Monday, 29 February 2016
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2016
IMPACT OF MEDITATION
The true nature of our soul is obscured by three things:
1. Desire: It could be any desire. 'I don't want to have any desire', is also a desire.
2. Intellect: Which means the judging, discriminating, knowing faculty in us.
3. Ego: Ego is 'I am somebody'.
These three things obscure the self, and meditation is where you just freeze these three things for a few moments – freezing the intellect, the ego and the desires. It is just for some time, so don't be afraid or scared. Later on you can have any number of desires.
Not that all desires are bad, some desires are good, some desires are okay and some other ones are really bad. So all types are there, but if you learn to freeze them, then stillness dawns and that is Samadhi.
Children have all the three things, yet they freeze them very easily. That's why when you ask children, "What do you want", they will say, "Nothing". Have you noticed this? They don't judge anything. In children, the ego is not prominent enough, the intellect is not mature enough and their desires are not strong enough to obscure the self.
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Sunday, 28 February 2016
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Q: How does one actually keep a check on their emotions and be aware? And when one's emotions are shaken, what to do?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Yes, if your emotions are shaken, let it be shaken as much as it can be. You know, there is nothing called compassion here. In higher knowledge, compassion is stupidity. Why? You can be compassionate only to somebody else, who is not you. Suppose your hand got hurt , you don't say, I am so compassionate towards my hand. Do you ever say that? When you say that everyone is part of you, where is compassion there? Okay, you got hurt, it's because of your own foolishness you got hurt. Put some ointment and forget about it.
When you get hurt, it's your karma. You must have hurt somebody sometime and so you got it back now. Nothing happens without a reason. This is the highest knowledge.
So, some Masters will always say that if you are suffering, it's not because of somebody, it's because of you only. You better suffer and get rid of it.
Instead of that, if you say, "That person is responsible for my suffering", then you are making more karma and carrying it on to the next lifetime. But if you say, "My suffering is because of me, and I take ownership of the karma", then you become free.
Saying, "My suffering is due to that person", will continue the karma because that impression will be there in your mind. Why are you not looking inside? Why are you not moving on? Why are you holding onto an event of the past and blaming the other person for your karma? If you do this then you will continue to be miserable.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Q: I am a student of media, and I am always asked why the media doesn't report the truth. What is the truth? Does it exist?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Only truth has existence. Everything else is maya (Illusion)!
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Be busy in spreading knowledge. Day and night think of how you can reach out to people, and do some good work in life. Or write articles, write music; songs. When you are so busy then you will find that obsessions do not bother you. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Wisdom from Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: The Way Out of the Cycle of Karma
Wisdom from Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: The Way Out of the Cycle of Karma: If your emotions are shaken, let it be shaken as much as it can be. You know, there is nothing called compassion here. In higher knowledg...
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2016
DEALING WITH STRESS
Stress means too much to do, too little time and no energy. Stress overshadows our intuition, blurs our innovative spirit and destroys our intelligence. That which is an enemy of all the three (intelligence, innovation and intuition) is stress and mistrust. These we need to eliminate and to do that we have to raise our energy. When our energy is raised, stress is eliminated and intuition appears.
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Saturday, 27 February 2016
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2016
Q: I feel like I have reached a dead end and it is so frustrating. What should I do?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: That's your karma, nobody can help you. Just understand this (indicating the way the ancient masters dealt with their disciples, as he responds in a similar manner) nobody can help, finished. You are trying to find an escape, but there is no way. I will not tell you. Why should I tell you? You said already it is a dead end, so be dead and suffer!
When a master responds in such a way, see what happens: suddenly freedom arises and you get into a 'Wow' space. A space of total freedom where there is nothing to be done. There is no doer ship, there is no ego, there is no desire and the intellect which is trying to find a way out is also frozen.
I don't know whether they (Masters in the previous generation) consciously did it or not, but they always did it this way. You would have to lock your intellect up. He used to also say this in Hindi many times, "Lock your intellect and sit. Don't let your intellect wag out". I tell you, you people would not survive in such an atmosphere. Survival for even one day is really difficult. We don't have anybody of that generation now. They were all from the older generation, and one could not even understand them. That is what Deepak Chopra was telling me, "Oh, I can't understand this man, he has no compassion. Not a drop of compassion?"
