Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

Question - Gurudev, how do I know if I am doing the right thing or not? Sometimes I get very confused, please guide me what should I do? Gurudev Sri Sri - When you are not doing the right thing, something pinches you, something irritates you, something inside tells you that you are not doing the right thing. This is how you know you are not doing the right thing. When you are doing the right thing, sometimes doubts also come. So, if doubts come then you can think that it is the right thing. But if irritation comes then it is wrong. Our doubt is always about something that is right. Also, when your prana is low then doubt comes. Raise your prana with more meditation. Then you will see that these doubts don't rise up in the mind.

Question - Gurudev, on this Teacher’s Day could you tell us what should be the qualities of a great Teacher? Gurudev Sri Sri - The Guru or the teacher always wishes for the student to win. And a good student wishes for the victory of the teacher. This is a very strange and unique idea about the teacher-student or Guru-shishya relationship in India. The student knows that if his/her small mind wins, it is going to be miserable but if the teacher wins, it is the victory of the big mind, victory of knowledge which will only bring good and joy for everyone. So the student wishes for the victory of the big mind or Guru. It is healthy because if the student feels that he knows more than the teacher, that would mean the learning has stopped and that his arrogance has killed the wisdom. Another quality that a good teacher needs to have is lots of patience. A student may be a slow learner but the teacher’s patience can turn the student around. Parents may have to deal with only one ...

Life has been nothing less than splendid after the Master came into my life. He has been there in mind and spirit even when the whole world has been against me. This incident happened in 2011. At that time I had just moved to a new building in Bombay along with my parents. From the very beginning, I did not feel good vibrations from that apartment. There was this particular watchman who was a thug and always used to pass lewd gestures at me and other women. Even after repeatedly admonishing him he would threaten me back saying that he did not do anything wrong. He used to drink also during working hours but nobody paid heed. I complained to my parents many a times but they just asked me to ignore him. But that man did not stop with his indecent activities. One day while I came back from a Satsang he passed a lewd gesture and I was livid. I fought with him and came back home and told my parents. I was reduced to tears when my parents started shouting at me saying that I shou...

Chapter 10 - Management & Meditation  Day 20 5. Yoga and the Breath - Our breath can play a vital role in cleansing us of our negative emotions. We have experimented with this and tested it in many prisons around the world.  120,000 prisoners around the world practised a few breathing exercises and they were able to get rid of the hatred, anger and vengeance that clogged their minds and hearts. Within every culprit is a victim crying out for help.  It is stress, the lack of a broad outlook on life, a lack of understanding and bad communication that foster violence in society. If we observe a baby, we will find that from the time of birth until the age of three, it does a lot of exercises, exercises which we, as adults, don't do.  In fact, a baby does a lot of yoga exercises. If you closely follow what a baby does, then you won't even need a yoga teacher. Each of us has practised yoga as a baby.  For instance, one of the things that a baby does is...

💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐         🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺                      🌿Chapter - 30🌿     ~ Your Nature Is Gratefulness ~                   🌱 Day - 173 🌱 💐☘🌾☘🍀🍁🍀☘🌾☘💐 कर्मानुष्ठानमज्ञानाद्यथैवोपरमस्तथा । बुध्वा सम्यगिदं तत्तवमेवाहमास्थितः ॥ Know this truth very well. There is a difference in just knowing and knowing it too well. There are three things that I have mentioned earlier. One is shravana (listening). Another is manana. One or two of these words come in the mind again and again, now and then, here and there. The words you listened to suddenly pop up in the mind. These words imply meaning at different times, and at different levels of consciousness. You can't say you have have done a course after doing it just once, because every time you do it, something new opens up - something delicate opens up, and something finer comes into yo...