QnA with Sri Sri

QnA with Sri Sri
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Q: My mind feels good at times and sad at other times. What to do?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Forget about how you feel, feelings keep changing. One minute it is good, next minute it is not good, so what! Move with valour and courage. There are many situations or states of mind, but generally you can categorize them into three kinds:

1.When there is craving or longing. Longing for worldly or spiritual experiences

2.When there is dullness. There is neither longing nor there is any interest in anything. a sense of inertia in our mind. You just go on with inertia. This situation can set now and then in life

3.When there is contentment, happiness and joy

The purpose of all celebrations is to move from inertia to joy, to move from longing to contentment. It’s so beautiful.

There are those who do not even look at their mind, they just keep working and working. Then there are others who keep looking at their own mind. Both are not good, take the middle path. Sometimes take a look at the mind, but not all the time. Do you see what I’m saying? Otherwise you will become self-centred, all the time thinking, 'What do I want?' Or 'I am feeling like this'. If you want to think, then think about what you can do for the world and not what you should do about your mind. There is a (higher) power to take care of the mind.

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