KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR

KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR

POSTED ON: FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2026

 

Decision and Confusion

 

Decision comes only when there is confusion. When there is no confusion then there is no decision.

 

For example, if there is a piece of wood and a biscuit on your desk, you don't decide which one to eat, isn't that right? Decision is always about choice and choice is always confusing. So, all decision-makers are confused! (Laughter)

 

Action is spontaneous when there is no actor. In you, there is an actor and there is a witness. An actor is either confused or decisive, but the witness realizes that the action is spontaneous and smiles.

 

The more decisions you make, the more confused you are, and as a result you swing between pain and pleasure. The more the witness grows in you, the more playful and untouched you are. Trust, faith, love and joy all manifest in and around you.

 

Are you confused, decided or happy now?

 

Eberhard: Confusion is too strong of an expression. Is it not rather "choice"?

 

Urmila: We are decided that choice is confusion. (Everyone laughs)

 

Hans Peter: Is there any freedom without confusion?

 

Sri Sri: When you are confused, there is no freedom.

 

Hans Peter: What is freedom of choice?

 

II JAI GURUDEV II

 

QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV

QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV

POSTED ON: FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2026

 

Q: I want to be 'Sthita Pragna' not get drifted by cravings and aversions. What should I do?

 

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

 

The moment you recognize that there is craving and aversion, I am getting disturbed by it and I don't want to be disturbed by it, you are already on track. See, when a person wakes up from sleep, only then he realizes, "Oh, I was sleeping!" In the same way, when you remember something, then you realize that you had forgotten. If you don't remember, then you can't say that you forgot. And when you remember, your memory is already back.

 

In the same way, this very intention that I don't want to be caught up in craving and aversion, you have woken up. Have patience, and don't be too hard on yourself.

 

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar 

 

WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR.

WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR.

POSTED ON: FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2026

 

When you are joyful right now, how can you have desires? And how can you be joyful right now when you have desires?

 

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar 

 

KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR

KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR

POSTED ON: THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2026

 

Vivek

 

When you follow fun, misery follows you . . .

 

When you follow Knowledge, fun follows you.

 

II JAI GURUDEV II

 

QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV

 QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV

POSTED ON: THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2026

 

Q: If I am suffering from inside, can I still stay happy and keep a smile on my face?

 

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

 

You know life is like a 'Thali'(plate) in which you have something sweet, something salty, something pungent -- all different tastes are present. Like this, in your life you have little sadness (maybe you have lost something, or lost money), yes that pinches but if you just hold on to that pinch only, hold on to that pain only, then life cannot go on. Unless you are so well soaked in wisdom, in spirituality, you will continue to have some little grievances here and there, and if you stop smiling because of that, you will find the world to be a very depressing place. You should keep smiling, having a strong hope that whatever pain and suffering that you have inside will vanish, anyway it doesn't matter. One should have the wisdom to bear discomfort and move forward with a smile.

 

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR.

WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR.

POSTED ON: THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2026

 

When you look at somebody`s face, if they don't look happy, it is because there is a thorn of desire in their heart.

 

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar 

 

KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR

KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR

POSTED ON: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2026

 

FIVE SECRETS

 

There are five secrets which are sacred and are guarded by the subtle beings and angels in this creation. They are:

 

Jananarahasya (the secret of birth): Birth is a secret. How a soul takes a body, the criteria for selecting the place of birth, time of birth, type of body, parents, etc are all a secret.

 

Maranarahasya (the secret of death): Death is a highly guarded secret. Death remains a mystery. The process of separation of spirit from matter and its journey from then on is a secret.

 

Rajarahasya (the royal secret, the secret of ruling): The principles of governing; the principles of maintaining the orderliness in creation are a secret.

 

Prakritirahasya (the secret of nature): Nature is a mystery. The more you know about nature, the mystery deepens. The more a scientist knows, the more he feels there is much more to know. Science, though appearing to resolve the mystery in creation, has deepened it. The knowledge of particles, wave functions, black holes, the vacuum state, etc have only deepened the mystery.

 

Mantrarahasya (secret of mantras): The mantras and their effect, influence, method and mode of working are all a mystery. Mantras are the impulses or rhythms of consciousness, which itself is a mystery.

 

Usually in the West, a secret is shameful and dishonest. But in the East, it is honored and regarded as sacred.

 

II JAI GURUDEV II