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“Yoga practice has 2 stages: the development of sattva and the transcendence of sattva. Development of sattva means purification of body and mind. Transcendence of sattva means going beyond the body and mind to our true Self beyond manifestation. The general rule is that if one has not developed Sattva, one cannot go beyond it. One should not forget this important rule. If we don’t have the appropriate sattva or purity in our body and mind, including in our emotions, it may be premature for us to seek any higher enlightenment. Development of sattva occurs through right diet, physical purification, control of the senses, control of the mind, mantra and devotion. Transcendence of sattva comes from higher meditation practices.  Sattva is also key to Ayurvedic healing. Ayurveda states that the sattvic body and mind are less likely to suffer from disease and more able to continue in a state of balance. Disease, particularly of a chronic nature, is a tamasic state. Tamas brings about th...

1) शरीरं सुरुपं तथा वा कलत्रं यशश्चारू चित्रं धनं मेरुतुल्यम् मनश्चेन्न लग्नं गुरोरंघ्रिपद्मे ततः किं ततः किं ततः किं ततः किम् •One's vesture may be superb, one's consort likewise, one's reputation resplendent and renowned, and one's riches like unto Mount Meru; but if one's mind be not centred upon the lotus feet of the Guru, what then, what then, what then? 2) कलत्रं धनं पुत्रपौत्रादि सर्वं गृहं बान्धवाः सर्वमेतद्धि जातम् मनश्चेन्न लग्नं गुरोरंघ्रिपद्मे ततः किं ततः किं ततः किं ततः किम् •Wife, wealth, sons, grandsons and all such; home and kindred; the host of all these things may be there; but if one's mind be not centred upon the lotus feet of the Guru, what then, what then, what then? 3) षडंगादिवेदो मुखे शास्त्रविद्या कवित्वादि गद्यं सुपद्यं करोति मनश्चेन्न लग्नं गुरोरंघ्रिपद्मे ततः किं ततः किं ततः किं ततः किम् •The Vedas with their six limbs and the knowledge of all sciences may be on one's lips; one may possess the poetic gift and may compose fine pros...

Who has written Maha Mrityunjaya mantra? Sage Vashishta The Mahamrityunjaya Mantra dedicated to Lord Shiva is found in the ancient Hindu text, the Rigveda (Mandala 7, Hym 59). The mantra is attributed to the rishi Vashishta – one of the Saptarishis. He is mentioned as the son of Urvasi and MitraVaruna. Sage Vashishta is the author of Mandala 7 in Rigveda What does the Maha Mrityunjaya mantra mean? Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra is performed to please Lord Shiva or Bholenath who is the most merciful god. The words 'Maha', means great, 'Mrityu' means death and 'Jaya' means victory, which means this mantra gives the person victory over death by performing this Jaap What are the benefits of chanting Maha Mrityunjaya mantra? It is believed if you religiously chant this mantra, then Lord Shiva creates a protective shield around you that protects you from sudden death and bestows health, wealth, and peace. The mantra helps you bring your physical, mental, and emotional s...

Question - Gurudev, how can we go from the saguna (form) to the nirguna (formless)? Gurudev Sri Sri - Every form is a manifestation of the formless divinity. The body is characterised by the guna (meaning has form or attributes, also meaning the is influenced by the three gunas : Sattva, Rajas and Tamas), but the aatma (soul) is nirguna or formless. Meditation is the answer for this. The saguna has form, shape, name etc. but it comes from the formless.

Question - Gurudev, should I suppress or should I express anger? Gurudev Sri Sri - Sometimes express, sometimes suppress. There is no single answer. You can't express it all the time, you will cause so much damage to yourself and others around you and you can't suppress it all the time, sometimes you need to express it. Otherwise you will explode. So you should have that right balance. Wisdom is knowing when to express it and when to suppress it.

Question - Gurudev, my colleagues always manage to take my energy away. What can I do to not lose my energy? Gurudev Sri Sri - Never mind, give them more. You have much more energy than what they can all take from you. The sun or the moon never say that you're taking my light away. You are the source of energy. I’m with you. I give you perennial replenishment of energy, don't worry. Don't put your attention there, put it here. If you're putting it here you get more energy. If you put it there then you feel you are being drained of energy.

Question - Gurudev, this is from one of the children on the Art Excel program. How does it feel to become famous and important? Gurudev Sri Sri - I want to be a kid, and I continue to be a kid. Nothing can beat the joy of being a child. And everyone should know that you should never grow up. I feel I refuse to grow up, I want to be a kid and I will remain a kid. We all should feel that way, not bother about being grown up and famous and all that. Just innocent kids, it's a small, small world.

Question - Gurudev, whenever I see you, tears start to roll down the eyes. I feel as if I know you since ages. Is it true? Gurudev Sri Sri - You are doubting your own experience. Then it is surely true. We doubt the positive, and not the negative. We doubt somebody’s honesty. Nobody has ever doubted dishonesty of a person. Same way, if somebody asks you if you are happy, you say, “I don’t know whether I am happy or not”. But we are so sure of our depression. We doubt in the existence of God. We never doubt in the existence of this changeable and mortal world. Evolved scientists understand that there is a question mark on the apparently looking reality.