I said, "Don't see it as though this person does not have compassion, otherwise your mind will go crazy. At least you save your mind".
Deepak Chopra was telling me about one incident. He was sitting with Maharishi, and there was this other person also sitting with them. After some time this person got up and left. Just a few minutes after he left, someone came and told Maharishi that the man while crossing the road was hit by a truck and died on the spot. When that news came to Maharishi, he just kept quiet for five seconds and then started doing his own work. He didn't go out and see, or ask what happened, nothing. He started continuing with his own work. Deepak said that he was so shocked with this incident.
I told him, "Look, you need not judge a person as having no compassion Why should there be compassion? When you cut your nails you don’t say, "Oh I am cutting my nails". Like that many people are being born here every day and many are dying every day. And we have come here thousands of times and we have done so many things. Seen life from a bigger angle, then you see a completely different picture".
Just before coming here, I spoke to one teacher who just lost her husband who was also an Art of Living teacher. I just waited one day before speaking to her and people said, "Gurudev, talk to her, talk to her".
I said, "No, let her be in grief for a day, let her do the funeral and then I'll talk to her". So, today, I spoke to her. You know, she is so solid with no wailing, "Why did this happen to me", and blah, blah, blah. She was talking very normally and she said, "I want to come and see you Gurudev".
I said, "Yes, come". That is the beauty in the path. The path gives so much inner strength to you, that you are able to manage. It's not that misery will come to everybody (and so you need inner strength), no! It's not like that.. Here, in The Art of Living all your desires get fulfilled, isn't it? Whatever you wish for gets fulfilled. Whatever you think happens almost immediately. In some places, that is not the case. Sometimes I wonder whether we are making our own people weaker and greedier in this sense.
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2016
With one small cell phone, you can reach the whole world. You can reach any number of phone numbers with one phone call, isn’t it? Similarly our mind, which invented the cellphone is much more powerful than the cell phone itself. You only need to make it available. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2016
HAVE A POSITIVE ATTITUDE
In the olden days, if some of the children would ask for sweets, the grandmothers would never say that it is not there. They would say, "There are enough sweets, but we just have to go to the shop and buy some". The concept was that, there could be certain angels which would be hovering around, and if you say, "I don’t have this", they would say, “Tathastu”, which means - so it shall be! You never know when these angels would be hovering around so they would tell us to always keep a positive attitude. This is something beautiful. We need to have a positive attitude at all times.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2016
Our subtle body is bigger than the gross body, and when the subtle body shrinks, that is when you feel depressed. When it shrinks a little you feel sad, when it shrinks more you feel depressed, and when it becomes smaller than the physical body, then suicidal tendencies come. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Friday, 26 February 2016
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2016
Q: How do you get to know of our problems before we even speak them out? And even before we can do something, they get solved and I am sure that it’s all because of you. Please tell me how does this happen?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Why should I tell you my secret?
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2016
Q: How would you know who is your true disciple?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: I don't care. Why should I know if someone is true or untrue? If they are truthful, they will move up. If they are untruthful, they will fall down because nobody's intellect is in their control.
Why should anyone doubt anybody, whether they are true or false? In my eyes, everybody is good, and if they do something wrong, they are definitely going to go down, but they will come back up again. It's very simple mathematics.
I don't need anything from any disciple. If they move up, very good, if they don't, let them face the music. See, even facing the music makes them good and stronger. You know, I never go to console anyone, "Oh, I am so sorry, you poor thing". You have a problem? Okay, good, deal with it!
This is intimate knowledge, not to be spoken out to the masses. This is to make one understand how to move in the knowledge, and how to move in the path. So there are very many ways.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2016
FEEL ABUNDANT
Poverty is only in the mind. In North India, one day before Diwali they celebrate Dhanteras. On Dhanteras they bring out all their wealth, place it in front of God and feel the abundance. Why do they do this? It is because when we feel abundant within, it brings out a positive attitude, energy and enthusiasm, and you are able to get more. But when you are in a 'lack' consciousness, I tell you, that seed that you have sown will increase the lack and reduce abundance. Abundance first starts as a seed within you, so feel abundant. When the seed of abundance is within you, magic happens!
