Your worries, your feelings, your thoughts arise in your own mind. You are totally responsible for all your feelings. How you feel, what you think, what you do, you are responsible.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Knowledge Sheets: Fruit of Karma

Knowledge Sheets: Fruit of Karma: You sow some seeds. Some seeds will sprout in 2 days. If you put peanuts, they would sprout in 4-5 days, and if you want to grow a coco...

Q: Guruji, I am 70 years old and I talk about your grace wherever I go. I have come here with full faith and gratefulness. My sons have sent me and told me to spread your knowledge amongst people, in every house, and in every village. Since the past six years I am going from house to house spreading this knowledge. When I organized a course in Pritampura, I did not leave a single house or block uncovered and as a result 113 people did the Sri Sri Yoga course.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Just see the enthusiasm of this mother. You should not say, ‘Oh, I cannot do this, I have become so old and aged.' Even in old age you can talk to people around you and help cleanse people’s minds. With the aging body, you cannot clean a room as you do not have the strength; but with words at least you can cleanse people’s minds. So, we can all do a lot.
Stop thinking, 'what will they think about me?’ Just be shameless and do service. People who want to think will keep doing so; their work is only to think. Even if you do something good, people will criticize. They will think negative about you also, because that is all that some people can do. But if by your words at least some people’s minds get cleansed then that is good.
We should not waste our time. No matter where we may go, we should always be in this knowledge. Then our enthusiasm does not reduce in life. Otherwise you will continue crying that you did not get this, or you did not get that; or you have some illness or the other. In life, with this physical body, something or the other happens all the time. Sometimes you might suffer from a headache, or you might catch a cold, or your tummy might get upset due to over-eating. Recently I read a report in some paper that rather than people dying of starvation, the number of people dying from over eating is more.

Q : Why are spiritual leaders mostly men?

+Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Spirituality transcends gender. Men and women are equal. There are many vacancies here for women who would like to become swamis also! They should come to the forefront as well.

Violence-free society, Disease-free body, Fever-free breath, Confusion-free mind, Inhibition-free intellect, Trauma-free memory, sorrow-free soul is the birth right of every child. +Sri Sri Ravi Shankar 

A Guru will put you into your Self, make you reach the goal - not just tell you some techniques and show you some path.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Knowledge Sheets: You are Fire

Knowledge Sheets: You are Fire: We need to remember that we are fire. However, some ash gets accumulated over the mind. Once you blow the ash away then the fire will ...