Weekly Informations Sri Sri

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See as to how many people are comfortable with you. You can do a survey about
yourself and see how many people you make happy and comfortable? If you dislike
people, you will find you are not friendly. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Date:2014-12-30 / Poster:Guru Punch
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Date:2014-12-29 / Poster:Is me?
Walk lightly on this planet & Yet leave such a footprint that cannot be erased for
thousands of years.
Date:2014-12-29 / Poster:Art of Living Universe
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Hold on to the faith that only good things will happen. If something unpleasant is
happening, it is because Nature wants to make you strong- SriSri
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Date:2014-12-29 / Poster:The Art of Living - Amritsar
Everyone experiences joy in life. There is not a single person on this planet who has
not ever experienced what joy is. This is impossible. However depressed or unhappy
somebody is, they have been touched by the hand of happiness at some time.
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Date:2014-12-29 / Poster:The Ashtavakra Gita
Meditation is accepting this moment and living every moment totally with depth.
#Meditation. -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Date:2014-12-29 / Poster:Rishiji
Like bubbles come up in water, the whole world has come up in the
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#Consciousness.-SriSriRavishankar
Date:2014-12-29 / Poster:The Office of Swamijis
Q: How to improve the power of Sankalpa? How to drop the Vasanas?
Sri Sri : By silence. The more dispassionate you are, the more the power of Sankalpa
comes to you.
Date:2014-12-29 / Poster:Sri Sri Blessings
people, you will find you are not friendly. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Date:2014-12-29 / Poster:I love Sri Sri
जदगी जब भी री ब म लाती ह - जम चाद हतर नजर आती ह __!!
Date:2014-12-29 / Poster:We Love Sri Sri
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Q: When I start meditating, I cannot sit for even 30s without thoughts.
Sri Sri : Have you done Sudarshan Kriya? No? Then, do it. Sudarshan Kriya takes you
deep within meditation.
Problems are there in life but you are bigger than the problem. Remember you will
always have enough to survive, you will always be protected.
Date:2014-12-29 / Poster:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#Love cannot tolerate distance, and hatred cannot tolerate nearness. -Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
Date:2014-12-29 / Poster:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Nashik
Worry is the enemy of love. You cannot be in love and be worried at the same time. -
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Date:2014-12-29 / Poster:The Art of Living
Accept the Opposite Values in Life; Times that are Endearing & Times that require
Endurance. From Boone Ashram, USA
Q: What is stress? How to overcome stress?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: One of the definitions that you can give for stress is, when you
have a lot to do and have very little energy and time to do it. This creates stress.
Today it is not practically possible to reduce your work. Time is constant, you cannot
increase time. So the only other alternative that we have is to increase our energy
levels. And there are many ways to increase energy:
1. Food; eating healthy food. In the SAARC countries, we eat food that is not very
healthy, and that is low in nutrition. We only eat carbohydrates. Our food is very
imbalanced. The vegetables that we eat are potato, tomato, brinjal and onion. That
is it! There is starch in potato, starch in our roti (Indian bread) and in our dal (pulses).
This is an imbalanced diet. We do not consume nutritious food in our day to day life.
We need to bring back the awareness about nutrition and healthy food habits.
2. Good sleep. Sleep also gives you energy. Sleep helps more than medication. I
cannot undermine the effects of medication, but if you give someone medicine and
do not let them sleep then even medicines will not work. So, sleep is very important.
Insomnia is a big issue today, and lack of good sleep is also another big issue. People
are unable to sleep well. Nightmares have become a common phenomenon. There
are techniques in yoga which help people to sleep better without medication and
sleeping tablets.
3. Hygiene. We need to create awareness about it. This is what The Art of Living
Foundation has been doing through it is 5H program (Health, Hygiene, Homes for
people, Harmony in diversity and Human Values). We are all different people. In India
there are 600 different dialects, and so many different religions. So what is most
important is to live in harmony. So these are the 5 issues that we are looking into in our
5H program. We must see how we can prevent diseases by helping people to attend
to their environment.
4. Breathing is another source of energy. Fresh air and clean air is essential.
Sometimes in big cities when we walk around, not just the petrol fumes but also the
electro-magnetic garbage affects the body. If you watch television for 8-9 hours, it
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will definitely cause illnesses. Many people do not open their doors in winter, and
when you get inside, there is stale air in the rooms. In many houses there is no cross-
ventilation.
I heard from a very well known oncologist that one of the main issues of cancer is that
people do not breathe enough. If you oxidize (take in a good amount of oxygen)
your body then it flushes out toxins and helps you to heal yourself. Deep breathing
definitely helps prevent cancer. I have seen hundreds of cases where breathing
exercises, meditation, yoga and some changes in diet have helped people with
cancer overcome this disease.
People did not have to go through chemo as they found that their body had started
healing itself.We need to take care of the health of society by looking into our lifestyle
management and see what we can do to reduce stress.
We need to educate people to honor this beautiful instrument that nature has given
us called the body. We need to honor the body and honor the mind.
न : ग व, इस ससार क यि त कसी न कसी सम या प शान । या हम इस नया वल सम याआ
का समाधान कर िलए आ ?
ी ी र वशक
र : य द आप उ सम या मान तो आपको सम या की तरह द । पर य द आप उ सि ल
की तरह तो वो आपको एक वाभा वक ल की तरह द .
कई बार हम अपनी सम याआ इत आदी हो जा की उन बना हम चन सा महसस
कर लग | कई बार जब
कोई सम या नह होती तो हम अप िलए खद
सम याआ
का नम ण कर और फर अप आसपास लोग
िलए सम या बन जा । ह जीवन त अपना दिकोण बदलना होगा। एक यापक दिकोण अपनाना होगा।
यह ससार विभ नताआ भरा आ और क यि त का वभाव और यवहार एक स िभ न । इस बात को
समझ की आव यकता ।
Date:2014-12-28 / Poster:Swami Madhusudan
The first sign of success is an unshakable Smile. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
How do we possess it through all situations in life?
Experience the secrets unfold through the Ishavasya Upanishad with Sri Sri. Watch the
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Merry Christmas! There is much to be done in the world to spread waves of Peace &
Happiness, the real gifts of Xmas! Let us share these gifts! - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Anytime you are confused, your mind is in conflict, do Asana, sit in #
A
sana.
You will see, right straight away clarity comes.
Effect of Asanas is clearing out all conflicts. -SriSri
Ravi Shankar
We have accepted the whole world as our family. Then you should rise up to that
idea. Feel at home with anybody and everybody. Don’t just focus on what is
comfortable for you and what is not comfortable. You should get out of your comfort
zone and bring comfort to others. This is most important. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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你的世界由你創造
這整個世界是由震波组成，而我們應該看到這些震波是薩特維克（Sattvik，正面與振奮人
心）的。
當醫生是好的，把每個人醫治得很好時，我們通常會說這醫生有治癒之觸（healing
touch）。瞧，所有醫生都一样，可是有些却把病人治得比其他人好。他們的手似乎有治癒之
觸。無論我們在意識裡播下什麼思想的種子，我們周遭的震波也會一樣。那就是為什麼我們應
該規律地練習瑜伽和普拉那雅玛（Pranayama，調息法）。所以這是个美妙的機會，讓大家
增進你們心智與存在的品質。
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Date:2014-12-27 / Poster:古儒吉知識網站
你的世界由你创造
这整个世界是由震波组成，而我们应该看到这些震波是萨特维克（Sattvik，正面与振奋人
心）的。
当医生是好的，把每个人医治得很好时，我们通常会说这医生有疗愈之触（healing
touch）。瞧，所有医生都一样，可是有些却把病人治得比其他人好。他们的手似乎有疗愈之
触。无论我们在意识里播下什么思想的种籽，我们周遭的震波也会一样。那就是为什么我们应
该规律地练习瑜伽和普拉那雅玛（Pranayama，调息法）。所以这是个美妙的机会，让大家
增进你们心智与存在的品质。
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Date:2014-12-27 / Poster:古儒吉知识网站
With just this tilt in the consciousness, in one awareness, all barriers fall down. All the
illusions fall off. All imaginations in the mind drop off, and you recognize that you are
peace; you are pure.
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Longing comes from gratefulness. It does not come out of complaint or frustration.
Complaints and frustration bring anger and hatred. Only gratefulness can bring
longing. ~SriSri
The Christmas trees bears gifts for everybody. All that you are given in life is for
everyone all your talents. All that you have been bestowed with, it is all meant to help
others. So serve, smile and celebrate!
Like birds returning to their nests, again and again come back to your Source; only
there can you realise that you host the Divine. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Date:2014-12-27 / Poster:Art of Living International Ashram
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If diet plays 80% role in keeping your health and glow then exercise contributes to the
rest. So sweat it out to get the blood flowing and up your pulse rate to discover a
healthy you.
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Date:2014-12-27 / Poster:Sri Sri Ayurveda Panchakarma
We need to educate people to honor this beautiful instrument that nature has given
us called the body. We need to honor the body and honor the mind. Sri Sri
Merry Christmas! There much to be done in the world to spread waves of Peace &
Happiness, the real gifts of Xmas! Let us share these gifts! -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
In this time of fear & hatred, the message of trust & love that Christmas symbolises is all
the more relevant. Merry Christmas!
#HappyHolidays #MerryChristmas -
SriSri
Date:2014-12-26 / Poster:Art Of Living Foundation, UK
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Everything is done by God, including the managing of your body, the way your heart
beats. Even its maintenance is done by God.
Just open your eyes, shake your head, and look at what is happening in the world. It
u
is amazing! This #niverse i a
s #mazing!.
-SriSriRavishankar
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wishes this #hristmas
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happiness, good health, joy and ethics in your life!
Date:2014-12-26 / Poster:World Forum for Ethics in Business
Every pleasure leaves you exactly where you are. It doesnt lead you anywhere.
Pleasure only makes you tired. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Significance of a # Christmas T
ree.
Be like the Christmas tree which is evergreen, shining, full of lights and full of gifts. A
Christmas tree only gives, it does not take anything for itself. It just gives. So go with
that thought.
I want to see everyone smiling and # h
appy.
Just create waves of happiness,
everything else is irrelevant.
When you know nothing matters, you are happy. Happiness is our very nature.
In this whole drama, in this whole universe of multitude, of diversity, this complex
game of life and society is inevitable. Things come and fleet away, and everything
that comes and goes has a purpose.
A thorn and a soft rose petal, they both have their purpose. It boils down to our first
point, opposite values are complimentary.
Do not worry about anything. No need to be scared or worried about anything.
Your connection with the # Di
vine can never go. Be like a Christmas Tree !!! #Me rry
Christmas all dear # fr
iends.
Art of Living International Ashram wishes everyone a Very Merry Christmas!!
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar message to all this Christmas:
❝There is much to be done to spread waves of Peace & Happiness, the real gifts of
Christmas! Let us share these gifts with the world!❝
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Joy is never tomorrow. It is always Now! - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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May all the sweet magic of Christmas gladden your hearts and fill every desire. Merry
Christmas!
What is this freedom? This is freedom from fixed patterns in life. One can go through
these patterns infinite times without being aware of them. That is what all the animals
do. They are not aware.
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A person who is truly healthy is one who has an unfading smile on his face. A healthy
person is one who has a smile on his face, love in his heart, and strength and vitality in
the body. Medicines alone cannot help one to achieve this state. Along with
medicines and food, one must also focus on sadhana (spiritual practices) also. - Sri Sri
It is absolutely necessary now to induct peace education in all our curriculum so that
no child on this planet grows up thinking that he is doing the job of God by engaging
in bloodshed and violence. - Sri Sri
Do not seek good and do not avoid evil in order to be happy. Instead realise that
happiness and sorrow are really products of circumstances and change. Recognise
their instability - they are not the Self!
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One of the most enjoyable things you can do for your body and health is to have a
full-body oil massage in the morning before your bath or shower. An oil massage has
a soothing effect on the nervous system (Vata), strengthens the circulation, and helps
to remove toxins from the body. The Ayurvedic texts explain that the use of oil
massage brings about a soft, flexible, strong and attractive body. It is extremely
beneficial for the skin and should therefore be done regularly.
यह एक नया नयम , कसी भी को खश कर की ा न क , आप यह कर ही नह सक | -- ी ी र वशकर जी
Date:2014-12-25 / Poster:Sri Sri Knowledge Videos (Hindi)
ाचीन काल वामी, साध और लोग कह भी कसी भी क म की कलह सनना पसद नह कर | य द उन पास

कोई भी आकर उन कोई भी िशकायत करता था तो उन कान पकड़ कर उन कह क ❝तम ही इस नपटो
|❝ य द आप समाधान का ह सा हो तो आप उज का तर उ च होता | पर त य द आप सफ सम याआ की बात
कर तो आप की उज नी आ जाती |
नया हर समय सकारक और नकारक बात की ीड़ा होती , कछ सम याए और चनौ तय आती रहती और उन
साथ उनका हल भी आता | ाचीन लोग अपनी उज तर को उ च रख पर त हो | य द आपकी उज का
तर उ च होता तो जब लोग आप पास अपनी सम याए कर आ तो उनका समाधान हो जाता |अ सर जब
लोग आप अपनी सम याआ बा बात कर तो या होता ? आपका उनकी सम याआ त झकाव हो जाता
| अपनी सम याआ बा बात कर तो या होता ? आप उनकी सम याआ साथ बह जा | इसिलए एक
बार इसका य न क ; एक दन य द लोग आप पास आकर १०० िशकायत क , आप सफ अपनी उज को उ च र
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और अपनी दि और मन को भीतर की ओर त र ज कछ भी नह आ , तो फर आप अचानक अप भीतर

मि त महसस क | आप इ य न कर , घर पर आपकी सास, प त और हर कोई यि त कसी भी बात की
िशकायत कर सकता | परी नया इधर उधर हो जाए, पर त आप सफ एक वचार को पकड़ कर र क -
अपनी उज को उ च रखगा | आप सफ यह एक कदम उठा और क सम याए और चनौ तय सफ इसिलए आती
िजस क आप अप मन को भीतर की ओर त कर रख स |
मन को भीतर की ओर त कर बजाय, जब सम याए ओर चनौ तय आती तो आप या कर ? आप सम या
का पीछा कर और उसी दशा वा हत हो जा और फर आपकी उज का तर नी आ जाता और आपका
पतन हो जाता | या ऐ ही होता ना ? कई बार क णा और सहानभ त नाम पर आप उसी ओर वा हत हो जा
| आपकी क णा वा तव आपकी सम या का समाधान कर सहायक नह | यह ब त च का वाली बात क
क णा सम या बढ़ जाती और उसका समाधान नह हो पाता |
जब भी कोई सम या आती तो वह यि त को भीतर गहन की ओर त कर िलए होती िजस यि त

वरा य और शाि त की अव था जा स | इस बजाय आप यि त को तक ारा सत कर की कोिशश कर |
सम या यि त को सत करना सब बरी बात | आपको उनको सत नह करना चा हए | हर कसी यि त को
उन कम और सम या को सहन करना चा हए | य द आप खी या खश तो वह भी आपका कम | आप अप कम
को बदल दीिजए | यह मनोभाव यि त को और अ धक वत और म त करता |
आप उन त क णा दखा और फर उ और यान पा की चाहत हो जाती | आप और क णामय हो जा
और उन पर और अ धक यान , और फर न तो क णा रह जाती और न तो आप उन पर उतना यान पा |
फर सफ प शानी रह जाती और उस कारण आप भी प शान हो जा हो; ❝वह यि त कतना खी , मझ उ खश
करना ❝ कसी को खश करना ब त बड़ा बोझ | और उ कर की ा न क | यह एक नया नयम , कसी को
भी खश कर की ा न क , आप यह कर ही नह सक !!!
स कत एक कहावत जो कहती , ❝क त य सख य नकोपी दता❝| कोई भी खशी या ःख नह सकता | वह

अप वय या मन न मत होती | जब कोई अपनी सम या बताता तो घम कर सरी दशा च जाए और उन
क क अपनी सम या वय ही नप | फर आप वत ता या मि त को ा त क , और लोग पर पर नभरता
आती िजस वजह आप अप आप को आ म नभर बना सक |
यह बात साधक और आप सब लोग कह रहा , जो व भी इस पथ पर | कन इसका योग तब न क जब
सड़क पर कोई गाड़ी बठ िलए गहार लगा रहा हो और आप उस क क ‘ग जी कहा क उ उस
वय ही नपट दीिज ’ इसिलए कछ नह कर सकता’ | य द आपकी गाड़ी जगह तो उनकी मदद क | वह
पर क णा की आव यकता , पर त वह सबध आव यक नह | जब आप लोग जड़ तो वह पर एकाएक
क णा क य आव यक | िजस को आप जान नह उन त क णामय र |वरा य िलए उ सा हत र |
आपका मन क लोग की भावनाआ, चताआ और उन ख फस जाता | आप उस िलए या कर सक और
आप कह च गए ? आपको या हो गया ? आप परी तरह बखर जा | इसिलए ऐसा कहा जाता क आस
पास सभी जाल और तार को काट दो और सफ एक द यता तार साथ जड़ रहो |
यह मत कहो, ग जी तरफ खा नह शायद भगवान मझ नाराज़ और ब त कछ | यह सब नह कहना | सब
कछ साद , य द मझ नकाल दया जाता तो वह भी साद | य द मझ ड टा जाता तो वह भी साद | सब कछ
साद | यह मनोभाव सब अ छा , इसिलए य द आप पर यान नह तो चता की कोई बात नह | ठीक |
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In your innermost Self - in its #rity
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and #larity -
you are not different from #d.-
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Patanjali Yoga Sutras
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Date:2014-12-25 / Poster:Sri Sri Yoga
To think fresh you need to be free of all impressions.
Let go off all impressions right this moment and be hollow and empty.
Just an intention to be free makes you # fr
ee i
mmediately.
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Realizing that freedom is your very nature and it brings enormous Shakti-#nergy.
-
SriSri
Ravi Shankar
Being able to connect with the unchanging aspect in us makes life fun. - Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
Unwrap the present.
The whole world is there for you to enjoy.
The wise know to enjoy the gift inside , while the ignorant get stuck with the paper. -
SriSri
Date:2014-12-25 / Poster:Rishimukh - Art Of Living International Magazine
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Do not run away from emotions. Remain strong and centered in the midst of
changing emotions.
Event bring you small joy, while existence brings you bliss. -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Date:2014-12-25 / Poster:Art of Living - Nederland
Christmas Celebrations arrive at the time of the year when nature is still and silent.
The genuine message of love springs forth when the mind goes within and connects
with its source.
When the baby (the little mind), rests in the lap of the mother (the Big Mind or the
Universal Self), heavenly peace is born. That is Meditation.
In this time of such fear and hatred, the message of trust and love is all the more
relevant.
Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year!
Love & Blessings. -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Christmas Message for 2014
Merry Christmas!
Christmas Celebrations with Lights, Joy and Love arrive at the time of the year when
nature is still and silent. From this stillness, comes the message of Love.
more :http://youtu.be/52oyuSQ7slQ
We need to bring this shift from joy of receiving to the joy of giving.- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When you are soaked in Love, then you vibrate Love and people around you also
reciprocate the same Love. This is a rule of Nature...
Nothing stays forever. Good as well as bad times go away. Be happy.
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GURU PUNCH
This life is a journey and you have to keep moving till you find perfection. And slowly
and steadily you will definitely get it. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Date:2014-12-25 / Poster:GURUS BLESSINGS ART OF LIVING DAILY SUTRAS
DAILY SUTRA
Celebration is the nature of the spirit. Any celebration has to be spiritual. A
celebration without spirituality does not have any depth. And silence gives the depth
to celebration. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Sri Sri Message on Christmas Eve Silent night, Holy night All is calm, all is bright Round
yon virgin, mother and child Holy infant, tender and mild Sleep in heavenly peace,
Sleep in heavenly peace.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Hold on to the faith that only good things will happen. If something unpleasant is
happening, it is because Nature wants to make you strong- SriSri
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Each one of you is so complete!
A bud has all that it needs to become a flower, it simply has to blossom. A few
moments of quietness, a little bit of dispassion, and contentment; that is all, it is done!
That is the highest knowledge. -Sri Sri
(Sri Sri observes silence again)
Q: Getting love is painful and not getting it is even more painful, and maintaining
love is also painful. So which pain should I choose?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Choice is yours blessing is mine. If you want to choose pain, you
are most welcome, but I will tell you, choose the bigger pain as the small ones are of
no use. Your love for the whole humanity, that’s what you should be concerned
about. Love for the planets, love for the animals; animal rights (animals do have a
right to exist). We have no right to take their life away. You worry about all these
things.
Look into the eyes of the goats, or even the chicken, cows, dogs. Look into their eyes.
This entire creation is filled with love, and how people can slaughter them to fill their
little tummy. It is not even healthy. This is unfortunate.
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When you are joyful, you do not look for perfection.
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The world appears imperfect on the surface but, underneath, all is perfect.
Perfection hides,imperfection shows off.
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The wise will not remain merely on the surface but will probe into the depth. -SriSri
Ravi
Shankar
When you close your eyes, what do you feel? You feel awareness right? The
knowingness.. That is the Shiva Tattva, that is the Divinity. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Pic: Rudra Puja monday morning with # Sr
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|| Kaladinam tattvanam aviveko maya ||
Essence: When we see a situation in a limited way, the knowledge obtained will also
be limited, and we feel, ❝My life is only this.❝ This is called maya.
Date:2014-12-24 / Poster:Art of Living India
Q: Please tell us something about Hanuman?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: It is said that the Ramayana is happening in your own body. Your
soul is Rama, your mind is Sita, your breath or life-force is Hanuman, your awareness is
Laxmana and your ego is Ravana. When the mind was stolen by Ravana (the ego)
then the soul got restless. Now the soul cannot reach the mind on its own, it has to
take the help of the breath - the prana. With the help of the prana, the mind got
reunited with the soul, and the ego vanished. This is the spiritual significance of the
story.
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Otherwise Hanuman was a monkey, and in those days the monkeys were also very
intelligent and very devoted. Devotees are much more powerful than the master
himself. This is a fact. Real devotees are much more powerful than God.
Is compassion essential for a saint to have? If you have a wound on your hand will
you show compassion or sympathy for your own hand? No. In the same way some
saints may not show compassion but they are steadfast in knowledge that there is no
two. Compassion is colour of love. It is not necessary that the same colour is displayed
by all. Love is always there, but compassion is only one of the expressions of love. And
it not necessary that it is expressed by all. Because if a person is established in the
knowledge of non-duality then he does not have compassion in them.
See there are two types of people who do not show any compassion. One who is has
a cruel heart, filled with stress and hatred, tamasic in nature. And the other is one
who is established in the knowledge of non-duality. One who doesn’t see anyone as
separate from himself, he too does not have any compassion. Compassion means
there has to be two, one can never show compassion or sympathy on oneself. For
compassion or sympathy you need two. Of course, that does not mean you it an
excuse for your insensitivity!
You know you will find a thousand opportunities to doubt if a person is good or not.
There will be a thousand doubts that will rise within you that will cause you to think of
someone as wrong. But rising above these thousand doubts is true connection, that
which is beyond the intellect. Doubt always comes up in the intellect. But when the
connection is established at the level of the soul then even if the intellect brings forth
a thousand reasons to show you that this person is wrong, the soul does not listen to it.
Then it stays. Confidence in someone is a matter of the soul, the Self. That is why you
say self-confidence. That means confidence in one own self. But confidence itself
comes from the Self. Doubt is form the intellect. So when the confidence, the faith is
established, then the intellect brings forth many doubts to test the faith.
Sometimes you feel doubtful, you will feel low but somewhere the confidence will
stand its ground, which will tell you what the truth is, what is right.
There was a saint who did not have any compassion. He was irritated by the word
compassion! He believed that everyone was suffering because of their own karmas.
That was his thought process. No matter what goes on, on the outside, inside you
always know what is right. For example, sometimes no matter what a person says or
does, somewhere inside you know that he is right or wrong. That ability to differentiate
between right and wrong is there inside us, which is beyond behaviour, thought
process, beyond a person. When we are connected to a person beyond their
behaviour, their thinking, that is faith. And is that faith comes into your life then rest
everything else falls into place!
Ques: How can we always be established in non-duality?
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SriSri
: No do not always tried to be established in non-duality. Your outer behaviour
has to be on the basis of duality. You cannot move forward without that. Use duality
in your outer behaviour and be established in non-duality in meditation, in rest.
Whenever your mind is agitated, rest in non-duality. Non-duality in meditation, puja
but duality in behaviour.
Else it will be problematic, if you start thinking your wallet and someone else wallet is
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the same! You will also be in trouble and the other too! So keep duality in your day to
day life but you need non-duality when you meditate, in knowledge. You cannot
progress in knowledge without non-duality. You cannot reach the ultimate love, the
ultimate devotion without non-duality.
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Wishing you all a Merry Christmas!
You are the Christmas tree that points upwards with branches on all sides. At the time
of year when other trees are barren, you are green with many gifts to offer.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar talks about the 8 levels of existence and then some!
❝Lord Krishna has said, ❝Mana-eva manushyanam karanam bandha-mokshayoh.
Bandhaya vishayasango muktyai-nirvishayam manah❝.
In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna says that one mind is one own worst enemy, and
also one own best friend. The mind alone is the sole cause of bondage and also the
source of one liberation (from worldly delusion and attachment).
There are seven levels of existence. I will add an eighth one to the list – the
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environment. The eight levels of existence are: the environment, the (physical) body,
the breath, the mind, the intellect, the memory, the ego and the self.
Is your mind here at this moment? Or is your mind wandering somewhere else?
Your mind must be present here, right now. The faculty that helps you hear, see, taste,
smell and touch is the mind. Then comes the Intellect.
The intellect is the faculty that helps us decide whether something we hear is nice or
not; whether something we taste is to our liking or not.
Then come the memory or Chitta. It is that faculty that helps us remember all that we
perceive and understand through our senses and the intellect. Events leave their
impressions on the Chitta.
Then comes the ego, and finally the soul or the self. If we gain a little deeper
understanding of these seven faculties of our existence, then it can bring about a
great transformation in our lives. And this is what The Art of Living is all about. When
you gain this knowledge about the levels of your existence, then you start blossoming
with joy from within.
Just ask yourself this question, ❝Whatever you do in life, what is the purpose behind
that? Why do you do what you do?❝ It is to be happy, is not it so?
We do everything to be happy, but are we truly happy? If you ask young children
whether they are happy now or not, they will answer, ❝Once I finish school and go to
college, then I will be happy. Then my parents will not be behind me❝.
When they join college, they feel that they will be happy once they get a good job.
When they get a job, then they feel that they will be happy once they get married
and settle down with a partner. Then after some time, they feel that once they have
children then they will be happy. But then once they have their children, they worry
about their education, and feel that once their children get admitted to a good
school, they will be happy. Then after a few years, they feel that once their children
finish their education and settle down, they will be happy. But by that time, their own
life begins to come to an end.
We tirelessly run around our entire life in search of happiness, but we never find it. It is
like preparing a bed to sleep on, but by the time we finish spreading the bed sheet
and the pillows, it is morning already. We end up getting no time to sleep and rest.
This is what we should not allow to happen.
Our life is very important. In this very life we can attain That through which everything
in this creation has manifested and is in motion. It is important that we recognize that
one supreme power which is making everything happen in this world. Once you
realize that, then no one will be able to wipe away your smile, nor shake that deep
love within you.
Two things are most important for life to run smoothly. The first is Love. Would you be
able to live if everyone around you told you that they do not love you? No! We want
that everyone should love us. But then you must also ask yourself that how many
people have you loved unconditionally?
You know, at the time of death, only two questions will be before us: how much love
have we shared, and how much knowledge have we gained in our lifetime?
We often do the exact opposite of this. We are more inclined to get love from others
(rather than giving), and we stay stuck in giving knowledge to others rather than
receiving.
True spirituality is that knowledge which maintains an unshakable happiness in you,
and which helps bring happiness to others around us by your very presence.
Spirituality is that which takes you deeper within yourself and also enables you to
bring peace and happiness to others around us. Life is so dry and juice-less without
spirituality. A life that is dry is the surest way of sinking into negativity. We tend to get
angry quickly and more often, we get stuck in cravings and aversions, we feel
disturbed. The root cause of all this is having a dry and juice-less life.
So how can we make our life juicier? There are two ways:
1. Deep faith and
2. Deep rest
Have this unshakable faith that the creator of the world loves you very dearly. Believe
that ❝God is in me, and I in Him❝. This single faith alone can take you to great heights.
God love is 1000 times more intense than the love of your parents towards you. You
may call that supreme power by any name that you like, you can call it Mother
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Divine, Lord Shiva, or God, etc. It does not matter. God loves you very dearly all the
same.
So this faith you must have. Just do this once and see how your life changes. Then
whatever you wish for will start to happen. Have this faith in your heart and just relax
and repose within yourself.
So first you must have faith in God. Then have faith in the fact that there are many
good and noble people in the society. There are some people who have gone
astray, but the number of good people is far greater even today. Have faith in the
goodness of the people around you.
Then you must have faith in yourself. It is very important to have faith in yourself. And
along with that faith, you must also rest – and this rest can only come through
meditation. So we all must meditate and learn a few pranayamas. Then you will have
no reason whatsoever to be sad or dejected in life.❝
This body, heaven and hell, bondage, liberation and fear, are the makings of your
own mind.
When you see life with the eyes of wisdom, all these negative emotions will simply
drop away and you will start smiling from the core of your being. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Date:2014-12-24 / Poster:My Guru strongest
If you are grateful, gratitude will increase in you and you will be given more.
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Q: How to get rid of fatigue and headache?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Yoga and pranayama
The air knows no boundaries, the sun knows no boundaries. In reality there is no
boundary on Earth. They are all man-made divisions between different people.
The human mind is very complex. It has its delicate and tough aspects.
When you culture your mind with #
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ditation,
its tendency of holding on to negative
emotions simply disappears.
You gain the ability to start living in the present moment and are able to let go of the
past.
If you can win over your mind, you can win over the whole world.
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Love is not a happening, love is being. Love is not an act love is existence. Love is not
emotion, it is your very nature. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Do not look at the lack in your life. See what you have. -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#S s an attitude, not just a phenomenon.

