Journey to real ME

27/11/2025

*THIS WORLD IS IN YOUR MIND*
Question - Gurudev, Why do we remain stressed and fearful, thinking about the past and future, when the problem might not even be real in the world?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji - This world is in our own mind!

We look only at the world that exists in our mind, which we imagine in our own way, though the world outside may be different.

Most of the problems in ur life start because of your imagination.

If you are unhappy or have had an unpleasant life, it is due to the world in ur mind.

You have created such a universe. “Vishva” is a wonderful word – “shva” means either yesterday or tomorrow, and “vishva” means the special yesterday or tomorrow that we create in our own mind. In our mind, we imagine certain things as huge, though we are uncertain how they actually are. We are stuck in worries about yesterday and imaginings about tomorrow, which is why we lack enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is a quality of life, yet some people find only boredom and unhappiness.

Observe, in what direction is ur life moving – day by day, are you gaining enthusiasm or losing it? Look at a child 5-6 years old or a toddler of 3-6 months. They are filled with enthusiasm. It overflows from every cell of their body. Compare children with grown-ups and see if enthusiasm increases or decreases with age. Are we really living when we lose enthusiasm? This has happened because of our “Vishva” – we have made such a world. Now to drop this, should you run away from society to some cave in the Himalayas?

You will not find happiness just by entering a cave.

The world originates in your mind. Only you have created it, and only you can drop it.

The solution is in ur own body. “Shakti chakra sandhane vishvasamharah(Shiv Sutras)”- When you direct ur attention to the energy centres of the body, the world of worries and thoughts that trouble your mind will disappear. There will be peace.

Outer peace can only come from inner peace. We only give what we have. A person who has peace can bring peace to others. We need to find peace within. Inner peace is the key to world peace. Meditation is the secret to inner peace. Meditation is the vaccine for the mind. It brings strength to the mind and spirit.
*Gurudev Sri Sri RaviShankar*

23/11/2025

Jai Gurudev

23/11/2025

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"A guru is a totally Eastern phenomenon.

The West is not yet aware of it.
In the West it is difficult to feel.

Why go and bow down to a guru?

Why put your head at his feet? Looks humiliating.

But if you want to receive it, you have to bow down.

He is heavy, he can pour, but then you have to bow down, otherwise you won’t receive it.

When a disciple with total trust bows down at the feet of his master, something is happening there which is not visible to the eyes.

An energy is falling from the master, entering the disciple.

Something invisible to the eyes is happening there.

If you become aware you can see it also – the aura of the master, his rainbow, pouring himself down into the disciple.

You will see it in fact happening.

The master is heavy with divine energy.

And he has infinite energy now, he can pour it down to infinite disciples.

He can work with millions of disciples alone.

He is never exhausted because now he is connected with the whole; he has found the source of all.

Through him you can also take the jump into that abyss.

Surrender towards God is difficult because you don’t know where God is.

He has never given his address to anybody ever.

But a guru can be found. If you ask me what a guru is, I will tell you: the guru is the address of God."

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16/11/2025

Live life, don’t take it for granted !!!

26/10/2025

Being in a crowd when you are alone is ignorance.

Enlightenment is being alone in a crisisch a feeling of oneness in a crowd - this is a sign of wisdom.

Some know how to celebrate only when they are in a crowd; Some can rejoice only alone in silence. I tell you to do both.

Knowledge of life brings confidence, and Knowledge of death makes you fearless and centred.

Celebrate while you are alone and
Celebrate when you are with people.

Celebrate the silence and
Celebrate the noise.

Celebrate life and
Celebrate death.

This is the Eleventh Commandment! - gurudev

26/10/2025

जो शुद्ध बुद्धि मन के भावनात्मक उथल-पुथल में नहीं फँसती, वह द्वंद्वों से ऊपर उठ जाती है। शुद्ध बुद्धि को कर्म भी पीड़ित नहीं करते। बुद्धि के लिए संस्कृत शब्द "बुद्धि" है; जो मुक्त हो जाता है, वह बुद्ध है। मुक्ति बुद्धि को शुद्ध करती है। जैसे स्नान से शरीर शुद्ध होता है, वैसे ही ज्ञान और बुद्धि से बुद्धि शुद्ध होती है, ध्यान से मन शुद्ध होता है, और समर्पण से जीवन शुद्ध होता है। @गुरुदेव .
The pure intellect which is not caught up in the emotional turbulence of the mind rises beyond conflicts. Even Karma does not afflict the pure intellect. The Sanskrit word for intellect is buddhi; one who is liberated is a Buddha. Liberation purifies the intellect. Like the body gets pure by bathing, similarly the intellect becomes pure by knowledge and wisdom, the mind becomes pure by meditation, and life becomes pure when there is dedication. .

20/10/2025

*History Of Padma Sadhna 😗

In the Agama tradition it is said that the Devi (Goddess) sits on a 5 layered seat or asana.

