Guruji, yesterday you said it is easier for industrialist to fight corruption together, but even that is difficult. There are so many laws and regulations. It is difficult to run a unit without breaking some law or the other? What should we do?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: I tell you in action there is no 100% perfection.
I will give you an example. Here we have an Ayurvedic college and the hospital is supposed to be 1.5km away from the college, this is the dictated norm.
Now the village is 2.9km away.
So I said, ‘I am going to break this rule and keep the hospital 2.9km away from the college.’
It makes sense because the village people cannot walk the whole distance of 2km to come to a hospital. They need to be close to the hospital.
Especially since Ayurveda is not too popular. First of all we need to make it popular and so it should be closer to the village.
So I said, ‘yes we will make it closer, never mind if we have going to break the rule.’
We rented a building in the village and built the hospital; that was the only way. Otherwise you can have a hospital within 1.5km and no patients. Nobody will come, what do you do? So sometimes certain laws are such which are obsolete and you have to skillfully walk your way through them. When the authorities came we told them that the hospital should be where there is population.
So that is why there is always an exception for rules. Rules need to be followed but when you see that a rule is almost impossible to follow you should find out where is the exception of the rule. That is why in the world you need skill (yukti) and energy (shakti). Both are needed to be successful in the world. Similarly, to be successful in life you need mukti (inner freedom) and bhakti (devotion).
If mind is full with concepts, I am a Jain or I am a Christian, I cannot chant ‘Om’ then our own mental barriers is keeping us away from an experience. We must remove the barrier in the mind and feel free.
Fortunately in India these barriers are very less. I don’t think people have even so much barrier, but if you go to many other places there are a lot of religious barriers in the mind that stop people from communicating with everybody.
In India we still have caste barrier, especially in villages. ‘I don’t want to sit with him’ or ‘I don’t want to eat with him.’ This is completely absurd. Whatever caste or religion one is everyone should sit together and sing.
I will give you an example. Here we have an Ayurvedic college and the hospital is supposed to be 1.5km away from the college, this is the dictated norm.
Now the village is 2.9km away.
So I said, ‘I am going to break this rule and keep the hospital 2.9km away from the college.’
It makes sense because the village people cannot walk the whole distance of 2km to come to a hospital. They need to be close to the hospital.
Especially since Ayurveda is not too popular. First of all we need to make it popular and so it should be closer to the village.
So I said, ‘yes we will make it closer, never mind if we have going to break the rule.’
We rented a building in the village and built the hospital; that was the only way. Otherwise you can have a hospital within 1.5km and no patients. Nobody will come, what do you do? So sometimes certain laws are such which are obsolete and you have to skillfully walk your way through them. When the authorities came we told them that the hospital should be where there is population.
So that is why there is always an exception for rules. Rules need to be followed but when you see that a rule is almost impossible to follow you should find out where is the exception of the rule. That is why in the world you need skill (yukti) and energy (shakti). Both are needed to be successful in the world. Similarly, to be successful in life you need mukti (inner freedom) and bhakti (devotion).
If mind is full with concepts, I am a Jain or I am a Christian, I cannot chant ‘Om’ then our own mental barriers is keeping us away from an experience. We must remove the barrier in the mind and feel free.
Fortunately in India these barriers are very less. I don’t think people have even so much barrier, but if you go to many other places there are a lot of religious barriers in the mind that stop people from communicating with everybody.
In India we still have caste barrier, especially in villages. ‘I don’t want to sit with him’ or ‘I don’t want to eat with him.’ This is completely absurd. Whatever caste or religion one is everyone should sit together and sing.