*Q: Guruji, how to maintain the purity of teaching Yoga in today’s
commercial world?** *
*Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:* First of all we shouldn’t blame the world and we
should not blame the cause. Purity of Yoga is there when your intention is
clear, you are here to serve. If you count that there are twenty people and
I will get this much money, if you think that then it can spoil the purity.
That is why we have kept our courses in such a way that the teacher gets a
very little amount to cover whatever expenses are there. You know you are
doing it as a service and you are keeping a charge because without any
charges people don’t value it and of course you need some finances to make
arrangements like the durries and the microphone and all this stuff. So if
your intention is pure, if you are financially and otherwise okay and this
is only an added support or income to you then it is okay but if you are
thinking only on these lines that I want to make money out of teaching yoga
then your whole attitude is changed.
Just imagine a school teacher is teaching the children only to get money
and not to see that the students are passing or they should get better. A
teacher comes for tuition for an hour and he keeps looking at the watch
then within fifteen minutes he runs away, what is the quality of such a
teacher. So there is no individual, personal attention that is given, so if
the commercial thing doesn’t enter your mind then you are there for the
cause, you are there for others.
*Q: Even after being born as a human being who is the highest among all the
species on this planet why do we desire freedom? Is there anything more
beautiful than this?** *
*Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:* See wanting happiness is natural, everyone wants
happiness but happiness does not come alone. Happiness brings along his
twin sorrow also with him but no one likes sorrow and everyone wants
freedom from sorrow. Freedom one wants from what? Sorrow and to want
freedom from sorrow also is natural. Just as much as wanting happiness is
natural the same way wanting freedom from sorrow is also natural. Okay, now
the faster one realizes that happiness is there but sorrow is also there
then the desire for freedom becomes stronger.
The one who does not wish for happiness receives freedom and the one who
does not even wish for freedom is the one who receives devotion.
One who does not crave for happiness is already free but if one craves for
happiness then one will also crave for freedom. When happiness does not
please you then you have achieved freedom but when freedom also does not
please you then you receive DEVOTION!
Devotion brings so much happiness and pleasure to you.
*Q: Guruji, you say the love is great and fearless. Then why is it that the
person I am in love with is so fearful?** *
*Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: *The one you are in love with is fearful? Okay! That
we don’t know how much you have scared him that he has become so fearful.
First see whether the person you are in love with is also in love with you.
See, sometimes we think we love someone but we don’t even know how to
properly express our love to another. It is very hard to express how much
love you are feeling in your heart to someone else. How are you going the
express? With words you will not be able to express. Something as deep as
love does not come in the realm of expression. It is very difficult to
express and sometimes when you try very hard and with a lot of effort to
express this love people get scared. The other person should also know how
to accept and receive your love isn’t it? That’s why it is important to
know to how to express and how much of our love to express to each person,
yeah!
Just imagine you have someone day and night calling you again and again and
telling you, ‘I love you, I love you, I love you’, then what you will say,
okay, yes, you love me, fine what next, right?!
So until we do not turn towards wisdom we are not able to properly express
or receive love, for that also there is some eligibility. With wisdom one
is so full of love that love exudes from every action. In life when we
embrace the divinity then all our relationships blossom by themselves but
if you try to fix your relationships one by one it does not work. From one
side things will get better and from the other side it will get worse, so
you be centered in yourself, be in devotion and everything else will be
taken care of.
*Q: Something binds the body to the soul. What is this binding factor and
what prompts it to part ways after sometime?** *
*Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: *Impressions in the soul binds it to the body. That
is what is called Karma.
*Q: Guruji, I think I am suffering from chronic boredom problem. I get
bored of everything very easily. I get bored of situations, of people, of
places. Is there a cure to my problem?*
*Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:* Boredom! What do you do when you get bored of
everything?! Let me think what you can do!
This is because you are thinking only about yourself. When you don’t know
what pleasure you will get you get bored because this world cannot really
give you satisfaction, it can only bore you but if you come from a place of
giving and not getting then you won’t be bored. You will think what can I
do, how can I be of great use. If you think on those lines and dedicate
your life for a cause then boredom does not arise but if you are seeking
joy in action then you will get bored. Boredom is simply what?!
You are seeking joy in action which you didn’t get. You are seeking for
some joy in the world which you didn’t get and then you got bored. In the
beginning it gave you some happiness, a particular object or situation but
when you kept repeating it you got bored. So stop seeking joy in activity
know that you are joy and then you won’t look for joy and get disappointed
or get bored, yeah!
*Q: Dearest Guruji, Jai Gurudev! Once I am on this path is my spiritual
progress your responsibility or my responsibility? If it is yours then why
is my progress full of obstacles and slow, and if it is mine then why is my
effort so poor. Please help me!** *
*Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: * Now that you are asking this question it is both
of our responsibility. Yes, do your 100% and relax and when you feel that
you can do a little better or a little more that indicates that you have
been responsible. When you feel you are doing everything that you can then
the responsibility shifts away from you.