uccess i
Tough situations arise in every business, every organization, and you need skills to
handle them. These skills come from our inner space,called as the Spiritual Space.
The sign of success is overwhelming joy, confidence, compassion, generosity, and a
smile that none can snatch away. -SriSri Ravi Shankar
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Taking responsibility for all the experiences in life makes you powerful and will put an
end to grumbling, retribution, explanations and a host of other negative tendencies. -
Sri Sri
It is absolutely necessary now to induct peace education in all our curriculum so that
no child on this planet grows up thinking that he is doing the job of God by engaging
in bloodshed and violence. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Take life not as a struggle, but as a CHALLENGE. Take life not as a suffering, but as a
way to express the multitude of emotions. That is what I call WISDOM. -Sri Sri
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A Guru alone knows how to bring balance to the life of the devotee. ~ Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
Listen to these words that the Divine is telling you, that he or she loves you very dearly.
He will never allow you to sink. Have the faith that, I will never be allowed to sink. I
may be in water up to the nose, but not above the nose. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Hold on to your dreams, one day, it will come true. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If you are loving then you are welcome everywhere in the world. If you feel and be
one with people anywhere you go, then people are ready to do anything for you. -
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Sri Sri
#Sri Sri : When we know that some planet is not so favourable to us during a given
period, we & people around us can be more careful, the remedy for bad influence
of various planets is as follow :
sun can be made strong by meditation,
moon & mercury by listening to knowledge,
venus by singing, satsang,
mars & jupiter by pranayam,
saturn by seva & exercise /asanas.
ऐसा मत सोचो क तम सब को हर समय ोध म त होना चा ह । ज़ रत पड़ पर ोध को एक औज़ार की तरह

योग करो। ऐसा कर का य न करता था, पर ब त सफल नह रहा। कभी कभी अपना ोध दखा का य न
करता , पर इस कोई फ़ायदा नह होता य क मझ ज दी ही हसी आ जाती और बाकी सब लोग भी साथ हस
लग । लोग व ास ही नह कर क ग सा ।
पर, कभी कभी ोध अ छा होता । ख़ासतौर पर जब नया ाचार , अ याय , और हर तरह लोग जो हर
तरह ग़लत काम कर और त हारा फ़ायदा उठा । ऐसी ि थ त आव यक क तम थोड़ा भव को चढ़ाओ,
ग सा दखाओ, अ छा र गा।
पर याल रखना क तम ग सा दखाओ पर उ अप दय मत उतारो, प शान मत हो। -- ी ी
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To come out of loneliness, you make friends but coming together in knowledge is
rare. Be a friend in knowledge and uplift each other. - Sri Sri
Perfect #balance is like a razor edge, it can be found only in the #Self. -
SriSriRavishankar
Spirituality brings peace, joy, love, comfort & motivates you to do service in society.It
is that which uplifts the human spirit.
#Spirituality. -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
NaradaBhaktiSutra75
|| Bahulyavakashavad aniya tatvacha ||
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Essence: Logic has many possibilities. Do not depend on logic. In field of love, that
does not work.
Knowledge Sheet: Life is a Dream, a Burden or a Joke
Often when you are happy you feel life is a dream because you do not believe in the
reality of it. When there is misery you feel life as a burden. And we take trivial things
very seriously. But one who has really gone through the pleasure realizes that pleasure
is a burden. And if you have undergone misery thoroughly you will realize that life is a
dream. In every miserable condition you have been walked or carried through and
you realize life is a dream. When you see life is dream a burden or a joke only then
can you be centered.
And when you have really gone through misery you have really seen life as a dream.
And in between the pain and pleasure life is all a joke. Life is very uncertain. Before it
takes you away, realize it is a dream, a burden or a joke.
Someone asked: What about life is a joke?
Answer: A joke you do not question. If you question a joke, it is no longer a joke. Do
not question a burden either. It is a waste of time to question life and its events.
The burden makes you go deep. It gets you to the core of yourself. Realization of a
dream wakes you up. And seeing life as a joke makes you light. The only certainty is
that life is a dream, a burden or a joke and only when you realize this can you be
centered.
Date:2014-12-24 / Poster:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Daily Sutras and Knowledge Sheets
The superiority & inferiority complexes are two flavours of ego. Sometimes due to
money, position, age, knowledge or physical beauty we tend to indulge in these two
flavours. These two complexes take away our naturalness, spontaneity, and open
hearted participation in events of life. Just take a deep breath in, and with the
outgoing breath let go of these two flavours of Ego & CELEBRATE LIFE!!!
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The Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 10
Nestled within India ancient epic poem of struggle, divinity, and human ideals - The
Mahabharata - sits The Bhagavad Gita, a jewel of concentrated wisdom that has
inspired spiritual aspirants for thousands of years. Preparing for war, the hero-warrior
Arjuna is given a choice; either he can have Krishna army, or he can choose his
friend Krishna: an embodiment of love and absolute joy, who will not fight. Arjuna
chooses Krishna, who serves as his charioteer. As the battle is about to begin, Krishna
steers their chariot between the two armies. Arjuna knows it is his duty to carry out this
righteous battle and yet at the same time, he sees that the opposing army is also
filled with his own relatives and loved ones. Arjuna is torn with indecision.
Set against this backdrop of the battlefield of Kurukshetra, begins a profound
conversation between Krishna and Arjuna, the most famous dialog in history.
In this series, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar brings The Bhagavad Gita to life. Distilling the essence
of each chapter from the original text, he inspires us to see where in life is journey we
may be stuck, ourselves.
Sri Sri helps us to see which of Krishna many and sometimes contradictory
approaches would be most helpful for our own transformation at this time.
Date:2014-12-24 / Poster:The Divine Shop
Q: What should I do when someone insults me in a group or in public? Is it correct to
complain about that?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: See, when someone insults you, what can you do? You cannot
control everyone’s mouth. In such a situation, you have only two choices:
1. You also behave in the same way and insult them. But that will not improve the
situation in any way
2. You simply smile at their ignorance. Just tell them that every person has the right to
their ignorance and to display it as well, and then be quiet.
See, even if someone insults you, it does not stay forever. For a few moments
someone says something unpleasant to you, and it reaches your ears. But it is all
temporary, just like bubbles in water. These unpleasant things come and go.
Who in the world has the time to stop and brood over these petty situations, or to
keep thinking about someone else? So when such things happen, do not worry and
get disturbed by them.
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Q: What is the significance of a #
Christmas tree?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Be like the Christmas tree; evergreen, shining, full of lights and full
of gifts. So everyone here is a Christmas tree. A Christmas tree only gives, it does not
take anything for itself. It just gives. So go with that thought, I am a Christmas tree!
Come summer or winter or fall, it never falls, never springs. All through the year it’s
green and in winter it gives presents.
I want to see everyone smiling and happy. Just create waves of happiness,
everything else is irrelevant. In the world things happen, some pleasant, some
unpleasant. Some things happen the way you want it, some things do not happen
the way you want. Bundle it all and put it aside. Nothing can really take away your
happiness.
When you have had a good meditation, and when the prana is high, what do you
feel? Nothing matters! Right? Nothing really matters! This is what we need to know.
When you know nothing matters, you are happy. Happiness is our very nature. What
overshadows this happiness is, ❝I want this❝, or, ❝I want that❝. ❝I want something❝,
this is what puts away happiness. When you say nothing what so ever matters,
immediately freedom is there. Just keep this in mind, that is all. Nothing, what so ever
will matter!
In the world there is always some imperfection, some pleasant things, some
unpleasant things. Some things happen the way you want it to happen, some things
the way you don’t want it to happen; it’s part of creation. When nothing matters
to you then things happen the way you want. 90% things would automatically
happen, or whatever is happening that is what you would want.
In this whole drama, in this whole universe of multitude, of diversity, this complex
game of life and society is inevitable. Things come and fleet away, and everything
that comes and goes has a purpose. A thorn and a soft rose petal, they both have
their purpose. It boils down to our first point, opposite values are complimentary.
Do not worry about anything. No need to be scared or worried about anything.
Though Jesus says in his last moment, ‘God have you forsaken me?’ He
immediately realized that no, he has not forsaken me. But that pain sometimes brings
that question, ❝Oh God, have you forsaken me?❝
So what is the essence? Nothing matters! You will say, ❝I do not worry about the world
but I worry about my connection to the path, to the knowledge, to God and all
that❝. I tell you, it can never go! That will not go. You do not worry about it at all. Do
you get it? Your connection with the Divine can never go.
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The fool may know that the Self is pure and indivisible. But because of his folly, he
never finds it. He suffers all his life. The fool tries to control his mind. How can he ever
succeed? Mastery always comes naturally to the man who is wise and who loves
himself. His mind is already free - stands on its own. It is empty of passion / desire.
If it happens that innocence and pure energy, consciousness occur in you
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simultaneously, then that is luck. - iSriRaviShankar
The sattvic intellect is one that just does the job joyfully and is unmindful of the results.
Let things happen or not happen---either way they do not lose their enthusiasm. -
SriSriRaviShankar
Neither denying nor striving helps to solve problems. Solutions happens when you are
calm and collected, you use intelligence, you are not lethargic but active and You
have strong faith in Divine law.
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If you are grateful, gratitude will increase in you and you will be given more. -
SriSriRaviShankar
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Whatever is needed and is best for you only will happen. Remember these two things
always. For a devotee only the best will happen. -Sri Sri . Jai Gurudev
Feel indebted. Feel grateful. Then abundance grows. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The tests are for you to realize that you are strong. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When you share your misery, it will not diminish. When you fail to share your joy, it
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diminishes.
Share your problems only with the Divine, not with anyone else, as that will only
increase the problems.
Share your joy with everyone. -SriSri
Ravi Shankar
A Guru always wants his disciples to make great progress so that they may surpass
and defeat the Guru himself one day. Then a Guru’s job is done. ~ Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
Spirituality is that which takes you deeper within yourself and also enables you to
bring peace and happiness to others around us. Sri Sri
Be tough in the way a blade of grass is , rooted , willing to lean , and at peace with
what is around it
Date:2014-12-21 / Poster:Swami Atmanand
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If you are grateful, gratitude will increase in you and you will be given more. -
SriSriRaviShankar
Come on,wake up. YOU are loved & accepted by many.YOU are precious flower of
this planet. Do something useful.Do not think only about urself. ~Sri Sri
It is time we encourage people to see beyond limited identities & to bring down the
walls between cultures & celebrate diversity.
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#nViolence.
No -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Date:2014-12-21 / Poster:Rishi Nityapragya
Sadhana happens when all the efforts are dropped. When you are totally relaxed,
you experience true bliss. --SriSri
You are the boundless ocean, in whom all the worlds like waves, naturally rise and
fall. You have nothing to win, and nothing to lose.
A successful man has the following qualities: A smile that does not die; patience;
fearless mind; love; self-confidence; love for everybody . -
SriSriRaviShankar
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However your life may be, it may be a leaf, water, a fruit, a flower; however it is, offer
it with devotion. Your life itself is the fruit. - Sri Sri
Si
Only # lence i
s complete. -SriSri
Ravi Shankar
The job of a Guru is to teach and impart knowledge, and then forget it all as well.
There can be no liberation if you keep hanging onto knowledge. For liberation, one
also has to forget everything learnt after some time. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#
A repetition without interest or love #
causes a monotonous state of mind
, that is
boredom. It overshadows the Self.
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If you are bored with yourself then how much more boring you would be for others.
Root out the boredom in you through deep and continued # meditation.
Wake up and Walk up. - SriSri
Ravi Shankar
Take life, not as a struggle, but as a challenge. Take life, not as suffering, but as a way
to express the multitude of emotions. This is what I call wisdom! - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Date:2014-12-21 / Poster:Wisdom From Sri Sri
A guru desires nothing from you except your well-being and progress on the path! -
SriSri
Worry is the enemy of love. You cannot be in love and be worried at the same time!
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When all doors are shut and you have nowhere to go, that is when you go within.
Every crisis is an opportunity and you are the beginning. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Just an intention to be Free makes you Free immediately. -Sri Sri
Become free - free from this feverishness that is gripping your mind, free from this
craving for happiness!
In India, we have always believed in the saying, ❝Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam❝,
meaning that this entire world is one family. But when can we truly become one
family? It is possible only by spreading knowledge; when everyone is at peace and
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when we can lovingly embrace everyone as our own. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Q: How to be infinity?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji: You are already infinity. Don’t try to be infinity.
Education is the art of making a human being a humane person. It is the ability to
coexist with each other in harmony, and having a mature and non-violent approach
to resolve conflicts between each other and arrive at mutual solutions to problems
that benefit everyone. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Do not think speech has less power; it has a lot of power. The more and more we soak
in the Being, the more any harsh words from us will become a curse! Our words are to
bless people and bring peace to the world.
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So many things are created here; enough has been created. There is no need to
create any more new miracles. The world is enough of a miracle. There are already
enough miracles happening. And you are lost in it. Now is the time to wake up. Any
miracle is remarkable only for some time, few moments. Later, it becomes a concept;
an accepted thing.
Janaka has started speaking. He said,❝I see God the moment I drop this world and
this body.❝This has been interpreted by people in many ways, all around the world,
at all times. By me now.
Renouncing this world and the body right now, I am with God.
Q: There are so many attractions and distractions but still the youth is so bored.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Youth is bored and it’s their fortune. If they were satisfied then
growth would have stopped. When they are bored then the quest comes in them.
They are not satisfied with the things available around. And this is the stage when
they can take a step to look within, a leap in their inner journey, a step towards
spirituality.
An interest in higher growth gets kindled when you are bored with things around.
When you find source of joy within, then obviously everything around is also reflecting
the same source of joy, then you find interest in everything. Continuous
bombardment of senses by stimuli can cause inertia. Inertia is boredom, is a form of
boredom. Again when prana level goes up, you move from inertia to enthusiasm.
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There is nothing to worry. There will be good times and bad times; They all come and
go. Nothing stays. - Sri Sri
Q: Gurudev, How to achieve excellence while following the middle path?/p>
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: It will happen. Your intention is enough. Main thing is Sadhna
(Practices and self effort), next is awareness, and third is - no feverishness.
Events cannot stick on to you. You are like the pure crystal. Niranjanah - untouched,
unstained by anything!
No religion in the world preaches that you should hurt or injure another being. -Sri Sri
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Prayer and meditation are dry close.
In prayer, you are thanking or asking for something; whereas, in meditation, one is
ready to listen.
You could call meditation a higher form of prayer. -SriSri
Q: I have been a teacher for many years. I see in myself and other teachers that we
don’t always practice the basic course points and it disturbs me to a point that I feel
a bit of a fraud when I teach. What to do?
#
Sri
Sri Ravi Shankar: It is good that you feel the pinch. That is the safety valve. If you
are oblivious to your not following the teaching, then there is a problem. The moment
you recognize that there are shortcomings in you then you are very safe.
Do not think that you are a fraud. You are a traveller on the path and you are guiding
the people who are coming behind you. This will only bring humility in you and you will
know that knowledge is precious. No doubt you may not follow it 100% but you
cannot deny that your life has changed and you are following it at least 80%. So even
if you are not following the course points or the knowledge a 100%, you look into the
80% of the points that you are following. There are people who have not even
understood or started their journey. For them you can be a real help.
One more thing, when you teach others, you also learn, so do not say that I am a
hypocrite. As you are teaching, you are also learning and you are refreshing the
knowledge. Instead of sitting and blaming yourself and others, it is better you start
teaching. Otherwise you will sit and blame yourself, ❝I am weak, I am unable to
follow the knowledge, I am bad❝, and then you go into guilt and self-blame. This is
the worst thing that can happen to you on the spiritual path.
That is why on this path, you always have a guru or a master. You leave your
weakness to your master and go with the strength that you have and move as much
as you can. So do not be hard on yourself, and at the same time, recognize that you
do not follow all the knowledge but you have the intention to follow and that is good.
So just move on. Do not get off the path and blame yourself. If you feel that way, just
come and sit in an advance course, or a blessing course and it will wash it all off,
because this life is a journey and you have to keep moving till you find perfection.
And slowly and steadily you will definitely get it.
Just turn back and analyse. Suppose you had not followed any of the points in life,
where would you have been? It will be utterly scary, that is why know this and walk
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ahead. Leave your shortcomings to me.
Date:2014-12-19 / Poster:Art of Living Punjab
Take every problem as a challenge. Then there is no power in this world that can
wipe the smile off your face. ~ Sri Sri
Take every problem as a challenge. Then there is no power in this world that can
wipe the smile off your face. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Q: Creativity flows from the second chakra, while awareness flows from the 6th
chakra. Is there a connection between the 2nd and 6th chakra?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji: Yes. Definitely. There is connection between all the chakras. You
are the connection.
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If you have clothes in ur closet ,bed to sleep, roof over ur head , u r richer than 75 % of
world population.
God is so generous, so universal, he belongs to everybody, to the whole creation, all
the time. There is no personal connection and love may not happen. In a guru, you
can not help but see that love, yet you cannot hold on to it. Through the guru you see
the personal. You find the bridge between the personal and the infinite. - Sri Sri
A Guru role means unconditional love & support without expectations. Everyone
must play this role to at least 2-3 people in life. -SriSri
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If it happens that innocence and pure energy, consciousness occur in you
simultaneously, then that is luck. -
SriSri Ravi Shankar
DAILY SUTRA
What we need to know is that a desire fulfilled takes you back to the same place you
were before the desire arose. Just imagine your state of mind before a desire arose in
you, after all the circus of having a desire and getting it fulfilled, you come back to
that same place. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
GURU PUNCH
Become calm and listen to your inner self. You have the ability to bless and grant
others wishes when the mind is serene. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
GURU PUNCH
Come on, wake up. You are loved and accepted by many. You are a precious
flower of this planet. Do something useful. Do not think only about yourself. - Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
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GURU PUNCH
Shankar
GURU PUNCH
It is alright to make a mistake. Making a mistake is a part of life. Sometimes a mistake
happens; it happens. Fine! Accept it and move ahead. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
DAILY SUTRA
❝Now❝ is for ❝total contentment❝ and ❝tomorrow❝ is for ❝desires, planning and
wanting❝. So behere and now, in total contentment and total serenity. - Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
DAILY SUTRA
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There should not be a difference in what we practice and what we preach. One
should practice on the outside what one believes from the inside. This approach
gives great inner strength. It is such a great strength to have, and using it we can
readily march towards success in life. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If some sadness arises, ❝Oh, I feel a little sad❝, go deep into the sadness, and you will
see that very sadness is nothing but longing. And that very longing, the tears of
longing, is nothing but love. And love is nothing but gratefulness. And gratefulness is
nothing but your very Being.
Q: Do you feel the longing to meet us as we do to meet you?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji: But I keep meeting all of you. I am never apart. Longing itself is
God.
Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection.
Perfection in action is almost impossible. - Sri Sri
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readily march towards success in life. - Sri Sri

