Q. There is insecurity at the workplace and a lot of tension about office
assignments. Even when I am at the satsang, I am thinking about office. Why
is it so?
Sri Sri: Ok, tell me have you been stressed before- were you stressed last
year? You have lived through it, you didn’t die! Look back at your life- so
many times you have gone through stress. Remember all that you have gone
through and this will seem small in comparison. Have a look at yourself,
you will understand that you have experienced this before. Don’t fear.
Q. In the Ashtavakra Geeta (an ancient scripture which documents the
dialogue between Sage Ashtavakra and King Janaka), Sage Ashtavakra gives a
lot of knowledge to Janaka but doesn’t clearly answer his question about
what is real and unreal. Please explain.
Sri Sri : There are some questions that cannot be answered in words.
Ashtavakra answered Janaka in silence.
Q. I am not in control of my mind. I am afraid becoming a teacher is
taking me away from naturalness, humbleness. What should I do?
Sri Sri: That is a prayer more than a question. Prayers will always be
answered but not in words.
Q. Despite awareness I am not being able to do whats right because I lack
will power. What must I do?
Sri Sri: If you think I have no will power, you will never have it. You
have locked your own hands, put a label on your forehead that you are weak.
Invoke the valour in you, take a pledge. You have all the force available
for you when you need it. You have all the strength and energy.
If someone were to tell you that if you do pranayama for thirty days you
would get one million dollars. You will not miss a single day. You may
forego sleep, food but not the pranayama. Greed can bring in that power
within. Similarly fear- if someone says you would fall sick if you don't do
pranayama, you would not miss it.
Love, fear, greed- any one is good to increase will power.
To know intellectually what is good and should be done, you may take it
easily and remain in your comfort zone.
Then will power goes down. So enhance your valour or love something with
all your heart. Dedication to the cause, fear or greed- these can increase
your will power.
Egoistic people are much better than other people because egoistic people
have a sense of valour. It is easy to make them commit, get out of lethargy.
People with no ego have lot of love, surrender, its easy for them. Someone
who has neither ego, nor valour, nor love, nor devotion, nor greed has no
will power. Either become greedy or fearful. But these are very low
category. Other one is enhance the love, surrender, true knowledge and
enhance your valour.
Q. What is it about praise that even if it is false it makes us elated and
happy and criticism even if real, pulls us down? Is it vanity?
Sri Sri: This much realisation, you are already out of it!
Q When I get angry, I feel lot of energy and burnt inside. If I let it out
I loose complete balance. What can I do?
Sri Sri: Do bhastrika that time.
Q. When I am in silence or otherwise, a voice in my head keeps talking. The
more I ignore it, the more it stays. Is it a normal phenomena?
Sri Sri: Talk to your teacher and ayurveda doctor. If too much words going
in the head, there is pitta imbalance, vata derangement. When there is too
much impurity in the system then such things happen. You can go for
panchkarma
Q. What is character?
Sri Sri: Character is that which you expect from others - faithful, loyal,
integrated. Do you want others to keep their word? How do you feel if they
don't? Character is that, 'do not do unto others what you would not want
others to do unto you'. Character is that which is solid, strong, stable
and makes you and other happy.
Q. I have feelings of absolute isolation and find myself alone among
friends. There is no feeling of belongingness.
Sri Sri : Do not sit and worry about feelings. They keep changing. Who
cares? Why bother? One minute you feel very good, the other moment you feel
bad. Put your life energy into some useful, social work, commitment, some
direction. Bring some result in the world. You may suddenly feel good,
suddenly very bad. The world doesn't care for your feelings nor does God.
The Nature, world will ask you what have you done?
Q. There are problems in my life, to which I know the solution. How to
apply that knowledge with a smile?
Sri Sri: Keep immersing in knowledge, you don't have to apply it, it
applies itself. Remind yourself of the knowledge. Focus on the knowlede,
don't get entangled in the people around you. Satsang is to be in touch
with the inner being. Instead you start judging, having different types of
interaction with people, this is not satsang.
