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  1. Can You Be Happy Without Forgiveness?

    Boone, North Carolina Gurudev, someone I love has hurt me. I am finding it difficult to forgive them. What should I do? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: What are the options in front of you? One is, you don’t forgive them. If it is so difficult to forgive, then don’t ...
  2. A Diamond In A Garbage Can

    Boone, North Carolina Life is a celebration. You must grab and use every opportunity, everyday, to celebrate and be grateful. When you know., I am ever pure, celebration will never stop in your life. Intrinsically we all are pure by nature;< but the mom ...
  3. The Only Way Out

    Bangalore, India The form of the divine is Sat Chit Anandam, when we go near the divine, we become very happy inside.   Gurudev, I’ve heard Gayatri mantra being played on tapes in public. How important is it to get initiated? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: We will ...
  4. Just Wake Up!

    Montreal, Canada Gurudev, you found us in this lifetime. But since you visit this planet so rarely, or so I think, what happens to all of us until we meet again during all those other life times? Do we slip back somehow? Do we continue to grow in knowledge ...
  5. Be Untouched

    Montreal, Canada  Gurudev, I have been told that a human soul can often take one to two million years to find liberation. Is it true that by doing Kriya and meditation every day, this liberation can be obtained even in one lifetime? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: E ...
  6. An Astonishing Secret

    Bangalore, India (Below is a continuation of the post The Space Of Knowledge) We call something astonishing or wonderful which is not ordinary. But if the same event happens every day, then we do not call it a wonder because we do not find anything really ...
  7. The Space Of Knowledge

    Bangalore, India (Below is a continuation of the post Having A Perfect Vision) 'Pratyaksavagamam dharmyam su-sukham kartum avyayam'. (9.2) Lord Krishna says to Arjuna, ‘This knowledge is such that it is directly experienced. It is not that if you follow it ...
  8. Near Death Experiences

    Bad Anogast, Germany Where is the Jeeva and the Atma before birth? What is the difference between Jeeva and Atma? How is a Jeeva born, and where does it come from? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Both are same. Life comes into the body at the time of conception, and ...
  9. Knowing The Unknown

    Boone, North Carolina Gurudev, can you please talk a little more about the sound/alphabet meditation? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: That is the meditation that we did today, where you can’t go to Ka without Aa. So, you went to the very source where the sound arose ...
  10. The Seven Centers of Energy (Chakras)

    Boone, North Carolina Gurudev, is sexual energy and meditative energy the same energy? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Yes, it is only one energy in the body, but it manifests in different forms, in different chakras. Sexual energy, love energy, intellectual energy, ...