By Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar┃Posted: November 06, 2018

Drop impressions of past experiences with different people. They may have been wonderful. The people may have seemed to be your soulmate! You may never have felt like that with anybody else before. When you talk of soulmates, it’s in terms of lifetimes, not just today!

The mind runs on empty talk. It’s your impressions that propel you. There’s no weight behind them. Even when you tell somebody you love them, make sure you’re not saying it out of your own impressions, or your own cravings for some joy. You say you love somebody. But do you really love the person? Is it coming from your space of love, or your craving?

You’ll wonder, and you’ll see that it’s all because of the impressions in you.

True love will not bring sadness, sorrow, misery or problems.

But with impressions, a tail is always attached (i.e. pain, problems, misery, and discomfort). When you drop impressions from your mind, you become free right away.

You don’t have to wait many lifetimes, but right now, at this very moment you can drop the impressions and become free. When you feel you’re stuck with relationship problems, observe nature. Wonder about the stones and trees! When you drive, see how vast this land is!  

So many people have come and gone. The same consciousness has taken form in so many bodies, and they’ve all died. This world is a burial ground. Everybody has died here. They’ve come and gone. And you’re going to go; you’re going to go, alone.

At that moment, your mind will relax and open up. All the misery will drop. Just observe nature. Nothing is permanent here.

Somebody’s beautiful: so what?

Somebody’s very beautiful (some boy or girl, man or woman) and they’ve been very good and loving to you. So what? They won’t be here in another fifty or two hundred years. Where will they be? They’re going to be ashes in fifty years or a hundred years!

Get free from impressions. Being is immortal; consciousness is immortal; the Gurū is immortal; the rishi, and the māhārishi is immortal.

And, you’re also immortal and eternal. Expand your world, and your shrunken impressions will drop away. The world is so big. Have more experiences. Be open to new experiences.