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  1. Weekly Wisdom: Time, Space, and God (part 1)

    Our ancient rishis have estimated the age of our present creation to be about 10 billion years, whereas in other traditions it’s just 150,000 years. But recently, European space telescopes have measured the age, from looking at the fossil radiation from t ...
  2. Weekly Wisdom: Enlightenment, Yogic Powers, and Celibacy

    The word enlightenment has been used, misused, and misunderstood so many times. When someone who says, “I am enlightened,” know that isn’t enlightenment.  “I” and “enlightenment” cannot go together. Both cannot exist.  So, when one who is enlightened is a ...
  3. What Is Shiva? An Expansive Understanding of Consciousness

    "Shiva is a state of meditation where there is nothing but the inner sky of consciousness."- Gurudev When I first came across Shiva, I was confused. Here was an ascetic figure seated on a tiger skin with a blue throat, a third eye, and a moon pe ...
  4. Weekly Wisdom: Secrets of Death and Beyond Revealed

    Curiosity about death also brings curiosity about life. To understand life, you need to know death. To understand death, you need to know life.  Death only indicates that life is eternal. It’s like changing your clothes, moving from one room to another ro ...
  5. Weekly Wisdom: Opposites that Coexist

    Know that you’re such a positive person that if any negative emotion comes to you, it will turn into a positive thing. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be scared about others’ negative emotions that you don’t know. They can come to you anytime, waking, dreaming, or ...
  6. Find Out the Top 17 Spiritual Benefits of Meditation For You

    The need to meditate is present in every human being because it is a natural tendency of human life to look for a joy that doesn’t diminish and a love that doesn’t turn into negative emotions. Meditation is a tool to reach such a state. We are made of bot ...
  7. Weekly Wisdom: Egos Make the World Go Round

    Just imagine you’re a movie director. In a movie, there are all different characters. There’s a hero. There’s a villain. There are the assistants. There’s the heroine and whatever other roles.  You don’t hate the villain. The villain is as important to yo ...
  8. Weekly Wisdom: Love, Sex, Drugs, and the Meaning of Life

    Once you achieve a goal, you can’t keep the same goal. It’s impossible! You have to move forward. So once the exams are over, and you go on to the entrance exam, and that’s finished, then there’s another goal. The goal post should keep moving as you move ...
  9. Weekly Wisdom: Dealing with Difficult Emotions

    By Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar | Posted on: August 05, 2021. In this Weekly Wisdom, Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar shares beautiful insights on how to build your skills for dealing with difficult emotions. Find out. After seeing violence for a long time, y ...
  10. Weekly Wisdom: Healing Power of Music

    By Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar  In this Weekly Wisdom, Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar shares beautiful insights on how music can heal. Find out. Music, if it’s taken as an entertainment, has less energy, less healing power. But music, when sung at Satsang ...
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