27 January 2014 - QA 8

Gurudev, what is the significance of using water in all our rituals?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Well, more than sixty percent of your body is the water element. And water resonates with feelings and sounds. The mantras get absorbed in water. There is a beautiful slideshow on it, maybe someone can show it, it may be on our website as well, how water responds to the different emotions.
You keep a bottle of water and say, 'I hate you. I dislike you', then the crystals of water become very different. And similarly, when a positive vibration, chanting is done and focused on the water, it produces such a harmonious, beautiful diagram. Someone from Japan has taken the pain to conduct these experiments and it is available to you online. It is amazing!