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  1. 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 ...
  2. 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 ...
  3. 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 ...
  4. 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 ...
  5. A Global Family

    So this festival of Diwali is celebrated to emphasize that there should be many lights. Just one light is not enough to dispel the darkness but every home, every individual should be lit up. That is the message. Let this lamp brings wisdom into our life a ...
  6. The Divine Will Never Let You Down

    See, as a child you have lived in the present. A child cries and the tears are still on its cheeks and it starts smiling again. But if you're upset, for you to smile again may take many months, and sometimes years. This is why I say, "Live in the present ...
  7. Wisdom Is Also A Wealth

      What is puja? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: The word 'Pu' means fullness, and 'Ja' means that which is born out of fullness. So puja means that which is born out of fullness. And what you get out of doing puja is also fullness, and contentment. Doing puja creat ...
  8. Feel Abundant This Dhantheras

      "Happy Diwali to everyone! So today is Dhanteras, Diwali starts today. Dhanteras is where you feel abundance, you feel everything is there. From abundance, abundance grows. So everyone feel content and abundant. Walk with the feeling that whatever we ne ...
  9. Gurudev's Message on Diwali

    Our life is like a lamp. Just like a lamp needs oxygen to keep burning, the same is with our life. If you were to be locked up in a glass cage, then you would be able to survive only as long as there is oxygen in the cage. In the same way, if you cover a ...
  10. A Devotee Can Never Fail

    When we fail, who is the doer? When I’m successful, I say it’s God’s grace or that Gurudev did it but when I fail, then God does not seem to be around me to take the responsibility! Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Look back and reflect on the many times you have fa ...