Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

Yoga and spirituality are given tremendous respect all over the world today. Regardless of the country, people all over are rapidly adopting and integrating yoga in their lives.           If you go to the city of Tromsø in Norway, which is the last point of the country closest to the Arctic Circle, there the sun shines for just two months in a year. But even there, people are practicing pranayama and meditating. The chants of Om Namaha Shivaya are resonating even in such a faraway place.          In the same way, the last city in the Southern Hemisphere of Earth – Tiera del Fuego, after which begins the Antarctic Circle; there also you will find thousands of people gathering together to chant Om Namaha Shivaya and practicing the Sudarshan Kriya. This is India’s gift to the world. - Gurudev Sri Sri..

Q: What is Pavamana Suktam ? *Gurudev Sri Sri :* It's a prayer. It says, "Let all the Gods and the divine purify our heart. Let everything be pure. Our mind, intellect, environment, thoughts, emotions - let everything be pure. Let even the body be pure.

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 16🌿           ~ Three Types Of Purity ~                    🌱 Day - 89 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 The sky is there. Ashtavakra said, 'I am infinite like the sky.' The body is like a pot. Inside the pot is hollow space. Now, when you buy a pot, what do you pay for, the hollow space or the mud around it? What is important? If the same pot is given to you as a solid ball - the same amount of clay or glass - will it be of any use to you? It is the hollow space inside it that is valuable. A house is valuable because of the hollow space inside. If it was all just blocks of bricks, and there was no hollow space inside, is it of any value? You know, in this world, if you pay money for anything of value, it is for the hollow and empty space! Yes, even a cup - y...

Question - Gurudev, when we are children, we complain to our parents. When we go to school, we complain about our teachers and our friends. When we start working, we complain about our boss or our colleagues at work. How does we get free from this habit of complaining all the time? Gurudev Sri Sri - That's it. Once you have realised and become aware of this tendency about yourself, then just know that you are out of it. A complaining mind usually complains about things that happened in the past. When we do not look forward to the future with a positive mind set, and when our prana (life force energy is low), then our mind tends to get entangled with the events of the past, and it starts to regret or complain about them. That is why the wise ones around us who have foresight encourage us by saying, 'Drop all this l garbage of the past. Just smile and move forward. Your complaining does not help improve or resolve anything'.

Question - Gurudev, I have been continually unwell since a very long time and have suffered numerous accidents in the past. I’m unable to bear so much pain. What do I do? Gurudev Sri Sri - Listen, if you had really been so unwell, then you would have never been able to come here to the Bangalore Ashram. We never notice how healthy we are. Rather we keep focusing on the small diseases and problems in life and become miserable. It is not possible that someone can be unwell all the time, or since birth. If that were the case, then such a person will not be able to come all the way here and speak during the satsang. So do not think that you have had to take a lot of trouble to come here. You are already very healthy and are smiling too. You need to bring a change in your mentality, and your outlook in life. See, the body has its own limitations but you must be strong in your heart. Sometimes in life you may suffer pain, or some disease, or meet with an accident. That is the nat...

