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💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐                   🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 11🌿    Give Everything And Take Nothing                    🌱 Day - 61 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 प्रातः स्मरामि मनसा अद्भुतमन्तराभम् । ज्योतिर्मयं सकलपापमप्रहत्रम ॥ In the morning, remember your nature. What is your nature? C. The day should begin remembering and reliving this; like the sun rising. When you have risen from sleep, the sun has come up. The sleepy sun has gone to rest, and the sun in you has come up. You walk in the morning, floating like a cloud, remembering your origin; your true nature. You don't walk, you simply float. There is no end to the little disturbances, a little irritation over this or that. A cockroach can irritate you one mosquito can go on irritating you the whole night. And if you happen to be in...

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Satsang at 6/10/ 2014 at Yagnashala, Bangalore Ashram Q. What do you think about non-vegetarism? Sri Sri: Well, when you see the nature, our immediate ancestors: monkeys, they are vegetarians. Our human system is made for vegetarian food. On google you will get many articles and scientific reasons for being vegetarian. Little bit about Vedic Wisdom group and Sri Sri Yoga TTP Group, and then we will come to other questions. Let's talk about Yoga first. You know the definition for asana is stable and comfortable. Sthiram sukham asanam. When you do a posture, you should let go the effort for it then you experience infinity abiding it. Each asana is to be done keeping in mind not the correctness of the posture, but to experience infinity. Definition of comfort means not feeling the body. When you sit uncomfortably, you feel those parts of the body which are uncomfortable. When you sit comfortably, you feel expansion and infinity in those parts of the...

Question - Gurudev, life has become so fast paced, I find it so difficult to stay centered. Please help. Gurudev Sri Sri - It is good, if life is fast, you can't hold on to anything. It doesn't leave you anytime to sit and brood over the past. Before you start brooding over something, something else has already come to attend to. Just go with the flow.

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 9🌀 ~ Eliminating The Cause Of Pain ~                 🌀DAY - 70🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 If you just look into all the pleasures or joy that you get in life, you will note that they all come with a tax and this tax is sorrow. In the next sutra, Patanjali says, " परिणामतापसंस्कार दुःखैगुॅणवृत्तिविरोधाश्च दुःखमेव सवॅ विवेकिनः "  " Parinaama taapa sanskaara dukhaihi guna vrittivirodhaascha dukhameva sarvam vivekinah " Every event causes some pain. An event could be very pleasant or joyful. But, it comes with a little pinch, a pain. That pain is that, however joyful an event is, it will end. And the ending of an event, however pleasurable and joyful, comes with a little pinch. The greater the joy it has given, the greater will be the pain when it ends. Parinaama dukha - This is called parinaama, the effect o...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 8🌀         ~ The Veils Of Misery ~                 🌀DAY - 69🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 " ते हलदपरितापफलाः पुण्यापुण्यहेतुत्वात् "  " Te haldapartitaapa phalaah punya apunya hetutwaat " When these impressions are good, they bring you much joy and happiness. However, if they not good, they bring suffering. It depends on your merit and demerit. If you have done good to people, then that good karma accumulates and brings you joy. If somebody is happy, it is because he has done something good in the past. If somebody is miserable, he has done something bad in the past. So, here Patanjali connects every happiness and misery to some action of the past - all that is in your karma tank. And, meditation is the way we wash out the misery. You become so light, hollow and empty. You sing and dance...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 8🌀         ~ The Veils Of Misery ~                 🌀DAY - 68🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 " सतिमुले तद्धिपाको जात्यायुॅभोगः " " Sati mole tadwipaako jaatyaayurbhoigaaha " Patanjali explains a little more about the genesis, and how we gain our birth. As long as this root is there, the fruit of its tree will grow again and again. जात्यायुॅभोगः Jaati means the body in which there is birth. The birth may be as a chicken, or a monkey, or a human - or a male or a female. Your birth and the length of your life is determined. What you will get in your life, your enjoyments or suffering are also determined. Why is someone born in Ethiopia and someone else in Switzerland? Why is one person born in one place and another is born somewhere else? Why is one person miserable? Why is another, who has done no...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 8🌀         ~ The Veils Of Misery ~                 🌀DAY - 67🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 " क्लेशमूलः कमाॅशयो दृष्टादृष्टजन्मवेदनीयः " " Klesha moolah karmaashayo drishta adrishta janma vedaneeyah " If you don't cleanse your consciousness of these five miseries or impurities, then you will have to suffer in this life and the next, too. Patanjali said दृष्टादृष्टजन्मवेदनीयः - you will have to suffer in this life and in the next life too, because the miseries form कमाॅशयो - a bank of karma. They get into the reserve bank In you. They form a karma tank. This karma can be washed off and eliminated right away through meditation. You should get rid of the karma and lessen the sheaths of ignorance over you before your body drops. Otherwise, there is no escape for you from these miseries. दृष्टादृष्ट...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 8🌀         ~ The Veils Of Misery ~                 🌀DAY - 66🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 " ते प्रतिप्रसवहेयाः सूक्ष्माः " " Te pratiprasavaheyaah sookshmaah " When you make the sources of misery and the fears more and more subtle, they let you return to your Self. They let you bring the mind back to the Source. When these miseries are very thick, they bother you. They captivate your mind. When they become thinner and thinner, they begin to let your mind become free and get back to its Self, the Source. When you are craving for somebody and it is not subtle, you are unable to relax or even be still. However, once that craving is gone, then you are able to relax and meditate. The feverishness gets reduced and the mind can get back to the Source.  Now, what is the way to get rid of these m...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 8🌀         ~ The Veils Of Misery ~                 🌀DAY - 65🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 Prachchinna means one is dominant and the others have gone underground. And Udaara, means very generous, fully active. This you can find in the societies all over the world. All the miseries are present in their generous form in people who are not doing any practice or meditation. It is so nice of Patanjali to call them generous. There is no shortage of frustrated and miserable people all through the ages. Udaara is the form when they are fully active. A little fear should be kept in the body, so that the body can be maintained. It should be lesser than salt, less than a pinch. That is why it is called vidushoopi. It is found even in persons who gave much knowledge about scriptures. Actually, it is not f...

