Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

Chapter 4 - Glorify The Divine Day 33 Smile and be innocent. Smile from the core of your heart, then you will see all the negativity will fly off, like when the sun shines, the dewdrops vanish, the darkness vanishes. Your smile is the light in your life. Stop fueling negativity, stop feeling obligedthen you are good company.  Not only that, then you will be a good company to anybody. It needs skill to shun someone. When someone is so negative, if you just shun them, and say, “This is not right, what you are saying is hopeless,” they will just shut up and they won't really feel lighter.  You need skill to deal with someone's negativity. Are you getting what I'm saying? They will just stop communicating with you because they are so convinced about their negativity. Unless you say yes to them, they don’t feel sympathetic. So you need skill to put down their negativity. That is satsang.  And when you come from this position you will see that whatever complaints th...

Question - Gurudev, my father is always after me because I am trying to become a vegetarian. What should I tell him? Gurudev Sri Sri - Choice of food is yours. You are free individuals. If you are eating healthy then convince your dad that your choice is vegetarian. We all have freedom to choose what we want to eat. Tell him that vegetarian food does not make me weak because elephants are vegetarian. Horses, elephants, bulls are vegetarian and are very powerful. Our immediate ancestors, Monkeys are also vegetarian. A large population today around the world is following vegetarianism for health reasons. If you go over the material available on the internet, there are so many articles and scientific researches on the benefits of being vegetarian.

Question - Gurudev, I love my soulmate so much I that fear that it does not leave much room for me to love the divine. Gurudev Sri Sri - I have no experience of a soul mate. Why not? I don't think there is any hindrance. If you have a soul mate, and you found some new love, you can as well see that as a gift to you. Your friends are a gift, your partner is a gift to you. Honor hem rather than utilizing them. In life there are two position you take. Whatever you get, either you make use of it, that is your selfishness. Or you be useful towards it (or them) and be grateful, this shows your expanded level of awareness. This shows that your consciousness is now matured. You are matured. You are not just making use of somebody but you are trying to be useful towards them.

Question - Gurudev, what should one do when one feels lonely despite being among people? Gurudev Sri Sri - I would say that is very good. If you feel lonely, just remember that everything is a dream. Then the next step you take is one where you find that everything is yours (meaning - everything belongs to you). This feeling of loneliness among people, is one step towards the expanded state of realisation.

Question - Gurudev, in the yoga sutra, it is said, yoga is the restraint of the chitta (consciousness). How can restraining the mind or memory bring freedom? Gurudev Sri Sri - It's the mind that causes bondage. It's the mind which clings on to things, or clings on to the dreams. Even after you wake up, the palpitation is happening in the body, because you had a nightmare. But when the mind realizes that it's a dream and it comes out of it, then there is relief. So mind is the cause for bondage and mind is the cause for liberation also.