09 February t o 15 February, 2 0 1 4

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09 February t o 15 February, 2 0 1 4
Weekly Knowledge
09 February t o 15 February, 2 0 1 4
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Guru is the infinite love
When you start giving in abundance, it comes back to you in abundance.
-Sri Sri
in bodily form. ~ Sri Sri
Ravi Shankar
Date:2014-02-15 / Poster:Sri Sri Blessings
Date:2014-0215 / Poster:Guruji
Codes
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Happy Valentine Day!
This Valentine Day, make the Divine your valentine. See the Divine in
your valentine and make the divinity your valentine.
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Where
there is love,
there are always miracles
happening. - Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
Have the same love for everyone, with different flavors.
You cannot behave the same way with everyone, but you can love all of
them. Love transcends behavior and etiquette.
Date:2014-0215 / Poster:I love Sri
Sri
Abiding in the Self, you become the valentine for the whole world. Spirit is
the valentine of matter and matter is the valentine of the spirit.
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Happy Valentines Day
They are made for each other.
I am the valentine of the
whole world and I reside in
every heart. If you are my
valentine, you will see me
everywhere. –SriSri
If you hold on to matter and do not respect the spirit, then matter is not
pleased.
If you honor the spirit, then you will care for the world, and when you care
for the world, it will take care of you. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Date:2014-0215 / Poster:The Art of
Living - Amritsar
Date:2014-02-15 / Poster:Wisdom From Sri Sri
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Often, you do not know how to respond, or feel obliged and bound,
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W hen
when someone shows a lot of love.
you find that
you do not need love from
anybody and you are the
source of it, then you start
giving.
The ability to receive genuine love comes with the ability to give love.
The more you are centered and know by experience that love is not an
emotion; it is your very existence, the more you feel at home with any
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amount of love expressed
in any manner. - Sri Sri
Ravi Shankar
Jesus, Your Guru, Mother, Friend? Tweet to us using the hashtag
‪#‎LoveForSriSri
Date:2014-02-15 / Poster:Art of Living Universe
Date:2014-0215 / Poster:Wisdom
From Sri Sri
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Happy Valentine Day
It is not a question of being in love with someone -- it is a question of
being love - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Happy Valentines Day
‪#LoveForSriSri‬#‎ H App
yValentinesDay‬ ‪There
is nothing that love can not
transform. Accommodate
people and see they will be
transformed.
Date:2014-02-15 / Poster:The Art of Living
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Happy Valentine Day
This Valentine Day, make the Divine your valentine. See the Divine in
your valentine and make the divinity your valentine.
To grow in unconditional
love and in beauty is
spirituality.
Have the same love for everyone, with different flavors.
You cannot behave the same way with everyone, but you can love all of
them. Happy Valentine Day,-Sri Sri.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Loving
someone because they
belong to you, great or
otherwise, is unconditional
love. –SriSri
Date:2014-02-15 / Poster:We Love Sri Sri
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Keep your heart in a safe place. It is too delicate. Events and small
things make strong impressions on it.
Date:2014-0215 / Poster:Art of Living
India
And you cannot find a better place than the Divine to keep your heart
safe. Make the Divine your Valentine.
Date:2014-02-15 / Poster:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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personification of love
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Make
Who is personification
of love for you? Krishna,
loved.
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the divine your Valentine. Just be... and know that you are
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Seva
That is Beloved. - Sri Sri
Ravi Shankar
is a must in everybody life. because it brings fulfillment and
happiness. -SriSri
Date:2014-0215 / Poster:Art of Living
Universe
Date:2014-02-15 / Poster:Art of Living Philippines Disaster
Relief Work
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Having a guru means being able to relax and smile all the time, walk
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with confidence, be fearless and have a vision.
Q:
What is grace and
how to attract it?
Date:2014-02-15 / Poster:My Guru strongest
Sri Sri: When you receive
something which is not
just by your effort you call
it grace. Whatever you
receive is much more than
your effort then it is called
grace.
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If you enjoy doing service, it is good.
If you do not enjoy never mind because someone who is benefitting, is
enjoying. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
Date:2014-02-15 / Poster:Guruji Codes
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Start
Whatever that you have
received more than what
you really deserve is grace.
making as many contacts with existence as possible. Start
Loving the Nature and your nature will become Love.
Feel like you are hugging the whole nature and you are merging with it.
Anything that comes to you
not just by your effort and
not because you qualify
you can consider it a gift;
as grace. And grace grows
b y g ra titu d e .Wh e n yo u
demand there is no grace,
but when you are grateful it
comes in abundance....*
Date:2014-02-15 / Poster:Art of Living Dubai
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Joy is the love of what is. Sadness is the love of what is not.
Date:2014-02-15 / Poster:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Am
sharing another beautiful story that Sri Sri related once, that
teaches us about the nature of the Master and the disciple and how they
find each other... Feel free to share it with others as well! Story: There
was a talented teacher.
Date:2014-0215 / Poster:We Love
Sri Sri
He was a great orator, who would convince people very well. He had a fair
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knowledge of scriptures
and spiritual techniques
also. He was very good,
but he was not complete;
he was in search of a
Master. Everyone used to
honor him, but he lacked
that final touch.
palanquin❝. So, he sent his palanquin. The teacher sat in the palanquin
and started going towards the Master. And then he arrived in that town.
He asked a person carrying the palanquin to take him to the Master, and
one of them, who was carrying the palanquin, stood up and said, ❝ I am
him❝. The teacher was so moved that he fell at his feet.
He said, ❝How could you do this?❝How could you carry me? From where
you have been carrying me?❝ The Master answered, ❝Half the way.
He just wanted to
surrender to a Master. He
did not have a Master at
that time.
I heard you were coming to see me, so half the way I came to bring you
to me.
Now come, Lets go.❝ So the Master came half-way and carried the
palanquin of the disciple and brought him to the place and said, ❝Here
I am, the person you are looking for.❝ Like that God is already carrying
you and is right there with you.
Only when the time
comes, the Master also
comes. So, the time had
come. He knew who his
Master was, and he was
in search for him.
You take one step towards the Master, and He will take ten steps towards
you.
When he was departing
from the kingdom, the
king asked, ❝Where do
you want to go❝? He
said he wanted to meet
such and such a Master
in such and such and
such a place. Then king
said, ❝Oh, it is so far, 300
kilometers away.
But that one step has to be taken.
If you take one step back, God will take ten steps back. This is the
tradition of Masters. So much humbleness, humility and simplicity is
needed. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Date:2014-02-15 / Poster:Swami Purnachaitanya
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Date:2014-0215 / Poster:Art of Living
Universe
No, first of all, do not think your life is a stock market. Mind goes up and
down. Just look back and notice, so many times you reached a point
where you thought that this is the end of life; that heaven has fallen on
your head.
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When a storm comes,
it is the trees that get
uprooted. Be as humble as
the grass, and nothing can
touch you - nothing! In the
eyes of the Divine, those
who serve the creation are
the true kings and queens.
Walk like a king and be a
perfect servant! -Sri Sri
But there was an unseen hand that pulled you out of every crisis.
You have always received help whenever you have been in crisis. Turn
back and see, you will see that in your life this is a fact, that you are
always helped.
And know that in the future also you will get such help from an unseen,
unknown hand, and that is the Divinity.
Date:2014-0215 / Poster:We Love
Sri Sri
When you know there is a power that is watching me, a power that is
going to take me along, it is never going to let me down, then you will
never say your life is a stock market. It is a very solid foundation to life.
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Date:2014-02-15 / Poster:Art of Living Universe
Always
know that the
Divine loves me, that is it!
Full stop! No question mark
in front of that.- Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
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Life is a Dream, a Burden or a Joke
Often when you are happy you
feel life is a dream because you do not believe in the reality of it. When
there is misery you feel life as a burden. And we take trivial things very
seriously.
Date:2014-0215 / Poster:Art of Living
Universe
But one who has really gone through the pleasure realizes that pleasure
is a burden. And if you have undergone misery thoroughly you will realize
that life is a dream.
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Q:
Guruji, my life
goes like a stock market; it
reaches a peak and then
falls to zero. How do I bring
In every miserable condition you have been walked or carried through
and you realize life is a dream. When you see life is dream a burden or a
joke only then can you be centered.
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life is a dream, a burden or a joke and only when you realize this can you
be centered.
And when you have
really gone through
misery you have really
seen life as a dream.
And in between the pain
and pleasure life is all a
joke.
Date:2014-02-15 / Poster:My Guru strongest
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He has gained the fruit
of knowledge as well as of the practice of
yoga, who - contented and with purified senses - ever enjoys his own
company and being.
Life is very uncertain.
Before it takes you
a w a y, r e a l i z e i t i s a
dream, a burden or a
joke. Someone asked:
What about life is a joke?
Date:2014-02-15 / Poster:The Ashtavakra Gita
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**Compassion and Karma** There are two types of compassion.
