Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

Dispassion does not divide you. In fact, it connects you. It connects you to the present moment totally. When you are not dispassionate, you are linked to the past or the future. So, you are not connected to the present. Therefore, you are more divided.

When your mind is hoping for something or when you regret the past, you are not in the moment. So, when you are eating, you can taste every bite. You can enjoy every bite. Every look, every sight is fresh and new. Your love is like your first love. You look at everything like the first time.

Dispassion does not take away the joy from you. Dispassion gives you joy that nothing else can give you. It gives you all the pleasure, because you are so totally in the moment.

The so called dispassion in the world seems so dry. The people who say they are dispassionate are melancholic. They are sad. They run away from the world and then call this as dispassion and say they have renounced the world. This is nor renunciation. That is not dispassion. People out of sorrow, out of misery, out of apathy, escape and escapists think they are dispassionate. Dispassion is something more precious, refined and more valuable in life.

Dispassion is the strength in you. When you are centred and calm, you can understand that everyone who has come to this world has come to give something to the world. We have nothing to take from here.

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