Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

*Chapter 6 - Experiencing Infinity*  *Day 30* Question - Gurudev, the intellect only works when you store memories or is it taking out from any memory? Gurudev - The intellect has this unique ability to connect with not just memory but also mind. That's why it perceives new things. It connects with memory, which is already stored and it connects with consciousness, which is intuitive.  So, the intellect is in the middle - it takes from the outside, it takes from the inside - the past memory and it takes a little bit from somewhere deep within also. That's how intellect can create many new things in the world.  A new poem does not come from memory. It doesn't come only from an impression of an experience, it comes as an intuition. How does a new scientific discovery happen?  R&D specialists should know this, that a discovery happens because the intellect is awake - it is taking information through the senses, it is using the memory and it is utilising the intuitiv...

*Chapter 6 - Experiencing Infinity* *Day 29* Question - The second question was memory. You mentioned how at different times, different things are stored in the memory. How does the memory work? Gurudev Sri Sri - The strongest experiences get stored in the memory more predominantly than others, but then there are some experiences which are very superficial that also get imprinted in the memory.  For example you just had a casual conversation with somebody and sometime in the dream you hear that conversation which really was nothing. So, the way the memory works is very complex.  That which gives you a lot of joy and pleasure gets stored and that which gives you pain gets stored. That which appeared to shake your ego, identity gets stored and that which seemed to boost your identity gets stored more than others.  Then sometimes some superficial events, incidents, impressions just get imprinted there simply. If you wake up in the morning and you observe sometime...

*Chapter 6 - Experiencing Infinity* *Day 28* Question - Gurudev, just like we get rid of a rotten apple, when we find a rotten apple we say okay, throw it away. So, lets say you are surrounded by twenty people and you love them all, but there is one person who is really disturbing your peace. You don't hate them, but you can not say, I will probably not see them tomorrow. Gurudev Sri Sri - Yes definitely. You have the choice. You should do that, but dont keep thinking about the person all night and all day. You know, that there are some people who are not so fit to be in that place.  So you show them their place but with a smile, with ease. That is the difference. Instead of getting stuck thinking about them and trying to repair them or questioning," Why is this person like that?" So they are.  They may grow tomorrow. It doesn't matter but they are part of the same consciousness. So, we need to balance these two worlds. That's why you need that bravery...

The first miracle I experienced with Guruji was during my first Sudarshan Kriya in my Part 1 Course. I'd had an accident in 1998 where I had fractured two bones on my right knee. They had healed well but I had been told by the doctor to avoid sitting on the floor. But being a nursery school teacher I could not avoid sitting on the floor so I had started having a problem with my right leg.If I sat down I could not get up without support.When I joined the Part 1 Course in 2000, I was a bit apprehensive and was under the impression that I couldn’t meditate. But wonder of wonders after the first Sudarshan Kriya, I was out for almost 35-40 minutes. I was told that was Samadhi meditation. After the Kriya, before I went into meditation,I felt a person’s leg touch mine. All the 45 people in that course were unknown to me. After meditation, as I opened my eyes, a young girl comes up to me and asks me if I have hurt my right knee as Guruji had asked her to heal it. I was shocked as no one th...

There was this one late evening, me and my mother were going back home from a meeting at the Art of Living center, Jaipur. There was joy and enthusiasm in the air, as Sri Sri was to visit Jaipur (a city in India) and there was full-fledged work going on for the same. Banners & hoarding had been put across the city. While driving, we came across a circle and began looking for the event banner (though I had already seen it at many different places). I could only see one big hoarding of some FM channel, but my mother saw the one for our AOL event, with Guruji’s picture on it. This led to an argument between us. I was telling her that there was no hoarding there, while she said there was one! By then, we had already gone half a km away from the circle, and were on the main road. My mother was still adamant on showing me the hoarding and told me to stop the car. So I parked the car at the side, though that was a pretty narrow road and only one vehicle could pass at a time, so I parked i...