Guruji, what is your message for the youth this year?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: The youth are getting younger and the time is always of young people. Every minute belongs to them.
So if you feel you are youthful in your spirit, then the whole year is yours.
By the way, youth is not just by age, it is by spirit, remember that. Look at the spirit of people here; it is more youthful than any youth.
In 2011, see what you gained from the past. The past year has opened your eyes to many mistakes you did. Don’t regret them because with every mistake you have learnt, but now resolve not to repeat those mistakes.
You have also learnt from other people who have done blunders. See what happened with their life.
Usually we get so annoyed and angry at people who do wrong things. I say you should not do that; you should simply thank them because they are falling and teaching you at their own cost. They do blunders and teach you, ‘look what a blunder I did, you better not do the same.’
So thank them for that and move on!
Just imagine, suppose you die and you are born in some other place, how will life be for you? It will be again very new.
Suppose you are born again in Korea. Like to a baby, everything is new; the different people are all talking different languages. Everything is new and interesting for you.
One who is on the spiritual path should die every moment. Die to the past!
You are dead, everything is gone, what next?! Now!
Don’t crib about the past. ‘I did that mistake’, or ‘she did that mistake’, or ‘they did that mistake.’ Bundle it all and throw it in the Atlantic Ocean or whichever ocean is nearest to you. Then wake up and shake and look at the world with new eyes and with a fresh mind; everything new, everyone new.
Life goes on! And this is how it has happened many times. You have died many times and you have been born many times. If you can die every moment and be born every moment then that is enlightenment and that is happiness. Being in NOW!
Fresh new life, the past has all gone... NOW!
Live NOW a hundred percent, ready to face the challenges of life and march ahead. See how you can be useful to everyone around you. With just this idea and this thought, move on and on!
This is what is called destroying the mind. Kill the mind and walk towards the light. If you kill the mind you will realize that you are light.
Mind is what? Impressions, clinging on to the past, regretting and getting annoyed, angry at yourself, angry at others. You get into such a vicious circle. Drop that mind and die every moment.
Now don’t ask me, ‘then I will forget my room number’, no! When you do this the memory sharpens even more. You know when you are born every moment and die every moment, your memory sharpens so much that you realize that you are never dead and you are never born. Your soul knows that life is eternal and all the recollections from five to ten thousand years ago, every time you have been on this planet, all those memories can come. There is no need for them to be there, but what I am saying is you will be able to access them through that inner net connection with full bandwidth.
So if you feel you are youthful in your spirit, then the whole year is yours.
By the way, youth is not just by age, it is by spirit, remember that. Look at the spirit of people here; it is more youthful than any youth.
In 2011, see what you gained from the past. The past year has opened your eyes to many mistakes you did. Don’t regret them because with every mistake you have learnt, but now resolve not to repeat those mistakes.
You have also learnt from other people who have done blunders. See what happened with their life.
Usually we get so annoyed and angry at people who do wrong things. I say you should not do that; you should simply thank them because they are falling and teaching you at their own cost. They do blunders and teach you, ‘look what a blunder I did, you better not do the same.’
So thank them for that and move on!
Just imagine, suppose you die and you are born in some other place, how will life be for you? It will be again very new.
Suppose you are born again in Korea. Like to a baby, everything is new; the different people are all talking different languages. Everything is new and interesting for you.
One who is on the spiritual path should die every moment. Die to the past!
You are dead, everything is gone, what next?! Now!
Don’t crib about the past. ‘I did that mistake’, or ‘she did that mistake’, or ‘they did that mistake.’ Bundle it all and throw it in the Atlantic Ocean or whichever ocean is nearest to you. Then wake up and shake and look at the world with new eyes and with a fresh mind; everything new, everyone new.
Life goes on! And this is how it has happened many times. You have died many times and you have been born many times. If you can die every moment and be born every moment then that is enlightenment and that is happiness. Being in NOW!
Fresh new life, the past has all gone... NOW!
Live NOW a hundred percent, ready to face the challenges of life and march ahead. See how you can be useful to everyone around you. With just this idea and this thought, move on and on!
This is what is called destroying the mind. Kill the mind and walk towards the light. If you kill the mind you will realize that you are light.
Mind is what? Impressions, clinging on to the past, regretting and getting annoyed, angry at yourself, angry at others. You get into such a vicious circle. Drop that mind and die every moment.
Now don’t ask me, ‘then I will forget my room number’, no! When you do this the memory sharpens even more. You know when you are born every moment and die every moment, your memory sharpens so much that you realize that you are never dead and you are never born. Your soul knows that life is eternal and all the recollections from five to ten thousand years ago, every time you have been on this planet, all those memories can come. There is no need for them to be there, but what I am saying is you will be able to access them through that inner net connection with full bandwidth.