23 September 2015 - QA 4

Gurudev, everyone in the world wants to meet you – be it the most influential and powerful people, or the poorest of the poor in the world. Please tell us a little about how you feel.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

Well, I too want to meet everyone. And today technology has made it possible to connect with everyone and reach out to the farthest corners of the world. Even through media personalities like you, it has become possible to reach out to many more people.

People can write to me anytime they feel like. Today we have the convenience of email. I get thousands and thousands of emails every day.
See, there are two kinds of connections:
1. The external connection
2. The inner connection
We also need to re-establish that inner connection with ourselves. And when we sincerely feel that belongingness with people from within, then they automatically become our own. We just need to understand and accept them from within. That is all that is needed.

At the subtle level we are all wired together, we are all connected with each other. It is said that there are a trillion cells in our brain. Every part of our body is connected to the larger universe. Every individual is a part of this universe. We just need to go deep within and realize that we are all connected. That is when meditation happens.