ALL-ROUND IMPROVEMENT – Spirituality for Thinkers. Tools for Doers
For those on the spiritual, self improvement/awareness path
(Taken from one of the discourses of His Holiness Sri Sri Ravishankar)Indian culture has always held the guru in a high esteem. Having a master was not just considered a matter of pride, but it was mandatory to have a guru. Not having a master was looked down upon as being an orphan, being poor … Read more
Guru Puja is a thanksgiving ceremony remembering all the ancient rishis, seers, sages who have brought this knowledge of self. Puja means that which comes from the fullness and the five elements, which are used. —————————- FIRST POINT5 signs of a Guru 1. Dukha KshayaSorrow Diminishes. Just give you all the botherations to Guruji. 2. … Read more
A river needs two banks to flow. The difference between flood and a flowing river is that in the latter the water flows in a particular direction whereas in floods the water is muddled and has no direction. Similarly, in our life if the energy is not given a direction, it is all confusion. The … Read more
Those who really want to succeed must give up once and for all nibbling at things. Take up one idea, make that one idea your life. Think of it. Dream of it. Live on that idea. Let the brain, muscle, nerve, every part of your body be full of that idea and just leave every … Read more
Are you evolving? If you are evolving, you are not in the Self. And you are not out of the Self, because nothing can exist out of the Self. (Laughter) Broadly they can be put in these 5 catagories. There are six distortions that do not exist in the Self. – Expansion (Prasarana). Expansion indicates … Read more
An atheist does not believe in either values or in the abstract. When an atheist comes to the guru, what happens? He starts experiencing his own form and discovers that he is indeed formless, hollow and empty, and this abstract non-form becomes more and more concrete. A guru makes the abstract more real, and what … Read more