One is the compassion of the wise, one is that of the ignorant. An
ignorant person compassion is on the fruit of an action whereas a wise
person compassion is towards the non-availability of knowledge.
Answer: A joke you do
not question. If you
question a joke, it is no
longer a joke. Do not
question a burden either.
Compassion for suffering shows ignorance. Suffering comes because of
karma, and if you believe in karma, where is compassion?
One reaps the fruit of one actions. If a judge has compassion for all the
offenders then the jails will be empty.
It is a waste of time to
question life and its
events.
At the same time, are the judges cruel to the offenders? No; the judges
compassion is for the non-availability of knowledge, not for the suffering
of the criminals. It is their karma. Often people think compassion is an
act, an action.
The burden makes you
go deep.
Know that compassion is your very nature.
It gets you to the core of
yourself. Realization of
a dream wakes you up.
And seeing life as a joke
makes you light.
Then you will see that karma and compassion are not contradictory but
complement each other. Suppose two people come to a hospital.
One is suffering from starvation, the other is ill from overeating.
The only certainty is that
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love. ~ Sri Sri ♥♥♥ :
What type of compassion
should the doctor have
towards each of them?
This is a riddle for you to
solve! with Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar ji!
Date:2014-02-15 / Poster:We Love Sri Sri
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Q: Is it love or surrender when I feel your presence in meditation?
Sri Sri :): Surrender with love. And that which happens with surrender is
love.
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India
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DAILY SUTRA
J ust
open your fist
and the sky is there in
your hand! - Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
There is enough for everybody need but not enough for everybody’s
greed. ~~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Date:2014-0215 / Poster:Wisdom
From Sri Sri
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LIVING DAILY SUTRAS
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Happy Valentine Day!
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If love is based on the
Celebrate this special day by sharing your ‪#‎LoveFor
quality of a person, then
the love is not stable - after
sometime the qualities
change and the love
becomes shaky.
SriSri‬ : If love is based on the quality of a person, then the love is
not stable - after sometime the qualities change and the love becomes
shaky. Loving someone because of their greatness or uniqueness is
Third-rate love. Loving someone because they belong to you , great or
otherwise, is unconditional love. –SriSri
Loving someone because
of their greatness or
uniqueness is Third-rate
love.
http://bit.ly/LoveForSriSri
Date:2014-02-15 / Poster:My Guru strongest
Loving someone because
they belong to you, great or
otherwise, is unconditional
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Expressing Love
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Love and admiration
too can become a
burden.
When this
happens, people try to
unburden themselves by
running away from it.
One goes running after the other saying, ❝Honey, Honey❝, all the time.
And then what happens? They suffer from diabetes! (Laughter) Every
now and then they will say, ❝Honey, honey❝, and then one fine day they
get fed up and say, ❝I can not stand you.❝
One should not go overboard with expressing their love. In India, it is the
opposite. People here never used to express love. If you go to the Indian
villages, you will find that they do not express love at all.
Many love marriages
have fallen apart because
of this only. One partner
expresses too much love
towards the other, and the
other is not able to handle
it. The other person then
feels like running away.
They keep it in their hearts but they do not express it.
And abroad they express it so much that love just vanishes; it just does
not stay. I feel that we should take a middle path; express a little, but not
too much.
Do express, but you do not express so much that you start with, ❝I
can not live without you❝, and then later you say, ❝I can not stand
you.❝ Love should be planted like a seed.
And they do run
away! How many
people have seen this
happen? (Many raise their
hands) We should not
talk too much about love
because it is inexpressible,
actually!
If you sow the seed too deep into the earth, then it will not sprout.
And if you keep it on the surface of the mud, then also it will not sprout, it
will not take roots.
Date:2014-02-15 / Poster:My Guru strongest
Many people come to me and say, ❝I am in love with this person.
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Raw Milk
Yet whomsoever I love,
they run away from me.❝ I
tell them, ❝Do not express
so much love day and
night that they get bored
and irritated with it.❝ In
countries abroad that is
what they do.
Simple Ayurvedic Beauty Tips for Your Face: To cleanse the skin and
pores - Raw Milk: One of the known basic ayurvedic tip is using raw milk.
Using raw milk helps remove unseen dirt and impurities from the face
as well as the pores of the skin. It also adds a subtle glow and acts as a
natural moisturizer.
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You see? But we are looking for some love that stands the time – the old,
ancient, strong, powerful love - The Divine Love! .. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Use raw milk with a cotton
ball to gently cleanse your
skin.
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You may even mix a little
lemon juice with raw milk
for this purpose. Source:
Style Craze
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Q: Guruji, how does being religious help me in my spiritual quest?
How do I ensure that my daughter grows up to be a good girl devoted to
God?
www.srisripanchakarma.
org
Sri Sri :): You know, in the ancient society, in the ancient times, they never
said, ❝This is Father Day, this is Mother Day.❝ They never dedicated one
day in a year to fathers and mothers, but they said, ❝everyday dedicate
some time to your father and mother❝. And so, as soon as you wake up
in the morning, the first thing you have do is to give a few minutes in the
first hour as father minutes and mother minutes. Then make the nature
your valentine.
Date:2014-0215 / Poster:Sri Sri
Ayurveda Panchakarma
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Happy Valentines Day
Consider the sun in the morning as your valentine.
Wish you all a Happy
Va l e n t i n e s D a y m o r e
:www.srisripanchakarma.
org
And in the evening, when the sun sets, it is so romantic that when you
look at the whole creation, the whole nature, you feel the Divinity is your
valentine.
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Ayurveda Panchakarma
So, there is a ❝valentine❝ hour or minute in every day. So, in every home
children should think, ❝This is my time with the parents.❝ It could be half
an hour or a few minutes.
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Happy Valentines Day
Children should start spending half an hour or one hour with the parents
everyday in the morning or evening. At least if one meal everyone shares
together, then you would have successfully celebrated your Father Day
and Mother Day.
Rise in Love with your
Self this Valentine!!! Love,
everyone is looking for
such a love that never dies.
As time goes it seems to be
dying out.
Similarly, when you wake up and see the whole creation is my valentine,
the country is my valentine, Divinity is my valentine, knowledge is my
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valentine, then Valentine’s
Day never ends for you. All
365 days is Valentine Day.
And you are all so rich. Rich with the spiritual knowledge and rich with this
beautiful wisdom. I am saying ❝Beautiful wisdom❝ but usually, wisdom is
considered to be very tough, very difficult and very hard to achieve and
beauty is something rare.
That is how I feel –
e v e r y d a y i s Va l e n t i n e
Day. Of course in the
Ashram everyday is
Valentine Day, and for a
devotee it is so obvious.
But I would say, it is beautiful wisdom; wisdom for the head and beauty
for your heart.
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Healthy Snacks
This is just an excuse
when you say, ❝Today
is a Valentine Day❝, but
if anyone looks at your
faces, they will know that
you are in a perpetual
valentine minute.
Healthy Snacks To Always Have On Hand - #3
[Hummus or Bean Dip with Vegetables] Keep hummus or bean dip on
hand for dipping vegetables like carrots, celery, cherry tomatoes, and
cucumbers. ‪#‎healthy‬ ‪#‎snacks‬ ‪#‎beans‬ ‪#‎vegetables‬ Source:
Mind Body Green
There is so much love
oozing out of everyone
faces, everyone behavior.
Looking at your nature
p e o p l e w i l l s a y, ❝ O h ,
maybe you are celebrating
Valentine Day today!❝
Yes?!
www.srisripanchakarma.org
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compassionate
Come what may, I will not get hurt.
If someone is nasty, I will learn to be compassionate. -Sri Sri
So, the poor persons
celebrate festivals only
once a year, because he
can afford only that, but
the rich ones celebrate
everyday and every
minute.
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Q: Why is there suffering in love?
Sri Sri :): Without knowledge, there is suffering in love too. Despite
knowledge, if there is suffering, then accept it.
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That is the nature of love.
traumatized. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Blessings
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Come what may, I will not get hurt.
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Thousands
If someone is nasty, I will learn to be compassionate. ~ Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
of events
may come and create
doubt within you, despite
that if you move on with
courage and strength, then
one can say that you have
true faith.
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The
presence of the Master in one life will bring fulfillment to all
relationships.
A person with strong faith
will never face failure or
have any downfall in life.
-Sri Sri
Every relationship will become complete with the presence of infinity, of
the Master, in your life. - Sri Sri
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Blessings
Simple Ayurvedic
Beauty Tips for Your Face: To acquire a smooth
complexion - Applying fresh orange juice to your face on a daily basis will
help bring about an improvement in the texture of your skin as well as the
skin tone.
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repeat
mistakes
the same
This fruit is rich in Vitamin C which enables our body to fight ageing and it
also acts as a good skin toner, especially for oily skin.
Events are like stones
and pebbles in the great
river of time which keeps
flowing unabated. In life,
things are to be learnt and
forgotten - learnt so that
you do not repeat the same
mistakes and forgotten so
that they do not leave you
www.srisripanchakarma.org
Date:2014-02-14 / Poster:Sri Sri Ayurveda Panchakarma
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God and world are not two separate or different entities; they are one.
