12 Nov 2011
Dear Guruji, where do thoughts originate from? What is the source of thought?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
You first look within you and see from where they are coming, and sit and ponder.
The moment you look, I don’t want to say what is going to happen. There are some things which you need to experience yourself. I can give you an answer but that will become another thought, another concept. You have to find this answer on your own, you have to do it.
You may not get the answer right away in one sitting. You will have to look at it again and again.
The moment you look, I don’t want to say what is going to happen. There are some things which you need to experience yourself. I can give you an answer but that will become another thought, another concept. You have to find this answer on your own, you have to do it.
You may not get the answer right away in one sitting. You will have to look at it again and again.
Dear Guruji, I am not able to surrender. I am not happy and I am not peaceful. Due to some bad events that occurred in my life, I have become restless and I am not able to find a solution for this.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
So you think I can give you a solution?
Answer: Yes!
That’s good enough then relax.
That is what surrender is. Surrender means a confidence. You go to a doctor and you are confident the doctor is going to give me the right medicine.
You have come here and you are confident that Guruji is going to give me the right solution. Then you relax. That is all surrender means.
Answer: Yes!
That’s good enough then relax.
That is what surrender is. Surrender means a confidence. You go to a doctor and you are confident the doctor is going to give me the right medicine.
You have come here and you are confident that Guruji is going to give me the right solution. Then you relax. That is all surrender means.
Gurudev, how do I control my thoughts?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
You don’t control your thought, you drop them and relax!
When we try to control the thoughts that is when it becomes a problem.
Dear Guruji, I just did the basic course which was wonderful. But as I am growing older my happiness is eroding and some unknown fear is coming. What do I do?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
That is the purpose of sadhana and satsang. It will take away the fear from you and give you inner peace, confidence, joy and happiness back again.
See the joy and happiness in everybody here.
See the joy and happiness in everybody here.
Dear Guruji, what is difference between laziness and relaxation?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
When there is something important to do and you don’t do it that is laziness. Relaxation is when you have done your work and you are at ease.
Dear Guruji, two years back I asked for blessings. You blessed me and things changed. I got so busy with my job that my wish to work for the Art of Living is not being fulfilled.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
When the tree is full of fruits and you start enjoying the fruits, you forget to water the roots. It is good you remembered, so now water the roots every day. Be engaged in some seva project.
Dear Guruji, This is the first time I am doing the course. After Sudarshan Kriya my tears kept flowing and my mind became silent. I went for a walk to understand what was happening in my mind. Can you tell me?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
When your mind becomes silent it gains energy, it gains intuitive capacity. So this is a very important thing you have learnt. A new dimension added to your life.
Gurudev, I want to know the purpose of life. Why am I here?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
You are very lucky that you have got this intense desire to know who you are and what you want to do. Keep this desire burning and continue to do your practices and listen to more knowledge. Do the advanced course; you will understand a lot more about yourself.
I am not a person who cannot read books and assimilate the knowledge. I am able to learn only through experience. When I face a problem then I understand what is happening.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Don’t make concepts. Keep an open mind because you don’t know much about your consciousness. You know very little about your mind.
What we know of our mind is only one tenth of its whole. Our mind is so huge; our consciousness is so vast that whatever we know is only the tip of the iceberg.
If we realize this then there is scope for knowing more. If you think you know everything about your mind then the door is closed, no more knowledge.
Jai Guru Dev, if we are all nothing but waves which go back to the ocean then what is the significance of energies like Yamaraja and Chitragupta in time and space?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
This is a very deep understanding about Chitragupta.
Our consciousness has records of all that is happening, what we call akashic records.
Now, in this place, there are one thousand television channels right here. If you take a very powerful television channel and put a booster you can get all the channels of the world right now in this place.
That means the empty space which we think is empty is not empty. It has records of all that is going on, of all that has happened in the past and all that will happen in the future, now in this moment.
It is a very fascinating aspect of consciousness.
Read Yoga Vasistha and you will understand the three types of aakasha (space); Bhoot Aakasha, Chidakasha and Chittakasha.
Our consciousness has records of all that is happening, what we call akashic records.
Now, in this place, there are one thousand television channels right here. If you take a very powerful television channel and put a booster you can get all the channels of the world right now in this place.
That means the empty space which we think is empty is not empty. It has records of all that is going on, of all that has happened in the past and all that will happen in the future, now in this moment.
It is a very fascinating aspect of consciousness.
Read Yoga Vasistha and you will understand the three types of aakasha (space); Bhoot Aakasha, Chidakasha and Chittakasha.
