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05/11/2025

Every moment there is a miracle happening; every moment, there is grace. Even if something appears to be not so good for the moment, in the long run, something good comes out of it.

04/11/2025

Q: Gurudev, how can we handle anger without hurting ourselves or others and find peace even when the world isn’t perfect?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji - First, create some space for imperfection in life. Do not expect everyone to be perfect overnight.

It will take some time for you to get to that level, where anger does not even touch you. It will keep coming in different shades and intensities.

Instead of looking at the cause of anger, look at the effect it is producing in your system. Anger is the punishment one gives oneself for someone else's mistake.

And then keep relaxing your system, attend to yourself.

This world cannot be so perfect, so broaden your vision. You cannot make everyone the way you want them to be. Unpleasant things are bound to happen. When it happens, you should have the strength and courage to move on. Meditation will definitely provide you that needed strength to overcome anger.

Once in a while if anger comes up, don’t start blaming yourself. One thing that can be very detrimental on the spiritual path is self blame. Keep moving ahead. This is where Sangha, group or company can also help. Whatever you cannot do alone, you can get help and support from a group, from good company.

Sangha (Company) has many benefits, but a few drawbacks also. It can also take up a lot of your energy. It can be draining at times. Many times you will have to compromise on something. The positive effect is that Sangha helps you to move forward. It gives you that much needed support to move forward. Whenever your mind goes topsy-turvy, or if your emotions are going up and down, when your inner faith is shaken, then at such times the Sangha will carry you forward. It will help you move through the situations.

One negative effect of the Sangha is that if someone in the group is negative and miserable and you are not careful enough and join hands with that person, then it can bring you down as well.

Also, The root cause of anger is righteousness - 'I am right'. If you think 'you are not right', you cannot get angry.

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04/11/2025

Q: Gurudev, how is it that just 10 minutes of meditation can refresh us more deeply than eight or ten hours of sleep, as you often say?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji - That is how it is.

Meditation gives you a different kind of energy.

Food gives you a different kind of energy.

Sleep gives you a different kind of energy.

Exercise gives you a different kind of energy.

Knowledge gives you a different kind of energy, and Meditation definitely tops them all.

Meditation gives you deep rest. The deeper you are able to rest, the more dynamic you will be in activity.

Meditation gives deep rest in the shortest time. It helps overcome depression and keeps a check on aggression that comes up due to stress or circumstances.

See, the sensory enjoyments are a natural phenomenon. It drains you because it takes your mind outside. When the senses turn inward via Meditation, there is another type of enjoyment (of deep rest). That is the ‘ananda’ (enjoyment) of the soul.

Did you get it? If not, just Meditate and you will experience it yourself.

Moreover, Stress is too much to do and too little time or energy. When we have too much to do with not enough time and energy, then we get stressed. So either you reduce your workload, which doesn't seem to be a possibility these days, or you increase your time - this is not possible either. So what we are left with is to increase your energy levels. Sudarshan Kriya and meditation greatly help you in increasing your energy levels.

Q: Gurudev, why is meditation the only way to bring true peace, both within and around us?

Sri Sri - There cannot be outer peace if there is no peace inside.

Meditation assures inner peace.

If you are agitated, you are frustrated, you can't create peace outside. You should have peace in order to give peace. It is not just the words that convey peace, peace is a vibration. When you are calm and serene deep inside, your strength increases many folds. When you are so strong, you can walk into any place and talk about peace. Meditation will not make you collapse out of nervous breakdown. It spreads the calming vibration around.

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04/11/2025

There are no BAD people!

01/11/2025

When hardship comes your way, it makes you strong, welcome it. Everything that happens in your life contributes to evolution. Faith in the bigger consciousness which is taking care of me will help you sail through hardship.

~ Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

01/11/2025

I have this crazy idea… a world without violence. This might appear to be utopian thinking, but we need to dream and we will get there
https://wisdom.srisriravishankar.org/world-without-violence/

31/10/2025

Q: Gurudev, How can I build a real and a pure relationship?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji - Best not to try to build a relationship, just be yourself; be natural and be simple and a relationship will develop naturally. If you try to build a relationship, that is when you become a little artificial. Then your behavior becomes artificial, not natural.

Just imagine someone is trying to impress you, don’t you notice that? If someone is trying to impress you, what do you do? You move away. What you like, that is what others like as well. You like someone to be very honest, open, natural, unassuming with you, correct? That is exactly what the other also wants from you. Don’t try hard to impress your girlfriend or boyfriend. Best is to be yourself, be forgiving and be in the present moment.

Question - Gurudev, How do I recognize my soul mate?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji - First you should recognize your soul and then your soul mate. You don’t know anything about yourself, you don’t know who you are. You don’t know your mind. Your own mind drives you crazy. One minute it wants something and the next minute it wants something else. That is why it is said, “Your own mind is responsible for your bo***ge and for your liberation, nothing else”.

A relationship can either take the form of strength or weakness depending on the mind. If the mind is strong then a relationship can be like a gift, but if the mind is weak and not in control, then a relationship can feel like bo***ge.

Don’t be too fussy, and keep waiting for some perfect life partner. If you get a perfect person, they will also be looking for a perfect life partner. Are you that perfect person? Look for a good person and get married. Even if you get somebody who is not up to your mark, I tell you, you have the ability to change them! Believe in this and move on.

When you are centered, when you are choiceless, then everything happens in your way.

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31/10/2025

Q: Gurudev, how do we truly know when we are in love? What are the signs that it’s real and not just attraction?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji - When you love someone you don’t see anything wrong with them. Even if you see some fault in them, you justify the fault and say, “Well, everyone does it! It is normal”.

Then you think you have not done enough for them. The more you do, the more you want to do for them. And they are always on your mind. You want to see them happy, you want them to have the best, and you get hurt even over small things. Ordinary things become extraordinary when you are in love.

Question - I am attracted to someone, but I don’t know if I should tell her how I feel. I want to be in love.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji - If you express your feelings, you will ruin it. You don’t need to tell somebody that you love them. If they are sensitive, they can feel it. Once you tell them your feelings, it changes everything.

Your existence is love. You breathe and there is love. Real intimacy is knowing that you are already intimate and relaxing about it, never trying to convince the other that you are intimate, never trying to express yourself too much. So simply smile, and allow them to become intimate by themselves.

It’s natural when you feel intimate that you want a response from the other person, you would like the other person to feel intimate too. Let them take their time. Don’t be in a hurry to express your intimacy.

Question - Gurudev, How do I be a good life partner?

Sri Sri - Maybe you can try this: whomsoever you choose as your life partner, contribute towards their life and don’t demand anything. The moment you start demanding, you become miserable. Win them over with your service and your love.

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31/10/2025

Divine and worldly dispensation are one and the same, they are not discrete. God is inseparable from this world. He is all permeating.
https://wisdom.srisriravishankar.org/everything-manifests-meditate/

31/10/2025

Thinking that which is not permanent, is permanent. To think or understand that which is not changing as changing, that which is changing as not changing.
https://wisdom.srisriravishankar.org/causes-of-misery-in-life/

31/10/2025

Head and Heart.

30/10/2025