Forwarded from Devikalottara
42. Know that whoever meditates on that Supreme Void, and becomes established in It by virtue of constant practice, will definitely attain the Great state which is beyond birth and death.
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Pleasure
The mind that is seeking pleasure cannot be centered. You either seek pleasure or come to me. When you are centered, all pleasures come to you anyway, but they are no longer pleasures. They lose their charm. The mind that seeks pleasure can never achieve the highest. If you are after pleasure, forget about Satsang. Why are you wasting your time? This is the Art of Living.
If you are enjoying your suffering, then you also cannot be centered and you are far away from the path.
Susannah: What do you do when people talk negatively about this organization, Satsangs, teachers, or anybody for that matter?
Guruji: From your side give license to everybody to talk about anything, about anybody, anywhere, at any time.
Exercise - Talk maximum negativity about everybody this whole week. This is a challenge.
By sri sri ji
The mind that is seeking pleasure cannot be centered. You either seek pleasure or come to me. When you are centered, all pleasures come to you anyway, but they are no longer pleasures. They lose their charm. The mind that seeks pleasure can never achieve the highest. If you are after pleasure, forget about Satsang. Why are you wasting your time? This is the Art of Living.
If you are enjoying your suffering, then you also cannot be centered and you are far away from the path.
Susannah: What do you do when people talk negatively about this organization, Satsangs, teachers, or anybody for that matter?
Guruji: From your side give license to everybody to talk about anything, about anybody, anywhere, at any time.
Exercise - Talk maximum negativity about everybody this whole week. This is a challenge.
By sri sri ji
Atheism is not reality
ATHEISM IS NOT A REALITY
It is difficult to see God as formless and it is difficult to see God as form. The formless is so abstract and God in a form appears to be too limited. So some people prefer to be atheists.
Atheism is not a reality, it is just a matter of convenience. When you have a spirit of enquiry, or in search of truth, atheism falls apart. With a spirit of enquiry, you cannot deny something which you have not disproved. An atheist denies God without first disproving it. In order to disprove God, you must have enormous knowledge. And when you have enormous knowledge, you cannot disprove it! (laughter!) For one to say that something does not exist, one should know about the whole universe. So you can never be one hundred percent atheist. An atheist is only a believer who is sleeping!
For a person to say, "I don't believe in anything", means he must believe in himself - so he believes in himself about whom he does not even know!
An atheist can never be sincere because sincerity needs depth - and an atheist refuses to go to his depth. Because the deeper he goes, he finds a void, a field of all possibilities - he has to accept that there are many secrets he does not know. He would then need to acknowledge his ignorance, which he refuses to do, because the moment he is sincere, he seriously starts doubting his atheism. A doubt-free atheist is next to impossible! So you can never be a sincere and doubt-free atheist.
When the atheist realizes his ignorance, what does he do? Where does he go? Does he go to a Guru? What does a Guru do to him? (Wait for next week's knowledge!)
By sri sri ji
ATHEISM IS NOT A REALITY
It is difficult to see God as formless and it is difficult to see God as form. The formless is so abstract and God in a form appears to be too limited. So some people prefer to be atheists.
Atheism is not a reality, it is just a matter of convenience. When you have a spirit of enquiry, or in search of truth, atheism falls apart. With a spirit of enquiry, you cannot deny something which you have not disproved. An atheist denies God without first disproving it. In order to disprove God, you must have enormous knowledge. And when you have enormous knowledge, you cannot disprove it! (laughter!) For one to say that something does not exist, one should know about the whole universe. So you can never be one hundred percent atheist. An atheist is only a believer who is sleeping!
For a person to say, "I don't believe in anything", means he must believe in himself - so he believes in himself about whom he does not even know!
