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Preguntas & Respuestas con Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Q: Guruji, can we do Tarpana for ourselves when we are alive? |
Sri Sri: Yes, become contented through meditation. That is Tarpana.
Q: Guruji, some people say that you must not go to funerals and some people say you should go to funerals. Which is right? |
Sri Sri: Yes, we can go for funerals; there is a social responsibility. There is no problem in going. Usually, once you return from a funeral, you take a bath because the energy changes.
Q: Guruji, my boss wants me to be diplomatic and feels it is very important for communication but I am a very straight forward person and cannot be diplomatic. What is the right thing to do? |
Sri Sri: Why do you put a label in your head ‘I am a straight forward person’ and why should a straight forward person not be diplomatic also? A straight forward person need not be rude all the time. Now you hide your rudeness behind that fact that you are straight forward, no you cannot justify the rudeness that way. Straight forwardness is necessary and diplomacy is also necessary, you have to have both. When you meet someone who is blind, you cannot tell that person, ‘You are a blind person’. You may say I am just straight forward, I am just saying the right thing, but you shouldn’t do that. So diplomacy is part of life; that is a skill you need to have. Diplomacy need not be that one is not being straight forward because it is not the opposite of being straight forward, not at all. These two things should go together.
Q: Guruji, please talk on angels, what is their role and purpose. Does everyone have a guardian angel that looks after them? |
Sri Sri: Yes, angels are just positive energy.
Q: Jai Gurudev, you are so attractive, is this the bondage in my path? If I get stuck in your form what should I do to see beyond the form? |
Sri Sri: So that you get detached from everything else - and then this will also automatically dissolve. You will see me more, much different than the form.
Q: Guruji, you have told us that the Guru’s work is to confuse the disciple. Then who will we go to for answers? |
Sri Sri: Where else can you go? Anywhere you go you will get more confused, isn’t it? From where the confusion has come, the answer will also come.
Q: Guruji, how do you come to know what is going on in our minds even though we are thousands of kilometers away. How do you fulfill all our desires? |
Sri Sri: That is my secret. If you attend the blessing course you can do that as well.
Q: What is Swara Yoga, could you please articulate on that? |
Sri Sri: First do alternative nostril prayanama and then go more deep into pranayama then you will see how the breath in the nostrils change throughout the day.
Q: Tell us something more about prarabdha and sanchita karma. |
Sri Sri: Sanchita karma can be reduced by devotion, whereas for prarabdha karma some of it will have to be undergone; you have to experience it.
Q: Guruji, what happens to the letters that are sent to you? |
Sri Sri: They all come to me, don’t worry.
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