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SAHAJ SAMADHI MEDITATION (also known as "Art of Meditation" program)   In this program, you are taught a unique mantra-based meditation technique which allows you to go within and experience deep rest. This is a take-home technique which you can practise yourself everyday and eliminate the accumulated stress & negative emotions from your system. Donation Rs 2000/- P.S. Anyone above 18 years of age can take part in this Sahaj Samadhi Meditation program, irrespective of whether they have done Happiness Program or not! 

New Cancer Research and Research Summary of Sudarshan Kriya New Cancer research and research summary Sudarshan Kriya AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY .   Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins : . Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size. 2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person’s lifetime. 3. When the person’s immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumours. 4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficienc...

*Guruji's blog post today* Once upon a time, Gautam Buddha visits a town. The entire town gathers and is waiting to listen to him, but he goes on waiting. He keeps looking backwards at the road, expecting a little 13 year old girl to come. He happened to meet her on the road and she had told him – “Wait for me. I am going to give this food to my father at the farm, but I will be back in time. Don’t forget, wait for me!” Finally, the elders of the town said to Gautam Buddha – “For whom are you waiting? Everybody important is present, you can start your discourse.” Buddha replied – “But the person for whom I have come so far is not present yet and I have to wait.” Finally the girl arrives and exclaims – “I am a little late, but you kept your promise! I knew you would keep your promise because I have been waiting for you since my first memory as a child, when I first became aware… I think I was four years old ...

         *R U D R A P O O J A* ⭐⭐⭐⭐ *Q: Guruji What is the importance of Rudra pooja?* *Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji*:- How did you feel after the pooja?  Rudra pooja has been going on since centuries. It impacts the person and the environment.  They say that the villages in which Rudra pooja is done, there will be no sickness. The important thing is to meditate. People perform this as a ritual, without devotion and they do not get any benefit out of it. These mantras affects the subtle world. Do not go looking for the meaning of the mantras. The vibration of the words is what is important. The pooja is done not for one or two people. It converts all the negativity into positivity. ✨✨✨ *In Rudrapooja 6 Shaktis are are honored.* They are Shiva, VishnuNarayan, Ganpati, Surya, MahaDevi (Laxmi Saraswati & Shakti) and Gurutattva. *Rudrapooja reduces 4 types of Doshas* Pitrudo...

Weekly Knowledge #68 Bangalore Ashram 25 Sep 1996 India WHICH IS MORE EXPENSIVE - YOUR SMILE OR YOUR ANGER? Mahesh: Do you get angry? If so, how often? Guruji: I can but it's very expensive. Usually, you give your anger freely and smile rarely as though a smile is costly. In ignorance, anger is cheaper and a smile is costly. In Knowledge, a smile is free like sun, air, and water and anger is extremely expensive like a diamond. Conclusion: Make your Smile cheaper and anger expensive. 🌸Jai Guru Dev🌸

Weekly Knowledge #67 Bangalore, Ashram 19 Sep 1996 India THE FALL THAT RAISES You only see the fall of the water. You don’t see how theOcean becomes the Cloud. The ocean becoming the cloud is a secret, but the cloud becoming the ocean is obvious. In the world only a few can notice your inner growth and height, but your outer expressions are apparent. Never brood that people don’t understand you. They can only see your expression! Jai Guru Dev

Weekly Knowledge #66 Bangalore Ashram 12 Sep 1996 India THE WELL BAKED POT If you pour water into a half baked pot, the pot becomes wasted and so does the water. If the pot is well baked and strong, then it does not matter whether you put the water into the pot or the pot into the water. During Satsang that evening a devotee presents a beautiful hand crafted pot to Guruji. Another devotee presents a bouquet of roses. Placing the bouquet into the pot Guruji says, "If the pot is well baked, then it will hold the flowers." Yet another gift of sweets is given to Guruji and He adds, "When you blossom the sweets come to you." Then came a box of (Sandesh) Sweets and Guruji concluded, "This is today's sandesh." (Sandesh is the Hindi word for message.) 🌸Jai Guru Dev🌸 Wish you a very Happy Shivratri

