A plant has to be watered but when it grows into a tree, it is no longer necessary. Similarly, if the inner consciousness becomes stronger, all these vikaar (distortions) get erased. Vishranti vikar mita (Deep rest removes negativity). There is no rest deeper than meditation.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARThere is nothing for you to take away from this world. You have come to give.
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Want, or desire, arises when you are not happy. Have you seen this? When you are very happy then there is contentment. Contentment means no want.
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Love is giving everything and taking nothing.
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Your life is perfect, it is a perfect plan; it is a spontaneous miracle. It is both every moment.
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What path you choose is not important. How intensely you pursue that path is much more important.
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Life is nothing to be very serious about. Life is a ball in your hands to play with. Don’t hold on to the ball.
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We need to do a cleansing process within ourselves. In sleep we get rid of fatigue, but the deeper stresses remain in our body. Sudarshan Kriya cleanses the system from the inside. The breath has a great secret to offer.
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Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free.
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When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.
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Nature will never confront you with a problem you can’t solve. You already have the answer, that is why the question appears before you.
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Your worries, your feelings, your thoughts arise in your own mind. You are totally responsible for all your feelings – how you feel, what you think, what you do. You are responsible.
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With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.
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Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.
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Make the Universal personal and you become richer, wiser and stronger. Make the personal Universal and you will find freedom, compassion and love.
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Foolishness is giving up without any effort or not giving up after putting in all your effort. Secret of freedom is putting all your effort and giving up!
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When everything is in abundance, dispassion happens. And when dispassion is there, everything comes in abundance.
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