Have you seen those 3-D pictures or holograms, where on one side you
see Nehruji on other side if you move it a little you can see Mahatma
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Gandhi?
strongest
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That is how God and the
world are, just like a 3-D
hologram. -Sri Sri
The biggest power is rest; deep rest and love. If these two things are
present in life, then everything else will come. It will happen. ~ Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
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Blessings
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GURU PUNCH
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Beyond
Come what may, I will not get hurt. If someone is nasty, I will learn to be
compassionate. ~~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The biggest victim of one
sided love is God.
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LIVING DAILY SUTRAS
ove
Imagination
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He loves you so much and
you do not even recognize
it. God loves you, this
creation loves you, and
you seldom recognize it.
If you recognize this and
be quiet in yourself, then
you will see. The universe
pours so much love on
you.
Whoever we fall in love with , we are really falling in love with our
Self. –SriSri
Date:2014-02-14 / Poster:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Happy Valentine Day
Make Divine Your Valentine - Happy Valentine Day
Date:2014-02-14 / Poster:Swami Madhusudan
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You can not handle it, the
universe pours that much
love on you. The world
always loves you more than
you love the world.
Satsang Knowledge
Satsang tonight in our wonderful Bangalore Ashram: In the flow of time,
events happen and finish... But the impression of the event stays.
The sum of all impressions is memory. Something happened in the
morning, you woke up, brushed your teeth, took a bath, had breakfast...
All events till now have occurred and are now over, like a dream ... But if
Date:2014-0214 / Poster:My Guru
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Shankaracharya had been giving a lecture on exactly this and after that
went for a walk.
you get caught up with one
event then you will miss
what is happening right
now.
A mad elephant cane rushing at him and he ran... A passer by later
asked him if everything is a dream, then the elephant was also a dream,
so why did you run?
It is like something is
written on the black board
and without that being
rubbed out, something
more is written and this
goes on and you can not
read what is being written
any more.
He replied saying my running was also a dream! Knowing that these
dimensions exist, relieves you and brings a sense of utter peace to you.
To cut a cake in a dream, you need a dream knife!
Q. How should the relationship between a Guru and a devotee be?
A. When you are free from stress, you are natural and you are sensitive,
then ANY relationship, any interaction between you and any one else is
bound to be harmonious.
The sum of all your
experiences is just like a
dream... You getting stuck
to any event will bring a
host of trouble, misery and
worry to you. Wake up
and see that this is all a
dream.
There is no “should”... You be simple, easy and relax.
religion to spirituality! Religion divides, spirituality unites.
Q. Why are some garlands made of lemons or Tulsi leaves? Flowers I
can understand, but why fruit or leaves?
Shake yourself up and
say this is all a dream!
This sends such a
gush of energy into the
system... Knowing that
this is all a dream, do act.
Do not go into oh it is all a
dream what is the point of
doing anything?! This is for
kindling the awareness...
A
s t o r y :
Convert from
A. Whatever is good for health is considered sacred. Every house
should have a Tulsi plant, a neem tree, a gooseberry plant and a lemon
tree.
All these have anti oxidant, anti viral and other very beneficial properties.
This is the reason that garlands are also made out of these fruits, flowers
or leaves. The photo of the almost full moon (doing no justice to her
beauty) showering her blessings and soft light on all of us...
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Pic: Glimpses of a rocking Latin American Satsang today at Art of Living
International Ashram
Satsang Knowledge
Diamond and charcoal
are virtually the same
substance. But they
do not have charcoal
hanging from their ears.
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Where there is love, there are always miracles happening. ~ Sri Sri
Ravi Shankar
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In life also there is one
aspect where you see
diversity and there is one
aspect where you see
only the oneness and
both are essential.
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Happy Valentine Day
Art of Living International Ashram wishes everyone a Very Happy
Valentine Day!
When you wake up and see the whole creation is my valentine, the
country is my valentine, the Divinity is my valentine, knowledge is my
valentine then Valentine Day will never end for you.
When you see that
everything is one, that
is when meditation
happens.
All 365 days is Valentine’s Day. That is how I feel – everyday is
Valentine’s Day. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Ques: Who am I? I have
not got any satisfactory
answer.
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Love is not a path, it brings you back home. Love IS home. - Sri Sri
Can you tell me who I
am? SriSri: Very good
you are so lucky! One
who knows will not tell
you. Now you guess, I
am not going to tell you.
(laughter) This very
question is a vehicle for
you to go where you have
to go!
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Be happy. Love yourself. Do not judge others. Forgive. Be simple. Do
not make distinctions.
Give up the habit of choice. Let the mind dissolve.
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Happy to see the baby standing on its own feet, the mother giraffe comes
over and gives it yet another kick.
S hould
Read ones.
Baby Giraffes never go
to school. But they learn
a very important lesson
rather early in life. A
lesson that all of us would
do well to remember. The
birth of a baby giraffe is
quite an earth-shaking
event. The baby falls
from its mother womb,
some eight feet above the
ground.
The baby giraffe falls one more time, but now quickly recovers and stands
up. Mama Giraffe is delighted.
She knows that her baby has learnt an important lesson: Never mind
how hard you fall, always remember to pick yourself up and get back on
your feet.
Why does the mother giraffe do this?
She knows that lions and leopards love giraffe meat. So unless the baby
giraffe quickly learns to stand and run with the pack ? it will have no
chance of survival.
It shrivels up and lies still,
too weak to move.
Most of us though are not quite as lucky as baby giraffes.
The mother giraffe lovingly
lowers her neck to smooch
the baby giraffe and then
something unbelievable
happens.
No one teaches us to stand up every time we fall. When we fail, when we
are down, we just give up.
No one kicks us out of our comfort zone to remind us that to survive and
succeed, we need to learn to get back on our feet
She lifts her long leg and
k i c k s t h e b a b y g i r a ff e ,
sending it flying up in the
air and tumbling down on
the ground. As the baby
lies curled up, the mother
kicks the baby again and
again until the baby giraffe,
still trembling and tired,
pushes its limbs and for the
first time learns to stand on
its feet.
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The Art Of Communication
It is not how correct, what you are saying , that is important , it is how
you make the other person understand, that what you are saying , is
correct. That is the skill. -SriSri Date:2014-02-14 / Poster:Art of Living
Punjab
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Finding security in your inner space is spirituality. - Sri Sri
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Blessings
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Blessings
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Kick all complaints about anybody or anything out of your head.
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Then you become useful to this world. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If
you have a strong
vision of doing something
good to the society, I tell
you resources will come all
by itself. Nature will start
helping you. - Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
Break through all the barriers and feel that you Are Blessed.
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This Is The One And Only Step You Have To take - the rest will all
happen. This deep sense of feeling that ❝I am blessed❝ can help you
overcome any obstacles in life.
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Feel blessed
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It gives you courage and confidence and it will open your lid for grace to
be poured in.
Q:
Guruji, if God has
created us human beings
then why has he made life
so complex with so many
problems in our lives?
enjoyable it is.
Once you realize that you are blessed, then: All the complaints
disappear All the grumbling disappears All the insecurities disappear A
sense of feeling unloved disappears Wanting love disappears.
Sri Sri :): I know you watch
movies. The more complex
the movie the more
If you do not realize you are blessed, then the doership begins.
If you want to make a difference in your life, feel you are blessed. And
especially for those on this path of knowledge, there is no reason for you
to not feel blessed. So, feel you are blessed. This is the first step towards
the Self.
What you see in this world
is nothing but just a movie.
The director makes the
movies so complex so that
the viewers can enjoy it!
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Satsang Knowledge
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There are many quaint traditions the world over and they all need to be
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preserved and practiced.
The diversity needs to be
preserved for the coming
generations.
take a pillow and go to bed! The heart loves the old and the ancient friendship, love takes pride in something old.
The mind and intellect wants new - new fashion, new gadgets, new
technologies.
If any one of them
disappears it will be a great
loss to the cultural heritage
of the planet.
They are like that and this is what makes life complete.
Wisdom is knowing when to use the heart and when to use the mind... If
you want to see Lord Vishwanath - The Lord of the Universe, then you
need Vishala, the one with the broad or big vision, the one with the big
eyes... That is why our meditation Hall is called Vishalakshi... When
people meditate, they get the broad vision. And it is also the name of my
(Gurudev) mother. So it fits well.
The ethics of how to keep
the mind at peace, inward
and balanced in adverse as
well as pleasant situations
is elucidated in the second
chapter of the Bhagvad
Geeta.
Q. What should I do to please God?
Smile, Serve and be Sincere - This is the way to please yourself and God.
An entire generation
of India was bought up
listening and internalising
this Knowledge. Mahatma
Gandhi did Satsang every
day and listened to this
chapter every single day.