• The base of this seat is a Tortoise, which represents *Stability.*
• ⁠The second layer is the Snake, which represents *Awareness.*
• ⁠Above the Snake sits the Lion, it symbolizes *Grace.*
• ⁠Above the Lion sits the Siddha, The *Perfect Sage (Perfection).*
• ⁠And above the perfect sage sits the Lotus, the symbol of *Full Blossoming.*

When our Asanas have all these *5 Qualities – Stability, Awareness, Grace, Perfection and Full Blossoming*, then the *Divinity* dawns in us and that is *Padma Sadhana*. It wholly refers to the blossoming of the *Mind, Body and Soul* through the practice of these Asanas. It releases many *Optimum Hormones* in the Blood stream and induces *Tranquility and Harmony*, improving one’s *Alertness, Dynamism, Courage and Commitment*.

~ *“Param Pujya Gurudev”*

19/10/2025

🎇 दीवाली की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएँ 🎇

दीपों का यह पावन पर्व
आपके जीवन में उजाला, सुख और समृद्धि लेकर आए।
हर एक अंधकार मिट जाए और
आपका जीवन खुशियों से जगमगाए।

✨ माँ लक्ष्मी और गणेश जी की कृपा से
आपके घर में सुख, शांति और प्रेम का वास हो।
आपका हर दिन दीपावली की तरह रोशन हो। ✨

शुभ दीपावली! 🪔💫

10/09/2025

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Osho Speaks

"When You start treading on Spiritual path ,it has a very very beautiful thing..

It says to you, that ,
Firstly - before you start serving anybody else, be absolutely selfish.

How can you serve anybody else unless you have attained your inner being first?

Be absolutely selfish!

If your own inner light is burning you may be able to help others; otherwise your service will be a mischief.

And the world is so much in mischief because of so many revolutionaries, so many social reformers, so many self-appointed servants.

They create mischief, they create chaos; it is natural because they have not attained to their own truth and they have started helping others.

If you have a light within, you may share your light with somebody else, but if you don’t have it how can you share it?

How can you share that which you don’t have?

A man came to Buddha – he must have been a very very great revolutionary, like Marcuse or others – and he asked Buddha, ”Tell me how I can serve others.

I have a deep compassion in me and I would like to make everybody happy.”

Buddha looked at him.

It is said he became sad; Buddha became sad looking at him.

The man said, ”Why have you become so sad?” Buddha said, ”It is difficult because you yourself don’t seem to be happy and you are on a mission to make everybody happy.

How can you share that which you don’t have?”

First you be; and once you are then it is not a mission.

Once you are blissful, then you don’t go out of your way to help others – your very being is a help wherever you are; you don’t make it a profession.

The way you are, wherever you are... if you sit near a tree, you help the tree.

Not consciously, not with any effort on your part, just being near the tree, and the tree responds and your inner being flows into the tree, and the tree flows into you – and you have awakened a tree.

Some day this tree will become a buddha and you will be a part in it, you participated in it; and when this tree will become a buddha and the whole universe will celebrate, you will also celebrate – a part of you, you have given to the tree, you have shared."

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27/08/2025

14/08/2025

Q: Gurudev, you speak of 3 bodies - gross, subtle, and causal. How are depression & su***de linked to them. Also, How can chanting & meditation during Ayush Homa, especially on one’s birthday, strengthen & heal us?

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji - The chanting of mantras creates an environment of positivity & sacredness. Mantras have an impact at the subtle level also. Our physical body is the gross body, while our subtle body is 1.5 times larger than the gross body.

And the Karana Sharira or Causal body is a 1000 times finer and subtler than even the subtle body itself. So we have 3 kinds of bodies. When the subtle body constricts and becomes smaller than the gross body, then a person becomes restless and miserable. When the subtle body diminishes even further, then a person loses his mental balance and feels like committing su***de. This is the root cause behind su***des.

By the practice of chanting mantras, pranayama & meditation the subtle body grows larger in size and also gets strengthened. When the subtle body becomes strong then one appears normal (physically). And when the subtle body expands much more than its normal limits then one feels that he is soaked in bliss. And as the subtle body expands further, it becomes finer & finer and merges or becomes one with the Causal body – that is when one gets Moksha (liberation or salvation).

Ayush Homa is a part of an ancient tradition and is performed to offer prayers for increasing one’s health & longevity. We pray for good health so that our eyes have proper sight, our ears should be able to hear properly till the time we leave this body. Along with the chantings, we also honour the Navagrahas (nine planets) and offer the sacred food grains associated with each planet into the sacrificial fire. This is what Ayush Homa is all about.

So during the Homa we chant mantras & pray to the Divine, saying, “May my lifespan increase; may I be healthy & free from diseases, and may only auspicious things happen through me. May I feel belongingness with everyone and everything around me”.

So one performs the Ayush Homa with all these prayers and wishes. This is an ancient Vedic way of celebrating one’s birthday.