Quotes from Sri Sri (Ravi Shankar Ji) of Art of Living Fame
Seva / Service
If you are not having good experiences in meditation, then do more seva you will
gain merit and your meditation will be deeper. When you bring some relief or
freedom to someone through seva, good vibrations and blessings come to you.
Seva brings merit; merit allows you to go deep in meditation; meditation brings
back your smile.
When you make service the sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your
mind, and gives you meaning
Be grateful for any opportunity to do seva.
Love
Love is not an emotion, it is your very existence.
Here are the signs of love. When you love someone, you see nothing wrong with
them.
When you love someone, you want to see them always happy and you want them to
have the best.
Love is the highest strength, yet it makes you absolutely weak
Love cannot tolerate distance, and hatred cannot tolerate nearness.
You can experience love, but you cannot describe it or express it totally.
Love is beyond sight, touch, smell, taste, and sound.
When there is Love, there is no ego; ego dissolves like the dew drops with the
sun.
In the company of one who is living Love, you also cant but spring into that
Love.
Love is that phenomenon of dissolving, disappearing, merging, becoming one with.
Love is that phenomenon of total letting go.
The seers, the seen, and the process of seeing all merge. The knowledge, the
knower, and the known, they all merge, become one & that is Divine Love.
Anger
In ignorance anger is cheap and a smile is costly
Make your smile cheaper and you anger expensive.
The anger of the enlightened is a blessing
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Silence
Silence is the goal of all answers. If an answer does not silence the mind, it
is no answer
Only Silence is complete
Smiling with all the existence is Silence
Purpose of words is to create silence.
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GOD
When you know you own God you will not be in a hurry to get something out of
God.
When you have infinite patience, you will realize God belongs to you.
God does not test you because he knows you completely - your past, present and
future
God is calling you every moment.
God is the Seer himself. Who sees---that is God
God is love. Being in love is sharing that love.
This entire universe is made up of God. There is nothing outside God.
God is responsibility, total responsibility.
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Knowledge
Be a Gopal. Be a friend in knowledge
Be a friend in knowledge. Uplift each other in knowledge
Knowledge is a burden if it does not set you free.
Knowledge keeps everything fresh.
In science you have knowledge first, and then faith follows. In spirituality,
faith comes first, and then Knowledge follows.
When you follow fun, misery follows you. When you follow Knowledge, fun follows
you.
Illusion is error of perception and knowing illusion as illusion is Knowledge.
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
For one who has awakened in knowledge, there is no more suffering.
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The Spiritual Master / Guru
The master is a doorway
The master is presence. The world is relativity and relativity has limitations.
Presence is unlimited.
If you are not feeling close to the master, it is because of you, because of
your mind, because of your ego concepts.
A master is like an ocean. Ocean is there, readily available. It does not reject
anybody.
If a Master is not hollow and empty, he is no Master at all.
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Surrender
Do not say that you want to surrender. Just know that you already are
surrendered.
A person who cannot surrender cannot be self reliant
When you are shaken, remember the foundation of responsibility is surrender.
The greatest power is in surrender, surrender to the Divine.
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Sadhana
Root out boredom through deep and continued meditation
If you are unable to meditate because your mind is chattering too much, just
feel that you are a little stupid, and then you will be able to sink deep into
meditation
Meditation erases the impressions and improves the expression
Anytime you are confused, your mind is in conflict, do asanas, sit in asana. You
will see, right away clarity comes.
Effect of asana is clearing out of all conflicts, duality.
The seed of negativity and the tendency for conflict in you can only be
annihilated by Sadhana.
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Satsang
Give quality time to the divine, it will be rewarded. Give satsang and
meditation your highest priority
One who does not do satsang is like a wild animal. Satsang alone makes you
civilized.
Satsang is the shelter from changing time and its harsh influence on life.
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Freedom
Break through the barrier of the rational mind and find freedom for yourself
Freedom is your very nature. Only with freedom do joy, generosity and other
human values blossom
Just an intention to be free makes you immediately free.
Discipline protects freedom. You can choose to focus either on freedom or
discipline, and this makes you happy or unhappy.
Freedom without discipline is like a country without a defense.
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Karma
When you praise someone, you take on their good karma. When you blame someone,
you take on their bad karma
Performing actions cannot eliminate karma. Only through grace can the bondage of
karma be burnt.
Prarabdha karma cannot be changed. Sanchita karma can be changed by spiritual
practices.
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Respect
Respect for the Self is faith and faith is being open
Have respect for the Self and no one can take your self respect
Someone does not need to be great in order to be respected. Respecting life
makes you great.
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Ego
The "I" or ego in you is a tiny atom
Ego is separateness, non-belongingness
The head level is safe for the ego. The heart level breaks the ego. The solve
level dissolves the ego
The inability to communicate occurs because of ego
Someone experiences bliss, and that bliss, itself, becomes a trip for the ego.
So the ego, in turn, destroys the infinity, the joy, the bliss.
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Death
Divinity dwells in the void as well as in celebration.
Death brings you in touch with the reality of life.
Wake up an see your life is too short. The realization that life is short will
bring dynamism to your life.
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Breath
Breath is the link between your body and your spirit and your mind
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