Weekly Knowledge #65 Bangalore Ashram 05 Sep 1996 India WHETHER YOU WIN OR LOSE After the Satsang a small group of about 150 people met with Guruji and were playing with the words and arguing with him and telling him how mean he is that he doesn't spend much time with them and yet has stolen their hearts. Guruji kept winning by twisting their arguments and people laughed like anything. Guruji: Whether you win or lose an argument with me you are still laughing. Why? Because there is total sense of belongingness. When there is a total sense of belongingness, real play happens. Winning or losing is irrelevant. Normally what happens to you when you lose an argument? You are sad and upset, hurt and angry. But when you lose or win an argument with me you are still happy. How come? 1. There is a sense of belongingness. 2. Your love stands out and everything else becomes secondary. Like perfection, comfort, desires, etc. Isn't it? 3. Your ability to put the "Being"...

Weekly Knowledge #64 Grimstad 28 Aug 1996 Norway SPECIAL or ORDINARY Are you special or ordinary? What makes you special on the path? (Everyone is silent) Your perception, observation, and expressionhave advanced. What makes you ordinary on the path is that you are special! (Laughter) . . . . Because everybody thinks they are very special in some way or another! Your perception has improved. You see the cause behind every cause, the Divine, and you see the great plan behind every small plan. You don't see the intentions behind others's mistakes and you are not a doubting Thomas. Kiran: Who was doubting Thomas? Shirley: Thomas doubted Jesus. Bhanu: But I think he also got enlightened! Stefano: Yes, but he was not sure! (Laughter) Before getting onto the path you never observed your emotions. Now you observe your emotions, positive or negative, love or hatred, anger or compassion, pain or pleasure. Your observation has improved. Your ex...

Weekly Knowledge #61 Los Angeles, California 07 Aug 1996 USA Faith and Devotion Faith is the subject of head. Devotion is the subject of heart. And meditation is of both and connects both. A mature intellect is devoted. A mature heart is full of knowledge. And meditation matures your intellect as well as your heart. Mr. John Pb: But people with good intellect seem to have less faith. Guruji: They have more faith in the matter. Head puts the faith in the matter more and heart puts the faith in the abstract more. It's next to impossible that one can be in total lack of faith or total lack of devotion. It's only a question of balance.   🌸Jai Guru Dev🌸

Weekly Knowledge #198 Banglore Ashram 08 Apr 1999 India YOU AND YOUR TIME When you feel time is too short, you are either restless or in expanded awareness. When you feel time is too long, you are miserable or keen minded. When you are happy and love what you are doing, you simply don't feel the time. Also, in sleep you don't feel the time. In deep meditation, you are the time and everything is happening in you. Events are happening in you like the clouds come and go in the sky. When you are ahead of time, it is dragging and boring. When the time is ahead of you, then you are surprised and shocked. You cannot digest the events. When you are with the time, you are wise and at peace. Narayana Sharma says, "Guruji, you spend a good time with us!" Next week we will see how to manage time or how the time manages us. 🌸 Jai Guru Dev 🌸

Weekly Knowledge #199 Kauai, Hawaii 15 Apr 1999 USA A PRAYER Give me not thirst if you cannot give me water. Give me not hunger if you cannot give me food. Give me not joy if I cannot share.  Give me not the skills if I cannot put them to good use.  Give me not intelligence if I cannot perceive beyond it.  Give me not knowledge if I cannot digest it.  Give me not love if I cannot serve.  Give me not desire that doesn't lead me to you.  Give me not a path that doesn't take me home. Give me not a prayer if you don't want to hear it. (Laughter) Question :-When you pray, to whom do you pray? Sri Sri :-To myself! In prayer the mind goes to its source, the Self. God, Guru, and the Self are the same.      Dean says :- Give me not time if I don't know how to manage it. Daniel says :- Gurudev says, "You're all out of time..." (Laughter) 🌸 Jai Guru Dev 🌸

