15 May 2014 - QA 3

If being one with nature is the most natural state, then why should one make any effort doing that? We start to identify ourselves with the mind and the body, and that’s why we suffer. But we don't do this on purpose. We grow up and it happens.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

Yes, that is correct, that is part of growth.
You know, in a seed, first there is a membrane around the seed. And that is necessary. At a particular time the membrane gives way, so the can sprout. Like that, in life, first the identities come and then you get out of these identities. This is a natural phenomenon.