Wisdom Quote of the day

My job is to collect the garbage of the mind. All that I want for you to do is to realize the highest. And keep smiling. +Sri Sri Ravi Shankar 

Knowledge Sutra for the day!

Learn to make people your own. They already belong to you. They come from the same soil and breath the same air which you expel. You are connected - so much connected.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Guru One Liners of the day

Q: Do you believe in spirituality?

+Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: I don't believe in spirituality. I KNOW it.

Guru Punch of the day

It is all in your hands, how you view things; what type of intention you put out there, that will come back to you. If you think that everyone is hurting me, then your own intentions will create similar situations again and again. When you wake up and see, 'There is none other than the One, and the One comes to me in many forms. It is all for my growth, for my well-being, for my happiness'. +Sri Sri Ravi Shankar 

Knowledge Sutra for the day!

Dissolving the name is awareness. Dissolving the form is meditation. The world is name and form. Bliss transcends name and form.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

QnA with Sri Sri

Q: In the Bhagavad Gita it is written that, 'Sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam sharanam vraja . Aham tvam sarva-papebhyo mokshayishyami ma shucah'. Does the definition of Dharma (here meaning one’s religion) become different before a Guru?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Yes, having said all that He had to, at the end of the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna tells Arjuna, 'Sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam sharanam vraja, Aham tvam sarva-papebhyo mokshayishyami ma shucah' (V 18.66)
Drop your religion or any other belief you have, and take total surrender in me. O Arjuna. I shall liberate you of all your sins and sufferings.
Dharma is like soap. But just because you have washed you clothes with an expensive soap worth 100 Rupees, you will not say that ‘Oh, I am going to keep the soap on my clothes because it is such an expensive soap’. You have to wash it off. There comes a stage when one moves above such attachments and entanglements in life (here referring to religion), and becomes a Sharanagati; surrendering totally to the Lord, with this deep feeling of devotion that 'O Lord! I am yours and yours alone'. This is what has been explained in this verse. Lord Krishna had to say this to Arjuna, otherwise, no matter what knowledge He gave to Arjuna, he would just get stuck with it and not let go.
If Lord Krishna would advise Arjuna by saying, ‘Do it this way’, then he would simply follow and do only that much. So that Arjuna does not get stuck, in the end, Lord Krishna said to him, ‘Drop every religion or belief and simply come take refuge in Me. You cannot liberate yourself from your sins. I shall free you from all your sins and sufferings, so simply come to Me’. Suppose you commit a wrong deed and you go on repenting saying, ‘Oh! I have committed such a wrong deed. How can I be free from it? What do I do?’ You cannot liberate yourself from your sins by making efforts. This is why Lord Krishna says, ‘I am ready to bear all your sins and sufferings, so just drop everything and come and take refuge in Me’. 

Guru One Liners of the day

Q: What to do when we love somebody and he/she rejects you?

+Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Love is the precious thing, you have offered her love and she rejected, that's her problem, her ignorance. You should move on.