If a baby asks his mother what should I do to please you? She will say
just be happy... Be around... Really nothing to do Jai Gurudeva!
Love Bawa
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Q. I have confusion
between what my heart
says and what my mind
says. Each wants different
things. How to marry them
and want just one.
GURU PUNCH
Kick all complaints about anybody or anything out of your head. Then you
become useful to this world. ~~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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A. There is a proverb in
China, if you are confused,
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Seva is made part of your nature, it happens without
Vishalakshi Mantap Vishala means broad and askshi means vision.
Vishalakshi means broad vision, big eyes. People come here, sit and
meditate and broaden their vision. Of course its my mother name also! So
both came together.
doership. - Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar Maha Shivaratri
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It has a deep spiritual meaning. If you have to see the Lord of the
Universe, you have to have Vishalakshi, the big eyes. God is not
somewhere out there.
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Living International
Ashram
He is right here. You need to have to right vision. Only with the big eyes
can you perceive the greatest in the Universe. Ques: What is the best
and easy way to please god? ‪
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If you are grumbling,
#‎SriSri‬: My dear, He is already pleased with you. Keep your heart clean,
mind focused and put your 100% in any work you do. Smile, serve and be
sincere.
you can not be grateful,
and if you are not grateful,
how can there be grace?
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Be grateful to everyone, because everybody is creating a space for
you to be transformed - even those who think they are obstructing you,
even those whom you think are enemies.
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Sri Sri on Anger!
Your friends, your enemies, good people and bad people, favorable
circumstances, unfavorable circumstances - all together they are creating
the context in which you can be transformed and become a Buddha.
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If your time is good even the worst enemy behaves like a friend, and
if your time is bad, your best friend behaves like an enemy.
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Satsang Knowledge
So bow down to time. There is a saying, ❝Kalaya tasmai namaha❝, which
means that it is time which plays around. -- Sri Sri
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in
Satsang today talks about
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Sri
non-changing something? You become Nihsangah! It is already there;
you are just waking up and looking at it.
This non-changing something is also a witness of all actions; it is not
acting.
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If
you are at ease
with yourself, everyone
will be at ease with you.
Be natural and be simple.
Relationships develop
naturally.
What is its nature? This is what Ashtavakra explains to Janaka!
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NaradaBhaktiSutra
If you try to build a
relationship that is when
you become a little
artificial. You like someone
to be honest, open, natural,
unassuming with you. That
is exactly what others also
want from you.
||Yo vedanapi sanyasyati, kevalam avichinn anuragam labhate||
Essence: The One who has transcended knowledge, who has
transcended action, who has gone beyond the action and knowledge, He
attains the pure love that is everlasting. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
For a complete synopsis of the Narada bhakti Sutra visit:
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Shankar
http://www.artoflivinguniverse.org/2012/11/narada-bhakti-sutras-sri-sriravi.html
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What is that something
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that does not change in
you?
‎Our Souls Rejoice in Love” by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ‎Consciousness is
indestructible, like the bones in your body are indestructible.
You can not see it - but you
have an idea, an intuition
that there is something that
is not changing.
That is how they could find the bones of dinosaurs even after several
million years. In the same way, if they were just left on this planet, your
bones would stay forever.
What happens when you
have a firm foot in that
Like the bones, which are the grossest of your existence, and the subtlest,
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your consciousness, also
the eternal, the mind,
the consciousness which
harbours the thoughts
and feelings, emotions,
everything, is eternal, that
stays forever.
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Ques: I am a victim of one-sided love.. Please give me some tips!
Sri Sri : Perhaps God is the biggest victim of one-sided love.
He loves you so much and you do not even recognize it. The Universe
pours love on you.
And all those whose body
and mind, their body and
spirit have separated, that
spirit still exists, the soul
still exists.
We should know this that this Universe loves you more than you love this
Universe.
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Pearls from the pages of Patanjali. One of the Root cause of Misery in
Those souls, those units
of energy, those units of
consciousness, simply
rejoice in love.
life is ❝Avidya❝, Ignorance. Avidya, Ignorance is, to consider permanent
that which is not so; to think/understand that which is changing to be
unchanging; that which is not joy to be joy; that which is not Self to be the
Self; thinking that you are the body when you are not; thinking that you
are thoughts and emotions when you are not; It is considering your body
to be unchanging when it is”.
One ultimate question
remains: how much love
you have gathered in your
life and have given in your
life. ‎ P ublished in : Indian
Express , Bangalore ‎
Your ignorance makes you hold on to your old fears and thoughts;hold on
to your past. You hold on to your idea of who you are.
A fixed idea about who you are destroys you totally. It stops your growth
and limits your potential. The concept of how things should be makes you
miserable. There will be further posts on other root causes of Misery.
Date: 12.02.2014
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Our-Souls-Rejoicein-Love/2014/02/12/
article2052058.ece#.
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Give and Get!
A poor man asked the Buddha, ❝Why am I so poor?❝ The Buddha said,
❝you do not learn to give.❝ So the poor man said, ❝If I am not having
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anything?❝ Buddha
said: ❝You have a few
things, The Face, which
can give a smile; Mouth:
you can praise or comfort
others; The Heart: it can
open up to others; Eyes:
who can look the
other with the eyes of
goodness; Body: which can
be used to help others.❝
their flaws also❝.
So, actually we are not
poor at all, poverty of spirit
is the real poverty.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: While meditating, the breath becomes slower as
activity goes down in the body and deep rest comes to both body and
mind. This leads to the fourth state of consciousness.
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There are three states of consciousness: waking, dreaming and sleeping.
To this, the saint replied, ❝Your miseries will speak out loud about your
flaws and bad qualities by themselves.
Why do I need to say that?❝ - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Q:
Guruji, why does the breath slow down and even stop while
meditating when we are still alive. Can you please explain?
But other than that there is a state where you are awake and yet fully at
rest, and that is meditation. In that state the breath is almost feeble, and
almost not there for few seconds.
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Misery Speaks
There was a very old saint,
he had a habit of always
praising people, no matter
what. People would be
surprised on seeing this
and would ask him, ❝Why
do you always praise
people, even when they
are no good?
After that activity comes up, and stress gets released and the mind
becomes more active.
Why do you only speak
a b o u t so m e o n e ’s g o o d
qualities? Please tell them
So the in breath and out breath also has a specific impact. Art of Living
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When the mind becomes calmer, physical activity increases, it is a
phenomenon.
Similarly, if you see, when you breathe in, you are accumulating energy.
When you breathe out, you are relaxing the whole system.
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If you just look at lack, the lack increases in life. See what you have, and
then abundance increases. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Experience the feeling
of abundance through the unique processes in the
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If your time is good even the worst enemy behaves like a friend, and
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Happy Valentine day
if your time is bad, your best friend behaves like an enemy.
I am the VALENTINE of
the WHOLE WORLD and
reside in EVERY HEART. If
you are my VALENTINE,
you will see me
EVERYWHERE! Happy
Valentine day!
So bow down to time. There is a saying, ❝Kalaya tasmai namaha❝,
which means that it is time which plays around. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Q: I want to be your best instrument. Will you make me? Sri Sri Ravi
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On this Valentine day, let
u s o p e n u p o u r h e a r ts
and express our love &
gratitude towards our
Beloved Master. Let us
come together, and spread
the waves of ❝Love For Sri
Sri❝.
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Question No.6. Which leaf is used in Shiva Pooja?
Options: a. Mango leaf. b. Banana leaf. c. Bel leaf. d. Orange leaf.
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If your time is good even the worst enemy behaves like a friend, and if
your time is bad, your best friend behaves like an enemy. So bow down to
time.
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Universe
There is a saying, ❝Kalaya tasmai namaha❝, which means that it is time
which plays around. +Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Abundance
is a state
of mind within you.
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LIVING DAILY SUTRAS
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am trying to become a vegetarian. What should I tell him?
The
ignorant are
fanatically religious and the
intelligent are fashionably
atheist. The wise are
obviously spiritual. - Sri Sri
Ravi Shankar
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Choice of food is yours. You are free individuals.
If you are eating healthy then convince your dad that your choice is
vegetarian. We all have freedom to choose what we want to eat.
Tell him that vegetarian food does not make me weak because elephants
are vegetarian. Horses, elephants, bulls are vegetarian and are very
powerful. Our immediate ancestors, monkeys are also vegetarian.
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From Sri Sri
And a large population today around the world is following vegetarianism
for health reasons.
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Sri
Sri Ravi
Shankar on dimensions of
Time, Truth
If you go over the material available on the internet, there are so many
articles and scientific researches on the benefits of being vegetarian.
http://youtu.be/_
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videos
Healthy Snacks To Always Have On Hand - #2
[Plain Yogurt with Berries, Nuts or Seeds]
Flavored yogurts often contain
more than 20 grams of added sugar.
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Dialogue with Sri
Sri
If adding fruit does not make plain yogurt sweet enough for you, add a
small amount of honey, maple syrup or molasses.
