KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: 25 Feb 2012

ARGUMENTS AND WRONG ACTION

A person who argues should not be given knowledge. An argumentative mind is not receptive to knowledge. When someone is in an argumentative mood, then giving knowledge or advice is in vain. In an argumentative mood you feel you know it all. Then you are not ready for knowledge. That is why wise people do not give advice when they are in an argumentative environment.

Argument has a purpose. It can bring out the truth if there is no emotion or sense of "I" attached to it. Argument can also have a disadvantage. It can make untruth appear to be truth.

A wise man will not take arguments seriously; he will just have fun with them. Wisdom is beyond all arguments.

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Both a worldly person and a spiritual person will tell you not to do wrong, though the reasons they give are totally different. A worldly person will tell you not to do wrong because it hurts or causes him pain. A spiritual person will tell you not to do wrong because it would only harm you more.

|| Jai Guru Dev ||

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Wisdom Quote by Gurudev

Posted: 23 Feb 2017

A Guru's very existence in life grants you the impossible.

~ Sri Sri

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KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: 24 Feb 2012

Are you a Disciple or Companion?

Knowledge has an end. Knowledge completes. So also does discipleship. For the disciple is aimed at acquiring Knowledge.

Once you cross the water, however nice the boat is, you get off the boat. After twelve years, the disciple completes his studies. The master does a ceremony called Samavartha, where he tells the disciple that he is ending the discipleship and asking him to behave at par with him, and let the Brahman dynamically manifest.

Sakha is a companion in life and death; it never ends. In the path of love there is neither beginning nor end. Sakha only wants the beloved. He doesn't care about the Knowledge or liberation. Love is incomplete because of longing. And so it is infinite, for infinity can never be complete.

Arjuna was a sakha to Krishna and although Krishna was the perfect Master he was a sakha too.

What are you, a shishya (disciple) or a sakha (companion)?

|| Jai Guru Dev ||

Wisdom Quote by Gurudev

Posted: 22 Feb 2017

In one minute death will rob all of what you have. Before death robs you, let go. Wake up and see, nothing is yours. It is such freedom I tell you… such freedom!

~ Sri Sri

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