WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2020

We judge people just by seeing their outer limited behavior or expressions. But it could be our own inability to see their magnanimity.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR

POSTED ON: MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2020

Friendship for a cause

Examine your friendships, they are often for a cause. There are several reasons for your friendships:

⚫You make friendships because you have common enemies. Fear and threat to survival can bring people together.

⚫You make friendships because you have a common problem. You talk about your problems and become friends. For example, sickness, job dissatisfaction, etc.

⚫People get together because they have common interests. For example, through business or a profession (doctors, architects, social workers, etc.)

⚫You make friends because you have common tastes. You have similar tastes in sports, movies, entertainment, music, hobbies, etc.

⚫People become friends because of compassion and service. Out of compassion and pity for someone, you become friends with them.

⚫People become friends merely because of long-term acquaintance.

Brave are those who nurture friendships for only friendship’s sake. Such friendships will never die nor become soured for it is born out of one’s friendly nature. Only through wisdom can one become friendly by nature.

II JAI GURUDEV II

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QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV

POSTED ON: MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2020

Q: (A member of the audience asked a question relating to a talk given by Gurudev on 29 October 2016 which was inaudible)

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

What is a lie? Something which keeps changing is called a lie. If you said something yesterday, and today you say something else, then that is called a lie.

Now what is truth? Truth is that which is unaffected by time. Something which remains constant and unchanging through the three phases of time (past, present and future) is what is truth.

If you look around and see, everything is changing. The way you were yesterday, or ten years back, you are not the same today. In a year’s time, every cell in our body changes.

So, when I say ‘Everything is a lie’, it means everything is changing.

Now, when you understand that everything is changing, then there must be some reference point which doesn't change, through which you can know that everything is changing. And what is that reference point? That reference point is you.

If everything in you changes, then how can you say ‘I have changed’? If everything in you changes then you have become another person itself. So, you need some reference point for change to be observed, otherwise you can't even know change. There is something in you that is not changing, but what is this that is not changing is not very clear.

We usually say, ‘I went to this school 20 years back’, or, ‘I did this job 25 years back’, but who was that person? Even if you look at a picture of you taken around 20 years back, you will not find much resemblance. Your body, mind, intellect, thoughts, feelings, everything has changed. But certainly, there is something which has not changed because of which you can notice this change. That is why I say, first identify the changes that are happening within you. Once you identify these changes, then slowly you will be able to identify that what is not changing. And once you identify that which is not changing, then you will realize ‘This is what I am, this is what I have been searching for.’

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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WISDOM QUOTE BY GURUDEV

POSTED ON: MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2020

There are people who are doing business with ethics and they are still making good profits and going up the ladder. It is possible to do business with ethics.

~ Sri Sri

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WISDOM QUOTE OF SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

POSTED ON: MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2020

In any situation, it is not worth wasting time on what people think of you. If they think you are an angel, fine! If they think you are a devil, fine! If they think you are dumb and foolish, let them go ahead and think what they want. You should not care.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR

POSTED ON: SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 2020

Seva

There are five types of seva.

1. The first type of seva is when you do not even know that you are doing seva. You do not recognize it as seva because it is your very nature - you cannot but do it!

2. The second type of seva is what you do because it is needed in that situation. You do the third type of seva because it gives you joy.

3. The fourth type is done out of your desire for merit - you do seva expecting some benefit in the future.

4. And the fifth type is when you do seva just to show off, to improve your image and to gain social or political recognition. Such seva is simply exhausting, while the first type does not bring any tiredness at all!

To improve the quality of your seva, regardless of where you start, you must move up to higher levels of seva.

II JAI GURUDEV II

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QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV

POSTED ON: SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 2020

Q: Jai Gurudev, am I Arjuna to you, if yes, why don’t you talk to me one to one like Krishna?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

You know whenever I am talking, I am only talking one to one. Others are just sitting around and listening, so remember I am talking just to you and you only.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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