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Karma Yoga Chapter 3, Verse 36   arjuna uvāca  atha kena prayukto’yaṁ  pāpaṁ carati pūruṣaḥ  anicchann-api vārṣṇeya  balādiva niyojitaḥ   Arjuna says: But if there is no fault in following our nature, what is this in us that drives a man to sin, as if by force, even against his own struggling will, O Krishna?   This is a question that people ask in their daily life. We have seen in Chapter 2, verse 60, that Lord Krishna says, “Even the mind of the wise man who labours for perfection, is carried away by the vehement insistence of the senses.” Even an intelligent man who has got common sense, who sees what is a ‘good’ action and what is a ‘not good’ action, will realise that something is wrong, yet he still does it. You see that it is like this in daily life. You have a feeling about something in your life. You know that what you are going to do is ‘not good’. Yet you do it! Or you have this deep feeling that you must do something, but you al...

Karma Yoga Chapter 3, Verse 37   śrī bhagavān uvāca  kāma eṣa krodha eṣa  rajoguṇa samudbhavaḥ  mahāśano mahā-pāpmā  viddhyenam-iha vairiṇam   The Lord says: It is desire, it is anger, born of the guna of rajas, all devouring, and impeller to sin. Know this to be the foe here. The attraction and repulsion to objects of senses are the two thieves which constantly rob man of his spiritual wealth. The force which is behind this is an automatic reaction of the mind. When the mind is not in accordance with the Divine Will, it automatically becomes a rebel. It starts to rebel against the force of Nature itself. When you have a certain desire which is not fulfilled, you get angry, no? Where does this desire come from? It doesn’t come from the Atma, it comes from the mind.   The mind is responsible for such a state!  Bhagavan Krishna says, “If the desire is removed at the beginning itself, it will not give way to anger. But if the desire ...

Karma Yoga Chapter 3, Verse 38   dhūmenāvriyate vahniḥ  yathādarśo malena ca  yatholbenāvṛto garbhaḥ  tathā tenedam-āvṛtam   As a fire is covered over by smoke, as a mirror by dust, as an embryo is wrapped by the amnion, so is this world enveloped by desire.   Desire is everywhere, in many kinds and in many forms. All the actions of people are due to these desires. Desires are like dust which accumulates on the surface of a mirror; then the mirror can no longer reflect any object. Even so, the mind gets soiled by impurities in the form of sin. It is no longer able to reveal the true nature of things or its own, true duty. That’s why someone with an impure and sinful mind cannot correctly judge things. They don’t know what is ‘good’ and what is ‘bad’. In this deep ignorance, the Light of truth is covered. Knowledge gets covered by ignorance...It is desire alone which makes the mind restless. It is through desire that one becomes evil and does sin...

Karma Yoga Chapter 3, Verse 39   āvṛtaṁ jñānam etena  jñānino nitya vairiṇā  kāma-rūpeṇa kaunteya  duṣpūreṇānalena ca   Wisdom is obscured by this constant enemy of the wise, O Arjuna, which is as insatiable as fire .   Here Krishna says, “The fire of desire is insatiable; it grows more and more.” As long as man continues enjoying the objects of this world, his appetite for enjoyment also grows like fire. It becomes greedy! It will never be satisfied! Even after passing a long life of intense enjoyment, desire is never satisfied. Desire is like ghee. If you pour ghee into a fire, the fire burns more and more. Such is the state of a mind which is full of desire. The enemy, in the form of desire, will never allow discrimination, dispassion, or true Love to awaken. When one doesn’t have discrimination, one gets attached to the objects of the senses and can’t know the real Truth. If the mind is rooted in negative qualities, it is very difficult. A sadhak, a dev...

Karma Yoga Chapter 3, Verse 40   indriyāṇi mano buddhiḥ  asyādhiṣṭhānam-ucyate  etair-vimohayaty-eṣa  jñānam-āvṛtya dehinam   The senses, mind and intellect are the seats of desires. Desires veil knowledge and bewilder the embodied soul.   The seats of the desires are the senses, the mind and the intellect. All these desires which emerge from the senses, the mind and the intellect, veil knowledge and this “bewilders the embodied soul.” It creates an illusion which veils the truth.  Krishna says, “If the mind, the intellect and the senses are not under control, they take over.” It’s like when you say, ‘swaha’ and you fuel the fire of the yagna with your desire. Then you can’t control it, and you sit and cry. Krishna says, “It is difficult, but you have to control this!” The one who is on the spiritual path, the spiritual seeker, the bhakta, should not waste time in entertaining these desires. One should be aware of desire at the beginning it...

