05/10/2016 Bangalore, India
If our very building blocks, the molecules and atoms are moving all the time, is there really anything that is still?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
'Space' - The background in which everything is moving - the self, the space - that is still.
In business, should there be belongingness?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
You should see how to make your business sustainable. To make your business sustainable, you should maintain good relationships. If you cheat on a person, that person won’t return. Your business won’t go too far.
Belongingness however does not mean you invest with your eyes closed, and blindly give out loans. You should do all the necessary things and perform document control.
You should not do business with your heart, but with your head; without losing your heart. Keep them in their own place.
Dear Gurudev, is my enlightenment my responsibility or your responsibility?
I want to hear Amma’s stories from you. We have not heard much about her. Could you tell us stories that you have not told anyone?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
I have to think about it. My mind is like a blank space. I have to go into the memory, and we will do that some other time.
Nothing stays here, nothing sticks. Have you heard of the word ‘Kamalanayana’?Kamalnayana literally means eyes like a lotus. It does not literally mean just a lotus flower, but it refers to what the lotus flower depicts; nothing sticks to a lotus.
Whatever you say, if it doesn’t stick in the eyes and it doesn't stick to the mind, that is Kamalanayana. To some extent everybody is Kamalanayana. Many times we see many things, but they don’t get into our heads.
Whatever you say, if it doesn’t stick in the eyes and it doesn't stick to the mind, that is Kamalanayana. To some extent everybody is Kamalanayana. Many times we see many things, but they don’t get into our heads.
I am sure that, we all at some point, have gone through some difficult situations. Is it one's fate or should it be left to God's will. What should one do?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Dwelling on the past events and worrying about it does not benefit you at all. Just believe that whatever has happened in the past, that was your fate. Whatever is going to happen in the future is your own freewill and live happily in the present.
Foolish people think that everything in the past was free will. They think about how they could have done things differently and become sad. People feel that future is fate and remain sad in the present. This is foolishness.
My son is 20 years old and has done the happiness course, the DSN course and he has also joined the Advanced Meditation Program, but why is his heart still not peaceful?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
He needs to do more of these courses. It is not enough.
Gurudev, could you please speak about solidified silence. I have often heard this phrase from you.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
It is only in experience, it cannot be explained. It is something like when you feel that space is like solid. Knowledge, space and silence can all feel as though they are a substance.
Solidified means that which is real. If you ask scientists, they say what appears to be real or material is not real. It is all just space, but it feels real to us. In the same way, it is an experience in meditation when the mind is absolutely still, you will find that the silence is solidified. That’s why they say 'Gyan Ghan' (solidified knowledge). This is a term often used in Sanskrit. It is an experience.
Solidified means that which is real. If you ask scientists, they say what appears to be real or material is not real. It is all just space, but it feels real to us. In the same way, it is an experience in meditation when the mind is absolutely still, you will find that the silence is solidified. That’s why they say 'Gyan Ghan' (solidified knowledge). This is a term often used in Sanskrit. It is an experience.
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