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Peace initiative for Kashmir by Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar will be travelling to Srinagar on 10 Mar,2018 to interact with local community to heal the scars of violence and terrorism and find a peaceful solution for Kashmir conflict. Read more!
01 Tuesday Dec 2015
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Wisdom by Spiritual leader and Art of Living Founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“Any intelligent person cannot rule out the mystery in life and the universe and hence cannot honestly be an atheist!” – Humanatarian Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
A pure atheist is impossible to find. An atheist is one who does not believe in anything that is not concrete and tangible. Life is not all concrete and tangible, nor is this Universe. Whether it is business, science or art, they all involve a certain amount of guesswork, assumptions, imagination and intuition. All of them are ethereal in nature and are not tangible.
The moment an atheist accepts, even remotely a field that is unexplainable, he ceases to be an atheist. Any intelligent person cannot rule out the mystery in life and the universe and hence cannot honestly be an atheist! The so-called atheists are perhaps only denouncing certain concepts of God.
Question: Was Buddha an atheist?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: “No” in one sense because he professed emptiness which is very hard for an atheist to accept and “Yes” in another sense because he did not profess concepts of God.
Jim: An atheist believes only what he can see but Buddha said all that you see is not real.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: If only all present day atheists could be Buddhas.
01 Tuesday Dec 2015
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Wisdom by Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Q: How to achieve universal peace?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
See, universal peace starts with individual peace. If individuals are peaceful, families are peaceful, societies are peaceful, it all will contribute towards universal peace.
Quantum physics has completely removed this last straw of doubt from the minds of people that your vibrations do have an effect on everybody else.
Q: How to be peaceful and yet prosperous?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
See, peace and prosperity go hand in hand. Where there is no peace, there cannot be prosperity. And this is what is happening with all the Naxal affected areas. Since there is no peace, there is no economic development at all.
All other districts have developed except the 200-odd districts that have Naxal problems? Why? Nobody wants to start any business there.
Now how to be peaceful? This one should learn. If you have mental peace, you have energy to work. If you are disturbed and are feeling upset, then you do not want to do any work. When you do not do any work, your productivity will be zero. And if you have zero productivity, you will have no income. So through yoga and through meditation develop your intuition and increase your peace and enthusiasm, and you will be prosperous.
26 Thursday Nov 2015
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“Everyone has to go one day or another. Why grieve for those who are certain to leave (this world)?” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Q: Gurudev, it has been 15 years since my father passed away, but I am still not able to forget him. I remember him a lot. What do I do to overcome this?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Why are you making efforts to forget him? It is okay to remember him. You do not need to do anything about this.
Just like your father, there are thousands of fathers who will leave this world one day, and there are so many who have left, and there are also many who are going to be born as well. You have limited your life to a very small space and are feeling stuck in it.
No one is going to be here permanently. You too will leave this world one day, isn’t it? But till the time you are here, be happy and cheerful, spread peace and love. Do good deeds, be in knowledge, and spread knowledge to everyone around you.
I will not sympathies with you and tell you, “Do not cry. It is such an unfortunate thing that has happened to you”. Instead, you will get a tight slap here (so that you wake up and realize the truth). And a slap from me will only make you smile. All your crying and grieving will stop.
25 Wednesday Nov 2015
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“Love is the shadow of the Self.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar shares:
Passion makes you weak. Dispassion is strength. For your passion to be fulfilled, you have to depend upon so many things. Passion and self-reliance do not appear to go together. If you are passionate, you have to forget about being self-reliant. If you want to be self-reliant, you have to drop your passion. This is generally so.
That which brings together these two completely different aspects in you, is your spirit. The same spirit that wants to be self-reliant is also passionate. It is only in spirituality that passion and dispassion can happen together. This is the rarest combination.
When you are dispassionate, you have strength, and strength is self-reliance. True self-reliance is realizing that nothing is excluded from the Self. And when you realize everything is part of the Self, then you can be passionate about everything! Even to fulfill your passion, you can only rely on the Self, for Self alone is non-changing.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar also said in Truth, there is neither reliance nor passion. In one state, you can either be passionate or you can be self-reliant. But in an elevated state of consciousness, you can be neither, or both!
24 Tuesday Nov 2015
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“Go deeper in to yourself, then real Shaucha happens.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar shares:
When you are miserable, what has happened is that you have gone away from the Self. This is called Ashaucha. It means you have become unclean. In India when someone dies, the close relatives are said to be Ashaucha for 10 days because they are very sad. They are impure because they have moved away from the Self. After 10 days of just being with that experience and reading the Gita, being with the Knowledge and pulling themselves back into the Self, then it is called Shaucha. They have purged out the impurities that have come during events.
