Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

Chapter 2 - True Intimacy Day 4 When a bud breaks, it becomes a flower. When a heart breaks, it becomes divine. A flower cannot break. What breaks is the bud. And it breaks for good. What you thought was love, was not love. In true love there is no heartbreak.  A broken heart means broken demands, broken expectations, broken hopes. How can love break? Love cannot break. Can water break? Water is fluid. Love is fluid. Whatever is fluid is not brittle. Something that is stiff is brittle. It can be broken. Life is a totality.  It is like a stream. It carries the leaves, sometimes a log, sometimes a frog, sometimes swans, sometimes fish, sometimes dirt, all the industrial waste, everything. It doesn't mind.  Does it say," Oh, you are a flower, I will carry only you. You are dead logs, I won't carry you?" It doesn't make any distinction. If you pour wonderful things, such as milk, into the water, it will carry that, too. You place a flower there, it will ca...

Chapter 1 - God Loves Fun  Day 3 People are not really aware of the very mechanics of what the psyche is, what the Being is, what the mind is. You try to think positive and see if it leads to positive thoughts. It creates more negative thoughts deep within you.  Somewhere in you it starts boiling up. The fear comes and your mind is divided into two. One says, "Be positive. I will be healthy." What healthy? You are unable to do something.  Somewhere your consciousness is slipping down. In your mind you are trying to say, "I am healthy, I am healthy," and deep inside something else is cooking. Fear is coming up, all sorts of duality and conflicts arise. It happened to one lady. This lady had this positive thinking, "I'm happy, I'm happy, I'm always happy and nothing can touch my happiness." And it so happened, her son died in an accident. When a son dies, a mother is not happy.  Now she became very unhappy, but her old habit continued...

Lakshminarayana temple, Hosaholalu Did you know that the Lakshminarayana temple at Hosaholalu in Mandya district is considered one of the ornate examples of Hoysala architecture built in the 13th century built by King Vira Someshwara of the Hoysala Kingdom? The Lakshminarayana temple at Hosaholalu in Mandya district of Karnataka is a well preserved Trikutachala or three - celled temple of Hoysala architecture, built using Soapstone (chloritic schist). The shrine and the tower over it, called a Vimana, follow a stellate design style. The temple was built in 1250 A.D. during the reign of King Vira Someshwara ( (1234–1263) of Hoysala Kingdom. Hoysalas were a medium sized kingdom who ruled in Karnataka from 12th to 13th centuries. The sophisticated architectural style adopted by the Hoysala rulers for building temples of Vishnva and Shaiva tradtitons was based on the rich tradition that already existed in Southern India called the Dravida traditon of temple architecture ...

Kalpavriksha Did you know that the Kalpavriksha or Kalpataru, the tree of life, also meaning "World Tree", is a wish-fulfilling tree, common to the Hinduism a popular theme in Jain cosmology and Buddhism. which is also said to be the Milky Way or the birthplace of the stars Sirius? The Kalpavriksha or Kalpataru, the tree of life, also meaning "World Tree", in Hinduism, is a wish-fulfilling tree, which emerged during the divine Samudra Manthana or the "churning of the ocean" along with Amrita or necatr and 14 other ratnas (gems) such as Kamadhenu, the divine cow, providing for all needs. Its earliest mention in Indian religions, like Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism in Sanskrit literature. It is also a popular theme in Jain cosmology and Buddhism. The King of gods, Indra took possesion of this tree as it emerged from the primal waters 'churning of the ocean event; and planted at Mt. Meru peak...

Chandramauleshwara temple, Unkal Did you know that the Chandramauleshwara temple in Unkal village near Hubli , completed in 1085 AD in the Kalyani Chalukya period has in its garbagriha two Shiva lingas and , pradakshina path and the mukhyamandapa, each with four cardinal entranace doors? The Chandramauleshwara temple in Unkal village near Hubli city of Karnataka, east of the Unkal lake in the backdrop of the Nrupatunga Hills, is an 11th century Sandhara type, built during the Kalyana Chalukyan period is dedicated to Lord Shiva. It is located on the bank of the Unkal lake. A unique feature of the Sandahara type plan is that it has a square sanctum enclosed by a gallery of pillars meant for Pradakshina with two Shiva lingas deified in such a way that morning sunlight illumintates them on a particular day. One of the Shiva Lingas in the Garbagriha is the ‘Chaturmukha Linga’ which is the four faced Shiva linga which is a unique idol of Shiva in the Karnata...

Question - Gurudev, when opposite values are complementary, does it mean that when more people meditate, more people will express negative tendencies like jealousy and violence? Gurudev Sri Sri - You never know (laughter). All these negative emotions are distortions of love. They are off-springs of love. If there is no love, there can't be jealousy. If there is jealousy that means there is love. Arrogance is too much love for oneself. Jealousy is too much love for another person. Anger is too much love for another person or object. Greed is too much love for objects. Anger is love for one's own concepts and perception. An angry person will think, 'I perceive things to be like this, and if they are not like that, then he gets angry. So, almost every negative emotion is a distortion of love.

Question - Gurudev, when there is a conflict between two things and both feel right, then how do you choose? Gurudev Sri Sri - Relax. If there is confusion, relax. The right thing will come up by itself. Choose whatever gives happiness in the long term. Even if it is not so pleasant in the short term, it doesn't matter. What gives you happiness temporarily but results in suffering in the long term, then that is not a good option.