*Q: Dearest Guruji, you are my favorite in the whole world and my world
revolves around you. How do I become your favorite?** *
*Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: *Walk the path!
commercial world?** *
*Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:* First of all we shouldn’t blame the world and we
should not blame the cause. Purity of Yoga is there when your intention is
clear, you are here to serve. If you count that there are twenty people and
I will get this much money, if you think that then it can spoil the purity.
That is why we have kept our courses in such a way that the teacher gets a
very little amount to cover whatever expenses are there. You know you are
doing it as a service and you are keeping a charge because without any
charges people don’t value it and of course you need some finances to make
arrangements like the durries and the microphone and all this stuff. So if
your intention is pure, if you are financially and otherwise okay and this
is only an added support or income to you then it is okay but if you are
thinking only on these lines that I want to make money out of teaching yoga
then your whole attitude is changed.
Just imagine a school teacher is teaching the children only to get money
and not to see that the students are passing or they should get better. A
teacher comes for tuition for an hour and he keeps looking at the watch
then within fifteen minutes he runs away, what is the quality of such a
teacher. So there is no individual, personal attention that is given, so if
the commercial thing doesn’t enter your mind then you are there for the
cause, you are there for others.
*Q: Even after being born as a human being who is the highest among all the
species on this planet why do we desire freedom? Is there anything more
beautiful than this?** *
*Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:* See wanting happiness is natural, everyone wants
happiness but happiness does not come alone. Happiness brings along his
twin sorrow also with him but no one likes sorrow and everyone wants
freedom from sorrow. Freedom one wants from what? Sorrow and to want
freedom from sorrow also is natural. Just as much as wanting happiness is
natural the same way wanting freedom from sorrow is also natural. Okay, now
the faster one realizes that happiness is there but sorrow is also there
then the desire for freedom becomes stronger.
The one who does not wish for happiness receives freedom and the one who
does not even wish for freedom is the one who receives devotion.
One who does not crave for happiness is already free but if one craves for
happiness then one will also crave for freedom. When happiness does not
please you then you have achieved freedom but when freedom also does not
please you then you receive DEVOTION!
Devotion brings so much happiness and pleasure to you.
*Q: Guruji, you say the love is great and fearless. Then why is it that the
person I am in love with is so fearful?** *
*Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: *The one you are in love with is fearful? Okay! That
we don’t know how much you have scared him that he has become so fearful.
First see whether the person you are in love with is also in love with you.
See, sometimes we think we love someone but we don’t even know how to
properly express our love to another. It is very hard to express how much
love you are feeling in your heart to someone else. How are you going the
express? With words you will not be able to express. Something as deep as
love does not come in the realm of expression. It is very difficult to
express and sometimes when you try very hard and with a lot of effort to
express this love people get scared. The other person should also know how
to accept and receive your love isn’t it? That’s why it is important to
know to how to express and how much of our love to express to each person,
yeah!
Just imagine you have someone day and night calling you again and again and
telling you, ‘I love you, I love you, I love you’, then what you will say,
okay, yes, you love me, fine what next, right?!
So until we do not turn towards wisdom we are not able to properly express
or receive love, for that also there is some eligibility. With wisdom one
is so full of love that love exudes from every action. In life when we
embrace the divinity then all our relationships blossom by themselves but
if you try to fix your relationships one by one it does not work. From one
side things will get better and from the other side it will get worse, so
you be centered in yourself, be in devotion and everything else will be
taken care of.
*Q: Something binds the body to the soul. What is this binding factor and
what prompts it to part ways after sometime?** *
*Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: *Impressions in the soul binds it to the body. That
is what is called Karma.
*Q: Guruji, I think I am suffering from chronic boredom problem. I get
bored of everything very easily. I get bored of situations, of people, of
places. Is there a cure to my problem?*
*Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:* Boredom! What do you do when you get bored of
everything?! Let me think what you can do!
This is because you are thinking only about yourself. When you don’t know
what pleasure you will get you get bored because this world cannot really
give you satisfaction, it can only bore you but if you come from a place of
giving and not getting then you won’t be bored. You will think what can I
do, how can I be of great use. If you think on those lines and dedicate
your life for a cause then boredom does not arise but if you are seeking
joy in action then you will get bored. Boredom is simply what?!
You are seeking joy in action which you didn’t get. You are seeking for
some joy in the world which you didn’t get and then you got bored. In the
beginning it gave you some happiness, a particular object or situation but
when you kept repeating it you got bored. So stop seeking joy in activity
know that you are joy and then you won’t look for joy and get disappointed
or get bored, yeah!
*Q: Dearest Guruji, Jai Gurudev! Once I am on this path is my spiritual
progress your responsibility or my responsibility? If it is yours then why
is my progress full of obstacles and slow, and if it is mine then why is my
effort so poor. Please help me!** *
*Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: * Now that you are asking this question it is both
of our responsibility. Yes, do your 100% and relax and when you feel that
you can do a little better or a little more that indicates that you have
been responsible. When you feel you are doing everything that you can then
the responsibility shifts away from you.
*Q: Dearest Guruji, you are my favorite in the whole world and my world
revolves around you. How do I become your favorite?** *
*Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: *Walk the path!
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