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In our country we have more of indifference than intolerance. There was a talk that India has become intolerant. I would say that we have become indifferent not intolerant.          This indifference is eating our society. We have this profound knowledge with us and still we are indifferent towards it. The whole world is longing for this knowledge.        We have this saying. Ghar ki murgi dal barabar. (A hindi proverb roughly translated : Homemade chicken is equivalent to plain cooked lentils) .We stay like that.         Now our society has awakened and had started accepting yoga and meditation. This interest should increase. - Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji 

The Story of Garuda and Lord Rama ~ Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji There is a story in the Ramayana : Lord Rama needed the help of Garuda, one of his devotees, at a time when Rama was under the spell of a poison arrow. Garuda saved him from that. After he did this, a doubt came in his mind. “I thought Rama was my savior all these years. I thought he was going to help me, but today if I did not save him, he would have died. Today he needed my help and I saved him. How can I depend on him? I seem to be more powerful than he is. He seems to be ordinary, for without me he would have died. Both he and his brother would have died in the war.” When this doubt came in Garuda, it kept eating at him. When doubt starts to overtake the mind, the consciousness starts to go down. Doubt is one thing that can eat and destroy you. When doubt enters the soul, they say that the person will have neither success in this world or the next world, the inner world. Such was the doubt of Garuda. He ...

 Fear is like salt Fear is the cause of orderliness...it's like salt...it keeps oneself alert in present moment. What is unpleasant about is that it tears the body apart...creates lots of toxins. ...loose our body that is the Fear, which brings us into present moment...associated with body. It develops in child as ego starts developing....if there is no fear, you will hurt your body....it's necessary protection for our body but little more like salt..it spoils food. Who insults others ?....one is happy pr the other is unhappy....insensitive person may hurt someone...gods have quality of aabhayaaa....balance that Fear...both these qualities are within you...Fear about body...what people will say...you can categorize....even after enlightenment or knowing yourself, if you Fear...don't negate enlightenment....whether it is lost, Fear etc but they are like passing clouds....don't be deluded...they are fleeting moments...same is for desire. Present is not enough....

*Balance and discipline* People who are free, regret that they don't have discipline. They keep promising that they will become disciplined. People who are disciplined look for the end. (Discipline is not an end in itself, it is a means.) Look at the people who have no discipline; they are miserable. Freedom without discipline is absolute misery. Discipline without freedom is suffocating. Orderliness is monotonous and chaos is stressful. We have to make the discipline free and the freedom disciplined. People who are in company all the time, they look for the comforts of solitude. People who are in solitude, feel so lonely and want to be in company. People who are in a cold place want to be in a warm place. People who are in a warm place love something cool. This is the dilemma of life: Everyone is looking for perfect balance. Perfect balance is like a razor's edge. It can only be found in the self. There is no road to this town and there are no steps to this house. ...

02.06.2022 - Session 2 - Letting Go of Desire (Part 2) - Notes If we can detach your sense of peace/happiness from desire, you remain unwavered when desire come and fall. Nothing can disturb the state of happiness. It is not impossible to achieve this with help of meditation/pranayama. Witness your desires, stop labelling them as good or bad. it all depends on the state of mind at that moment. See every wish as pure energy, and your happiness shouldn't be identified with fulfillment of desires. That is the strength. The power of knowledge Desire is the first power .Second power is knowledge. Knowledge is not just information. Information is just tiny part of knowledge. Information is there in computer/book , do they have the power of awareness? it is awakening which we call knowledge In sanskrit there are two words 1. shiksha - learning the skills - involves information/experience 2. diksha - that which removes ignorance/that which frees you from impurity There are 3 l...

Spreading the Fragrance During satsang, Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar opened a small, nicely-wrapped present - a tiny bottle of jasmine perfume. He twisted off the cap and sniffed the lovely fragrance. He poured a small amount of it on some paper and waved it in the air, wafting the scent to all corners of the hall. Everyone could then enjoy it. Gurudev explained that it is not enough simply to have the fragrance. We have to know how to spread it. Flowers have fragrance, but it is the wind that spreads it. In the same way, each one of us is wonderful within - we are beautiful, caring, and loving. But we need to know how to spread the fragrance. Satsang is that wind that spreads this fragrance to everyone. 

