Life is a combination of destiny and free will. Rain is destiny; whether you get wet or not is free will!
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARA child does not try to know the mother, it simply has faith in her. In the same way, having faith in the Divine is the source of the greatest strength.
More Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes
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When you are infinitely indebted for your body, for Knowledge, for things you have received, and for your own life, then you bask in the abundance of the Creator
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Make your smile cheaper and anger expensive!
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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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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.
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Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind.
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When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.
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If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.
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What puts you on the road is your desire to enjoy. What brings you home is being in love.
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Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life – this is what you are here for.
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To grow in unconditional love and in beauty is spirituality.
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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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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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When everything is in abundance, dispassion happens. And when dispassion is there, everything comes in abundance.
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Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.
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Devi energy (shakti) is there within all of us. Devi is not somewhere else, not in some other world. It is within us – Devi Shakti
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