Sri Sri: When many people get together and do something collectively, that is called
'yagya' or 'yagna'.
There are so many types of 'yagya'.
(1) 'Dravya Yagya.'- In which a lot of substances are used. 108 types of different herbs, fruits etc are used.
(2) 'Gyaan Yagya' - Discussing the knowledge
(3) 'Japa Yagya'- Singing and chanting of mantras.
These bring purity, prosperity, peace and harmony to all. The whole environment becomes lively. So just be with it. Do not have any bickering of the mind. Be with an innocent mind. Honor life as a gift, time as a gift, present moment as a gift .
The mind is very subtle, very subtle. The subtler your consciousness, the more honor it brings out.
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Showing posts with label yoga. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Environment
Sri Sri: Man has become a victim of his environment. He is not in control of his mind but a victim of the environment. Is it not so? We pollute our environment in a very subtle way through our negative emotions. But it takes quite some time to clear the environment of this. It is inevitable that sometimes you feel stressed, sometimes you feel negative, sometimes you feel doubt, sometimes you get into all sorts of moods — it is inevitable. It happens. Nobody wants it. But when it happens how do we handle them? We hear a lot about other things in life but we spend very little time to hear about ourselves; how to handle our mind? How to be in the present moment? How to be happy and grateful? This we have not learnt. This is the most unfortunate thing. Then what is the solution? This is where we miss a very fundamental principle that governs our environment, our mind our emotions and our life in general. Our body has the capacity to sustain much longer the vibrations of bliss and peace than it does negative emotions because positivity is in the centre of our existence. Just like in the structure of the atom, protons and neutrons are in the centre of the atom and electrons are only the periphery, same is with our lives; the centre core of our existence is bliss, positivity and joy but it is surrounded by a cloud of negative ions. Through the help of the breath we can easily get over our negative emotions in a short period of time. Through meditation and certain breathing techniques you can clear this negative cloud.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Respect and Love
Sri Sri: How do you develop respect? Respect is an appreciation from the head. Love is an appreciation from the heart. Respect needs logic. Love doesn’t need logic. Knowledge is required for respect. But for love, no knowledge is required. You just look at something and just fall in love with it.
Wanting respect is a natural tendency of adults, even adolescent children. But do we know how to respect others? It needs a little sensitivity. If you are sensitive, you are able to respect others. And if you respect others you become sensitive too. Respect and love are different yet they are very close. You cannot hate somebody and have respect for them. When you respect someone you start loving them. When you love someone, you start respecting them
Wanting respect is a natural tendency of adults, even adolescent children. But do we know how to respect others? It needs a little sensitivity. If you are sensitive, you are able to respect others. And if you respect others you become sensitive too. Respect and love are different yet they are very close. You cannot hate somebody and have respect for them. When you respect someone you start loving them. When you love someone, you start respecting them
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Hindrance to love
Sri Sri: Only through love can one experience infinity ,without the hindrance of lust and attachment. Love is coming together closer, merging together and dissolving. But the only way we have known the emotion through our lifetime is through sex. In sex you come to the present moment but, mankind has constantly been fighting lust and one has known through experience that it doesn’t lead you anywhere — it just brings inertia — more indulgence, and love goes down somewhere beneath.
But the more one fights lust, the less he is able to win over it. If you are angry, or have fought with somebody, they occupy your mind more than someone you appreciate, honour or respect. Lust means all desires. When a desire arises, you worship it, recognize it and offer that desire to the Divine. Desire that arises in you is Shakti (energy). Knowledge or wisdom is again the energy. Divine knowledge, the power to act, to perform, is the energy.
When you have the desire (Iccha) and the knowledge (Gyaan) but you cannot act (Kriya), it means there is no Kriya Shakti. When you recognize these desires that arise in you and honour them, you will be relieved of them in the most natural manner.
It is so difficult to get into bliss and so difficult to get out of bliss! There are so many obstacles to get into bliss. So many things get in your way — even at the gate. You think you’ve got it, you have it in hand, and then it goes; it gets that near. You get thirsty, so you get water in your hands. But, through just a few loose fingers, all the water is drained out. Life is so strange! So how do we be blissful? Give priority to the self, to self knowledge. Everything tries to keep the mind from sinking into bliss.
