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Summary of Bhagavad Gita Chapter 7- Part 1
Yoga is like an ocean. So first doing yoga gets you ready (to know of the higher truth). If you are miserable, you do yoga to get out of your misery and this is first step.The second is, if you are very restless or very unhappy, yoga brings you that equan ... -
Patience And Perseverance
Om shanti shanti shanti. Wow, what excitement! Everyone is so excited! I thought you only become calm. But this is a very strange combination of peace and excitement. We are all excited to see that there is new hope in the world. When you see the youngste ... -
A Sense Of Humor
(Below is a continuation of the post Accept & Move On!) My boss ridicules me in a sarcastic and a condescending manner in front of my colleagues. I can understand because of the tone and the words he uses, hence I feel stupid. How can I handle this si ... -
Accept & Move On!
(Below is a continuation of the post Who Are You?) Every event that you experience in your life here and now has some meaning and is a result or an effect of something that has happened in the past. So, when you see the link between the cause and the effe ... -
Who Are You?
When you go to a new place what do you do? You give an introduction about yourself. You talk about who you are, where you are from, isn't it?Now let us look at this from a wider perspective. Do we know who we are and where have we come from and where we w ... -
Love Is Most Powerful
Gurudev, if love is our very nature, then why do we make one person as the object of our love? Why do we think that we love that one person the most? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: From birth we have known love to be directed from a person. Love gets personalized ... -
The World Of Gods
Time and again we should lift our eyes away from the mundane. The nature of the mundane is that it just occupies you and swallows you completely. Small things can occupy your mind and your time. Simple things such as cooking, shopping, washing clothes, ir ... -
Be Understanding Of Others
Gurudev, how to handle teenagers? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: There is an old Sanskrit proverb which says, ‘Praptetu shodase varshe, putram mitra vada chareth’. If your son or daughter becomes 16 years you should no longer be their parents, but you should becom ... -
Smile Through Every Challenge
The challenge in life is to find peace amidst chaos. See there is no much noise here. Tell me how many of you are getting irritated because there is so much noise in the background? (Some in the audience raise their hands)I think there are more of you. So ... -
Sorting Right From Wrong
(Below is a continuation of the post A Love That Never Dies) Gurudev, how do I know that what I am doing is right? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: At least now what you’re doing is right by asking this question. We must ask questions. When you stop asking questions ...