Q. Why are there so many hurdles at every stage on the spiritual path.
Sri Sri: No, No. No its not hurdles, it is making your path more
interesting. Its like flowing water, little pebbles create beautiful sound
and sight, making it all the more beautiful. There are no obstacles in this
path, just a fun in the path. Move over it, don't get stuck.
Q. What is the difference between knowledge and love? Should I be a Gyani(
Wise) or Premi(Lover)
Sri Sri: What is the difference between head and the heart? Should a person
be heady or hearty? Do you watch television or listen to it first. Mind and
heart both together make a human being. Mind looks for new, fresh and
latest. Heart wants old- Preet Puraani (Ancient love). Life is a
combination of the two. Science and knowledge, love and devotion- all are
required. And you have all of these. Now you are asking as a
jigyasu(curious for knowledge). You have love that is why you are accepting
the answer. If there was no love for knowledge you wouldn't ask or won't
accept the answer. These are like four legs of a chair- pull one and all
three come along. Similary, Yog, Karma, Gyan, Bhakti, Dhyan - all are legs
of a table.
When Arjuna was confused, he asked Krishna “sometimes you praise the path
of Karma, sometimes gyan, sometimes bhakti- tell me one I am confused.”
Krishna says those who are unwise think of the paths as different, the wise
know it is One. Just practice one, others come along. If you do
seva(service) very well, you get the same merit as from dhyaan(meditation)
or gyaan(knowledge)
Q. How can one balance between, household duties, business and seva(service)
Sri Sri: How do you balance a bike? When you fall more to the left you bend
right and when you are falling more to the right, you bend left.There is no
theory, you just do it. It automatically balances. It pinches one if he
doesn't do seva at all and is always bothered about himself. If you are in
your senses it will pinch you otherwise one is not human. If you are not
touched by others' misery then you are not human but stone. Similarly, if
one is only into social service, then also it bothers.
Q. It is said that everyone's future is already decided. It is planned by
the Divine. If this is true, then what is the need of Karma(action)
Sri Sri: Everything is happening, your karma too is happening, what is the
need of an answer. Suppose I don't give an answer. When you are hungry,
what is the need of Karma, sit, let it happen. Everyday hunger comes up ,
so whats the point! Sit quietly. Can you? This is useless brooding. Man
cannot live without work- either a good deed or misdeed. If God doesit,
then God is suffering, where do you come in between?
If God made you steal, then God came as police - what is the complaint? God
told you to eat twenty rasgulla(a sweet), then God will have the pain and
God will come as doctor.
Where are you different from God. The understanding that everything is
God's is a very big thing. Then the mind silences and such nonsense
questions don't arise. Till then, they will arise.
Q. Guruji, you said tear is ego. In front of you- uncontrollable tears come
up. What to do?
Sri Sri: No, No, this is different tears. There are many types of tears-
like crocodile, then salty, sweet ones are of gratitude, love. Angels long
for it. It is very good- the mind is healed and purified.
Q There are dilemmas in life and I lack decision making power. What should
be done?
Sri Sri: Wherever there is duality(Dvet), there will be a dilemma .
Whenever you are in daily activities(vyavahar), there will be dilemma.
There is no choice, accept it.
Q. Can the liver, eyes be donated after death?
Sr Sri: Yes, you can donate them, there is no sin in this, neither will you
face any problem in heaven. Instead it will increase you prospects in
heaven. You can definitely donate them.
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Saturday, December 1, 2012
Guru punch Dt:30Dec
When
you regain the memory of 'who am I?' all the meekness in you will disappear.
You will walk with the highest spirits. 'Who am I?' I'm God's son or daughter.
So why should I experience lack of anything? The whole world is there for me.