Some people behave very nice on the outside but are rough inside. And some people are very rough outside but nice inside. Some may be very polite and say, ‘‘Hello, how are you?’’, but inside, they are stiff. The Divine, unlike the world, does not care about your behavior, but how you feel inside. If you are like a flower inside, then outside too, you will become gentle, not stiff.
But the more one fights lust, the less he is able to win over it. If you are angry, or have fought with somebody, they occupy your mind more than someone you appreciate, honour or respect. Lust means all desires. When a desire arises, you worship it, recognize it and offer that desire to the Divine. Desire that arises in you is Shakti (energy). Knowledge or wisdom is again the energy. Divine knowledge, the power to act, to perform, is the energy.
When you have the desire (Iccha) and the knowledge (Gyaan) but you cannot act (Kriya), it means there is no Kriya Shakti. When you recognize these desires that arise in you and honour them, you will be relieved of them in the most natural manner.
It is so difficult to get into bliss and so difficult to get out of bliss! There are so many obstacles to get into bliss. So many things get in your way — even at the gate. You think you’ve got it, you have it in hand, and then it goes; it gets that near. You get thirsty, so you get water in your hands. But, through just a few loose fingers, all the water is drained out. Life is so strange! So how do we be blissful? Give priority to the self, to self knowledge. Everything tries to keep the mind from sinking into bliss.
Some people behave very nice on the outside but are rough inside. And some people are very rough outside but nice inside. Some may be very polite and say, ‘‘Hello, how are you?’’, but inside, they are stiff. The Divine, unlike the world, does not care about your behavior, but how you feel inside. If you are like a flower inside, then outside too, you will become gentle, not stiff.
Like You
Q: Can anybody ever become like you?
Sri Sri: You only have to see in the mirror. You just don't have the beard!!
Don't be deceived by the outer appearance. Look at your own mind. Where is the clutch?
Where are you stuck? What are your concerns? Then all those little things will go off. You will laugh at your mind.
When you laugh at your mind, you become free from its clutches. How many times you had judgments and opinions
and how many times did you find them wrong? 99% of the times it is wrong, only 1% is right.
Ram Himself asked Hanuman, "What is it like being Hanuman?" Ram became curious...
Hanuman was such a great servant. Hanuman said that when you see from the body, I am your servant.
When you see from the mind, I am a spark of you. When you see from the soul, there is no difference.
Sri Sri: You only have to see in the mirror. You just don't have the beard!!
Don't be deceived by the outer appearance. Look at your own mind. Where is the clutch?
Where are you stuck? What are your concerns? Then all those little things will go off. You will laugh at your mind.
When you laugh at your mind, you become free from its clutches. How many times you had judgments and opinions
and how many times did you find them wrong? 99% of the times it is wrong, only 1% is right.
Ram Himself asked Hanuman, "What is it like being Hanuman?" Ram became curious...
Hanuman was such a great servant. Hanuman said that when you see from the body, I am your servant.
When you see from the mind, I am a spark of you. When you see from the soul, there is no difference.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Love
Sri Sri:
Love devoid of knowledge gives rise to imperfection. You love perfection and get angry at imperfection. If you love somebody, you become jealous and possessive. Love is the cause of all problems in the world. Through love, jealousy, anger and hatred all come out. But we cannot live without love. Even a dog may not like to live without love. It would refuse to eat food, if it is not able to see its master. So love is the most wanted thing for everybody. Yet all these imperfections and all these problems arise out of love. So what is the answer ? We need such a love
which is free from imperfection and that can be attained only through knowledge."So love minus knowledge is problem and love with knowledge is bliss.
Love devoid of knowledge gives rise to imperfection. You love perfection and get angry at imperfection. If you love somebody, you become jealous and possessive. Love is the cause of all problems in the world. Through love, jealousy, anger and hatred all come out. But we cannot live without love. Even a dog may not like to live without love. It would refuse to eat food, if it is not able to see its master. So love is the most wanted thing for everybody. Yet all these imperfections and all these problems arise out of love. So what is the answer ? We need such a love
which is free from imperfection and that can be attained only through knowledge."So love minus knowledge is problem and love with knowledge is bliss.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Peace
Sri Sri:
How can we gain that peace, which is unshakable?
Being individually happy is not enough. Our wish should be that whomsoever we meet becomes happy and radiates happiness. A frustrated man will create frustration; a jealous person will create jealousy and so on.