The sattvic intellect is one that just does the job joyfully and is unmindful of the
#
results. Let things happen or not happen---either way they do not lose their
enthusiasm. -SriSriRaviShankar
Your non-attachment to the mundane is your charm, Your attachment to the Divine
is your beauty. -SriSriRaviShankar
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दल राम, मन व ाम, हाथ काम - यही योगी ल ण । -- ी ी र वशकर जी
Li
# fe i
s a package of surprise gifts for you. -SriSri
Ravi Shankar
Seva brings merit, Merit allows you to go deep in meditation, #ditation
Me brings
back your # ile.
Sm -SriSri
Ravi Shankar
Feel grateful for your very existence and all that you have received. This will bring you
a flood of prosperity and happiness. -SriSri
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Three types of understanding: intellectual, experiential and existential realisation.
Intellectual understanding - says "yes" I agree. Experiential understanding feels is
obvious. Existential realisation is irrefutable. It becomes your very nature - this
unmistakable realisation dawns upon / within you.
Q: Who is a yogi and what is the yogic way of life?
Sri Sri: A yogi is a child. Becoming a baby again is a yogi. If you look at a baby, from
about 3 months to 3 years he does almost all asanas (yoga postures). You don’t
need a yoga teachers if you observe a baby! And similarly all animals also do some
asanas, some exercise. So then nature teaches you, nature is the best teacher.
Everything in nature gives you something. A baby is a yogi and yogi is child like.
Yogi means one who is connected with the infinity, connected with everyone.
Doesn’t feel isolated at all, with anyone. A yogi is one who is skillful, yogi is one who is
flexible. You know some people are very flexible in the body, but in their mind they
are very rigid. A rigid person is not very palatable. He cannot communicate with
someone, he is not open to ideas.
So a yogi is one who has no rigidity, at the same yogi is not one who is wishy-washy.
He is very straight forward. There is a strength, yet there is softness. Childlike
innocence, yet has a depth in wisdom. Childlike not childish! Childlike simplicity and
wisdom. This is the best combination.
Yogi is a perfect combination of sensibility and sensitivity. Love and centeredness.
Often people who fall in love, lose their centeredness and people who are very
centered they do not seem to be radiating love. A yogi is that perfect combination
of head and heart. Being centered at the same time being very loving, both. Yogi is
one who is connected. Connected to the Self, connected to the universal self,
connected to everybody, because everybody is connected.
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Q:Do I have to be enlightened? Can not I just be?
A:Just Being is Enlightenment. Total comfort, getting rid of all the cravings and
aversions, all those things that you carry. This is Enlightenment.
Q:Is Knowledge (Gyan) required to be in Bhakti (Devotion)?
A:Devotion without Knowledge will bring lots of pain. Devotion with Knowledge will
bless you with great joy.
Jai Gurudeva!
Love
Bawa
Ps. I have mentioned this many times, but saying it once more... What I write here is
my understanding of what Gurudev spoke. It is not verbatim. Many times it is a
translation. I do my best
Date:2014-12-17 / Poster:BAWA
Q: Why are the Yezdis suffering so much? Were they the guards of Hitlers
concentration camps at that time and is this their karma? Why should somebody be
victimised for nothing?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: These questions have no answers because it is connected with
something much bigger than our understanding. Instead of sitting and wondering
why they are suffering, think of what we can do for them. You don’t need to come
to the conclusion on why they are suffering, instead of that, let us see what we can
do for them.
In Kurdistan they have already collected 110 tons of food grains and supplies.
We are arranging to get all the material airlifted to the people who are caught in the
Sinjar Mountains. There are 9500 of them there. So our Art of Living machinery is
working. Anyone who wants to help them can contact IAHV. Let us see how we can
help them. Let us create the awareness in people about their suffering.
In the middle ages, this was the case with Parsis. They were chased out of Iran.
They came in small boats and landed in Gujarat and that’s how they were given
shelter by the Kings in India. The people of India were full of compassion and they
allowed them to follow their own religion and keep their traditions alive.
This has been an ancient tradition of India, i.e., to give protection to those whose
existence was threatened. Similarly the Jews also came to India and they were given
protection.
Today Yezdis are in trouble and so The Art Of Living is going to help them to preserve
themselves and come out of their trauma and current situation.
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Q : Guruji I want to know how to have harmonious relation with juniors and at the
same time take work from them?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Create a sense of belongingness with your juniors. You know that
they respect you and you need to be cordial with them. Respect needs some
distance, this distance is good but that should be of an arm length and not longer
than that. A little distance is ok to keep the respect among your juniors but too much
distance will bring a breakdown in communication. You need to maintain that
balance. A little bit distance needs to be there so that respect is maintained at the
same time communication is cordial.
Being happy in one’s own joy and sad in one’s own sorrow is a trait of animals.
Being happy at another’s joy and saddened by another’s sorrow is a trait of
humans. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Trying to end a conflict, prolongs it. Face the conflict by seeking the comfort of the
Self. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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❝Now❝ is for ❝total contentment❝ and ❝tomorrow❝ is for ❝desires, planning and
wanting❝. So be here and now, in total contentment and total serenity. - Sri Sri
A Yogi is that perfect combination of head and heart. Being centered, at the same
time being very loving.
NaradaBhaktiSutra7 6
|| Bhakti shastrani mananiyani tadudbodhaka karmani karaneyani ||
Essence: The scriptures which talk about love will have to be learned, heard ad
understood. And you need to do all the service activity and actions that have been
prescribed in your path. This all will take you deeper.
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Your true nature is Shiva and Shiva is peace, infinite, beauty and the non-dual One.
Ratri means ❝to take refuge.❝ Shivaratri is taking refuge in Shiva.
more :http://aolu.co/NatureIsShiva
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| Atma chittam ||
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ssence: The mind itself is the Self. The mind is part of the Divine.
Our smile is worth the whole world and more, but we sell our smile for small things. Just
some words from somebody, some telephone conversation can upset us; we can
lose our smile and be upset for several days. Is it worth it? Being happy and keeping
the environment around you happy and not losing your smile come what may, is the
real sign of enlightenment.
Walk on the mud, but do not let the mud touch your feet. Walk like a moving cloud.
Sri Sri
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Q: In the last five years the ashram has become like a fortress. It was easier in the
older times to get peace in the ashram than now.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Be in the present moment and listen to the knowledge. In earlier
days, there may have been a few people. Today there are more people. When more
people are there, there is more possibility for you to share your knowledge and
wisdom and gain patience.
You should also grow. You cannot get stuck to what you were 30 years back. 30 years
back you could interact with 10 people. Today, you may have to interact with 1000
people. So we should expand as time passes and not shrink into shells.
We have said, ❝Vasudaiva Kutumbakam❝ (one world family). We have accepted
the whole world as our family. Then you should rise up to that idea. Feel at home with
anybody and everybody. Do not just focus on what is comfortable for you and what
is not comfortable. You should get out of your comfort zone and bring comfort to
others. This is most important.
people, you will find you are not friendly.
As we expand, we become friendly with people of different natures and different
parts of the world. Sometimes, we feeling comfortable with people of our own state
or country or religion. Here you have to mix with everybody. We have people of
different faiths all here, Hindus, Christians, Muslims, Sikhs. We have people from every
state of India, right from the Northeast to Kerala, and right from Jammu to Tamil
Nadu. We also have people from all over the world and everyone has their own
mannerisms and food habits. So you need to learn and bring comfort to others. You
have had enough peace, now it is better you give peace to others.
Q: Gurudev, Why is Krishna’s navel called Padmanabha (Solar Plexus)?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Solar Plexus is second brain or mid brain. For a Yogi, Solar Plexus is
larger in size. Scientists have also said this. It is small in a person who does not do yoga
and meditation. When solar plexus is larger, one is creative and generous. When it is
smaller, one is jealous. Krishna is called Padmanabha, his Solar Plexus is like a fully
blossomed flower. Padma not only means lotus, it also means flower. Fully blossomed
flower is usually referred to as padma.
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flower of this planet. Do something useful. Do not think only about yourself. - Sri Sri
Some pictures have a hologram. If you look from one angle, one picture is seen. But if
you tilt it slightly, you will see an entirely different picture from another angle. This
entire universe is made up of God. There is nothing outside God. God, Self or
consciousness are the same. Nothing in this universe is beyond, away from or foreign
to God; to the Divine, to the Self. It just needs skill to look at it. Everything is God.
If the mind is bitter, you can not find Joy anywhere. If the mind is sweet, you find Joy
everywhere
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When you are enthusiastic you are closer to the creative principle of existence.
readily march towards success in life. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Shiksha means discipline and education. Diksha means transcending the intellect. A
teacher gives shiksha. A guru gives diksha.
Become calm and listen to your inner self. You have the ability to bless and grant
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others wishes when the mind is serene. - Sri Sri
Attainment of the divine depends on the intensity of longing and not on the time or
qualification. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When you feel totally contented, that moment you are with the divine. And that is
the time when you are in the moment, in the ❝now❝, because ❝now❝ means ❝total
contentment❝. - Sri Sri
Q: In Patanjali Yoga Sutra, you have talked about the five states of the mind. You say
that when the mind gets into wrong knowledge, it often thinks that it is the right. If that
is the case then what is the way out to come out of this wrong knowledge?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Viparyaya (wrong understanding) is one of the modulations of the
mind. It does not stay too long. That is why in Ashtanga Yoga (The Eight Limbs of
Yoga) any one of the limbs will trigger the mind and say, ❝This is pramana
viparyaya❝, meaning, it the wrong knowledge. This comes to one understanding.
If you have been judgmental, when you come out of being judgmental you say,
❝Oh, I have been judgmental❝. Time will trigger that point in you.
There are two ways of coming out of Viparyaya:
1. Time
2. An expanded consciousness, when you are able to see, ❝What I am thinking, is it
correct or not?
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The whole Nyaya Shastra is built on that. It is one of the Angas (limbs) of the
Upangas(yoga). You have a certain understanding, but how do you know if it is right
or not? So to know whether it is correct or not, they have given a whole process for it,
which is called the Nyaya Darshana.
The Nyaya Shastra is the most fascinating treatise. It is to know or identify whether the
means of knowledge is correct or not. It is to identify whether the understanding that
you have is a reality, or just one of the games of your mind. They have given many
examples and ways to find out. Some other time we will discuss the Nyaya Sutras.
Gautama Nyaya Sutras say, ❝You see the sun rising and setting, but you know that
the sun neither rises nor sets. Similarly, you have a beaker of water and you put a pen
into it and it appears to be bent, but in reality it is not bent❝.
It is a way to go beyond the perception.
Satsang Knowledge
Ques: Who is a Yogi and what is the Yogic way of life?
#
SriSri
: A Yogi is a child. Becoming a baby again is a Yogi. If you look at a baby, from
about 3 months to 3 years he does almost all asanas. You do not need a Yoga
teachers if you observe a baby! And similarly all animals also do some asanas, some
exercise. So then nature teaches you, nature is the best teacher. Everything in nature
gives you something. A baby is a Yogi and Yogi is child like. Yogi means one who is
connected with the infinity, connected with everyone. Does not feel isolated at all,
with anyone.
A Yogi is one who is skilfull, yogi is onewho is flexible. You know some people are very
flexible in the body, but in their mind they are very rigid. A rigid person is not very
palatable. He cannot communicate with someone, he is not open to ideas..
So a Yogi is one who has no rigidity, at the same Yogi is not one who is wishy-washy..
He is very straight forward. There is a strength, yet there is softness. Childlike
innocence yet has a depth in wisdom. Childlike not childish! Childlike simplicity and
wisdom. This is the best combination..
Yogi is a perfect combination of sensibility and sensitivity. Love and Centeredness.
Often people who fall in love, lose their centerdness and people who are very
centered they do not seem to be radiating love. A Yogi is that perfect combination
of head and heart. Being centered at the same time being very loving, both.. Yogi is
one who is connected. Connected to the Self, connected to the universal self,
connected to everybody, because everybody is connected.
Ques: How does one get over attachment?
#SriSri: why do you want to get over attachment, tell me? Because it is painful? If it
doesn’t give you pain, you would never think of getting rid of attachment. An
attachment gives pain because there is ignorance in it, possessiveness. Do not try to
get out of attachment, but learn to be centered. Just expand your understanding
about the world, about life, about how things are.
Then you will see, you do not have to make an effort to get rid of attachment. It will
automatically go away. Like children are so attached to the cotton candy, sweets.
You put out some sweets, kids want to go out and grab and eat everything.
But when you grow older, that craving for the sweet or toys, those things have
dropped out of you. You did not have to make an effort to get detached from that.
That detachment is a very natural phenomenon. As you mature, then the small things
just fall away. Otherwise you keep holding on to what someone said against you, or
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abused you and you become so miserable for months together!
And you even promise yourself that you will never forget it! Do not forget if you but
then who will be the one to suffer? ..
This is foolishness. See that different people have different ways of talking, behaving,
expressing themselves.
Do not believe that somebody does not have love in their heart. Do not think that.
Everyone does but somewhere it is hidden, some are not able to express it.
If you see from this point of view then all the arguments between in-laws will come to
an end!... Someone says something to you, it is ok. They say something wrong
because of their own stress, some wound inside them.
That is why they behave the way they do. Just because they have a wound in them,
why do you want to create a wound inside you?
Bring about bigness in your mindset, see things from a larger perspective. With love
you can win over anyone. There is no situation that cannot be overcome by love. ..
So it is very important to do some sadhana, practices, for few minutes in a day,
expand our perspective. Then we will be happy and keep others also happy. It is
foolish to hold on to small things and be miserable and make other also miserable. For
that you do not need to be a scholar and read great scriptures. That is not required.
Just meditate a little and listen to some knowledge.
Ques: What to do about the attachment to the Guru? It causes a lot of pain too!
#SriSri: Well, if you try to possess the Guru then of course it will be difficult. Guru
belongs to everyone, not just to one person! Saint Meera has sung that wherever
there is love there will be some pain.
But this pain is a different kind. It is a sweet pain. If there is attachment to God, Guru
or the whole world, it is the same.. There is an improvement in your life, that is when
you worship the Guru. People think that when we worship the Guru then the
improvement happens. That is not so. Now how will you thank the Guru?
How your life has transformed, bring about a transformation in others’ lives too. Let
ten more people get benefitted by you, do that work. And you should respect your
parents.
No matter how their state of mind is, or how they behave. Whether they share your
point of view or not, it does not matter. Respect them the way they are. So this pain is
longing. Longing and love are the two sides of the same coin. It happens, and
because of this all the creativity comes in our life. And other things cause the dryness
in our life.. the longing brings the juice in our life.
Ques: Pashupatinath is worshipped in Nepal. What is the meaning of Pashupati?
#SriSri: ❝Pashu❝ means the one who is bound, programmed. There are eight things
that bind you. The one bound by these eight things is ❝pashu❝. Man is a social animal
and this society, this world is bound by these eights ❝paash❝ like anger, attachments
etc.
Pashupati is the one who is the Lord of this world which is bound by ❝paash❝.
Everything living and non-living thing is bound, so the Lord of all things living or non-
living is Pashupatinath.
And there you should not sacrifice any animals. He does not like it at all. It is very
wrong to sacrifice animals in the name of God. This is prohibited in the scriptures.
Never do it. It is ignorance. In Nepal I have heard they make sacrifices of five animals,
but this time there has a lot of work that has been done to stop this and educate to
people. Keep working like this and make sure it is completely eliminated. Spread the
knowledge in every village and every house. If you do not have the power to give life
to an animal, you do not have the right to take it’s life. Every animal has the right to
live.
Ques: The segregation in society of Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra is by birth
or by our action?
#SriSri: By our action. This segregation is across the world. In every place there are
groups of intellectuals, chamber of commerce (Vaishyas), military personnel
(Kshatriyas) and everywhere there are labour unions (Shudra). So it is by our work,
actions not by birth.
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Ques: It is said the Devi defeated Mahishasur by ‘Hunkaar’. What is that?
#SriSri: Yes. You take a deep breath in and make the ❝Huun❝ sound and see what
happens. All the inertia in you disappears! The inertia in you is only Mahishasur.
Ques: How can I be a better meditator?
#SriSri: See there is no better or worse meditator. Just be in the present, be happy.
And instead of thinking what I can get, see how I can contribute, how I can be useful
for the society.
Change this one thing. There is a joy in getting. Everyone praises me, respects me,
gives me this and that, this thing that is in the mind needs to be gotten rid of.
Come out of this and think what can I do for everyone? If this shift happens, then
meditation also becomes good and life also becomes sweet. There is a joy, that is
infant joy, the joy in getting things. We are born with the joy of getting. But have you
seen the grandmothers and grandfathers? Their joy is in sharing.
A mother cooks so many dishes when children come home and her joy is in feeding
everybody, in giving. This is a mature joy. So somewhere in life we have to grow from
the joy of grabbing and getting to the joy of sharing and giving the motherly joy. That
means you have matured.
Q: Creativity flows from the second chakra, while awareness flows from the 6th
chakra. Is there a connection between the 2nd and 6th chakra?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Yes. Definitely. There is connection between all the chakras. You
are the connection.
Who is a Yogi and what is a Yogic way of life ?
Sri Sri : A Yogi is a child. Becoming a baby again is Yogi. If you observe a baby it does
almost all asanas. If you observe them you do not need any yoga teacher, they will
teach you Pranayama and everything. Similarly animals also do. Nature teaches you
Yoga. A Yogi is one who is skilful and flexible.
Some people are flexible in body but in mind they are very rigid. How many of you
have experience that dealing with rigid people is a headache?? A Yogi is one who is
not rigid yet not mushy mushy but straightforward. A childlike innocence yet childlike
depth, simplicity and wisdom. Sensible and Sensitive together.
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Sri Sri: Yoga is a lifestyle and should not be mistaken for only asanas. A disease-free
body, quiver-free breath, stress-free mind, inhibition-free intellect, obsession-free
memory, ego that includes all, and soul which is free from sorrow are the signs of a
perfect yogi. As Krishna said in the Bhagvad Gita, ❝Samatvam Yoga Ucyate❝ –
equanimity in the individual is a sign of yoga.
Q: What is Yoga? How can it help bring peace?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Yoga is a technique which unites the body, mind and spirit. Yoga
relieves you from stress and tension. It is stress that causes weakness, anger, jealousy
and all the negative emotions. When you get rid of stress using breathing techniques,
meditation and some simple exercises, it helps your body and mind and creates a
sense of well-being and happiness from inside. If you’re well and happy you will not
be violent. When someone engages in violent activity, know that behind the
violence there is anger and frustration.
We have all done yoga as kids. If you watch a child from the time it is born to the age
of three, it would have done all the yoga exercises. The way a child breathes is
different from the way an adult breathes. Breath is the link between the body and
emotions and by attending to the breath you are able to soften the emotions and
get rid of negative emotions.
Behind every activity, pleasant, unpleasant, chaotic, harmonious, is one Divinity.
@SriSri Shubh Ratri!
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What is this freedom? This is freedom from fixed patterns in life. One can go through
these patterns infinite times without being aware of them. That is what all the animals
do. They are not aware.
Ashtavakra says that, even the personal feeling can be wondered at. And when a
conscious person realizes he is attached to so-and-so, it pains him more. And once
the pain starts, it continues. Then one gets into the same darkness and is totally
drowned. The mechanics are beautiful. This is a very fine and golden line of wonder
he has give here. Now this is within oneself. If you see attachments in others, do not
get worked up about it either. ❝Just wonder.❝
Shankar
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When you feel totally contented, that moment you are with the divine. And that is
the time when you are in the moment, in the ❝now❝, because ❝now❝ means ❝total
contentment❝. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Who are the people who have been the most influential in your life to make you who
you are today, and who have helped you build your philosophy?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
It is very difficult to say. If I just take a few names I will not be doing justice. But it starts
from my mother.
When you are in the moment, when your mind is here right now, then you are able to
draw inspiration from everyone around you. Anytime, anywhere, people can inspire
you. It is an internal phenomenon.
So I find that inspiration is opening that source of energy within you, and anyone can
become a catalyst for that. A child in the street can inspire you, a carpenter can
inspire you, a gardener can inspire you. You only need to have that willingness to
take the inspiration. -Sri Sri
Ques: What to do when life becomes meaningless?
#
SriSri
: Life appears to be meaningless if your focused only on your self.. But when you
know that you are here to contribute something to people around you, give
something to the society or discover the higher truth, then life is all meaningful. A
saturation of pleasure or a deprivation of pleasure, both can cause the
meaninglessness. But when you take your eyes off that and see,❝What I can do?❝ or
❝Who am I?❝, then suddenly you see a fountain of love, joy, all these values naturally
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start flowing in your life. But it is a good transition period.
Ques: How to love unconditionally the world which is full of conditions?

riSri:
S#Do not try to love, you can not love. That is impossible. Just be natural. And
know there are limitations. People have limitations, people have prejudice. And you
have to live in this world with all types of people.
That is the second principe.. accept people as they are. ANd you should remember
people intentions, ideas, emotions, everything changes. Many friends become
enemies, enemies become friends. Your friend becomes your enemy for no reason
and a stranger has been of help to you for no reason.
And people whom you have helped a lot, have cared a lot for, sometimes they
behave like enemies.. So this friendship and animosity, works on some other principle
called Karma.
If your time is good, even the worst enemy start behaving like your friend. And when
your time is not good, even your closest friend will misunderstand you and start
behaving like an enemy.
So when you see all this in a bigger picture, suddenly an inner strength comes up in
you and you will be able to smile through any situation.
Whatever it is. 35 years ago when we took yoga and meditation in other countries
abroad, they would not respect it. They would think only crazy poeple would do all
this Yoga..
There was so much prejudice 35 years ago! Respected people in society would not
do Yoga. But then what happened?
Over the period, slowly it started changing. Today in all big ads for relation or even
cars, show someone sitting in a Yoga posture, meditation, eyes closed! So people
opinion change.. Prejudice is a big issue. But time takes care of it.
I used to tell our teachers, educate and ignore! Now Yoga is taught by our teachers
all across the world.. the longest day, 21st June, has been declared as Yoga Day by
the United Nations and I welcome their decision and we all welcome this step of
giving recognition to an ancient knowledge. But it is not enough.. we should at least
reach out meditation to as many people as there are cell phones in this world! I
usually say like dental hygiene, you need mental hygiene. And meditation is the
mental hygiene... It is essential..
Ques: How to handle emotional abuse?