Question - Gurudev, how can we correct other peoples mistakes? Gurudev @SriSriRaviShankar ji - Mistakes happen all the time. Often you get irritated by mistakes and you want to correct them, but how many can you correct? You correct others’ mistakes for two reasons. The first is when someone’s mistake bothers you, and the second is when you correct someone for their own sake so they can grow, not because it bothers you. Correcting mistakes for the first reason – when the mistake bothers you – does not work. To correct mistakes you need both authority and love. Authority and love seem to be contradictory but in reality they are not. Authority without love is stifling and does not work. Love without authority is shallow. You need both but they need to be in the right combination so you can be successful in correcting others’ mistakes. This can happen if you are totally dispassionate and centered. When you allow room for mistakes, you can be both authoritative and swe...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 18🌿    ~ Be Happy And Dispassionate ~                   🌱 Day - 100 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 कृत्वा मूर्तिपरिज्ञानं चैतन्यस्य न किं गुरूः । निर्वेदसमतायुक्तया यस्तारयति संसृतेः ॥ It is the Divine that has come in front of you and taken the form of a Guru. And the Divinity inside that form is imperishable; full of consciousness. It has become a need for you to experience that God, that the Divine loves you so dearly. Though He has told you so in many ways with the flowers, the birds, the clouds, the rain, and with all the friends, folks, and relatives, you are still unable to experience the Divinity. So the Divine, itself, takes the form of a saint, a maharishi, a Guru, or a Master and gives you a glimpse of the reality and the truth - that the Divine loves you very dea...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 18🌿    ~ Be Happy And Dispassionate ~                    🌱 Day - 99 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 नाना मतं महर्षीणां साधूनां योगिनां तथा । दृष्ट्वा निर्वेदमापन्नः को न शाम्यति मानवः ॥ कृत्वा मूर्तिपरिज्ञानं चैतन्यस्य न किं गुरूः । निर्वेदसमतायुक्तया यस्तारयति संसृतेः ॥ पश्य भूतविकारांस्त्वं भूतमात्रान् यथार्थतः । तत्क्षणाद्बन्धनिर्मुक्तः स्वरूपस्थो भविष्यसि ॥ वासना एव संसार इति सर्वा विमुञ्ज ताः । तत्त्यागो वासनात्यागात् स्थितिरद्य यथा तथा ॥ Ashtavakra says that the joy is in the Self. So where are you running? What are you running behind in this world? The essence of the world is Divine. He arrested the mind from being distracted by other things. But, in the name of spiritual practices, one can still go from here to there. The way they say is different, but the substa...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 17🌿          ~ Honouring The Secret ~                    🌱 Day - 98 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 तान्युपेक्ष्य यथा प्राप्तवर्ती सिद्धिमवाप्नुयात् । Contentment, perfection and siddhi dawns in that person who is happy and contented with whatever has come; who does not hanker for something more. It is so strange, and yet very true! Be contented with what you have and you will see perfection or siddhi dawning in you. If you hanker for siddhi, you will not attain it. You may think you will be fulfilled and satisfied when you have siddhi. But it's the other way around. When you are satisfied, you will get siddhi. You may think that achievements follow siddhi, i.e. when you get fulfilled then you will achieve. Or when you achieve something, then you will be ...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 17🌿          ~ Honouring The Secret ~                    🌱 Day - 95 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 Knowledge dawns as not just in the intellect,but as an experience. An experience dawns in your whole Self; in your whole body. A nuclear scientist may say that everything is quantum and vibrations; just energy. But when a saint says it's all energy, there is joy and bliss because a saint knows it as energy. A saint knows himself as energy in the experiential level. These dualities have never stopped. The ocean has never been without waves. The waves come and go. The wind blows and waves rise according to their strength and disappear. Knowing and also being aware that knowing why it happens is useless, you will attain peace. You will be able to drop the past....