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2016
You cannot complain to the Master about anything. It's sometimes completely crazy,but this gives you a good solid training so that you don't ever become a weak person crying over things that are immaterial. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Thursday, 25 February 2016
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2016
Q: How does one actually keep a check on their emotions and be aware? And when one's emotions are shaken, what to do?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Yes, if your emotions are shaken, let it be shaken as much as it can be. You know, there is nothing called compassion here. In higher knowledge, compassion is stupidity. Why? You can be compassionate only to somebody else, who is not you. Suppose your hand got hurt , you don't say, I am so compassionate towards my hand. Do you ever say that? When you say that everyone is part of you, where is compassion there? Okay, you got hurt, it's because of your own foolishness you got hurt. Put some ointment and forget about it.
When you get hurt, it's your karma. You must have hurt somebody sometime and so you got it back now. Nothing happens without a reason. This is the highest knowledge.
So, some Masters will always say that if you are suffering, it's not because of somebody, it's because of you only. You better suffer and get rid of it.
Instead of that, if you say, "That person is responsible for my suffering", then you are making more karma and carrying it on to the next lifetime. But if you say, "My suffering is because of me, and I take ownership of the karma", then you become free.
Saying, "My suffering is due to that person", will continue the karma because that impression will be there in your mind. Why are you not looking inside? Why are you not moving on? Why are you holding onto an event of the past and blaming the other person for your karma? If you do this then you will continue to be miserable.
http://qnawithsrisri.artoflivinguniverse.org/
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2016
Q: In my prayers I keep asking the Divine for my wishes to be fulfilled. Is it selfish?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: It is not. Keep asking, if you don't ask the Divine who will you ask? But remember, you will only get something when the time comes.
http://guruoneliners.artoflivinguniverse.org/
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2016
FAITH IS IMPORTANT
Faith is part of our life. We are born with faith. A child does not know the mother but when it looks at the eyes of the mother, it feels the love. It doesn’t ask the mother, "What is your name? Where did you study? Who are your parents? Where are you from? What do you do?" The child knows nothing, but it feels the love. The child doesn’t make the mother an object of knowing. Similarly, something which is so big and great, you cannot make it an object of your knowing. Only when you experience the love, can you receive knowledge.
http://knowledgesheet.artoflivinguniverse.org/
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2016
Q: Is it possible to be your devotee and a devotee of Jesus at the same time?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Listen, if you are a devotee, it is good enough. There is only one consciousness, that’s it. See one in all and all in one.
I remember a catholic nun who met with me in England way back, 30 years ago. She was very old at that time, and do you know what she said? She said, "If you don’t see Jesus in the first person you see in the morning, you are never going to see him".
So the whole principle is love, oneness and compassion, and that is what Art of living is all about.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2016
Q: Why is it so difficult for people to understand each other?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Because they don't understand themselves first. You do not understand your own mind and try to understand other's. It becomes very difficult.
http://guruoneliners.artoflivinguniverse.org/
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2016
If a person remains inactive, and does nothing and then he says, ‘I am a good person’, that goodness is of no use. If you are good and are compassionate, then do some work as well. Isn’t it? - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2016
BECOME EMPTY
We communicate more through our vibes than through our words. When we get off an airplane, the air hostess says, "Have a nice day", but does she mean it? When the same thing is said by your mother or your grandmother, it carries some vibes along with it. Our ability to grasp these vibes depends on our ability to be calm. If we are stuck with one topic in our mind then we lose out on many things. Many times people sit with one question and they become deaf to everything else. Are you getting what I am saying? When you’re holding on to one question then your cup is overflowing, then there is nothing more to put into it.
Once a disciple went to his Guru with many questions and asked him for knowledge. The Guru said, "Come, sit and have a cup of coffee first", and the Guru poured coffee into the cup till it started overflowing and splattered onto the table and then on to the floor. The disciple said, "Gurudev, what are you doing?"
The Guru said, "You have come to me like an overflowing cup. Your capacity to hold is very small but you want answers to some very big questions. You will not be able to hold what I pour. I am ready to give, but are you ready to receive? If you have to receive then first you have to become empty".
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