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ONCE GOD DECIDED TO GO TO A TEMPLE - A STORY ABOUT DEVOTION  There is a very nice story. Once God decided to go to a temple, which He rarely does. So He gave a dream to the priest. He said, “I’m coming into the temple tomorrow.” So the priest, for a change, started cleaning the temple.  If it’s a Hindu temple, it is a little messier than other temples. They throw water everywhere, prashad everywhere, here, there, and flowers will be lying down here and there and some dried flowers will be found. So he said, “Okay.” He kept cleaning. And he told all the people, “Today God is going to come to the temple.” Even the people who come to the temple did not believe. Say, “Oh, what has happened to the priest?” They felt sorry for him. “He may need a psychiatrist. Today he’s saying something very weird, like ‘God is going to come to the temple.'” They also had no faith.  Some people had compassion for him. Some people phoned a psychiatrist but somehow the priest made al...

🍁 *Chapter 2: THE FIVE PRINCIPLES (PART 2- BONDAGE, FREEDOM, 5 SENSES)* Astavakra Gita  Sage Ashtavakra said if king Janaka desired liberation and freedom that can only be achieved after certain degree of awakening. When one gets tired of their habits.   IT IS VERY FORTUNATE IF THIS DESIRE TO BE FREE HAS ARISEN WITHIN US. KNOW THAT *WE ARE ELGIBLE AND WE ARE THE CHOSEN ONE* .   Billions of lives on this planet do not have this blessing. They exist, die and dissolve.   Even if we are bored, we get bored about something very small and a little change in the situation can make us comfortable again.   🌸 E.g: If I am bored after staying at one place I will go onto vacation or if I am bored of eating home made food, I will order something from outside. But THERE ARE VERY FEW WHO ARE ACTUALLY BORED OF THEIR HABITS/PATTERNS. *BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO GETS BORED* .   🌷 *Activity:* List out the patterns which we are actually bored of? (e.g.: some of us ...

 *निष्ठा तुम्हारी सम्पदा है*  यदि तुम सोचते हो कि ईश्वर में तुम्हारी निष्ठा ईश्वर का कुछ हित कर रही है, तो यह तुम्हारी भूल है। ईश्वर या गुरु में तुम्हारी निष्ठा ईश्वर या गुरु का कुछ नहीं करती। निष्ठा तुम्हारी सम्पदा है। निष्ठा तुम्हें तुरन्त ही बल देती है। निष्ठा तुममें स्थिरता, केन्द्रितता, प्रशांति और प्रेम लाती है। निष्ठा तुम्हारे लिए आशीर्वाद है। यदि तुममें निष्ठा का अभाव है, तुम्हें निष्ठा के लिए प्रार्थना करनी होगी। परन्तु प्रार्थना के लिए निष्ठा की आवश्यकता है। यह विरोधाभासी है। (हँसी) लोग संसार में निष्ठा रखते हैं परन्तु यह पूरा संसार सिर्फ साबुन का बुलबुला है। लोगों को स्वयं में निष्ठा है परन्तु वे जानते नहीं कि वे स्वयं कौन हैं। लोग सोचते है कि ईश्वर में उनकी निष्ठा है परन्तु वे सचमुच नहीं जानते ईश्वर कौन हैं। निष्ठा तीन प्रकार की होती है: 1 स्वयं में निष्ठा : स्वयं में निष्ठा के बिना तुम सोचते हो- मैं यह नहीं कर सकता, यह मेरे लिए नहीं; मैं कभी इस जिंदगी में मुक्त नहीं हो पाऊँगा। 2 संसार में निष्ठा : संसार में तुम्हें निष्ठा रखनी ही होगी वरना तुम एक इन्च...