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‪#‎SriSriAyurveda‬ ‪#‎GarbhSanskaar‬ The aim of any parent is
to bear and nurture a healthy, capable child who can face the pressures
of our increasingly complex lifestyles.
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Q: Guruji, my father is
An Ayurvedic solution to this situation has slowly gained momentum —
always after me because I
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The idea is to enhance every aspect of the mother life. Ideally,
preparations should start at least a year before conception.
a process called Garbha
Sanskar. Its revival is the
brainchild of Ayurvedic
physician Dr Balaji Tambe,
who explains it in his
upcoming book Ayurvedic
Garbha Sanskar. Garbha
Sanskar is both a medical
practice and a ❝culture❝.
Garbha Sanskar covers pregnancy,childbirth and guides parents until the
child is two years old. Parents who have followed these instructions say
their babies are able to hold their heads up, turn on their side and begin
speaking earlier than other babies.
They sleep soundly for several hours and have far fewer health concerns
than their peers. In some cases, they show extra-ordinary development.
Just like a person brought
up in a musician’s house
imbibes a musical culture,
the child is conditioned
within the womb.
Preparing for conception A healthy diet (see chart) and lifestyle is
recommended so the couple achieves peak physical and psychological
health. The reproductive cells are the most potent cells in the body and
need special nourishment, so health tonics such as panchamrut (see
chart), are vital.
The practice has been
developed over four
decades of research
and medical practice.
Tambe says, ❝If women
are provided with expert
guidance during pregnancy
and the early years of
their children, it will have
an immense impact on
society.❝
Seminal fluids are also an indicator of the health of reproductive cells. If
either partner suffers from deficiencies of any kind, an Ayurvedic Pancha
Karma is recommended before conception.
The process aims to cleanse the body of toxins. Its therapies lubricate the
body internally and use techniques to expel toxins naturally.
This is followed by therapy for specific problems as individually required.
Guidelines for sexual interaction describe an ideal atmosphere and
psychological readiness for the invitation of a good soul.
What it involves Traditional
diet planning, the use
of herbal preparations,
yoga, music, behavioural
suggestions, and medicines
are all used in harmony.
The couple should eat light food suited to their individual constitutions,
and choose a time between 10 pm and midnight for the attempt to
conceive.
During pregnancy: Ancient descriptions of foetal development are
surprisingly accurate.
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A month-by-month diet
that supports every
development, and health
tonics are advised to keep
up strength and provide
essential nutrients.
traumatic for the baby, compared to the shock of sudden exposure to
the outside environment through caesarean section. Exercises and
external applications during labour facilitate a simple and less painful
delivery. Some of the essential steps after delivery include oiling the
baby’s fontanel (homemade ghee can be used), and feeding it a touch
of gold infused honey to boost nervous system activity.
Yoga and oiling the body
is a must. Use oil that is
cultured with herbs such
as bala,sahachar and
ashwagandha to reduce
stretch marks and prevent
breasts from sagging.
The mother regains her strength through an easily digestible and
nutritious diet, and loses excess weight through basic yoga. The date
powder, shatavari kalpa and dhatri rasayan must be continued to help
the production of good and adequate breast milk. Some guidelines
for childcare: *Until the child is two years old, it needs regular oil
massages to help growth *While he or she can start eating other
food after it is six months old, it must be breast fed until it is a year
old Do not place the baby’s bed under direct light *Avoid loud and
disturbing noises » Introduce new foods gradually, and allow the baby
to start eating by itself at a certain age even if it creates a mess Preconception foods: For potential parents, almonds, panchamrut and
chyanvanprash are essential.
Several food and
behavioural precautions are
listed for the mother. Mixing
fruit and milk can be
particularly harmful, as it
causes allergies in the baby.
Around the fourth month,
the mother will experience
food cravings.
These are to be adequately
satisfied and sensitively
treated, as they are the
cravings of the foetus
and will help it develop
b e t t e r. C h i l d b i r t h a n d
childcare: Garbha Sanskar
favours a natural delivery.
Food during pregnancy: Apart from a balanced vegetarian diet, iron and
calcium are most important for a pregnant woman. She should consume
milk, Ayurvedic ghee and fresh juices of sweet seasonal fruits Calcium
can be ingested through dry dates, traditional dink (Gum acacia) ladoos
and poppy seeds For iron and folic acid, eat black raisins, figs, saffron,
spinach, pomegranate and apples Foods for every month 1st Month:
Milk at room temperature sipped throughout the day 2nd Month: A cup
of milk with a spoon of shatavari kalpa twice a day, before sunset 3rd
Month: Mix one teaspoon of ghee and ½ teaspoon of honey in a cup of
room temperature milk. Drink every morning 4th Month: Over the day,
eat 10 gms of homemade butter (white) 5th Month: Ingest six to seven
teaspoons of ghee over the day 6th & 7th Month: 1 teaspoon of ghee
cultured with sweet herbs every morning.
It holds that this is far less
This should be prepared by an Ayurvedic doctor 8th Month: One bowl
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of kheer with breakfast or
lunch. Can be made with
rice, semolina, wheat, or
seviya 9th Month: No
specific diet.
take a prism and make sunlight pass through it to make different colour
lights for your joy. So similarly one divinity is all over but an aspect of
that divinity is chosen for a specific occasion or function.
Regular intake of milk
and ghee. Diet post
delivery Khichdi, light
soups, dal and rice,
bhakri and chapati.
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Different gods are the different aspects of one Divinity.
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First you should admit that you do not truly know yourself. When you do
not know yourself, you do not know how much potential you have within
you. You have no idea about how many things you can do. - -Sri Sri
Ravi Shankar
Ahleev (garden cress)
kheer. Lightly prepared
vegetables. No gravies.
No oil and minimal
spices until the child is
being breastfed. Drink
warm water instead of
room temperature water
throughout the day.
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LIVING DAILY SUTRAS
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Y our
non-attachment to the mundane is your charm, Your
attachment to the Divine is your beauty. - Sri Sri
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Q: Jai Guru Dev, guide me to turn to spirituality again and again,
because laziness blocks me to do this. Please advice how can I tackle
laziness.
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Sri Sri: To tackle laziness, you should take a vow for a limited period of
time.
in Satsang Ques: If God
exists everywhere, why
do we have Gods in
different forms?
Next 20 days I am not going to be lazy. In between, if you become lazy
then from that day onwards for another 20 days take a vow again, ❝I
am not going to be lazy.❝
#‎ S riSri: Like in the day
time there is sunlight
everywhere but then you
Whenever you break a vow, you say from that time you will continue
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This happens.
with double the
enthusiasm, and double
the vigor. That seems to
have worked for many
people. Number one,
taking a vow, taking a
d e te r m in a tio n . Se co n d
would be attending to your
food.
That is why we must avoid all these preservatives, ketchups which has
all these chemical preservatives. What do you say? How many of you
agree with me on this? (Many in the audience raise hands) We should
go back to organic natural food.
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The
man of wisdom is a child. He never sets one thing against
another. He does freely whatever comes his way.
Third would be to do some
pranayama. When there
is energy, when there is
prana, it does not allow
you to simply sit and be
lazy. Fourth, check vitamin
levels in your body. If D3
is low, which more people
seem to be having these
days, or B12 is low in your
body, then you do not feel
like doing anything.
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‪S haring another beautiful story that Sri Sri shared once, that
teaches us the importance of the type of people we surround ourselves
with.... Feel free to share it with others as well!
The Story: There is a story. It is very famous in India. There was a
king called Vikramaditya.
He was known for his righteousness, and piousness. He was a saint of
a king. He had all the characteristics that were required of a king - wise
man, saint, good human being, and very intelligent also.
Morning you wake up and
you feel too tired. This
is the sign of vitamin D3
going very low in your
body, because we eat all
this fast food. E series of
preservatives from food
block the sun rays from
getting processed into the
system. Though you are in
the sun, the D3 does not
get into your blood stream.
There are many good human beings, but they are not intelligent
(laughter), and intelligent human beings who are not good. This king
had all the aspects. He was very patient.
After he died, there was nobody who could take his place. His seat was
so powerful, nobody could get on the throne.
After some time, the throne got buried. Many years passed. There was
a garden, and in the garden, a small hillock. The gardener would go sit
on the hillock, and have a big smile on his face.
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From there he would invite
all the passer-bys he would
see on the road. He would
invite people to come, and
have fruit from the garden
- mangoes, coconuts. But
when they came, he would
come down from the
hillock and take a stick,
and chase them.
self. If you sit in negative company, you feel negative.
If you sit where there are doubts, then this is what you will feel.
Thats why Buddha said ❝Sangha❝, the company of people who are
positive, focused on the higher goals of life is important. If someone is
always thinking of money, or of cheating, those vibrations will have an
impact on you.
If you sit in joyful company like here (in satsang), you will feel joyful. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
He would fight with them.
❝How dare you come to
my garden?
