20 January 2016 - QA 3

How do we balance commitment and feelings?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

Feelings change but commitment should not change as fast as the feelings. We simply have to acknowledge that feelings change very fast.

I remember there was one lady who used to come and ask me for blessing when she was to go for shopping. She would say, "Gurudev, I want to go for shopping, give me blessings". I felt it very strange. People ask blessings when they are sick, or they want to achieve something, but shopping? What on earth would make you ask for blessing for shopping? She said, "Every time I go for shopping, I buy a new dress and when I come home, I don’t like it. Then I go and exchange it. Even before buying it I ask them if I can come and exchange the colors if I don’t like it? This happens every time, and my husband is in trouble all the time. So this time let me choose something that I don’t have to exchange". So our mind is such, our feelings are such that it keeps changing all the time. If we base our lives only on our feelings and moods, we will be ruined. Will be nowhere.