Weekly Knowledge #200 Apple Valley, California 21 Apr 1999 United States THE NOISE OF NON-VIOLENCE Often violence comes with noise. Non-violence happens in silence. People who are violent make huge noise; they make it  known.  People who are non-violent are quiet. But the time has come for people who are non-violent to make noise so that the violence will quiet down. The message of non-violence has to come loud and clear so that it can be heard from a young age. A sense of shame has to be connected with anger and violence. The reason for violence in young people is a sense of pride in anger and violence, not a sense of shame. People feel proud that they are violent or angry. They think it is prestigious or a status symbol to be aggressive. Aggression is not thought to be a quality to be ashamed of. This promotes aggression and violence in the whole society, and when aggression and violence are promoted, human values diminish. Some movies and modern music glorify frustrat...

Weekly Knowledge #201 Santa Barbara, California 28 Apr 1999 USA LIFE IS TOO SHORT LIFE IS ETERNAL The realization that life is very short brings dynamism in your life. Unwanted things will fall off as well as distractions. When you have to be acting or putting out effort, know that life is short. When you are expecting a result, then you are often frustrated. The ignorant person does it the other way: He hurries for the result and is impatient. Impatience goes away when you know that life is eternal. When you are looking for a return of a favor from someone or a result from your good deed, you want it quickly. When you realize life is short, procrastination falls away. But when you know that there are many lifetimes, you realize that if you don't get it sooner, you get it later. Wake up and see your life is too short. Time is running so what are you doing with your life? Is it being useful to you and the world around you? Realize life is too short. WAKE UP! LIFE IS ETERNAL! ...

Weekly Knowledge #202 Boston, Massachusetts 06 May 1999 United States A DEEP REST You cannot rest when you have to do something which you cannot. And you cannot rest when you feel you have to be someone whom you are not. You are not required to do what you cannot. You will not be asked to give what you cannot give. Nothing is expected of you that you cannot do. Doing service involves only doing what you can do. And no one wants you to be someone whom you are not. This realization brings you deep rest. You cannot rest if you have either ambition or lethargy. Both are opposed to good rest. A lazy person will toss and turn at night and be "rest-less" and an ambitious person will burn inside. This rest brings up your talents and abilities and brings you closer to your nature. Even a slight feeling that the Divine is with you brings deep rest. And prayer, love and meditation are all flavors of deep rest. 🌸 Jai Guru Dev 🌸

Weekly Knowledge #203 Bad Antogast 13 May 1999 Germany BLESSING Make your home God's home and there will be light, love and abundance. Make your body God's abode and there will be peace and bliss. Feel your mind as a toy of God and you'll watch and enjoy all its games. See this world as play and as a display of God Himself and you will repose in the Non-Dual Self. Blessing comes to you in many forms. If you are generous, blessing comes to you as abundance. If you are hardworking, blessing comes to you as happiness. If you are lazy, blessing comes to you as hard work! (Laughter) If you are pleasure loving, blessing comes to you as dispassion. If you are dispassionate, blessing comes to you as knowledge of the Self. "Culturing meditation into our system is normal. What some people would call a higher state of consciousness, I would call the normal state of consciousness."  "Each cell of our body has the capacity for infinity."  "Fun o...

Weekly Knowledge #204 Bad Antogast 20 May 1999 Germany SHORTCUT! If you think you are stupid Then...... you know who you are. And if you know who you are...... You are enlightened! And if you are enlightened , Then ......you are certainly not stupid . If you think you are intelligent , Then you don't know who you are. And if don't know who you are..... Then you really ARE stupid! Better realize your stupidity ....and Be Enlightened!!!!!!.....[laughter] 🌸 Jai Guru Dev 🌸