You can turn every situation into your advantage. Have you ever thought of this? There is a story in the Puranas of how a saint turned an arrow, which was going to hurt someone, into a garland.
If somebody is shooting an arrow at you, insulting you, realize that they are doing it because they are miserable. Once you are blossomed from within, you can take any insult and turn it into your advantage.
Realize that they are simply pouring out their stress, tension and anxiety. When people shout or burst out at you, you can only feel good that all that was building up inside them is coming out. I am not saying that we should encourage this tendency or justify it.
But when it happens, do not regret it.
What do we normally do? We go on regretting and with regret we commit the same mistake again. Even when someone commits a mistake, he or she is not the culprit; the stress inside is causing him or her to make that mistake. Once we get rid of the stress inside us, there is no culprit; there is no one to be forgiven.
Then we begin to realize that the whole thing is just a game in which there are no winners or losers. It's just a play!
How can we gain that peace, which is unshakable?
Being individually happy is not enough. Our wish should be that whomsoever we meet becomes happy and radiates happiness. A frustrated man will create frustration; a jealous person will create jealousy and so on.
You can turn every situation into your advantage. Have you ever thought of this? There is a story in the Puranas of how a saint turned an arrow, which was going to hurt someone, into a garland.
If somebody is shooting an arrow at you, insulting you, realize that they are doing it because they are miserable. Once you are blossomed from within, you can take any insult and turn it into your advantage.
Realize that they are simply pouring out their stress, tension and anxiety. When people shout or burst out at you, you can only feel good that all that was building up inside them is coming out. I am not saying that we should encourage this tendency or justify it.
But when it happens, do not regret it.
What do we normally do? We go on regretting and with regret we commit the same mistake again. Even when someone commits a mistake, he or she is not the culprit; the stress inside is causing him or her to make that mistake. Once we get rid of the stress inside us, there is no culprit; there is no one to be forgiven.
Then we begin to realize that the whole thing is just a game in which there are no winners or losers. It's just a play!
The Certainties of changing world
Sri Sri:
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.
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.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Dispassion
Sri Sri:
Dispassion does not divide you. In fact, it connects you. It connects you to the present moment totally.
When you are not dispassionate, you are linked to the past or future. So, you are not connected to the present.
Therefore you are more divided. When your mind is hoping for something or when you regret the past, you are not with the moment.
But when you are centered, you are in the moment. So, when you are eating, you can taste every bite.
You can enjoy every bite. Every look, every sight is fresh and new. Your love is like the first love.
You look at everything like it is the first time.
Dispassion does not take joy away from you. Dispassion gives you joy that nothing else can give you.
There is a verse in Shankaracharya’s composition Bhaja Govindam, Kasya sukham na karoti viragaha?, which means, “What pleasure cannot be given by dispassion?” It gives all the pleasures, because you are so totally in the moment.
The so-called dispassion in the world seems so dry. People who think that they are dispassionate are melancholic.
They are sad. They run away from the world and then they call this as dispassion and say that they have renounced the world.
This is not renunciation. That is not dispassion. People, out of sorrow, out of misery, out of apathy, escape and escapists think they are dispassionate. Dispassion is something more precious, refined and more valuable in life.
Here is a story. When Alexander the Great left for India, people had told him, “If you find sanyasis there, just catch hold of them and bring them back here. They is very precious in India.” So Alexander sent word and nobody would come forward.
He then sent a message threatening them: “If you don’t come, I am going to chop your head off.” They still did not come.
He then threatened them: “I am going to take away your books, the four Vedas. I take all you have and your scriptures.”
The people said they would give him all the books the next evening. The pundits then called their children and made them memorize the script all night. They then took the manuscript to Alexander and said, “You can take them, we do not need them.”
Alexander then threatened to cut off their heads. The sanyasis told him he was free to do as he pleased. Alexander could not look into their eyes and could not tolerate the power of dispassion. He had met someone for the first time, who did not care for the emperor.
When Alexander came to India, some people presented him with a plate of gold bread. He had told them he was hungry and they had told him since he was an emperor he could not eat wheat bread. He told them he was starving and wanted bread.
To which the people said: “Don’t you get bread in your country? Are you going all over and trying to conquer the world just to eat the same bread we are eating?” The statement shook Alexander’s world. It made him realise that what they were saying was the truth. He thought to himself: “What is the point of conquering the world? When all you want is happiness and peace.” Legend has it, Alexander then proclaimed: “When I die, leave my hands open. Let people know that Alexander, who thought he had taken everything is leaving the world with nothing.”
