Question & Answers with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
The question is perfect and the answer is even more perfect. Everything in the universe is moving from one level of perfection to another level. Milk is perfect and when it turns into yogurt, yogurt is perfect. You take out cream from yogurt, and that is perfect, and then you make butter, and that is also perfect. This is one way of looking at it. The other side of looking at it is, the milk got spoil and you make cheese out of it. When yogurt got spoil, it became imperfect and you took butter out of it. This is another way to look at it. It all depends on how you look at it. It’s imperfection that gives value to perfection. Isn’t it so? How can you call something perfect? Because there is something which is not perfect. So, the existence of something which is not perfect is absolutely essential to understand something that is perfect. So, the imperfect makes the perfect, perfect!Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Just smile through. Take things as they come.Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Some types of diabetes can be cured with the combination of yoga and ayurveda , but they may not work in certain type of diabetes. Here at the Research Center, some research has been conducted by Dr Vedamurthacharya who has published 43 papers on it. You can talk to him. He has tested on over 1000 diabetic people, who after doing Sudarshan Kriya and following proper diet have overcome diabetes.Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Why do you want to be disciplined? It will make you happier? It will improve your fitness or health? So it is the love for being in shape or the fear of becoming unhealthy that will keep you disciplined. Love, fear and greed bring discipline. If someone says you will get $1 million for being disciplined in your life, that will make you so.Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Is your question that people are not happy in spite of prosperity? Bring them to me. Bring them to the teachers. They will have no choice but to smile. Stress can be eliminated through stress management, dispassion and through a broader outlook to life. When you are 90 yrs old what do you want from this life? What do you want to take? What do you want to give? What impressions do you want to give to the world? What impressions do you want to take from the world? Just ponder. Just be with these few questions and the stress will leave you. Dispassion and breath uplift you. A little bit of devotion or bhakti uplifts you.Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
: Ha, Ha, Ha!! Let’s not go in the past! Let’s look ahead, having great times. Great days, yes?Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Attachment brings pain, but nothing comes without pain. We came into this world in a lot of pain. The process of birth itself is very painful. For nine months, we were comfortable and then suddenly the ocean around us disappeared and we had to come out! Attachment happens whenyour focus is not on the Being, but on the outside. Wanting to control, possess and hold on bringspain. When we are relaxed and content, love transforms to bliss. Demand and control only bringpain. Wisdom, along with love, is the answer.Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
You make the destiny. What you did yesterday is a tomorrow’s destiny, and what you do now is destiny day after.Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
You know, my year has 700 days. (laughter)