KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2017

Dreams

When something is unbelievably beautiful or joyful, you wonder whether it is a dream. Often, what you perceive as reality is not joyful and so when misery is there, you never wonder if it is a dream. You are sure it is real. This is knowing the real as unreal and unreal as real. In fact, all the miseries are unreal. A wise man knows that happiness is real, as it is one's very nature.

Unhappiness is unreal as it is inflicted by memory. When you see everything as a dream, then you abide in your true nature.

Payal asks : "What about a nightmare?"

Sri Sri : A nightmare is a dream mistaken as reality. There is no confusion in a dream at all. Keep wondering whether all this is a dream and you'll wake up to the real.

In Rishikesh, the Advanced course, Teachers Training and the Art Excel courses came to an end amidst lot of jubilation...!!! Lots of healing experiences were shared. The last days, Satsang was graced by the Saints from the neighbouring Ashrams. From Rishikesh, Guruji and the entourage left for Chandigarh. The trip was full of Sri Sri's mischief. On the way, the entourage stopped at the Sikh holy shrine - Paonta Sahib. An enthusiastic Chadigarh team received the entourage past midnight. More than seven thousand people were totally enraptured at the Satsang on the following day.

JAI GURUDEV!!!

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GURU PUNCH YOUR DAILY INSPIRATION

POSTED ON: TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2017

There is no choice between good and bad. Choice is always between bad and worse, or good and better. If you understand this then you see that there is no choice.

- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV POSTED ON: TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2017 http://qawithgurudev.blogspot.com/

WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2017

Every karma has a time, whether good to bad. Good karma will have its effect only up to a certain period, and bad karma also can affect you only up to a certain period of time, not forever.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: MONDAY, JULY 31, 2017

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.)

JAI GURUDEV!!!

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POSTED ON: MONDAY, JULY 31, 2017

How can you be happy if you're holding onto unpleasant memories of the past? Unpleasant memories are the biggest hindrance for you to be happy this moment.

- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV POSTED ON: MONDAY, JULY 31, 2017 http://qawithgurudev.blogspot.com/

WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: MONDAY, JULY 31, 2017

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.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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Guruji arrived at German Ashram!

Wisdom from Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Why do people crave power? http://wisdomfromsrisriravishankar.blogspot.com/2017/07/why-do-people-crave-power.html?spref=tw

KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: SUNDAY, JULY 30, 2017

The Other Side Of Fear

The Usefulness of Fear, Nature has put an amount of inbuilt fear in all living beings. This fear makes life defend itself, protect itself. Like salt in the food, a little bit of fear is essential for people to be righteous.

*Fear of hurting someone makes you more conscious.

*Fear of failure makes you more keen and dynamic.

*Fear moves you from carelessness to taking care.

*Fear moves you from being insensitive to being sensitive.

*Fear moves you from dullness to alertness.

Total lack of fear may lead to destructive tendencies - a distorted ego knows no fear. Neither does the expanded consciousness! Whereas the ego dismisses the fear and moves in a disruptive manner, the wise one acknowledges the fear and takes refuge in the Divine.

When you are in love, when you are surrendered, there is no fear. Ego, too, knows no fear. But there is a difference, like that of heaven and earth, between these two types of fearless states. Fear makes you righteous; fear brings you close to surrender; fear keeps you on the path; keeps you from being destructive. Peace and law are maintained on the planet because of fear.

A new-born child knows no fear - it totally relies on its mother. Whether a child, a kitten or a bird, when they start becoming independent they experience fear which makes them go running back to their mothers. This is inbuilt by nature to sustain life. So, the purpose of fear is to bring you back to the source!!

JAI GURUDEV!!!

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POSTED ON: SUNDAY, JULY 30, 2017

People usually say, 'I cannot see God'. I tell you, I see nothing but God everywhere! Everything is full of the divine.

- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV POSTED ON: SUNDAY, JULY 30, 2017 http://qawithgurudev.blogspot.com/

WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: SUNDAY, JULY 30, 2017

We judge people just by seeing their outer limited behavior or expressions. But it could be our own inability to see their magnanimity.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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Wisdom from Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Significance of Navagrahas(Nine Planets) Worship http://wisdomfromsrisriravishankar.blogspot.com/2017/07/significance-of-navagrahasnine-planets.html?spref=tw

Wisdom from Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Significance of Navagrahas(Nine Planets) Worship http://wisdomfromsrisriravishankar.blogspot.com/2017/07/significance-of-navagrahasnine-planets.html?spref=tw

Wisdom from Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Significance of Navagrahas(Nine Planets) Worship http://wisdomfromsrisriravishankar.blogspot.com/2017/07/significance-of-navagrahasnine-planets.html?spref=tw

KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: SATURDAY, JULY 29, 2017

Passion and Self - Reliance

Passion makes you weak. Dispassion is strength. For your passion to be fulfilled, you have to depend upon so many things. Passion and self-reliance do not appear to go together. If you are passionate, you have to forget about being self-reliant. If you want to be self-reliant, you have to drop your passion. This is generally so.

That which brings together these two completely different aspects in you, is your spirit. The same spirit that wants to be self-reliant is also passionate. It is only in spirituality that passion and dispassion can happen together. This is the rarest combination.

When you are dispassionate, you have strength, and strength is self-reliance. True self-reliance is realizing that nothing is excluded from the Self. And when you realize everything is part of the Self, then you can be passionate about everything! Even to fulfill your passion, you can only rely on the Self, for Self alone is non-changing.

In Truth, there is neither reliance nor passion. In one state, you can either be passionate or you can be self-reliant. But in an elevated state of consciousness, you can be neither, or both!

JAI GURUDEV!!!

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POSTED ON: SATURDAY, JULY 29, 2017

Nothing whatsoever in the universe can ever give you contentment. You have to bring it to yourself.

- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV POSTED ON: SATURDAY, JULY 29, 2017 http://qawithgurudev.blogspot.com/

WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: SATURDAY, JULY 29, 2017

In meditation, a million things can come up, but if you raise your head above all these conflicts, and feel unmindful of it, it makes you go deeper in your meditation.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: FRIDAY, JULY 28, 2017

Dedication and commitment

Just like you run out of fuel in the car and you have to refill it again and again, in the same way your dedication and commitment runs out in the course of time and it needs constant renewal!

You have to dedicate and rededicate again and again.

Often people take their dedication for granted and then the mind starts demanding or complaining. When dedication is not complete, it leads to grumbling and complaints.

Total dedication brings enormous enthusiasm, zeal, trust, and challenge, and does not leave any room for ego.

JAI GURUDEV!!!

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