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riSri:
S#Physical abuse you should stay away from. Emotional abuse is solely your
responsibility. If you do not let anybody emotionally manipulate you, nobody can do
it. As simple as that. If you do not want to be unhappy, no one else can make you
unhappy. You just determine one day, come what may I want to keep my spirit high, i
am going to keep on smiling. I am not going to get bogged down by somebody else
tactics. Finished. One Sakalpa, and you are out of it.
What we need to know is that a desire fulfilled takes you back to the same place you
were before the desire arose. Just imagine your state of mind before a desire arose in
you, after all the circus of having a desire and getting it fulfilled, you come back to
that same place. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Stay Grateful !!!
Gratitude turns life into GOLD.
Date:2014-12-13 / Poster:The Secret
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In #ndia, we have always believed in the saying, ❝Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam❝,
meaning that this entire world is one family. But when can we truly become one
family? It is possible only by spreading knowledge; when everyone is at peace and
when we can lovingly embrace everyone as our own. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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GURU PUNCH
You want enlightenment? You want to see God? Do service and just relax! - Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
Welcoming is essential for expansion and growth, and resistance is essential for
maintenance. -SriSriRaviShankar
Sometimes people whom you hardly know come to help you. Sometimes people
whom you have helped a lot suddenly behave indifferent. All this is based on karma.
Opinions change with time. Educate and ignore!
When you focus only on yourself then life seems meaningless. Saturation of pleasure
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or deprivation of pleasure can cause meaninglessness. When you ask what can I
give, what can I do, then a fountain of joy opens and life becomes meaningful.
Balanced activity, rest and yoga kindles skills and creativity in you. #gathon
yo
Patience comes when we are devoid of feverishness. Impatience means
feverishness.
Dream the impossible. Know that you are born in this world to do something
wonderful and unique; do not let this opportunity pass by. Give yourself the freedom
to dream and think big. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Question: Must love always change?
Sri Sri: Love is your nature. What is your nature cannot change. But the expression of
love changes. Because love is your nature, you cannot but love. The mother has total
love for the child, but sometimes she feeds the child, sometimes she is strict with the
child. ❝Come on, sit and write!❝ Sometimes she slaps the child.
She does this out of love, and these are all different modes of love. So, the expression
of love changes but love itself does not change, because love is your nature.
Q: What is the effect of effort on karma?
Sri Sri : Karma is associated with every facet of life. With knowledge, bhakti (devotion),
karma is lessened. Everything else increases karma.
DAILY SUTRA
Learn to make people your own. They already belong to you; they come from the
same soil & breathe the same air. We are all connected so deeply. - Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
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Do you know what is the difference between a tourist and a pilgrim? Both are on a
journey. A tourist is satisfying the senses, whereas a pilgrim is in the quest of the truth.
Tourists come, look around, take pictures in their mind, only to come back again.
Pilgrims are at home everywhere and are hollow and empty. Most people in life are
just tourists without even being aware of it. Only a few make their life a pilgrimage. -
Q: I have acquired a lot of skills doing seva, but it does not help in practical life.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Whatever you learn in life will help you sometime or the other.
Date:2014-12-13 / Poster:Seva Portal.org
Longing for the divine will keep you away from all other bad habits in life. -SriSri
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Retweeted Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (@SriSri):
A Ruler has no friends and a Saint has no enemies. Getting too close to a Ruler or
staying away from a Saint is a big loss to oneself!
Spending time in nature, observing silence and engaging in prayer is very congenial
for helping us to reflect on our own mind. - Sri Sri
Do not just focus on what is comfortable for you. You should get out of your comfort
zone and bring comfort to others. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Date:2014-12-12 / Poster:Guruji Codes
GURU PUNCH
Do Sudarshan Kriya, breathe, sing and meditate. There is no point in brooding. Move
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on in life. Do not waste today for what happened yesterday. Wake up and say, ❝
have the valor and the courage to overcome this❝ - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
GURU PUNCH
When many bristles are put together to make a broom, they are far more effective in
sweeping a large hall than they would have been individually. Similarly, as sangha
(group), you can achieve more. Whether it is for service or justice, you should work in
groups. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
GURU PUNCH
Love is infinite. Infinite has no end, no boundary - more and more, never bored.
Boredom means boundary. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
GURU PUNCH
Spending time in nature, observing silence and engaging in prayer is very congenial
for helping us to reflect on our own mind. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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GURU PUNCH
Thirty minutes of meditation will make you look brighter. We should all meditate for
thirty minutes everyday. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
DAILY SUTRA
Whether a person is an atheist or a believer, as long as he remains steadfast and true
to his word and action, he surely becomes successful in life. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
DAILY SUTRA
Only one who is unhealthy and unhappy will not follow the rules and regulations and
commit fraudulent activities. A person who is content from within will never think of
creating trouble for someone else. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
DAILY SUTRA
First acknowledge that you are weak and then know that God is the strength of the
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weak. When you have this strong faith, then you will not feel weak and helpless. - Sri
Sri Ravi Shankar
DAILY SUTRA
Spirituality is a harmonious blend of outer silence & inner celebration as well as inner
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The moment you recognize that there are shortcomings in you then you are very
safe.
Do not think that you are a fraud. You are a traveller on the path and you are guiding
the people who are coming behind you. This will only bring humility in you and you will
know that knowledge is precious. No doubt you may not follow it 100% but you
cannot deny that your life has changed and you are following it at least 80%. So even
if you are not following the course points or the knowledge a 100%, you look into the
80% of the points that you are following.
There are people who have not even understood or started their journey. For them
you can be a real help.
One more thing, when you teach others, you also learn, so do not say that I am a
hypocrite. As you are teaching, you are also learning and you are refreshing the
knowledge. Instead of sitting and blaming yourself and others, it is better you start
teaching. Otherwise you will sit and blame yourself, ❝I am weak, I am unable to
follow the knowledge, I am bad❝, and then you go into guilt and self-blame. This is
the worst thing that can happen to you on the spiritual path. That is why on this path,
you always have a guru or a master.
You leave your weakness to your master and go with the strength that you have and
move as much as you can. So do not be hard on yourself, and at the same time,
recognize that you do not follow all the knowledge but you have the intention to
follow and that is good.
So just move on. Do not get off the path and blame yourself. If you feel that way, just
come and sit in an advance course, or a blessing course and it will wash it all off,
because this life is a journey and you have to keep moving till you find perfection.
And slowly and steadily you will definitely get it.
Just turn back and analyse. Suppose you had not followed any of the points in life,
where would you have been? It will be utterly scary, that is why know this and walk
ahead. Leave your shortcomings to me.
Satsang Knowledge
❝When a guest comes to the house, you would want them to not be formal and to
make themselves comfortable and be one of you. You do not want to have to ask
them every time what they need. In the same way wherever we go we should give
comfort and happiness. We should not become a burden for others.. Spread
belongingness wherever you go.❝
Ques: Is not being without intentions opposite to having big dreams?
#
SriSri
: Yes. When you want to go inward, when you want to rest, you should let go of
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all intentions. Even if you have a small intention like ❝I want to lock the door, I want to
drink a glass of water, or I want to do something❝, can disturb your sleep. Just before
going to sleep, if you have a list of ❝I want to do this❝, you will find that you can not
sleep.
When you want to retire, when you want to go into your center core, you say I have
nothing do, drop everything. Only then you can go in deep meditation Samadhi. But
you can not be there all the time, you have to come out. When you come out then
you take n intention, then you dream, then you say ❝I want to do this, this, this❝.
This i called pravritti. In life you need both, pravritti is engaging in activity, which has to
go with dream, and nivritti, retiring which is to let go all Sankalpas. A fool is one who
at the time of work, thinks ❝oh, this is all maya, God will do this work, when He makes
me do it, I will do it.❝ This is wrong. And when he has to rest, he starts thinking, ❝I have
to do this, i want this and that❝. This is a sign of a fool. The intelligent one takes
Sankalpa when work needs to be done and when he rests, he surrenders all Sankalps
to God.
Ques: Creativity flows from the second chakra, while awareness is from the sixth
chakra. Is there a connection between these two chakras?
#SriSri: Yes, definitely. There is connection between all the chakras. You are the
connection!
Ques: What is purity? How can I know that there is purity in my actions, thoughts and
speech?
#SriSri: something that makes you feel very correct, very straight and very clean, that
is purity. It is like pain. When you have pain, then you know you have pain. Similarly,
you feel very pure. When you tell the truth, when you are being honest, when you are
upright, you suddenly find that you are so pure. And there is a strength that comes. It
is your very natural self, innocent self.
When you came into this world, we came like that. We maintain that purity, that is all.
Ques: When life feels like an exam, how can one celebrate it?
#SriSri: Who said life is an exam? Why do you think life is a struggle, life is an exam?
Who is the examiner? Come on! Who is the student, who is the examiner? Life is a
learning process, not an exam. Every moment you learn something. If you do
something good, you learn something. If you do something bad, then also you learn
something. You should be learning from everything that you do.
Do not take it as an exam where somebody is going to give you marks. Someone
sitting up in the heaven is giving you marks, is not the correct thing to think about.
There is no pass or fail here.
Ques: If Sanatan Dharma, or Hindu dharma is based on eternal truth, then how come
it did not spread all over the world?
#SriSri: See the values are there. If you see American constitution today, it is Sanatan
Dharma. Liberty, freedom, justice for all.
This is Dharma. If you see constitution of any country for that matter, they all profess
what Rig Veda has said – Equality, equanimity. Our constitution of India ends with the
last verse of Rig Veda.
And if you go deep within there is similarity in every country. You find the roots there.
Historians will be able to tell you better. But remember one thing, keep all things
aside, know that there is something in you which is eternal. You are eternal.
There is something in you which does not die. Which is the same. Look at your own
life. Your body has undergone so many changes, your thoughts have changed, your
emotions have changed. But there is something in you, which is observing all the
changes... that is what you need to hold on to. So the world is a bouquet of many
different religions.
Everywhere there are some nice things, everywhere there are some wrong things. All
that you need to do is pick up the good things and leave the not so good things out.
In Nepal, last week, in many temples they stopped the Bali Pratha (tradition of animal
sacrifice). For the first time in so many years, people took a stand.
They took a call in the parliament that they should not do animal sacrifice.
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It is nowhere in the scriptures that you should sacrifice animals. And people started
sacrificing animals in Hinduism. And that is when Buddha came, Buddha said this is
nonsense, you should not sacrifice animals. Buddha never started a religion.
He was a Hindu Sanyasi (saint). He brought a revolution in the religion. He remained a
Sanyasi and He died as a Sanyasi. He was there to bring reform in the Hindu religion.
Other than that all what He said is there in the Upanishads.
But then a religion came later on. Similarly Jesus came to bring reform and 60-70
years after Jesus was gone, it became a religion. But everybody’s one goal is to
uplift human race, to bring peace.
Ques: In the Vedic tradition in some places they place Bhakti (devotion) over
perfection in chanting of mantras and in some places it is the other way round.
#SriSri: Both, both. Both have their own place. Bhakti is of course the ultimate, but that
does not excuse you from not being perfect in your action or in your chanting. Like
when a guest comes to your home and when they leave then you ask them to
forgive you if you have done anything wrong. So if you think in the beginning itself,
anyway I will ask for forgiveness so what is the need of taking care of the guests, then
it is wrong.
Ques: A person who is established in himself and an insensitive person, both are
beyond situations they are in. What is the difference between the two?
#SriSri: One is joyful, his consciousness is awakened. The other is fighting with darkness.
Ques: If darkness has no existence, then why does it trouble us so much?
#SriSri: That is what it seems like. Till the light comes in. When the light comes then you
feel that you got troubled for no reason. And the light is there. All you have to do is
open your eyes and see. Do not wait for the light to come. Open your eyes this right
now and shake yourself, see where the dust has gathered in you. You are pure, you
are getting troubled for no reason. You go on chewing on the things that are past.
Wake up and see there is nothing there.
Ques: Yoga Vasishtha says what you see is not reality, Vedas say what you
experience is truth.
#SriSri: Listen, listen. Yoga Vasishtha says something, Veda says something,
Upanishads say something else. Do not get into all these complications. First tell Me
what you say! What has happened in your life, what is the truth in your life? If you look
at the truth in your own life, then you will understand what Yoga Vasishtha says. As
your consciousness grows then you start understanding. Knowledge is structured in
consciousness. As your consciousness expands, you understand scriptures better. You
understand everything in a much better manner. When we awaken our
consciousness first, then we understand the essence of the scriptures more easily.
Ques: People are told to be God fearing in some religions. Should love God or
respect or fear Him?
#SriSri: No I do not know who put the God fearing in it. No need to fear God. It is like
fearing your own mother, your own father. If children start being afraid of their own
parents, where will they go? No, no, no. If there is someone you do not have to fear, it
is God. God is just love and all love. Even if you make a hundred mistakes, He will
accept it and still wait for you to move on. That does not give an excuse for someone
to make mistakes (laughter). You should simply know that God is loving.
Ques: If someone fears their parents due to some reason, then they can fear God.
#SriSri: Yes, those people who are creating fear in the children are not doing their
parenthood properly. A good parent will never create fear in their own kids. If they
are creating fear, then they are not true to their parenthood. Similarly, if God is
creating fear in you, He is not being God. If you can not trust your parents, then
definitely you cannot trust God. And if you can not trust God you cannot trust
yourself. So it is all linked, self-doubt, doubt in a higher power and doubt in people
around you.
You can not trust anybody; you do not know who is what. (Ques: I want to. I am
trying.) Good. And do not try, just relax. It will happen. We should understand doubt
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before we can get into trust. You know the doubt is always about something that is
positive.
Ques: There is so much grace in my life, but somewhere I feel that I am not getting
the prosperity that I want.
#SriSri: For prosperity you need two things. First is effort and the other is God grace.
Both are needed. Do not think that you have God grace so everything will just fall into
your lap. And thinking that only effort will make things happen, that is also not true. So
it is said that those who put in efforts and have patience, those who walk like a lion,
with gravity and confidence, work hard at the same time and have patience, they
get prosperity.
Ques: I request you to put me in your personal Seva (service)
#SriSri: You smile and make others smile, that is doing My personal Seva. You bring a
smile on everyone’s face and think that you have done Seva for Me.
Ques: If a person has done many sins and is not able to bear the consequence of it,
what is the way to get relief?
#SriSri: You are in the right place, doing the right thing. This is what one should do.
Pranayama, meditation, Seva, all this will relieve you of your sins. Do not worry about
it. (Ques: Do all these really cancel all the sins?) That is what I am telling you, you are
in the right place, doing the right thing, many of them will be cancelled! Do not❝
worry at all about your sins. You have come here, that is it. Lord Krishna in the Gita
says, even though a person has done a lot of sins, the moment he starts sharing My
(Krishna) knowledge, My qualities, My wisdom, quickly he becomes pure. He also
says, do not worry about your sins. I will take care of it. You just relax.
Sleep well to avoid the effect of sleep deprivation.
Feeling the effects of sleep deprivation:
●Irritability.
●Cognitive impairment.
●Memory lapses or loss.
●Impaired moral judgement.
●Severe yawning.
●Hallucinations.
●Symptoms similar to ADHO.
●Impaired immune system.
●Risk of diabetes Type 2.
●Increased heart rate variability Risk of heart disease.
●Decreased reaction time and accuracy.
●Tremors.
●Aches.
Other:
●Growth suppression.
●Risk of obesity.
●Decreased temperature.