Dispassion is the strength in you. When you are centered and calm, you can understand that everyone who has come to this world has come to give something to this world. We have nothing to take from here.
Dispassion does not divide you. In fact, it connects you. It connects you to the present moment totally.
When you are not dispassionate, you are linked to the past or future. So, you are not connected to the present.
Therefore you are more divided. When your mind is hoping for something or when you regret the past, you are not with the moment.
But when you are centered, you are in the moment. So, when you are eating, you can taste every bite.
You can enjoy every bite. Every look, every sight is fresh and new. Your love is like the first love.
You look at everything like it is the first time.
Dispassion does not take joy away from you. Dispassion gives you joy that nothing else can give you.
There is a verse in Shankaracharya’s composition Bhaja Govindam, Kasya sukham na karoti viragaha?, which means, “What pleasure cannot be given by dispassion?” It gives all the pleasures, because you are so totally in the moment.
The so-called dispassion in the world seems so dry. People who think that they are dispassionate are melancholic.
They are sad. They run away from the world and then they call this as dispassion and say that they have renounced the world.
This is not renunciation. That is not dispassion. People, out of sorrow, out of misery, out of apathy, escape and escapists think they are dispassionate. Dispassion is something more precious, refined and more valuable in life.
Here is a story. When Alexander the Great left for India, people had told him, “If you find sanyasis there, just catch hold of them and bring them back here. They is very precious in India.” So Alexander sent word and nobody would come forward.
He then sent a message threatening them: “If you don’t come, I am going to chop your head off.” They still did not come.
He then threatened them: “I am going to take away your books, the four Vedas. I take all you have and your scriptures.”
The people said they would give him all the books the next evening. The pundits then called their children and made them memorize the script all night. They then took the manuscript to Alexander and said, “You can take them, we do not need them.”
Alexander then threatened to cut off their heads. The sanyasis told him he was free to do as he pleased. Alexander could not look into their eyes and could not tolerate the power of dispassion. He had met someone for the first time, who did not care for the emperor.
When Alexander came to India, some people presented him with a plate of gold bread. He had told them he was hungry and they had told him since he was an emperor he could not eat wheat bread. He told them he was starving and wanted bread.
To which the people said: “Don’t you get bread in your country? Are you going all over and trying to conquer the world just to eat the same bread we are eating?” The statement shook Alexander’s world. It made him realise that what they were saying was the truth. He thought to himself: “What is the point of conquering the world? When all you want is happiness and peace.” Legend has it, Alexander then proclaimed: “When I die, leave my hands open. Let people know that Alexander, who thought he had taken everything is leaving the world with nothing.”
Dispassion is the strength in you. When you are centered and calm, you can understand that everyone who has come to this world has come to give something to this world. We have nothing to take from here.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Faith and alertness
Sri Sri:
Faith and alertness appear to be completely opposite in nature. When you are alert, usually there is no faith and you feel restless and insecure. When there is faith the mind is secure and rested and you are not alert.
There are three types of faith:
Tamasic faith which is because of dullness. Like when you do not want to take responsibility or action and you say, "Oh it doesn't matter, anyway God will take care of all these things!" (laughter)
Rajasic faith which is brought on by intense compulsion of desires and ambition. The ambition keeps the faith alive.
Satvic faith is innocent and is born out of fullness of consciousness.
Faith and alertness, though apparently opposite in nature, are actually complementary to each other. In the absence of faith there can be no growth, and without alertness there can be no correct understanding. Faith can make you complacent. Alertness makes you tense.
If there is no faith, there is fear. And when there is no alertness one cannot perceive or express properly. A combination of both is essential.
In Gyana (state of wisdom) there is alertness without tension and faith without complacency. The purpose of education should be to remove the element of dullness from faith and the element of fear from alertness. This is a unique and rare combination. If you have faith and alertness at the same time, then you will become a true Gyani (the Wise One)!
Faith and alertness appear to be completely opposite in nature. When you are alert, usually there is no faith and you feel restless and insecure. When there is faith the mind is secure and rested and you are not alert.
