Satsang transcript 28April2016

Satsang Transcript today 28 April 2016 -
Sri Sri: Some people say, "Don't worry about the world, find your peace first."
Correct. That is the first step. But, once you found your peace, what do you do?
And when your peace is connected to so many people around you, how can you be an island of peace? Can you be?
No!
When you spread peace around you, only then your peace can also be permanent. Going inward is as important as reaching outside and transforming our environment. This has to happen simultaneously.
Someone says, "Just forget about the world. Don't try to bring peace in the world. Don't try to reform the world. Just go within your self and you find your peace."
In Art of living, we have found our peace. Haven't we?
Audience: Yes!
Sri Sri: The very first sitting you do, the very first thing you do, you are already peaceful. You understood to some extent the principles of life.
When we found the peace and joy, it is our duty to spread it across all around.
Art of Living is doing so much work around the World. In Latur, they are rejuvenating the 17th river in the country and 13th in Maharashtra. If everyone is trying to find their own inner peace and why bother about getting into river rejuvenation, even that person who wants to find peace cannot find joy or peace.
So, simultaneously. Because one meditated and finds one's inner joy, inner peace, the next step is you want to bring it to everybody.
Looks like we are one step ahead of those who just want to find peace within themselves. We have already found it. Now, we want to spread it to everybody.
Someone who has seen a good movie, is all enthusiastic. He wants to tell everybody, "Hey! Come, you see this movie. I will also come with you and watch it." Isn't it?

So that is the spirit with which Art of Living is working. You can only spread what you have. And if we are spreading peace and joy, it is because we have it.
Those who do not have peace and joy, let them search for it, find it. We have found it and we want to spread it, isn't it?
When it comes to joy, there is no end for joy and personal comfort. You can go on looking for it. More and more and more joy. But the nature of true joy is to share and care. And that is what Art of Living stands for to share and care. And the basis for this is the spiritual connect, spiritual elevation, spiritual attainment.

Q: Gurudev, how am I responsible for my past, present, and future karma yet I am not the doer?
Sri Sri: One thing is changing inside you and there is something inside you that is not changing. So you are a combination of both the changing and the non-changing. Life is a complex phenomenon of the form and the formless. You are both a doer and a non-doer. When you are getting into meditation, you are non-doer. Whenever you want to meditate, drop all responsibility and you go deep into your Self. When you are in activity, take 100% responsibility.