Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

Question - Gurudev, what do you think about the donation of organs after death? Gurudev Sri Sri - Yes, It's good. We can donate our organs. If our organs can come to someone else's help, we should be happy. Donate your eyes, or whichever organs are useful to others. Even if you are not here, your eyes continue to help someone to see. Like when you give knowledge to somebody, that knowledge will continue even when you are not there. People will enjoy it for generations. Though organs may not stay as long as knowledge or wisdom, they can for a short period of time help someone else. The purpose is that if we are useful in any way, while living or after death, we should just do it.

Question - Gurudev, can a woman follow Brahamcharya (celibacy)? Gurudev Sri Sri - Identifying with the infinity is really what celibacy or Brahamcharya is. That means, you don't find any big pleasure in a physical act to experience the joy because the joy is already there. Body has its cycle. It goes through cycles. Consciousness not getting involved in it is the real skill. Now coming to your question - It's your personal choice. If you want to get married then marry. If you don't want to get married then don't marry. There are people who are married and miserable. Also, There are people who are unmarried and miserable. All I want you to be is wise.

Karma Yoga Chapter 3, Verse 7   yastv-indriyāṇi manasā  niyamyārabhate ’rjuna  karmendriyaiḥ karma-yogam  asaktaḥ sa viśiṣyate   But one who, subduing the senses by the mind, O Arjuna, begins to practice Karma Yoga through the organs of action and who is free from attachment, excels.   “…subduing the senses by the mind.” By controlling the senses from the root itself, the mind, one is free: then true Karma Yoga starts. In the Bible it says that the left hand should not know what the right hand is giving. Otherwise, it is better to cut off   your hand and throw it away. Here Lord Krishna says the same thing that Christ would say 3000 years later. He just changed the words, “Cut off the hand and throw it away! It is better than praising yourself.” When you have helped others, then don’t run after praise, saying that you have done this, and that you have done that. Help others and then forget about it! In whatever you do, be free from tha...

Karma Yoga Chapter 3, Verse 6   karmendriyāṇi saṁyamya  ya āste manasā smaran  indriyārthān vimūḍhātmā  mithyācāraḥ sa ucyate   Who controls the organs of action, but continues in his mind to remember   and dwell upon the objects of sense, such a man has bewildered himself   with false notions of self-discipline.   This is what we were talking about earlier. Krishna says, “Whoever pretends to let go of the outside or pretends to do their sadhana, pretends to meditate or pretends to listen, but deep inside, they are not doing it – they are like hypocrites, because they are being fake with themselves.”   Karmendriyāṇi saṁyamya, “one who controls the organs of action...” Controlling the organs of action includes controlling the senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. But this doesn’t only mean to control what one is seeing, hearing, touching, tasting or smelling. No. You have to come to the point of controlling all ...

Karma Yoga Chapter 3, Verse 5 kaścit kṣaṇam-api  jātu tiṣṭhaty-akarma-kṛt  kāryate hy-avaśaḥ karma  sarvaḥ prakṛti-jair guṇaiḥ   For none stands even for a moment not doing work. Everyone is helplessly made to do action by the modes born of Prakriti .  “For none stands even for a moment not doing work.” Do you remember, what we were talking about in the previous chapter that there is not a single moment when one is not working. Even while you sleep, you are working! So, there is a constant creation of karma. I will go as far as to say that each breath that you take creates karma. That’s why, when you learn Atma Kriya Yoga, we tell you, “Know how to breathe!” You can use what God has given you, the breathing practice in this sadhana, to actually reduce your karma, to burn off your karma.    Prakṛtair-guṇaiḥ means the gunas, which are born of Prakriti. Everybody is bound by the three gunas, but one has to be centred in equal-mindedness. The eternal and p...