KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2018

Life is a Dream a Burden or a Joke,

Often when you are happy you feel life is a dream because you do not believe in the reality of it. When there is misery you feel life as a burden. And we take trivial things very seriously. But one who has really gone through the pleasure realizes that pleasure is a burden. And if you have undergone misery thoroughly you will realize that life is a dream. In every miserable condition you have been walked or carried through and you realize life is a dream. When you see life is dream a burden or a joke only then can you be centered.

And when you have really gone through misery you have really seen life as a dream. And in between the pain and pleasure life is all a joke. Life is very uncertain. Before it takes you away, realize it is a dream, a burden or a joke.

Someone asked: What about life is a joke?

Answer: A joke you do not question. If you question a joke, it is no longer a joke. Do not question a burden either. It is a waste of time to question life and its events.

The burden makes you go deep. It gets you to the core of yourself. Realization of a dream wakes you up. And seeing life as a joke makes you light. The only certainty is that life is a dream, a burden or a joke and only when you realize this can you be centered.

|| Jai Guru Dev ||

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QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV

POSTED ON: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2018

Q: Whenever I listen to knowledge I sleep. What should I change?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

One devotee asked this question, "How come when I watch any movie or television serial, I am all awake, even if it is in middle of the night. The moment I come for a spiritual discourse, I doze off".

You know, the answer is -- because movies are bed of thorns, it keeps you awake. Knowledge is a bed of roses, that’s why you sleep. Well this is said with humor. But never mind, the deep rest somewhere sends the knowledge to our subconscious mind and sometime it will come up.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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WISDOM QUOTE BY GURUDEV

POSTED ON: TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2018

The only way to be untouched by events is to see the whole phenomenon as a dream which is passing.

~ Sri Sri

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WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2018

A situation that happens now becomes the cause of another situation in the future.When that next situation happens in the future, that too becomes the cause of some other situation to happen. That is why it is called as cause and the effect -Karma.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2018

Ignorance Of Your Capability Can Expand You!

Always know that the Divine never gives you a responsibility you cannot fulfill. Nobody ever expects you to treat them if you are not a doctor. Nobody will ask you to fix their wiring system if you are not an electrician. Your responsibility is only what you can do. And you do not know what you can do! Always accept that you do not know what you can do. Ignorance of your capability can expand you!

When you know what you can do, you can progress. But when you do not know what you can do, you can grow by leaps and bounds! When you know what you can do, you can do things. When you do not know what you can do, you can do things even better!

|| Jai Guru Dev ||

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QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV

POSTED ON: TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2018

Q: I’m not strong enough to take a commitment for whole one year. What can I do?

Gurudev:

Gurudev: Not strong enough? Take one day at a time. You are strong enough to take commitment for one day, and that is enough. And each day you can continue doing it. Don’t think of one long year, “oh my God! One year I’ve to do something! Today I do, that’s good. Tomorrow I do, that’s good”.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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WISDOM QUOTE BY GURUDEV

POSTED ON: MONDAY, JULY 30, 2018

Marriage means sacrifice; sacrificing your desires for the good of the other, and for the sake of the whole family. If you keep thinking only of what you want, then the marriage will not work.

~ Sri Sri

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WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2018

If you manipulate words it is a lie, if you play on words it is a joke, if you rely on words it is ignorance, if you transcend words it is wisdom.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: MONDAY, JULY 30, 2018

Sensible Use of Mobiles

On the mobile there is a switch-off button, we should be kind enough to press it sometimes, that is all. Technology is no impediments at all. It is we who make it an impediment. The purpose of technology is to give us comfort, at the same time, our sleep, or our meditation, or other activities also give us comfort; in fact it gives us absolute comfort. So when a higher comfort is available, you have to leave the lower comfort and rest for some time.

So, for few minutes, I would recommend you to use that switch-off button so that you can have sound sleep. And when you do good exercise, or when you are with family having a dinner, I think you can put it on silent mode.

|| Jai Guru Dev ||

QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV

POSTED ON: MONDAY, JULY 30, 2018

Q: When I read the books and listen to knowledge, I really want to implement it. But when the time comes to implement the knowledge, I am unable to do it. What should I do?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

Knowledge gets implemented automatically; it is spontaneous. It is there at the back of the mind. What is it that stops you from implementing knowledge is small temptations. Small temptations go with three things: Love, greed and fear.

Suppose you are drinking alcohol or doing something that is not right, then the fear of disease, or fear of losing your reputation, or fear of losing a loved one can stop you. Fear as well as procrastination can stop you.

The second thing that can stop you is greed. If someone tells you, “If you drink alcohol, you will lose 10 million”. Or if you are a smoker and someone tells you, “If you don’t smoke for 30 days, you will get a lottery for 1 crore rupees”, I tell you, you will not touch a cigarette. You will say, instead of 30 days, let me make it 33 days just to be on safe side.

The third this is love. If you promise a loved one, you will keep it up.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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WISDOM QUOTE BY GURUDEV

POSTED ON: SUNDAY, JULY 29, 2018

The mission of your life should be to leave a better world behind than what you inherited.

~ Sri Sri

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WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: MONDAY, JULY 30, 2018

If you are friendly then you exuberate friendliness. You become friendly with anyone who comes in front of you. Then your friendships will have no expiry date or any manufacturing date.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: SUNDAY, JULY 29, 2018

Creativity

Creativity brings a new beginning for "time". When you are creative, you break the monotony of time. Everything becomes fresh and alive. Creativity brings along with it a new round of enthusiasm. Both creative and procreative impulses in nature are associated with enthusiasm. When you are enthusiastic you are closer to the creative principle of existence.

Deep silence is the mother of creativity. No creativity can come out of one who is too busy, worried, over-ambitious or lethargic. Balanced activity, rest and yoga can kindle skills and creativity in you.

|| Jai Guru Dev ||

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QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV

POSTED ON: SUNDAY, JULY 29, 2018

Gurudev:

Happiness is when you want nothing, and you want to give. Where the wanting and desires end, and the sharing begin, happiness is exactly there. Memory is not happiness. When you are happy, you forget everything. It is when happiness is gone that you dwell in its memory. In the world, people are either dreaming of happiness or remembering happiness. That is either being in the past or the future. But happiness is that which is in the present. And it is your very nature.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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WISDOM QUOTE BY GURUDEV

POSTED ON: SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2018

There is nothing to ask and nothing to say. Just be quiet a little and see, either your questions will disappear or the answers will simply come to you.

~ Sri Sri

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WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: SUNDAY, JULY 29, 2018

We have to evolve from the joy that we get from getting to the joy that we get from giving and sharing.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2018

How to Create Positive Mindset

Just know that the tendency of the mind is to hold on to something negative. If ten compliments and one insult are given, the mind holds on to the negative – that one insult. So when we know this, we are already one step out of it. Time and again, we must realize "I am going on a negative trip" and immediately come back to the here and now.

Another solution is high prana. More the prana (life force energy) increases, the less negativity will be there. When there is no energy, that is when you feel more negative. And when you have high energy, negativity is nowhere; it is gone.

So the best way to get rid of negativity is to be youthful. Being youthful means having the attitude, "I will take the challenge!", and not saying, "Oh, I have a problem." Always say, "I have a challenge."

First, change the problem into a challenge. And then, nothing is a challenge. We have energy, we have enthusiasm. So when we move with this mindset, our whole action takes a different course – the course of success.

|| Jai Guru Dev ||