7 June 2013 - QA 8

Can we ask you some rapid fire questions?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Yes, go ahead.

Who are you?
Good Question to ask yourself.

Who were you in your past life?
That is a secret, I will tell you some other time.

What is and who is God?
What and who is not God.

How should we feel god?
Just be quiet. Don’t worry about him, let him worry about you.

How can the world be violence free and stress free?
By spreading The Art of Living.

What is future of Earth?
Bright with people like you.

What is religion?
Religion is that which puts you in the right track.

What is Truth?
That which cannot be defined and which cannot be avoided.

What is positive and what is negative?
Positive is what elevates you, and negative is what puts you down.

Who is Guru?
One who answers this question.

What is mind?
That which is asking the question.

When you feel tension during studies, just relax. And all students must eat carrots.
Especially those who are wearing spectacles, you need vitamin A and that comes with carrots. So start eating more carrots.
Proper food is very essential. If you eat properly you will not fall sick. We fall sick because we don’t eat well. Most of the time we want to eat food that is tasty, and not that food which is good for the body. We should eat food that is good for the body.

Two to three times a week, take one or two Neem tablets. It is very good for the stomach and the nervous system. Do you know, in Mahatma Gandhi’s Ashram they would keep Neem Chutni every day, because it is good for the mind, the body and the stomach. It also improves the immune system of the body.
Triphala is also good very for the body. All the imbalances in the body get cured with Triphala.

So we must take some of these Ayurvedic medicines, they are good for the body. And we must also do some chanting.
Today, I read in an article that Om is not just a mantra, it is a medicine as well. So we must chant Om every day; at least three times.
Chant Om Namo Narayana or Om Namah Shivaya every day. These are called Maha Mantras. We must chant mantras every day.

So eat good food, use medicine, chant mantras and keep on smiling.
Problems are there in everybody’s life. They come and go. No problem stays forever. So have this faith that I will get whatever I need and keep moving forward.