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Q: Would you pressurize the religious leaders of the world, especially the Arab and
Middle East countries to rescue the abduct, especially women and children? When
we requested for the American government to send food, the answer they gave us
was that they had to write to the government of Iraq and other neighboring countries
to rescue the abduct.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: This is between government to government. They have many
policies. As an NGO, we can do what we can do. I think it is not possible for us to
interfere into the foreign policies of the government. We cannot make one
government stand against the other; that will be perceived as not being friendly. I
would suggest you write to various governments and bring to their notice the
communities that need urgent help, and that we would like to receive direct help
from those governments.
When you want to rest, let go off all intentions. Looking at a list of things to do makes it
difficult to get compete rest. In life you need both activity and rest. When you want
to do something you should not say this is all Maya, let it happen etc. You must act.
Similarly, when meditating or taking rest you should not think of the things to do. Just
let go!
Lessons learned in Iraq...
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Question: Your twitter message comes only once in 3 days.
Sri Sri : Whatever is important in life will come in intervals and it is like pearls and
diamonds and it’s value is very high!
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Benefits of Amla oil for hair
(1)Ability to penetrate the scalp.
Allowing the oil to nourish hair as it grows.
(2)Strengthens hair at the root.
Preventing breakage and hair loss.
(3)Helps prevent gray hair.
Stops meaning loss & naturally darkens hair.
(4)Anti - oxidant.
Twice the anti-oxidant power of a cal and 17 times that of pomegranate.
5)Improves scalp health.
Anti-fungal and anti-bacterial properties, treats dandruff and other scalp conditions.
Creates better environment for hair growth.
(6)Chelating Agent.
Binds copper and iran.
Life is a learning process, not an exam or a struggle. No one is sitting in heaven to give
you marks and scores. In life there is no question of passing or failing.
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The moments of wonder, the moments of enquiry, the moments of astonishment, the
moments of inquisitiveness and of curiosity are very precious. In these moments, your
chattering mind has stopped and you leap from the known into the unknown.
Sri
Tips for optimum oral hygiene:
1) Brush your teeth twice daily preferably with natural toothpastes
2) Use a tongue cleaner to get rid of depositions on the tongue
3) Clean your mouth with a few gargles after each meal
4) Drink plenty of water
5) Keep away from alcohol and tobacco
6) Reduce meal size, chew properly
7) Avoid eating food with excessive garlic or onions
8) Avoid eating junk food
9) Practice yoga regularly
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Boredom means boundary. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Longing for worldly things makes you inert, longing for infinity fills you with life. ? -
SriSriRaviShankar
Even if a fraction of what is spent on defense would be spent on peace education, it
will not allow such an inhuman behavior among the youth. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Dispassion is maturity of life. When you have done something over and over again,
you will start wondering. You will wonder what you are craving for, and what you are,
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really, looking for.
The best ❝puja❝, the best form of worship, is to be happy, to be grateful. Sri Sri
Jai Gurudev
Your richness is on your ability to share and not in how much you have. - Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
Longing for worldly things makes you inert, longing for infinity fills you with life. -
SriSriRaviShankar
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Q: Sometimes it becomes a burden to even remember knowledge. How can we
take the knowledge we receive from manana (to ponder over again and again) to
nidhidhyaasa (complete assimilation of knowledge)?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Why are you increasing your burden by asking this question too?
(Laughter) Just relax and be silent for a while.
The goal of knowledge is to transport the mind from its limited understanding and
concepts to a more expanded state of awareness. The goal of all knowledge is to
make the mind agree and say ❝Yes!❝As you listen to knowledge, the mind first
says,❝Oh, yes! And then slowly the mind expands and becomes silent. Then you say
❝It is! ❝
The job of the intellect is to make you say ❝yes❝. Once the intellect is at rest and
agrees with the knowledge, then an expanded awareness dawns on you and you
come to realize your true existence, that you are nothing but consciousness.
Then from that state, we expand further to realize that the Self alone is everywhere.
You feel that ❝the Self alone is all that there is❝.
So you move from a state of individualized consciousness, i.e., ❝I am❝, to the
expanded state of realizing that everything ❝just is❝. This is the flow of how our
awareness expands with knowledge.
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Ayurveda. Science of life. How its helpful in our day to day living , and to live a
healthy life
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Whether a person is an atheist or a believer, as long as he remains steadfast and true
to his word and action, he surely becomes successful in life. - Sri Sri
Satsang Knowledge
?When you have that deep urge to get rid of any bad habit, deep prayer will make it
change.?
Ques: What is the criteria for considering anyone as an Avatar?
?#?SriSri?: First you should understand what Avatar means. Avatar means descending
of Divinity. Wherever you find knowledge, there Divinity has descended. The formless
to be seen in form, this is what is there in Srimad Bhagavatam.
It says the Divine as descended even in swans, in the fire, in the trees, in all animals.
The entire creation is nothing but the manifestation of Divinity. From wherever you get
a message you call that as Avatar.
SO the sage Dattatreya has noted twenty different forms of life. He received
knowledge from a swan, so swan he said swan is a form of Divinity. You should know
that God is present in every particle of the Universe. The cheapest commodity
available is Divinity! In earth, water, fire, air, ether. Everything is made up of one
vibration, that is Brahman, that is Divinity, that is God. So when that Divinity is shining
through knowledge, giving knowledge, kindling love, then that one considers as an
Avatar.
Ques: It is said that everything is a dream. In whose dream I am in? In yours or you are
in mine, or we both are in a common dream?
#SriSri: Well, what is a dream? It is an impression of memory. You wake up now this
very moment, the entire past appears as a dream. It is memory, an impression. So
everything is an impression in the mind.
What you see, what you hear, what you smell, what you taste, you touch, all this
forms an impression in the consciousness. So as long as you are all in each other
dreams, everything is ok.
I have a habit of living in a fantasy world. I know it is a defence mechanism. How to
overcome it?
The moment you realize it is a fantasy, you have already overcome it!.. the moment
you have labelled it as my fantasy world?, you have already come to the shore. You
are no longer drowning in it.
Do not worry about it. It is good to have dreams sometimes. Think big, have dreams,
but at the same time do not lose the touch of reality.
You know dance happens not with both feet stuck to the ground. one is firmly on the
ground the other is up in the air. In life also, you should see the practicality, not lose
the ground reality, at the same time you should dream something different,
something bigger, something higher, whatever appears to be some times impossible.
If you’re dreaming something that is totally impossible, then you are not true to
yourself. That is that grey area, you do not think it is totally impossible and you do not
think it is totally possible also. Somewhere in between, you think ?I can make it, I can
do it?, that is the dream that you should hold on to.
Ques: It is said to be without Sankalpa(intention), then why do we take Sankalpas in
Pujas.
#SriSri: Yes, to become Nirsankalpa, Nirvikalpa! Sankalpa, vikalpa, keeps coming our
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mind all the time.. If you do not let go all the Sankalpa, you cannot become a Yogi.
So in order to get the ability to let go of all the sankalpas, all these pujas, seva, all this
is done, to get to that.
It is not that you must do it. All the sankalpas in pujas are for focussing our attention in
one direction. Life cannot happen without any Sankalpa at all. In life you have to
take Sankalpa. You want to even sit here, listen to knowledge is Sankalpa. Or to go
and have food is a Sankalpa. Want to do something good is a Sankalpa. Want to do
Seva is a Sankalpa. And wanting to get free of Sankalpas is again another Sankalpa!
In Upanishads it is said you need both Vidya and Avidya. Paravidya and Apraravidya
both.. everyone has to take both in a balanced way and go ahead.
Ques: Can we control time, if so how?
#SriSri: Ya, ya, you can turn the watch back and forth (laughs). You can keep the
time. And if you keep the time, that is controlling the time. Got it? Can you keep the
time, can you be on time? Fix a time and move with that? Certain events in your life
you can control, certain events you cannot. Life is a combination of both free will
and destiny. You cannot say I have control over everything. And you can’t say i
have no control over anything.
Both are not correct. I will give you a simple example, after 21 your height cannot be
increased. But your weight you can change any time! You can grow horizontally, but
you cant grow vertically. You can shrink also. If you weigh 100 kilos, you cannot say I
can’t change it.
Why not? Get on to a treadmill, walk and eat less. You see in one month you can
reduce your weight. Right? So certain things you can change. Similarly you cannot
stop the rain from coming, but it is your choice whether to get wet or not get wet.
You can put on a raincoat, take an umbrella, you do not even go out of the home,
you will not get wet. So certain things you can change, certain things you cannot. So
life is not all fatalistic.
Ques: Can you please explain Avabodha, Bodha concept?
#SriSri: Some things you understand through intellect, some things are beyond
intellect, you feel it. You can give talk about love, but a dog will tell you what love is.
So one is understanding through intellect, that is also necessary. Another that comes
to you as an experience, through vibrations. In life both are essential.
Ques: Yesterday you had said one should not get too close to a Raja and stay away
from the Guru. What should be the attitude of the King with the Guru?
#SriSri: King should not assume himself as a King all the time. When he comes to a
Guru, he should become like an ordinary human being. You know from Gurus eyes if
you see, everybody is part of himself. So it is all just roles one plays. Everyone should
remember, first of all we are all part of one Divine light, one human race. And so we
cannot afford to be stuck in a role, we should keep changing our coats. Each role is
like a coat. So we have to play all the roles perfectly. So if someone comes to a
teacher, they have to come as a student, only student. Similarly for a teacher, for a
Guru, everybody is same, whether they are rich, poor or stupid or very intelligent,
everyone is same.
Ques: In Shiva Purana it says anyone who worships Shiva is freed from all sins. Does this
mean that corruption begins at the top?
#SriSri: No, no. Corruption is doing what is not right, that is corruption. That you don’t
wish to be done to yourself or your kith and kin, someone very close to you. Puja and
corruption, you cannot link them. Puja means the feeling that comes out of you with
fullness. Like a guest comes to your home, you come to the door and receive them.
Someone very dear to you are coming, do not you rush to the train station or airport
to receive them? This is coming out of a compulsion or a feeling?.. what is the feeling
there?
That cannot be called a corruption. So puja means that which comes out of fullness.
In puranas, many things are written. I am not an advocate of all the puranas. Do not
take me that way, because many of them are a way of expressing. In fact the word
purana means new way of expressing. The Hindi purana and Sanskrit have totally
opposite meanings. In Hindi purana means old.
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In Sanskrit purana means very new, latest, modern. So it is a different way to express.
Do not call that as a corruption. God is not so stupid, that he waits for you to break a
coconut and gives you a boon! He cannot be so stupid.
No, no, no. All the pujas you do are to express your fullness, not to please God. I think
this is a very wrong concept in the world. We try to do things to please God. That is
wrong understanding. People fast for many days to please God. This is a
misunderstanding. You fast to purify your body, that is good enough. Do not have to
fast to please some God up in the heaven. There is nothing like that.
Ques:What is the relevance of morality in the real world when Divinity is considered
beyond morality.
#SriSri: Morality is what you don’t want someone else to do to you. That is morality.
Basic principle of morality is if you don’t want your husband to flirt with someone,
you should not flirt with someone else’s husband!
That is it.. What you do not wish to be done to you, or your near and dear ones, you
should not do to someone else. You do not want someone else to misbehave with
your daughter or son then how can you do that with someone else daughter or son.
Basic principle of morality. You do not want your driver to drink and drive, or someone
else coming in front of you to be drunk while driving , then can drive when you are
drunk? You do not want anyone else to rob you of your wealth or cheat you, then
you should not cheat someone else.
There is nothing to worry. There will be good times and bad times; They all come and
go. Nothing stays.
Many times even small things like the position of a bulb or switch in your own room
are invisible to your eyes because your mind is full of pictures from the past. The world
is in the memory. You know, when several pictures are taken on the same film, it looks
very funny. It gives you something else. It sometimes happen to you by mistake.
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Q: Is not it through science that we can actually identify this wrong understanding or
wrong knowledge?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Correct, that is why spirituality is a science. This is what people said
thousands of years ago in the six darshanas (schools of thought).
The six darshanas are:
1) Samkhya (emphasizing on consciousness and matter)
2) Yoga (emphasizing on meditation, contemplation & liberation)
3) Nyaya (emphasizing on the sources of knowledge)
4) Vaisheshika (emphasizing on atomism)
5) Mimamsa (emphasizing on religion and ethics)
6) Vedanta (knowledge)
So, the darshanas are nothing but pure science. That is why we say, ❝Gyana
vigyaana tripatma,❝ knowledge and science, both are essential in life. In India we
never opposed science. We said, first know the five elements (Earth, Water, Fire, Air
and Ether), this is science, and then go to the sixth element, i.e., the mind.
Nyaya is the method of knowing whether your knowing is correct or not.
Nowhere else in the world have people attended to this type of keen awareness, to
see whether the knowledge one has is subjective knowledge or objective
knowledge.
One is to analyse the object and then also see, ❝who is knowing?❝, and what is the
quality of his consciousness. Is he drunk? Does he have jaundice? For a person who
has jaundice everything appears yellow.
So, not just the object even the subject has been studied. This much depth and detail
our ancient scriptures have. That is why they say, this is true and this is not true.
Q: What is the importance of donating food?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji: Any donation is about sharing and living. And this is a Divine
quality.
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Ques: everything in creation is vibrations. As a liberated Saint how do you see
everything vibrating?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.: yes the whole universe is nothing but vibrations, wave functions.
Particles do not exist, things do not exist. Everything is just waves. That is why
everything is made up of just one thing. That’s what is there in Yoga Vasishtha,
Ashtavakra Gita,Vedanta – the whole universe is made up of just one thing.
BIG MIND
You know there is a Big Mind and a small mind. Sometimes the Big Mind wins over the
small mind and sometimes it is the other way around.
When the small mind wins over, it is misery and when the Big Mind wins, it is joy.
Small mind promises joy and leaves your hand empty. Big Mind may bring resistance
in the beginning but fills you with joy.
The word Guru means great. Jaya means victory. Deva means one who is fun-loving,
playful, light. One who is playful is often not dignified and when one is dignified, he is
often not playful.
Jai Guru Dev is victory to the Big Mind in you that is both dignified and playful. That is
what Jai Guru Dev means: ❝Victory to the Greatness in you.❝
You do not say victory or hail to the Master as he has won over already. You say
victory to your own Self, your own Mind, which is being veiled by the small mind.
Jai Guru Dev
Sri
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When you can see the entire event as fleeting impositions or happenings, and you
remain untouched by them, then you are happy. Joy springs out of you, like a
fountain. That is your very nature.
Thirty minutes of meditation will make you look brighter. We should all meditate for
thirty minutes everyday. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Behind anger is a desire. It is a desire that is the cause of anger. Unless you root out
the desire, you can never be devoid of anger. -SriSri
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A Ruler has no friends and a Saint has no enemies. Getting too close to a Ruler or
staying away from a Saint is a big loss to oneself! - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Do not see too much meaning in every little thing.Then you
are not living life, you are
simply stuck in concepts & ideas. - SriSri
groups. - Sri Sri
NaradaBhaktiSutra77
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| Sukha dukha ichcha labhadityakte kaale prateekshamane kshanardhamapi
vyartham na neyam ||
Essence: "There is no need to get caught up in pleasure and pain, in desires.
Contentment is what uplifts you, elevates you. Have patience."
Q: What is success?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar answers below:
❝To me, the sign of success is a smile. The number of smiles that one has in their day-
to-day life indicates how successful one is.
You may have a big bank balance, a lot of money. But, if you can not smile, if you
are tensed, upset and angry, would you call such a person successful?
Someone who is unfriendly, tensed, worried, can’t sleep, can not even eat because
of cholesterol, diabetes; would you call him a successful person?
Often, people spend half of their health to gain their wealth. Then they spend half
their wealth, to gain back their health (which does not come). This is not a sign of
success. To me, a sign of success is confidence. Even if you lose everything, if you
have confidence, then you can recreate everything again, and that is success.
There are ample of examples. There are businessmen, who rose to the top, and with
one un-calculated movement, they lost it all. They came way down, and still, they
built their businesses again.
You can see this in the Sindhi community; they were living in Karachi with such
comforts. Similarly, the Kashmiri pundits in the valley had huge bungalows, apple
gardens, saffron gardens; suddenly, they had to leave everything.
The same with the Asian migrants from Uganda, they had nothing when they left the
country. Generations together lived in Uganda, and owned big factories. One fine
morning, they had to leave the country with one suitcase.
I met a Gujarati gentleman in London. This man had a huge television factory, about
15 to 20 years ago, in Uganda. He had many Rolls Royce cars, and lived a very
comfortable life. One morning, the Asians were asked to leave the country. With just
one suitcase, they arrived in London, as refugees. This man and his wife, in their fifties,
were selling hot dogs on the streets. He said, ‘Gurudev, we have never worked so
hard.’ Look at this!
Now this successful businessman rose again to be an industrialist there. Once you
have the zeal, you can gain back the wealth.
The same situation occurred for the Sindhi community. They were rendered as
homeless refugees in India after the partition. Today, the Sindhi’s are governing and
managing all the wealth, wherever they are. The same with the Kashmiri pundits; they
were rendered homeless. Many of them who had the zeal to do business came to
Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai, and started something.
Success is an attitude, it is not a phenomenon.
When you agree to be bogged down, that is the sign of failure. Resist getting bogged
down. Just like a candle. You light a candle and turn it upside down, the flame
always goes up, and it never goes down. In the same way, if we can have the
enthusiasm to say, ❝I can make it, I can rebuild my business❝; that is what I would
consider a sign of success.❝
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Become God to each other. Do not look for God somewhere in the sky, but see God
in every pair of eyes, in the mountains, water, trees and animals. How? Only when you
see God in yourself. Only Gods can worship Gods.
With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our
emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Only one who is unhealthy and unhappy will not follow the rules and regulations and
commit fraudulent activities. A person who is content from within will never think of
creating trouble for someone else. - Sri Sri
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You need to learn how to select your thoughts just as you select your clothes each
day.
Do not be stuck on words. Your worries are words. Your ideas are words. Wisdom is
beyond words. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
A King has no friends, so that he can be impartial and a Saint has no enemies.
So, do not get too close to a King and never go far away from a Saint!
- Gurudev in satsang tonight.
Jai Gurudeva!
Love
Bawa
Boredom means boundary. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Unconditional Mother Love
Q: What is the solution for the Kashmir issue? Peace talks for the past 50 years have
failed. Is war the solution? Lord Krishna also fought for truth. Has the Kashmir issue
become an ego issue?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: In the recorded history of the world, the world has been peaceful
for only 288 years. This is only 8% of the time! This is what the historians stay. That means
conflicts have been there all through.
For the India-Pakistan issue, people to people contact is essential. That is the way to
go forward. The terrorists that they trained to work against India are now working
against them. They have to realize this.
They have to drop these strategies and come on board and make South Asia free
from poverty. They should fight against poverty, not against India. India and Pakistan
should work together to eliminate poverty.
Today, if you tell the Kashmiris, ❝Those of you who want to go to Pakistan can go❝,
nobody will go. They know on that side of Kashmir people are not happy. People
there are poorer than the Indian Kashmiris. The Azad Kashmiris have not even seen
beds. They do not know what air conditioning is, or dining tables, or chairs. They are in
very poor condition. When they come and see people here, they say that this is really
different.
Everything is done by God, including the managing of your body, the way your heart
beats. Even it is maintenance is done by God. The power behind the beating of your
heart, is God.
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Q: My son has undergone many courses, but he is not ready to change. He does not
do the Kriya even after repeatedly telling him. What should I do?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Yes, it is a little difficult to reform children during teenage. Have
patience. It cannot be said that there is no change at all. After doing all these
courses, there would surely be some change in him.
Wherever you go, you carry your own mind. And wherever you go, you create the
same storms. It may appear to be calm and quiet for some time in some place, but
then it will be the same again there too. Unless you see this, realize it and look into it,
nothing will help in the long term. There is no other permanent solution.
Thoughts come and go in the mind. Many of them are not yours. In fact, none of
thoughts are yours. They have their own waves. Thoughts come and go. You may get
hold of one of the thoughts that are going, and not allow it to go easily. That is called
worrying.
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Demand for rights in ignorance; Knowing that no one can take away your rights is
freedom; Giving away your rights is love, wisdom. -SriSriRaviShankar?
Bondage is when the mind longs for something, grieves about something, rejects
something, holds on to something, is pleased about something or displeased about
something.
Q: How can married people be dispassionate?/p>
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: When there is fight, when there is some discussion that bothers
you, be dispassionate. A vairagi lives in the present moment.
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You should be ready for any challenge. This readiness will make you happy! -Sri Sri
Jai Gurudev
You ask, ❝What am I here for?❝ I tell you, find out what you are not here for:
You are not here to blame.
You are not here to cry.
You are not here to sleep.
You are not here to boast.
You are not here to fight.
You are not here to be angry. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Why is it smart to be vegetarian? An article by Sri Sri
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Find Your #Self
.
Everyone is talking about it.
You want to be apart of this event it is so huge.
There is something about # SuryaNamaskar , every one likes it.
There is a certain kick.
You body moves and glides up and down and you feel refreshed.
Every one loves a good round of Surya namaskar.
But 108!! ?? ? ??
Anyway you decide to go.
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You resolve to stop when you want.
The instructors too are not pushing too.
Easy.
At the venue the enthusiasm is palpable.
The mats, the yoga gear, the mikes, the music, the dance etc., the sly uncertain
smiles of first timers.
They are asking others.
❝Is this your first time?❝
Seeking some companionship.
Some people are so fit you want to scoot some are so out of shape they motivate
you to stay.
Are you taking up the challenge?is the question going around.
Then there are the veterans. You decide to ignore.
They have tell you can do it!! I have done it.
So??
And then...it all begins, and you are constantly deciding to quit after the next round is
over.
But then you go on. Look around you are charged.
Somewhere you are starting to enjoy.
And its over!!:-(
You have done the 108 magic number!!
Even you are experiencing that HIGH. WOW!!
Now your turn to give gyaan.
Come on.
Take the challenge.
Find your #self.
#www.yogathon.in
more :http://goo.gl/BLeKSy
Date:2014-12-10 / Poster:Sri Sri Yoga
The centre focus of our life is #iritual
sp growth, is peace, and then all other things will
be around that. Your first and foremost commitment in # li
fe i
s to be with the Truth, to
evolve in truth. -
SriSriRaviShankar
Lord Shiva is seated deep in everyone heart. He is Nirguna (one who is without form or
it is attributes). He is Nirakaar (has no shape or form), and He is the Para-Brahman
(supreme transcendental consciousness) that is all pervading. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Pic: Monday morning Rudra Puja at Vishalakshi Mantap. Rudra Puja every Monday
morning at the Art of Living International Ashram!
Q : Gurudev, What is the solution for the Kashmir issue? Peace talks for the past 50
years have failed. Is war the solution? Lord Krishna also fought for truth. Has the
Kashmir issue become an ego issue?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: In the recorded history of the world, the world has been peaceful
for only 288 years. This is only 8% of the time! This is what the historians stay. That means
conflicts have been there all through.
For the India-Pakistan issue, people to people contact is essential. That is the way to
go forward. The terrorists that they trained to work against India are now working
against them. They have to realize this.
They have to drop these strategies and come on board and make South Asia free
from poverty. They should fight against poverty, not against India. India and Pakistan
should work together to eliminate poverty.
Today, if you tell the Kashmiris, ❝Those of you who want to go to Pakistan can go❝,
nobody will go. They know on that side of Kashmir people are not happy. People
there are poorer than the Indian Kashmiris.
The Azad Kashmiris have not even seen beds. They don’t know what air
conditioning is, or dining tables, or chairs. They are in very poor condition. When they
come and see people here, they say that this is really different.
The wise man never suffers misery in this world. For he alone❝ fills the whole
constellation of the universe!
❝Alone - Non-duality is the only way to overcome misery and to obtain perfect
detachment on the one hand, and omniscience and beatitude on the other; For
there is nothing outside of oneself, nothing separate - there is no distance, no ego at
all - this is Divine Love!
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No religion in the world preaches that you should hurt or injure another being.
Loving service bridges the gap between our spiritual practice and our daily life.
#rvice
Se
#irituality.
Sp -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Worldly love can be like an ocean, yet an ocean has a bottom. Divine love is like the
sky - limitless, infinite. From the bottom of the ocean soar into the vast sky. - Sri Sri Ravi
Shankarer
Q : Gurudev, sometimes it becomes a burden to even remember knowledge. How
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can we take the knowledge we receive from manana (to ponder over again and
again) to nidhidhyaasa (complete assimilation of knowledge)?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Why are you increasing your burden by asking this question too?
(Laughter) Just relax and be silent for a while.
make the mind agree and say ❝Yes!❝
As you listen to knowledge, the mind first says, ❝Oh, yes! And then slowly the mind
expands and becomes silent. Then you say ❝It is!❝
You feel that the Self alone is all that there is.
expanded state of realizing that everything just is.
This is the flow of how our awareness expands with knowledge.
Q: We have 33,000 slaughterhouses in our country, and everyday close to one lakh
cows are slaughtered for their meat and hide.
Please guide us as to what can we do to save and protect the cows.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Yes, it is our sacred duty to save the cows. I too am greatly
concerned about this. If we want to save and protect the heritage and culture of our
country, then it is very necessary that we do everything possible to save the cows.
You should go to the villages and educate the people there to save the indigenous
Indian cows. Even if they do not yield milk anymore, the cow urine can still be used in
the farms and fields for cultivation of crops. In fact the farmers should be taught to
concentrate the cow urine and use it as a fertilizer.
You know, one cow is enough to help fertilize one acre of land. We must ask our
farmers to stop purchasing artificial chemical fertilizers. If you spend one-third of the
money used for purchasing fertilizers for a cow, not only will you be able to raise and
keep a cow, you will also be able to have a healthy field yielding good crops.
Curiosity is the beginning of the mind, Wonder is the end of the mind. - Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
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|| Vidyam samhare taduttha svapnadarsanam ||
Essence: When the knowledge is lost, dreams start. In dreams you are either in
yesterday or tomorrow. Live in the present and be full of happiness.
Je loopt tot aan de oceaan. Je loopt of rent niet in de oceaan - je drijft en zwemt. Zo
is het ook wanneer je komt bij de Meester- het zoeken stopt en je begint te bloeien.
You walk until you come to the ocean. You do not walk or run in the ocean - you float
and swim. Like this once you come to the Master, seeking stops, blossoming begins. -
Today, the issue of mental illness affects an estimated 350 million people around the
world, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Depression will be the
second highest cause of disease burden in middle-income countries and the third
highest in low-income countries by 2030. Statistics reveal that 26 percent of the
population in the United States has some kind of mental illness, and 25 percent of
Europe is suffering from depression or anxiety.
In the excerpt below Sri Sri Ravi Shankar tells us why meditation can help combat
mental illnesses:
❝Many people do not even acknowledge that they are depressed, and nearly 50
percent of major depression goes untreated. Neither at school nor at home are we
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taught how to our handle negative emotions. We teach dental hygiene but forget to
teach mental hygiene. Stress does not go away by just talking or advising. We need
to learn some techniques and tools to get rid of stress and calm the mind.
Why does an individual get depressed? Some depression may be because one is
hanging onto the past or is over-ambitious and anxious about the future. Life,
however, is a continuous process of teaching one how to ❝let go.❝Change is the
only constant. When one does not acknowledge the phenomenon of change, and
becomes stuck to a position, then one can experiences frustration, depression, and
so on. Often, you are not aware that you are connected with the whole universe,
and you think you are just some small person wanting small little things. How do we
get out of this small mind? We must look to inquire into the core of our existence.
What is life?
Who am I? What do I want? This spirit of self-inquiry can awaken something inside you.
Negative emotions can make you sink into depression, and wisdom of the Self can
take you out of depression. This is where meditation and breathing techniques can
play an important role. They are the tools that help you calm your mind, and make
you feel happy from within. Many illnesses can be helped through meditation and
breathing techniques. In fact, I would say that meditation is food for the soul.
Meditation has many benefits. When our mind is calm, we are able to make better
decisions, thus creating a more harmonious and positive atmosphere around us.
There is a significant body of research on how meditation helps improve conditions
such as hypertension, diabetes, heart problems, sleep disorders, and nervous system
disorders, among others.
Apart from benefiting physical health, meditation improves concentration and helps
one be in the present moment. If you observe, the mind vacillates between the past
and the future. We are either angry about the past or anxious about the future.
Meditation helps bring the mind to the present. When the mind is calm, we are able
to perceive things better. When the mind is disturbed, our perception is also
disturbed. In daily life, one comes across situations that can be challenging and
require us to take effective decisions. These situations often influence to the state of
our mind -- so much so that we cannot take effective decisions. Neither events in life
nor the states of our mind happen with our permission. In fact, the events and states
of mind often occur in direct defiance to our wishes.
Meditation can bring about a balance between the different states of the mind. One
can learn to switch from the tough aspect to the gentler aspect within you. One can
be firm when appropriate and at the same time let go when needed. This ability is
present within everyone, and meditation enables you to switch between these states
effortlessly. With a few minutes of daily meditation and pranayama (breathing
techniques), our thoughts become powerful, and our tasks are accomplished more
effectively.
Through meditation and breathing techniques, we can cleanse our mind of negative
emotions and effectively address mental illness and depression. Meditation can bring
about a big transformation in society.❝
Q: Sri Sri, religion is called the opium of the society. Why is there so much violence in
the name of religion? What do you think should be the driving force in society:
religion, ambitions, ethics, money; what?
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Sri Sri: Humanism. If religion is devoid of humanism, only violence will exist in the
pretext of religion. If you don’t consider that all the people on the planet belong to
you, belonging to one God, and if you think they are your enemies, they are bound
to fight. This whole problem in the world today on the pretext of religion is
unfortunate.
It first appears like the fight is between Muslims and Jews, or Christians and Muslims, or
Muslims and Hindus; these are all appearances. If you go a little deeper, you will find
people are fighting even amongst themselves. Among Muslims, among Christians,
and among Hindus there is fight.
So inter-religious and intra-religious fights and conflicts are happening all around the
world. And the main reason is not God, or the prophet, or the philosophy, the main
problem is personal egos. It is peoples ego and narrow mindedness that is the cause,
and they use religion as a pretext to bring out of all their pent up anger, frustration
and stress, because nobody ever taught them how to get rid of stress and be free,
and to live in the moment and be happy. Nobody taught them how to look at
everybody with compassion. This teaching, this technique was missing.
Not all the people are like this. There are good people in every religion. And there are
so many good people who are striving for the betterment of humanity, in all the
religions – Buddhism, Christianity, Jainism, Islam, Hinduism, everywhere there are good
people. There are only a few people who create conflict; they need help. They need
help rather than condemnation. It is easy to condemn a bad guy, but that is not
going to help. We need to bring the transformation of hearts and minds. That is what
the role of spirituality is. Spirituality unites people of all religions and makes them
experience the one truth, the one love that we are all made up of.
Source: www.artofliving.org/wisdom-qa
on in life. Do not waste today for what happened yesterday. Wake up and say, ❝I
have the valor and the courage to overcome this❝. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
groups. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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We need to bring this shift from joy of receiving to the joy of giving. - Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
You have passed through many stumbling blocks in life which you thought
impossible. You remained untouched by any of them. Nothing could shake you. So,
What are you afraid of? -Sri Sri
Satsang Knowledge
On the occasion of Kartik Purnima and 10th Anniversary of Sri Sri Ayurvedic College of
Science & Research a special satsang in presence of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, took place
at the Art of Living International Ashram.
❝It has always been a tradition here to do things informally rather than formally.
Satsang is that where there are no formalities. We are all sitting here without
informally and in the same informal way we are participating in a celebration of
Ayurveda❝.
❝Here in Southern India there is a saying that a teacher is recognized by his student.
The Guru job is to teach and forget. Without forgetting he cannot get liberation. And
every Guru wants that the student should defeat the Master. And I would want that
all those who are going to be Ayurvedic doctors, they should be such doctors that
their teachers and principal proudly say that they got defeated by their students.
There is a saying in Telugu which says that the teacher got disrespect as the students
did not learn and the teachers did not forget! That is not the case here. The teachers
here are all very happy as 100% of the students have passed with first class. This is due
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to the diligence of the teachers and the thirst for knowledge of the students. We be
capable in life through yoga and meditation.
And meaning of Yoga in life is benefitting oneself and others. Today is Vishnu Deep,
we have lit so many lamps, in the same way we have to light lamps in every house,
the lamp of good health. Good health is not just pertaining to the body. I believe
good health is a smiling face, a loving heart and a body full of energy. For that only
medicine is not the answer, along with medicines you also need Sadhana. It is said
that a doctor should have a good skill of the hand. And to get that you should
meditate, do Sadhana and Seva(service). Every doctor should have an attitude of
service.❝
❝The world is ours, there is nobody who does not belong to us. Our will not be done till
everyone is not filled with love❝
Satsang Knowledge
A young farmer has brought many varieties of seeds of mango and millet and
presents a beautiful mat made of husk of rice and wheat, to #SriSri
#SriSri: So nicely the young farmers have done this. This is very innovative. Youth
should come to the agricultural field bring in innovations like this. And that’s how
India will move forward, when youth will come get into agriculture. And it is so
appreciable that they have brought so many varieties of seeds. They have not only
preserved but they are reviving different varieties of seeds.
Ques: Once in a year you can do advance meditation program, but why do we
meditation everyday?
#SriSri: This is like asking why should I keep eating everyday?
How the body needs food from time to time, in the same way the mind also needs
rest or meditation. If you see one film in a lifetime is it enough? Why do you need to
entertain yourself again and again?
How you need entertainment again and again in life and the body needs
nourishment again and again. We take food for hunger, water for our thirst, and you
also need sleep every day, in the same way you need meditation for your soul
everyday.
Ques: Your twitter messages come only once in 3 days.
#SriSri: Whatever is important in life will come in intervals and it is like pearls and
diamonds and it’s value is very high.
Ques: When you travel abroad it is so much easier to meet you!
#SriSri: The Ashram in Bangalore is itself like heaven, there is so much greenery. You do
not need to go anywhere else!
Ques: You asked me to read Yoga Vasishta to remove my doubts, I read it twice but
my doubts are still there.
#SriSri: Ok, I am here to create more doubt and not remove them. Because every
doubt takes you a little further, so read once again!
Ques: I have to many Sankalpas and vikalpas in my mind, I am not able to decide
what to do.
#SriSri: That is what is called confusion. Too many sankalpas, too many vikalpas, that is
called confusion. For that you do meditation, yoga. And wait.
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Our mind is like a blackboard in a school. If the teachers do not wipe it after using it,
and other teachers keep on using the same blackboard, will it make sense to the
students? Our mind is the same. We use it a hundred times but never clean it.
Pranayam, and meditation are useful for cleaning it. They will keep your mind fresh,
and ready to learn. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Q: How does eating non vegetarian affect our spiritual progress?
#Sr
iSri:
I would not wish to speak much on this issue. You go to Google, and you will
find a lot of articles and information, scientific information on why you should not go
the non-vegetarian way. Vegetarian is best for your body, mind and spirit. You can
learn this from Google, with evidence!
Knowledge Sheet: The big dilemma!
If there is complete faith, then there are no questions. If you do not have any faith
then there is no point in asking any questions because how can there be any faith in
the answer that is given?
Harish : What About The Questions That We Ask With Complete Faith?
Sri Sri : If you have faith in God or yourself or your family and friends, then questions
cannot arise. When you know somebody is taking care of you, what is the need to
ask any question? For example, if you have taken the Karnataka Express to
Bangalore, then there is no need to ask at every station ❝Where is the train going?❝
When there is someone to take care of your desire, then why go to an astrologer?
Rajesh : But what about blind faith?
Sri Sri : Faith is faith...it cannot be blind. When you call it blind, it is not faith - at least
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not yours! Blindness and faith cannot meet. It is when you lose faith, you become
blind.
Date:2014-12-09 / Poster:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Daily Sutras and Knowledge Sheets
You are that Longing that you have for me. You are that Love you have for me. You
are That. Be with That! Sri Sri
Everyone learns a lesson by the mistakes they do, blunders they do. Intelligent people
they learn from others mistakes and then they avoid them happening in their lives.
This is a sign of intellect. If you have a sharp intellect, you will not repeat the mistakes
that others have done. Unintelligent one repeats the same mistakes and they go
through the same ordeal. The sign of intelligent people – you are alert, you learn from
everywhere, learn from everyone. In fact you learn more from the wicked than the
good.
In Sanskrit there is a beautiful couplet that says, first I salute the wicked for he is
teaching me at his own cost. And then to the noble for he showed me the path. So
the whole life is a learning process. And its not like I learn and then live sometime in
the future. No. Learning and living will go together. You learn as you live and as you
are living, you start learning. When you are vibrant, when you are awake, alert, then
every moment you learn something, from someone. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Through # k
nowledge
and devotion, transcend all #rma
Ka and be free. -
SriSriRaviShankar
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Never upset your mind with yes and no. Be quiet. Live in the happiness of your own
nature.
Q: Guruji, I do all practices when I am in problem but otherwise I stay away from
path. What should I do?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: This you figure out. When misery comes, everyone thinks of God.
But to one who thinks of God even when happy, why will misery touch him? There is
an old proverb which says this Sukh mein simran sabh karein, dukh mein kare na koi,
Sukh mein simran jo kare to dukh kahe ko hoye This applies to us also. When you are
doing pranayama, Sudarshan kriya technique , when you are happy, then that
happiness will continue. Today, there was an article in the paper which says that the
only way to cure depression is by meditation.
Anti-depression medicines will make the depression come back. There is a
rebounding of depression with anti-depression medicines but with meditation there is
no rebounding. Today millions of people are suffering from depression and they do
not know something like this exists. They do not know there is a way which can make
them free from depression.
When you go back tell everyone about meditation. It takes one out of depression,
suicidal tendencies. Look at Rashid (pointing to a youth who has come from Kashmir),
he is smiling after 12 years and is now doing wonderful service also.
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Benefits of meditation. Share and tag your friends.
on in life. Do not waste today for what happened yesterday. Wake up and say, ❝I
have the valor and the courage to overcome this❝. - Sri Sri
Five Insights
Love is your nature. But in the process of its expression, you often get caught up in the
object. This is when your sight is caught outside.
To return back to your nature, you need insight.
- Pain is the first insight. It takes you away from the object and turns you towards your
body and mind.
- Energy is the second insight. A bolt of energy brings you back to your Self.
- Divine Love is the third insight. A glimpse of Divine love makes you so complete and
over rules all the relative pleasures.
- Trance is the fourth insight. An elevation of consciousness and partial awareness of
the physical reality around is Trance.
- The conviction in the non-dual existence, that all is made up of one and
only one, is the fifth insight.
When love glows, it is bliss.
When it flows, it is compassion.
When it blows, it is anger.
When it ferments, it is jealously.
When it is all numbers, it is hatred.
When it acts, it is perfection.
When love Knows, it is ME!
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Q: What is the difference between Moha (attachment) and Mamtaa (a mother
love)?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: See, a mother love is permanent, it never goes away. What is
attachment? When (a mother) love makes us blind, then that is attachment. Suppose
a mother’s son is not qualified to become the Chief Minister of a state, and the son
also does not want to become the Chief Minister, but the mother forces the son to
become the Chief Minister because she is unable to recognize that he is not the right
person for the job, then this is attachment.
What King Dhritarashtra felt towards his son Duryodhana was attachment. On the
other hand, the love of Mother Yashoda towards Lord Krishna was nothing but purely
a mother’s love for her child.
Attachment gives you misery because it blinds you. When you get entangled in
attachment, you overlook the person true capability and what they deserve.
Mamtaa means having the feeling of ❝Mine❝. So, your motherly love should expand
and it should be for everyone else.
Lord Krishna says in the Gita, ❝Yes, I do have attachment also, but it is equal towards
all beings❝. Samo ❝ham sarva-bhuteshu na me dveshyo ❝sti na priyah. Ye bhajanti tu
mam bhaktya mayi te teshu cha-api aham❝. (9.29)
This is a very unique quality and only Lord Krishna can speak like this. A normal person
can get very attached to one person. But when a person says, ❝I have that same
strong attachment towards all beings❝, then that is unique. So Lord Krishna presents
attachment also in a positive way.
The body, heaven and hell, bondage and liberation, and fear too - all this is pure
imagination!
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Benefits of cycling.
When you blame someone, just analyze what your purpose of blaming is. You want
to correct the person, is that why you are blaming? Or are you blaming just because
you want to vent out your emotions?
What is your attitude? Why do you want to do it? Venting out your emotions or
blaming someone only shows how immature you are, how much jealousy you have,
how you have no control over your own mind, and how much more you need
meditation and all this. Is not it? - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Q: In Patanjali Yoga Sutra, you have talked about the five states of the mind. You say
that when the mind gets into wrong knowledge, it often thinks that it is the right. If that
is the case then what is the way out to come out of this wrong knowledge?
Yoga) any one of the limbs will trigger the mind and say,❝This is pramana viparyaya❝,
meaning, it the wrong knowledge. This comes to one understanding.
If you have been judgmental, when you come out of being judgmental you say,
❝Oh, I have been judgmental❝. Time will trigger that point in you.
1. Time
2. An expanded consciousness, when you are able to see, ❝What I am thinking, is it
correct or not?❝
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Gautama Nyaya Sutras say, ❝You see the sun rising and setting, but you know that
into it and it appears to be bent, but in reality it is not bent❝.
groups. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Yoga) any one of the limbs will trigger the mind and say,?This is pramana viparyaya?,
meaning, it the wrong knowledge. This comes to one understanding.
If you have been judgmental, when you come out of being judgmental you say, ?
Oh, I have been judgmental?. Time will trigger that point in you.
1. Time
2. An expanded consciousness, when you are able to see, ?What I am thinking, is it
correct or not??
Gautama Nyaya Sutras say, ?You see the sun rising and setting, but you know that
into it and it appears to be bent, but in reality it is not bent?.
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A sign of intelligence is to see the One in many and find the many in One. - Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
Q: We were discussing about Kashi (the modern day city of Varanasi, India). It is said
that if someone breathes their last in Kashi, or if the ashes of their dead body is cast
into the River Ganga, their soul gets liberated. How true is all this?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: No, it is not like that at all. Kashi is also called as Varanasi, and it
gets its name by being the meeting point of two rivers: Varuna and Asi.
Kashi is actually not outside but within us. The Ajna chakra (the sixth metaphysical
centre of energy in the human body) is the meeting point of the Ida, the Pingala and
the Sushumna Naadis (energy channels in the human body). So one whose prana
finally flows in the Sushumna Naadi is one who gets liberated (freed from the duality
of the material world to unite with the divine).
You should not understand this to mean that everyone necessarily has to go to Kashi
only to die and attain liberation.
Where is Kashi actually? It is the region in the middle of the eyebrows on the
forehead, the region of the Ajna Chakra – which is the meeting point of Varuna
(represented by the Ida Naadi) and Asi (represented by the Pingala Naadi). So if
one’s prana is steadily established in this region at the time of death, then one
attains liberation. This is what is truly conveyed by these sayings.
There is another meaning attached to the city of Kashi. Kashi means one that is
overflowing with knowledge. In the ancient days, it was a great seat of knowledge
and learning. In those days, there were scholars in every street of this great city who
would go about debating and explaining the meanings of the scriptures. People
would discuss knowledge and scriptures.
In those days, people did not play card games by the banks of the river Ganga as
they do today. The river was not so dirty as it has become now. There was no
consumption of non-vegetarian food or slaughtering of cows in the city in those days.
The city of Kashi in those days was renowned for overflowing with knowledge and
intellectual discourses in every nook and corner. It was said that the city was so
enriched with knowledge that even a Parrot and a Mynah would discuss knowledge.
So one who sits in the company of such wise and enlightened ones surely attains
liberation just by listening to the knowledge.
The environment here is so different. Everyone is happy, doing their meditation and
are engaged in service. So places where people practice all these naturally become
centers of knowledge. That is why all these things are said about Kashi.
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Satsang Knowledge
❝There was a king and he ordered some exotic vegetables from another country…
The vegetables came and then the cook prepared and served him. The King
enjoyed and by the way he asked the minister who was sitting next to him, ❝Look at
these vegetables, they are very nice.❝ And the minister said ❝Yes! They are so nice,
so tasty❝. And then every day same vegetables were coming to him, third day, fourth
day, fifth day. And then on the fifth day the king really got upset and said ❝I do not
want to see any more of these vegetables! They are hopeless, no good at all.❝ And
the minister says ❝Yes my lords, you are absolutely correct! These vegetables are
hopeless.❝ So when someone agrees with your statement you cool down.. And so
then the king cooled down but then he said, the other day you were vegetable so
much? The minister said ❝My lords, I am your servant not the vegetables❝! My loyalty
is towards you, not to the vegetables. If you say they are no good, they are no
good!❝ So similarly in life, we have our loyalty. Where your loyalty is, where your
attention is, that is what we need to look into. That is what we need to set right.❝
A moment of quiet serene smile speaks volumes that even thousand words cannot
convey.
Keep Smiling and Keep Serving.
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that benefit everyone. -Sri Sri
Q: Should I continue reading tarot cards?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji: If you ask me, you should quit.
When you are angry, the anger filters into every cell of your body. If you are
distressed, that distress spreads very quickly into every cell. In the same way, when
you are in love or joyful, it spreads very deeply, in every cell of your body. That is what
happens when you sing the Sanskrit names.
Q: Gurudev, sometimes it becomes a burden to even remember knowledge. How
Sri Sri: Why are you increasing your burden by asking this question too? (Laughter) Just
relax and be silent for a while.
expands and becomes silent. Then you say ❝It is! ❝ The job of the intellect is to make
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you say ❝yes❝. Once the intellect is at rest and agrees with the knowledge, then an
expanded awareness dawns on you and you come to realize your true existence,
that you are nothing but consciousness.
You feel that the Self alone is all that there is. So you move from a state of
individualized consciousness, i.e., ❝I am❝, to the expanded state of realizing that
everything just is. This is the flow of how our awareness expands with knowledge.
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Through# owledge
kn and devotion, transcend all #rma
Ka and be free. -
SriSriRaviShankar
Life is a gift but very complex. It is a complexity of ?#?peace? and ?#?dynamism?, ?
#?love? and action, silence and ?#?service?. -SriSri
When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and
nothing can touch you. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
आज फर पल खबसरत ,
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दल बस री ही सरत ,

