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  1. Give A Chance For Miracles To Happen

    Laughter is contagious, happiness is contagious, spirituality is contagious and even worries are contagious! What is the difference between Tyaaga and Sanyaasa? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Tyaaga means giving up, and Sanyaasa means being centered and unattached ...
  2. Don't Let Others' Judgement Define You

    Turn every question into wonder, "Wow!" Wonder is the preface for yoga. Yoga does not just mean exercise, it is the union with the universe. The preface of yoga is wonder or 'wow'. Any time you say, "Wow", the mind stops. Nature has provided you with so m ...
  3. No Matter What Keep Your Calm

    It is easy to be a dreamer, it is easy to be a critical realist, how to drop all illusions and expectations and still have a flame in life? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: It is easy to be in extremes in anything in life, but it takes wisdom to take the middle path ...
  4. 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 ...
  5. 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 ...
  6. 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 ...
  7. 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 ...
  8. 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 ...
  9. 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 ...
  10. 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 ...