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  1. The Consciousness as Chitta and Buddhi (Subconscious mind and Intellect)

    This consciousness, which has become the brain, which has become the inner faculties or organs, is of immense power. One thought came in the mind to make a television and that thought manifested as television. All possible advancement in any field today, ...
  2. Mind is Like a River

    Q: Gurudev, I happened to meet an American diplomat who has been on the spiritual path for 40-45 years. He said that some saints have visions of a kingdom of God, which is blue. Millions of souls are hovering around to get inside the kingdom of God, but t ...
  3. Meditation is Deep Rest

    Q: Could you advise on what is the best way of going into meditation. And is there any kind of special music which can enable you to access that space better? (Ritu Kumar: Fashion designer from India (Recipient of the Padmashree in 2013)) Gurudev: Meditat ...
  4. Intuitive Awareness Increases With Meditation

    Q: How can one live one’s life without self-inflicted guilt and the guilt inflicted by others on us? Gurudev: You are in the right place. Just know this, guilt is like the dust on our clothes, or on our skin. So what do you do? You wash it with a little s ...
  5. Meditation for Seekers

    Where are you on the spiritual path? You may think of yourself as a spiritual person, but when you are caught in a traffic jam, or someone disagrees with you, your spiritual nature seems to take a holiday. Worries, sorrows and disturbances are certain to ...
  6. Deep Rest with Meditation

    Meditation is not an act; it is the art of doing nothing! The rest in meditation is deeper than the deepest sleep that you can ever have. When the mind becomes free from agitation, becomes calm and serene and is at peace, meditation happens. When the mind ...
  7. How to overcome obstacles in meditation

    #1 Drop all desires & planning The hindrance for meditation is the desire and all your planning to do something. Offer the desire through surrender with the trust, “It it is right for me, it will be done.” Just think it will happen and relax. Surrende ...
  8. When your energy is uplifted, then meditation happens

    This is continued from the previous Secrets of Meditation post … Q: How to accept the present moment? Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Like now, this moment I have accepted your question, and I am here now. Got it? It is spontaneous. The present moment is in ...
  9. Service and Meditation

    The way to overcome personal misery is to share universal misery and the way to expand personal joy is to share universal joy. Instead of thinking, “What about me?”, “What can I gain from this world?”, think: “What can I do for this world?” When everyone ...
  10. Meditation & Love

    If you look at all the pleasures you get in life, they all come with a 'tax'! This tax is sorrow. Every event, however pleasant, causes pain in the end. Greater the joy; greater is the pain. Longing for an event or waiting for a pleasurable even ...