This keeps happening again and again in dealings in life. You become Ashaucha and you have to get back to Shaucha. Go deeper in to yourself, then real Shaucha happens.
Shaucha’s benefits are clarity in the intellect, a pleasing mind, focused awareness in the mind, a say over the senses, and therefore eligibility to realize the Self.
Shaucha is disinterestedness in the tendencies of one’s own senses and non-association with other people. If a tendency in your body arises just have the understanding, “Oh yes, here is this old familiar tendency coming up again. Come on, you have had this experience enough, and still the body is craving for it again.” Disinterestedness in one’s own body — just an idea, a sort of distaste, and in one moment it changes.
Why do people love each other so much, have such an intimate relationship, and then fight? Ashaucha has happened. If you don’t get distaste for the tendency of the senses then distaste for the object of the senses will come and you will blame the object.
When Ashaucha happens then come back to Shaucha quickly. Suppose you get drowned in any worldly aspect, just know this is Ashaucha . . . “That is why I am suffering misery.” Then come back to Shaucha.
Your attraction or craving is only as long as you think someone is “other.” When you think they are part of you or your Self, then the attraction dies out. That is why a husband or wife is not attracted to the partner but to someone else because the partner has already become a part of them.
When you realize everyone is part of your Self, you enjoy the whole world without a sense of craving.
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17 Tuesday Nov 2015
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Wisdom by Spiritual leader and Art of Living Founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“The one who relaxes in his consciousness, is happy. One who is centered, experiences the true happiness.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Q: If whatever we do is in search of happiness, then why is there so much pain and misery in the world?
There is a story of Mullah Nasserudin. His wife was pregnant and the time of delivery had come. But the baby was not coming out. When doctor told this to Mullah Nasserudin, he ran to the market, bought a toy, and kept that toy in front of her wife. He said, “After all this is my child, so he will surely come out with greed”.
Our whole life we keep on running behind things with the hope of getting something. We keep on looking for some kind of profit. How would such person experience happiness? Neither does a greedy person get happiness nor does a person who is bombarded with too many desires.
The one who relaxes in his consciousness, is happy. One who is centered, experiences the true happiness. I am not saying there is no happiness in the outer world, but the happiness you get when you go within is incomparable. The world is running in search of happiness. The body gets baked, the mind gets baked, the intellect gets deluded but still we keep on getting stuck in the same repetitive cycle. When you meet the Guru, you come to know that you are the source of happiness. Then the mind calms down, and you realize that you are the one in whose search you kept on running here and there.
13 Friday Nov 2015
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Wisdom by Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“Meditation is recognizing these three spaces.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar says:
Sometimes you sit and watch the vast space, put your attention there, and the mind also becomes blank. For how many of you it has happened?
On a nice day, cloudless sky, just bright stars are there and you just lie down and keep gazing at the sky. When you gaze at the sky what happens? That space gets created inside too.
A sort of emptiness and you get into a meditative state. So, all the thoughts, ideas, everything we do remains in this space. Maybe in the future sometime someone will invent a device to tap into the Akashic records. Then you can find out what happened in 2010, 2011 and before that.
What knowledge came, where and who was thinking what – all that can be reviewed sometime in the future because time has inscriptions of all ideas.
You may have noticed in your own life, some places you get jittery and angry. How many have experienced this? What has happened? In that space there are people who have been angry or agitated. So you move into that space and it affects your whole behavior. And when you’re in good company what happens? You feel so much lighter, uplifted inside, totally at ease and at peace. Hasn’t this happened to you? How many feel this has happened, tell me?
So the company matters, really matters. That doesn’t mean you should avoid people because they are not good company. You also should be strong and instead of running away from negative influence you must positively impact any negative environment. And the meditations (in the advance course) will help you be very strong and stable in that space.
So wherever you go you carry your space and you make an influence rather than getting affected. Not be a ping pong ball but be the bat so you can influence the space around you. (Clapping)
This you must strongly know so that you don’t run away from a situation unless or until it is so bad that it is swallowing you. Then you gently move away, don’t run away. Are you getting what I am saying?
10 Tuesday Nov 2015
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Wisdom by Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“Your true nature is Shiva. And Shiva is peace, infinity, beauty and the non-dual One.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar shares:
Your true nature is Shiva. And Shiva is peace, infinity, beauty and the non-dual One. Ratri means “to take refuge.” Shivaratri is taking refuge in Shiva.
06 Friday Nov 2015
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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’s 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.
Q: How to overcome self pity?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
The moment you recognize, you stop it. That is it. If you are asking for someone else, then they (themselves) only can come out of it. Only meditation can help. Do advance course.
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