An atheist can never be sincere because sincerity needs depth - and an atheist refuses to go to his depth. Because the deeper he goes, he finds a void, a field of all possibilities - he has to accept that there are many secrets he does not know. He would then need to acknowledge his ignorance, which he refuses to do, because the moment he is sincere, he seriously starts doubting his atheism. A doubt-free atheist is next to impossible! So you can never be a sincere and doubt-free atheist.
When the atheist realizes his ignorance, what does he do? Where does he go? Does he go to a Guru? What does a Guru do to him? (Wait for next week's knowledge!)
By sri sri ji
Inside out
Often people say, "Be the same inside as out". I ask you, how is this possible?
Inside you are a vast ocean, infinite sky; what you can show outside is only a tiny bit of it. Outside you are finite, just a small limited form, a normal stupid person!
All that you are, the love, the beauty, the compassion, the Divinity, doesn't show up fully. What shows up is the crust of behaviors. Ask yourself, "Are you really your behaviors? Are you just your behavioral patterns"? No.. Don't mistake this crust for your inside.
Neither take the limited body/mind complex as your inside nor show your Infinite Lordship outside, for Divinity is not easily understood. Let there be some mystery.
DON'T BE THE SAME INSIDE AND OUT!!
By sri sri ji
Often people say, "Be the same inside as out". I ask you, how is this possible?
Inside you are a vast ocean, infinite sky; what you can show outside is only a tiny bit of it. Outside you are finite, just a small limited form, a normal stupid person!
All that you are, the love, the beauty, the compassion, the Divinity, doesn't show up fully. What shows up is the crust of behaviors. Ask yourself, "Are you really your behaviors? Are you just your behavioral patterns"? No.. Don't mistake this crust for your inside.
Neither take the limited body/mind complex as your inside nor show your Infinite Lordship outside, for Divinity is not easily understood. Let there be some mystery.
DON'T BE THE SAME INSIDE AND OUT!!
By sri sri ji
We have to imbibe the value of sharing in children
There are two tendencies that are within us, one is of taking and the other of giving. What is worth noting is which value system we are imbibing in our children.
If they are hesitant to take or ask, then that is a sign of good values. But if they are hesitant to give then there is something wrong there.
It is a good sign when people feel hesitation to put their hand out to take. But if people hesitate to extend their hands out to help then we need to change the direction of society.
If the child is sattvic he always makes an effort to share his belongings with everyone. But if the child is rajasic then he tries to take things from everyone.
We have to imbibe the value of giving and sharing in children; happiness in giving and sharing, and hesitation to take. They should feel hesitation to put their hands out and ask.
There are people who have enough yet they keep asking for more. This is very strange.
So, when there is an attitude to give and hesitation to take or to ask, then the direction of life has reached an elevated level.
If there is hesitation to give and no shame in taking then that comparatively is of a lower level of existence. And there are some people who even go to the extent of pouncing, grabbing and seizing which is an even lower level of existence.
Now in this world there are all kinds of people and all sorts of things happen. So we must not hold anyone guilty. The important message is that we must set an example for others and not make them feel guilty.<
By sri sri ji
There are two tendencies that are within us, one is of taking and the other of giving. What is worth noting is which value system we are imbibing in our children.
If they are hesitant to take or ask, then that is a sign of good values. But if they are hesitant to give then there is something wrong there.
It is a good sign when people feel hesitation to put their hand out to take. But if people hesitate to extend their hands out to help then we need to change the direction of society.
If the child is sattvic he always makes an effort to share his belongings with everyone. But if the child is rajasic then he tries to take things from everyone.
We have to imbibe the value of giving and sharing in children; happiness in giving and sharing, and hesitation to take. They should feel hesitation to put their hands out and ask.
There are people who have enough yet they keep asking for more. This is very strange.
So, when there is an attitude to give and hesitation to take or to ask, then the direction of life has reached an elevated level.
If there is hesitation to give and no shame in taking then that comparatively is of a lower level of existence. And there are some people who even go to the extent of pouncing, grabbing and seizing which is an even lower level of existence.
