Q: Can the mind continue its process of evolution between lifetimes as well? Does it need a body and situations for its evolution?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Yes, it needs a body. That is why the human body is very precious.
You know, in day to day life, when you do things, sometimes you lose energy. When the energy goes down, the mind also goes down. Sometimes you wonder, why is my mind going down? Many people ask this question. Continue reading
मित्रो हमारे देश मे 3000 साल पहले एक ऋषि हुए जिनका नाम था बागवट जी ! वो 135 साल तक जीवित रहे ! उन्होने अपनी पुस्तक अशटांग हिरद्यम मे स्वस्थ्य रहने के 7000 सूत्र लिखे ! उनमे से ये एक सूत्र राजीव दीक्षित जी की कलम से आप पढ़ें ! Continue reading
This is specially for all my Creative friends out there. Creatives are known for ideas. We are bustling with ideas, spirituality, we are visionaries, we are sensitive, we are intuitive, we are feelers, we are empaths and most of us love all things beautiful. Continue reading
हममें से बहुत कम लोग इस बात से वाकिफ हैं कि हमें खुश रखने के लिए क्या पर्याप्त है। हमारी चकाचौंध भरी उपभोक्तावादी संस्कृति में, हम ज़रूरत से ज़्यादा पाने की चाह में खुद को दुखी बना लेते हैं, बिना यह सोचे कि हमें असल में क्या चाहिए।
हममें से बहुत कम लोग इस बात से वाकिफ हैं कि हमें खुश रखने के लिए क्या पर्याप्त है। हमारी चकाचौंध भरी उपभोक्तावादी संस्कृति में, हम ज़रूरत से ज़्यादा पाने की चाह में खुद को दुखी बना लेते हैं, बिना यह सोचे कि हमें असल में क्या चाहिए। Continue reading
EACH time someone at office asks me for leave, they look hesitant and guilty. I cannot figure out why, Continue reading
Friendship is something immensely valuable. Love tends to be possessive; friendship is non-possessive love.
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| there is really a question of courage, it is not something that can be presented as a gift. It is something that you are born with, you just have not allowed it to grow, you have not allowed it to assert itself, because the whole society is against it. The society does not want lions; it wants a crowd of sheep. Then it is easy to enslave people, exploit people, do whatever you want to do with them. They don’t have a soul; they are almost robots. You order, and they will obey. They are not free individuals. | ||
| 2. This courage is in everybody. It is not a quality to be practiced; it is something that is part of your life, your very breathing. It is just that the society has created so many barriers against your natural growth that you have started thinking from where to get courage? from where to get intelligence? from where to get truth? | ||
| 3. I seem to you self-contradictory, inconsistent, for the simple reason that I have decided not to die before I die. I am going to live to the very last breath, so you cannot be certain about me till my last breath. After that you can make any image of me and be satisfied with it. But remember, it will not be me. To be with me needs courage, and the greatest courage is being capable of seeing the change and moving with it. It may be difficult; it is easy to have one idea once and then be finished. | ||
| 4.A real person takes the courage to move with things that make him happy. If he remains poor, he remains poor; he has no complaint about it, he has no grudge. He says: “I have chosen my way — I have chosen the cuckoos and the butterflies and the flowers. I cannot be rich, that’s okay! But I am rich because I am happy.” | ||
| 5.People live and go on missing life. It needs courage. It needs courage to be realistic, it needs courage to move with life wherever it leads, because the paths are uncharted, there exists no map. One has to go into the unknown. Life can be understood only if you are ready to go into the unknown. If you cling to the known, you cling to the mind, and the mind is not life. Life is non-mental, non-intellectual, because life is total. Your totality has to be involved in it, you cannot just think about it. Thinking about life is not life. beware of this ‘about-ism’. One goes on thinking about and about: there are people who think about God, there are people who think about life, there are people who think about love. There are people who think about this and that. | ||
| Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. |
