Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

Weekly Knowledge 286 Montreal Ashram 04 Jan 2001 Canada Kick the Ball and Be in the Goal Do you know why the earth is shaped like a globe? (Silence) So you can kick it and it will roll away! (Laughter) From the moment you wake up in the morning you are always with people and your mind is caught up in worldly thoughts. So sometime during the day, sit for a few minutes, get into the cave of your heart, eyes closed, and kick the world away like a ball. But as soon as you open your eyes, hold onto the ball because you need to kick it again in the next session. (Laughter) During the day be 100 percent attached to the work, don't try to detach yourself. But when you sit for meditation, then totally detach yourself. Only those who can totally detach can take total responsibility. Eventually you will be able to be both attached and detached simultaneously. Kick the ball and be in the goal! This is the art of living, the skill of living. 🌻Jai Guru Dev🌻 साप्ताहिक ज्ञानपत्र २...

Weekly Knowledge 287 Canadian Ashram 11 Jan 2001 Canada "IMPORTANT" AND "UNIMPORTANT" So many people are stuck with what is "important". Why do you always have to do only that which is important? Most people are caught up thinking about what is important. For something to be important, there need to be many things that are unimportant. So you cannot eliminate unimportant things. It is important to have unimportant things to make something else important. (Laughter.) Things are either themselves important or they make other things important. So that means everything is important, and. everything is unimportant. When you realize this fact you become choiceless. When you say something is important you are limiting your vastness. A journalist asked me, "Why is it important to breathe?" "Why is it important to be happy?" "Why is it important to have peace?" These questions are not relevant at all. Why should you always...

Weekly Knowledge 290 Enroute to Zurich Airport from Davos 31 Jan 2001 Switzerland THE OTHER SIDE OF FRIENDLINESS Secretaries, police, judges, accountants and people in key positions should not be friendly! The main disadvantages of being friendly are: 1. You come under obligation 2. You lose your freedom 3. You can't have a free and fair perception. Your thoughts and actions may not be impartial 4. Your focus, commitment, creativity and above all your time will be wasted 5 You will pick up bad habits and negative moods easily It takes a lot of wisdom to be free from the burden of obligation and not be influenced by your friends' opinions and feelings. In many occasions, it is better to be unfriendly than be friendly. Being unfriendly does not mean being aggressive and inimical. The best secretaries, personal assistants, security personnel, and judges have to be unfriendly. Those who are aloof and indifferent get centered more quickly than those who are too frien...

Weekly Knowledge 291 Bangalore Ashram 08 Feb 2001 India LONGING ITSELF IS DIVINE Longing itself is Divine. Longing for worldly things makes you inert. Longing for Infinity fills you with life. When longing dies, inertia sets in. But longing also brings along a sense of pain. To avoid the pain, you try to push away the longing. The skill is to bear the pain of longing and move on. Don't try to find a shortcut to overcome longing. Don't make the longing short - that's why it's called loooonging. (Laughter) True longing in itself brings up spurts of bliss. That's why in ancient days longing was kept alive by singing and listening to kathas (stories). When longing transcends relationships, judgments, jealousy and all other negative feelings drop off. It is only with wisdom and self-knowledge that you can transcend relationships. People often think wisdom is devoid of longing - No! Such wisdom is dry. The longing that comes in true wisdom makes life juicier. Divine...

Weekly Knowledge 294 Bangalore Ashram 22 Feb 2001  India PASSION AND SELF-RELIANCE Passion makes you weak. Dispassion is strength. For your passion to be fulfilled, you have to depend upon so many things. Passion and self-reliance do not appear to go together. If you are passionate, you have to forget about being self-reliant. If you want to be self-reliant, you have to drop your passion. This is generally so That which brings together these two completely different aspects in you, is your spirit. The same spirit that wants to be self-reliant is also passionate. It is only in spirituality that passion and dispassion can happen together. This is the rarest combination. When you are dispassionate, you have strength, and strength is self-reliance. True self-reliance is realizing that nothing is excluded from the Self. And when you realize everything is part of the Self, then you can be passionate about everything! Even to fulfill your passion, you can only rely on the Self...