, while external influences makes strong impressions in your mind. Often your tendencies generate external situations. And situations around you can form tendencies within you. This is what is called Karma. Both these factors - the tendencies from within and influences from outside, can either be beneficial or harmful.

It is the awareness that filters the outer negative influences and it is the awareness that corrects and annihilates the unhealthy inner tendencies. This awareness is called Gyana. The purpose of education is to develop this awareness, so that you can be selective about your tendencies and influences. It is practically impossible to resist the external influences and the inner tendencies without raising one’s consciousness. This can be gradual or sudden. And that is how a human being has both free will and destiny. Freedom is when you have a say about your tendencies and your influences. And only awareness and impeccable devotion can bring this freedom.

II JAI GURUDEV II

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QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV


QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV
POSTED ON: SUNDAY, MAY 29, 2022

Q: What made God alive? When did you start believing in God, Have you seen God, what does God look like?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

This same question was asked 10000 years ago by a little boy to his dad. He asked his father, “Dad, what is God, how is God, how does God Look like?” Dad takes him by hand, brings him out of his house and asks him, “What was here before this house was built?” The boy says Space.

Dad: Where the house is built? He says in the space.

Dad: When this house will demolish what will exist, what will remain? He says space. Dad says that is God.

God is not a person sitting somewhere and showing little finger and as you try to catch him he runs away. It’s only so in some paintings. God is love, God is the space in which everything exists.

God is from which everything has come and into which everything dissolves. And that is what is said in Upanishads, it says God is Brahman. God is like a space, joy and love that is all pervading. The space around you is not dead space, it is filled with energy, intelligence and that energy, that intelligence is divinity and it is inside you, outside you, and everywhere.

If you see the native cultures of all parts of the world, most of the countries in the world have this concept; they say God is in the mountain, in the river, in the flowers, in the trees, in the animals, in the human beings, God is everywhere all pervading. Love is god, you can feel it and not see it, but you can experience this enormous energy when you go deep in meditation.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar



 

WISDOM QUOTE BY GURUDEV


WISDOM QUOTE BY GURUDEV
POSTED ON: SUNDAY, MAY 29, 2022

There should not be a difference in what you practice and what you preach. You should practice on the outside what you believe from the inside. This is the secret to great inner strength.

~ Sri Sri

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WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR


WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
POSTED ON: SUNDAY, MAY 29, 2022

If someone has not intended to hurt you, it is an unintentional act, then it is your own mistake. You can only blame your own perception, and not them.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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Friday, 27 May 2022

KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR


KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR
POSTED ON: SATURDAY, MAY 28, 2022

Sanyas

Sanyas means what? I am nothing and I want nothing, or I am everything and I have everything. And Sanyas is being colorless or multicolored. Your association or company can either elevate you or push you down. Company causes first an attraction and then delusion. This keeps your mind swinging between the two extremes and causes love and hatred. With the power of Knowledge and Satsang you can rise above this dilemma.

II JAI GURUDEV II

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QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV


QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV
POSTED ON: SATURDAY, MAY 28, 2022

Q: How do I forgive? I find it difficult to let lose off the grudges.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

There are 6.5 billion people on this planet. Don’t forgive the 6.5 billon but just forgive this one person.

You know, inside every culprit there is a victim crying for help. You must know they are victim of situation and circumstances. They might have done something wrong, but this is because they don’t have that knowledge. They were never exposed to higher knowledge, so they make mistake. See what is happening today, all the church scandals are coming out. It is so painful, so pity of a condition because just reading books and understanding doesn’t help violent tendencies or any kind of tendencies to be fixed. These can only be fixed through meditation, through breathing exercise and yoga. Only through that the violent aggressive energy doesn’t surround.

Prisoners say, “AOL is responsible for our being in the prison, because if you had given us this knowledge earlier, we wouldn’t have landed in the prison. You are responsible and you should have given the knowledge much earlier. So, our life would have been much different”, and I agree with them.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

 

WISDOM QUOTE BY GURUDEV


WISDOM QUOTE BY GURUDEV
POSTED ON: SATURDAY, MAY 28, 2022

Life should be emotionally rich with a rational pitch and a spiritual touch.

~ Sri Sri

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WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR


WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
POSTED ON: SATURDAY, MAY 28, 2022

Our life becomes richer when there is some music, dance, philosophy, science, service and silence. If you miss on any one of them, then life is not complete.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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Thursday, 26 May 2022

KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR



KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR
POSTED ON: FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2022

FEAR OF OTHER PEOPLE'S OPINION?

