28 January 2015 - QA 1

Gurudev, I have the inquisitiveness to know more and go deeper in meditation. Is this contrary to relaxing?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

In meditation you do nothing. Just relax and you will go deeper. What will obstruct you to go deep is eating too much, or using any other sense too much.

If you watch too many movies and then sit for meditation, do you notice that the meditation does not happen? After a movie if you sit for meditation, it becomes so difficult to transcend. It is because the mind is bombarded with all the images.

Secondly, if you are too tired, then also meditation will not happen. If you have eaten too much or have done too much exercise, then also meditation will not happen. Therefore moderate exercise, moderate food and enough prana will result in deep meditation. They all go together.