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 17🌿          ~ Honouring The Secret ~                    🌱 Day - 97 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 We sing : Nissar yeh samsara mein shiva naam ek hi saar hai. Samsara saram bhujagendra haram. It means that Shiva, the consciousness, is the only real juice or essence of this whole world. When this becomes confirmed in your mind, you will become peaceful. You will become quiet. Till this does not get confirmed, you will run here and there, biting this bone and that. They cause scars and wounds. And when you cannot take another bite, you'll rest. At least at some time or the other, you will have to realize there is no essence anywhere else. There is no juice anywhere else. Your very divine nature is the only juice. That is the only love possible on this plan...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 17🌿          ~ Honouring The Secret ~                    🌱 Day - 94 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 Ashtavakra says, ' कृताकृते च द्वन्द्वानि कदा शान्तानि कस्य वा । ' Conflicts in things done and not done. You did or did not do something. Conflict in what you have done and conflict in what you have not done. Has this conflict in the mind ever cooled down? Has it ever disappeared? Have the dualities in the mind ever settled down at any time? ज्ञात्वेह निर्वेदाद्भव त्यागपरोऽव्रती । Knowing this, all-knowing happens. Now, when you know that something is unknowable then you have known about it. Wanting to know creates the desire and keeps you in the future. Knowing it is to know that it is unknowable by the intellect or the mind, and that existence cannot be m...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 17🌿          ~ Honouring The Secret ~                    🌱 Day - 93 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 अष्टावक्र उवाच कृताकृते च द्वन्द्वानि कदा शान्तानि कस्य वा । एवं ज्ञात्वेह निर्वेदाद्भव त्यागपरोऽव्रती ॥ कस्यापि तात धन्यस्य लोकचेष्टावलोकनात् । जीवितेच्छा बुभुक्षा च बुभुत्सोपशमं गताः ॥ अनित्यं सर्वभेवेदं तापत्रितयदूषितम् । असारं निन्दितं हेयमिति निश्चित्य शाम्यति ॥ कोऽसौ कालो वयः किं वा यत्र द्वन्द्वानि नो नृणाम । तान्युपेक्ष्य यथा प्राप्तवर्ती सिद्धिमवाप्नुयात् ॥ कृताकृते च द्वन्द्वानि कदा शान्तानि कस्य वा । Ashtavakra asks a question. Do you know what we all do? We all wait for a time in the future when our mind will be very calm. Do you know this? You have the hope that someday in the future you will never get disturbed. You will become so strong and so...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 17🌿          ~ Honouring The Secret ~                    🌱 Day - 92 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 Ashtavakra says these are the causes of your bondage. When you do good to people,do it out of your nature. Forget about it how they behave and their reaction towards you. It's up to them. Let them carry their cross. Keep your mind free. If there is dust on your tables and your windows, you clean the place. You clean your tables and windows. You wash your clothes. But you forget to wash your mind. We don't ever clean it, and years and years of dust accumulates on it. Nothing from the day before should stick on it. It should always be dusted - new,free and clean! That is freedom. You are in bondage when you have a certain viewpoint that you're stuck with. You ...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 17🌿          ~ Honouring The Secret ~                    🌱 Day - 91 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 अष्टावक्र उवाच तदा बन्धो यदा चित्तं किंञ्चिद्वञ्छति शोचति । किञ्चिन्मुञ्चति गृह्णाति किञ्चिद्धृष्यति कुप्यति ॥ तदा मुक्तिर्यदा चितं न वाञ्छति न शोचति । न मुञ्चति न गृह्णति न हृष्यति न कुप्यति ॥ तदा बन्धो यदा चित्तं सक्तं कास्वपि दृष्टिषु । तदा मोक्षो यदा चित्तमसक्तं सर्वदृष्टिषु ॥ यदा नाहं तदा मोक्षो यदाहं बन्धनं तदा । मत्वेति हेलया किञ्चित् मा गृहाण विमुञ्च मा ॥ What is bondage? What is the difference between someone who just wants to be in a room, people who want to remain in silence confine themselves to a room, and a person who is in jail? The person who is in jail wants to get out of it. He feels that being in jail is bondage. The person who is in a roo...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 16🌿           ~ Three Types Of Purity ~                    🌱 Day - 90 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 अहो चिन्मात्रमेवाहमिन्द्रजालोपमं जगत् । अतो मम कथं कुत्र हेयोपादेयकल्पना ॥ Where is the question of rejecting one amd accepting the other? Janaka completely lifts the veil from this idea about renunciation in the minds of people. What is renunciation? When you wake up in the morning, you don't say you are renouncing your dream, do you? Your dream is over. You have woken up. The dream has already left you! You can't say you renounced it yesterday. It has already passed. First of all, you should not hold on to anything. You cannot hold on to anything. It is like the incident about the two gentlemen. One looked at the moon and said, 'I have decided to buy thi...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 17🌿          ~ Honouring The Secret ~                    🌱 Day - 96 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 अनित्यं सर्वभेवेदं तापत्रितयदूषितम् । असारं निन्दितं हेयमिति निश्चित्य शाम्यति ॥  Dispassion is the only way you can be centered. There's no other way. Everything is transitory. Everything changes. Nobody is bad. People get into different moods. Their moods change and their behaviour change. Their likes and dislikes change. Your likes and dislikes change. Your way of looking at things changes. Events change. No event stays and remains the same. So everything is changing. The purpose of it all is to heat you up and bake you. You are baked in joy and you are baked in sorrow. You are baked in this event and in that event. So everything in the world bakes y...

