Sri Sri:
I think every human being needs to sit back for a little while, if possible everyday and find that inner peace.When our mind is agitated or restless and we are too active, we are not tapping that source that is deep within us, which is intuitive whichgives us the correct thoughts, which gives us the confidence. So few minutes of silence, few minutes of reflecting about the truths about ourlives would be extremely beneficial for every one of us.
Now how to do it, what are the ways and means to achieve that inner peace? This question haunts everybody- whether its summer or winter.
We need to find an answer about the basic questions that come into our hearts and our minds. I would say observing that everything is changingin our world, in our lives, in our society would give us a clue that there is something that is not changing. The reference point by which weobserve things are changing is the something that is not changing and that non-changing aspect of our consciousness gives us enormousstrength, courage and creativity. And few minutes of experiencing that non-changing aspect deep within us all makes our body energized,
Mind focused, our intellect free from inhibitions, memory free from traumas and a joyful flavor to our expositions comes around.
We are able to be in touch with the joy that one is seeking.Now it’s not just enough that we are able to experience responsibility or peace within us. We need to bring it in our society, around us.
This we can do only by educating people in human values, by bringing about human values. Today if you ask a child in a school or
college how many friends you have, they’ll count on their fingers… three, four, five.
And ask them the question- if you can’t be friendly with thirty- forty kids in your classroom how are going to be friendly with six
billion people in the world? The basic values- human values of friendliness, compassion, understanding, harmony in diversity need
to be brought up in schools, colleges and in every environment.
Jai Gurudev
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Rituals
Sri Sri:
You can’t understand everything, you know? All, every ceremony, you cannot understand. And no need to understand. What you will do understanding everything? So what. Why not do something that you don’t understand. It doesn’t make any meaning, doesn’t make any sense. Why not do that? You know? Stretch your action beyond your knowledge. Creativity happens only then. What do you know, you know you are doing it, you are just a manager, you are not a crazy person. That’s how telephone got invented. That man, what did he do? He just played with two strings and two cups and he was just doing something which was meaningless. And he played with something that was meaningless. He didn’t know what he was doing. And then he created something new. Something new came out of it. Isn’t it? So rituals and traditions are that way. Rituals and traditions need to be honored and not analyzed. Analysis does not take you much farther. It makes you remain in the field of known. It doesn’t take you to the unknown. Are you all listening? (YES) Your journey needs to be from the known to the unknown. And how do you move to the unknown? Doing something which you don’t know. There are several levels in knowing, the intellectual knowing, knowing from the feeling level, knowing from your heart, somewhere deep inside you, you feel something, you know something. Knowledge is not limited to the five senses. That knowledge which is limited to the five senses is very small. Many times erroneous too. The knowledge that transcends the five senses, goes a little beyond will bring renovation, innovation, creativity. Isn’t it? Yeah? (YES) Good, good, good.
Jai Gurudev
You can’t understand everything, you know? All, every ceremony, you cannot understand. And no need to understand. What you will do understanding everything? So what. Why not do something that you don’t understand. It doesn’t make any meaning, doesn’t make any sense. Why not do that? You know? Stretch your action beyond your knowledge. Creativity happens only then. What do you know, you know you are doing it, you are just a manager, you are not a crazy person. That’s how telephone got invented. That man, what did he do? He just played with two strings and two cups and he was just doing something which was meaningless. And he played with something that was meaningless. He didn’t know what he was doing. And then he created something new. Something new came out of it. Isn’t it? So rituals and traditions are that way. Rituals and traditions need to be honored and not analyzed. Analysis does not take you much farther. It makes you remain in the field of known. It doesn’t take you to the unknown. Are you all listening? (YES) Your journey needs to be from the known to the unknown. And how do you move to the unknown? Doing something which you don’t know. There are several levels in knowing, the intellectual knowing, knowing from the feeling level, knowing from your heart, somewhere deep inside you, you feel something, you know something. Knowledge is not limited to the five senses. That knowledge which is limited to the five senses is very small. Many times erroneous too. The knowledge that transcends the five senses, goes a little beyond will bring renovation, innovation, creativity. Isn’t it? Yeah? (YES) Good, good, good.
Jai Gurudev
Success and Spirituality
Sri Sri:
Yes, what do you call as success? I say, the smile on your Face, which nobody can take away, is success.
It’s a sign of success and it can come only through spirituality. There’s a book called Celebrating Silence, I recommend you all to read it. All the questions. There’s one such question, India being so rich in spirituality, why is it such a nation with such poor living conditions? I tell you, just see this whole country from a different angle. 1/3rd the land of America, 3-4 times the population of US, a thousand years of slavery almost and so many religions, so many languages, in spite of all that, this country still exists is a miracle. Otherwise it would have become like former Yugoslavia long ago. I feel that it’s the spiritual strength, human values, the heart and the love that you have in the people, that’s sustaining us, that has made you endure all difficulties and problems. Yet, move ahead, keep marching ahead. What do you say?
Jai Gurudev
Yes, what do you call as success? I say, the smile on your Face, which nobody can take away, is success.
It’s a sign of success and it can come only through spirituality. There’s a book called Celebrating Silence, I recommend you all to read it. All the questions. There’s one such question, India being so rich in spirituality, why is it such a nation with such poor living conditions? I tell you, just see this whole country from a different angle. 1/3rd the land of America, 3-4 times the population of US, a thousand years of slavery almost and so many religions, so many languages, in spite of all that, this country still exists is a miracle. Otherwise it would have become like former Yugoslavia long ago. I feel that it’s the spiritual strength, human values, the heart and the love that you have in the people, that’s sustaining us, that has made you endure all difficulties and problems. Yet, move ahead, keep marching ahead. What do you say?
Jai Gurudev
Renewal
Sri Sri:
Four things needs renewal time and again:
1) Truth. We need to renew truth again and again.
2) Technology. Technology needs renovation, renewal. Computers you know ,how many times they have changed, things are becoming smaller and more compact and more advanced. Technology undergoes that.
3) Trade. Needs renewal. You need to keep renewing the trade, otherwise it will collapse, die. Same with
4) Tradition. Remember the four T’s? Tradition, Technology, Trade and Truth. All these four things needs renewal. Hum? Renovation again and again. Very good.
Jai Gurudev
Four things needs renewal time and again:
1) Truth. We need to renew truth again and again.
2) Technology. Technology needs renovation, renewal. Computers you know ,how many times they have changed, things are becoming smaller and more compact and more advanced. Technology undergoes that.
3) Trade. Needs renewal. You need to keep renewing the trade, otherwise it will collapse, die. Same with
4) Tradition. Remember the four T’s? Tradition, Technology, Trade and Truth. All these four things needs renewal. Hum? Renovation again and again. Very good.
Jai Gurudev
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