कछ भी क नया ह कोई गम नह ,
नया यादा मझ ज
री रत ।
Look at your shortcomings and understand that at least someone is there to remove
them. Have faith that there is someone who will remove your shortcomings. Just by
having this faith things can move forward. - Sri Sri
❝You are what you eat❝is a saying that you have probably heard before. It holds true
not only on the physical but also on the psychological level. When you mostly eat
hamburger and french fries, well, you probably feel like hamburger and french fries
(not a very nice feeling).
. . . so how to eat healthy?
The most important principle in the Ayurvedic Diet is that your food is fresh (without
pesticides, additives and other chemicals), seasonal, and as often as possible local.
Fresh does not, however, mean raw. The best are freshly cooked, whole meals.
So cooking for devotees. sharing importance of vegetarian food and indian taste
Take all that you get in your life as a gift and just move on. There is nothing you can
have forever. Everything comes, stays for some time and goes away. You have to
keep moving on. - Sri Sri
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Q: Is it possible to ever-smiling like you? What is your trade secret? I promise I will never
compete with you!

riSri:
S#I want competition! I want everyone to compete on this. I do not want that
promise from you at all. In fact you should tell me you will always compete with me.
There is an ancient saying, the teacher always wishes to be challenged by the
student. The teacher pride is when the student challenges. Challenge not in a bad
way but in a positive sense. The teacher loves to be defeated by the student and
that is the pride of a teacher – ❝I got defeated by my student!❝.. How to keep
smiling? Broaden your vision. Know that life is much bigger than the small events that
take place. What robs you off your smile is unpleasant events, events which does not
bring you comfort or which appear to give you misery. But when you realize that you
are much bigger than pleasure and pain, you are much bigger than events that
occur, in day to day life, either pleasant or unpleasant, then the smile on your face
will not vanish. Second, when you know that there is someone to guide you, take
care of you, there is a power with you, then also your smile cannot vanish. Third is
when you see that you are here to give and contribute, that there are people who
need you more than you need anything else. That also gives you the strength to
move through those moments when you cannot smile.
Knowledge session in recife
Like fish in the water, you are in air. Thoughts are in mind. Mind is inBig Mind. The Big
Mind in Me is love. Emotions are ripples in love. Love is all Knowledge. Every atom of
Big Mind is crammed with Knowledge. Knowing this, you stop seeking. You seek until
you come to the Master. You walk until you come tothe swimming pool. You do not
walk or run in the swimming pool - you swim orfloat. Once you come to the Master,
seeking stops, blossoming begins. You are Knowledge. Every atom in you is
shimmering with Knowledge.
This iscalled Go. Be a Go-Pal. Be a friend in Knowledge. Go has four
meanings:Knowledge Movement Achievement Freedom or liberation Pal means
friend or protector - one who takes care of. Often you become friends by:Gossiping
about negative things Complaining Similar cravings or aversions Common enemies or
common problems Common goals or common addictions Coming together in
Knowledge is rare.
You become friends because you havesomething in common. Be a friend in
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Knowledge. Uplift each other in Knowledge. All Satsangees are Gopals - reminding
each other, coming together in and for Knowledge. That is Gopal. Be a protector of
this Knowledge.
Q: What is the secret of happiness?
Sr
# iSri:
Secret of happiness is not wanting anything and doing Seva (service). The
more you do Seva, the more happiness you get. And the third is knowledge. Without
knowledge there is no happiness in life. Without self-knowledge everything is empty.
Here is why dates are good for your health.
Sri Sri According to me, the true meaning and the goal of education is to increase
prajna, i.e., one awareness. Education is not simply gathering more and more of
information. That is something which even a computer can do.
that benefit everyone.
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You are made up of the stuff called love. What you are seeking here and there is
what you are. Turn inward and repose. When you find that you do not need love from
anybody and you are the source of it, then you start giving. When you start giving in
abundance, it comes back to you in abundance!
Wanting freedom is an illusion, and the feeling of bondage is another illusion. It is all in
your mind because you want a change. You want to change the world. You want to
change the situation, and the people. You do not want to change your attitude. You
want to change everything but not yourself, your mind, and your outlook.
Q: I am a 17-year-old girl and I feel very lonely.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: You should have no time other than to develop your skill. Do
bhastrika and do exercise and keep on the run.
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There is nothing you can have forever. Everything comes, stays for some time and
goes away. You have to keep moving on ~ Sri Sri
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Do not wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate
your own soul.
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GURU PUNCH
See, we have to remember that life is very short. There is not enough time for love,
then why do we go around spreading hatred and bloodshed? This is a question we all
have to ask ourselves. This is what will create a new world around us, where everyone
will be free to follow their own religion and be in harmony with all others. - Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
GURU PUNCH
No religion in the world preaches that you should hurt or injure another being. Then
why is all this happening today? It is because religious education has not been
imparted in a proper way to everyone. Today there is a need for spiritual education.
Spiritual education is that which connects everybody together. There have been so
many saints in time, and they have all had the same opinion – that everything is one.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
GURU PUNCH
There is nothing wrong in any religion of the world. It depends on the understanding
of the one who follows and practices it. You can use a knife to chop vegetables, slice
butter and also to hurt yourself. It is like that. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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GURU PUNCH
If we want World peace today, we have to start with ourselves first. Once you behold
the divine light within you, I tell you, you will not find anyone a stranger. You will feel as
if everyone belongs to you. Every person in the world belongs to us. But this realization
can dawn once we become aware of our own light within that no one can
extinguish. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
GURU PUNCH
I tell you, if all the countries make even 0.1% of the expenditure that they make in the
field of defense towards spreading peace and harmony, the entire world can
change. No one prefers hatred. But many times unknowingly it happens, or it
happens due to fear and insecurity of others. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
GURU PUNCH
For world peace to happen, the individual must be at peace. If I am not peaceful,
then I cannot spread peace wherever I go. And when can an individual be at
peace? It is possible only when he or she is free of stress. When we ourselves are not
joyful and peaceful from within, how can we expect to communicate and spread
the same outside us? - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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GURU PUNCH
Until we achieve peace from within, we cannot have peace and harmony outside,
and neither can there be world peace, nor any kind of personal progress in our own
lives. Now, bringing peace will require everyone efforts. Whatever little one can do in
this direction, one should do. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
DAILY SUTRA
Whatever goal you want to achieve, first know that you have it, you have achieved
it, and then put your effort to achieve it. Effort should be put, but only effort will not
work. Before effort, there should be the seed of the goal as well. So, the goal is
already present in the seeker. The goal is not somewhere out there and you have to
try to reach it, no! Just relax; the goal is here and now. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
DAILY SUTRA
One should praise fools and get the work done. Good people anyway do the work
whether you praise them or not. Arrogant and foolish people succumb to praise. - Sri
Sri Ravi Shankar
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DAILY SUTRA
Without faith, the vehicle of life cannot proceed. Faith is the petrol of the vehicle of
life. Even the petrol called faith has started becoming too expensive! If you do not let
it become expensive, the vehicle of life will move further and reach its destination. -
DAILY SUTRA
Look at your shortcomings and understand that at least someone is there to remove
them. Have faith that there is someone who will remove your shortcomings. Just by
having this faith things can move forward. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
DAILY SUTRA
What we need to understand is that we should know that we already have what we
want in life. You start with this intention, ❝I already have what I want❝, then what you
want will fructify easily. Thinking, ❝I have it❝, is like sowing a seed. Once you sow a
seed, then you put water and manure and it will sprout and grow. So you know
mentally that the seed is there. Same way, whatever you want to achieve in life,
know that you are that and you have it. If you think, you do not have it then only lack
grows. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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DAILY SUTRA
We need to encourage everyone to be self confident and come out of this ❝lack❝
consciousness. Those who have should start serving. Those who do not have, they
should start knowing that they will get what they need and work hard. - Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
Satsang Knowledge
Satsang with Gurudev, Art of Living International Ashram, 4 December, 2014, live
webcast
Q: Is it really and practically possible to be happy and smiling like you? What is your
trade secret? I promise I will never compete with you.
Sri Sri: I want competition. In fact you should tell me that you will always compete with
me. There is an ancient saying: a teacher pride is when the student challenges.
Challenge means not in a bad way. I will do this. The teacher loves to be defeated
by a student. That is the pride of the teacher.
Shishya dichye parajayam.
How to keep smiling?
What robs you of your smile is unpleasant events. Events that do not bring comfort or
which appear to give you misery.
When you realize that you are much bigger than events that occur, then the smile on
your face will not vanish.
Third when you know that you are here to give. That gives you strength to move
through moments when you cannot smile.
Every person contains some honey. Like a bee, just take the honey out of every event
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& every moment -move on. Be like a busy bee - Sri Sri
Sri Sri: The secret to happiness is to do service (seva) and not have any wishes
(achaha).
The more you do seva, the more you are happy.
The third thing is knowledge.
Date:2014-12-06 / Poster:Art of living Fan club
Second when you know that there is someone to guide you, take care of you, then
also your smile will not vanish.
DAILY SUTRA
Now that you know that you get whatever you ask for, ask for big things and not small
things. Do not ask for yourself; ask for the country, for everyone. Pray that Dharma
(righteousness) increases and Adharma (unrighteousness) diminishes. Justice
increases, injustice diminishes, lack decreases and abundance increases. Pray for the
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welfare of everyone. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
DAILY SUTRA
The more one lacks control, the more one tries to control others, but once, one has
total control over one self, one does not want to control anything or anybody. It
brings great freedom. Renunciation is living in total freedom and letting total freedom
dawn in everyone. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Do you know what is the difference between a tourist and a pilgrim? Both are on a
journey. A tourist is satisfying the senses, whereas a pilgrim is in the quest of the truth.
Tourists come, look around, take pictures in their mind, only to come back again.
Pilgrims are at home everywhere and are hollow and empty. Most people in life are
just tourists without even being aware of it. Only a few make their life a pilgrimage. -
This entire world is made up of vibrations, and we should see to it that these vibrations
are Sattvik (positive and uplifting). When a doctor is good and treats everyone well,
we generally say that the doctor has a healing touch. See, all doctors are the same
but some treat their patients better than the others do. They seem to have a healing
touch in their hands. Whatever seeds of thought we sow into the consciousness, the
same will be the vibration around us. That is why we should regularly practice yoga
and Pranayama. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Q: Is there life on other planets?
Sri Sri : There is plenty of life on this planet. Let us handle this. Then we can move to
other planets!
See the possibility that people and things can change at any time and do not hold
on to judgements. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Love has not left any life untouched. -Sri Sri
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❝Walking❝ is the best exercise...! ❝Walk Away❝ from arguments that lead you to
nowhere but anger.❝Walk Away❝ from people who deliberately put you down.
❝Walk Away❝ from any thought that reduces your worth.❝Walk Away❝ from failures
and fears that striffle your dreams. The more you ❝Walk Away❝ from things that
poison your soul, the happier your life would be. Gift Yourself A Walk Towards
Happiness...
Q: How can we keep our faith in Gods and Goddesses if we follow the knowledge of
advaita?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Advaita is knowing that everything is composed of and illumined
by the same light (here referring to One Divinity or One supreme Consciousness).
To worship and honor different Gods and Goddesses is similar to expressing the
understanding that the one white light is composed of many lights of different colors
and wavelengths. All the rays of the Sun are the same light. They all come from the
same source, but when you pass a ray of light through a prism, or through a droplet
of water, then it splits into rays of different colors. So think of these different colors as
the different Gods and Goddesses.
You will eventually have to see the underlying unity between these two, and that is
the job of the intellect (to move past the duality towards the One Divinity). That is why
in our scriptures, we say, ❝This is true and that is also true!❝
For example, when we see all the furniture in this room, we say that it is all made of
wood. Yet at the same time, a door is not a chair, and a chair is not a window,
though it is all made from the same wood. This understanding is called dvaita.
So, both advaita and dvaita exist together in harmony.
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The events come and go, they perish like flowers. But every event and every person
contains some honey. Like a bee, just take the honey out of every event and every
moment - and move on. Be like a busy bee and be in the Being. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
This is the only basic problem in the universe. There is no other problem. You can
attach it to one thousand causes or reasons, but the problem is how to free your life
from the storm which has gripped it. The first thing to do is to become aware of this. At
that moment, the storm will subside. First, stop regretting things. It is nature.
You may also feel feverish for God or God-realisation. Ashtavakra says, just relax, cool
down, and leave that also in the hands of Divine. If He wants to come, let Him come.
You are ready. Let God will be done.
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What is the secret of happiness?

