Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

If a child is hungry, he has to put the food in the mouth, chew and then swallow it..Right?  Wake up!  To do any task , self effort is needed.. Get rid of your laziness and hold on to your commitment.. Relax.. Things which you can set it right, you must set it right... That which is beyond your capacity, just pray.. God is with you.. There's an unseen hand working for you ..You are not alone.. WAVES OF HAPPINESS 

What makes one different is the stress that covers the beauty. When the stress is gone, we become our original selves. Every child which came into this world came as a PURE, BEAUTIFUL, INNOCENT and INTELLIGENT child. But then, somehow, we tend to lose that innocence. The intelligence which has no innocence does not have much value and innocence which is not intelligent has no value. What is needed? The combination of intelligence and innocence. That which gives us this innocence and intelligence, which gives us sensibility and sensitivity, that which makes our heart blossom and keeps our intellect sharp is what spirituality is! We all have ten fingers but we don’t necessarily know how to play the harp, or the guitar or the violin. That needs a little training. Similarly, though we have all these ABILITIES, we are not trained to use them. If we can train ourselves to use them, what happens? Our sharpness increases, our memory sharpens, our intuitive ability becomes very strong and our p...

Question - Gurudev, what is moksha (liberation)? It is said that human birth is the only way to attain it and if that's true, can you please explain how to attain it in this lifetime itself? Gurudev Sri Sri - You go ask children how they feel the day their exams are over. They toss all their books and give a big sigh. ‘It is over now, finished’. That is moksha. One day, in your mind when such a relief comes, 'Yes I am fulfilled. I need nothing in this moment. I am satisfied with life. That is moksha. When you exit the last breath with contentment, that is moksha. See karma cannot be dissolved without a body. So one has to come back to the body to dissolve all the karmas. But moksha is possible only with the body. Moksha means relief from pain, relief from sufferings, relief from ignorance, the whole knowledge is about this only. Moksha is the opposite of bondage. When bondage ends, it is moksha. Moksha is when you find a deep relief in life, from miseries, sorrows, ...

Weekly Knowledge 108 Quebec Ashram 02 Jul 1997  Canada THE GOLDEN VEIL Craving comes from encouraging the thought of pleasure. The actual experience of pleasure may not be as pleasurable as the memory. Georgia: That 's why we spend so much time in our minds! Whether you encourage a worldly thought or a Divine thought, they both bring you pleasure. Worldly thought leads to indulgence, which brings you down from pleasure to disappointment and dejection.  Divine thought takes you up from pleasure to Bliss, Intelligence, and progress in life. Worldly thought brings pleasure only as memory, whereas Divine thought comes as Reality. Question: What is a Divine thought? "I am not the body; I am bliss, satchitananda; I am unbounded space; I am love; I am peace; I am light." Question: What is a worldly thought? It is about money, sex, food, power, status and self-image. Truth is hidden by the golden veil of the mundane. Pierce through the glittering sheath and know you are the Sun. ...

MALABAR CATMINT (Anisomeles indica) is a strongly aromatic, camphor-scented perennial herb from the family Lamiaceae. It grows to about 1-2 m in height, with a 4-angled, pubescent stem. The leaves are thin, ovate, long-stalked, and pointed at the tip and have round-toothed margins. The purplish, tubular, zygomorphic flowers are numerous, crowded, and almost stalkless and occur in spike-like racemes. Flowers are not long-lasting but buds open progressively from base to tip of the spike.. These are visited by pollinator bees, sunbirds and insects for nectar and pollen. ETYMOLOGY The common name 'Catmint' is given as the aroma of its leaves attracts cats. The genus Anisomeles means unequal form, referring to the unequal size of upper and lower anthers found in this plant's flowers. The species epithet refers to its native region India. 🌿CULTIVATION The plant is mainly cultivated as a medicinal and for the essentia...

