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You sow some seeds. Some seeds will sprout in 2 days. If you put peanuts, they would sprout in 4-5 days, and if you want to grow a coconut, it would take several months. If you plant lettuce, it would give fruit in 5 months or even 2-2 ½ months. If you plant a mango, it would give fruit in 10 years and if you plant a jackfruit, the next generation would enjoy the fruit! Different seeds have different timing. Similarly, different karmas will give fruit at different times. Many a times, people ask, "We are so good. Why do bad things happen to good people?" Bad things never happen to good people. Even if it seems to be happening, they were bad at some time. Now they will be good but they have done something bad and so bad is happening. Those seeds, they had sown neem (margosa) seeds long ago and now they have to reap the bitter fruit of the neem tree. Now, they may be sowing mango. They will reap that fruit later. As you sow, so shall you reap. ~Sri Sri

Katopanishad (A commentary by H. H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar) –  ✨ "The Grace of Divine"✨ 1) So when Nachiketa was offered all these temptations, “You can be the lord of the world, the king of kings, you can have beautiful girls, singing and dancing around you”, he said with a smile, “No. But what I want from you us the secret of death?” When the boy was adamant. “I only want the highest; I don’t want any of these other appeasements that you are giving me,” the lord of death was pleased. This is a real good student, a really good seeker; He was pleased by his patience, his perseverance. Then he praised Nachiketa.  2) You have chosen liberation when pleasure was offered to you. They both have got different users. The one who goes for liberation the pleasure also comes to him. The one who goes only for pleasure, only misery comes to him. Not only does he get misery, he is deprived of the Highest. You have chosen this path of liberation, so you will get all other pleasur...

Katopanishad (A commentary by H. H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar) –  ✨"Beyond Death"✨  1) When a pure heart, a sincere heart moves in any action, even death bows to them. A seeker with wisdom is supreme. Death bows in front of them. The first boon Nachiketa asked was, “Let my father’s temper get cooled down. Let him receive me with love when I return back home.  “Lord Yama said, “OK, that’s done.” That shows innocence - how in spite of father’s anger, the son didn't get angry at the father. He wished good for his father. He wanted his father to enjoy merits of the yagya he was doing. So he requested, “Let my father receive me with love.” 2) The natural desire of every life is to have comfort, to get into a place where there is no misery, no sorrow. The goal of human life is to move towards heaven. Heaven means a place where there is no death, no destruction, no old age, where there is no suffering. Where is this place? Is it somewhere up in the heaven? How to get ther...

Katopanishad (A commentary by H. H. Sri Sri Ravishankar) –  "At the Door of Death" 1) Katha Upanishad – “tha” means the final. What is the final thing about life? What is the end? What is the ultimate? 2) Every Upanishad begins with Shanti Mantra and ends with Shanti Mantra. “Shanti” means “Peace”. ॐ सह नाववतु । - Let us be together सह नौ भुनक्तु । - Enjoy this life together सह वीर्यं करवावहै । - Let us grow in strength together तेजस्वि नावधीतमस्तु मा विद्विषावहै । - Let us glow together ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥ - Shanti, Shanti, Shanti 3) You can go deep into knowledge in a peaceful environment, but you can’t do so if the environment is disturbed. If your mind is disturbed, you have to do pranayama, yoga, meditation and kriya, to calm it and only then you can talk about higher knowledge. The minute you sit close to the Master, the vibration is already getting transferred and by the vibration; the mind is already becoming calm. 4) Long long ago, there lived a v...

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