Weekly Knowledge #205 Bad Antogast 27 May 1999 Germany FAITH: A QUALITY OF UNDIVIDED CONSCIOUSNESS That in which you have faith, do not make it an object of knowing. Faith is the nature of undivided mind, undivided consciousness. We have faith in God, do not try to know God. We have faith in Self, do not try to know Self. You can't have faith in that which you make an object of knowing. A thing to know is an object of knowing. You have made it into an object of knowing. Whatever you have faith in, you do not need to know about it. Do not make that something you have faith in, an object of knowing. Like you have faith in God, you cannot make God an object of knowing; like you have faith in yourself, you can't make the Self an object of knowing. Q. Are faith and belief the same? Guruji: Belief is a little diluted, faith is little strong, more concrete. Our beliefs can change, faith is firm. Faith is yogurt, belief is buttermilk. (Laughter....) Like a child has faith in th...

Once Guru and God arrive at a devotee's home. He came out and fell in their feet. When he went to God's feet, God said wait, first you should bow down to Guru. When devotee went to guru's feet, guru said I have brought God to your home go and bow down to God first. Devotee returned to God's feet, then God said, your Guru has brought God in your life, he has told you Path to me, so first go to guru's feet. Devotee went back to guru's feet, then guru said. I only have told you the path to divinity. But God has made you. Isn't it?! So go and bow down to God first. Then he went back to God's feet. God said wait. This is all right but i want to tell you about God's and Guru's principle. In God's principle, i have justice system. If you do good deeds you get good return, good karma will take you to heavens, will yield liberation, you will get good life but if you do bad karma it will yield only bad results. You get punished, you go to hell, you...

Weekly Knowledge #189 Bad Antogast 26 Jan 1999 Germany STIMULATING THE SOUL When a part of the body is stimulated, pleasure arises. When your soul is stimulated, love arises. Love has no end but pleasure ends. Often people think pleasure is love. Distinction between pleasure and love has to be understood, only the luckiest one will understand. Like you eat sugar and stimulate the tongue, music stimulates the ears and sight stimulates the eyes. And what stimulates the soul? Sadhana and Satsang is what stimulates the soul! All that one wants is the stimulation of the soul. Even a faint idea of it keeps life going. Every other stimulus is on the surface. The stimulus of the soul energizes and the stimulus of the body brings tiredness. Every stimulus should lead you to the self so that when you listen to music, you transcend the music, and when you listen to Knowledge it takes you to the Silence. 🌸 Jai Guru Dev 🌸

Weekly Knowledge #182 Cochin 03 Dec 1998 India SUBLIMATING LUST Lust is one of the main botherations that many face. Lust grips the mind and tires the body, and dulls the intellect. Lust when indulged brings inertia, and when suppressed brings anger. Lust is nothing but primordial un-harnessed energy. The same when harnessed manifests as enthusiasm, sparkle, sharpness of intellect and love. What are the factors which can sublimate or transform lust into love? Playfulness : People who are in the grip of lust cannot be genuinely playful. When you are genuinely playful, then there is not lust there. Generosity : When you realize that you are here only to give and give, and you feel that you are very generous, lust is sublimated. Lust makes one possessive and not generous. Moderate to less intake of food. Remembrance of death Divine Romance Cold water baths Undertaking creative challenges. 🌸 Jai Guru Dev 🌸

Weekly Knowledge #185 Bad Antogast Ashram 30 Dec 1998 Germany RECYCLING and HYGIENE Everything here is recycled. The earth is 200 million years old - the Alps, the water, the air. Billions of people have breathed the same air. All the particles in your body are old, you are recycled. Your thoughts and emotions are recycled, mind is recycled. You are a recycled person. Everything here is recycled. Consciousness is recycled - its the same old consciousness. Remind yourself that everything here is recycled material - so relax! Everything goes to where it came from. Recycling brings back purity and hygiene. Knowledge recycles the mind. Tarah says:- Recycling makes everything new and therefore a mind that is recycled by knowledge finds everything fresh. Knowledge keeps everything fresh. That is why you can keep recycling the same creation. A mind in Knowledge finds everything fresh. If you dont put Knowledge to the mind, the mind gets rotten. Knowledge brings the mind back to purit...