Question - Gurudev, why is that people who do wrong move ahead freely most of the times while we also see people who do right but still suffer. Why is it so? Can you please throw some light on this phenomenon? Gurudev Sri Sri - You think that the people who do something wrong progress in life. But haven’t you noticed the downfall these people face afterwards? There was a man named Madoff in America. People from all over the whole world were crazy to have a photograph with him. Now he is in jail. His own son revealed his scandal. So whoever attains success with unfair means will definitely fall down. There are many examples like this.If you are suffering that is not because you are good, but it may be due to a lack in skillfulness. We need four things in life - power, skill, devotion and liberation. (Shakti, Yukti, Bhakti and Mukti). You cannot be successful in society without power and skillfulness. And you cannot be successful in life without devotion and liberation. So yo...

Gurudev Sri Sri: - What do you do when someone behaves very rudely towards you? 😞Get upset 😖React rudely back 😡Get frustrated Run away and avoid the person or situation Blame the person Preach to the person None of these will in any way strengthen you. Then what are the options? See rude behaviour in this light: 👉It indicates the intensity of their commitment 👉It indicates their stress and insensitivity 👉It projects the upbringing of the person 👉It shows a behavioural pattern 👉It shows lack of Knowledge 👉It shows lack of observation of the mind and its sensations 👉It shows you , behaviour to avoid. 👉It is an opportunity for you to welcome and absorb the rudeness😇 👉It strengthens your mind💪😇 👉It reveals the love that you are as unconditional💗🥰 The next time when someone is rude to you, just give back a broad smile 😊 . If you can digest their rudeness, nothing whatsoever can shake you.

Question - Gurudev, I don't know what to choose as my career as I want to honor all my talents. Any suggestions? Gurudev Sri Sri - One gentleman came to me who could play 40 instruments. He could play the flute, guitar, sitar, tabla, and many other more instruments. It was fascinating. I also knew a gentleman who had nearly 47 degrees, and he was not more than about 47-48 years old. I wondered how he got so many degrees. He is a lawyer, he is a doctor, he is an engineer, my goodness. Unfortunately, he died in a car accident. At the age of 47, he knew a lot of things. He simultaneously did a lot of degrees, otherwise you can't do this. He had an amazing personality. Whatever you is good, but when you take up something, complete it. It is not that you take up something and then you drop it and take something else. Then you may be very talented but it is totally useless. So you take up something and see it through.