Don't give too much importance to what others think, what others say because it has no basis. They just vanish in no time like bubbles in the air.

Why do we give so much importance to what people think? People who you think are great friends, how much time will it take for them to turn against you? Hasn't it happened? You have done so much for people and they have turned against you. How many of you have this experience? For no reason, they became your enemy. You wonder one fine day what happened to this guy, what happened to this lady? You can't find logic. You search for a reason why they have gone against you, and you can't find one.

Similarly, someone who you did not know come to your help. Hasn't this happened? All this happens on its own law. If your time is good, even enemies behave like friends, and if your time is not good, it can happen the other way around. So remember you are like the spider. You weave your world around yourself. When you move with this conviction, everything falls in place.

II JAI GURUDEV II
 

QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV


QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV
POSTED ON: FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2022

Q: Is it possible to become like a child again and to rekindle that positive vibration around us?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

It is possible. The secret lies in our own breath. Through breathing exercises, certain breathing techniques and some practice of meditation, we can rekindle positive vibrations within and around us.

Are you aware that sometimes for no reasons you feel like talking to some people, and sometimes for no reason you want to avoid some people? I am sure everyone has this experience!

We convey more through our presence than through our words. If we are uptight, angry or stressed, then we become repulsive. Now, the question is how do these negative vibrations come in our aura? We are storing all these negative things that we have seen and heard in our aura.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

 

WISDOM QUOTE BY GURUDEV


WISDOM QUOTE BY GURUDEV
POSTED ON: FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2022

Revenge is a sign of foolishness and stupidity. Any kind of revenge shows that you have lost your vision; that you have become blind.

~ Sri Sri

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WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR


WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
POSTED ON: FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2022

Whether you win or lose is immaterial because nothing in this world is perfect. If you're so anxious about winning and about making things perfect, then you will definitely get upset. This is an unwritten law.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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Wednesday, 25 May 2022

KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR


KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR
POSTED ON: THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2022

Authenticity and Skillfulness

Authenticity and skillfulness appear to be contradictory, but in fact they are complementary. Your intentions need to be authentic and your actions need to be skillful. The more authentic the intention, the more skillful the action will be. Authentic intention and skillful action make you unshakable.

Skill is required only when authenticity cannot have its way. Yet skill without authenticity makes you shallow. You cannot have an authentic action and a skillful intention. If you try to be authentic in your action but manipulative in your mind, that is when mistakes happen.

John: Is it possible to have a powerful intention, like greed, that is authentic?

Sri Sri: If your intention is colored by greed, over-ambition, etc. then your intention is not authentic. Whenever your intentions are impure, it pricks your consciousness, so it cannot be authentic. Authentic intentions are free from negative emotions. An action that is not skillful leads to negative emotions and an intention that is not authentic harbors negative emotions.

Gayatri: If our intention is authentic and yet our actions are not skillful, what should we do?

Sri Sri: Carry a handkerchief (laughter).

Question: What is the best skill to deal with intention?

Sri Sri: Do not keep any sankalpas (intentions) to yourself. Offer them to the Divine.

Actions can never be perfect but our intentions can be perfect. Actions always have room for improvement. Action means growth and movement, and that needs space. The depth in you and the freedom in you bring out all the skillfulness in you. Krishna was the most skillful because his silence was so deep.

II JAI GURUDEV II

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QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV


QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV
POSTED ON: THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2022

Q: Gurudev, can you please talk about the chintamani in the center of the brain, and the tip of the nose, where the subtle body is connected to the physical body?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

Scientists say that the tip of the nose has a lot of information; we have not yet been able to process all of it. Any knowledge that you get, should pass through the test of scientific methodology, and that includes spirituality too. Scientific methodology simply means going through a logical, sequential understanding, and then coming to a conclusion. Once you get to the conclusion, you still have to keep an open mind because there are many possibilities.

Where is chintamani? The ancient scriptures have said that there is a point in the center of the skull, perhaps, just below the hypothalamus. Hypothalamus is a point that controls the entire body; all the voluntary and involuntary activities in our system. This is what they meant by chintamani, the spot which scientists have called hypothalamus in the skull. You can draw parallels because there is such a huge gap of time and language, which has almost made it impossible to say this is it. For e.g., all the chakras that have been described in the Yogic texts somewhere correspond to our endocrine system. Hence, you can say it is very similar.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

 

WISDOM QUOTE BY GURUDEV


WISDOM QUOTE BY GURUDEV
POSTED ON: THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2022

Take life not as a struggle but as a CHALLENGE, not as a suffering but as A WAY TO EXPRESS the multitude of emotions. That is living with wisdom.

~ Sri Sri


 

WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR


WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
POSTED ON: THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2022

Whether you win or lose is immaterial because nothing in this world is perfect. If you're so anxious about winning and about making things perfect, then you will definitely get upset. This is an unwritten law.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar


 

Tuesday, 24 May 2022

KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR


KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR
POSTED ON: WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2022

Suicide Is The Most Foolish Thing

Q: Dear Gurudev, I have had thoughts of suicide many times in my life. What happens if one commits suicide?

Suicide Is the most foolish thing a person can ever do.
It is like, someone is shivering in the cold and he goes out and removes all his clothes. What will you call him? Foolish!
You are already feeling cold in a heated auditorium, and you go out into the open and say, ’I am so cold’, and remove your jacket, your t-shirt, your inner garments and throw them all out. Will the cold become any less? No!

People who commit suicide find themselves there because they are so attached to life. They are so attached to some pleasure, so attached to some joy, that they want to kill themselves. And when they kill themselves they find themselves in a bigger soup.
They feel, ‘Oh my God, this restlessness, these desires which had created such intense agony inside me has not gone. My body has gone but the agony has remained.
It is only through the body that you can dispel the agony and get rid of misery. Instead you destroy the very instrument by which you can get rid of agony. That is why this knowledge is so important.
If you do pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya and meditation, you will realize that you are not the body.

Dedicate Your Life For Some Higher Cause
What is it that you are hankering for in life? Are you hankering for love? Attention? Money? Pleasure? What is it that you are hankering? These hankerings are boiling desires and they are creating this foolish idea inside you to commit suicide. If you feel you want to commit suicide, I tell you, I need you. I need you to do my work, so you better stay back. Dedicate your life for a social cause; for some higher cause.

When you think only about yourself, ‘What about me, what about me’, then this is what happens. Depression comes in. Forget about yourself. Die for a cause but don't kill yourself. It is worth dedicating your life for something higher.

I need you. Come here (to the Ashram) and do work. There is so much work to be done, help me out. Know that you are useful to me.
If everyone else says you are useless, remember, 'No, I am here, born at this time because Gurudev needs me. I have some work to do for Gurudev. I am not going to commit suicide', got it?! So, do my work.
If you cannot do yoga and meditation, then sweat it out and do my work. I have lots of work I can give you. I can give some work to the entire nation, and the entire population. I have plenty of work to be done. And whatever you need, I will provide you. You need a roof above you, I will provide you, I guarantee you this, but don’t kill yourself.

The Human Body Is So Precious
After so many different lives and different bodies you get a human body; a human birth. After being a worm, a frog, a scorpion, a chicken, a mouse somewhere in some hole, a cat jumping around here and there, a dog, a bird, etc., then you get a human life, after going through all those births. So it is very precious!

Your Hankering For Pleasure Is The Cause Of Depression In You
Wake up and see, all pleasures are momentary; how long will they stay? See that they are so momentary. Five to ten minutes of joy and then it is gone.
What is it that you are hankering about? Some people appreciating you? My dear, it has no meaning. People appreciate you in front of you, behind you they feel jealous about you. That is what happens. They praise you today, tomorrow they criticize you. So what? Do you see what I am saying?
What is appreciation? It is just a few thoughts that are passing through the mind of someone. Do you think they are going to do it forever?

Some people have good comments and some people have bad comments, so what.
If someone criticizes you, so what? Those who criticize you are also going to die, and you, the one being criticized are also going to die. One day all will be finished! So why are you so much bothered about somebody’s appreciation, or criticism? Why can’t you just be yourself?
You know, it takes such a big load off your head not being bothered by anybody’s criticism or adulations. You can just be yourself; natural. And if you live like this, so lightly, then where is the question of depression? Do you see what I am saying?

If You Get Thoughts Of Committing Suicide
1. Know that it is just your prana which is low, so do more pranayama
2. There are millions of people who are suffering more than you, look at them. When your suffering becomes smaller you will never think of committing suicide.
3. Know that you are needed, you are useful. You have to do something in the world.
4. Forget about what people think of you.
People commit suicide because they think they have lost their prestige, their status. What status? What prestige? Who has time to think about your prestige? Everybody is entangled with their own problems, with their own mind. They can’t step out of their own mind, where do they have the time to think about you? These types of tendencies come because you think others are going to disrespect you. I tell you, it is worthless to worry about what the society thinks of you.

Mainly, we must realize that suicide is the worst thing. This is one of the major reasons that we should conduct as many Happiness Programs as possible. Do you see what I’m saying? When you start the breathing exercises, it all goes away!

II JAI GURUDEV II


 

QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV


QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV
POSTED ON: WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2022

Q: What is the ultimate and greatest truth of life? Is it to be happy, or to make one’s family happy, or to serve humankind, or to reach the Divine?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

The ultimate journey starts with one step. Just do not sit and dream about the ultimate. Instead, begin your journey towards the ultimate.

Take small steps towards the Truth; towards this inquiry into life – “What is the goal of life?” This very inquiry can take you far. Everything has some significance in life.

Just eating alone is not the goal of life. Yet eating is essential for sustaining life. Isn’t it? Similarly, sleeping is not the goal of life. But can you discard sleep altogether? No, you cannot. In the same way, you have to be happy and you also have to make others happy. This is the journey towards the Ultimate.

What is the ultimate Truth, or the ultimate purpose of life? I tell you, one who really knows will not tell you, and anyone who does tell you, simply does not know. That is the secret.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

 

WISDOM QUOTE BY GURUDEV


WISDOM QUOTE BY GURUDEV
POSTED ON: WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2022

See, God anyways loves you very much. But to grow to love God just as much as He loves you, this is what devotion really is. And this is the essence of prayer.

~ Sri Sri


 

WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR


WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
POSTED ON: WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2022

There is another way to know things, which is not through the senses. This is called intuition. Through intuition, you can know many things about the past and the future.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar


 

Monday, 23 May 2022

KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR


KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR
POSTED ON: TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2022

The way out of sorrow

If your are unhappy you better check if one or all of these are lacking: Tapa (penance), Vairagya (dispassion), Sharanagati (surrender).

⚫️Tapas is agreeing with the moment, total acceptance of pleasant or unpleasant situations.
⚫️Vairagya means I want nothing and I am nothing.
⚫️Sharanagati is "I am here for You, for Your joy."

If you are grumbling then these are lacking, because when you accept the situation you cannot grumble; when you take it as Tapa you will not grumble; when you come from a state dispassion ("I don't want anything") you don't grumble; and if you are surrendered you will have no complaints.

All these three (Tapas, Vairagya and surrender) purify your mind and uplift you in joy.

If you don? do it willingly you will do it in desperation. First you say, "Nothing can be done." Then in anger and desperation you say, "I give up, I want nothing, I have no choice, to hell with it!"

II JAI GURUDEV II

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QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV


QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV
POSTED ON: TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2022

Q: In Russia, when it is very cold, meditation is better. Is there a connection between temperature and meditation? I have heard that many Rishis meditate in the snow in the Himalayas.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Of course, when it is cool, it is better for meditation and that is why they used to go into caves where it cooler, and not in the scorching heat. But, there are techniques and methods to do in hot climates as well. There are pranayamas you can do in warmer climates. Sheetali and sheetkari pranayama are there (to cool the system in hot weather).

You know, the ‘hot yoga’ has become quite popular in the west for some time, but I would not recommend you to do all that. I would say that you should do it in an air-conditioned room and that is good enough. Of course, this gives you temporary relief if you do in hot climate but its repercussions on your nervous system has to be studied scientifically. Before this, we cannot advise people to do asanas and pranayamas in 40 degree celsius temperatures. Cooler places are definitely more congenial.

If you see, a wild forest in the Arctic area where it is cooler, the trees grow in an orderly manner when compared to a forest in a tropical country. Have you noticed that the branches and trees? The shapes are all very orderly. So the temperature reduces and the entropy also reduces. That means more orderliness comes up. It is the same for plants, human beings and animals.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

 

WISDOM QUOTE BY GURUDEV


WISDOM QUOTE BY GURUDEV
POSTED ON: TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2022

If you throw blame, blame will come back to you. If you give compliments, you will see it come back to you many folds. This is the law of attraction: whatever you throw bounces back onto you.

~ Sri Sri

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WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR


WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
POSTED ON: TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2022

Don't cling onto a desire because whenever a desire is fulfilled, it leaves you in the same place that you were before the desire arose.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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