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Live Satsang with H.H.Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
20/01/15
Art of Living Bangalore International Centre
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🌹Whatever you see in me, you have all that in you too.
Whatever you appreciate in others you too have those qualities. Honour that."
"I belong to every country, I belong to the whole world, please remember that. Don't limit me to any one country. I belong to everyone and I feel everyone belongs to me.
This is what spiritual knowledge is all about , from limited identity to infinity."
🍀Ques: You say smile and just relax.. Is it not easy for you as a Guru but tough for us humans?
🌹SriSri: Anything appears to be tough when you have no energy, no enthusiasm. But if you energy and enthusiasm, you agree to take challenges. Life is not only struggle.
If life was all struggle or only problem, you would not even feel it, you would take it very easily because you get used to it.
Knowledge of either comfort or trouble comes only when both are there. Knowledge happens only in opposites. Got it?
So first of all take out this concept from your mind that life is only struggle. Take the positive side of life. How fortunate you have been.
Look inward and see how fortunate you have been. And then look outward and see there are people who are in much worse condition than you are.
Even if you look at them you feel that you are in a much better place.. In life tough situations come and you definitely get help at that time.
Turn back and look so many times when you thought that this is the end of the world and yo got over it. So either through your confidence and faith or through your own observation and understanding or with energy and enthusiasm you can overcome.
Stop thinking life as a struggle. This is again our Sankalpa or intention.. As you sow, so shall you reap.
You are putting such thoughts, so then such things get attracted to you. This is the law of karma. You encourage a particular image about yourself.
You think only you have trouble? And Guruji does not have any trouble? (laughter) Guruji has the trouble of the world on His head! One person got upset because I didn't look at him.. you don't know how many demands are on me on a daily basis! You have no idea! Don't think that your life is only struggle or that Guruji can only smile and I cannot.
See now Guruji in spite of having to cater for the whole world, in spite of having so many responsibilities is still smiling.
Before I tell you anything I first see I practice it. If it applies in my life only then I tell you. That is my policy.
Here you will not find any one thing that has not been practical in our life. So for your own sake and for God's sake don't brush aside and say this not practical, it is not practical to be happy.
We are putting our own block in the mind to be happy. This is what is called the Sankalpa, intention. Intention, attention and manifestation. Everything that manifests first comes as an intention and then you put attention on it then it manifests.
🍀Ques: What can we do for people who want to commit suicide?
🌹SriSri: What we are doing here, we need to educate them on the spiritual path.. Suppose you were oblivious to this knowledge where would you have been?
How many of you feel that you can't relate to the person who you were before you did the Part 1 program, before you started meditating? (Many raise their hands) So it's necessary we need to bring this knowledge to others.
🌷Ques: If someone has been physically abused as a child, is it possible to come out of the trauma?
🌹SriSri: Definitely, definitely. You know, our life is like a river. There is fresh water every moment in it. Meditation is THE way to get over trauma.
🍀Ques: Could you tell us if you still have an ego?
🌹SriSri: I leave it to you to guess. What do you think? I'm not happy with a small ego, let it be a very big ego. The whole world is mine!
🌷Ques: What is Yoga Maya?
🌹SriSri: There are three kinds of Maya:
Moh Maya – attachment to someone or something,
Maha Maya – total ignorance and Yoga Maya.
In Yoga Maya you get certain visions and voices. That's a state of Yoga. But till we are not completely empty, devoid of desires, it gets influenced by our desires.
So 80% can be correct but 20% can be wrong.. so we shouldn't depend on it too much.
Till we are not centered in the Self, we cannot overcome Yoga Maya.
🍀Ques: Once we are on the spiritual path, how do we measure our progress?
🌹SriSri: Why do you want to give marks to yourself? Leave it to others. Why do you want to test yourself? Why do you want to see your own progress?
Become empty. We caught up in our merits as much as we get caught up in our demerits.
I have not progressed, this thought harms me and I have progressed a lot, this thought too harms you.
Live like you don't exist. Become empty
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