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When you are full of love, sharing takes place. And then comes the
great surprise - as you give love, you start receiving it from unknown
sources, from unknown corners, from unknown people, from the trees,
rivers, from the mountains.
How dare you trespass?❝
People would not
understand his behavior.
Some thought he was
mad. Others thought there
must be something else.
Love starts showering on you from all nooks and corners of existence.
The more you give, the more you will get. Life becomes a sheer dance
of love.
So, they decided to dig the
hillock, and find out. They
dug the hillock, and found
the throne of the king. It
had such an impact on the
gardener, the vibrations,
that whenever he would be
standing on the hillock, he
would become so nice and
generous.
Date:2014-02-12 / Poster:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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International Ashram? Share your answer in the comment box below!
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Guru Story
Coming down he would
come back to his normal
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There is a magician that
knows how to make me
glow; even when I have
been grilled in the day, as
much as Mumbai would
grill me in 1 month, with
just 2 hours of sleep the
previous night.
to see, or Mexican food in the middle of the night; be it countless rose
bouquets, or diamonds; be it lots and lots of chocolates or a loved one
I crave to see; be it by helping me save a suicidal person from taking
his/her life, to filling their life with happiness in no amount of time; be
it raising funds for a good cause, or helping me reach out to people
in need of hope or belongingness, there is too much to be mentioned
here, but there is one thing I am most grateful for.
And that is LOVE, INFINITE LOVE. Continue reading the wonderful
Guru Story :
There is a magician who I
am smitten by, crazier than
you can imagine, in love
with! The magician acts
like a genie, and shows
up every time I ask Him to
appear in front of my eyes,
and it is so frequent that
it’s sometimes hard to tell
if it is a dream or truly a
reality.
http://bit.ly/1gpc1pf
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Herbs For Peace In Mind & Body - #4
[Ashwagandha ] ●Ashwagandha is an Ayurvedic remedy and has
incredible anti-stress properties. ●Ashwagandha is in that same
adaptogen category like Holy Basil .
It soothes the nerves, lowers that cortisol level, and it’s an antioxidant,
meaning that it protects the body from the ravaging, aging, and
immune-lowering effects of stress.
The magician manifests
the smallest of my desires.
Be it a Vada Pav (a snack
served in Mumbai,India)
craving attack at
someone’s house out of
the blue, a dream haircut,
free or dirt cheap air
tickets to anywhere I want
to travel, or an invitation
to any event I wish to visit,
a sudden appearance of
a long lost friend I wish
●Since Ashwagandha is a root, it is a little more challenging to use as
a tea. You have to make something called a decoction, and simmer the
roots for 10 minutes.
●For capsules: 600 to 1000 mg per day. For tincture, try 10 drops three
times per day.
Up that if you need to, but try this along with your other teas and
aromatherapies for a few weeks before upping the dose. Source - Mind
Body Green |
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a happy frame of mind so that all your actions become a waterfall of
happiness.
Image: healthdirectusa.
com more :www.
srisripanchakarma.org
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Sri Ayurveda
Panchakarma
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Shiva
They say that in Shiva procession, all types of people are there. So in
this world, there are all types of people, all belong to that supreme soul.
There is no one else here. It is said ❝Sarvam shivamayam jagat.
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First
you should
admit that you do not
truly know yourself.
This whole world is Shivamaya❝ - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Pic: ‪#‎ S riSri‬ meets devotees during Maha Shivaratri 2013
celebrations
When you do not know
yourself, you do not
know how much potential
you have within you. You
have no idea about how
many things you can do.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Blessing
Make your home God home and there will be light, love and abundance.
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Punch
Make your body God abode and there will be peace and bliss. Feel
your mind as a toy of God and you will watch and enjoy all its games.
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See this world as play and as a display of God Himself and you will
repose in the Non-Dual Self. Blessing comes to you in many forms:
People
ask how
they can live happily? I
tell them to live this very
moment happily, and
do not ask how. If you
breathe do it joyfully, if
you raise your hands
do it joyfully, if you walk,
sit, do it joyfully. What
ever you do, do it with
If you are generous, blessing comes to you as abundance. If you are
hardworking, blessing comes to you as happiness.
If you are lazy, blessing comes to you as hard work! (Laughter) If you
are pleasure loving, blessing comes to you as dispassion. If you are
dispassionate, blessing comes to you as knowledge of the Self.
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strongest
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❝S ati mule tadvipako
jaty ayur bhogaha❝ (II
Sutra 13) ❝If the roots of
karma are existing, they
ripen and result in the
body into which you are
born and the fruits of the
karma are experiences
throughout the lifetime.❝
Patanjali explains more
about the genesis, how we
gain our birth.
Jati means in which body
you are coming, where you
are born. You are born as
a chicken, monkey, human
male or female.
Your birth is determined.
The length of your life is
determined.
What you will get in your
life, your enjoyment,
the miseries, are also
determined. Why is
someone born in Ethiopia
and someone else born in
Switzerland? Is there any
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explanation? Read on:
http://www.artofliving.org/in-en/yoga/patanjali-yogasutra/knowledgesheet-58
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Be content with whatever happens, for what God chooses for us is
surely better than what we choose for ourselves. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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If you can win over your mind, you can win over the whole world! -
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Healthy Snacks To Always Have On Hand - #1
[Smoothie with Fruit, Hemp Seeds, and Chia Seeds] Add Smoothie
with Fruit, Hemp Seeds, and Chia Seeds I love adding hemp seeds to
smoothies, because they are fiber rich and packed with nutrients like
magnesium, iron, zinc, and B-vitamins.
Chia seeds are very rich in soluble fiber, meaning they absorb water
and can thus help promote good digestion and elimination.
Berries are always a great choice for smoothies, but experiment
with adding avocados, apples, oranges, spinach, and other fruits or
veggies ‪#‎healthy‬ ‪#‎snacks‬ ‪#‎smoothie‬ ‪#‎fruits‬ Source: Mind
Body Green
www.srisripanchakarma.org
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unconditioned, immutable, formless, of cool disposition, of unfathomable
intelligence and unperturbed. Desire Consciousness alone!
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Once we have the
conviction, we can
change the system, we
can make a difference.
Date:2014-02-11 / Poster:The Ashtavakra Gita
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Q: What are the roles that media can play to bring about a change
in society?
As youth, you must have
this conviction in your
mind, ❝I can make a
change.❝
A: ❝I think media has two important roles to play. 1. Bring the facts to
the people 2. Also give hope to people during a crises.
In a crises,you must not depress people further!
If you think, ❝The
world is corrupt and it is
never going to change,
and nothing can ever
change❝, then your own
thought, and your own
vibration will bring these
kind of situations around
you.
They should know that there are people doing good work too!❝ from ❝A
Dialogue with Sri Sri❝ yesterday.
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What are you seeking? Happiness, bliss, joy – that is what you are
seeking.
You have been seeking for millennia, and you have not yet found it.
Give a little pause to your search – recapitulate.
So you need to come up
with an idealistic dream,
and then you will find
things do happen. ~~Sri
Sri Ravi Shankar
It is time, the right time to think again, to meditate again. Namaste
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Your bondage to the Master, to the Truth, to the ancient Knowledge
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BLESSINGS ART
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of the Rishis is your savior. ‪-Sri‬ Sri Ravi Shankar
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Q : Guruji, why is it important on the spiritual path to be in control of
the five senses?
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Y
o u
a r e
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Not just on spiritual
path, if you do not have
control over your tongue,
and you just blabber
whatever comes to your
mind, it will get you into
t r o u b l e . Yo u c a n n o t
speak whatever you
want.
Anything that brings pain to you and to others. Sin is that which brings
long-term pain to oneself and others. What is merit?
Though you have
freedom of speech, you
cannot abuse people,
you cannot hurl abuses.
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That which brings happiness and contentment to you and to everyone
else. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Date:2014-02-11 / Poster:My Guru strongest
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The more we open ourselves, the more room we will have for God
to fill. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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The moments you are in the company of knowledge - the Master
- are the most precious moments in your life. Treasure them. - Sri Sri
Ravi Shankar
You can not say, ❝It is
my right, I can abuse
anybody❝, no.
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Love! The Question Of An Answer In a congregation, Sri Sri asked,
You are going to face
the consequences of
it. Similarly, if you eat
too much and do not
listen to the body, you
are going to bear the
consequences.
❝ How many of you are feeling strong?❝ Many people raised their
hands.
Sri Sri : ❝Why?❝ Because YOU are with us!!!
Sri Sri : ❝Only those who feel weak can surrender❝.
All those who were feeling strong were taken aback! If you are in love,
you feel weak because love makes you weak.
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Living Universe
Yet there is no power stronger than love. Love is strength. (All those
who had raised their hands for strong suddenly felt weak!).
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Sin means that which
bothers you and creates
guilt in you.
Yet love is the greatest power on earth.
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You feel absolutely
powerful when
you are with the
Divine. Someone
asked: ❝But why do
we keep alternating
between the two?❝
Is the pain in your joints limiting you from enjoying life the way you wish
to? Are you tired of popping painkillers multiple times a day?
Sri Sri: ❝That is the
fluctuation in life.❝
Date:2014-02-11 / Poster:My Guru strongest
Basic yoga postures will heal your joints and strengthen them, read
more on the link:
http://www.artofliving.org/yoga/health-and-wellness/yoga-joint-pain
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Ques: I am a victim of one-sided love.. Please give me some tips!
Date:2014-0211 / Poster:My
Guru strongest
SriSri : Perhaps God is the biggest victim of one-sided love.
He loves you so much and you do not even recognize it. The Universe
pours love on you.
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Do
not let your
desires obscure your
wisdom.
We should know this that this Universe loves you more than you love
this Universe..
Life is a swing between
❝I want my way❝
and ❝Let Thy Will Be
Done.❝ ~ Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
Date:2014-02-11 / Poster:We Love Sri Sri
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If you have confidence you can manage anything, you can handle
any situation, that is wealth. -Sri Sri
Date:2014-0211 / Poster:Guru
Punch
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How
Do not let your desires obscure your wisdom. Life is a swing between
❝I want my way❝ and ❝Let Thy Will Be Done.❝~~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Yo g a Ca n
Keep You From Joint
Pain Do your knee joint
or wrists or shoulders
ache when doing trivial
things?
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LIVING DAILY SUTRAS
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Sri Sri: I have no experience in this. Let us think. All problems are
caused by love only.
Our impressions, our
identifications, our ideas
about ourselves are the
cause of our misery and
limitation.
There are two things. One is people express their love too much, and
then there are others who do not express it at all. Both are no good.
If you express your love too much, the person who is receiving it
does not know how to respond. Just imagine yourself in that place, if
someone gives you too much love, you will feel like running away.
You thought you can only
do this and not that. You
thought this is possible
by you and that is not
possible by you.
You do not know how to respond, unless and until you are so centered
and you have one pointed love towards the Divinity. If you are
connected with the universal spirit of one pointed love, it does not
matter. Then there is only one thing, that is one sided love.
But - you do not know
what you are, who you
are!
I think God also feels the same thing: one sided love. The biggest victim
of one sided love is God. He loves you so much and you do not even
recognize it.
Not having any fixed
ideas in your mind about
yourself is wisdom.
So he must be feeling the same way. God loves you, this creation loves
you, and you seldom recognize it. If you recognize this and be quiet in
yourself, then you will see.
Don’t be swallowed up
by these identifications!
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Ashtavakra Gita
The universe pours so much love on you.
You can’t handle it, the universe pours that much love on you. The
world always loves you more than you love the world. You should know
this, the universe loves you more than you love the universe.
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n o w l e d g e
Sheet: One sided
Love! Gurudev, I am a
victim of one sided love,
always. Please give
me some idea or tips to
make it two sided.
God loves you more than you can ever think or can ever imagine. As I
said, a seed will not sprout if put on the surface of the mud. And also if
it is too deep inside the mud, then it will not grow.
So it should be somewhere in between. It should not be deep inside the
soil or in air, just a little bit covered. In the same way, expression of love
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should be somewhere in
the middle.
does a master decide, how much truth is to be revealed and how much
to be concealed as the listeners may be on different stages of their
spiritual growth.
When you do not express
it verbally, it shows in
your actions. Gurudev,
we can see mistake of
others very easily, but
keep on repeating our
mistakes as we do not
see them.
Sri Sri: Real master does not make any effort at all. He has purity in
heart, clarity in mind and spontaneity in action.
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and Knowledge Sheets
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Q:
Gurudev, how to deal with failure? No learning, or advice is
helpful in that state of mind. What do I do?
Many times we are not
able to apply knowledge
on ourselves, but we
give knowledge very
easily to others. Why is
it so? Sri Sri: That is a
good realization. Once
we recognize that we
are not applying the
knowledge.
Sri Sri: Remember that you are going to die one day. You are going
to leave everything behind. All your degrees, awards, necklaces and
diamonds, everything will remain here, of which you have been so
possessive.
So when you know that one day you have to leave everything behind
and go, you will say, ❝Failure, okay failed, what to do? I offer that to
the Divine as well❝. Remember that every failure is a step towards
success. It is a learning process.
Once we realize it then
we start turning around.
You should see it this way perhaps. There are only two situations: either
you win or you make others win. You should be proud of making others
win.
Do you know why
mistakes are tempting?
When elders play with children at home, they do not always win,
sometimes they make the children win and feel happy in their
happiness. So making others win is a sign of a big mind.
It is because we think
we are going to get
some great pleasure
and joy out of it. But over
a period of time, it will
drop. Gurudev, how
Finding joy in the happiness of others is a sign of a big mind. There is
a beautiful story in the Ramayan. In the chapter called Bharat Milaap,
when Bharat meets Ram, both of them forget their Sankalpas (vows).
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Ram says to Bharat, ❝I will do whatever you want❝. Upon hearing this,
Bharat is overcome with happiness and emotion.
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Ram had left the kingdom to keep his father vow and he had himself
vowed that he would not return till 14 years had passed. If he were to
return on Bharat request, he would be accused of breaking his vow.
And anything that needs to be felt needs synthesis, not analysis.
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You cannot understand love through intellect. It needs to be felt.
You have to become one with it to know it. Whatever you know through
the head is at a distance. The subject-object relation will always remain.
But love is not like that.
And Ram took his vows very seriously. He believed in ❝Praan jaaye par
vachan na jaye❝ (It is okay if I lose my life, but may I never break my
vow).
The taste of
the pudding
is in tasting,
music is in
hearing it. In
the same way,
feeling.
So, Bharat on realizing
that Ram, who valued
his vow more than even
his own life, was ready
to break his vow for him
and said, ❝No brother,
you please carry on as
you wish❝.
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So it is said that their
minds got swapped.
Ram mind went to
Bharat and vice versa.
This is what we call a sign of love.
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You must know the difference between being sensitive to others
It is a very unique story where there is no desire for oneself. All these
are ideals. These ideals help in preventing us from deviating from our
principles.
and getting caught up in the emotions of others.
You can easily get caught up in someone else emotion, and lose your
centeredness. Then your perception gets dull, your judgments become
hazy or erroneous.
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Stop seeking joy in action. Come from a space of giving. Dedicate
And you do not get that clarity.
your life to a cause. Then there is no space for boredom and it will
vanish.
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That is what Yoga does.
It keeps you centered, yet
sensitive and sensible. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Sri Sri
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Gurudev, I am a victim of one sided love, always. Please give me
Date:2014-0210 / Poster:Wisdom
From Sri Sri
some idea or tips to make it two sided. Sri Sri: I have no experience in
this. Let us think.
All problems are caused by love only. There are two things. One is
people express their love too much, and then there are others who do
not express it at all. Both are no good.
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C oming
out of your
comfort zone time and
again will expand your
ability and your strength;
you become stronger.
If you express your love too much, the person who is receiving it
does not know how to respond. Just imagine yourself in that place, if
someone gives you too much love, you will feel like running away.
You are so caught up in
your comfort zone. That is
the cause of your fear, your
anxiety, and your bondage.
You do not know how to respond, unless and until you are so centered
and you have one pointed love towards the Divinity.
If you are connected with the universal spirit of one pointed love, it
does not matter. Then there is only one thing, that is one sided love. I
think God also feels the same thing: one sided love.
Your comfort zone is your
bondage. Sometimes
when you wake up and
say, ❝I am going to get
out of this❝, it brings that
strength back to you. -Sri
Sri
The biggest victim of one sided love is God. He loves you so much and
you don not even recognize it. So he must be feeling the same way.
God loves you, this creation loves you, and you seldom recognize it.
If you recognize this and be quiet in yourself, then you will see. The
universe pours so much love on you.
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Blessings
You can not handle it, the universe pours that much love on you. The
world always loves you more than you love the world.
2
F aith
is the nature
of an undivided mind, an
undivided consciousness.-
You should know this, the universe loves you more than you love the
universe. God loves you more than you can ever think or can ever
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Sitting and crying being emotional is not going to help. Wake up
imagine. As I said, a
seed will not sprout if
put on the surface of the
mud.
and see this is the world and the world has its own metrics. See how
you can move forward. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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And also if it is too deep
inside the mud, then
it will not grow. So it
should be somewhere
in between. It should
not be deep inside the
soil or in air, just a little
bit covered. In the same
way, expression of love
should be somewhere in
the middle. When you do
not express it verbally, it
shows in your actions.
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Wish happiness for others and happiness will come to you. That
is the law of nature. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Q: Guruji, how does being religious help me in my spiritual quest?
How do I ensure that my daughter grows up to be a good girl devoted
to God?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Honesty in character, purity in heart, clarity
in the mind and spontaneity in action, this is what religiosity should
bring. If you think that you are religious and your heart is not pure, I
tell you, you are not religious.
