Domande e risposte con Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Q: You always say we should be likechildren. I was careless and fearless as a child. Now as an adult a newfear has come. |
Sri Sri: Just relax and keep doing sadhana. Don’t worry.
Q: Please tell us what does ‘one word family’ mean to you and what should we do tomake this family happy? |
Sri Sri: What family means to me? The whole world is one family for me.You know, I feel absolutely at home wherever I am. I never have a feeling ofbeing in a country or land that is not mine. I never felt strange anywhere. Myconcept is to see the whole world as one family; of course family is a veryimportant institution, it is the foundation of a society.
Q: What should I do to be in the present moment more effectively? |
Sri Sri: You are planning now what to do in the future to be in the present moment! Got it?
Q: Ifeel very shy while interacting with people. What is the remedy for the same? |
Sri Sri: You know, when you have a sense of belongingness, shynessdisappears.
Q: Can you talk about how one should be with mentally retarded people? |
Sri Sri: They have come here to take service. Simply serve them
Q: How to do samarpan (surrender) in bhakti(devotion)? |
Sri Sri: In the same way how we have sweetness insugar.
Q: What happens between the time of death and next birth? |
Sri Sri: What happens between the time when you are awake and asleep? Same thing happens – you are dormant. When the consciousness is back, when the time comes, it will come back.
Q: Can you please talk about the common things in Spirituality and Communism? |
Sri Sri: Yes, communism says equal opportunity for everyone. Spirituality says Divine is in every heart and so all are unique. That way both talk of the same thing.
You can have the same feeling but the expression will have to be different. You express love differently towards the elderly and with kids you are different. Love is same but the way you express it is different.
(Conclusion of a discussion with the audience: Ganges is a river that was made by ancient people – http://www.bharathgyan.com/ has stories with some facts of Bhagirath and how it was made by Seers and Saints and how Mansarover was directed from West, else the entire plane would have been dried.) Q: The women in our epics seem to have done so many extraordinary feats, it is difficult to believe they are true! |
Sri Sri: Let us take gandhari for eg, she produced a 100 children from pots.Test tube babies is exactly what she created. One embryo and 100 pots! We did know what the science behind is! Unless proven otherwise it is a fact. Like nobody believed that dinosaurs existed but you have the proof. Jatayu, a dinosaur bird existed and carried Sita. There are facts that Lord Krishna existed. The way it is presented is usually a little mixture of imagination and facts. Like a poem is facts and imagination mixed. If you read the biography of Abdul Kalam, Jawahar lal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, you will find they add things.
Q: Anyamount of positivity I try in life, small failure makesme feel low? |
Sri Sri: How are you feeling now?Failures come in life - do you do sadhanaeveryday? Chant Om Namah Shivay forten minutes everyday. Theenergy you get from chanting is amazing
In China, there was a popular person who had seven diseases. He started chantingOm everyday for two hours and the diseasesgot cured. Sage Patanjali said this many years ago: if we chant Om every day, it reduces negative energyat home.
There are many health problems because of the number of chemicalsused in food, soap and also radiations. We should keep our food satvic, dochanting and pranayama. The incidence of cancer is increasing nowadays because we don’t give enoughimportance to food.
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