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Please talk about conversions.
What is needed today is conversion from the head to the heart and not from one religion to another. When you convert from one religion to another, you start comparing this is good, that is not good. If you are a spiritual person, you take wisdom ... -
How can we get out of the cycle of life and death?
Why do you want to do that? It is because you are tired of this. So that is why I say -- if you get into meditation, you will find peace. When you are playing, if you get tired you go home and rest. When you feel rested you are re ... -
What is there in the astral plane? Can you please explain?
What we see in this world is just the tip of an iceberg, let us keep it that way. There is a lot we don’t know, there is a lot which is much deeper, vaster and wider. Today scientists say that there are millions of worlds. There are millions and t ... -
Why do young and good people die before old people? Is it karma?
This is one of the five eternal secrets. You don’t ask me -- 'Why do unripe fruits fall off trees', or 'Why do buds fall out without blossoming'. It is a part of nature. Let us do all that we can to prevent such things, like the ga ... -
Is it compulsory to light a lamp in the pooja room?
No, it is not compulsory. It is your choice. You be a light to yourself. Our body is like the wick and consciousness is the light, that is important. But it is nice to keep a little ritual at home, lighting a lamp or doing some ritual creates an ... -
While living in the bondage of mundane worldly activities, how can we keep our minds free of bondage?
If you think it is a bondage, it becomes a bondage. If you consider it as service or seva, it will not feel like bondage. If someone tells you, you have to do this work, then it seems like a bondage, but if you do on your own and if you do it with y ... -
Take The First Step Boldly
A family dominated by a woman is much happier than a family dominated by a man! Do you know why? When men dominate, women become unhappy, and when women are unhappy, they make everyone around them unhappy! Then nothing can make them happy! So, it is bette ... -
Present Moment The Doorway To Wisdom
Gurudev, are you happy? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: How do I look? Do I look happy? I’m very happy that you are all here. You have traveled from so far away; took so much trouble to come here, how can I not be happy? You have all come from all over the world, s ... -
During the Sandhya Vandanam, we say, ‘I am the Brahman’. But after it, we bow down to the directions. What is the meaning of this?
See, it is all an exercise to keep the mind free, that’s all. We bow down to all the directions, that is the way we get our mind free from all that bugs that bother our mind. So if you like it, do it, if you don’t like it, then don’t d ... -
It is said in the Vedas, knowledge came from Hayagriva, the man with a face of a horse. What is the significance of horse in the scriptures?
Horse is called Ashwa. Shwa means yesterday or tomorrow. Ashwa means now. So the word 'now' in Sanskrit, is the same as horse. That one word, Ashwa has two meanings: 1. Now or the present ...