*Guru Gyan:* _(Shiv Sutra_4.5)_ हृदये चित्तसंघट्टाद्...हॄदय मे चित्त को रखना ये ध्यान को प्रक्रिया है। जब भी हम सोते है तब मन किसी अज्ञात विधि से हृदय मे पहुँच जाता है, फिर जागते है तो चित्त और दिल का पार्थक्य महसूस होता है। ध्यान या समाधि ऐसा अनुभव है जहाँ भाव पूर्ण जागृत है और चित्त भी शांत और जागृत है। ध्यान के कुछ ऐसे भी तरीक़े है कि उसमें भाव को पूरी तरह से मार दो, चित्त को साक्षी बनाओ। हिंदुस्थान में प्रकृति को भगवान माना है...हिमालय और समुद्र को राजा माना है, पूरा संसार को जिवंत माना है....क्योंकि पूरा संसार की हमने दिल से देखा है....चित्त और दिल का समावेश करके देखा है। जैसे बालक करते है....सूरज, पहाड़, पेड़ ....सब जिवंत है। जिसको भी देखे... अपना लगना चाहिए। इसका लाभ क्या है....की आपमें शुद्ध तत्व जागृत होने लगेगा। अशुद्धि का अर्थ है...अपना नहीं लगना। अपनापन जैसे लगने लगेगा...आपमें पवित्रता, शुद्धता आने लगेगी। शुद्ध तत्व में हम रम जाते है तो अमानुष, अलौकिक शक्ति हमारे भीतर जागृत होने लगती है। पशू शक्ति का अर्थ है जो हावी हो जाता है, आक्रामक शक्ति। जो शक्ति आक्रामक नही है, हिंसात्मक...

*Guru Gyan:* _(Shiv Sutra_4.4)_ जिस तरह तुम तुम्हारा शरीर की कद्र करते हो वैसे ही प्रकृति के साथ रहो। सारा प्रकृति तुम्हारा शरीर है...सब्जी, अनाज, पानी तुम्हारा शरीर बननेवाला है। दृश्य जगत तुम्हारा शरीर है। शरीर और जगत में भेद न करो। अगला सूत्र है...हृदये चित्तसंघट्टाद् दृश्यस्वापदर्शनम्....अपना मन को, चित्त को दिल में डुबाओ...तब ये दृश्य अपना ही लगना लगेगा। किसी चीज को देखना हो तो दो ढंग से होता है....दिल से देखना या दिमाग से देखना। उदाहरण... चाँद को दिल से देखे तो चाँद मामा हो सकता है....और वैज्ञानिक दृष्टि से देखें तो एक मिट्टी का समूह, ग्रह है। गंगा को गंगाजी, गंगामैया की तरह देख सकते हो या सिर्फ पानी है ऐसा भी देख सकते हो। चित्त को हृदय में रखने से दॄश्य अपना ही लगता है। दुनिया मे इस बात की कमी है....दुनिया को दिल से नहीं देखते है....दिमाग से ही देखते है....तभी भाव सूख जाता है... जहाँ भाव सूख जाता उस समाज मे हिंसा, अशांति बढ़ जाएगा। किसी भी पशु को तुम अगर दिल से देखोगे तो वह जीता जागता भगवान ही नजर आएगा। जो मैं हूँ तो ये है यह समझ आएगा। हॄदय मे चित्त को रखना ये ध्यान को प्रक्रिया ह...

