13 February 2015 - QA 1

Dear Gurudev, in my workplace, most of my colleagues drink alcohol, enjoy with girls and do such things. When I try to mix with them I get negative vibrations and my energy is getting drained. I just want to escape from them. How do I accept them and mix with them?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

Tough situations brings out skills in you. A lotus leaf is in water and sometimes water spills on the leaf but still the leaf remains dry, it doesn’t stick to the water.
Similarly, water and ghee, both are fluids, but a drop of ghee floats on water, it doesn’t sink. Similarly, in a negative atmosphere, be like a drop of ghee, where you keep your integrity and you float. Don’t be like a stone which sinks deep inside.