Great Quotes
From
Sri Sri Ravishankar
DT:24.05.2013
Ø Feelings make you
spontaneous. Children feel, so they are spontaneous. Adults put brakes on their
feelings and they start worrying.
Ø When you gain respect, it
is often detrimental to your freedom. Wisdom is to place freedom first and not
to bother about respect. And when there is real love, respect simply follows
you.
Ø Tolerance and acceptance
are the fruit of judgement and separation. We think these terms are positive, I
tell you they are not!
Q: But aren't we supposed to accept people as they are?
Sri Sri: If you don't love them, then you have to
accept them. Don't accept people as they are, just love them as they are.
Ø India and China are
natural allies; very similar culturally, socially & religiously. The
continent can flourish with more bonding between the 2 giants - India and
China. The Chinese Premier's Indian visit is a significant step.
Ø When in our life, personal
needs disappear and desires no longer exist, an extraordinary, mystical ability
is awakened within us that enables us to bless others. When we do not want
anything for ourselves, we develop the strength to fulfill the desires of
others.
Ø Q: How to conquer ego?
Sri Sri: Ego is just a feeling of having a wall between
you and others. There is no wall. You belong to me and I belong to you. You are
accepted the way you are. Naturalness is the antidote for ego. Be spontaneous!
Ego cannot stand spontaneity. Children are so spontaneous. Be like a child.
Ø As the only speaker at Hangzhou
from the Indian subcontinent, I was pleasantly surprised that many people spoke
on spirituality, love and consciousness. Love & Spirituality, that were
considered taboo some years ago, seem to have found a rightful place now at the
World Cultural Forum in China.
Ø Relationships can either
take the form of strength or weakness depending on the mind. If the mind is
strong then relationships can be like a gift to us, but if the mind is weak and
not in control, then relationships can feel like bondage... Full article in
Indian Express: http://bit.ly/16yhzgl
Ø Just drop all that is
bothering you. If you are not free today, you can never be free anytime. Don't
expect freedom to come to you. "Today, I am free! Everything is going to
happen the way it is going to happen."
Ø A sense of offering comes
up in you in a state of fullness, of gratitude. "You gave me this world
and I offer it back to you. I have been given this body and every particle of
this body, I'm offering back to you. I am yours." This intense feeling of
total offering, merging, giving everything to the Divine, not saving anything
for oneself, becoming the offering itself, is Pooja.
Ø 'Should I do this? Should
I not do that?' Divided mind is misery. One-pointed mind is joy. All those
moments when you have been very happy, it is the mind becoming one whole.
Ø The world is as you see
it. A hungry man looks at the moon, he sees it like a doughnut. Someone in love
looks at the moon, it reminds him of his beloved's face. Having attained Divine
love, one cannot but see only love everywhere. When you attain perfection, you
see only perfection.
Ø (Mai Tera) in Hindi means
"I'm yours." So many of you who wished me in words and thought, I
would like to reiterate that I am yours, now and forever.
Ø The very joy of giving
love is so much that it does not matter who is at the receiving end. When this
space comes into your being, then you will go on giving love to everybody and
everything - not only human beings but to animals, to trees, to distant stars.
Love can be transferred to the farthest star by just your loving look, to a
tree just by your touch. It can be conveyed in absolute silence, without a
single word.
Ø When you acquire
self-knowledge, then you feel that your birth and your actions are both Divine.
This understanding comes to you. Not a single bad word comes out from your
mouth. There is no hate or ill feelings in your heart towards anyone. It just
cannot happen because everyone feels part of you; like your very own. This is
the pinnacle of Love.
Ø Just like we have a
Parliament, the subtle beings also have a Parliament. This Parliament of the
Gods has assembled here today. An idol becomes a deity when a realized person
invokes life in it through mantras. Every village has a deity that is worshipped. Leaving
aside all differences of caste and creed, we are all under one Divinity. The
purpose of this event is to remind us of this. [A thousand village deities or
gram devatas assembled at the Bangalore Ashram today]
Ø We don't have to be Danish
to eat Danish cookies nor do we become Swiss if we eat Swiss chocolates. We
accept food, music and technology too from every part of the world. Then, why
don’t we accept wisdom from every part of the world and from every tradition?