What can time do to me? This sort of genuine bravery should arise in you. ~ Sri Sri
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gift a smile
Dear One
Jai Gurudev
Sougata and Anusree, two of our 'Gift A Smile' interns sat with students of our Ved Vignan Maha Vidya Peeth school, Rural Bangalore on a lovely afternoon to gather their thoughts
on their school experience. To read what they had to say
Voice of innocent hearts
On a warm November afternoon, students of Ved Vignan Maha Vidya Peeth were
asked to write a small article on the topic “My school” within a time frame of
15 minutes allotted to them. We kept it a surprise because we wanted them to write whatever came naturally to them
rather than a prepared speech flowered with adjectives to make their English teacher proud:-) . After a sumptuous lunch, we thought they will be ready to snooze. But the children were not at all deterred by it; contrarily they were so
enthusiastic. Every child had a fresh perspective. and each spoke from the heart.We picked out three to share with you.
(Please Note:The unedited articles of the students are below. The author has only typed them out)
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Niveditha Raj
9 C
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I am Niveditha
studying in 9th standard in an honourable school. I am very happy
studying here. Guruji has provided all our needs like food, transportation,
education, uniform etc. We have good teachers, good environment and playground.
Our teachers are kind and affectionate. In our Ashram, Guruji teach us how to
keep our body and mind healthy with meditation and yoga.
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Sateesh.M
10 A
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With blessing
for Sri Sri, we don’t have tension, depression or any kind of strain. Daily
before the class we are doing Kriya and Meditation. I am very happy about this
school, teachers and Guruji.
I am studying in
10th standard. In Guruji’s school we have good education and good
culture. We are happy learning all the subjects they are offering. Guruji has
provided us transportation, good teachers, food, uniforms, books etc.
Our teachers
teaches us with so much affection and in such a friendly way. In our school
there are around 1800 students having free education from 59 villages. In our
school there are so many programs like cultural programs and sports. Talents
are recognised and encouraged in this school. In our school Guruji provide us
physical and mental health by teaching us art of living courses. We are doing
“sudarshan kriya” daily. Guruji comes to visit us quite often and offer us knowledge.
Guruji says education must attend to all facets of human life. The key is to
harness the ancient and be innovative with the modern. Thus we are becoming
good citizens by the blessing of Guruji. So we are thankful to our Guruji and
the art of living organisation. Jai Guru Dev |
Shaziya Khan
10 A
|
I am Shaziya
studying in Xth standard. First of all I thank Guruji for giving us so many
facilities. This is school is very nice. I have been studying here since I was
7. Now I am studying in my 10th standard. Our teachers are so kind
and affectionate. Guruji has provided all the facilities of education, food and
transportation. Our teachers are so friendly with us. We have many good things
going on in this school like meditation, sports, dance etc.
We like Sri
Sri Guruji because he helps poor people by giving free education, good books,
food etc. In my life, I like to meet Guruji personally one day. He is an
inspiration for me, I also want to help poor people in future.
I love this
school. There is no pollution, no sound and good air. The environment is so
nice. When I am in this environment, I feel so happy.
I like Guruji
very much, thanking you Sri Sri Guruji for giving us such a nice school.
Jai Guru Dev
-Sougata Das and Anusree Nambiar
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Wisdom from Sri Sri Ravi Shankar----Education is meant to make us living examples of high standards of ethics
Sri Sri Visit Gyan Vihar University
Honorable Chief Mentor, Vice Chancellor of the University and Members of the faculty, I humbly accept this degree that you have conferred on me.See, today I received one but I gave away many. This is what education should do. What we receive we should give back to society, and as students you have received so much education here, now see how you can put that into use in life. The trouble in today’s world is not because of lack of education but because education is being misrepresented, misused and misunderstood. We need to clear these three things. Education is meant not to just make us tablets of information but living examples of high standards of ethics. Education is to make us such strong personalities, which would spread harmony, which would bring progress in the society and spread love and compassion. This is what I strongly believe. So we need to educate ourselves and people around us.
Education is to make one a strong personality, a personality which would stand up to criticism and give constructive criticism. A personality which would create friendliness all over, which has humor and a sense of belongingness along with it and this is what the world is looking for today.