SriSri:
Secret of happiness is not wanting anything and doing Seva (service). The more
you do Seva, the more happiness you get. And the third is knowledge. Without
knowledge there is no happiness in life. Without self-knowledge everything is empty.
Recognising oneself in all beings, and all beings in oneself, be happy, free from the
sense of responsibility and free from preoccupation with ❝me.❝
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You should do the job that comes to you when you have to do it. Then you should
relax and rest. You should be happy in yourself. Having done what you have to do,
you will be happy.
Meditation is that inward journey where we go into the center of our existence, our
self. Its a journey from movement to stillness, from sound to silence. - Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
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Why give love a name? When you do that, it becomes a relationship, and
relationships tend to restrict love. ~ Sri Sri
You walk until you come to the ocean. You do not walk or run in the ocean - you float
and swim. Like this once you come to the Master, seeking stops, blossoming begins. -
Satsang Knowledge
4 Dec 2014, 7 PM (IST): Welcome to the live webcast of Knowledge Session &
Meditation with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar at The Art of Living International Center,
Bangalore.
Sri Sri: It was good?
We meditated for 25 minutes.
Sri Sri: The secret to happiness is to do service (seva) and not have any wishes
(achaha).
The more you do seva, the more you are happy.
The third thing is knowledge.
Q: Is it really and possible to be happy and smiling like you?
Sri Sri: I want competition. In fact you should tell me that you will always compete with
me. There is an ancient saying: a teacher pride is when the student challenges.
Challenge means not in a bad way. I will do this. The teacher loves to be defeated
by a student. That is the pride of the teacher.
Shishya dichye parajayam.
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Q: I am a 17-year-old girl and I feel very lonely.
Sri Sri: You should have no time other than to develop your skill.
Do bhastrika and do exercise and keep on the run.
Q: Should I continue reading tarot cards?
Sri Sri: If you ask me you should quit.
Q: I told my boss, I have faith in Bhagavad Gita, since then my boss has stopped
paying me my salary. What should I do?
Sri Sri: Tell them that Bhagavad Gita also talks about fighting for your rights.
Q: How can married people be dispassionate?
Sri Sri: When there is fight, when there is some discussion that bothers you, be
disapassionate.
A variragi lives in the present moment.
Q: Wh at is the importance of donating food?
Sri Sri: Any donation is about sharing and living. And this is a Divine quality.
Q: What is the effect of effort on karma?
Sri Sri: Karma is associated with every facet of life.
With knowledge, bhakti (devotion), karma is lessened.
Everything else increases karma.
Q: I have acquired a lot of skills doing seva, but it does not help in practical life.
Sri Sri: Whatever you learn in life will help you sometime or the other.
Q: You have said that women were so powerful that even nature would listen. What
happened?
Sri Sri: You have to ask the historians. Women should not ask for power or wait for
someone to give them the power. Know that you have the power and move on.
Women should move collectively. Yesterday, there was a discussion in Delhi. Women
in Kashmir do not have power over property. The law is such women cannot transfer
property to her daughter.
A single mother in Kashmir has to surrender her home and land to the government.
She cannot give her property to her daughter.
One country should have only one flag, one constitution.
Intellectuals should sit and go through the article 370.
It is doing injustice to the people over there.
How many of you think this is gross injustice?
Everybody. No sane person will think this is good justice.
Like this there are many many laws, many many provisions.
Jammu the population is more and Kashmir the population is less.
1 MLA represents 1 lakh in Jammu. In Srinagar 1 MLA represents 12000 people.
How many of you do not know about this?
Is this right?
Audience: No
Sri Sri: Is this democracy?
Audience: No
Sri Sri: In Ladakh, 1 MLA represents that place.
You see the way these laws were made and presidential order was passed without
even going through the parliament.
These are all illegal.
There are so many women like this who are deprived over their own homes, over their
own property.
If a women claims a property, she is looked down upon as if she is robbing the
property of her siblings.
I think women all over should stand up and give justice to these people.
How many of you think so?
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(Everyone in the audience raises their hands in support.)
Q: Is the human race progressing?
Sri Sri: Yuga creates a climate, a season but effort of human being should continue.
Date:2014-12-05 / Poster:Is me?
Meditation is seeing God in yourself. Love is seeing God in the person next to you.
Knowledge is seeing God everywhere. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
This is the only basic problem in the universe. There is no other problem. You can
attach it to one thousand causes or reasons, but the problem is how to free your life
from the storm which has gripped it. The first thing to do is to become aware of this. At
that moment, the storm will subside. First, stop regretting things. It is nature.
Q: What is the difference between love and attraction?
Sri Sri Attraction is short lived, but love lasts much longer. Love takes you in, the other is
exterior!
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Life should be emotionally rich with a rational pitch and a spiritual touch.
Q: This gross material world appears to be real, but it is actually unreal and
temporary. It also appears to be full of misery and suffering. How can an object be
both true and untrue at the same time?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: You have rightly said that it only appears to be real. In reality it is
not. I will give you a simple example to understand this. Look at a flowing river. Would
you call it ancient or new? Try answering this question for yourself.
Now you would think, ❝How can the river be both?❝ But then, that is how it is. The river
has been in existence since ages, yet there is a constant flow of new and fresh water
in it. Every moment the water is fresh. So in the same way, this world appears to be
real and permanent, yet in reality it keeps changing every day. That is why it is not
regarded as the truth.
What is the definition of truth? In principle, truth is called as ❝Trikaalabaadhitam yad
tat sat❝. It means that truth is that which remains constant and unchanging through
the three phases of time.
If you look at the world in light of this definition, then the world truly appears unreal.
But that does not mean that it does not exist. It is just that it is not the same at all times
and is constantly changing, yet it does exist.
Q: During the time of Buddha it is said 10000 people were enlightened. In your time
how many will be?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar : This time the number will be even greater!.
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A smile is not something artificial, it should come from within. That can only happen
when the stress is gone, when we go deep in meditation.
If someone says, ❝I am meditating❝, that means that they smile more; there is
serenity, sensitivity and sensibility, and this is spirituality.
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re yourself, things add value to you. When you respect the
self, you add values to the things. -
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gross, subtle and causal. It is the whisper of pure #onsciousness t
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bring with the source. From there waves of beauty, waves of # bl
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are created at all
levels of existence. -
SriSriRaviShankar
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Q: Please can I do ❝tantra sadhana❝. Do you mind it? I am doing one of the ❝Dus
mahavidya sadhanas❝.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: See, I tell you, there are not many people who know the ten
mahavidyas. So you do not need to do any of those. You simply relax and listen to
some chanting. The Art of Living has released so many chants, and they are all a part
of that only.
The sahaj mantras that are given to you are a beej (seed) mantras, they are all great.
Somebody may say they will give you the knowledge of the ten mahavidyas, but it is
too complicated. I would say, you just honor them from a distance. For your practice,
whatever has been given to you is great. If you feel like, you can join the Vedic
programs that happen at our centers. In 40 days and you will understand more about
these things. If you come to India, we also do the upanayanam (thread ceremony)
and you can learn the mantras then.
There are so many people who say, ❝I will give you this knowledge, that knowledge❝,
but it will only become a messy confusion.
Disha Pranaam
Disha Pranaam English/ Hindi:
We all want peace of mind, a mind free of negative thoughts and emotions. There
are two ways to get to that state. Either by cultivating the mind or simply by letting go
and surrendering. The ancient Indian belief is that as human we are puppets in the
hands of angels. Often one finds that one is not responsible for the emotions that one
experiences. The cosmic forces and the vibrations all around us affect us. These
cosmic forces can be called angels. ❝Disha Pranaam❝ (Bowing Down Technique) is
a simple process by which we can conquer these forces through the power of love.
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Let your smile change the world
Before we start anything new, we are asked to pray to God. This tradition is unique to
India and is not found in any other country in the world.
When we pray, we should remind ourselves that when we were born in this world, we
were so dependent on our parents and family for all our needs. When we grow old,
we shall again become dependent on our children and family for something or the
other. So both, in childhood and in old age we have a dependency on others. And in
between these two points of our life, we still are dependent on so many things, like
the rains, the society, etc.
So throughout our life, we have a sense of dependency on something, or some
person. But when we remember that this dependency in the true sense is our
dependency on God for all our needs, then this sense of dependency becomes a
source of great inner strength rather than a source of weakness.
Then we can find strength even in moments of helplessness. This is the secret to
worshiping God.
When we see happiness in the happiness of others, that is when we will be truly
happy. -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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You may also feel feverish for God or God-realisation. Ashtavakra says, just relax, cool
down, and leave that also in the hands of Divine. If He wants to come, let Him come.
You are ready. Let God will be done.
more :
This is a great and unwritten truth: mistakes are nobody - neither ❝mine❝ nor ❝yours❝.
So, with this technique you check the mistake and at the same time, you do not get
angry or feel guilty. We do not say that there is no mistake at all. A mistake is a
mistake. We recognise a mistake and improve it.
more :
NaradaBhaktiSutra 78
|| Ahimsa, satya, shaucha, daya, aastikyadi, charitrayani paripalniyani ||
Essence: Non- violence, truth, purity, compassion and faith in Divine existence have
to be followed in order to be a devotee.
more :
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: During the time of Buddha it is said 10000 people were enlightened. In your time
Q
how many will be?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji: This time the number will be even greater!

: What is the difference between love and attraction?
Q
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji: Attraction is short lived, but love lasts much longer. Love takes
you in, the other is exterior!
: Gurudev, sometimes it becomes a burden to even remember knowledge. How
Q
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji:
Why are you increasing your burden by asking this question too? (Laughter) Just relax
and be silent for a while.
expands and becomes silent. Then you say ❝❝It is!❝
You feel that the Self alone is all that there is.
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expanded state of realizing that everything just is.
This is the flow of how our awareness expands with knowledge

: Guruji, why bad people are happy and good people are suffering?
Q

uruji : This is an illusion. It appears that the bad people are enjoying. But I tell you it is
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temporary. Good people need not be foolish. They can be intelligent. If someone
says I put my finger in the fire because I was so good, I tell you it is foolishness. Good
merits will give good result one day be sure of that.
This universe is very dynamic, everything is changing. But within you there is something
eternal, which is beyond change.
We would like to highlight the danger of extinction faced by the honeybee which
has sustained food agriculture for over 4500 years.
Some estimates range from 50-80% of the world food supply being directly or
indirectly affected by honey bee pollination.
As the United Nations index of food prices surges towards an all time-high and grain
shortages trigger revolutions in countries, it is imperative to save the honeybee.
A joyful spirit is evidence of a grateful heart!
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ShivSutra27
|| Jnanamannam ||
Essence: Knowledge is food. If you have knowledge, your pleasantness and
enthusiasm will increase and overflow. The more you know, the more your mind will
be full of happiness.
Q: Despite so much research there’s not yet a cure for HIV. Is there any hope and
what is your message to those afflicted with HIV?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji: Those who are living with HIV and AIDS must remember that we
are all going to lose our body one way or another. Everybody is going to die. Now lift
your eye above this body consciousness to know your spirit. Spirit has no disease. Spirit
is beyond it. Keep your mind alive, energetic, loving and happy. People with disease
die and people with no disease also die. Sometimes they die out of nowhere.
Sometimes sick people live longer and many times healthy people suddenly die. All
possibilities are there. So, know that you are more than the body. You are
consciousness. You are light. Honor that light. Please do not sit and brood over it. Look
ahead and engage your life in educating others who are not informed about HIV.
And instead of seeking solace, become a giver of solace to others.
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Truth stands the Test of Time
Q: Gurudev, this gross material world appears to be real, but it is actually unreal and
temporary. It also appears to be full of misery and suffering. How can an object be
both true and untrue at the same time?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji:
You have rightly said that it only appears to be real. In reality it is not.
I will give you a simple example to understand this. Look at a flowing river. Would you
call it ancient or new? Try answering this question for yourself.
Now you would think, ❝How can the river be both?❝ But then, that is how it is.
The river has been in existence since ages, yet there is a constant flow of new and
fresh water in it. Every moment the water is fresh. So in the same way, this world
appears to be real and permanent, yet in reality it keeps changing every day. That is
why it is not regarded as the truth.
What is the definition of truth? In principle, truth is called as ❝Trikaalabaadhitam yad
tat sat❝. It means that truth is that which remains constant and unchanging through
the three phases of time.
If you look at the world in light of this definition, then the world truly appears unreal.
But that does not mean that it does not exist. It is just that it is not the same at all times
and is constantly changing, yet it does exist.
Q: What is the secret of a peaceful and successful life?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji : Accept the people and situations as they are. And always be in
the present moment. Do not keep thinking of what happened in the past or what will
happen in the future.
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Ten billion animals are slaughtered for human consumption each year. Unlike the old
times, today most animals are factory farmed, crammed into cages where they can
barely move and fed a diet tainted with pesticides and antibiotics. Eating a plant-
based meal for lunch instead of meat saves 2.5 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions,
133 gallons of water, and 24 sq. ft. of land, according to research reports. Therefore,
in three meals, you will have saved more water than you will save by switching to a
low-flow shower-head. A vegetarian lifestyle awakens our spirit of compassion and
guides us towards a kinder, gentler society in which we exercise a moral choice to
protect animals - not exploit them.
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Q: I understand the importance of being at peace internally, despite all hardships
and injustice. But as an activist who fights against all forms of oppression, how should
one deal with an oppressor who has violence on their side? In other words, how must
the weak overcome the powerful?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar If we are disturbed, our actions will not yield fruit. When we are
calm, we get intuitive thoughts and with these thoughts you make a plan and take
action on it. If you have to deal with an oppressor alone, it is not possible. You have to
create awareness and in a group it is possible. At the same time, keep your intention
strong and know that there is a power that will guide you and support you.
Remember, sometimes Mahatma Gandhi had to walk alone. Other times he created
such a big wave of awareness and moved the whole continent, is not it? And he
always meditated. Every day they did satsang, they would sing bhajans every
evening. Morning he would read Bhagavad Gita. So Mahatma Gandhi had the
spiritual force, otherwise he couldn’t have done what he achieved.
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If you think you are stupid,
Then you know who you are.
And if you know who you are,
You are enlightened!
And if you are enlightened,
Then you are certainly not stupid.
If you think you are intelligent,
Then you do not know who you are.
And if don’t know who you are,
Then you really ARE stupid!
Better realize your stupidity and be Enlightened! - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Q: How to overcome desire?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji : This is another desire! What we need to know is that a desire
fulfilled takes you back to the same place you were before the desire arose.
No religion in the world preaches that you should hurt or injure another being.
Today there is a need for spiritual education. Spiritual education is that which
connects everybody together. There have been so many saints in time, and they
have all had the same opinion – that everything is one. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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I would like to say that everyone, wherever you are , start reading a few shokas of the
Bhagavad Gita every day.
Read three to four shlokas everyday, if you do not understand Sanskrit never mind,
even the translation is good enough.
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Q: You say that the human birth is precious and one gets this birth after passing
through 84 lakh yonis (births or incarnations of the physical body). But the human
beings today have to wake up early in the morning, rush to work on a scooter or in a
local train, and face lots of problems, only to come back home tired, and goes to
sleep. Sometimes one cannot even sleep due to stress. I am thinking if it was worth
going through 84 lakh yonis to face all this.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: It is a good thought. There is a saying in Hindi: ❝Ajgar kare na
chaakri, panchhi kare na kaam. Daas Maluka keh gayye, sabb ka daata Ram❝ (One
need not make efforts for anything as God provides for everyone).
When one has this faith, that God is the one who provides everyone with everything,
then you will never lose your enthusiasm, come what may. When you go to office or
travel in the local train, just look around you and see, there are so many good people
who have such good and positive thoughts, as they go about their daily routines.
Work never gets done by worrying about it. It gets done by intelligent thinking and
clever action.
For that your mind needs to be calm and happy. And how do you bring that
calmness and happiness to your mind when there are so many difficulties at work? It is
by having that faith that God is there to look after and provide for everything that I
need.
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Q: How do we feel the presence of God?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: God is that fundamental principle from which everything has
come. He is that which upholds and sustains everything in creation, and He is also
that into which everything dissolves into. And it is all happening every moment,
everywhere.
So, in the same way, Lord Krishna says, ❝I am the source that governs everything in
this creation, and it is through my very presence that everything happens❝.
For example, a foetus in the womb of a mother. It is because of the presence of
consciousness (Jiva or life force) within the foetus that causes it to grow. It is because
of the presence of consciousness (Jiva) within a plant, or a trees that causes it to
grow. Now this consciousness that is present within each living being is a witness to all
that happens. It does nothing by itself, yet everything happens under its influence.
Lord Krishna says, ❝Any transformation that you see, happens because of Me. I am
the seed from which everything is born, and I am the cause of all changes❝. After
listening to this, what more proof do we need of the existence of God? Are creatures
being born in this world or not? Every moment there is something being born. See how
many living creatures and insects are being born every moment. Plants, trees, insects,
animals, babies, all are being born every second.
Lord Krishna says, ❝My presence (as the Divine Consciousness governing everything)
is the cause of living beings being born and coming into existence. It is My presence
that sustains and upholds their existence. And it is My presence due to which they
undergo all changes and ultimately die and disappear❝. Now how can anyone or
anything be separate from God? Do not be foolish in looking for God, or running
behind Him. Wherever you are, just relax, and repose within yourself. That is where you
will find Him. He is in you.
That which is not omnipresent cannot be called God. When He is present
everywhere, is He not present in you? He belongs to everyone, so He belongs to me
too. He is in me and He is all-capable. It is very important to remember that God is all-
capable. He is capable of fulfilling all our desires and whatever we feel that we lack.
He is capable of granting us all that we need. This is all that you have to believe in. So
just believe this and relax.
As an increasing number of so-called spiritual leaders are found to be mired in murky
controversies – the latest being the arrest of Rampal of Haryana, the common
man’s faith in their claims of godliness has hit a new low. Senior reporter Jyotsna
#
Jalali caught up with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar the founder of ArtofLiving
, at Panchkula on
Thursday, to elicit his views on the mushrooming of self-styled godmen and its impact
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is a harmonious blend of outer silence & inner celebration as well as inner
silence & outer celebration. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Q: How do we deal with constant blame, especially from a dear one?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: See, you get used to anything that is constant (Laughter). So do
not worry about it. If someone constantly keeps blaming you, then do not care about
it. It happens so often, when mothers constantly blaming their children, the children
stop caring about what their mother is saying.
This is because they know she is going to continue the same behaviour every day,
right? The trouble happens when someone who never complains suddenly
complains. When someone who is never rude suddenly becomes rude, that bothers
you more, is not it so?
Either you are eternalizing the problem, or you lack the skill to deal with what is
happening. These are the only two aspects to it. So skilfully handle these situations
and do not eternalize them. Everybody has a right to be a little imperfect. You should
accept others❝ imperfections and your own imperfections as well. When you do not
accept peoples❝ imperfections, you get angry. And when you do not accept your
own imperfections you feel guilty and then you become angry at yourself. Both
situations are not healthy and congenial for you. So, you need to keep a little space
in life for imperfections, and just move on. Do not get stuck in the past.
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You are total. You are full. You have all that you need. Do not underestimate yourself.
A Guru is there to show you what you are. This is your possibility. You are this.
You are not different from me. Whatever I am, that is what you are, i.e. your highest
possibility. And what is not possible, when you blossom in your highest possibility? All
that you are craving for and hanging onto comes to you automatically anyway. But
you have to let go. You are holding your fists tight. Why not open your hands and see
that the whole sky is in them?
You are closing your fist; even air cannot enter, let alone the diamonds. The process
of opening the fist is what sādhanā and practices are for. That is what knowledge is.
Nobody can take your self-respect from you. But ego is dependent on others.
Whenever there is ego it will hurt you and bring you sorrow; but self-respect will always
bring you peace. Got it?
Your ego can be hurt, but your self-respect cannot be hurt. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
See, we have to remember that life is very short. There is not enough time for love,
then why do we go around spreading hatred and bloodshed? This is a question we all
have to ask ourselves. This is what will create a new world around us, where everyone
will be free to follow their own religion and be in harmony with all others. - Sri Sri
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Q: What is one such thing that is beyond Asakti (attachment) and Anasakti
(detachment)?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Me! (Huge laughter)
Do not make the Master a worldly relationship.
❝Oh, he looked at me.❝ ❝He did not look at me.❝ ❝Oh, he said this.❝ ❝He did not say
that.❝ ❝Somebody else is close; I am not close.❝
Just enter the door of the Master and come home. Only the presence of the Master
will bring fulfillment to your life - and all your relationships. - Sri Sri
Q: How can I get close to you?
Sri Sri Assume that you are close to me. It is you who thinks you are not close.
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I tell you, if all the countries make even 0.1% of the expenditure that they make in the
field of defense towards spreading peace and harmony, the entire world can
change. No one prefers hatred. But many times unknowingly it happens, or it
happens due to fear and insecurity of others. - Sri Sri
Q: What is the secret of a peaceful and successful life?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Accept the people and situations as they are. And always be in
the present moment. Do not keep thinking of what happened in the past or what will
happen in the future.
When attention is given to the spiritual aspect of one life, it brings a sense of
belongingness, and responsibility, compassion and caring for the whole of humanity.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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There is freedom when you realize that you are just a witness to all that is happening. -
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Learn to make people your own. They already belong to you; they come from the
same soil & breathe the same air. We are all connected so deeply. -Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
Q: During the time of Buddha it is said 10000 people were enlightened. In your time
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how many will be?
Sri Sri : This time the number will be even greater!
Keep wondering whether your waking reality is a dream and you will wake up to the
real. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Meditation is a journey to your source you have made numerous times in your life
either consciously or unconsciously.
What exactly is it, is a question Sri Sri Ravi Shankar answers below:
❝Meditation is the journey from movement to stillness, from sound to silence. The
need to meditate is present in every human being because it is a natural tendency of
human life to look for a joy that does not diminish, a love that does not distort or turn
into negative emotions.
Is meditation foreign to you? Absolutely not. This is because you have been in
meditation for a couple of months before your birth. You were in your mother womb
doing nothing. You did not even have to chew your food -- it was fed directly into
your belly and you were there happily floating in the fluid, turning and kicking,
sometimes here and something there, but most of the time happily floating there.
That is meditation or absolute comfort. You did nothing, everything was done for you.
So there is a natural tendency in every human being, in every soul, to crave for that
state when you are in absolute comfort. And getting back to that state which you
have had a taste of, just before entering the hustle bustle of this world is very natural
because in this universe everything is cyclic, everything wants to go back to its
source. When the autumn season comes, the leaves fall and go back to the soil and
nature has its own way to recycle them.
The natural tendency to recycle all that we have collected in day to day life as
impressions, getting rid of them and getting back to the original state that we were in
when we came on this planet is what meditation is. Becoming fresh and alive again is
what mediation is. Getting back to that serenity which is your original nature is
meditation. Absolute joy and happiness is meditation.
Pleasure minus excitement is meditation. A thrill without anxiety is meditation. A love
without hatred or any of its opposite values is meditation.
Meditation is food for the soul. When you are hungry, spontaneously you go to eat
something. If you are thirsty, you want to drink some water. In the same way, the soul
yearns for meditation and this tendency is in everyone.
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That is why I say, there is not a single individual on this planet who is not a seeker. It is
just that they do not recognize it. The problem is that we try to look for that food
where it is not available. It is like going to a grocery shop when you want to fill gas in
your car. You keep going round and round the grocery store saying, ❝I want gas for
my car.❝ It will not work, because you need to go to the petrol station. So, that right
direction needs to be found. Meditation happens in transition. Actually meditation
happens, you can not do it. You can only create a congenial atmosphere for it to
happen.
Meditation is uplifting the energy and mind and spreading it out. Whenever you have
been happy, that happiness has been associated with a sense of expansion. And
whenever you have felt miserable, that has been associated with a sense of shrinking
or contraction. There is something in you that expands when you are happy and
contracts when you are unhappy. But we never pay attention to what is contracting
and expanding. We only keep our attention outside. We have not paid attention to
the reason. One of the sages of the past, Gaudapadacharya, said, ❝There is
something in you that is expanding that is worth knowing.❝
Even a glimpse of this consciousness, this energy inside you can make the smile on
your face so strong that nothing whatsoever can take it away from you. Nobody can
make you miserable; nobody can take away the joy from your life. Life assumes
another dimension suddenly -- just a glimpse of this, an idea about that something
inside us that is expanding. You do not have to leave things here and go. Just being
amidst all the noise and still recognizing that beauty, that thing that is so beautiful, so
wonderful, so fascinating, right here and now is meditation. The peak, the most
supreme type of prayer is meditation. All powers are hidden within the Self and
everything will manifest when you connect to your consciousness.❝
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One who has known one Self knows that the entire universe is as amazing as one own
Self. So he is amazed. He is just wondering, yet has no curiosity!
In order to receive anything, you need to qualify for it. If you receive a dress, the dress
should fit you. Otherwise, it is of no use having a dress. Knowledge and relevance. An
event or instance has reference. And wherever there is life, there is reverence.
Without these three principles - knowledge, relevance & reverence, life cannot
evolve.
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Another name for enlightenment is Kritakrityaha. Enlightened action. It means that
you have become so full. You have done what you have to do and you will do what
you have to do. See that action as a smooth, uninterrupted flow without hindrances.
Faith in your Self, faith in the world and faith in something we do not know, the Divine.
You can start from anywhere. Any one point will lead to all three; all three come
together.
Let the whole world stand on one side and say, that you are not Niranjanaha; you are
not pure. Then one would say, ❝Impossible!❝ Such unshakable faith dawns in you
when the words touch your heart.
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We never drop our body; the body drops us. This makes a huge difference. Nobody
drops the body. The body gets tired of the person, it drops him.
Happy Monday! Do not forget to SMILE
On reasoning, cloth is known to be just thread, similarly all this world is self only.
The love that is defined by a relationship is limited. Dive deep into a Love that is
beyond relationship.
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If you do not have a relationship with yourself, all other relationships become shallow.
And if your relationship with yourself is so profound and steady then you naturally
develop the skill to handle any kind of relationship around you.
When you care for nature, be assured that nature cares for you, more than a mother
would do for her child.
The God of Love in the Indian mythology is called Apanga. Apanga means ❝one
who has no parts of the body at all❝. It is so because love has no parts, no shape,
and no form. It is formless. He has a bow and five arrows. These five arrows are made
up of five flowers - the five senses. He hits you with the five flowers and it is through
these five senses that you experience something that is beyond the five senses. What
gets created is a wave of beauty deep inside you. It produces a sweet honey inside
you!
And when you experience such a wave, your eyes close, you are not in form but you
dissolve into the formless. You come back to your nature. When you experience
something so great, so wonderful, and so beautiful be it music, a fragrance or touch
automatically your eyes shut and you sink into that ocean of beauty. The power, the
energy inside you starts moving in a new direction.
Like in the spring, the entire creation just springs up. The birds sing, trees blossom. Like
that when energy is kindled in you, it creates awe. You spring out of dullness, out of
the inertia, out of the routine… New life springs up.
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भि त जीवन का मल त व , जगत का सार । उ खोओ मत।

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समपण रहो। समपण समा ध ।
त इस सि सब ओर म हो द गा य द उ ख की दि ट हो तो।
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Just an intention to be free makes you free immediately.
When every action of yours is preceded by witnessing, then every move you make in
this world becomes perfect and significant. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Simply holding your fingers in certain positions while breathing deeply can improve
the health of various organs of the body. This practice is called Yoga Mudra.
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar explains the importance of silence in our lives:
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❝There are three types of Silence.
The first is the silence where there is no talking. This is very beneficial for people just to
be aware of what they are saying and how much energy they spend talking. The
second is the silence of stillness. This is the silence inside us that is detached from the
noise in the world. Silence is disinterestedness in activity, an inward journey of the
mind. This inner stillness is very important if we want to understand and grow spiritually.
Inner silence frees us from the noise of the world. And finally, there is the silence of
Oneness - Oneness with the entire universe. Oneness is the goal of silent practice.
Whatever knowledge we study and understand with our intellect is limited. The
knowledge that we gain by effort is immanent. The knowledge which is gained
through effortlessness, through silence and intuition is transcendental.
Now one might think why bother meditating when sleep is good enough to bring
silence?
Remember, when you are sleeping, your body is rejuvenating, it is growing, cells are
multiplying. There is a lot of activity in the body - in fact, much more than in the
waking state. In meditation, the reverse happens.
Metabolism, which is high in sleep, reduces during meditation. Since the body calms
down, so does the mind. And then intelligence awakens. Since meditation
rejuvenates the body and mind at the same time, you feel energetic.
We need to see and observe that most thoughts that come to our mind are not
useful at all. Nearly every thought is about the past. These thoughts that arise in the
mind are a projection of the past on the consciousness. We project whatever has
happened in the past, into the future - ❝This is okay, that is not okay. I like this, I do not
like that.❝ We need to bundle up all these thoughts, and throw them out.
By just realizing that all these thoughts are useless, the mind becomes free. When you
go deep into silence, you experience a form of communication without thoughts.
Without words one is able to understand what is being conveyed. This is when all the
questions in your mind disappear.
Questions are only vehicles to reach the destination. Answers are the fuel.
When the answer to a question is found, the vehicle starts moving ahead. However, it
is possible to reach your destination directly too, without the use of questions and
answers. How? By sitting in silence. When one sits in silence and a question arises, the
answer also comes along.
Inner silence is the mother of all creativity, the source of intuition, and the storehouse
of energy, and we all have it. The only thing is we have locked it and forgotten the
key! Just like how you forget your computer password sometimes. We all have this
enormous wealth of silence in our heart, but somehow we have forgotten how to tap
into it.
What a single glance can convey, a thousand conversations cannot. And what a
moment of deep silence can convey, even a thousand glances cannot. In silence,
we get back our energy, which is lost in the outer world. Being so busy in daily life, we
do not see the central core of who we are. We are more than our five senses. It is
important to go to the source of our being, beyond the mind, beyond emotion.
Silence brings you back home, and it gives you that much needed energy to realize
who you are, to realize that there is bliss, there is beauty, there is joy, and that is You.❝
Your Faith.Your Love.Your Beauty. Your Truth.
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is a 100 times more powerful than any doubt.

