Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

On Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar first visit to Ghana in Africa was received by the President H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. He welcomed gurudev to initiate The Art of Living workshops ranging from ayurveda, agriculture, youth skills training to prison programs, with an aim to uplift wellness in the country.

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💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 11🌿    Give Everything And Take Nothping                    🌱 Day - 60 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 विश्वं स्फुरति यत्रेदं तरंगा इव सागरे । सोऽहमस्मीति विज्ञाय किं दीन इव धावसि ॥ 'Like waves in the ocean, the entire universe springs from me; from inside me. I am all this. I am the infinite ocean. When you can get in touch with your own ocean, with your own infinite and true nature, how will you, as a very meek person, run here and there for this and that?' What is that you are running after? All the desires arise when your mind is not fully conscious. A semiconscious mind is the mother of desires. If it is unconscious, no desire comes, for instance, in sleep there is no desire. And when the mind is fully awake, then also there is no desire because everything is alread...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 11🌿   Give Everything And Take Nothing                    🌱 Day - 59 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 अात्माज्ञानादहो प्रीतिर्विषयभ्रमगोचरे । An old example people often used to give in India, is the mother of pearl. Mother of pearl gives you the impression of being shining silver. When you see it from a distance on the beach ( or anywhere ) and the sun shines on it, it gives a false impression of being silver. As you go near it, you find it's not silver. The glitter is an optical illusion. In the same way he said that, not knowing your Self, you start finding joy in all the sense pleasures. Where is the source of pleasure? You are unaware of that. You think by eating lots of gulab jamun ( a sweet ), you will be happy. How many gulab jamun can you eat - three, four, five....th...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 11🌿   Give Everything And Take Nothing                    🌱 Day - 58 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 अष्टावक्र उवाच अविनाशिनमात्मानमेकं विज्ञाय तत्त्वतः । तवात्मज्ञस्य धीरस्य कथमर्थार्जने रतिः ॥ अात्माज्ञानादहो प्रीतिर्विषयभ्रमगोचरे । शुक्तेरज्ञानतो लोभो यथा रजतविभ्रमे ॥ Janaka was a king; an emperor. He had to govern, and was concerned with the welfare of the entire country, all the people, animals and crops. The complete responsibility of this was on his shoulders. Someone who does not have any responsibility, who does not even care to do anything, can just do whatever he wants to. If he wants, he can earn; if he doesn't want, he can be idle. But, the head of an institution or a country has to plan and look into everything. In a country, economics comes first. Law and order...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 11🌿 ~ Give Everything And Take Nothing ~                    🌱 Day - 57 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 Janaka asked how the businessman get drowned in these tidal waves. The individual Self, the soul, is trying to do business all the time. What is business? Giving less and getting more. You buy something for two rupees and sell it for three or four rupees. That is business. Otherwise, how can a business thrive? If you buy for more - buy for four rupees and sell for two rupees - that is no business! Business means giving less and taking more. Love is the opposite. Love is giving everything and taking nothing. The limited mind always does business anywhere - even with one's own life; even with the breath. We don't even breathe properly. A soul is trying to do business. The limited m...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 10🌿            ~ Storms Of Emotion ~                    🌱 Day - 56 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 मय्यनन्तमहाम्भोधावाश्चर्यं जीववीचयः । उद्यन्ति ध्नन्ति खेलन्ति प्रविशन्ति स्वभावतः ॥ It's so beautiful. Eight to ten thousand years ago, Janaka shared the same experience and said it so beautifully. 'I am so taken by surprise. It's awesome. It's so wonderful! In my Self so many different lives are springing up, playing and dissolving in me. By its very nature, it's me who is coming in this person - as this person, as that person, as all these people and personalities with lifestyles, acting in various dramas and soap operas. They rise and clash with each other.' Just sit and watch wrestling matches on the television. Can you feel as if both of them are y...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 10🌿            ~ Storms Of Emotion ~                    🌱 Day - 55 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 मय्यनन्तमहाम्भोधौ चित्तवाते प्रशाम्यति । अभाग्याज्जीववणिजो जगत् पोतो विनश्वरः ॥ "My individual Self, or personality, simply dissolves into my big nature which is my true nature." Every storm that comes into your life widens your horizons, makes you deeper and more powerful. Every storm destroys some smallness in you; something that was very small. Jiva. You think you are an individual self with likes and dislikes. But a storm comes in your life whether you like it or not. It lashes you and pulls you out of your likes and dislikes. This has happened, and is happening. Every storm is a blessing. It cuts you, destroys you and finishes you off. You cry. If y...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 10🌿            ~ Storms Of Emotion ~                    🌱 Day - 54 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 नाहं देहो न मे देहो जीवो नाहमहं हि चित् । अयमेव हि मे बन्ध अासीद् या जीविते स्पृहा ॥ अहो भुवनकल्लोलैर्विचित्रैर्द्राक् समुत्थितम् । मय्यनन्तमहाम्भोधौ चित्तवाते समुद्यते ॥ There cannot be an ocean without waves. Every event touches life somewhere on its surface. It creates movement. Take all that comes with both your hands. Don't say that it is impossible or not possible for you. This thought of something being not possible means that you are resisting. This is making the storms stay for long periods. Stand there with your arms open. Say, 'Whatever storms come, let them, I'm here.' You grow out of them. You become bigger. That is crucifixion. Crucifixion...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 10🌿            ~ Storms Of Emotion ~                    🌱 Day - 53 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 Life is found to be caught up in storms so very often. And you are not yourself when you are in a storm. You don't know what to do. At those moments all your practices, concepts, ideas and ideals fall apart. Your devotion, your love and all the beautiful things you cherish in your life, simply don't seem to be there or mean anything. You are under the influence of a big storm. A whirlwind rises in you and throws you off balance. Even when the storm has subsided, the very memory of it disturbs you even more. What do you do? Nothing is helpful. You sit, close your eyes and try to meditate. But the mind is all over the place. You feel as though you are in a...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                       🌿Chapter - 9🌿          ~ Ego Dissolves In Love ~                    🌱 Day - 52 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 अहो जनसमूहेऽपि न द्वैतं पश्यतो मम । अरण्यमिव संवृत्तं क्व रतिं करवाण्यहम् ॥ People want to run away into the forests in order to avoid other people. A fearful person always wants to be amidst a group of people. There are others who cannot tolerate people and wish to be alone by themselves. These tendencies rise and fall in you. You don't want to be with people; yet at another time you can't be alone. What if I told you to be yourself - without talking or communicating with anybody; to be in silence? You can't be that either! After a few days, you start making signs with your hands, looking at people, holding their hands and walking around doing things....

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                       🌿Chapter - 9🌿          ~ Ego Dissolves In Love ~                    🌱 Day - 51 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 शरीरं स्वर्गनरकौ बन्धमोक्षौ भयं तथा । कल्पनामात्रमेवैतत् किं मे कार्यं चिदात्मनः ॥ This body, heaven and hell, bondage, liberation and fear, are the makings of your own mind. This body has been made by your mind, your mind first, then body. Concepts of heaven and hell are also creations of the mind. It is not the act. Your mind thinks this is heaven and that is hell, and goes in that direction. Heaven for someone may be hell for somebody else. Hell for someone may be heaven for someone else. An alcoholic would imagine all types of alcohol in heaven. That is what heaven is. It's also mentioned in some religions, not to drink alcohol here, because you wi...