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Meditation is Deep Rest
Q: Could you advise on what is the best way of going into meditation. And is there any kind of special music which...
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Intuitive Awareness Increases With Meditation
Q: How can one live one’s life without self-inflicted guilt and the guilt inflicted by others on us? Gurudev: You...
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A Secret to Being a Good Manager
For a good manager, it is important to be in the present moment...
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Meditate into higher consciousness
We live most of our life through three states of consciousness: waking, dreaming and sleeping. In the waking state...
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When We Meditate, Our Work Happens Easily
Q – Why is there still some awareness when one is deep in meditation? Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar – There are...
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Meditation Keeps the Mind Clean Like a Mirror
Q – When is a good time to meditate and when you are meditating,...
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Meditation is Listening to God’s Will
Q – If one has faith and believes that God exists, how important...
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Mind and Meditation
"Have you observed what is happening in your mind every moment?...
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Your Life Becomes a Meditation
"Faith is the subject of the head, while devotion is the subject...
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In Meditation You Are Time
Talk given on September 9, 1999Bangalore, India "When you feel time is too short, you are either restless or in...
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What Hinders Meditation?
You know what hinders is when you think thoughts should not come! You try to chase a thought out with a stick and...
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Questions on Sahaj Samadhi Meditation
Q. What makes this form of meditation unique – Sahaj Samadhi...
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What is the need to meditate?
Q- Why is there such a need for meditation in today’s society,...
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Pravriti and Nivriti (Engaged in action, Retire from action)
There are two attitudes, one, you see everything as perfect,...