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  1. Sri Sri's New Year Message 2016

    Come Along For The World Cultural Festival (Below is the continuation of Gurudev's New Year Message 2016 Part I ) We need to have a vision for 2016. Once you revive the spirit, you have so much energy and enthusiasm, but what do you do with that? Unless yo ...
  2. Sri Sri's New Year Message 2016

    Review The Past And Revive The Spirit In You Today is the 31st of December 2015, and today is the day we should review the past year. Just imagine yourself sitting on the bank of a river and watching the river flow. You are watching all the different thing ...
  3. What Is The Purpose Of Life

    See, what happens in life - you were like these beautiful children, happy, joyful, free and then when you grew up, in due course, what happened, from time to time, negative clouds came on you and you found that something or the other is not good, this or ...
  4. Moderation Is The Key

    (Below is a continuation of the post What Is The Purpose Of Life) We have heard of people talking about celibacy as one of the requirements for spiritual progress. Please throw some light on that. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Celibacy helps to conserve energy. S ...
  5. A Call For Justice

    ( The Satsang begins with Pujya Gurudev welcoming the lawyers attending the Lawyers Conference at The Art of Living International Center ) It is really great that we have the Lawyers’ Conference happening here at the Ashram. We are discussing the changes ...
  6. Spread The Sweetness Of Joy Around

    There are four levels of communication - para, pashyanti, madhyama and vaikari. Para is that level of communication which is beyond comprehension; where there is no duality, there is no two.   Today, our Art Excel teachers conducted the Intuition Process ...
  7. Courage To Do The Right Thing

    (Below is a continuation of the post Spread The Sweetness Of Joy Around) Dear Gurudev, can an atheist get liberated? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Absolutely yes! But he should remove the label ‘I am an atheist’. If he is a ‘nobody’, he can get liberated. If you ...
  8. Feel The Helping Hand

    There are some people who believe that they are always right. They somehow convince themselves that whatever they do is always right, and so they don’t learn anything from their experiences and repeat the same mistakes.There are also some people who think ...
  9. The Many Ways To Be Of Service

    God is the Summun Bonum of creation, don’t make him as an object of knowing. God is love, can you see love? You can see love only through the manifested expressions. You can see love in a child's eyes, in a friend’s eyes, or in the eyes of an elderly pers ...
  10. An Ideal Situation

    (As Gurudev enters, the Satsang begins with devotees from the state of Chhattisgarh adorning Gurudev with a beautiful traditional dress and headgear at the end of a special Advanced Meditation Program) This is all so beautiful! I think we will have to get ...