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Questions - Gurudev, how to bring my children who oppose coming onto this beautiful spiritual path? Gurudev @SriSriRaviShankar Ji - 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?

On the fourth day of Navratri, the Mother Divine is worshipped in the form of Kushmanda Devi. The name Kushmanda is made of three words. ‘Ku’ (little), ushma (warmth, energy) and anda (egg). Kushmanda also refers to a ball of energy Devi Kushmanda is known as ashtabhuja, the one with eight hands. She holds a stoup (kamandul), bow, arrow, a jar of nectar, discus, mace, rosary and lotus. She radiates a golden light as this form of the Devi resides in the sun’s core, thus sustaining Surya Lok. Sitting on a tiger, Devi Kushmanda denotes dharma and justice. She is the life force energy (Prana Shakti) in every being in this universe. Our energy has this unique quality of being smaller than the smallest, and larger than the largest. From the small seed, it becomes a huge fruit, and from the huge fruit, it comes back into the seed. Kushmanda means the Mother Divine manifests as prana, as the energy within us.

Sandpaper tree Did you know that Sandpaper tree's leaves with silica content are widely used as a source of sandpaper to smooth wood and calabashes, and to impart the last fine-grade polish to ivory apart from use in folk medicine?  The Sandpaper tree known by the scientific names Ficus exasperate and Ficus asperifolia is widely known as forest sandpaper fig, white fig, or sandpaper leaf or as Siamese rough bush. It is a deciduous and dipciuos species of plant, densely branched, in the Mulberry family Moraceae, native to Southern India (moslty on the Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats); Sri Lanka; Southeast Asia; tropical Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia to Angola; and in the Arabian countries such as Yemen. The tree's highly textured leaf surface gives it the name as the "sandpaper tree".  Sandpaper tree is a small to medium sized tree in Banyan group of figs. growing to 18 to 20 m metres. It is a middle-sized tree, semi ever green; bark pale...

Udumbara or Umbar tree or Audumbara tree (Ficus glomerata) Did you know that the Udumbara or Umbar tree or Audumbara tree (Ficus glomerata) is one of the cosmic trees of India which is known since Vedic times due to its religous siginficance but also due to its peculiar and useful quality and also partly due to its healing and medical powers?  Udumbara or Umbar or Audumbara tree with scienitic name Ficus glomerata Roxb. with dried bark called Ficus racemosa Linn (Fam. Moraceae), is a large deciduous tree distributed all over India. It grows and flourishes throughout the year in evergreen forests, moist localities and bank of streams up to the elevation of 1800 m, and is often cultivated in villages for shade and its edible fruits.  The Udumbara's or Audumbara's religious honour in history is traced to the Vedic times as one the Cosmic trees with certain gods enjoined to be worshipped at its root representing the Goddesses Ganga, Sarasvat...

Olax scandens Family : Olacaceae Habit : Shrub Habitat : dry to moist areas Medicinal and food values : ✔ The fresh young leaves are cooked as leafy vegetable and also chewed during mouth ulcer and ripen fruit is edible. Sugimani Marndi Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.  Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha

*Chapter 1 - Introduction* *Day 3* Let us not hate each other. What can really block your progress is hatred. I In a classroom a student is sitting and listening to the talk or lecture, but in the mind he is hateful of the friend sitting in the same classroom, his mind starts reeling only on that issue and not on the topic or subject of that lecture. Often you start hating the people you love. You fall in love and fall out of love from the person whom you loved so much, because your love is all about getting something from them. The moment you stop getting from them you start hating them.  Anyone who gives you some much pleasure may sometimes give you pain. Because you think that the person is giving you pleasure, you want to hold on to them.  And when you cannot hold on to them you start hating them. Isn't this happening all over the world? That is why people start killing the people they love so much because the pain of suffering or of hatred overtakes love. Then...

*Chapter 1 - Introduction*  *Day 2* Om saha navavatu saha nau bhunaktu saha viryam karvavahai tejasvina mavidvisavahai Om shanti, shanti, shantihi  This prayer is saying, “let the Divine protect us both. Let us be together. Let us develop our ability together. Let us be effulgent, brilliant. Let us not hate each other”.  The master lives on his own level and the student is on another level. How can there be communication when the levels are so different? Either the student has to come up or the teacher has to come down, otherwise communication is impossible.  So, the Master says," I am with you. Let us learn together". He does not say, “I am teaching you. You better learn. I know and you don't know”. He says, “Let us explore”.  The entire knowledge of Upanishads is from being together. A teacher or a professor, however intelligent he/she is, should not go on showing his intelligence in front of the student and make the student feel small. So the way ...

Chapter 11 - Complete Happiness  Day 56 Nurture a seed. We sow good seeds in a field, and on their own weeds grow with them. What does a farmer do? He removes the weeds. Only when weeds are pulled out will a crop be good.  Similarly, we have different types of seeds : seeds of happiness, seeds of pleasure, seeds of sadness, seeds of contentment and seeds of discontentment.  “Bijavadhanam” means to nurture the seeds. If you have weeds, remove them. You have seeds of peace, tranquility, pleasantness and love, and if they are not growing well, then water them and ensure that they grow.  Do sadhana so that this happens. Sit and be absorbed in the happiness in your heart. Sit down and soak yourself in the happiness that is experienced by your heart.  When we are doing some activity and happiness comes, we are not able to appreciate it. When we are happy and rest, that rest helps us feel the happiness.  Otherwise life is spent just desiring happiness....

Chapter 10 - Life Is A Play  Day 55 In a jail, you find both jailers and prisoners. The jailer is free to come and go at any time, while the prisoner is stuck. So what is the difference between them? Both are sitting in jail, behind bars.  The prisoner might ask, "Since both of us are here, what is the difference between us? I get my food, and so do you. I have to work, and you also have to work even more than I do."  Once his work finishes, prisoner can go to sleep, but a jailer still has work to do. He is on 24-hour duty. So what is the difference between guards and prisoners in a jail?  Guards have a feeling of independence. They can go out, and nobody can stop them, whereas a prisoner is held captive. If you understand you feelings, you will realise that they arise each moment like bubbles forming on the surface of water.  When Sri Purandar Das said, "The bubble on the water is not real, oh Hari" he has looked at life as a bubble and not consider...

Question :- Gurudev, how to overcome the fear of losing my loved ones? Gurudev Sri Sri - See, if you don't have much to do, and you have a lot of free time then fear will come to you in some or the other form. The fear of losing a loved one, or the fear of catching a disease, of the fear of dying, many different fears can take over you. The antidote for fear is love and service. If you keep yourself busy in doing some service, where is the time to think about anything? It is the same energy which manifests as fear, hatred or love. So if you channel the energy towards love, then it will not manifest as fear or hatred. So, keeping busy, being active in doing some selfless service will help.

I have always felt connected to Sri Sri, even before meeting him. After my 12th grade exams, I visited the Art of Living International Center in Bangalore with my family. At that point in time, my mind was very unstable and confused because even though my exams had gone fine, I had another big decision in front of me: what field should I major in? What field do I choose to establish a career in. To top it all, my result date was rapidly approaching. Several people had given me guidance about which field of study to choose, which confused me further. I had decided to simply ask Guruji what to pursue because I knew that would be the best guidance. There were way too many fields, and many people for guidance who had different opinions about each course. I decided to follow what Guruji would say, that would be the best guidance ever. We went to the secreteriate to request for an appointment to meet Sri Sri. We were told to come back later. This went on for the next three days. ...

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