*Guru Gyan:* _(Shiv Sutra_4.3)_शरीर को देखते जाओ। उसके आगे चलके मन को भी दृश्य बनाओ। आपने इसके पहले जो जो सोचा था वह सब निकल गया है। आप अपने खयाल को देखोगे तो आप अचंबित हो जाओगे। विचार बदलते रहते है, विचार की भी लहर चलती है। विचार के साथ तादात्म्य मत बनो....विचार के साथ भी साक्षी बन जाओ। स्थान और परिस्थिति अनुसार विचार भी बदलते रहते है। विचारों का अपना एक आयाम है....विचारों को, भाव को भी दृश्य बनाओ...उसके बाद दृष्टा कौन है यह अपने आप नजर आयेगा। दूसरा अर्थ है....जो भी आप बाहर देखते हो ...वह भी तुम्हारा शरीर है....हवा, सूरज, धरती....आपका शरीर का विस्तार सूरज, पृथ्वी, विश्व के साथ है। विश्व का अर्थ है...जो हमेशा के लिए है, जो बीत नहीं गया, जो कल आनेवाला है...वह अभी है। कार से प्रवास करते समय आपको थोड़ा थोड़ा रस्ता दिखता है...मगर आप विमान से देखोगे तो पूरा रास्ता दिखेगा। आज जो आप सितारों से आनेवाली किरण देखते हो ....वह बहोत पहले निकला हुवा है। विशेष रुप से जो है वह विश्व है। दृश्यं शरीरम्...जो भी आप देखते हो वह आप का ही शरीर हो गया। जैसे आप अपने शरीर को देखते हो वैसे इस संसार का ...

*Guru Gyan:* _(Shiv Sutra_4.2)_ दृश्य से हटकर दृष्टा में स्थित हो जाना ही योग है। दृष्टा के, देखनेवाले के स्वरूप में बैठ जाना ही योग है। पहले शरीर को दृश्य बनाओ। योग निद्रा मे यही तो करते है...मन को शरीर के एक एक अंग में लेके जाते है और उस अंग को देखते है। शरीर को दृष्टापन से देखने लगे तो मन लगता है कि यह जीता जागता ज्योति है... वही मैं हूँ... मैं और शरीर अलग है...यह अनुभूति हमें होने लगता है। शरीर को दृश्य बनाओ। यह प्रयोग भी है और साधना भी है। दृश्य के साथ हो जाना ही दुःख का कारण है। लोग सिनेमा देखने जाते है तो वो पात्र के साथ एक हो जाते है....भावूकता मे बह जाते है, होश खो जाते है। जीवन भाव और बुद्धि का मेल है। भाव और बुद्धि दोनों को बनाये रखना है। अक्सर बुद्धिजीवी लोग भाव को मार देते है, उनमें प्रेम नहीं होता है, बड़े सूखे सूखे रहते है। और कुछ लोग बड़े भावुक होते है, हर कदम पर प्रेम में रोते है, सोचते ही नही। यह दोनों प्रकार के लोग अधूरे रह जाते है। पूर्णता तभी आएगी जब भाव और बुद्धि का मेल रहेगा, भाव और बुद्धि दोनों खिलेगी। दृश्य के साथ एक हो जाना।ही दुःख का कारण है। दुःख स...

*Guru Gyan:* _(Shiv Sutra_4.1)_ इच्छाएं पूरी होने के बाद आदमी खुश होता है ऐसा नहीं है बल्कि आदमी डिप्रेशन में आ जाता है। डिप्रेशन की बीमारी धनाढ्य लोगों मे ज्यादा है, गरीबों मे नही होती क्योंकि गरीबों मे कुछ इच्छा बनी रहती है...और कुछ करूँ। इसलिए वह इच्छा जब तक बनी रहती है तबतक उनको डिप्रेशन नहीं होता। इसलिए पाश्चिमात्य देशों मे लोगों में ज्यादा डिप्रेशन है। जिसकी सब इच्छाएं पूरी हो जाती है वह डिप्रेशन में आ जाता है। जबतक इच्छाशक्ति कुमारी के रूप मे रहती है, तो उसके शरीर से आनंद फुट फुट के निकलता है। अगला सूत्र है दृश्यं शरीरम् । आप जो चीज देखते हो वह दृश्य है और आप दृष्टा हो। अगर शरीर दृश्य हो जाए तो मन दृष्टा हो जाता है। सबकुछ मन ही देखता है। अंतर्मुख होने का यह पहला कदम है। दृश्य से हटकर दृष्टा में स्थित हो जाना ही योग है। दृष्टा के, देखनेवाले के स्वरूप में बैठ जाना ही योग है।  Shiv Sutra_4.1_ A man is happy after his wishes are fulfilled, it is not the case...but he comes in depression. The disease of depression is more in the rich people, not in the poor because some desire pe...