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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 depletes 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 ... -
See Divine Behind Everything
Some people say, "Don’t worry about the world, find your joy and your peace that is more important". Correct, that is the first step, you find your peace. But once you have found your peace, what you do? And when your peace is connected with so many peopl ... -
Gurudev, I feel that emotions overpower the intellect. Knowledge is only at the level of intellect, so can I assume that knowledge cannot help when my emotions are overpowering me?
Knowledge does help you. If you are just flowing with emotions alone, you will be an emotional wreck. But time to time, it is knowledge which steps in and reigns in the emotions. May not be all the time, but most of the time it does. Many times you get ... -
Gurudev, the Gita says, "Wise is the one who doesn’t start anything". Could you speak about what Krishna means by this and the context of this statement?
Krishna also says, "In the world, you cannot be without doing anything". Not even for a few minutes someone can be without any activity. At the same time he says that also. So you cannot just take one thing out of context and try to understand ... -
Dear Gurudev, could you please explain how we are responsible for all our past, present and future karmas yet at the same time we are not the doer?
There are two things in you, one is that there is something inside you which is changing. Do you know that? Your thoughts are changing, your emotions are changing, your body is changing, isn’t it. And there is something inside you which is not cha ... -
Gurudev, how is it possible to forgive and forget, sometimes it becomes impossible for me. Help me do the impossible possible. It’s a request.
Know that you have the power to do it and just do it. Open your mind to the vastness of this universe. Wake up and see that seven billion people are on this planet, everyday many are being burnt, everyday many are dying. Whatever big thing you are hangi ... -
World Event A Big Moment For Bengaluru Dancer
BENGALURU: It is not easy to direct 4,600 dancers from 45 countries, to present a drama that includes 30 styles. That task fell on the shoulders of 27-year-old Bangalorean Srividya Varchaswi at Art of Living’s World Culture Festival, conducted in New Delhi ... -
Importance Of Good Company
The effect of time is both on matter and the mind. You keep an apple over time, it starts to rot, isn't it? When you look at any object, you can know how old it is. So like that time has an impact on matter. Our body changes with time. Similarly time al ... -
Art Of Living's Jal Jagruti Abhiyaan Has Benefited Over 2 Lakh People: Sri Sri
The project aims to rejuvenate water sources that have dried up due to erratic monsoons and overuse of ground water Social organisation Art of Living Foundation today claimed its project 'Jal Jagruti Abhiyaan' has benefited over two lakh people in the drou ... -
Press Statement
At a press conference for Art of Living's water conservation project in Latur on April 30, 2016, a journalist asked Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, "Are you doing all this work for the Nobel Prize?" He replied, "Not at all. What will I do with a prize? We ha ...