Question - Gurudev, can you please talk about karma and how it works? I always question young kids that die painfully, or babies who die in the mother's womb? Gurudev Sri Sri - You know, karma is unfathomable. It is very deep, like measuring the depth of an ocean. Which karma, where, what? It is all simply too big to explain, but it is the cause for any action. No event or action can happen without a cause, this is simply a scientific theory. There needs to be a cause for every result. So every effect has a cause and this cause is karma. But this cause is so deep because it is not connected to just one incident, it is connected to many things and it is enormous. That is why Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita, 'Gahana karmano gatih', unfathomable are the ways of karma. So don't sit and waste your time thinking about karma. In the scriptures also it is said, 'If you do this you will have this karma, and if you do that you will have that karma', but ther...

Question - Gurudev, I have misbehaved and I feel very sad about it. My family is also suffering. I keep thinking of the past and I can’t get rid of it. Please advice me what to do? Gurudev Sri Sri - What is the surety? that you will take my advice and do what I say? If you would have taken it, you would have done it already. You don't take my advice, so what can I do? Come on drop it. Some karma, something made you misbehave, and it is finished. Why to sit and crib about something that has happened in the past. Every action happens because of 4 things : 1. You had the intention to do the action.  2. Someone else wanted you to do it and that made you do it. 3. Neither you or the other person wanted it, but somehow it happened against both your will. 4. Both wanted it so it happened.  Are you getting what I am saying? Two people are involved in a fight with each other. First possibility is, you were upset and it came out of you. You were upset and your own anger caus...

Question - Gurudev, how to bring children who oppose the path, onto the path? Gurudev Sri Sri - You know, a parent cannot influence their teenagers, but they can influence the friends of their children. So, before you become a good mother or a good father, you have to become a good uncle or aunt. The friends of your children will have more respect for you, and will listen to you. So tell your daughter or your son to bring all their friends home, and then you talk to them separately. You can influence them, and through them you can influence your children. It is like, if there is a mango tree in the garden and you want a mango, you will throw a stone at the branch so that the mango falls, but you will not hit the mango directly. That is the indirect way in which you have to deal with your teenagers. Got it?

Question - Gurudev, why in life you are always tested and challenged when God wants to make us happy? Gurudev Sri Sri - Know that every test in an opportunity for you to grow. Don't take it as a test. A test is not to know whether you are strong or not, but it for you to realise that 'Yes, I am strong'. God is not ignorant that he needs to check and see whether you have the strength or not. God already knows your capacity, nature knows your capacity. The tests are for you to realise that you are strong. If you find that you are going through testing times, it is for you to realise that you are much bigger and you can overcome that. It is for your own knowledge.

“DESTINY IS NOT A MATTER OF CHANCE, IT IS A MATTER OF CHOICE… Master your mind and change your Destiny “ ..unknown  Same thought resonates with Yoga Vasistha’s, saying, “The mind alone is the creator of the world. Whatever appears in one’s consciousness gets established and bears fruits.” Observe the intention, and put your attention on whatever you want to grow in life. Intention, attention and manifestation — that is how the universe manifests.  #Intention, #attention and #manifestation, what is the intricate science behind this? How are they connected? When this question was asked to Gurudev , he replied  “They are all connected. An intention arises and when you put little more attention on that, it does #manifest. Otherwise many intentions come and you don’t act on it, right?! But when an intention is given a little bit attention, which means you work on those intentions then manifestation does happen.” Simple tips to manifest the #Goal:  👉Turn you...

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What is samadhi? Does it only happen with eyes closed?  Sri Sri : First it is good to start with eyes closed, then it can also happen with eyes open. A devotee has sung such a beautiful verse in Kannada. He has said, 'When my breath is so fragrant, why would I need any flowers?' See, when your mind is in a very heightened or pleasant state, your breath is like a flower, very soft. When there is pain or heaviness in the mind, your breath is also heavy. When there is love for everyone, the breath has fragrance. So when there is fragrance in the breath, why would one need flowers. Then he says, 'When there is Kshama(forgiveness), daya (compassion), shanti (peace), sairnne (endurance) in me, why would I need to go and sit in samadhi?' What is the need of samadhi where there is total forgiveness, total compassion, total peace and total endurance to welcome the opposites? When I can handle the pleasant and the unpleasant equally, because every pain and every unple...

Often people think that God is elsewhere; he existed sometime in the past, or will come sometime in the future. They forget that God is right here, right now, present within everyone, present within me – this conviction should be there.               It is for this only that you are doing all these gymnastics, all these exercises. Otherwise what is the point of doing these exercises all day – doing pranayama, asana, kirtan, bhajan, seva – what is the essence of all these ? To know that God is inside me, right here and right now. - Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar