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The Art Of Raising Children
Berlin, Germany It would be wonderful to have our children grow up happily in this sometimes difficult world. What can we give them besides lots of love when they are still too young for meditation? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Just play with them. Don’t try to b ... -
Being Born Again
Bad Antogast, Germany Can you please explain why we should avoid rebirth? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: If you wake up and see, in life there is so much misery, and misery is what you don’t like. You don’t want misery. What we don’t want to have is called misery, ... -
Sitting Close To The Master
Bad Antogast, Germany In the Upanishads you speak about getting close to the master. Does this also mean in a physical way. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: We are already here. We are physically sitting close here to one another, is it not so? Closeness comes from y ... -
Dear Gurudev, you say the body is present only for a limited time. Then how could Bhishma Pitamaha (the great Grandsire of the Kauravas and Pandavas in the Mahabharata epic) in the Mahabharata live so long and die at his own will?
Listen, I am not going to be a lawyer for Bhishma, or for any character for that matter. You can sit with a lawyer and an anthropologist and do all the research on these things. When we were children, we also wondered how a bird can carr ... -
The Five Steps Of Meditation
Berlin, Germany Happy New Year to you all. It is a nice way to celebrate New Year with meditation. What is meditation? Meditation is a state from which everything has come, and to which everything goes. It is that inner silence from where you feel joy, hap ... -
The Other Side Of Love
Bad Antogast, Germany Gurudev, could you please talk about the connection between spirituality and mathematics? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Mathematics of spirituality is that 2 + 1 = 0. Did you get it? Think about it! When the body and mind, these two merge wit ... -
A Balance Of The Heart And The Mind
Kochi, Kerala (Gurudev at the International Leadership Summit) In a home, do you know who the real leader is? Is the father the leader of the house, or the baby?You will be surprised to know that it is the baby that leads the house. It is around the baby t ... -
In my work environment, I meet different kinds of people, and I may not like talking to some of them. How do I be diplomatic in my approach?
This is a very tricky question. Sometimes if you are not direct, and if you don't tell them on their face, they think that you are giving them some other indications in a subtle way, or are confirming what they have in their own mind. At the same ... -
Sri Sri's New Year Message
Berlin, Germany 2012 is passing rather very fast. Let us recapture! When this year began, there was a lot of talk about 21 December 2012. There were rumors that the world is going to end. And there are many people who believe rumors; at least some people b ... -
The Dance Of The Divine
Bad Antogast, Germany Dear Gurudev, can you please tell us more about the lineage of the masters? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Well, we do not know when it exactly began, since it goes back many thousands of years. The knowledge of Yoga, Meditation, and the knowl ...