See the Divine

By your ignorance you see the world, you see the divisions. By your knowledge, you see the Divine. It's in the seeing. Tilt this way -- you see Divine; tilt that way -- you see everything frustrating, everything rubbish, everybody cruel, everything hopeless, and all that . . . Sri Sri.

Looking for the Divine

You will find the Divine in the last place, because once you find it, you will not go on searching.

Trying to Escape

Your mind is trying to find an escape and doesn't want to rise to that level to which the master is trying to raise you, trying to pull you up.

Your World

Do not blame others. Do not blame anybody--it's all in here. Like the waves in the ocean, your world arises in your own consciousness.

Satsang

Give quality time to the divine, it will be rewarded. Give satsang and meditation your highest priority " - Sri Sri ...

I Am You

It's not a question of am I bigger than you, or equal to you, or less than you---I *am* you. There is big difference: ego says, "I am higher than you," or "I am lower than you," or "I am equal to you."

Walk With Confidence

You have been given the highest blessing, the most precious knowledge on this planet. You *are* the Divine Self; you are part of the Self. Walk with that confidence. It's not arrogance. It's, again, Love.
when love glows,it is bliss
when it flows,it is compassion
when it blows,it is anger
when it ferments,it is jealousy
when it is all"no's",it is hatred
when it acts,it is perfection
when love knows,it is me.

Open Your Eyes

Just open your eyes, shake your head and look at the world. What's happening? It's amazing! This universe is amazing.

God Loves Fun

Nature loves to give you surprises. God loves fun. He always gives you surprises---sometimes pleasant, sometimes unpleasant. And you grow by unpleasant as well as by pleasant. In fact you grow much more by unpleasant surprises than the pleasant ones.

The Formless

The formless is ruling your life. The formless is ruling the world. And there is a greater formlessness that is ruling the entire creation. And you are the center of that greater formlessness, whatever you call it---God, Consciousness, No-Mind, Nirvana, Spirit, anything you call it by name. . . Sri Sri...

Dissolving in Love

In Divine love you cease to exist, you dissolve, like a pinch of salt that dissolves in water, a grain of sugar that disappears and dissolves and allows just that Divinity to be there. . . Sri Sri . . .

No More Hankering

When your hankering for pleasure ceases, then you get liberation, you experience Enlightenment. When your hankering for Enlightenment also ceases, then you experience Divine Love. . . Sri Sri . . .

Uncovering Divine love

To uncover is enlightenment. Uncover what? Your true identify, your true nature. And what is your true nature? Divine Love.

Only Bliss

"You think "ice cream" and something is happening inside, bliss is arising which was connected to ice cream. Now, drop the ice cream, observe, watch just the bliss, and you'll see the bliss takes you over. You become bliss alone. Only bliss. ." - Sri Sri ...

Addictions, or Vasunas

Limited attraction, small attractions here and there---smell, touch, taste, sight---these are called the "vasunas." The five senses draw you into small, limited awareness, and not only just enjoying that, but you get entangled in the mind, thinking about it all the time.

The Blessing of Forgetfulness

When you remember, then you are not in the moment; when you have forgotten, then you are in the moment. So be forgetful. Thats's a blessing . . . SRI SRI...

Inner Connection With the Divine

Guru is inside you. Have an inner union with the guru. Inside, be with the guru. Krishna is inside you; God, the Divine is inside you---have an inner connection with the Divine. . . Sri Sri...

Save Your Own Mind

When you look at someone else's mistake, you should laugh at it and feel compassionate towards it; then you are able to save your mind. . . . Sri Sri...

Taking in Garbage

Someone else throws a garbage and we are ready to take it all in. Someone got hurt and they are throwing all anger, frustration; and you hear [them]. You say, "Oh, why did so-and-so say such things!" And you immediately grasp those things, and you store it in your mind. Now not only that person has been in misery, you have shared that misery with that person, taken it on you.

Whatever You Hate

Why do you hate? Anything you hate is going to bug you. You know, when a rat hates cats it is born as a cat; a cat hates dog and it is born as dog. So, whatever you hate, you will become that---better don't hate anything. . . SRI SRI...