Creativity comes up in a person when he has such an opportunity of free thinking and everybody in this planet is supposed to have free thinking. Unfortunately it is not there. We think in boxes, we think in limited spheres; we have to get out of this. We have to think freely and keep our mind free of narrow ideologies.
I am happy that Gyan Vihar University has given you such an opportunity in the midst of Jaipur to come up with brilliance, and I am sure you will make your country and your university proud.
I once again thank the management, the Vice Chancellor, Honorable Chairperson and the Deans and all of you and I give you my best wishes. I am part of you and now I am also an alumni of this University.
I wish that you become well educated in both humanities and science. Arts is the subject of the heart and science is the subject of the head, and we need both. Lord Krishna has said, Buddhi (intelligence) and Bhava (emotions), both are essential – this is the essence of Bhagavad Gita.
Development of heart and the mind, both are essential. Only then do you become a complete human being.
So I wish you all success in your endeavors and lead a life of service to society and a life full of fun and happiness.
Q: Guruji, you have said the knowledge about the self is most important, then why is it kept so secret and difficult to attain?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: In fact it is not kept a secret anymore. Unfortunately in the past, people kept all that is very precious and very good and useful for people a secret out of their selfishness. But now it is open to everybody. Pranayama was not taught to everybody, it was taught only to a few. That was the unfortunate story of our country. But now everything is available to you.
Q: Guruji, real education happens through life experiences, then why should one go to college?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: College life is pretty good; it is great! You learn a lot. Don’t think you will have no life in college; in fact college life is life because you learn a lot of things. Many times you fall in love, your heart gets broken and then it gets mended. So many things happen there.
Q: What is the secret of your success?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Walk the talk or talk the walk!
Q: If everything is destined, what is the power of prayer?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Everything is not fixed. There are some things that are fixed and some things that are not fixed, and prayer is the bridge between them.
Q: If money is not everything then why are all successful people so rich?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Rich people are not always happy. For me success is not just money in the bank. It is the smile and confidence in a person.
AOL Knowledge Sheet!----Astonishment brings wakefulness
Astonishment brings wakefulness
Astonishment is the basis of spiritual opening. Its amazing how this creation is so full of astonishing things around. But we take things for granted. And that’s when a thought of inertia dawns and dullness comes along. Tamas acts in, inactivity happens and ignorance resides.Whereas a sense of astonishment brings wakefulness. A miracle shocks you; that shock is the wakefulness. And when we are awakened we see the whole creation is full of miracles. The entire creation is to be wondered upon; because it is all a display of one consciousness.
From the point of view of an animal, your language means nothing. It is just like howling. If a cat or a dog were to look at you, unless you have trained them for a very long time, they will think you are barking at them, just with a different sound, making no sense. Our language, our intellect, our mind is so limited, its perspective is limited.
Our little brain is programmed to one language or few more languages. And we think that all the understanding, the knowledge can be captured in this brain. We think we can reason out, find logic, understand all that exists; but this feeling: “I know it all” can keep us in a little shell of dullness. “I don’t know” creates wakefulness, because you need to know in order to be awakened.
What is this? “I don’t know”; this “I don’t know” is the key to progress knowledge.
Nature reveals little more of your secrets; and bit more of its mysteries. So that you get opportunities to be amazed. To wonder what life is, what consciousness is, what universe is, who am I, and what is this? And, you are so fortunate to come to that point. This is the beginning of spiritual journey of union with the Divinity.
Let us get astonished at the union, a preface for the union. Wonder is the preface for the union. And when you are united, you wonder at everything. The prana, the life force, is present in every object.
There is nothing inanimate on this planet. We are all floating on the ocean of life. Everybody is just a shell, an ocean of life: This is one such phenomenon. All the present, past, future, its time scale is within the preview of consciousness. Consciousness is beyond time and space, it is all just vibrations.
So, if you are amazed, astonished, wonderstruck, just close your eyes with a smile and think.
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