Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

DIVINE LOVE IS BEYOND

May 28, 2021

“Gunarahitam kamanarahitam Pratikshanavardhamanam avichinnam sukshmataram anubhavarupam.” The word “gunarahitam” means to be free from the three types of love. There are 3 types of love: 1. Satvik love is unconditional love. I love you for what you are, not because of something you did for me. Not because you help me so...

TIME TO UPLIFT DHARMA

May 17, 2021

yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata abhyutthanam adharmasya tadatmanam srjamy aham (4.7) “Whenever righteousness goes down or there is harm to dharma, when unlawfulness, unrighteousness or ignorance rises on the planet and knowledge goes down, I come back again and again, to uplift knowledge, to uplift dharma, righteousness. ” ...

Acting Without Action

May 14, 2021

Behind every action, there is always a motivation to get a specific result. As we do every action with an eye on the end result, a specific goal, the expectation of the result affects the process of our action. Put it another way, the means of achieving the end often...

GURU MANTRA GURUDEV SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

May 7, 2021

THE EIGHT TYPES OF WEALTH One of the greatest illusions created in the world is wealth. There is so much disparity in the world. There is no logical reasoning or explanation as to why someone is born in Africa and suffers for a piece of bread, while there is surplus...

ON THE FAST TRACK TO HEALTH, WITH ONE’S BREATH

April 30, 2021

Only a healthy bud can blossom. In the same way, only a healthy being can succeed. Health is (having) a disease-free body, a quiver-free breath, a stress-free mind, an inhibition-free intellect, an obsession-free memory, an ego that includes all and a soul that is free from sorrow. In Sanskrit, Swaasthya...

THE CALL OF NATURE

April 23, 2021

According to ancient scriptures, human beings have five sheaths: the environment, the physical body, the mind or the mental sheath, the intuitive sheath and purushartha, or the blissful state. Thus, environment is our first body. Environment consciousness is inbuilt in the human system. Historically, nature (or prakriti) has always been...

A BUD THAT IS HEALTHY WILL BLOSSOM

April 5, 2021

What is meant by being healthy? Healthy is being physically strong, mentally calm and steady, and emotionally soft inside. You are not healthy when you feel rough inside. You feel that you are not healthy or are sick, when you feel rough in the body. In the same way when...

SHIVARATRI: THE NIGHT OF BLISSFUL AWARENESS

March 1, 2021

Shivaratri is taking refuge in Shiva. And Shiva is peace, infinity, beauty and the non-dual one. You take refuge in Shiva for your true nature is Shiva as he is the meditative aspect of the entire universe. Albert Einstein proved that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it can...

IT’S TIME TO REALISE THAT YOU ARE LOVE

February 15, 2021

Love is so enormous. And for ages, people have tried to express their love and finally they felt they cannot. Even the great sage Narada said, “Anirvachaniyam prema swarupam (you cannot express it).” The nature of true love is that it is beyond expression. Love with wisdom is bliss. Love...

CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE

February 1, 2021

The whole universe is spherical. It was never born, nor will it ever die. It is anadi (beginningless), and anantha (endless). Akasha (space) is described as all-permeating, all-pervading. Everything is contained in akasha, all the four elements are in akasha. The most gross is earth, then water, fire, air and...

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