Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in yesterday's satsang at The Art of Living International Center.
Q: Gurudev, Adi Shankaracharv ya went around and had debates with all to bring them back into the right path. Bringing unity while preserving the main philosophies. Is a similar thing needed in today’s world also.How?
#SriSri: Yeah, Spirituality need to be uplifted.What had happened 2000 years ago is also people were so much caught in rituals and they forgot the real essence, the knowledge, the experience, meditations. They forgot spirituality. So that needs to be revived. Nature takes care and whenever whatever is needed, nature provides at that time. Today also that is what is happening now, spirituality is getting uplifted.
Q: Gurudev, what is the significance of Agnikarya for brahmacharis? Is it just a karmakand or is it important for us to do in today’s world?
#SriSri: In ancient times, they used to do prayer with fire. Agnikarya is one such prayer. It’s the wish that we make for the world to be harmonious, for your life to be alignment with the dharma. That is the tradition. But in spirituality, all the karmakandas/rituals are unimportant. They do have some impact but the main thing is meditation and knowledge. They are needed but it's not necessary that everybody has to do. If you meditate, that is good enough.
Q: Gurudev, what is Guru nadi? Could you please speak about it?
#SriSri: There are about 1,86,000 subtle channels (nadis) in the body and different impulses open up different channels. There is one for poetry, another for being interested in Knowledge, even one for being confused! So don't worry too much about them. Just do alternate nostril pranayama and meditate and relax. Everything falls in place.
Q: Gurudev, once you recognize the god in your inner-self ,after that why and how can one see god in an idol?
#SriSri: That is not required. We do it to preserve tradition for future generations. When we offer flowers and go around the idols,in temples It is to preserve the rituals. God is there everywhere, all permeating. Most importantly it is present in oneself. We can experience it during meditation. It is not that these rituals don't have an effect, energy is definitely there. If you sit and meditate in the same place everyday, and someone else comes and sits there,he can feel the difference. How many of you feel that once you step into the ashram,you start feeling good vibrations? That is because many people meditates here together. Similarly, when in a temple,an idol is established, people worship together, offer prayers, then those vibrations are created. Meditate, listen to chanting.
Q: Gurudev, during meditation you mentioned that we have come from OM and will also disappear in Om. How is that a mere sound is my source aswell as my end?
#SriSri: Sound is generated due to objects getting struck i.e aahat. Om is the quintessential sound that is produced without any impact i.e. anahat. It is not created from conflict. Sound is energy or waves and so are you.
Q: Gurudev, you have spoken about the sanskaras like Upanayan, could you please speak about some other sanskaras like Simantha?
#SriSri: Simantha is a ceremony performed when a women is in 7th - 8th month of her pregnancy. So you give Sanskaras to the unborn baby right in the womb with vedic mantras,chanting. I have not gone into the detail of it. Vedic Mantra are chanted and the water which absorbs the vibrations and the blessings is poured on the mother and given to her to drink. (How water absorbs the vibrations is shown in 'Secret of Water' movie available online.) Then she is given all gifts, preferably green colour clothes. Everyone makes her happy. Whatever she wants is provided to her. This ceremony is to keep the expecting mother happy, when mother is happy it impacts the baby in the womb. In India, there is a tradition that if any pregnant woman ask for anything,you should not say no to it. The mother in law and the mother, they make it the point to provide her whatever she needs. See in those days, the transport and communication were not so good. Suppose a pregnant woman asks for a mango out of season, the custom is somehow you find it and give it to her. People used to make all the efforts to keep her happy. And not to make her watch violent movies and serials as negative impressions can affect the child in the womb. So it is a science how to be an expecting mother and how to be a mother later on.
Q: Guruji my question how to strengthen the economically less privileged, through spirituality.
#SriSri: You talk to our SSRDP here and we have Sri Sri rural development project running for taking spirituality to the villages, the YLTP program is done through this. You can go to our website to know more.
Q: What are the various paths to liberation?
#SriSri: Where you are, this path is the only path. So you are on the right path for liberation.
Q: When we meditate you are there in our mind, Guruji when you meditate do you also have all of us in your mind?
#SriSri: All of you are always with me!
Q: Gurudev, it’s about Gayatri mantra, I heard that we shouldn’t listen it on tape.
#SriSri: No it’s alright, you can listen to it.
Q: Jgd, My wife is pregnant can you arrange a program for pregnant women?
#SriSri: We have a program ‘Yoga for Pregnant women’. We also have the CD, you can gift it to her.
Q: JGD Guruji , I recently read a book ‘Many lives many masters’ It is a story of a patient who through hypnosis is taken to her past rebirth of 89 lives, also secrete is reveled of different stages of soul in the book. Would you like to through some light on the stages of souls?
#SriSri: Don’t get into all that. Our consciousness is infinite and eternal, you never know how many impressions we have of how many life times. If you want you do Eternity process. You don’t have to go beyond 5 to 7 lifetimes, rest all are mostly imaginations and no need of hypnosis, one can go to past life through meditation.
Q: Gurudev, I have read it in Bhagvat Geeta that whenever we do any Shatkarma the Devas interfere in its happening, how to deal with that?
#SriSri: You are at the right place. Don’t worry I am here to deal with it.
Dinesh Chaudhary from Surat did a research and found that within 45 days of practicing Sudarshan kriya and applying Sakti drops Psoriasis patch was healed upto 95%. Another, a student, 24 years of age who was diagnosed with cancer 1st stage in January, WBC count had gone up to 89000 (normal range between 4000 to 10000) came down to normal (7000) by March 30th just with the help of Sudarshan Kriya.
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