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  1. Your hankering for pleasure is causing depression in you. Wake up and see all pleasures are momentary. How long will it stay? 5 to 10 minutes you find joy and then it’s gone!

    Gurudev, we have focused a lot on the solar plexus this week, the solar plexus is also known as our second brain. You said it’s usually the size of an almond but it grows in size as we meditate. Can you comment on the importance of the solar plexus? Sri Sr ...
  2. You also should be strong and instead of running away from negative influence you must positively impact any negative environment

    You know it is not important how high we sit, how low we sit, as long as we are so clear in our heart and in our mind. That is what is important. Usually when we have the conference of religious leaders, it’s a big headache who will sit high and whose seat ...
  3. ‘The intuitive knowledge is beyond intellect’

    There are three type of knowledge or information we get. One is through the five senses. You see and you get some knowledge, you listen and you get knowledge, you smell and you get information, through taste you get information, and through touch. The five ...
  4. Everyone should aim at enlightenment, ‘I just want total freedom’

    Guruji earlier you said that the casual body has to wait for the divine will to get liberated. Does the presence of a Satguru in one’s life take care of that? You are the divine for me. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: You know always like the physical, the subtle an ...
  5. Anytime you feel that I am total, I am complete, death can come this moment, I welcome it. Then that completion is Nirvana

    Beloved Guruji, could you say something about the meaning of Punarnava? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: "Nava" means new, "Puna" means again. Making something new again, that is "Punarnava", bringing new life, infusing newness.Could you speak on Yogamaya? Sri Sri Ra ...
  6. Prayer is an expression of the deepest anguish and or the deepest gratitude

    Montreal CanadaGurudev, does the soul choose to take birth at a certain time in history, planet, and consciousness or is it all random? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Well planned, no random.Our thoughts tend to be about the future or past. If our mind is in the pr ...
  7. When you become subtle in your mind and go deep in your heart, you turn vegetarian naturally

    Guruji tell us about Navratri and why we do all the yagyas and everything? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Navratri is special time where you invoke all the divine impulses. They’re all blessings. It’s an ancient way, in the yagyas all the five elements are used to ...
  8. The divine energy (shakti) inside alone can destroy all negative impulses

    Today is called the victory day, victory of the good over the evil because life has always been a struggle between the good and evil forces. And these nine days of celebration of Navaratri culminates on this tenth day which is called the victory day. That ...
  9. ‘There is no dearth for grace, we have plenty of grace. Blessings are there in abundance’

    You know sometimes it is very difficult to talk to someone who is very sad or upset. You tell them anything it just doesn’t get into their head; it just goes above their head. They just cannot digest. They’ll hear from this side and then it will just fly a ...
  10. When you feel at a stage there is no point in doing any seva, mind is not even interested in doing sadhana, a sense of dryness has come in life, that’s when you pray.

    God is invisible and is untouched by any karma. Though he lives in every human being, in every embodied living being, in their heart, he is not afflicted by the karma. How? Like the space; in the space clouds come, smoke come and they go but the space itse ...