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No Eye On Nobel Prize: Art Of Living Says Sri Sri Was Misquoted
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar only recently dealt with controversy over the World Culture Festival being held on the ecologically fragile flood plains of the Yamuna river in New Delhi in March. (Virendra Singh Gosain/ Hindustan Times) The Art of Living Fou ... -
Moderation Is The Key
(Below is a continuation of the post What Is The Purpose Of Life) We have heard of people talking about celibacy as one of the requirements for spiritual progress. Please throw some light on that. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Celibacy helps to conserve energy. S ... -
I hear a lot of gurus. Is it the same knowledge, just in different ways?
No, they are all different paths. It is better to be in one path otherwise you will get confused. Respect everybody but do not read too much of everything, because one will say something and the other will say something else. Their roots are the same bu ... -
Please tell us about Jesus and your connection to him.
Jesus is love and we are all love. Everyone is made up of love but many don’t realise it. I know it and that is all. In fact, if you have studied the Upanishads and read what Jesus has said, they are many strikingly similar things. It is a fact th ... -
We have heard of people talking about celibacy as one of the requirements for spiritual progress. Please throw some light on that.
Celibacy helps to conserve energy. Spirituality is about uplifting the energy and pleasure deplete energy and leads you to inertia. This not only applies to celibacy but to the five senses also. When we overdo it, how exhausted one becomes. For example ... -
What Is The Purpose Of Life
See, what happens in life - you were like these beautiful children, happy, joyful, free and then when you grew up, in due course, what happened, from time to time, negative clouds came on you and you found that something or the other is not good, this or ... -
If we need to be in love without an object, then why does my heart explode at the sight of a man I like?
Oh! Good, that is a good explosion, but let it not explode at the sight of every man you meet. Both will be in trouble then. Anything can trigger it, Instead of looking at the outside, look at the feeling it triggers, focus on the energy that has explod ... -
How can I be sure to be in my last incarnation?
When you are totally content, then you can say 'This is my last incarnation'. Even then, there is no criterion. Maybe nature wants you to come back and do some work, then you have to come back again. ... -
How to be in that space of wanting nothing because the ego always wants something?
Even wanting nothing is a want! Got it? Just relax. Just remember when you have finished eating and you are so full, then even if someone comes and asks if you need more, you say 'No'. Don’t you say that? Remember that state. There are times when ... -
The world is full of information, some of it is useful, some of it is misleading. How can I keep away from superstitions and all kinds of misleading concepts and stay open for new discoveries?
I want to tell you something that was recently discovered. I was talking to one of the judges in the Supreme Court of India during a conference of judges, in Bangalore ashram. He drew my attention to a practise that everyone thought is superstition. Wha ...