Weekly Knowledge #186 Bad Antogast 06 Jan 1999 Germany BLISS Bliss cannot be understood. It is extremely difficult to get into bliss. After many lifetimes you get into bliss. It is even more difficult to get out of bliss. All that you seek in your life is bliss, that divine union with your source, and everything else in the world distracts you from that goal. There are a zillion things to distract you from that goal in so many ways. So many unexplainable, incomprehensible ways of not coming home. The mind is kept alive by cravings and aversions - shoulds or should nots and wants. Only when the mind dies does the bliss dawn. Bliss is the abode of all divinity, all devas. It is possible only in this human body to comprehend, to uphold, and having had a human life and having known this path, if you still do not realize this - you are at the greatest loss. The cravings and aversions make your heart hard. There is no use in being polite in your behavior. You can be rude in your behavi...

Weekly Knowledge #187 Bad Antogast 13 Jan 1999 Germany DO YOU TEST GOD, OR DOES GOD TEST YOU? Testing is part of ignorance. You only test that of which you are not sure. If God is testing you, that means God doesn't´ know you well enough. How could people ever think that God is testing them? God does not test you because he knows you in and out and your past, present and future. He knows your strengths and weaknesses and he alone gives you strength. He doesn't test you. Only you can test yourself. Only when you do not have confidence, then you test. If you are confident, why would you test? If you are testing yourself, you do not know yourself. Are you testing God? God will never pass your test because He will never show up for your test. If He shows up for your test, then He is not God (laughter). Whether you get this or not - just laugh! 🌸 Jai Guru Dev 🌸

KNOWLEDGE SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR Posted: 12 Mar 2012 CHANGE AND LOVE There are some who are longing for change. Feeling that everything is stagnant in their lives, they want to change partners, careers, dwellings. And there are some who are scared of change. They feel secure the way they are. There are some who see the change, but don't acknowledge it, out of fear. There are some who do not notice the change at all. There are some who do not think there is anything to change. And there are some who realize that everything is changing, yet see there is something that is non-changing. Those who recognize the non-changing amidst the change are the wisest of all. Question : Must love as well always change? Sri Sri : Love is your nature. What is your nature cannot change. But the expression of love changes. Because love is your nature, you cannot but love. The mother has total love for the child, but sometimes she feeds the child, sometimes she is strict with the child....

Weekly Knowledge #183 Bangalore Ashram 10 Dec 1998 India Uncertainty You can be at ease with the uncertainty of the world when you realise the certainty of the consciousness. Often people do just the opposite. They are certain about the things in the world and uncertain about God. They rely on something that is not reliable and get upset. Uncertainty causes craving for stability and the most stable thing in the universe is our Self. The world is of change, the Self is of non-change. You have to rely on the non-change and accept the change. If you are certain that everything is uncertain, then you are liberated. When you are uncertain in ignorance then you become worried and tense. Uncertainty with awareness brings higher states of consciousness and a smile. Bharat says: A certain smile!!! Often people think that certainty is freedom. If you feel that freedom when you are not certain then that is 'real' freedom. Often your certainty or uncertainty is based on the relativ...

Weekly Knowledge #184 Bangalore Ashram 17 Dec 1998 India ORGANIZATION The entire creation is a huge organization. Everything is made up of atoms. The whole world is nothing but organization, where the atoms have decided to organize themselves in a specific pattern to form a particular substance. And those particular patterns bring them specific qualities. Death/decay/transformation happens when the atoms get bored of patterns and decide to recognise themselves. e.g. : When the atoms of the apple say "Enough of being an apple", that's when the rotting starts. If there is never boredom of patterns, there can be no decay. The movement from one organized state to another is also organized. This is the transient organization which we call chaos. This transient organization may need a catalyst. Knowledge is such a catalyst. So, you have absolutely no escape from organisation. 🌸 Jai Guru Dev 🌸