QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV
POSTED ON: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Q: Could you give us a concrete 5 point agenda for an individual to implement and create a divine society?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
1. Becoming stress-free: It’s not a one time job, it has to be done again and again and again. It’s like keeping your teeth clean. Like dental hygiene, you need to keep your mind, body and spirit also free from stress again and again.
2. Contribute to society: Be committed in doing something for the society in whatever little way you can.
3. Keep prejudice at bay: Keep the prejudice against another religion, caste, gender away from you. It is very important to drop prejudice from your mind and intellect.
4. Maintain balance: Maintain a work-life balance and a family-society balance. Sometimes you do so much social work that you tend to ignore your family. Other times you are so stuck in family life that there is no world beyond the four walls of your home. Both ways you are not utilizing your full potential. Those who are confined to their homes, get out and make more friends and do some work for society. And those who are out all the time, and who are not very nice to people at home, consider being more kind at home. So keep that work-life balance.
5. Have a broad vision: Be innovative and have one vision for yourself and one for the society, and hold on to it. It may be anything. Envision something for yourself like writing a book, write poems, painting, singing, or write short stories. Be innovative in whatever way you want to be.
Just keep that idea and it will come up within you. One for yourself and one for society, and inspire a few people around you. This is what you can do. There are 100 reasons to be miserable, upset and unhappy in life, coming out of it is a challenge. You should take up this challenge, "Come what may, I will move through all the negative clouds that surround me."
Like the planes that take off even in bad weather, you too need that radar within you which enables you to move through any negative cloud and create enthusiasm around you. That’s the vision for society.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
POSTED ON: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Q: Could you give us a concrete 5 point agenda for an individual to implement and create a divine society?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
1. Becoming stress-free: It’s not a one time job, it has to be done again and again and again. It’s like keeping your teeth clean. Like dental hygiene, you need to keep your mind, body and spirit also free from stress again and again.
2. Contribute to society: Be committed in doing something for the society in whatever little way you can.
3. Keep prejudice at bay: Keep the prejudice against another religion, caste, gender away from you. It is very important to drop prejudice from your mind and intellect.
4. Maintain balance: Maintain a work-life balance and a family-society balance. Sometimes you do so much social work that you tend to ignore your family. Other times you are so stuck in family life that there is no world beyond the four walls of your home. Both ways you are not utilizing your full potential. Those who are confined to their homes, get out and make more friends and do some work for society. And those who are out all the time, and who are not very nice to people at home, consider being more kind at home. So keep that work-life balance.
5. Have a broad vision: Be innovative and have one vision for yourself and one for the society, and hold on to it. It may be anything. Envision something for yourself like writing a book, write poems, painting, singing, or write short stories. Be innovative in whatever way you want to be.
Just keep that idea and it will come up within you. One for yourself and one for society, and inspire a few people around you. This is what you can do. There are 100 reasons to be miserable, upset and unhappy in life, coming out of it is a challenge. You should take up this challenge, "Come what may, I will move through all the negative clouds that surround me."
Like the planes that take off even in bad weather, you too need that radar within you which enables you to move through any negative cloud and create enthusiasm around you. That’s the vision for society.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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