(MONTREAL CANADA AUGUST 2004)Dearest Guruji. After so many years on the path I’m finally starting to see how the divine cares for me. And that I am protected. For those with strong faith on/and a spiritual path, this appears to be so. However, what about victims of terrorism, abuse, slavery, starvation and tortures. They do not appear to be safe and protected. So is it that divine protection does not extend to all people on earth? Only those with a…
Our life runs through intention. Everything we do has either a desire or intention or unconscious habit attached to it. Whether you want to drink a glass of water, take a walk or sit and watch TV, first an intention arises in the mind. If you want to call it desire, as ‘a desire arises in the mind’, I have no objection. But there is a difference between intention and desire. People don’t understand this. Even if you say ‘I…
This has some of the deepest knowledge I’ve come across. See there’s normal knowledge we’ll all discuss openly, then theres deeper knowledge which sometimes contradicts normal knowledge and you can only discuss with people with open minds or your closest peeps right. This is even deeper which contradicts itself and in a way you can even put it in words the way Ravi Shankar has. See what Ravi does is he’ll ready one sutra and not only translate it but…
(JAN 4TH 2004 – CANADIAN ASHRAM)Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: The association of a particular sense object, over and over, creates a sense of craving for it. If you’re used to eating ice cream almost everyday (laughter), then you get craving for it. If you’re used to drinking coffee… You were not born with a coffee craze. (laughter) Nobody is born with a craving for coffee, but you have started a habit within you. That habit has created a craving. How…
The basis of science is trust in mathematics. If you do not trust mathematics, science cannot move an inch. Similarly, business cannot move if the industry has no trust in customers and customers in their creditors. And human value is about trusting the good nature that we all are endowed with, that we all are born with. I feel that success is really measured by the smiles a person has on his face. I won’t call someone successful if one…
Sri Sri: “There are four levels of speech – para, pashyanti, madhyama, vaikari. The language we speak is vaikari. It is the most manifest form of speech. Chatvari vak parimita padani – there are four levels of speech and the intelligence knows all forms. Human beings speak only the fourth level. Subtler than vaikari, is madhyama. Even before you say it, the thought form is cognized. When you catch it at that level, it is madhyama. Pashyanti is cognitive. There…
