You can be at ease with the uncertainty of the world when you realize the certainty of the consciousness. Often people do just the opposite. They are certain about the world but uncertain about God. They rely on something that is not reliable, and they get upset. Uncertainty causes craving for stability.
The world is of change; the Self is of non-change. You have to rely on the non-change and accept the change. If you are certain that everything is uncertain, then you are liberated. When you are uncertain in ignorance then you become worried and tense. Uncertainty with awareness brings higher states of consciousness with a smile. Often people think that certainty is freedom. If you feel that freedom when you are not certain, that is "real" freedom. Often your certainty or uncertainty is based on the relative world. Being certain about the uncertainty of the relative makes you certain about the existence of the absolute and brings a certain faith in the absolute.
Can one still be enthusiastic when one is uncertain? Yes, in knowledge you can be enthusiastic in uncertainty. Often people who are uncertain do not act; they simply sit and wait. Acting in uncertainty makes life a game, a challenge. Being in uncertainty is letting go. Certainty about the relative world creates dullness. Uncertainty about the Self creates fear. Uncertainty about matter brings certainty about consciousness.
Showing posts with label Sri Sri Academy. Show all posts
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Saturday, June 5, 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010
Suicide
Sri Sri:
Just relax! and be dead now! shareer ko kyun marte ho ( why do u want to kill your body ?) Restlessness is in your mind. By destroying your body you are not going to get anything. Kill the mind , that is the real death you are looking for. If your mind dies you relax. If this does not happen you cannot relax.
By destroying your body don’t think you will be at peace. You have come to the right place. Killing your body, your restlessness remains. Your body is a sacred thing. It belongs to God ! What makes u so restless is your desire. Drop that craving of yours and your mind becomes calm. You want to compete with someone and when you cannot, you become restless. All ambitions make u restless.
Kill your ambition , throw your ambition out. If you are peaceful from inside you can do anything . aatma hatya karoge tho 400 -500 saal ghoomte rahoge (If you commit suicide you will keep going round and round for 400-500 years !) It is like - when u are feeling cold do you need more blankets or your taking off your clothes will help ???!!!
Suicide is taking off your clothes when you are already feeling cold !!!
Just relax! and be dead now! shareer ko kyun marte ho ( why do u want to kill your body ?) Restlessness is in your mind. By destroying your body you are not going to get anything. Kill the mind , that is the real death you are looking for. If your mind dies you relax. If this does not happen you cannot relax.
By destroying your body don’t think you will be at peace. You have come to the right place. Killing your body, your restlessness remains. Your body is a sacred thing. It belongs to God ! What makes u so restless is your desire. Drop that craving of yours and your mind becomes calm. You want to compete with someone and when you cannot, you become restless. All ambitions make u restless.
Kill your ambition , throw your ambition out. If you are peaceful from inside you can do anything . aatma hatya karoge tho 400 -500 saal ghoomte rahoge (If you commit suicide you will keep going round and round for 400-500 years !) It is like - when u are feeling cold do you need more blankets or your taking off your clothes will help ???!!!
Suicide is taking off your clothes when you are already feeling cold !!!
Sincerity
Sri Sri:
If you are awake you can't be but sincere. If you have hidden desires, if your mind is clouded, you question your sincerity. Be centered. Is your entropy low? Acceptance brings sincerity. Don't label yourself. You don't know who you are. Simply accept that you don't know how great you are or how stupid you are. Don't analyze yourself too much! With too much sincerity you become intolerable. People can't stand you if you are intolerable. You can't stand yourself! You will be more unhappy
If you are awake you can't be but sincere. If you have hidden desires, if your mind is clouded, you question your sincerity. Be centered. Is your entropy low? Acceptance brings sincerity. Don't label yourself. You don't know who you are. Simply accept that you don't know how great you are or how stupid you are. Don't analyze yourself too much! With too much sincerity you become intolerable. People can't stand you if you are intolerable. You can't stand yourself! You will be more unhappy
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Playing your part
Sri Sri:
Be thankful if you have been bestowed with the qualities that you have, because it is not your own making. In the same way it depends on the part, which you have been given to play. Say, suppose in a drama, if you are given the part of a villain, and you play that role perfectly. A villain always knows that when I am playing the role of a villain, it’s just a role I am playing. I’m very sincere to my role.