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Sri
If you think you are religious and your mind is filled with worries, I tell
you, you are not religious.
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Just be in the simple
And if you have doubts and fears, then there is something missing;
the faith is missing. So, being religious means being righteous,
and preserving tradition. Doing your prayers, celebrating. All this is
essential. But more essential is the spiritual upliftment.
and innocent state of ❝I
do not know!❝ This life is
a beautiful mystery. Just
live it! When we live this
mystery of life so totally,
then joy dawns.
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Sometimes your head should win and sometimes your heart should
win, that is life. It is all about compromise. ~~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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everything that I need. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Worth reading....
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Sometimes
Once there was a farmer who discovered that he had lost his watch in
the barn.
Sometimes your head
should win and sometimes
your heart should win,
that is life. It is all about
compromise. - Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar
It was not an ordinary watch because it had sentimental value for
him. After searching high and low among the hay for a long while;he
gave up and enlisted the help of a group of children playing outside the
barn.
He promised them that, the person who found it, would be
rewarded. Hearing this, the children hurried inside the barn, went
through and around the entire stack of hay but still could not find the
watch. Just when the farmer was about to give up looking for his watch,
a little boy went up to him and asked to be given another chance.
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strongest
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Work never gets done
by worrying about it. It gets
done by intelligent thinking
and clever action. For that
your mind needs to be
calm and happy.
The farmer looked at him and thought, ❝Why not.? After all, this kid
looks sincere enough.❝ So the farmer sent the little boy back in the
barn. After a while the little boy came out with the watch in his hand..!
The farmer was both happy and surprised and so he asked the boy
how he succeeded where the rest had failed...! The boy replied, ❝I
did nothing but sit on the ground and listen. In the silence, I heard the
ticking of the watch and just looked for it in that direction.❝ Moral : A
Peaceful mind can think better than a Worked up mind.
And how do you bring that
calmness and happiness
to your mind when there
are so many difficulties at
work?
Allow a few minutes of Silence to ur mind every day, nd see, how
sharply it helps u to set ur life the way u expect it to be..! The soul
always knows what to do to heal itself.. The challenge is to silence the
mind … ..
It is by having that faith
that God is there to look
after and provide for
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Atmanand
a change.❝
If you think, ❝The world is corrupt and it is never going to change,
and nothing can ever change❝, then your own thought, and your own
vibration will bring these kind of situations around you. So you need
to come up with an idealistic dream, and then you will find things do
happen. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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brand
Q: what should a person
who is physically, mentally
and socially weak do to
become strong in all the
three areas? Sri Sri: First
of all, you should not brand
yourself that you are very
weak.
Date:2014-02-10 / Poster:My Guru strongest
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Why do we read Gita, even if we can not understand or remember
Story: An old Farmer lived on a farm in the mountains with his young
grandson. Each morning Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen
table reading his Bhagavat Gita.
The moment you brand
yourself as weak, you find
y o u r s e l f e v e n w e a k e r.
Know that you do not know
yourself, you do not know
your strength. You will
find that you have enough
strength to do what you
want to do.
His grandson wanted to be just like him and tried to imitate him in every
way he could. One day the grandson asked, ❝Grandpa!
I try to read the Bhagavat Gita just like you but I do not understand it,
and what I do understand I forget as soon as I close the book. What
good does reading the Bhagavat Gita do?❝
The Grandfather quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and
replied,❝Take this coal basket down to the river and bring me back a
basket of water.❝ The boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked
out before he got back to the house.
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The grandfather laughed and said, ❝You will have to move a little faster
next time,❝ and sent him back to the river with the basket to try again.
This time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was empty before he
returned home.
we have the
conviction, we can change
the system, we can make
a difference. As youth, you
must have this conviction
in your mind, ❝I can make
Out of breath, he told his grandfather that it was impossible to carry
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water in a basket, and
he went to get a bucket
instead. The old man said,
❝I do not want a bucket of
water; I want a basket of
water.
You are just not trying hard
enough,❝ and he went out
the door to watch the boy
try again.
At this point, the boy knew
it was impossible, but
he wanted to show his
grandfather that even if he
ran as fast as he could,
the water would leak out
before he got back to the
house. The boy again
dipped the basket into river
and ran hard, but when he
reached his grandfather
the basket was again
empty.
Out of breath, he said,
❝See Grandpa, it Is
useless!❝ ❝So you think
it is useless ?❝ The old
man said, ❝Look at the
basket.❝
The boy looked at the
basket and for the first time
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realized that the basket was different. It had been transformed from a
dirty old coal basket and was now clean, inside and out.
❝Son, that is what happens when you read the Bhagavat Gita. You
might not understand or remember everything, but when you read it,
you will be changed, inside and out. That is the work of Krishna in our
lives.❝
Date:2014-02-10 / Poster:Swami Atmanand
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Herbs For Peace In Mind & Body - Camomile #2
●You are probably familiar with camomile; aside from black tea, it’s
the best-selling tea in the world. As a tea and an herb for calming the
nervous system, camomile is a definite go-to.
●Camomile works best as a tea in my experience, and since it’s so
easy to find, it is also super accessible. Depending on how long you
brew your tea, camomile can be used to help you digest a meal (it
becomes super bitter if you steep it for longer than 5 minutes — bitters
are great for digestion) or calm the nerves (2-3 minutes, tops).
●Use loose-leaf herbs for tea (well, for anything, really). That way you
can control the quality, strength, and source of your brew. However,
prepared tea will work, too (just be sure to get good quality).
●If you are loose-leafing it, use one teaspoon per cup of water
and steep, covered, for three minutes. Doctor with stevia, honey,
lemon, and/or unsweetened nondairy milk. Be sure to inhale that
aromatherapeutic steam with the intention to calm the body and mind
as you drink.
●If you are using your brew for digestion, steep for 5-10 minutes,
don’t sweeten, and drink 20 minutes before OR 30 minutes after a
meal. A note: if you have extreme ragweed allergies, go slowly with
camomile — it can, on rare
occasions, elicit an allergic
reaction. Source - Mind
Body Green | Image: hohli.
com
Any devastation, destruction happens by head only. And also any
transformation happens by head only. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
www.srisripanchakarma.
org
Date:2014-02-10 / Poster:Art of Living International Ashram
Pic: Today morning Rudra Puja at Vishalakshi Mantap. Rudra Puja
every Monday morning at 7am
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You are free this very moment. At any moment you can relax totally
D a t e : 2 0 1 4 - 0 2 - and let go, that very moment you are peaceful. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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S r i A y u r v e d a Date:2014-02-10 / Poster:Wisdom From Sri Sri
Panchakarma
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Sri
An evening with Sri
http://youtu.be/
E9B1LIayIQI
..nature of mind is like that, it keeps jumping from one thing to
another....
http://youtu.be/x09EjY79IU4
Date:2014-02-10 / Poster:Sri Sri Wisdom Videos
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Date:2014-02Herbs For Peace In Mind & Body - Lemon Balm #1
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S h a n k a r k n o w l e d g e ● I do not know about you, but my anxiety tends to settle right in my
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stomach. I can not eat (or I eat emotionally). I can not digest anything,
Three different qualities
of one parmatma are
called as Brahma, Vishnu
and Mahesh. In our body
there is place of Brahma –
below abdomen, Vishnu –
middle portion, Mahesh –
head region. Shiva tattva
is above on the head.
and my stomach ends up riddled in knots.
● You too? Well, then lemon balm is your answer. It calms the nervous
system, soothes digestion, and lowers blood pressure. Best thing?
It is so easy to take as a tea or a tincture and it works quickly. (Just be
sure you have got some good-quality lemon balm, and not citronella —
that will not help things along very well, although you won’t be eaten by
mosquitoes, for sure!).
● Once you have your tincture (or make your tincture), try 10 drops
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three times per day. If
you do not have relief
from this dose after a
week or so, you can
push it up to 30 drops
t h r e e t i m e s p e r d a y.
Lemon balm is safe, so
no worries about using
as much as you want.
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Date:2014-02-10 / Poster:Sri Sri Ayurveda Panchakarma
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Who are your real friends?
Do not think people who agree with your grievances are your friends.
Those who make your negative feelings and frustration grow more and
more in you may appear to be friends but they are bad company. Good
friends makes you feel the problem is nothing. ❝It is solvable, it is simple,
do not worry.❝ They pump enthusiasm in you.
● I also love lemon
balm tea — part of the
mint family (as so many
herbs are), it makes a
marvelous, uplifting,
energizing tea. Avoid
dairy milk in your herbal
teas, though (as well as
sugar). The proteins tend
to affect the absorption
of the medicinal benefits.
Date:2014-02-09 / Poster:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
F e e l f r e e , h o w e v e r,
to use unsweetened
nondairy milks and
sweeteners such
as stevia (another
herb, and one that
will sweeten without
affecting blood sugar,
calorie consumption,
or weight; it may take
some getting used to,
however). Source - Mind
Body Green |
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