Just Love

Don't be angry at anybody for anything. Throw all your anger out. Throw the hatred out. What is there in life? Just love. Just love. Love.

Drop Your Hate

Drop all your hates now. You are stuck with your hates. This is a place to be in love and joy. Drop all your hatreds.

How to Live

Live as though you are nobody. Live as though you are a glow of light, and you will see, that bliss that comes out of it. You cannot even compare to any other joy through any senses. . . Sri Sri ...

Joy of the Self

All the enlightened masters have declared: the joy of Self---uniting with the Self---is a hundred times more than any other joy. . . Sri Sri...

You Are a Glow

Tonight, when you go to sleep, feel your whole body. As you start feeling your body, you'll see you are not the body. You are a glow, you are consciousness. You are that scintillating energy, sparkling energy in the whole body. . . Sri Sri...

A Minute in Silence

No use in all these talks. Don't go on wasting your energy and time in talking. Be in silence. A thousand words cannot convey a glance, a look from your eyes. And even many thousand looks cannot convey one minute of silence. Just stay, silently.

Language of Existence

The more "in" you are, the more consolidated you are, in the very core of your Being, the center of your Being, the more you speak the language of the Existence. You do so much good; you do so many wonderful things around you. . . Sri Sri...

One-Pointedness

To achieve anything in the world your mind has to be one-pointed. The mind gets into some restlessness to achieve things. But to attain your Self Realization, your *heart* has to be one-pointed.

Unconditional love

The breath moves into a saint as well as into a wicked person. The breath makes no distinction, it moves. Unconditionally it loves you, supports you, holds you in its arms, because it is all Shiva. The entire creation is "Shiva tatwa" -- innocence. . . Sri Sri...

Nature Loves You

Nature loves you, that's why breath goes in and out of you. The day air stops loving you, your nose will be blocked, and you will go under the ground.

Violence

you see violence in action in somebody and inside your mind you feel violent about that person.then you are not much different from that person who is acting violent.....

Take it for Granted

Take it for granted that the Divine loves you very dearly; then, your love for the Divine becomes unconditional and more total. All the complaints drop away from your head.

Be Proud of Love

Be proud of the Love. Have you ever been proud of Love? That is beautiful. Be proud of the Love that the Nature is giving to you, the Divine is giving to you, the people are giving to you.

Who cares?

Who is worried about your status? Nobody. If someone looks at your status, they feel jealousy. Why do you create more jealousy in other people . . . Sri Sri...

When You are Angry

When you are angry at somebody, for their mistake, you have become that person.

Good Qualities

The good quality in the other person---see that it is your own quality. It's part of you...Sri Sri...

Inside You

Krishna is inside you; God, the Divine is inside you---have an inner connection with the Divine.

Nature Knows Best ...

See how many desires you have had, and how many desires were not fulfilled, and how many desires you feel that way: when it was not fulfilled, it was good, "It was best for me." Don't you see this? Some desires which were not fulfilled, it was good for you. So, Nature knows what is best for you. . . Sri Sri...

You aren't judged…

Do not judge. Just look at yourself -- how many flaws you have. And Nature, the Divine, has accepted you with all your flaws... It doesn't judge you at all.

Stop Judging

Go inside -- go into the kingdom of heaven. And how can you go? You can go only when you become innocent. And how can you be innocent? Stop judging

Gossip

Most of the sorrow in the world is because of this: speech -- what people say. If they kept their lips tight, ninety percent of the problems in the world would be over. . . Sri Sri...

Whatever You Desire

If you look to God, pray to God, with a full heart, dropping sorrow (What is sorrow! Huh? Hanging on to the past.) then whatever you desire will all be given to you.

Relax, Be Peaceful

There is some power, someone who is really caring for you---not just someone: there is only One in the whole universe. That One in the Universe is caring and taking care. Relax; just be peaceful.

Not mine, not his

See a mistake as a mistake, not as "my" or "his" mistake. "My" means guilt; "his" means anger.

All That Comes

Take with both your hands all that comes. Don't say, "It is not possible for me." With this very thought, "It is not possible," you are resisting and that is the cause for making those storms stay for long periods.

Insurance Policy

Insurance for your soul is: have compassion at other's mistake, or else you are bound to get angry at them.

