3 June 2015 - QA 12

My dear Gurudev, we often commit mistakes and when we do so, you punish us. But when we do not realize that it was a mistake, what do we do?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

Listen, I do not punish anyone. I do no such thing at all. You simply bear the effect of what you did. That’s all. There is cause and effect. If you overeat too much food, then I will not punish you. It is you who will get a tummy ache, or you get diarrhoea or constipation. That is the effect of what you ate. Got it? I would say, learn from your mistakes and move ahead. Do not sit and keep cribbing or brooding over it. Where is the time to turn behind and cry over what is past? Look forward and march forward.