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What is the need to meditate?
Q- Why is there such a need for meditation in today’s society, in today’s life? Gurudev: You know, if you look into the benefits that meditation brings into your life, we feel it is all the more relevant, all the more needed. In ancient times, meditation ... -
In Meditation You Are Time
Talk given on September 9, 1999 Bangalore, India "When you feel time is too short, you are either restless or in expanded awareness. When you feel time is too long, you are miserable or keen minded. When you are happy and love what you are doing, you ... -
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 ... -
Your Life Becomes a Meditation
"Faith is the subject of the head, while devotion is the subject of the heart. Meditation is the subject of the head and heart, and connects them both. A mature intellect is devoted, a mature heart is full of knowledge, and meditation matures your in ... -
Meditation erases all Impressions
Do not make an effort to impress others or to express yourself. Your effort to impress someone will be futile. Your effort to express yourself becomes an impediment. If you do not try to impress, expression comes naturally. When you come from the Self, yo ... -
To Meditate all Intentions must be dropped!
A strong tendency to keep doing something whether important or unimportant becomes an impediment to meditation. 'Doing' starts first with an intention and then translates into action. Though intentions spring from being, it becomes “doing” and i ... -
Meditation is Listening to God’s Will
Q – If one has faith and believes that God exists, how important is it to pray, meditate, etc.? Prayer is asking God what you want for yourself or thanking him for what you have received. Meditation is listening to God’s will. If you believe in God, then ... -
Meditation Keeps the Mind Clean Like a Mirror
Q – When is a good time to meditate and when you are meditating, what should you think about? Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar- Meditate in the morning, afternoon, and evening, before food: before breakfast, lunch and dinner. When thoughts come, normally what ... -
When We Meditate, Our Work Happens Easily
Q – Why is there still some awareness when one is deep in meditation? Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar – There are five different experiences of the senses – sight, sense, sound, taste, and touch. They continue as a very subtle primordial nature. Though there ... -
Meditate into higher consciousness
We live most of our life through three states of consciousness: waking, dreaming and sleeping. In the waking state of consciousness, we experience the world through the five senses through which we seek elevation and joy. If any one of the senses is missi ...
Founded in 1981 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,The Art of Living is an educational and humanitarian movement engaged in stress-management and service initiatives.
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