瑜伽的目的
今天我們來談談瑜伽。
你知道，「阿散納」（asana 體位法）的定定是「穩定而愉悅」。當你做瑜伽體位法時您應
該感到很舒適。因此有人說「Sthiram sukham asanam」。瑜伽會給你愉悅及舒適。
所以每當做瑜伽動作時，要如何做呢？Prayatna shaithilya – 進入一個姿势後，放下努力，
然後怎樣呢？Ananta samapathibhyam：無限安住於你之内。所以做每個體位法時要緊記
在心，每個體位法的目標不在於姿勢的正確性而在於體驗無限。
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Date:2014-12-03 / Poster:古儒吉知識網站
瑜伽的目的
今天我们来谈谈瑜伽。
你知道，「阿散纳」（asana 体位法）的定义是「稳定而愉悦」。当你做瑜伽体位法时你应
该感到很舒适。因此有人说「Sthiram sukham asanam」。瑜伽会给你愉悦及舒适。
所以每当做瑜伽动作时，要如何做呢？Prayatna shaithilya – 进入一个姿势后，放下努力，
然后怎样呢？Ananta samapathibhyam：无限安住于你之内。所以做每个体位法时要紧记
在心，每个体位法的目标不在于姿势的正确性而在于体验无限。
more :http://goo.gl/yxL1QR
Date:2014-12-03 / Poster:古儒吉知识网站
Be in the Present Moment. If you live life now, tomorrow will take care of itself. This is
the Art of Living!
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Something opposite should not throw you off your pedestal. You can have
preferences like you prefer to sit comfortably. That is okay. You prefer to have your
room near and clean. That is fine. But do not let them overshadow your nature, your
fullness. You are free. You are born free.
You are total! You are full! You have all that you need. Do not underestimate yourself.
A guru is there to show you what you are. This is your possibility. You are not different
from the guru. Whatever the guru is, that is what you are.
Q: What is stress, and when do we experience it?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: When we have too much to do in very little time, and when we
feel that we do not have the energy to achieve it all, then that is when we feel
stressed.
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The Advantages of a Hair Oil Massage:
Oiling your hair regularly is an age-old secret for healthy and shiny hair. A properly
done scalp massage can increase blood circulation to the hair follicles, increase
relaxation, decrease stress, condition the scalp, and boost the strength of the hair
roots. The kneading pressure applied by a massage warms the skin and opens up
blood vessels to increase flow and boost circulation. Increased circulation means
that the cells of the hair follicle will receive more nutrients necessary for optimal hair
growth function. The rubbing motion promotes relaxation and feels good, thus
increasing the production of ❝feel good❝ chemicals that work to lower your stress
levels. Lower stress levels allow your organs to function more efficiently, thus boosting
your hair follicles ability to grow hair.
Source: Sri Sri Ayurveda Panchakarma
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Weekly-Informations
Walnuts
Walnuts improve your Skin texture & elasticity and are also loaded with copper that
boosts collagen production.
Are you ready to snack on a handful of walnuts today?
Chocolate-Strawberry Truffle Pie (Raw)
Ingredients:
Crust:
● 2 tbsp cocoa powder or cacao powder
●1/2 cup raw cashews (or almonds, walnuts, pecans, or macadamia nuts)
●1/2 cup shredded unsweetened coconut
●1/8 tsp salt
Pie:
●2.5 cups strawberries, or other berries (250g)
●1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons cocoa powder or cacao
●1.5 cups cashews (150g)
●1/2 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
●1/3 cup coconut oil
●1/4 cup agave or pure maple syrup
●1/8 tsp sea salt
Cooking time: 20 min
Sattvik rating: Medium
Serves: 4-6 people
Procedure:
Crust:
(1) Combine all ingredients in a food processor and blend.
(2) Then transfer to a baking dish or aluminum pan. Using a piece of wax or
parchment paper, smush into the pan and pour desired filling on top.
Pie:
(1)In a bowl, cover the cashews with water and let sit at least 4 hours. Then drain.
(2) Combine all ingredients in a high-powered blender or food processor.
(3) Blend until super-smooth. Taste and add more sweetener until desired taste is
reached.
(4)Pour into a prepared pie crust, and freeze.
Serving Suggestion: Serve the Chocolate-Strawberry Truffle Pie with herbal tea.
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Strawberry is rich in vitamin C which is the best anti-aging agent that will help in
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Advanced Meditation Program
When you start celebration from inside, it adds worth to the celebration. But the out
to in approach leaves some shallow. Celebrate each moment within and without. -
Bring in the New Year while Celebrating from the inside!
7 Days Advanced Meditation Program at the Art of Living International Ashram
Dates: 25th - 31st December 2014
Register: On the Spot Registration Available
For Details Call: 08067262626/27/28
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Dark Chocolate Macaroon Cookies
Ingredients:
For the Cookies:
●4 ounces/100g dark chocolate (at least 70%), finely chopped
●¼ cup/50g brown sugar
●¼ cup/60ml coconut milk
●1 teaspoon vanilla extract
●1 ½ cups/120g unsweetened shredded coconut
●A pinch of sea salt
For the Chocolate Filling:
●3 ounces/75g bittersweet chocolate (at least 70%), finely chopped
●1 Tablespoon/15ml coconut oil
Preparation time: 30 min
Sattvik rating: Low
Serves: 4 people
Makes: About 20-24 cookies
Procedure:
(1)Pre-heat oven to 350° F or 175° C. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
(2)In a medium heat-proof bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water (making
sure that the bottom of the bowl does not touch the water) combine the chopped
chocolate, sugar, coconut milk, vanilla and a pinch of salt.
(3)Melt gently over very low-heat stirring constantly until fully melted and combined.
Remove bowl from heat and stir in shredded coconut. Let sit for a minute or so to
allow the mixture to hold its shape when scooped.
(4)Scoop up packed tablespoonfuls or use a small ice cream scoop to form small
balls of the mixture and place onto the parchment-lined baking sheets about 1 inch
apart. Press an indentation into the center of each cookie.
(5)Bake, rotating the baking sheets halfway through for 12-14 minutes. Transfer the
baking sheet to a wire rack. Press the indentations in the center again to create a
pocket for the filling and let cool completely.
(6)In the meantime, gently melt the remaining chopped chocolate and coconut oil
in a bowl set over simmering water as before until just melted and smooth.
(7)When the cookies are completely cool, use a teaspoon to fill the indentations with
the melted chocolate mixture.
(8)Let sit until firm or place in the fridge for a few minutes to speed up the process.
Store the macaroons in an airtight container at room temperature.
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Roasted Cauliflower with Olives and Herbs
Ingredients:
●2 medium cauliflower heads, trimmed, halved lengthwise, cored and sliced or cut
into bite-sized florets
●2 Tablespoons / 30ml extra virgin olive oil
●Flaky sea salt
●Freshly ground pepper
●1 cup / 200g marinated olives with thyme and rosemary
●2 Tablespoons salt-packed capers, rinsed, soaked, or brine-packed capers, rinsed
●2 Tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
●¼ cup / 30g chopped roasted walnuts (optional)
Sattvik rating: High
Serves: 4 people
Procedure:
(1)Preheat oven to 400°F or 200°C.
(2)In large bowl, toss cauliflower with oil, season with salt and pepper. Spread in single
layer on large baking sheet (or two, if one looks crowded).
(3)Roast stirring occasionally for 20 minutes.
(4)Add the marinated olives and roast for an additional 8 to 10 minutes or until the
cauliflower is lightly browned in spots and just tender.
(5)Transfer roasted cauliflower to a large bowl add capers and chopped parsley and
toss to mix well.
(6)Season with more salt and pepper if desired and sprinkle with chopped walnuts
(optional).
(7)Serve immediately or let stand at room temperature up to 1 hour before serving.
Bamboo Shoots
The Health Benefits of Bamboo Shoots that might not be known to you.
Health Benefits of BAMBOO SHOOT:
●Nutrients.Dietary Fiber 9%.Carbohydrate 2%. Protein 5%. Calories 1%.
●Minerals. Potassium 15%.Manganese 13%. Copper 9%. Zinc 7%.
●Vitamins. Vitamin B6 12%.Thiamin 10%. Vitamin C 7%. Vitamin E 5%.
●Aids in weight loss.
●Reduces risk of cancer.
●Strengthens immune system.
●Rich in anti-inflammatory properties.
●Helps improve cardiovascular health.
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●Effective against respiratory diseases.
●Provides relief from stomach ailments.
●Useful in curing snake and scorpion bites.
●Beneficial for controlling cholesterol levels.
Daily Value per 100g for e.g. 100g of bamboo shoots provide 9% of daily requirement
of copper.
Sahil Jagtiani-Om Namah Shivaya
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more :http://youtu.be/kfEExgBg96U
Date:2014-12-12 / Poster:A-Min Huang
Amla Candy - Mango
Sri Sri Ayurveda Amla Candy is delicious, healthy, sweet and crunchy. It is 100%
natural and is enriched with yummy mango flavour. Amla is one of the richest natural
sources of Vitamin C and antioxidants, that is essential for blood, bones, skin and
brain. It promotes glowing skin and shiny hair and has anti aging properties. It helps to
strengthen the heart, kidney, liver and has rejuvenation properties. It is excellent for
digestion and helps proper absorption of food.
Bramha Rasayana
Bramha Rasayana formulated by lord Bramha is very good rejuvenator. It acts as an
antioxidant and also reduces degenerative process of cells. It prevents falling and
greying of hairs and improves memory and strengthens the body. It is the choicest
natural remedy for stress and chronic tiredness. It is the best anti aging formula. It also
improves intelligence, memory and immune power.
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Sri Sri Yoga for Kids
Sri Sri Yoga for Kids starts 20th December!
Limited Seats. Book Early! Call 055-2206795, 050-6857617, 050-3082356.
more :http://on.fb.me/1yCdpl7
Date:2014-12-12 / Poster:Kids Yoga Dubai
Benefits
Benefits of onions. Share if you care
Benefits of Onions:.
●improved immunity..
●regulate blood sugar..
●reduce inflammation..
●heal infections..
●antiseptic..
●antibiotic..
●antimicrobial..
●remedy for common cold, cough, fever and sore throat..
●increase sperm count..
●reduce pain and inflammation of joints..
●apply the Onion Juice mix with turmeric on face this will help you to remove dark
pigments and patches..
●ear-ache..
●prevent tooth decaying and reduce tooth pain..
●eliminate worms in the stomach of children..
●applying onion juice on the hair eliminates lice.
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Advanced Meditation Programs
Enjoy your silence and you will be fountain of love. Brahman is no inertia, no aversion,
it is only bliss. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Blossom in Silence in the 10 Days Advanced Meditation Program at the Art of Living
International Ashram
Dates: 22nd - 31st December 2014
Register Online: www.bangaloreashram.org
For Details Call: 080 67262626/27/28
DSN Program
When you are totally defenceless, that is when you will be strong. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Break through your defences, and find inner strength in the DSN Program with Anand
Rajendranji, at the Art of Living International Ashram
Dates: 18th - 21st December 2014 (Reporting latest by 4pm on 18th Dec)
Online Registration: www.bangaloreashram.org
For Details Call: 080 67262626/27/28
Aloe Vera Vit-E Cream
Sri Sri Ayurveda Aloe vera Vit- E cream is a dual combination of nature richest
ingredients, one is almond & other is Aloe Vera. This combination in Aloe vera Vit- E-
Cream meets all the daily of your skin by nourishing . protecting & detoxifying . the
other essential ingredients, makes your skin healthy & beautiful.
Direction for use:
Use daily after bath. Apply cream gently on face, neck and other body parts for soft
and protective skin.
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Karela Jamun Juice
Karela is proved to have hypoglycemic (Blood-sugar lowering) actions. It has
potential benefits in diabetes mellitus. It has a mixture of steroidal saponins known as
charantin, insuline-like peptides, and alkaloids. Karela is an excellent blood purifier.
Karela also has significant anti-lipolytic and lipogenic acitivity. Jamun contains a
large number of minerals, and provides fewer calories, as compared to other fruits. It
is a herbal medicine, which improves the health of a diabetic at initial stage by
decreasing the blood sugar level.
OORJA
NOW, ENERGY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AGE! Sri Sri Ayurveda brings to you the
secret to a healthy and energetic life - OORJA health supplements.
Made of the Moringa oleifera (Drumstick) leaves, Sri Sri Ayurveda OORJA health
supplement is your answer to an agile and healthy lifestyle. The Moringa oleifera
leaves not only prevent over 300 diseases but also help restore lost nutrients and
vitality in the body, acting as an excellent natural rejuvenator.
Rich in natural Vitamin A, B & C, Calcium, Iron and Proteins, these tablets get easily
assimilated in the body and are free from side-effects. So get your daily dose of
energy, health and nutrition naturally!
MORINGA OLEIFERA LEAVES (Drumstick) are known to have: 7 times the Vitamin C in
oranges 4 times the Calcium and 2 times the Protein in milk 4 times the Vitamin A in
carrots 3 times the Potassium in bananas
Upanishad Programs
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The magnanimous world that we experience is a very small part of the whole

S
Universe - #
riSri
Learn the secrets of the Universe in the Ishavasya Upanishad Discourse by Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar for the first time in India, at the Art of Living International Ashram.
Discourse from 17th - 19th January 2015
Programs with Discourse:
5 Days AMP: 17th - 21st January 2015
7 Days AMP: 15th - 21st January 2015
For Details Call: 080 67262626/27/28
Mehantaka vati
Mehantaka vati is a combination of 15ayurvedic herbs well known for their anti-
diabetic activity since ancient times
more :http://t.co/pQLjis6pIa
Cashews
Cashews: Natural Anti depressant.
Story
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Satsang 5.12.14
❝There was a king and he ordered some exotic vegetables from another country…
The vegetables came and then the cook prepared and served him. The King
enjoyed and by the way he asked the minister who was sitting next to him, ❝Look at
these vegetables, they are very nice.❝ And the minister said ❝Yes! They are so nice,
so tasty❝. And then every day same vegetables were coming to him, third day, fourth
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day, fifth day. And then on the fifth day the king really got upset and said ❝I do not
want to see any more of these vegetables! They are hopeless, no good at all.❝ And
the minister says ❝Yes my lords, you are absolutely correct! These vegetables are
hopeless.❝So when someone agrees with your statement you cool down.. And so
then the king cooled down but then he said, the other day you were vegetable so
much? The minister said ❝My lords, I am your servant not the vegetables❝! My loyalty
is towards you, not to the vegetables. If you say they are no good, they are no
good!❝ So similarly in life, we have our loyalty. Where your loyalty is, where your
attention is, that is what we need to look into. That is what we need to set right.❝
❝Everyone learns a lesson by the mistakes they do, blunders they do. Intelligent
people they learn from other mistakes and then they avoid them happening in their
lives. This is a sign of intellect. If you have a sharp intellect, you will not repeat the
mistakes that others have done.
Unintelligent one repeats the same mistakes and they go through the same ordeal.
The sign of intelligent people – you are alert, you learn from everywhere, learn from
everyone. In fact you learn more from the wicked than the good. In Sanskrit there is a
beautiful couplet that says first I salute the wicked for he is teaching me at his own
cost. And then to the noble for he showed me the path.. So the whole life is a
learning process. And its not like I learn and then live sometime in the future. No.
Learning and living will go together. You learn as you live and as you are living, you
start learning. When you are vibrant, when you are awake, alert, then every moment
you learn something, from someone.❝
❝There is another couplet in Sanskrit that says, lions are lazy, snakes are scared and
the difference of opinions amongst intellectuals is the cause of happiness on this
planet. The planet is happy because, the lions are lazy. Just imagine if the lions are
very active, they will finish the forest in no time.. so laziness of lions is a boon to the
forest.
Similarly snakes are so scared, because of their fear, you are saved.
They are so scared they run away from anybody. And different thinking of
intellectuals, they all have their very different ideas. And so the world is a better
place. In the think-tank, everyone has different ideas, otherwise you will not find
diversity on this planet. If suppose everyone goes to the restaurant and eats only one
thing, the restaurant will not have any diversity then. So differences of opinion or
diverse view points, make the world a better place. These are timeless wisdom. They
apply to any place, anywhere at any time.❝
Mint
#AyurvedicTip:
Mint leaves are a tasty breath freshener. Chewing mint leaves will
soon freshen up the breath and is simple home remedy for bad breath. Source:
http://aolu.co/SSPanchakarma
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DSN Program
Why do you think you are weak? Wake up and see you have all the strength. - Sri Sri
Ravi Shankar
Do you follow your mind or rule your mind?
Sr
Come and join the DSN Program in presence of # iSri
at Art of Living International
Ashram with Anand Rajendran ji.
Dates: 18th - 21st December 2014
Online registration: www.bangaloreashram.org
For details call: +91 80 67262626 / 27 / 2
Shakti kriya
Back to India .with Shakti kriya...
Will meet you all there
Sri Sri Yoga Level 2
We do yoga to make life more beautiful.. to stop misery from entering our world. -
SriSri
Make your life beautiful - Sri Sri Yoga Level II with Dr. Richa Chopra, in presence of Sri
Sri Ravi Shankar, at the Art of Living International Ashram.
Learn Special Advanced Yoga postures and meditations, designed by Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar, along with knowledge from Patanjali Yoga Sutra.
Dates: 10th - 14th December 2014 (Reporting by 5pm on 10th Dec)
For Details Call: 080 67262626/27/28
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Ginger tea
Health benefits of Ginger tea.
1.Motion Sickness.
2.Stomach Discomfort.
3.Reduces Inflammation.
4.Asthma Relief.
5.improves Blood Circulation.
6.Menstrual Discomfort.
7.Immunity boost.
8.Relieves Stress.
9.Cough and cold.
10.Weight Loss assist.
Training programs
Art of Living International Ashram announces training programs in Housekeeping and
Venue Management!
Spread the word and change lives!
Reporting Date: 5th January 2015
Duration: 6 months
Contact: 08067262825, +918904103400
Email: training@vvmvp.org
Cough Syrup
Sri Sri Ayurveda Herbal Cough Syrup is non alcoholic, herbal preparation that
provides instant relief from cough. Sri Sri Ayurveda Cough Syrup is fortified with
Kantakari, Tulsi, Yashtimadhu, Laung, Shunti and other carefully chosen herbs. This
ayurvedic syrup acts on dry cough & allergic cough with phlegm and provides fast
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relief. Safe for children and pregnant women.
Immugen
Sri Sri Ayurveda Immugen plays a key role in combating with conditions affecting the
immune system & respiratory tract diseases. Amla, Amruth & Tulsi are proven to have
Immuno-modulating, enhancing & adoptogenic activities which makes this
formulation a unique one.
Dosage: 2 tablets twice or thrice a day or as directed by the physician
Sudanta Toothpaste
Smile confidently with Sri Sri Ayurveda Sudanta Toothpaste, for complete oral care. It
keeps your breath fresh, protects and prevents gum and tooth diseases, and ensures
healthier gums & teeth. It is very effective for tooth ache, dental caries, bleeding
gums, tooth decay and bad breath. It gives long lasting freshness throughout the
day.
Coconut
Coconut water is rich in vitamins,minerals,electrolytes,enzymes,amino acids and
cytokine.Coconut Water is very beneficial after a bout if diarrhoea, as it replace fluid
loss. It is rich in Amino Acids,enzymes, dietary fibre , vitamin C, and minerals such as
magnesium, potassium and manganese; at the same time it is low in Cholesterol and
Chlorides.
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GurStory
One day, I had to go to Bangalore for some official work. After completing the work, I
went to consult a Doctor to get an MRI scan done. When I went to him with the
reports, I got a shock of my life. The reports revealed an advanced stage of brain
tumor. The Doctor said that nothing could be done about it, and that I should be
prepared for the worst.
This bitter reality was the turning point in my life. A life which had been full of
excitement, joy, money had now turned into sorrow and misery. I was then returning
back to Mumbai, with immense worry in my mind. I was tensed about my family, and
my business, that I took so long to create.
Now here comes the surprising part of the story:
more :http://aolu.co/SriSriIsAround
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जदगी जब भी री ब म लाती ह - जम चाद हतर नजर आती ह __!!

ाचीन काल वामी, साध और लोग कह भी कसी भी क म की कलह सनना पसद नह कर | य द उन पास

और अपनी दि और मन को भीतर की ओर त र ज कछ भी नह आ , तो फर आप अचानक अप भीतर

जब भी कोई सम या आती तो वह यि त को भीतर गहन की ओर त कर िलए होती िजस यि त

स कत एक कहावत जो कहती , ❝क त य सख य नकोपी दता❝| कोई भी खशी या ःख नह सकता | वह

ऐसा मत सोचो क तम सब को हर समय ोध म त होना चा ह । ज़ रत पड़ पर ोध को एक औज़ार की तरह

दल राम, मन व ाम, हाथ काम - यही योगी ल ण । -- ी ी र वशकर जी

Ques: How to handle emotional abuse?

Date:2014-12-12 / Poster:Sri Sri Ayurveda Panchakarma

दल बस री ही सरत ,

भि त जीवन का मल त व , जगत का सार । उ खोओ मत।

लोग को अपना बनाना सीखो| त हा ही | इसी धरती और इसी हवा स स | त हा बीच गहरा स ब ध

समपण रहो। समपण समा ध ।

त इस सि सब ओर म हो द गा य द उ ख की दि ट हो तो।

is a 100 times more powerful than any doubt.

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