Tough situations brings out skills in you. A lotus leaf is in water and sometimes water spills on the leaf but still the leaf remains dry, it doesn’t stick to the water.
Similarly, water and ghee, both are fluids, but a drop of ghee floats on water, it doesn’t sink. Similarly, in a negative atmosphere, be like a drop of ghee, where you keep your integrity and you float. Don’t be like a stone which sinks deep inside.
You’re in the right place. Just relax. It will be done for you. Some things you have to do by yourself and some things you have to let others do for you. You can’t say that you will do everything by yourself.
If a surgery needs to be done, you should allow someone else to do it on you. If it is a massage, you have to allow someone else to do it on you. You cannot say, ‘I will massage myself’.
But, if you have to eat, you have to do it on your own. You cannot say, ‘I am thirsty but let someone else drink for me’. You have to drink by yourself.
Similarly, you have to meditate. The restlessness in the mind and lack of focus comes by the over-utilization of our energy and our senses.
If you are very focused and centered, just go and see a movie and after 3 hours you will notice that your focus is gone. How many of you have had this experience? (Many in the audience raise their hands).
Watch cricket for may be 2 hours and after that see how rattled your mind becomes; vatta imbalance happens and the mind can’t focus. Similarly, if you’re working on an ambitious project and there is anxiety about the success of the project, then you’re centeredness is gone. You’re mind gets ruffled.
Suppose you’ve eaten too much, or you have not had enough sleep, or there is an anxiety to achieve something immediately, then the mind is not focused. Overuse of any of our senses, touch, smell, taste, hear and sight makes you lose your focus.
In Gita it is said, 'Drop all the five senses for some time and then you will notice that the mind gets really centered and your intellect becomes laser sharp’.
It is like what you feel after an advance course, the mind becomes as clear as a crystal. How many of you have had this experience in meditation? (Many in the audience raise their hands).
The moment you use your senses more than its capacity, you feel drained. When you feel drained the mind is all over the place. There is not enough prana; not enough energy.
You know why they cheat on you? It is because they value your love and are afraid of losing your love.
Whenever someone close to you tells you a lie, it is just because love wins over truth. If truth wins, it is afraid of losing love. So why a person lies is because they do not want to lose the love of the other person.
When someone is cheating on you and their mind is going towards someone else, what do you do? Just pray, have patience and understand their mind. Give them three warnings, and even then if they don’t listen, then take some drastic steps.
We have created a mediation cell in almost every big city court. When such cases come up and when the couple speak to our teachers, they help in conflict resolution. Our teachers talk to them and make them understand life from a bigger context. Then suddenly they patch up.
The Chief Justice in the High Court in Delhi told us that 80% of the cases that are sent to the mediation cell are all getting resolved by The Art of Living volunteers. It’s a welcome news.
He must be sleeping somewhere. We have to wake him up. Godliness is there in everyone, it is sleeping, especially where the ISIS incidents are happening.
It is really painful. Today also there was an attack in a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan. People were praying and they went and attacked them. It is very unfortunate. Let’s hope people will change; pray for it.
This is quite natural when you travel. Food, environment, atmosphere can cause vatta-pitta-kapha imbalance.
The three doshas, i.e., vatta, pitta and kapha are not constant; they are like clouds, like water. Water cannot always be still. Water has waves, it is fluid, dynamic, and changing. Similarly, clouds change, the air changes. Everything in the universe is changing, and doshas also keep changing.
(Laughter) Let me consider it! A deal is always two sided. People say give me blessings, but they bring a small cup with them. If you bring a small cup that can hold only 100ml of milk and then ask me to you 1 liter of milk, how can I give it to you? You have to bring a bigger pot.
If you bring a pot that hold 10 liters, I will give you 10 liters. So you need to expand your capacity. Life is a combination of abilities and grace. Self effort and grace, both is needed in life.