Wednesday, 3 August 2016
Tuesday, 2 August 2016
KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
Posted: 13 Apr 2012
When a mistake is not a mistake...
Blessed are those who don't see a mistake as a mistake....!!!
But it is hard not to see your own mistake. Outwardly you may justify yourself or prove your innocence to someone else, but a mistake pricks a conscience. Do not justify yourself. Instead, feel the prick of the mistake. That very pinch will take you out of the mistake.
A mistake means something that brings misery to you in the long run. So why would someone knowingly commit a mistake?
While pointing out a mistake to someone, do you consider him as separate from you and go on pointing out his error or do you make him feel a part of you? When you point out a mistake to someone, does it make him more stressed, or does it create more awareness in that person? Often you do not point out someone's mistake when it is required. Not pointing out a mistake -- with due consideration to time and place -- is also a mistake.
When you make a new mistake, it is not a mistake; you have learned a valuable lesson. But when you keep doing the same mistake over and over, it is a BIG mistake. A mistake simply means you have missed taking a lesson that has come your way.
Do not lament over your mistake. Just take the lesson from it. You will not be judged by your mistakes, but by your virtues. Mistakes are of the earth. Virtues are of the Divine.
Wise is the one who learns from other's mistakes.
Less wise is the one who learns from his own mistakes.
The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them.
|| Jai Guru Dev ||
Monday, 1 August 2016
There is no bondage in me, so where is the question of liberation?
Read:http://www.wisdom.srisriravishankar.org/bondage-liberation-mind/ …
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KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
Posted: 12 Apr 2012
FEEL THE PINCH
A devotee asked Guruji: Please forgive me if I have committed a mistake.
Sri Sri: Why should you be forgiven? You are asking for forgiveness because you feel a pinch and you want to be free from it, isn't it? Let the pinch be there. The pinch will not let the mistake happen again. Forgiveness removes the pinch and you keep repeating the mistake!
Question: How do you know a mistake is a mistake?
Sri Sri: A mistake is something that gives you a pinch. If it hasn't pinched you, it is not a mistake at all.
It is the pinch that irks the consciousness and that pinch disallows the mistake to be repeated. Be with the pinch and not the guilt. It is a very fine balance.
Question: What is the difference between guilt and pinch?
Sri Sri: Guilt is about a specific action and pinch is about a specific result or happening. You can only feel guilty about what you did and not about what happened. But whatever happened, whether because of you or someone else can cause a pinch in you.
Question: How do we get over the guilt?
Tom Gill: Just blame the boss!!! ( laughter)
Sri Sri: Through wisdom, by knowing the nature of mind, nature of consciousness and from a broader perspective of the phenomenon, you can get over the guilt.
Question: Cant we learn from our mistakes without feeling the pinch?
Sri Sri: Learning is at an intellectual level whereas you feel the pinch at an emotional level. The drive of your emotions is much stronger than your intellect. So a pinch will not let the mistake recur.
Bharat: We feel guilt where we have control, it is at the intellectual level, whereas a pinch is at the emotional level where we do not have control.
Question: So, should we discard the intellect?
Sri Sri: You cannot be driven by your emotions alone. Your intellect acts like a brake for your emotions!
Feel the pinch.
The pinch will create an awareness that what happened was beyond your capacity.
The awareness will bring you to surrender.
Surrender will free you from guilt.
So, from pinch to awareness to surrender to freedom are the steps of evolution.
|| Jai Guru Dev ||
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