Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

Our whole life revolves around money,relationship, reputation and health. When you don't focus on these four and instead focus on celebration, commitment, service and wisdom, then you get everything. If you don't have care and commitment, then relationships will not work.If you don't have commitment and wisdom, then money and reputation will not come and If you don't look at life as a celebration, then your health will not be okay. Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji 

Life is like a river. Sometimes muddy water fills the river, sometimes clear water fills it; sometimes all the leaves of the fall float in the river and sometimes logs float, but the river never stops. A river has something to teach us, and that is - just move on. That’s it. Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji 

Life is a combination of sensitivity and sensibility. Sensibility is of the intellect and sensitivity of the heart. Usually people who are very sensitive they forget reason, logic. Their sensibility becomes less. And people with a lot of reason, always thinking about logic and sensibility, seem to lack sensitivity. Life needs to be a beautiful balance of both. You need to be sensitive yet strong. Usually sensitivity is equal to emotional instability. It should not lead to that. Your sensitivity should not lead you to emotional instability. If you are strong and sensitive then you have made it in your life. Got it. You have to be sensible and sensitive, both. Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji 

Question: Gurudev, how can I be free of ignorance? Gurudev Sri Sri - When you become aware that you were ignorant, that itself means that your ignorance is gone. An ignorant person does not think of himself as ignorant at all. Just like how you realise you were asleep after you wake up, in the same way, an ignorant person realise his own ignorance only after he comes out of it. There is so much nectar in this knowledge. We can go on discussing it for hours together. Tonight, I am giving you all an exercise to do. 'Sarvam Vasudevam iti, remember that everything around you is (a form of) Vasudeva. Whatever kind of devotion one has, it has come to you by Vasudeva's grace alone.

Question - Gurudev, when faith is running low and I am not able to keep up with sadhana (spiritual practice), what do I do? Gurudev Sri Sri - Just wake up and see there is nothing, that's it. However life is, you have to bear the cross. This itself is very good wisdom. It gives you strength. Whenever you want to escape from a situation, and you are finding a way to get out of it, then the mind is still outward, because the mind is engaged in doing. So when the mind has to go into deep rest, for that you have to accept that there is no way. Then you drop that wanting to do something, and then the mind settles down then and there.