Save Your Own Mind

When you look at someone else's mistake, you should laugh at it and feel compassionate towards it; then you are able to save your mind.

Don't Take it Seriously!

Take life not serious. If you take life very serious, then you are bound to be disturbed. The only way you can maintain your equanimity is to take it as a play, as a game, and not take anything too seriously.

Throwing Your Pearls

Weigh your words before you speak them out. They are pearls of your life. Don't throw them; don't lose them for nothing.

Whatever You Want

Whatever you want for others will happen to you.

Doing Spiritual practices bring some pain along with it..but not doing it
will bring more pain....sri sri

Attend to the Source :

When the Source is attended to, all your other abilities flower automatically, spontaneously
God is love. God loves fun.

Sri Sri

One or the Other

As long as there is ego, there is no divine love; and when there is Divine Love, the ego … there is no sign of it.

The Role of Knowledge

This is the role of knowledge: in knowledge, you smile and laugh at the event. You grow out of the event with the power of knowledge.

Flash of Surrender

Sometimes on a dark night if there is lightning, that second you see the whole town. Everything becomes visible, even for a few moments. Like that, surrender happens in deep meditation.

Opposites

This life and world are full of opposites. Opposites -- whereever you look it is all opposites. Isn't it amazing?

The Divine will take care of you

: You belong to the Divine. You think Divine will not take care of your pleasure and will not take care of your concerns and your desires? Let go of these. When you could let go---then you blossom

Committed to Truth

A person who is committed to truth---who is committed to what is, this presence of Being---for him success comes easily, follows. Not that he will not encounter failures. He may encounter failures, but he will again act.

Duties

Don't think, I have lots of duties. How will I fulfill my duties? See, the moment you think something is your duty, there is no beauty in it. Duty, responsibility, becomes a burden, it becomes a bondage on your head. Love the job that you are doing.

Devotion

"For your prayers to be answered, your desire must be intense. The greater the intensity of your desire and the later it gets fulfilled, the greater will be your gratitude."

Botherations

When something bothers you too much in the mind, you want to talk. This is in between. I tell you, when something bothers you in the mind, get into action---work. You will see that gives a bigger relief.

Problems

Many problems have come, many problems have been solved, and each problem has enriched life in some way, has brought up some strength in you.

Filled with Honey

Like a honeycomb is all filled with honey, the body -- -all the holes in the body are filled with mind, or consciousness. And the nature of that is joy is Love...

Love and Faith

Love transcends logic. Love depends on faith. You cannot say, "I have a lot of love, but I have no faith." It is impossible. Love carries along with it, faith. And Divine Love [carries] infinite faith.

Perfection in Nature

There is perfection in Nature. You only have to look through a different eye

Attend to the Source

When the Source is attended to, all your other abilities flower automatically, spontaneously.

Body is Space

See, ninety percent of this body is only space, and space, and space. And what is in this space? That is mind; that is consciousness; that is intelligence.

Can't be Tired

When you appreciate beauty, you don't feel tired. You are energetic. You are full of vitality, full of enthusiasm

Innocence

Beauty is your very nature. Beauty doesn't come by makeup. When, inside you, an innocence dawns, it shows on your face -- then you become beautiful.
Like Attracts Like

In the realm of the mind, like attracts like. If the soul is peaceful, then it attracts peaceful environment and people around it.

God is present everywhere. But devotees are not. So God chase his devotees.

Something Sacred

When you consider something sacred, you will never pollute it.

Stop Judging

Go inside -- go into the kingdom of heaven. And how can you go? You can go only when you become innocent. And how can you be innocent? Stop judging.

Innocence:

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower...n 2 hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour...

Where is heaven

How far to heaven? Just open your eyes and look. You are in heaven.

Unconditional love

The breath moves into a saint as well as into a wicked person. The breath makes no distinction, it moves. Unconditionally it loves you, supports you, holds you in its arms, because it is all Shiva. The entire creation is "Shiva tatwa" -- innocence.

Plentitude

feel the plenitude..feel that there is plenty.The divine has provided you a lot and he will provide you much more. Why be tense about that?

You aren't judged…

Do not judge. Just look at yourself -- how many flaws you have. And Nature, the Divine, has accepted you with all your flaws... It doesn't judge you at all.