There is a saying in Sanskrit, Durjanam Prathamam Vande Sajjanam Tadarantaram. First, worship the bad person, and then the good man. Because the bad man is falling and giving you an example, ‘‘don’t do what I did’’. Don’t hate a criminal in the jail, because he’s a criminal. In the prison, if there is a criminal, he is an embodiment of God. He has done you a greater service. Don’t ever hate a drug addict, because he has given you such a beautiful lesson, and he has been given that role. He is just performing his role that way.
When you understand these basic laws of truth, then your inner perfection becomes so stable that nothing on this planet can shake your inner perfection. Nothing can shake you
Be thankful if you have been bestowed with the qualities that you have, because it is not your own making. In the same way it depends on the part, which you have been given to play. Say, suppose in a drama, if you are given the part of a villain, and you play that role perfectly. A villain always knows that when I am playing the role of a villain, it’s just a role I am playing. I’m very sincere to my role.
There is a saying in Sanskrit, Durjanam Prathamam Vande Sajjanam Tadarantaram. First, worship the bad person, and then the good man. Because the bad man is falling and giving you an example, ‘‘don’t do what I did’’. Don’t hate a criminal in the jail, because he’s a criminal. In the prison, if there is a criminal, he is an embodiment of God. He has done you a greater service. Don’t ever hate a drug addict, because he has given you such a beautiful lesson, and he has been given that role. He is just performing his role that way.
When you understand these basic laws of truth, then your inner perfection becomes so stable that nothing on this planet can shake your inner perfection. Nothing can shake you
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
To make a violence free society
Sri Sri:
Our breath can play a vital role in cleansing the negative emotions a person has. We have experimented this, tried this in many prisons around the world. Hundred and twenty thousand prisoners around the world have done some breathing exercises and are able to get rid of the hatred, anger, that revengeful feeling that clogs them or blocks them. Inside every culprit I see a victim crying for help. It’s the stress, lack of broad vision about life, lack of understanding, bad
communication- all leads to violence in society. Love, being the very central force of human life gets covered by stress and distress. So the spiritual knowledge or what I would say as human values, education in human values would help an individual stand up to the demands of the day and it will help one to manage the problems one faces in their daily life.
I see man is on that crossroad today- on one side he becomes violent or frustrated and on the other side depressed or suicidal. And it’s the knowledge about our spirit, which is all love, which is beauty, which is peace, which transcends the boundary of our concepts and imaginations and identities that can bring a freedom from this frustration and violence. So I would say a violence free society, disease free body, quiver free breath, inhibition free intellect, trauma free memory is a birth right of every individual. And as responsible citizens we need to bring that responsibility to our society, to our community wherever we are, to our people, to make people.
Sri Sri responds to an attempted attack on his life that occurred on 30 May 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9PdMgb-J-U
Our breath can play a vital role in cleansing the negative emotions a person has. We have experimented this, tried this in many prisons around the world. Hundred and twenty thousand prisoners around the world have done some breathing exercises and are able to get rid of the hatred, anger, that revengeful feeling that clogs them or blocks them. Inside every culprit I see a victim crying for help. It’s the stress, lack of broad vision about life, lack of understanding, bad
communication- all leads to violence in society. Love, being the very central force of human life gets covered by stress and distress. So the spiritual knowledge or what I would say as human values, education in human values would help an individual stand up to the demands of the day and it will help one to manage the problems one faces in their daily life.
I see man is on that crossroad today- on one side he becomes violent or frustrated and on the other side depressed or suicidal. And it’s the knowledge about our spirit, which is all love, which is beauty, which is peace, which transcends the boundary of our concepts and imaginations and identities that can bring a freedom from this frustration and violence. So I would say a violence free society, disease free body, quiver free breath, inhibition free intellect, trauma free memory is a birth right of every individual. And as responsible citizens we need to bring that responsibility to our society, to our community wherever we are, to our people, to make people.
