Gratitude and Beauty

You cannot be grateful and feel the lack. The two cannot exist at the same time. When you feel grateful, you feel full. When you feel lack, grumbling begins from some corner. If you feel grateful, gratitude will increase in you and you will be given more. If you keep on grumbling, the negativity in you will increase. Jesus said, "For those who have not, what little they have will be taken from them. And to those who have, more will be given. And more. And more." This is the law of the nature. For those who do not have this knowledge, there is no way to get out of their grumbling. It becomes a habit.Read More

Sri Sri Ravishankar meets Naveen

Bhubaneswar, Nov 21 (PTI) Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravishankar today met Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who recently suffered a ligament injury, at his residence here. "I enquired about the Chief Minister's health. We also discussed different welfare programmes launched by the state government," Ravishankar told reporters after the meeting. Patnaik has been confined to his residence after he sustained Grade-1 tear in the ligament of his right ankle after he fell down while taking a stroll on the lawns of his residence last Tuesday. Praising the state government's recently launched programme for the pregnant and nursing mothers, Ravishankar said it would help lakhs of rural women. Mamata Scheme has provision of state's assistance of Rs 5,000 to each pregnant and lactating mothers, if they follow guidelines like taking immunisations at regular interval. Besides attending a 'satsang', the spiritual guru was also scheduled to review progress of the proposed Sri Sri University near Cuttack. Read More

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Mechanics of action.

The dynamics of how events happen is a big mystery. Only one who is 100% in doing can recognise the happening. The healthiest way to apply this knowledge is to see the whole past as happening and the present as doing. If you see the past as doing, then ego and regret come along. And when you see the present as happening, laziness and unawareness set in. Let the happening be for the past and the doing for the present. And the future is a mix of both.


The wise will see the doing in happening and the happening in doing simultaneously. One who does a lot of work will never say he did a lot. If someone says he did a lot of work, it that means he can do more. He has not done enough. Work does not tire you as much as the "doership" does.


All actions happen through consciousness. The world moves because of consciousness. Consciousness expresses the three shaktis as — gyan shakti, ichcha shakti and kriya shakti. Knowledge, action and desire. If these shaktis are aligned, life becomes very smooth. If not, life is in doldrums.Read More

How to Meditate Into Higher States of 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. We seek elevation and joy from these senses. If any one of the senses is missing, the entire dimension of that sense is lost. One who cannot hear is bereft of the whole arena of sound. Similarly, he who cannot see is deprived of all the beautiful sights and colors. So, the sense is more important and much bigger than the object of the sense.


The mind is higher than the senses. The mind is infinite, its desires are many, but the capacity of the senses to enjoy is limited. Greed is wanting more and more of sensory objects. Even though one can only enjoy a limited amount during a lifetime, one wants all the wealth in the world.  Read More

The Art of Living Foundation Celebrates 30 Years of Education and Service

Washington, DC (PRWEB) November 18, 2011
The Art of Living Foundation(AOLF),an educational and humanitarian non-profit announced today that it has completed 30 years of education and service bringing happiness, peace and development to individuals and communities in the United States and the world as a whole. The Foundation, which offers stress management and self development programs, in partnership with International Association for Human Values (IAHV) has worked on several initiatives related to health, education, sustainable development, conflict resolution, disaster and trauma relief, prisoner rehabilitation and women empowerment to positively impact millions of people in more than 150 countries over the last three decades. Read More

Street movements can't replace Parliament, says Sri Sri Ravishankar

All eyes are on Uttar Pradesh as India's largest state is set to go to the hustings next year. While Rahul Gandhi blew the poll bugle at Phoolpur, there is yet another figure whose visit to the state raised many an eyebrow.Sri Sri Ravishankar, guruji to millions, toured some of the most important constituencies in the state exhorting people to rise up against corruption. Political parties of all hues tried to play the four day long visit in their favour but the spiritual leader didn't bat an eyelid, apart from cancelling his Amethi visit at the last moment. Now, in an exclusive interview toindiatoday.in, Sri Sri Ravishankar reveals what the pressure was all about.


Q. What was the aim of your UP yatra and have you achieved it?


A. Uttar Pradesh was part of my routine yatra which I have been doing for past several years. I give dates according to local people's request. No political motive should be attached to my U.P. tour. It is mainly spiritual and of course social causes are also raised, just as we have been doing everywhere else. Satsangs are always an uplifting experience and it was obvious by the response of the people.
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