how to reduce unnecessary compassion?

Q. Gurudev how to reduce unnecessary compassion?

#SriSri: Seems Compassion is your nature. Channel it with measurement to others, give how much ever they need to get.

More close to you

Q. What can I do to be more close to you and to spend more time with you?

#SriSri: Well, you take up some good project, do some work, then you will more chance to interact with me, talk to me.
To be close to me you can’t get anymore closer to me because you are already close to me. From your side you should always think that you are close to me, that’s it. Don’t expect me to look at you and smile at you and say ‘hi, how are you doing?’ and all that. And if I say ‘hi’ to someone next to you, then you don’t get upset, saying that ‘Guruji looked at him and smiled but he didn’t even look at me..’, leave all this, this is nothing, okay. Don’t look for these sort of gestures that I may be doing to someone else. That doesn’t in anyway indicate any closeness, okay.

One to one guidance

Q. Lord Rama got ‘one-on-one guidance’ from Sage Vashishta, can you also guide me ‘one-on-one’?

#SriSri: What do you think I am doing? Forget about all others around you, I am just talking to you only. Even when there are millions, I only talk ‘One-on-One’!
Have you ever seen me giving a formal speech, never. ‘My dear Ladies and Gentlemen...’ I never start my talk like that, never ever. I have never done that, I only say ‘my dear ones’.

Sadhana & Meditation

Q. What are the milestones which can tell me that I am progressing on the path of sadhana and meditation?

#SriSri: Do you feel at home everywhere? You find a sense of unshakeable peace, a sense of unknown inner-strength. Do you feel comfortable and natural, at home, with people or without people, then you progressing.
If you feel uncomfortable with people or without people, in both cases you need to work on yourself a lot. Do you see that? You should feel at home whether there are people around you or when nobody is around you then also you should feel at home. That is the strength that meditation brings within you and a smile that is undying. If you think it’s little too much then never mind, it will keep happening. It will take it’s time maybe.

Don't do anything in mediation

Q. All the Art of Living teacher’s say don't do anything while doing meditation. Why it is so difficult to ‘not do anything’?

#SriSri: Where is it difficult? It is not difficult here. Somewhere else it might appear to be difficult. You sit here and see how I guide you all through meditation. Meditation is happening here, right.

Botheration basket

Q. After putting our botherations in the ‘botheration basket’ how do they get over?

#SriSri: It gets over, right? How does it happen that you leave it to me. How many have experienced this that your botherations got solved? Everyone raised their hands.) Just by putting your botherations it is taken care, you continue doing that. I will tell you this secret later. When you feel like everyone is your own and when you do not want anything for yourself then you become capable of doing everybody’s work. (Gurudev whispering: This is the secret!)

Tri Doshas

Q. Out of the three doshas: Vata, Pitta and Kapha, which prakriti is good for doing meditation?

#SriSri: By doing meditation you can go beyond all the three doshas (imbalances): Vata, Pitta and Kapha. Meditation is destroyer of all the three doshas. If you first do meditation and then check your naadi (pulse), you will see that it has changed. If there is equilibrium (sama-dosha) between these prakriti then that is suitable for doing meditation. If you are healthy then your meditation will be deeper. And by doing meditation your health improves. Both these things are there.