Karma Yoga Chapter 3, Verse 41   tasmāt-tvam-indriyāṇyādau  niyamya bharatarṣabha  pāpmānaṁ prajahi hyenaṁ  jñāna vijñāna nāśanam   Therefore, O Arjuna, controlling the senses first, slay desire, this deluding thing that destroys both knowledge and discrimination.   Lord Krishna says, “First control the senses: they are easier to control, because they are outside. Control too much sleep. Control what you are eating. Control what you are doing in your actions. Control the mind. Don’t let the mind dwell on the attraction of worldly perishable things, which will bring you sorrow.” Use all the senses, transforming them by serving God, by hearing His glory, by chanting and by concentrating on the Divine Names, on the different Names of God. Use the hands, the touch, to serve God through the action. Like that, you don’t go into the game of worldly enjoyments. Keep yourself busy with the right things. If you start running after these desires, if you en...

Karma Yoga Chapter 3, Verse 42   indriyāṇi parāṇy āhuḥ  indriyebhyah‌ paraṁ manaḥ  manas-astu parā buddhiḥ  yo buddheḥ paratas-tu saḥ   It is said that the senses are supreme, but the mind is superior to the senses, the intellect is superior to the mind, and greater than the intellect is the Self.   “It is said that the senses are supreme.” It is said that the senses are greater than the body. Greater than the senses is the mind. Greater than the mind is the intellect. Greater than the intellect is the Self. Greater than the Self is Parabrahma, the Eternal Soul, God. In this verse, Lord Krishna says that the intellect is greater than the mind and that the mind is greater than the senses. The mind controls the senses and the senses control the body. There is something greater than these games of the intellect, the mind, the senses, and the body. This is the game of the Self. When this order is reversed, one attains the true perfection of the Self...

Karma Yoga Chapter 3, Verse 43   evaṁ buddheḥ paraṁ buddhvā  saṁstabhyātmānam ātmanā  jahi śatruṁ mahā-bāho  kāma-rūpaṁ durāsadam   Thus, knowing that which is greater than the intellect and fixing the mind with the help of the intellect in Karma Yoga, O Arjuna, slay this enemy in the form of desire, which is difficult to overcome. Krishna says, “Remove desire! Slay it! Cut it out!” Something which is apart from you, is not you. If it is fully under control, you can get rid of it, you can eradicate it completely from yourself. Make your mind become single-pointed towards God through meditation.    Realise that you have the Supreme Divine Narayana inside of you. Then the desire for the outside will be removed and transformed. Realise that the soul is far greater than these things. The Truth about the soul is deeply mysterious because it cannot be known by the mind. It is only a few who have a controlled mind, who are centred in the Lord, who...

Yog of Knowledge and Action   Chapter 4, Verse 1   śrī bhagavān uvāca  imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ  proktavān aham avyayam  vivasvān manave prāha  manur-ikṣvākave’bravīt   The Lord says: This imperishable yoga I gave to Vivasvan (the Sun-god); Vivasvan gave it to Manu (the father of men); Manu gave it to Ikshvaku (the   founder of the Solar dynasty.)   “This imperishable yoga.” Here Bhagavan Krishna says that this yoga, which He is giving to Arjuna, don’t have a beginning or an end: it is eternal.   “This imperishable yoga I gave to Vivasvan (the Sun-god); Vivasvan gave it to Manu (the father of men)” the keeper of dharma; “Manu gave it to Ikshvaku, the founder of the Solar dynasty.” Later on, the Lord Himself incarnates as Rama in the Solar dynasty.   Lord Krishna has prepared Arjuna to understand this knowledge which He is giving here, by controlling the mind, the senses, the intellect, and by eradicating all desire...

Yog of Knowledge and Action   Chapter 4, Verse 2   evaṁ paramparā prāptam  imaṁ rāja-rṣayo viduḥ  sa kāleneha mahatā  yogo naṣṭaḥ parantapa   And so it came down from royal sage to royal sage till it was lost in the great lapse of time, O Parantapa.   “O Parantapa.” Here the Lord again addresses Arjuna as ‘Parantapa’ saying, “You strike fear into your enemy! You have victory over your enemy!” By referring to Arjuna as ‘Parantapa’, Krishna is telling him, “You have already defeated these enemies.”  In this verse, Krishna says that, in the beginning, all knew about this knowledge: all had realised it, since they were spiritually advanced souls. You were manifested with this knowledge and had incarnated in several lifetimes with this knowledge. When this knowledge was active, when the mind knew about this supreme knowledge, you were like sages, rishis and kings. Through this knowledge, the kings knew how to rule their kingdoms. If a king ...

Yog of Knowledge and Action Chapter 4, Verse 3   sa evāyaṁ mayā te’dya  yogaḥ proktaḥ purātanaḥ  bhakto’si me sakhā ceti  rahasyaṁ hyetad-uttamam   This same ancient and original Yoga has today been declared to you by Me, for you are My devotee and My friend; this is the highest secret.   “This same ancient and original Yoga has today been declared to you by Me.” Krishna says, “It is the same yoga which I gave to the Sun-god, billions of years ago. It is the same yoga, which, right now, without any change, I am revealing to you. This yoga, which has been handed down from generation to generation and which had disappeared for some time, I am revealing to you this day, here on this battlefield, Arjuna, ‘for you are My devotee and My friend.’” This is so beautiful. Krishna addresses Arjuna saying, “You are My devotee.” This shows that Arjuna had all the qualities of a devotee. He is surrendered to the Lord. He is well-qualified as a devotee to receive the true...