Now in this world there are all kinds of people and all sorts of things happen. So we must not hold anyone guilty. The important message is that we must set an example for others and not make them feel guilty.<
By sri sri ji
Forwarded from OLOTHEA (Я k ֆ)
We all have our roles to play. But if we forget it’s just a role, we also forget that we are just playing. Getting caught up in a role is called identity. When we fall into the trap of turning a role into an identity, we take on the limits of that identity. We perceive and interact with others from the surface of that identity. We forget our depth of aliveness, we confuse the source of happiness with the source of suffering, and we lose touch with the spacious playfulness we once knew intuitively. Remembering death and contemplating the impermanence of life’s phases helps to open cracks in our identities so that we might recognize our original face. Many fight the transitions from youth to adulthood to old age and finally death. More is to be gained by opening to it and working with its wisdom than by fearfully avoiding it.
Forwarded from Ramana Maharshi | रमण महर्षि | ரமண மகரிஷி (ʀᴀᴍᴀɴᴀ ᴍᴀʜᴀʀsʜɪ )
WHICH IS MORE EXPENSIVE - YOUR SMILE OR YOUR ANGER?
Mahesh: Do you get angry? If so, how often?
Guruji: I can but it's very expensive.
Usually, you give your anger freely and smile rarely as though a smile is costly. In ignorance, anger is cheaper and a smile is costly. In Knowledge, a smile is free like sun, air, and water and anger is extremely expensive like a diamond.
Conclusion: Make your Smile cheaper and anger expensive.
By sri sri ji
Mahesh: Do you get angry? If so, how often?
Guruji: I can but it's very expensive.
Usually, you give your anger freely and smile rarely as though a smile is costly. In ignorance, anger is cheaper and a smile is costly. In Knowledge, a smile is free like sun, air, and water and anger is extremely expensive like a diamond.
Conclusion: Make your Smile cheaper and anger expensive.
By sri sri ji
You Are Privileged
Among all planets in the solar system, the earth is privileged to host life in its many forms, and among all the species, humans are most privileged for they can host the Knowledge. Among all the knowledgeable ones, you are most privileged. .... guess why.
Again and again you remember that you are peace, you are love, you are joy and that you are hosting the Creator. If you don't realize that you are the host, you live like a ghost.
The under-privileged are those who do not realize that they are privileged, and so they also host, but they host all the negativities.
Like the birds returning to their nests, again and again come back to your source; only there can you realize that you host the Creator.
By sri sri ji
Among all planets in the solar system, the earth is privileged to host life in its many forms, and among all the species, humans are most privileged for they can host the Knowledge. Among all the knowledgeable ones, you are most privileged. .... guess why.
Again and again you remember that you are peace, you are love, you are joy and that you are hosting the Creator. If you don't realize that you are the host, you live like a ghost.
The under-privileged are those who do not realize that they are privileged, and so they also host, but they host all the negativities.
Like the birds returning to their nests, again and again come back to your source; only there can you realize that you host the Creator.
By sri sri ji
SELF CONFIDENCE AND AMBITION
Ambition indicates lack of self-confidence!
When you know you can achieve something easily, you are not ambitious about it. You are simply confident about it. Your ambition indicates challenge and uncertainty, which is contrary to self-confidence. So one you has total self-confidence cannot be ambitious!!
At the same time a person who lacks total self-confidence cannot be ambitious either!!
For ambition to be, one must have a little bit of confidence and total ignorance of the Self.
It is next to impossible to have total confidence without Self-knowledge.
With the knowledge of the Self, there is nothing left to achieve, for the entire nature of existence is mere
play and display of one's own consciousness.
People take pride in being ambitious. The wise man will only smile at them. Ambition can never be for
something you know you can achieve effortlessly. You can only be ambitious about something for which you have to put effort, which poses a challenge and of which you are not even certain you will be able to achieve or not.
Moreover it takes away the joy of the moment.