Honoring Secrets.

When you honor a secret, your mind does not jump forward, it is stabilized, it flowers, it blossoms.

What you are judging

Your own judgement brings the barrier, separates you, makes you behave so funny. When you are judging, you are judging your own self, but you are super-imposing it on this, or this, or this, or this, or this.

Fear is the lack of love.Only one thing can eliminate fear----that is love.

Relax, Be Peaceful

There is some power, someone who is really caring for you---not just someone: there is only One in the whole universe. That One in the Universe is caring and taking care. Relax; just be peaceful.

Changing

Everything in this universe is dynamic. There is nothing that is static. Even the mountains appear to be static, but they are not static, they are all dynamic. Every atom is dynamic in this universe.

Part of You

The good quality in the other person---see that it is your own quality. It's part of you.

The secret of joy

You are the source of joy.

ATTACHMENT

"The WORST thing in life is ATTACHMENT coz IT HURTS WHEN U LOSE IT!
The BEST thing in life is LONELINESS coz it teaches u everything & when u lose it u gain everything! "
Who can guide you:

One who has gone through a way,reached the goal can guide you properly.

Sri Sri..

The world is as you vision

"The world is as you see it" if you feel good in you, then you see good everywhere. If your mind is bitter, you see everything is bitter.

yatha drishti, tatha srishti .. jgd :-)

Purpose of a flower

If a flower does not remind you of the eternal truth then it has not fulfilled its purpose.


That moment

The moment you drop the small mind you are free.

Everything is God

This entire universe is made up of God. There is nothing outside God.

surrender

surrender simply means from limited power energy to unlimited ocean of existence. Growing from limitation to limitless, merging into the divinity, the vast powerful omnipresent, omnipotent truth...
Applause

If ten thousand people applaud you---so what? You think you will be in their mind, in their attention, forever? No. You will get big applause, and they clap, and they go away. And, the same people, some other time may talk ill of you, too.

consciousness

When you consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise.
When it is directed inward, it realizes its own Source and returns home into the unmanifested.
When you are disturbed

Do you do this? Any day that you are disturbed, instead of yelling and screaming and shouting at other people here and there, blaming other people, have you ever said, "Oh, I want to do more chanting, and let me sit. Today I feel disturbed so let me go and love more people around me." Have you ever done that?
The love of the ignorant can be harmful .. yet even the anger of the englightened is not harmful...

THE ANGER OF THE ENLIGHTENED IS A BLESSING !!!

Recognise the Divinity

When you move in the world, recognize the divinity in things around you, in people around you. Listen with your heart.
Joy is dissolving - losing your identity
Rest is dissolving - losing your identity
Love is dissolving - losing your identity
Relax and just be -
Be very busy .. and just be
The events come and go, they perish like flowers,
But every event and every person contains some honey,
Like a Bee, just take the honey out of every event
and move on. Be like a busy bee and be in the Being.
Surrender brings peace

The moment there is surrender there is peace...that very second there is peace.

Knowledge & Faith

In science you have knowledge first, then faith follows.
In spirituality, faith comes first, then knowledge follows.

Science regards life as matter,
Spirituality regards even matter as life.
Freedom from the pleasure is the real pleasure. Pain does not bind you, it is the pleasure that binds you. And the bondage is painful. If you are bound, you are not bound by misery, you are bound by your pleasure.
No Proof

The existence of God is impossible to prove..it is beyond proof.

The Most Beautiful Spot in the Universe

Where is the place?
Dont look here and there, come within YOU.
When you are here, then any place becomes beautiful
Then wherever you go, you add beauty there.
Relationships

When you blossom from within you, then your relationship will also blossom.

Sri Sri

Faith & Love

Meditation is seeing God in yourself,
Love is seeing God in the person next to you
Knowledge is seeing God everywhere.
The foundation of knowledge

Knowledge is possible only when you come close. From a distance, and in a formal atmosphere, knowledge cannot blossom..Being together is the foundation of the knowledge.

