Bring our mind to the self-------

Questions are always bent, crooked (?), but wonder is always straight ----

questioner are always bent, crooked (?), but wonder is always straight (!). So transforming life from question to wonder is knowledge. Knowledge does not give answers to questions but changes the questions to wonder. +Sri Sri Ravi Shankar 

Do not underestimate your power------------

Between mind and heart---------------------------

23rd Jan--- Netaji Sbhas Chandra Bose Birthday.

Freedom is not given, it is taken----Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose-----

 Gird up your loins for the task that now lies ahead. I had asked you for men, money and materials. I have got them in generous measure. Now I demand more of you. Men, money and materials cannot by themselves bring victory or freedom. We must have the motive-power that will inspire us to brave deeds and heroic exploits.----Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

PEACE______________

PEACE-------------------

To Stop Rape Culture, Ring the Bell

To Stop Rape Culture, Ring the Bell

THOUGHTS ....................

Disease........

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
 Sri Ramakrishna.

Why do put a label in your head?

Q: Guruji, my boss wants me to be diplomatic and feels it is very important for communication but I am a very straight forward person and cannot be diplomatic. What is the right thing to do?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Why do you put a label in your head ‘I am a straight forward person’ and why should a straight forward person not be diplomatic also? A straight forward person need not be rude all the time. Now you hide your rudeness behind that fact that you are straight forward, no you cannot justify the rudeness that way. Straight forwardness is necessary and diplomacy is also necessary, you have to have both. When you meet someone who is blind, you cannot tell that person, ‘You are a blind person’. You may say I am just straight forward, I am just saying the right thing, but you shouldn’t do that. So diplomacy is part of life; that is a skill you need to have. Diplomacy need not be that one is not being straight forward because it is not the opposite of being straight forward, not at all. These two things should go together.

Attitude....................................

Only spirituality brings up the tendency to care and share in one's life. Only spirituality can bring about open mindedness and a progressive attitude ~ Sri Sri      

Be Alert ------------------------------

Fear is our best friend . It's like fire. If we can control it, it can cook for us; it can heat our house. If we can't control it, it will burn everything around us and destroy us. If we can control our fear, it makes us more alert.

I like------ little fear more alert.

Q: Guruji, in your meeting with the Upanayanam batch, you told us to learn the Brahmayagna - the four Mantras from the four Vedas. Could you please tell us the meaning of these Mantras?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: The vibrations of Mantras are more important than the meaning of the Mantras. These Mantras were downloaded by the Rishis. They sat in meditation and they got something and they downloaded it and passed it on to people. So it was received as a vibration, it was not done with an intellectual awareness of sitting and writing it down. These Mantras have come from an intuitive level, or from the pure consciousness.
See, if you sit and think and act and join a few words and give meaning to them, then that is a different thing. But something that comes from inside you, like poetry, like an intuition, can be expanded and explored for generations to come. And every time you explore it, some new meaning will come out of it and that is why they are called Mantras. Mananat trayate iti Mantrah – when you just dwell on it, it uplifts your energy. This is what is said.
Mantras do have some meaning, but the meaning is just the tip of the ice berg. The meaning is not so important. In Mantras, it is the vibrations that are important.

Miracle is possible-- Sri Sri

When you are in a state
of love and devotion, your
energy is so strong, that
what you think impossible
starts happening. When
your heart and mind are
pure and clear, then
positive energy rises in
you. But if your mind is
full of negativity; or if you
are complaining, then no
miracle is possible.

"The world is a place where abilities are so different. Everyone has different abilities, but to reach the divine self, ability doesn't count." ~ Sri Sri

How does karma of our parents affect us?

How does karma of our parents affect us?