With the Self-knowledge nothing is challenging to you, nor you need to put any effort. Nature is ready to
fulfill your intention even before they arise, giving you no chance to crave or desire. Nature does not
allow the wise to have a desire (ambition), and the unwise to fulfill or get rid of the desire (ambition).
Do you still want to be ambitious ?? Or is your only ambition is to get rid of ambition !!
(Laughter )
By sri sri ji
Ambition indicates lack of self-confidence!
When you know you can achieve something easily, you are not ambitious about it. You are simply confident about it. Your ambition indicates challenge and uncertainty, which is contrary to self-confidence. So one you has total self-confidence cannot be ambitious!!
At the same time a person who lacks total self-confidence cannot be ambitious either!!
For ambition to be, one must have a little bit of confidence and total ignorance of the Self.
It is next to impossible to have total confidence without Self-knowledge.
With the knowledge of the Self, there is nothing left to achieve, for the entire nature of existence is mere
play and display of one's own consciousness.
People take pride in being ambitious. The wise man will only smile at them. Ambition can never be for
something you know you can achieve effortlessly. You can only be ambitious about something for which you have to put effort, which poses a challenge and of which you are not even certain you will be able to achieve or not.
Moreover it takes away the joy of the moment.
With the Self-knowledge nothing is challenging to you, nor you need to put any effort. Nature is ready to
fulfill your intention even before they arise, giving you no chance to crave or desire. Nature does not
allow the wise to have a desire (ambition), and the unwise to fulfill or get rid of the desire (ambition).
Do you still want to be ambitious ?? Or is your only ambition is to get rid of ambition !!
(Laughter )
By sri sri ji
Forwarded from Bhagwat Geeta
Lord Krishna said to a very baffled and shocked Arjuna, who was totally shaken by the unbelievable size of the Viswaroopa :
“Nimitha Mathrum Bhava Savyasachin”
“Arjuna, become an instrument of God”
(Bhagavad Gita 11:33)
By becoming an instrument of God, we can eradicate our ego very easily and also we can eliminate our karmic debt.
What Lord Krishna has said to Arjuna is applicable to everyone and even to those who have nothing to do with Hinduism.
Only by surrendering OUR EGO, we can dealt with problems in life.
During the last chapter of the Bhagavad Gita Lord Krishna again said:
" Arjuna, abandon all Dharma (duties) and just surrender unto me (the will of God). I shall personally deliver you from all bonds of Karma. Do not fear."
( BG18:66)
“Nimitha Mathrum Bhava Savyasachin”
“Arjuna, become an instrument of God”
(Bhagavad Gita 11:33)
By becoming an instrument of God, we can eradicate our ego very easily and also we can eliminate our karmic debt.
What Lord Krishna has said to Arjuna is applicable to everyone and even to those who have nothing to do with Hinduism.
Only by surrendering OUR EGO, we can dealt with problems in life.
During the last chapter of the Bhagavad Gita Lord Krishna again said:
" Arjuna, abandon all Dharma (duties) and just surrender unto me (the will of God). I shall personally deliver you from all bonds of Karma. Do not fear."
( BG18:66)
Friend is an enemy and an enemy is a friend
WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2019
In the company of your friends, you lose your centeredness. Your enemy puts you back in yourself. Your friend sympathizes with you and makes you believe in matter. Your enemy makes you feel helpless and takes you to the spirit. So your enemy is your friend and your friend is your enemy!
Krishna said to Arjuna: One who is unfriendly everywhere (including himself); his consciousness is stable and awareness is established.
By sri sri ji
WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2019
In the company of your friends, you lose your centeredness. Your enemy puts you back in yourself. Your friend sympathizes with you and makes you believe in matter. Your enemy makes you feel helpless and takes you to the spirit. So your enemy is your friend and your friend is your enemy!
Krishna said to Arjuna: One who is unfriendly everywhere (including himself); his consciousness is stable and awareness is established.
By sri sri ji