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Meditation and Logic

If all your experience can be explained logically, then you have missed something very important in life.- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar In the state of Sampragnata Samadhi (conscious awareness), special logic is together with the experience of meditation ...

How to control your thoughts during meditation

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Meditation and the Senses

We have five sensory organs- eyes, nose, ears, tongue and skin. Meditation can happen when there is harmony in the five senses. When you sit for meditation, observe all your sensory organs. Observe your breath and eye movement. Is your breath steady? Is t ...

Meditation and The Ego

'When you are in a group, and there is discomfort, this is because of barriers, of the ego. Take a deep breath, watch the discomfort, it will disappear.- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. What Is Ego? Ego says, "I am something, I am somebody, I am v ...

Meditation and The Memory

Memory can make you either sad or enlightened. Meditation can bring that shift in your memory – to let go of the trivial, and to recognize your infinite nature. Holding On To The Limited & Trivial How often is our mind churning with unpleasant memorie ...

Mantra Meditation

The peace and happiness we feverishly seek in the world are already contained within us, covered only by the clouds of stress and strain. These clouds are lifted with Sahaj Samadhi meditation – a gift of wisdom from Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. This is a ...

Meditation and the Consciousness

There are various states of consciousness that we can have. Meditation is one of the most important of them. Following are normal states of consciousness We are awake experiencing the world through the 5 senses. In absence of any one of these we lose the ...

6 reasons why your meditation might not be working

Lava and Kusha are best friends. They enjoy doing everything together. So naturally, when Lava joins a meditation course, Kusha also wants to follow suit. However, Kusha’s schedule does not allow him to join a class. So, he decides to meditate on his own. ...

Meditation: The Taste of True Freedom

Every human being wants to be free. But when the mind gets caught up in a never-ending list of day-to-day activities, it seems like the search is forgotten. But meditation allows you to come back to your true nature. On a spiritual quest, freedom, meditat ...

Meditation radiates love in you – inside out

"Love is not an emotion; it is your very existence."~ Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar If love is our very existence, if that is what we are made up of, then why do we keep searching for love outside? Why do we base our happiness on being loved by s ...