ATTACHMENTS

Your non-attachment to the mundane is your charm.
Your attachment to the Divine is your beauty.
Sorrow

Sorrow needs to be lived through and gotten rid of. It should not be suppressed.
when do we get angry, when we think we are PERMANENT. Neither we nor those with whom we get angry are permanent. When we are aware of this then we do not get angry.

Good & Bad Karma

When you blame someone, you take on their bad karma,

When you praise someone, you take on their good karma,

Surrender both good and bad karma to the Divine -- & be free.

Signs of Celebration

Everything in this universe is a sign of celebration.

Sakha: Your Reliable Sense

Sakha means, "He is my senses, I see the world through through his wisdom".

The problem with "Flash"

If you are craving for a "flashy" experience, that itself can be an impediment.

H.H. Sri Sri Ravishankar

Dealing with Desire

Unfortunate are those who keep on desiring and yet their desires are not fulfilled

A little more fortunate are those whose desires get fulfilled over a long period of time

More fortunate are those whose desires get fulfilled as soon as they arise

The most fortunate are those who have no desires because there is fulfillment before a desire can arise...

Immortal

The being is immortal, the Consciousness is immortal, the guru is immortal, the rishi, maharishi, is immortal. And so also, you are immortal and eternal.

Enlightenment

Enlightenment is beyond seasons like the ever-green coconut tree.

Behavior affects relationships
Attitude affects behavior
Knowledge or ignorance affects attitude
Grace brings forth knowledge.
Being Used

If you are useful, people will use you. But this fear in us:" Oh, everybody is trying to use me. Everyone is trying to exploit me."

Unconditional love

The breath moves into a saint as well as into a wicked person. The breath makes no distinction, it moves. Unconditionally it loves you, supports you, holds you in its arms, because it is all Shiva. The entire creation is "Shiva tatwa" -- innocence.

Open your eyes

Open your eyes and see. You think you are in control of a situation--what are you in control of? Where are you? Everything is happening, and you are in God. God is all that is.

Respect

Have respect for your self and no one can take away your self-respect..
You are happiness

You *are* that happiness, so *be* that happiness.

Illusion

Illusion means error of perception, and knowing illusion as illusion is knowledge..

Rest & Activity

Activity and rest are two vital aspects of life. To find a balance in them is a skill in itself..

Activity in rest and rest in activity - is the ultimate freedom.

Committed to Truth

A person who is committed to truth---who is committed to what is, this presence of
Being---for him success comes easily, follows. Not that he will not encounter failures.
He may encounter failures, but he will act again.

Spreading the Fragrance

Flowers have fragrance, but its the wind that spreads it..
In the same way, each one of us is wonderful within--we are beautiful, caring & loving. But we need to know how to spread the fragrance..

SATSANG is that wind that spreads this fragrance to everyone.
Love is the realm of the unknown, the infinity. Logic pertains to the realm of limitations,
observations.

Love is the realm of the unknown, the infinity. Logic pertains to the realm of limitations,
observations.

Indebtedness or abundance

Feel indebted, Feel grateful,
Then Abundance grows....
When the "I, my, mine" is not there- is dissolved- that is liberation.
Everything

Everything is being. You are everything, and you are nothing.
Craving and Bondage

The craving for sense objects is bondage. Their existence seems to have given you a little pleasure, so it binds you. Now you crave for it, and it gives you more and more pain.
God is not

God is not the object of sight; you can never see God. God is not an object of hearing. God is not an object of smelling or tasting. God cannot be perceived through your senses, not through the mind.

Sri Sri
"When you move in the world, recognize the Divinity in things around
you, in people around you. Listen with your heart."...Sri Sri

Existing as though you are not, living as though you are not there at all: hollow and empty - pure, empty space - that is when one says, "Let Thy will be done. Let Thy will be done. Let Thy will be done." That is true unity between the little small mind and the infinite mind, the cosmic mind, the universal mind. --Sri Sri

Precious Secrets

All that is precious in life is a secret. Love is a secret. Life is a secret. The world is a secret. Your feelings, emotions are a secret. You are the biggest secret.

"Patience in the mind and dynamism in action is the right formula"

"Don't get caught up in words. These are just all words. I tell you if you are centered dispassion comes to you automatically. Just be centered. You do seva, satsang, and sadhna and you will be rest everything is just falling in place for you."... Sri Sri