Work doesn’t tire as much as desires and attachments. A yogi works 100 percent without desires or attachments. This is Karma Yoga. ~ Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji

What is that you are looking for or holding on to? Some great joy? What great joy can come to you? You are joy!  ~ Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Question - Gurudev, what are the qualities that the master wants to see in an ideal devotee? Gurudev Sri Sri - None. If I name a quality , you will all try to emulate that quality. Just be your natural self. Be honest . Even if you miss a meditation one day, don’t feel guilty about it. Time is carrying you. All the good qualities you aspire for, you have them anyway. You are here and you are doing the right thing.

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Reduce the quantity of grains and cereals in your meals. Food should get well digested. We eat so much and then it does not get digested well because of which you experience cramps and aches in the body. So once every few days, do not have any grains or cereals in your meals at all, just have raw or boiled vegetables. ~ Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji 

 Give everything and take nothing  Janaka has said how business man drowns in this wave...giving less and giving more. Business means taking more and giving less. Love is taking nothing and giving more. Soul is doing business. Limited mind is wanting more and giving less. In any relation....I did everything but everyone must be loving....doing something to get recognition, privileges, love etc is business. In the name of devotion soul also wants material or some spiritual gain too. In this process, business man drowns himself. The limited individual becoming infinite in it's true nature....small desires etc dissolve in me.   Ashtavakra smiles on Janaka as a gardener sees it's garden bloom. As a king he recognized it.  Janaka is an emperor...has to govern entire country...crops,welfare...anyone not having welfare....if he isn't looking after anything...to look after everything....prosperity of everything...he had to be concerned...Ashtavakra smil...

Gurudev Ravi Shankarji  speaks on Tattva-jnana (Bhagvad Gita Discourse)  So Lord Krishna says that out of millions of people, very few will walk the spiritual path, and of those few who follow the spiritual path, fewer still are able to realize Me and know Me completely by my true form (Tattva). The rest of the people come, just listen and go away without grasping anything. Only a few rare people are actually able to know Me by My true nature (Tattva-jnana: here meaning knowledge of the deepest principle or element). This is a great secret. And what is the Tattva that He is speaking about here? He explains this in the fourth verse: ‘Bhumir apo 'nalo vayuh kham mano buddhir eva cha. Ahamkara itiyam me bhinna prakrtir ashtadha’. (7.4) He says, ‘Do you think I am only this physical body? No! I am Earth, I am Water, I am Fire, I am Air and I am Space. I am the Mind, Intellect and the Ego. These are the eight types of energies, that is me, and I call these my Apara-prakruti (eight ...

Give your 100% to Everything you do & Sleep Peacefully..! ✔  A Boy and a Girl were Playing Together.  The Boy had a Collection of Marbles and The Girl had some Sweets with Her ! The Boy told the Girl that; "he will give her all His Marbles in Exchange for Her Sweets.." The Girl Agreed; The Boy kept the biggest and the most Beautiful Marble Aside; and gave the Rest to the Girl ! But The Girl gave Him all Her Sweets as She had Promised. That Night, the Girl Slept Peacefully, but the Boy couldn't Sleep as He kept Wondering if the Girl had Hidden some Sweets from Him the Way He had Hidden His best Marble. Moral of the Story: If you don't give your 100% in a Relationship, you'll always keep Doubting; if the Other Person has Given His/Her 100% !! This is Applicable for any Relationship; Give your 100% to Everything you do & Sleep Peacefully..! ✔  ..Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji

  Everything is God  When Janaka discovered that all these days I was not knowing...example hologram ...one side nehru or other side you see Gandhi. Entire Universe is made of God...nothing is beyond foreign to God...divine. It needs skill to see it. Like bubble in water...waves in ocean. You need to skill it. Everything is name and Form. Name doesn't have form in it but the forms don't have name. People are like waves...they arise and disappear in water. They dissolve in space....in between names and forms..They rise and fall. Don't search for God. All that is God ,will be . All life are springing and dissolving in that. I am hollow and empty. I am all forms and all names but you are acting like someone else. Your true nature is joy or what you are perceiving is true. So,a skill is required. Tilt your eyes ..this is God...all universe. Dimension opposites are created...their co existence makes it complete. They all exist within God. Very difficult for peopl...