What Sri Sri said today 

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Now come on; don’t get into all these technicalities and confusion.
If you are interested in knowing then do research, who am I? Do I have karma or not? If there is karma, then where is it? All this you have to sit and think.
If I answer you, my answer will never satisfy you because it will not be on the level of experience.
So you will listen to me and then after a few days you will get another doubt, and then again and again you simply go on the same trip. Best is to be silent, go deep in meditation and for some of these questions, the answers will be revealed as an experience, naturally.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: If you really want what you are aiming at, hold on to it. But if you feel it is worthless putting so much effort then move on to something else which is much easier.
Once there was a Prime Minister in India. He was a Prime Minister only for a few months.
So this gentleman, he invited me to his farm house outside Delhi. So I said okay and I went there.
When I was there, he said, ‘Guruji, for 40 years I did everything, I played good and dirty games to achieve this seat, to be the Prime Minister. Now I am the Prime Minister and I find that, for this seat I struggled all my life, and now I find it meaningless. Before I could sleep here happily, but now there are 50 policemen guarding and I can’t even sit outside my own home. It was a futile struggle all my life.’
I said, ‘To understand this, it took you so many years. Anyways, at least now you realize. Many people do not even realize this.’
What is happening with all these dictators in North Africa, they are all killing thousands of people just to hold on to power. This is stupidity. At least this gentleman had the sense to realize that it is all futile. I told him, ‘You are lucky in that sense.’
So like that, if you want to really achieve something then put all your life into achieving it. But if you find something else which is better to put your energy into, go in that direction.
The other day a youth came to me and said that he had been appearing for his CA exams and he has failed seven times and his parents want him to appear again.
I said, ‘Why do you want to do that? You have failed seven times! Do you hope to pass this time?’
He said, ‘No, I do not have any hope of passing.’
So when you have no hope of passing then why waste your time, do some business. Get on with some job. That is a more intelligent thing to do.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: We do it every evening in satsang, anyway! We are chanting the name of the Divine.
Yes, as you by keeping on doing japa (chanting) you come to a state of ajapa (practice of japa without the mental effort normally needed to repeat the mantra), you become calm and go beyond the chant, and beyond the name into a state of Samadhi. This is called Bhaava Samadhi.
Bhaav Samadhi is a part, an aspect that should also be practiced. But without knowledge, bhakti (devotion) does not mature. Knowledge and devotion should go together.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: When you feel the bondage only then will you desire for liberation. When you are happy and you do not feel any bondage, then the desire for liberation will not come.
One who does not wish for happiness gets liberation, and one who does not even desire for liberation, receives love.
Those who are in love are not bothered about liberation. A lover thinks what is liberation? I do not need it. The Gopis used to say this, ‘We do not need any liberation; we do not need any knowledge, just being in love we are happy.’
The nature of love itself is liberation.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Listen, in this world there are all kinds of people. There are good people, there are mediocre people and there are hopeless people, and you have to manage with everybody. The hopeless will make your resolution stronger, the mediocre will bring out skills from within you, and the good people will keep supporting you.
So you have to manage all these three kinds of people.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: With what does God not have a relationship, tell me this? God has a relationship with righteousness (dharma) as well as unrighteousness (adharma). To destroy adharma and to uplift dharma is also God’s responsibility. So God is related to everything.
In the same way, in the ritual of pooja it is said, ‘Dharmaye namaha, Adharmaye namaha’. We say namah to both. This world is a mixture of righteousness and unrighteousness, and God has a relationship with both – to destroy unrighteousness, and establish righteousness.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: When you say, not this, not this, not this, and discard everything what remains that is Shiv Tatva.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Listen, everything has to go one day or the other, yes? You also have to go and I also have to go. So generally, first we depart and after that our business goes down, so here the business went down first and then later we will follow. So what has gone, forget about it and move on.
When you were born you did not come with your business. When you were a small baby, someone looked after you right. Someone gave you food, held your hands and made you walk, and made you sleep also. In the same way someone or the other will take care of you.
Life goes on, don’t worry about anything, and just keep going.
Yes, you will feel sad, after all you invested your life’s earning into something and it failed, it is natural that you will feel pained, but you have come to the right place to drop your pain.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: In the burial ground; you can’t be greedy there.
It is unfortunate that greed has overtaken our society and the world in fact. Do not think corruption is only India specific. Wherever I go it is the same thing, corruption in Bulgaria, corruption in Russia, corruption in Ukraine; every country is suffering from corruption.
In Greece there is a tremendous amount of corruption, the country has drowned because of corruption. In many countries corruption is a problem, not just here in India.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Sitting in the satsang and discussing eggs, I do not think that is appropriate.
Drop eggs, talk about the universe (Bramhaand). Here we discuss the body and the universe, not eggs. You can look up in Google on what are the benefits and disadvantages of eggs.
Just yesterday, I heard from a doctor, who has done considerable research that one should gaze at the sun for 10 minutes every day. It is said that our eyes have some unique cells which absorb the solar energy and produces blood in our body. It is something like photosynthesis. By trapping the rays of the sun, plants and trees convert it into chlorophyll.
The same substance from the sun light is absorbed by the blood vessels in our eyes, and converted into blood in our body. It was a very nice presentation. So, to purify blood or increase production, gaze at the sun – this is also what our ancestors used to say!
What is the meaning of Sandhyavandanam? You stand facing the rising sun with water in your hands, and keep gazing at the sun until all the water drips out of your hands. You do this 3 times and that takes around 10 minutes time. Then you chant the Gayatri Mantra while gazing at the sun.
In the same way, do this in the evening as well.
When you look at the sun, energy transmission happens in the body.
It also said that we should take more of raw food, raw vegetables, fruits and juices; these are what one should have. 80% of our food should be raw and 20% should be cooked. And they also gave examples of several people who had brain tumor, cancer, and who got cured just by having raw food for three weeks and sun gazing.
Of course recovery happens with Sudarshan Kriya as well.
Also about cream which we put on our bodies, if you eat those creams, you will die because it has many harmful chemicals. This is the same cream which our body absorbs. It goes into our blood stream directly. So we should never put anything on the skin which we cannot eat.
That is why any cream besides Ayurvedic cream is not worth applying. The ingredients of rat poison are also added into creams, so if it is eaten one would die. When applied to the skin, one dies slowly.
In the earlier days, we used to apply mud-packs, cream (from milk), besan (lentil flour) and turmeric. We used to use all these to keep the skin clean. This is what we should do.
I will look into this. We should develop some more products produced from besan and such things which can also be eaten and applied to the body. I am going to speak to my doctor and prepare such a cream that does not contain any toxins.