Question & Answers with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Q:
To be a successful entrepreneur what principle one should follow?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Yes, first is confidence that ‘Yes I can do it!’ Second is ethics; you should not move from ethics. Your entrepreneurship should not move away from ethics, otherwise you will find a quick rise but you will fall that fast, as fast as you rise. Got it!Q:
Would writing in a newspaper help? I am a journalist myself.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Yeah, yeah, sure! There is ABC, Art of Living Bureau of Communication here.Q:
Jai Gurudev! I have a typical question which majority of the people experience. Basically when I start doing meditation, even if I sit half an hour, still I am functioning and thinking of different things. Even if I concentrate on my breath in and out, still I am not able to get that 30 seconds or 1 minute of a controlled mind?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Have you done Sudarshan Kriya? (Ans – 'No yet') That is where Sudarshan Kriya helps. It quickly takes you deep in meditation.Q:
All the scriptures we have, in all the religions say the same thing that God is love, and love is God. Then why are there so many scriptures all over the world?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Why should there not be,tell me why should there not be?Q:
Guruji I don’t have a girlfriend. I don’t want one also, is something wrong with me?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Well! Why do you have so much self doubt on that, if you want you have it, if you don’t want you don’t have it, that’s it, finished! Okay, you know sometimes people have this concept, you have to have this. I remember when we were in college they said if you don’t smoke it is not normal. ‘You are not smoking, that is not normal. You are going to college and you don’t smoke?’ ‘You travel in plane then you must smoke.’ That is why every seat had that ash tray. Every seat having ash tray means everyone must be smoking. And they used to bring cigarettes inside the flight as well. Only during take-off and landing you should put-off the cigarettes. But today what has happened? There is no ash tray in any flight around the world; anywhere in the world. I am telling you about thirty, thirty five, forty years ago. It was a norm, if you are to sit in the flight means you have to plug your nose and sit, have a filter. Things change you know, so we never felt that we should smoke and I never touched a cigarette, never! So like that the norms in society change at different times and places. So you are normal whatever you feel like doing, okay! And if that is not anti-social, it doesn’t obstruct that Dharma then it is okay.Q:
Guruji, the entire India knows that all the people came together and through peaceful protest we have compelled the parliament to go through a resolution. But what is the way forward now? How can we really eradicate corruption from the nation? What is the practical way and how we should go about it, especially all the youth of this nation?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
You know I have said there are three formulas: One is everyone take pledge, ‘we will not give bribe’, second youths like you go with a sticker, ’I will not take bribe’ stickers and put it in all the government offices and the third thing is a strong Lokpal bill. For that we have already impressed it on all the members of the parliament. See, unless the electoral reforms happen, and the parliamentary democracy has some loopholes, those things are corrected, just a legislation alone will not help. There are many legislations in this country, but they are not being honoured.Q:
Guruji, I want to learn how to make friends and how to sustain them because I really find it difficult.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Okay! You are in the right place okay, it will happen automatically, don’t worry.Q:
Guruji, what is the effect of tantras?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Now that you are on this path and you have your mantra, you do not have to worry about tantras.Q:
Jai Gurudev, this world, the creation, the karma, the suffering whatever it is. It is said that it is all God’s play. Don’t you think God is playing a very dangerous, never ending action sort of game to pass his time?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
You are talking like a villager, who 40 to 50 years back who sit in the cinema house and if their hero is losing he will throw eggs and tomatoes on the screen. Do you know? Have you heard about that? If Rajkumar were to lose the battle in the screen or MGR would lose the battle. What they would do in the villages some 30 to 40 years ago, you may not even know. People would throw stones and tear the curtain, tear the screen because their hero was losing the ground. But see from the eyes of the director, what would he say? One is the player, another is the spectator and the third is the director. From the director’s eyes it is very different.Q:
(A member of the audience asked a question and it was inaudible)
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
So you were stuck in the shruti box the whole time. What? So you didn't hear anything else that I have said. If you can't even drop the shruti box and what is inside the shruti box, then what is the fun? Can you drop it? (Answer -' I will drop it once the answer comes') Once the answer comes, then how did you drop it? You never dropped it. Do you see how many tricks your mind plays, are you aware? That is good enough. You are aware how your mind plays so many tricks throughout the day and that's how so many fights happen because you are trapped with your own mind. First your mind fights with you, your mind deceives you then you deceive or are deceived by others. So first you become aware of your mind what it does, what's going on there.
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