Sri Sri responds to an attempted attack on his life that occurred on 30 May 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9PdMgb-J-U
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Buddha
Sri Sri:
In the spiritual path, there are three factors: the Buddha - the Master or the Enlightened, the Sangha - the commune or the group, and the Dharma - your nature, your true nature. One of the main things in the Buddhist practice is taking refuge in all these three. Buddham Sharanam Gacchami means ‘I take refuge in Buddha’. Sangham Sharanam Gacchami means ‘I take refuge in the assembly, the Sangha’. And Dhammam Sharanam Gacchami means ‘I take refuge in the true nature of things as they are’.
Buddha or the Master is the Enlightened. The closer you go to Him the more charm you find. You will never be tired of the Enlightened. The closer you go the more newness, the more charm, the more love you feel. It’s like a depth without a bottom. Buddha’s company will always be new and charming.
Master is the Presence. World is relativity. And relativity has limitations. Presence is unlimited. Presence is vast, infinite, and all comprehensive, all inclusive. And the presence of the Master in one’s life will bring fulfillment to all relations. Every relationship will become complete with the presence of the Infinity if the Master is in your life.
Sangha has a reverse nature than Buddha - completely different. Once you are used to a Sangha you lose the charm in the Sangha. That is essential because while Buddha makes your mind one-pointed, Sangha, because it is of so many people, can scatter your mind. It will fragment it. Sangha’s nature will be such though it is very supportive. If it is only repulsive all the time then nobody will be in the Sangha because our nature is not to be in repulsion. Buddha uplifts you. Just by Grace, by Love, by Knowledge He pulls you up. The Sangha pushes you up from down below. Buddha from above pulls you up and the Sangha pushes you up. And the Dharma is to be in the middle. Your nature is not to go to extremes. Your nature is to be in balance. Your nature is to smile from the depth of your heart. Your nature is to accept this entire existence totally as it is. Do not crave or be averse. Often you crave for Buddha and you are averse to the Sangha. And you try to change. By changing Sangha or Buddha you are not going to change.
The main purpose is to come to the centre deep within you which means to find your Dharma. This is the third factor. What is Dharma? Knowing this moment is what has been offered to me and that is how I take it. A sense of deep acceptance for this moment, for every moment is Dharma. When this has come up then there is no problem at all. All the problems generate from our mind; all negativity comes in from our mind.
The world is not bad; the world is beautiful. It is our world that is bad because our world has ‘us’ in it. We make our world ugly or beautiful. So when you are in your Dharma, in your nature, you won’t blame the world and you won’t blame the Divine.
The difficulty of the human mind is that it cannot be part of the world totally and it cannot be part of the Divine. It feels a distance from the Divine. It’s its own creation and yet it feels like blaming the world. It’s not comfortable with the world. Dharma is that which puts you in the middle and which makes you comfortable with the world. It causes you to contribute to the world, be at ease with the Divine, and feel that you are a part of the Divine. That is true Dharma.
In the spiritual path, there are three factors: the Buddha - the Master or the Enlightened, the Sangha - the commune or the group, and the Dharma - your nature, your true nature. One of the main things in the Buddhist practice is taking refuge in all these three. Buddham Sharanam Gacchami means ‘I take refuge in Buddha’. Sangham Sharanam Gacchami means ‘I take refuge in the assembly, the Sangha’. And Dhammam Sharanam Gacchami means ‘I take refuge in the true nature of things as they are’.
Buddha or the Master is the Enlightened. The closer you go to Him the more charm you find. You will never be tired of the Enlightened. The closer you go the more newness, the more charm, the more love you feel. It’s like a depth without a bottom. Buddha’s company will always be new and charming.
Master is the Presence. World is relativity. And relativity has limitations. Presence is unlimited. Presence is vast, infinite, and all comprehensive, all inclusive. And the presence of the Master in one’s life will bring fulfillment to all relations. Every relationship will become complete with the presence of the Infinity if the Master is in your life.
