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  1. Is There Any Right Or Wrong

    I loved your tweet about spontaneity and impulsiveness. Could you also talk about righteousness and 'rightness' Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: "Often one confuses spontaneity with impulsiveness. While the former is the secret to success, the latter has only caused ...
  2. Gurudev could you please speak about the great Jupiter transit that is happening tomorrow.

    This keeps happening every year and planets are changing all the time. You don't have to worry about all of this. Yesterday only I told you that, for a 'sadhak' everyday is a good day; every time is a good time. ...
  3. Gurudev in all these years of teaching, have you seen any difference in people from 30 years ago to now?

    Oh yes! On one level, everything is changing -- people's thinking has changed from place to place and from time to time. Change is a constant thing. At another level there is one thing that is running throughout; that has not changed. A lot has changed ...
  4. Meditation is often called 'Turiya avastha', where wakefulness and rest exist simultaneously. If this state is so efficient, then is it possible to stay in this state for longer period of time and not just during the 20 minutes of meditation?

    You know, you take shower only for ten minutes, but the freshness stays with you the whole day. Meditation is like that. If not the whole day, it stays for at least half a day, till you take the shower again. ...
  5. You have mentioned that the education is essential in order to combat terrorism. Could you please shed light on how we can educate someone who doesn't feel the need of being educated?

    Skill. This is where your skilfulness comes into play. How skilfully you can manoeuvre the situation.Education is not just the technical education. When people say that education is the antidote to terrorism, I don't agree with them because when y ...
  6. If I am suffering from inside, can I still stay happy and keep a smile on my face?

    You know life is like a 'Thali'(plate) in which you have something sweet, something salty, something pungent -- all different tastes are present. Like this, in your life you have little sadness (maybe you have lost something, or lost money), yes that pi ...
  7. I loved your tweet about spontaneity and impulsiveness. Could you also talk about righteousness and 'rightness'

    "Often one confuses spontaneity with impulsiveness. While the former is the secret to success, the latter has only caused disasters. Spontaneity arises out of clarity, intuition & response, impulsiveness is only emotions & reactions.The way t ...
  8. I Am Love And So Are You

    Gurudev, what is Mahakaal? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Kaal means ‘time’ and mahakaal means ‘grand time’. Grand time is that which is beyond all human explanation or comprehension. It is that which creates a want in you and also makes you lose your ground. And ...
  9. Jai Gurudev, am I Arjuna to you, if yes, why don’t you talk to me one to one like Krishna?

    You know whenever I am talking, I am only talking one to one. Others are just sitting around and listening, so remember I am talking just to you and you only. ...
  10. In ‘wonder’, is intellect not active?

    In ‘wonder’ the mind comes to a stand-still, the intellect which poses question comes into exclamation. Exclamation or wonder can happen only through intellect. ...