Tuesday, 12 May 2026
KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
Posted on: Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Advice from hawaii
What type of time do you give the Divine? Usually you give the time that is leftover, when you have nothing else to do, when no guests are coming, there are no parties to go to, no nice movies to watch, no weddings to attend. Such time you give. This is not quality time.
Give quality time to the Divine. It will be rewarded. If your prayers are not answered it is because you have never given quality time. Give Satsang and meditation your highest priority. Give prime time to the Divine. You definitely will be rewarded.
II JAI GURUDEV II
https://knowledgesheetsbygurudev.blogspot.com/
Posted on: Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Advice from hawaii
What type of time do you give the Divine? Usually you give the time that is leftover, when you have nothing else to do, when no guests are coming, there are no parties to go to, no nice movies to watch, no weddings to attend. Such time you give. This is not quality time.
Give quality time to the Divine. It will be rewarded. If your prayers are not answered it is because you have never given quality time. Give Satsang and meditation your highest priority. Give prime time to the Divine. You definitely will be rewarded.
II JAI GURUDEV II
https://knowledgesheetsbygurudev.blogspot.com/
QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV
QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV
Posted on: Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Q: Gurudev, how to keep the spine erect during meditation?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Make a start with the spine being erect, then if the head comes down, the back bends, don’t bother about it. You cannot start meditation in a sleeping posture, because then you will be snoring very soon. So sit down, and start with the spine erect when you meditate, and then let go, let it happen.
There is a song in Kannada which has a very profound meaning. When you are in a garden, in the midst of flowers, then the state of your mind is completely different. If you are in the midst of people, your state of mind is very different - sometimes the emotions of passion, anger, hatred come up. But when you are in the garden, amongst flowers, such emotions will not come up; there will be no feelings of jealousy, no emotional upheaval, nothing of the sort. But if you are in the midst of people, then definitely all this will happen. However good your friends are, when you spend time with people, something or the other comes up. You cannot always live in the midst of people, nor can you live alone in a garden.
Sometimes you have to spend time dreaming, and sometimes you have to listen to music, you cannot be in one state. There are people who work all the time, doing accounts or something or the other. The radio may be playing in the background but they do not pay attention to it; they keep thinking of something else. This is being in an imbalanced state. Who is a balanced person? A person who is sometimes in music, sometimes working; such a person thinks like a scientist, and looks at the world in a scientific manner; sometimes enjoys music, sometimes science and art. You must spend your life in both these streams.
Sometimes you must live in the world, and sometimes in silence. Go with these two and you will experience Brahman. You cannot run away from your responsibilities and go to the Himalayas, or stay in the worldly aspects all the time; you must strike a balance between both and experience the Brahman within you.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Posted on: Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Q: Gurudev, how to keep the spine erect during meditation?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Make a start with the spine being erect, then if the head comes down, the back bends, don’t bother about it. You cannot start meditation in a sleeping posture, because then you will be snoring very soon. So sit down, and start with the spine erect when you meditate, and then let go, let it happen.
There is a song in Kannada which has a very profound meaning. When you are in a garden, in the midst of flowers, then the state of your mind is completely different. If you are in the midst of people, your state of mind is very different - sometimes the emotions of passion, anger, hatred come up. But when you are in the garden, amongst flowers, such emotions will not come up; there will be no feelings of jealousy, no emotional upheaval, nothing of the sort. But if you are in the midst of people, then definitely all this will happen. However good your friends are, when you spend time with people, something or the other comes up. You cannot always live in the midst of people, nor can you live alone in a garden.
Sometimes you have to spend time dreaming, and sometimes you have to listen to music, you cannot be in one state. There are people who work all the time, doing accounts or something or the other. The radio may be playing in the background but they do not pay attention to it; they keep thinking of something else. This is being in an imbalanced state. Who is a balanced person? A person who is sometimes in music, sometimes working; such a person thinks like a scientist, and looks at the world in a scientific manner; sometimes enjoys music, sometimes science and art. You must spend your life in both these streams.