“Beauty is an inner phenomenon. Beauty is not in objects, not in people, not even in the eyes of the beholder. It lies in the heart of every person,” says Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, and this beauty in the heart reflects so naturally as radiance and a glow on the person’s face. Beauty goes farther than being just skin deep. Yet our skin is one of the most visible expressions of this beauty. We are made up of both matter and spirit. This means that our skin, beyond being the visible outer layer, is full of life and activity! It is an organ like any other part of our body and needs to be kept healthy and nourished. Most beauty treatments that are available today address the physical needs but do not reveal the secrets of how you can make each cell of your skin glow from within and pulsate with energy and radiance. common causes of skin problem: Age Stress Unhealthy lifestyle practices such as smoking, alcohol, drug addiction, and wrong food habits Hormonal changes in the body Improper digestio...

Very good, you are in the right place with the right intention. This is the intention you should come here with, I want to be enlightened.          Not just I want a job, I want someone to marry, I want my son or daughter to be married, this are all side dishes. These are like the pickle. When you order for a thali, you will also get pickle. But this is not the pickle store !         You are here for the main course. Nobody goes to a restaurant and orders for mouth freshener. Tooth pick and mouth freshener come later. Sometimes I wonder, you come here for enlightenment, I mean you are supposed to come here for something higher, but you are asking for what? Small little things, it is like asking for toothpick ! Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji 

Don’t be feverish about a relationship, just relax and you will find your relationship with people will improve and become better. If you are like a leech, clinging on to somebody in a relationship and bugging them, even though you say all nice words, that person will run away from you because they can’t handle it. One aspect is to give love, and another is to know how to handle love, receive love as well. It needs only a centered, enlightened person. Now don’t expect that type of behavior from everybody. You have to be very much at ease with yourself. If you are at ease with yourself, everyone will be at ease with you. : Gurudev Sri Sri RaviShankar Ji

There is something called ‘gut feeling’. Don’t be paranoid if once or twice or ten times your trust has been broken. You know you have selected wrong people, that’s all. Remember that in the world there are good people, in abundance. Just imagine if someone don’t trust you, how do you feel like? Put yourself in the shoes of someone who doubts you. You walk into someone’s house they doubt that you may steal something & walk away. How do you feel? Awful! Right? So, you must be careful, don’t be naïve at the same time you should not be paranoid. Yes. Life moves with some amount of trust. You go to bank they take all the guarantees and then they trust you. And you vote for somebody, a politician, you put them in the Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha, you send them to Parliament, because you have put some amount of trust in them, right? So, the whole society or system works on trust. And if you totally lack it, you will get into a sort of psychological illness, paranoia. At the same ...

 Smile! If somebody says he/she has done The Art of Living course but is not smiling, don’t believe them! They have not done the course truly. Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji 

Head understands head and heart understands heart. The nose can only smell; eyes can only see; ears can only hear. Similarly, the heart can only feel while the head can only think. We try to put the heart in the head and the head in the heart and it doesn’t seem to work. Your heart feels something is beautiful, whereas your head says it is beautiful. We cling to the word in the mind but we don’t feel it.  We repeat the word ‘beautiful’ in the head but it doesn’t seem or feel beautiful. It’s the same thing about love, you talk too much about love, you get stuck in the head and it doesn’t rise in the heart. In silence, love emits, radiates. We experience ourselves in the things we love more. That is why, when we lose the things we love, we feel hurt; we feel unhappy. Suppose you love your piano very much and you hear that something has happened to your piano, something gets cut off in you. Or, if something happens to your car or your dog, you feel a loss. So you are not j...

1. Once somebody made a mistake and Gurudev asked him. ”What punishment can I give you?” The person replied, “Do not punish me, Gurudev, I won’t make the mistake again. After sometime, Gurudev asked another person who made a mistake, ”And what punishment can I give you?” With a bright smile he replied, “Any punishment, Gurudev.” At this Gurudev turned to the rest of us with a smile and said. “See, he is so confident of my love for him that he is not afraid of any punishment.” Where there is love, there is no fear. Do not be afraid of being punished by God. Trust in the love that He has for you. 2. A devotee felt embarrassed when asked by Gurudev about his profession. He said "Gurudev, I am in the liquor business,but I intend to stop it." Gurudev replied, "Oh, you are in the business of intoxicating people, So am I, but I never intend to stop it." 3. Gurudev asked another devotee about his business. She replied "Gurudev, I am interior decorator....