Sangha has a reverse nature than Buddha - completely different. Once you are used to a Sangha you lose the charm in the Sangha. That is essential because while Buddha makes your mind one-pointed, Sangha, because it is of so many people, can scatter your mind. It will fragment it. Sangha’s nature will be such though it is very supportive. If it is only repulsive all the time then nobody will be in the Sangha because our nature is not to be in repulsion. Buddha uplifts you. Just by Grace, by Love, by Knowledge He pulls you up. The Sangha pushes you up from down below. Buddha from above pulls you up and the Sangha pushes you up. And the Dharma is to be in the middle. Your nature is not to go to extremes. Your nature is to be in balance. Your nature is to smile from the depth of your heart. Your nature is to accept this entire existence totally as it is. Do not crave or be averse. Often you crave for Buddha and you are averse to the Sangha. And you try to change. By changing Sangha or Buddha you are not going to change.
The main purpose is to come to the centre deep within you which means to find your Dharma. This is the third factor. What is Dharma? Knowing this moment is what has been offered to me and that is how I take it. A sense of deep acceptance for this moment, for every moment is Dharma. When this has come up then there is no problem at all. All the problems generate from our mind; all negativity comes in from our mind.
The world is not bad; the world is beautiful. It is our world that is bad because our world has ‘us’ in it. We make our world ugly or beautiful. So when you are in your Dharma, in your nature, you won’t blame the world and you won’t blame the Divine.
The difficulty of the human mind is that it cannot be part of the world totally and it cannot be part of the Divine. It feels a distance from the Divine. It’s its own creation and yet it feels like blaming the world. It’s not comfortable with the world. Dharma is that which puts you in the middle and which makes you comfortable with the world. It causes you to contribute to the world, be at ease with the Divine, and feel that you are a part of the Divine. That is true Dharma.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Guru
Q: Why are people going to gurus these days? Is it a belief or a need?
Sri Sri: Going to a guru is like going to a doctor. Why do we go to a doctor? Why do people go to a teacher? Why do people see a movie? Why do people watch cricket - for entertainment, knowledge and health. They come to a guru for knowledge - as their minds are full of confusion and they want to know something more.
Life is not just eating and sleeping. Books cannot give a sense of belonging, truth of love and experience. Merely by studying books one can't gain experience - interaction with people is necessary. It's quite natural to have a guru.
Sri Sri: Going to a guru is like going to a doctor. Why do we go to a doctor? Why do people go to a teacher? Why do people see a movie? Why do people watch cricket - for entertainment, knowledge and health. They come to a guru for knowledge - as their minds are full of confusion and they want to know something more.
Life is not just eating and sleeping. Books cannot give a sense of belonging, truth of love and experience. Merely by studying books one can't gain experience - interaction with people is necessary. It's quite natural to have a guru.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Meditation
Sri Sri:
Meditation is accepting the present moment as it is, living every moment totally, in depth.
What can you do when desires come up? Just accept them and let go. That is meditation. Do not hold on to them and day dream. You have no control over your desires. When you say, "Oh, I should not have desire", that will become a desire. Asking, "When will I be free of the desires," is again another desire. As they come up, recognize them and let go.
This process is called sanyas. Offer all as they come, as they arise in you, and be centered. When you can do that, nothing can shake you, nothing can take you away from 'That', otherwise small things can shake you, and then you are sad and upset. A few words from here and there or some insult can make you sad.
This is a test for you, how easily you could let go of all that. That is the art of letting go. Life teaches you the art of letting go in every event. The more you learn to let go, the happier you will be. When you learn to let go, you will be joyful. As you start being joyful, more will be given to you. Those who have more, more and more will be given to them. That is meditation.
Meditation is accepting the present moment as it is, living every moment totally, in depth.
What can you do when desires come up? Just accept them and let go. That is meditation. Do not hold on to them and day dream. You have no control over your desires. When you say, "Oh, I should not have desire", that will become a desire. Asking, "When will I be free of the desires," is again another desire. As they come up, recognize them and let go.
This process is called sanyas. Offer all as they come, as they arise in you, and be centered. When you can do that, nothing can shake you, nothing can take you away from 'That', otherwise small things can shake you, and then you are sad and upset. A few words from here and there or some insult can make you sad.
This is a test for you, how easily you could let go of all that. That is the art of letting go. Life teaches you the art of letting go in every event. The more you learn to let go, the happier you will be. When you learn to let go, you will be joyful. As you start being joyful, more will be given to you. Those who have more, more and more will be given to them. That is meditation.
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