Sometimes you must live in the world, and sometimes in silence. Go with these two and you will experience Brahman. You cannot run away from your responsibilities and go to the Himalayas, or stay in the worldly aspects all the time; you must strike a balance between both and experience the Brahman within you.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
Posted on: Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Once you have the perfect intuition, you don't need to know anything. Even if you have not learn how to repair a refrigerator but you have the intuitive ability, when you go and sit there, you will pull the right screws, the right wires and do just the right thing.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
http://quotesfromsrisriravishankar.blogspot.com/
Posted on: Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Once you have the perfect intuition, you don't need to know anything. Even if you have not learn how to repair a refrigerator but you have the intuitive ability, when you go and sit there, you will pull the right screws, the right wires and do just the right thing.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
http://quotesfromsrisriravishankar.blogspot.com/
Monday, 11 May 2026
KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
Posted on: Tuesday, May 12, 2026
HEALTHY LIVING & YOGA
Thousands of miles away and your words here get into this cell phone which is not even connected to a wire. Usually when something is connected with a wire we take it for granted because we see that there is a connection, but here there is not even a solid connection. A cell phone is your hand, you speak and that gets transmitted in this empty space and goes and reaches somewhere so far away. If you just put your mind on this phenomenon you will be amazed. We take this for granted and we just speak on the cell phone and don't even notice the mechanism behind it.
If you look into the mechanism you will be in awe. This awe awakens the spirit inside you. That awe takes you to the state of meditation. 'Vismaya Yoga Bhumika': ASTONISHMENT is the preface for Yoga. If you are astonished/stunned, that is when yoga begins, means your spiritual journey begins, meditation begins. So you must be astonished in order to get into yoga or whenever you feel that 'wow', that astonishment in you, know that you are connected with the spirit that you are. You are in that state of spiritual elevation. Isn't it amazing, isn't it beautiful!!
How could someone think that the 'oh wow' could create such an elevation of the spirit. All present day crisis and problems can be solved by this change in the attitude, don't you think so?!
II JAI GURUDEV II
https://knowledgesheetsbygurudev.blogspot.com/
Posted on: Tuesday, May 12, 2026
HEALTHY LIVING & YOGA
Thousands of miles away and your words here get into this cell phone which is not even connected to a wire. Usually when something is connected with a wire we take it for granted because we see that there is a connection, but here there is not even a solid connection. A cell phone is your hand, you speak and that gets transmitted in this empty space and goes and reaches somewhere so far away. If you just put your mind on this phenomenon you will be amazed. We take this for granted and we just speak on the cell phone and don't even notice the mechanism behind it.
If you look into the mechanism you will be in awe. This awe awakens the spirit inside you. That awe takes you to the state of meditation. 'Vismaya Yoga Bhumika': ASTONISHMENT is the preface for Yoga. If you are astonished/stunned, that is when yoga begins, means your spiritual journey begins, meditation begins. So you must be astonished in order to get into yoga or whenever you feel that 'wow', that astonishment in you, know that you are connected with the spirit that you are. You are in that state of spiritual elevation. Isn't it amazing, isn't it beautiful!!
How could someone think that the 'oh wow' could create such an elevation of the spirit. All present day crisis and problems can be solved by this change in the attitude, don't you think so?!
II JAI GURUDEV II
https://knowledgesheetsbygurudev.blogspot.com/
QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV
QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV
Posted on: Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Q: Gurudev, I never feel like bringing chocolates, sweets, rakhis or flowers etc., for you. Do I not have the love for you?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Yes, that’s very good. You are wise. And you do have the love for me, I know. You recognize me when you do not bring all this. When people bring flowers to me it means to say, “Gurudev, you have yet to blossom more”.
When people bring sweets, they are giving me a message, “Gurudev, you have to be sweeter”. I think I am already sweet enough (laughter), so I do not need sweets, and I am blossomed and happy so I do not need flowers.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Posted on: Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Q: Gurudev, I never feel like bringing chocolates, sweets, rakhis or flowers etc., for you. Do I not have the love for you?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Yes, that’s very good. You are wise. And you do have the love for me, I know. You recognize me when you do not bring all this. When people bring flowers to me it means to say, “Gurudev, you have yet to blossom more”.
When people bring sweets, they are giving me a message, “Gurudev, you have to be sweeter”. I think I am already sweet enough (laughter), so I do not need sweets, and I am blossomed and happy so I do not need flowers.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
Posted on: Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Wake up and see nothing is yours. Can’t you say this – ‘Nothing is mine!’ It is such a freedom I tell you, such a freedom!
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
http://quotesfromsrisriravishankar.blogspot.com/
Posted on: Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Wake up and see nothing is yours. Can’t you say this – ‘Nothing is mine!’ It is such a freedom I tell you, such a freedom!
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
http://quotesfromsrisriravishankar.blogspot.com/
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