Wishing everyone a Happy 2008 ( hope the year of the Rat brings you lots of peace, harmony and goodwill )
You can read all the knowledge below on http://gurujiskripa.blogspot.com also. Previous emails of mine are all posted on the site.
Guruji had recently advised (in delhi) to read the Bhagvad Gita. I have it in PDF format in English and Hindi. People interested can write to me on rges@hotmail.com and i will send the file to you.
At the same time you can also join The Art of Living Facebook group also. There are regular news posts of Art of living activities and you can share contacts, info of your chapter with other Art of Living members.
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Pass the message to all and lets have a wonderful start of the new year.
Jai Gurudev,
Rajesh (Moscow, Russian Federation)
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*24th December 2007***
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*Bangalore** Ashram*
Guruji conducted moonlight meditation… followed by the question and answer
session.
*Question:* Guruji logically there is no reason to be happy. But happy state
of mind doesn't follow any logic. Is happiness related to logic?
*Guruji:* (laughter) The whole exercise in life is to balance the head and
the heart. When you are too much into head, u should just let go, and relax,
sing and dance. You know your sleep is a gift to you. Do you know that?
During sleep the mind gets so much of rest! But meditation is the ultimate
rest to your mind.
*Question:* Guruji, life was becoming weaker and weaker everyday. Then one
day you came. You charged up with so much of love and blessings. What is the
guarantee that it is going to stay for ever?
*Guruji:* (laughter) It's a life time guarantee. For many life times. Here u
know, the charge never finishes. Its not a disposable cell, what u call
it?!!? The sun the moon the starts don't finish. Do they finish? When Lord
Krishna said, "I am the sun the moon, the light in the sun… ", people did
not understand! The mind is like the rays of the moon. The whole world is
made up of one energy. I recently heard something; someone was telling that
Einstein had said that, "If u have not studied physics u loose out
something, but if you have not studied spirituality you loose out on
everything". I totally agree with that. Many are surprised to hear that, but
I was not!
*Question:* Guruji, often I don't realize how seva is happening and
sometimes I think I am doing it. Who is it actually who does?
*Guruji:* Who is the one who is observing? When you focus on that you will
know that, First the eyes are seeing, then the mind, then the intellect, go
on with this … and you will see that there is nothing! That's why Lord
Buddha said "Anaatma". He said, "I could not find the self anywhere, though
I searched and searched". Then Lord Shankaracharya came and said, "Its all
Maya" temporary". Then he said, "Who is the one who could not find? That is
the one"!! He totally turned around the whole picture to a new dimension
with a new sentence! You are the one and you are never away from the self!
That's why we do, "I am".. Have you done the "I am"process today? Advance
course…
During the process you must had several pleasant and unpleasant experience.
Its ok.. huh…they come and go, what remains is the self.
*Question:* Guruji how can I eliminate conflict with my wife. I want to make
her happy at the same time cannot agree to everything she says. Can you
help?
*Guruji: *Why do you want a bland life? (laughter) Life should be spicy,
interesting. Its absolutely ok to fight! You just tell yourself, today let
her scream, I am not going to get angry on her!! You stand like a rock and
keep smiling!! See how things turn around! Just one day you do that, and you
will see you are so potent to end a conflict or may be begin a new one!!
(laughter)!!
*Question:* Guruji why are there so many spiritual institutions? Do we need
so many? Why cannot people follow one institution?
*Guruji:* No come on… You never ask why are there so many cinema halls? You
never ask why are there so many shops, so many restaurants, so many
parties?!!? Why do we wear so many different types of cloths!??!?! This
question is not relevant at all. There are so many avenues to bring the
knowledge. So many different methods to are there to get to the knowledge.
Only the Zihadis say such things. We want only one thing! Only one way! Well
things may not be the way you want it, but let me tell you they all have
their own importance. Rigveda said something beautiful. It said for those
who don't believe in him, he is there for them also!! Swami Vivekananda
came, he found an institution. Then Rishi Aurobindo came he formed another
institution…. We have take up a different way through yoga and
meditation…There is no conflict with one another! There is one common thing
I think in all and that is meditation.
*Question:* Guruji I got your blessings today, how long will the blessings
last?
*Guruji:* (Laughter) depends on what you are going to use it for. I am ready
to give you a blank cheque. But what will you use it for!??!
*Question:* Guruji give me bhahma gyan?
*Guruji:* I am ready to give you and that's what is what you are doing here.
Relax and let go. Become hollow and empty. And only when you are hollow and
empty you are ready to take it.
*Question:* How different are you from mother and father?
*Guruji:* I don't want to get into this conflict. How different am I or how
similar am I! You find out all that! Some people find both… so you figure
that out.
*Question: *Guruji what is the best way to serve the society as a future
doctor?
*Guruji:* You know you should keep this question. This is a very good
question. How best can I contribute to my society!! But don't try to do
something which is not required! (Laughter!!) Have you heard the story of
the scout boys? I think I have told it to you before. Ok…ok I'll repeat!
There were three scout boys. One day they were given a task to do some
service. So they went on the road and were wondering what seva to do?!?!
Meantime one of them saw a old lady who was standing across the road. The
scout boy came upto her ands asked "Would you like to cross the road?" The
old lady said, "No thank you". The scout boy insisted her that she should
cross the road! Finally he forced her to cross the road. Meantime the other
boy who saw that came running and said, "I am going to drop her back from
where she came"> which means the other side of the road. So he forced the
old lady to cross the road again. The third boy came running and said "Well
I cannot loose out of seva". So he got the old lady to cross the road
again!!! (Laughter!!) We have to bring people to knowledge and spirituality
and meditation.
*Question:* Is there a way to handle success without conflict?
*Guruji:* Yes… yes. You can handle success without any conflict. Because the
concept of conflict is there in your own mind. If your mind is free there is
no conflict at all!! That's why in Narada Bhakti Sutra it is said,
"aatmarata virodhite"… Rejoice in the self without conflict, and that's is
real devotion.
In Service,
*Smita Roy (From Ashram)*
Observe negative thoughts
Observe negative thoughts
Sri Sri Ravishankar
There is a lot of talk about positive thinking. Positive thinking means - you get a negative thought and you try to think positive.
A thought has already come in us, whether positive or negative. You just observe it. It is already gone. But positive thinking means bringing back that which has
gone. We catch hold of a thought and go on like that. To erase the negative thought, we try to force a positive thought on it. But negative thoughts simply
don't go away. They go somewhere deep inside. They remain there. The more you try to force the positive thought, the more, somewhere deep inside, the negative
thought is growing. A slight fear is happening, you are hitting a duality, a conflict. Observing thoughts as thoughts, emotions as emotions, opens us to our
true Self, the godliness within us.
Do you mean just the observing from some centre is enough, rather than trying to change it?
Yes. The very observation changes it. When you observe, all that is negative falls away. And the nature of positive emotions is - they grow. If you observe when you are angry, the anger will fall away. And if you observe if there is love, love grows. And the attempt to erase simply strengthens the negative? Is that what you are saying? Just observing and letting go is the simplest? That is the best and the only way. Observe. Observe that thoughts come and they pass. A negative thought
comes because of stress. If you are put under great stress, on that day, or the next day, you will get negative thoughts and become frustrated. All negative
thoughts come out of your frustration. Instead of trying to do something with those thoughts that have already arisen, which are of no use, attend to the source from which they bubble up. If the source is clean, only positive thoughts come. And if negative thoughts come, you observe, so what! They come and they vanish in no time.
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