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  1. The Way To Please God

    Happiness) Gurudev, in the Pune Ashram there is Ayush Homa performed during birthdays and anniversaries. What ... creates irritation, isn’t it? This is what happens in suicide too, because the subtle body shrinks too ... meditation the subtle body grows larger in size and also gets strengthened. When the subtle body becomes ...
  2. The Source Of True Happiness

    is in life also. You are beautiful and pure just like a full moon, but that is not visible because of ... the clouds (here meaning inertia and negativity). When grace starts showering in life, all these ... clouds start to move away and disappear, and then the fully blossomed moon becomes visible. In the same ...
  3. You Are Cared For

    you, and in your old age, your children or someone else will take care of you. So, life in the ... beginning, and in the end, is dependency. In between, we think we are independent but there also we are ... because I am dependent on my parents', no! Whether in the form of parents, or as children, or as friends, ...
  4. Strive To Be Ordinary

    Are there aliens in this universe? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Yes, I am one of them (laughter). At least, ... information and wisdom is to integrate it in life, then that is one way to look at it. Some people don’t see ... say, ‘Long live Indira Gandhi!’ So, chiranjeevi means one who lives in the hearts and memory of people ...
  5. Keeping Your Focus On You!

    days for a silence program once in a year. Take 20 minutes every day to sit and listen to knowledge and ... maligned. It is very easy to be maligned and then you will waste all your time in proving these false ... against you.In the field of politics, when you are moving ahead, there are a hundred people trying to pull ...
  6. The Law Of Attraction

    spirit that determines whether something is difficult or something is easy. So, if the spirit in you is ... too? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: You cannot generalize with terrorists. In that too there are many varieties ... million people died because of the communist revolution in Russia. They may be considered heroes in ...
  7. Take Refuge Of The Enlightened

    only to the formless, that path is full of misery.Lord Krishna said in the Gita, that there are people ... Buddha is the formless in the form.Then he said, "Sangam sharanam gachhami", i.e., I surrender myself to ... the society and take refuge in the service of society.And then he said, "Dhammam sharanam gachhami", ...
  8. Emotional Intelligence Matters

    Gurudev, I am living in a phase in which I am allowing my emotions to take over me, and I am aware ... will be in trouble. If you always keep expressing your emotions, then also you will be in trouble and ... you will put others also in trouble. That’s why emotions should be streamlined through wisdom. When ...
  9. Everything Has A Purpose

    see for yourself how even dead people (here meaning those steeped in negativity and inertia) come ... have been searching for your whole life so easily and comfortably, right in your very lap! So come and ... within. Focus on yourself and your own experience; do not get caught in meaningless random talks of ...
  10. A Guru Is Definitely Needed

    that is placed before us in the temple. No, that is not so. Everything in creation is made up of ... Vitthala). It means, seeing Vitthala in everyone around us. This is the real essence. In Hinduism, it is ... Shankar: This belief is not limited to Hinduism alone. In fact, even in Buddhism, Jainism and other ...