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How can we achieve the fullness in life?
Keep your emotions and intellect pure, then you achieve fullness of life. You need to keep your body clean, for that you need Ayurveda, yoga and you need to eat sattvic food. Then you have to keep your emotions and thoughts clean. When all these thre ... -
People don't like to mix with me. I feel alone, what should I do?
If other people don't like you, then just let it be. Just know that the divine likes you. No need to feel bad about these things.Where is loneliness, tell me? Look at the environment, spend time with nature and your loneliness will go away. There ... -
If Lord Shiva is the Adhipati (ruler) of all the Navagrahas (the nine planets), why is it that each Graha is invoked and honoured in every pooja?
Your body has different parts, isn't it? And you have a foot cream and face cream. You don’t apply your foot cream on your face, or your face cream on your feet. Hair oil is different and body oil is different. You don’t say that you will no ... -
Honor Everything In Creation
Save your mind and use your brain. Mostly, we save our brain and use our mind more, and, this is where we get into problems. We keep our minds so fragile that even a small thing throws us off balance and we go on with that for so long and feel so unhappy, ... -
Was man created in the image of God or God created by man’s image?
Well, I think it is both. God created man in his own image and man started creating God in his own image. There is nothing wrong. There is a term called ‘co-creation’.Man has created God, it is not a crime. Many times we think that man ... -
Staying Calm Under Pressure
(Below is a continuation of the post Honor Everything In Creation) Will all teachers become enlightened? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: You must first ask whether this is what every teacher wants. . Only when all desires have been wiped out, will you find mukti. S ... -
I have told my boss that I have faith in the Bhagavad Gita. So, when I work for him, I work without expecting any fruits for my actions. Since then my boss has stopped paying my salary. What should I do? Was that a mistake?
I don’t think it was because of the Bhagavad Gita. You may not have worked properly! You might have been chanting in your work place, or did not work at all. I have to hear the other side of the story as well my dear, before I give you any verdict ... -
In Russia, when it is very cold, meditation is better. Is there a connection between temperature and meditation? I have heard that many Rishis meditate in the snow in the Himalayas.
Of course, when it is cool, it is better for meditation and that is why they used to go into caves where it cooler, and not in the scorching heat. But, there are techniques and methods to do in hot climates as well. There are pranayamas you can do in wa ... -
How do you connect to the different sections of society so easily and make spirituality relevant to them? Do you think that ISIS can be reformed through spirituality too?
I never lose hope in anything. I only wish that everyone gets a taste of this. See, deep inside, everyone is a human being. If you keep aside your concepts and if you keep aside your intellect which has shrouded the beautiful soul, you will see ... -
Will all teachers become enlightened?
You must first ask whether this is what every teacher wants. . Only when all desires have been wiped out, will you find mukti. See, teachers get so much respect. You get so much respect, and when you have to face disrespect, what happens ...