Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Satsang today
Ques: How can we be a witness to all our thoughts?
#SriSri: It is to be a witness to our thoughts that we have pranayama and meditation. Then we get to know that all these thoughts are coming. I am not only these thoughts, I am bigger than this. This is what we need to understand.
#SriSri: It is to be a witness to our thoughts that we have pranayama and meditation. Then we get to know that all these thoughts are coming. I am not only these thoughts, I am bigger than this. This is what we need to understand.
Ques: People who do not care about liberation, should they do pranayama and meditation?
#SriSri: Yes, yes. Even if you need your health to improve, your intellect to sharpen, if you want your mind to be happy, for all this you need pranayama and meditation.
#SriSri: Yes, yes. Even if you need your health to improve, your intellect to sharpen, if you want your mind to be happy, for all this you need pranayama and meditation.
Ques: In these times what do we need to do to be loved with the Divine?
#SriSri: First know that you are already loved by the Divine. However you are, the Divine loves you, that you be sure of. Once you are sure of that, love will blossom inside you.
#SriSri: First know that you are already loved by the Divine. However you are, the Divine loves you, that you be sure of. Once you are sure of that, love will blossom inside you.
Ques: What are the changes in the education of science that you think should be there?
#SriSri: Science is sometimes loaded with prejudice. People who are called scientists, if they don’t have an open mind, then it is not science. If they are not open minded then they are not scientists at all.
#SriSri: Science is sometimes loaded with prejudice. People who are called scientists, if they don’t have an open mind, then it is not science. If they are not open minded then they are not scientists at all.
Ques: What is the significance of doing homa on birthdays?
#SriSri: This is the time to pray, asking for better health. All the prayers in our culture is through homas and yagnas.
#SriSri: This is the time to pray, asking for better health. All the prayers in our culture is through homas and yagnas.
Ques: How does karma work?
#SriSri: It is very difficult to say which karmas give which type of result. There is group karma, there is individual karma, family related karma, place related karmas.
#SriSri: It is very difficult to say which karmas give which type of result. There is group karma, there is individual karma, family related karma, place related karmas.
Ques: Are we not powerless given the law of karmas?
#SriSri: If you feel you are powerless, Divine is there for us. Just know that and every thing will be nice.
#SriSri: If you feel you are powerless, Divine is there for us. Just know that and every thing will be nice.
Ques: After Upanayanam can ladies also perform the last rites of parents?
#SriSri: Ladies have all the rights, don’t worry about it. Girls have as much rights as boys do. At some time in our country there was discrimination against women and they were barred from doing certain things. But in the ancient times this was not the case. It is written that Sita had performed Shraddha for her father.
#SriSri: Ladies have all the rights, don’t worry about it. Girls have as much rights as boys do. At some time in our country there was discrimination against women and they were barred from doing certain things. But in the ancient times this was not the case. It is written that Sita had performed Shraddha for her father.
Ques from a Child: Why can’t we see God?
#SriSri: Because He is playing! When you grow up then you will see Him.
#SriSri: Because He is playing! When you grow up then you will see Him.
Ques: How to live life in the correct way with people who have ego and have jealousy?
#SriSri: That’s good, thank them! Because they are like that they bring good skills within you. Good people will not be able to bring as much skills in you as wicked ones. Because you have to be careful, you have to use all your skills. With good people you can just sleep.
#SriSri: That’s good, thank them! Because they are like that they bring good skills within you. Good people will not be able to bring as much skills in you as wicked ones. Because you have to be careful, you have to use all your skills. With good people you can just sleep.
Ques: One of my friends was asking if You are enlightened? It is difficult to answer him and I become silent.
#SriSri: That is better! Once a journalist asked me the same question. You know, it is easy to say no, so I said no. But he would not move from that. He said, ‘You are not telling me the truth, tell me honestly”. I said, once you say no, then you don’t need to prove anything! But your heart says, no this is not the right answer. Then you listen to your own heart.
#SriSri: That is better! Once a journalist asked me the same question. You know, it is easy to say no, so I said no. But he would not move from that. He said, ‘You are not telling me the truth, tell me honestly”. I said, once you say no, then you don’t need to prove anything! But your heart says, no this is not the right answer. Then you listen to your own heart.
Ques: Can we come on stage and take blessings from You?
#SriSri: You get blessing wherever you are.You get home delivery! For blessings you don’t need to move an inch. Be still wherever you are.
#SriSri: You get blessing wherever you are.You get home delivery! For blessings you don’t need to move an inch. Be still wherever you are.
Ques: If someone blames us wrongly then what do we do?
#SriSri: Educate and ignore. You make them understand and then let it go. Whether they understand or not is up to them.
#SriSri: Educate and ignore. You make them understand and then let it go. Whether they understand or not is up to them.
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