Ø You cannot understand love
through intellect. It needs to be felt. And anything that needs to be felt
needs synthesis, not analysis. You have to become one with it to know it.
Whatever you know through the head is at a distance. The subject-object
relation will always remain. But love is not like that. The taste of the
pudding is in tasting, music is in hearing it. In the same way, feeling.
Ø Q: What is the quality you
need to love everyone?
Sri Sri: Be at ease with yourself and everybody, a
simplicity. When you are open from within, you can't but love everyone and
everyone can't but love you. Neither you have a choice nor do they. You have
done this as a baby. Then, you were natural, simple, innocent and free with
everybody. And everybody loved you!
Ø Divine love is - "I
have never seen your face but I have fallen in love with you. I have not heard
your name but my heart beats by your name. I have never touched you but you are
pulsating in every cell of my being. I have never met you but you are in me.
All I want is to dissolve. All I want is to be one."
Ø Throughout the ages, man
has tried to express love, but it has remained inexpressible. Love is so deep
somewhere in you that you find all your expressions are just a shadow of it. If
the feeling is superficial, it can be expressed. But the feeling that is so
genuine, so deep, so authentic, is hard to express.
Ø If you are saddened by
another's sorrow, then sorrow will never come to you. If you are happy at
another's joy, then joy will never leave you.
Ø Don't think people who
agree with your grievances are your friends. Those who make your negative
feelings and frustration grow more and more in you may appear to be friends but
they are bad company. Good company makes you feel the problem is nothing. "It's
solvable, it's simple, don't worry." They pump enthusiasm in you.
Ø In order to do certain
jobs, you need certain qualifications. If you want to lift 100kg, you need that
much strength. So, if love is a question of ability, strength, not everyone can
love. But love transcends all ability. Whether you are foolish or wise, rich or
poor, sick or healthy, strong or weak, you can still be in love.
Ø Life is full of
interruptions but we need to keep moving. We park somewhere and then we move
again. If you park your car in a wrong place, you need to move it sooner and if
you park in the right place, you have freedom; you can move it when you want to. Similarly,
you have to park your mind in a safe place. If you have parked your mind in
your own garage, nobody can tell you when you should move it. But if you park
your mind in somebody else's garage, they will be after you.
Ø Our human body is made to
bring heaven on this earth, meant to bring sweetness into this world, not spill
venom. It is easy to put down anybody but it takes some guts, some intelligence
and courage to uplift people, to bring out the divine quality in others around.
By bringing out divine qualities in others, you will be able to see Divinity
deep inside yourself.
Ø Even if you see one
beautiful quality, decorate it, exaggerate it, make it big, "So and so is
great, excellent, marvelous." If you see a negative quality, analyze with
your head, reason it out, "Why are they acting this way? Maybe, they are stressed..." The
analysis of negativity brings compassion in you and exaggeration of good brings
waves of beauty. Whether this person is beautiful or not, it makes YOU more
beautiful. Those who exaggerate positive qualities, their bodies get filled
with them. When this body gets filled with praise, the Divine dawns.
Ø Devotion is very
beautiful. A student comes to a Master, a Guru, with tears in his eyes - there
are so many problems. And when he leaves, he carries the same tears. Tears
still flow, but the quality is different - they are of gratitude, of love.
Ø Love is that phenomenon of
dissolving, disappearing, merging, becoming one with the Infinite. Love is that
phenomenon of total letting go.
Ø I have only two things to
tell you. One is that there is no misery in life. Wake up and see. There is no
sorrow, no problem. If that doesn't work, the second is, give your problems to
me.
Ø Asking for explanations
stirs up all the garbage. They justify, you say something, then they feel
guilty or justify more. In either case, it is of no use to you. Sometimes, it's
alright to go and say, "I'm sorry." But don't chew on it more than it
is needed. Going with a love, accepting space - "What can I do for
you?" That is enough
Ø Whomsoever we fall in love
with, we are really falling in love with our Self.
With warm regards to
All of Guruji’s disciples
and Adorers
From
(V.VIJAYAMOHAN)
