Time for reflection

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