There are three types of faith:
Tamasic faith which is because of dullness. Like when you do not want to take responsibility or action and you say, "Oh it doesn't matter, anyway God will take care of all these things!" (laughter)
Rajasic faith which is brought on by intense compulsion of desires and ambition. The ambition keeps the faith alive.
Satvic faith is innocent and is born out of fullness of consciousness.
Faith and alertness, though apparently opposite in nature, are actually complementary to each other. In the absence of faith there can be no growth, and without alertness there can be no correct understanding. Faith can make you complacent. Alertness makes you tense.
If there is no faith, there is fear. And when there is no alertness one cannot perceive or express properly. A combination of both is essential.
In Gyana (state of wisdom) there is alertness without tension and faith without complacency. The purpose of education should be to remove the element of dullness from faith and the element of fear from alertness. This is a unique and rare combination. If you have faith and alertness at the same time, then you will become a true Gyani (the Wise One)!
Become the mystery
Sri Sri:
All our struggle is to know more, know more, know more... you are trying your level best to understand your feelings and your emotions and you get into more and more and more confusion. This is what has happened with psychology today. It tries to explain to you why you feel like the way you are feeling. The ‘‘why’’ question arises always when you are unhappy. You say ‘‘why this problem to me on earth of all the people?’’... Nobody ever asked, ‘‘why am I so happy?’’ or ‘‘why is there so much joy and beauty in the world?’’. You want to understand, ‘‘why am I not feeling good?’’ or ‘‘why am I angry?’’, or ‘‘why is this not happening?’’.
The more you try to understand and try to dig it, you seem to understand less and less. The mystery deepens, but an illusion comes as though ‘‘I know it’’. But that’s for a short while. We ourselves do not know and we try to explain to others! Stop your explanations; your explanations have put you into a soup and make other people also more confused. You don’t know what is happening in your mind. Mind is like a rollercoaster — it’s a crowd. Something comes up sometime and then some other thing pops up.
Just be in the simple and innocent state of ‘‘I don’t know!’’. This life is a mystery — beautiful — live it. Living the mystery of life so totally is joy. Becoming the mystery is divine. You are a mystery!
All our struggle is to know more, know more, know more... you are trying your level best to understand your feelings and your emotions and you get into more and more and more confusion. This is what has happened with psychology today. It tries to explain to you why you feel like the way you are feeling. The ‘‘why’’ question arises always when you are unhappy. You say ‘‘why this problem to me on earth of all the people?’’... Nobody ever asked, ‘‘why am I so happy?’’ or ‘‘why is there so much joy and beauty in the world?’’. You want to understand, ‘‘why am I not feeling good?’’ or ‘‘why am I angry?’’, or ‘‘why is this not happening?’’.
The more you try to understand and try to dig it, you seem to understand less and less. The mystery deepens, but an illusion comes as though ‘‘I know it’’. But that’s for a short while. We ourselves do not know and we try to explain to others! Stop your explanations; your explanations have put you into a soup and make other people also more confused. You don’t know what is happening in your mind. Mind is like a rollercoaster — it’s a crowd. Something comes up sometime and then some other thing pops up.
Just be in the simple and innocent state of ‘‘I don’t know!’’. This life is a mystery — beautiful — live it. Living the mystery of life so totally is joy. Becoming the mystery is divine. You are a mystery!
Smile… Just Smile
Sri Sri: The purpose of knowledge is ignorance. The completion of knowledge will lead
you to amazement and wonder. It makes you aware of this existence. Mysteries are to be lived, not understood.
One can live life so fully in its completeness, in its totality. Enlightenment is that state of being so mature and
unshakable by any circumstance. Come what may, nothing can rob the smile from your heart.
Not identifying with limited boundaries and feeling “all that exists in this universe belongs to me,
” this is enlightenment. Enlightenment is that state of being so mature and unshakable by any circumstance.
Come what may, nothing can rob the smile from your heart.
you to amazement and wonder. It makes you aware of this existence. Mysteries are to be lived, not understood.
One can live life so fully in its completeness, in its totality. Enlightenment is that state of being so mature and
unshakable by any circumstance. Come what may, nothing can rob the smile from your heart.
Not identifying with limited boundaries and feeling “all that exists in this universe belongs to me,
” this is enlightenment. Enlightenment is that state of being so mature and unshakable by any circumstance.
Come what may, nothing can rob the smile from your heart.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
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
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
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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