PRESTIGE AND HONOR, YOUR GOLDEN CAGE

Honor reduces the freedom. Your fame, honor and virtue can limit your freedom.
Nobody expects a good person to make a mistake. So the better person you are, the higher the expectations people have of you. It is then that you lose your freedom. Your virtues and good actions are like a golden cage. You are trapped by your own good actions, for everyone expects more from a good person. Nobody expects anything from a bad person.
Most of the people are stuck in this cage of prestige and honor. They can not smile. They are constantly worried about keeping up their prestige and their honor. It becomes more important than their own life. Just being good or doing good to keep the prestige and honor is worthless. Prestige and honor can bring more misery in life than poverty.
Many desire fame, but little do they know that they are looking for a cage.
It is an art to be dignified, and yet not be suffocated by it. Only the wise would know this. For the wise one it is natural to be in honor, and he has no concerns even if it falls apart. Despite having fame or prestige, he will live as though he has none.
A wise person can handle any fame without feeling suffocated, for he is crazy too!
By doing good in the society one gains prestige, then enjoying the prestige and honor, one loses their freedom.
Question: Then how do you keep your freedom?
Answer: By being like a child, considering the world as a burden a joke or a dream.

Faith Is Your Wealth

Faith is a wealth. If you think, by having faith in God you are doing a favour to God, you are mistaken. Faith gives you strength instantaneously. Faith brings you stability, centeredness, calmness and love. You having Faith In The Guru Or God, Does Not Do Anything To Guru Or God. Your Having Faith Gives You Immediate Strength. Faith is a great wealth; it is a blessing.

If you lack faith, you have to pray for faith. But to pray, you need faith. This is a paradox. (Laughter)

People have faith in the world - but the whole world is just a soap bubble. People have faith in themselves - but they don't know who they are. People think that they have faith in God - but they have no idea of God. If you want to doubt, you have to doubt everything

There are three types of faith : faith in yourself, faith in the world, and faith in God. You need to have faith in yourself -- without faith, you think, I can't do this. This is not for me. I will never be liberated in this life. You must have faith in the world. Without this, you cant move an inch in the world. Banks give you loans having faith that you will pay it back. You deposit money in the bank having faith that it will be returned. If you doubt everything in the world, nothing will happen. The same is the case with faith in the Divine - have faith in the Divine and you will evolve. All these faiths are connected. You must have all three for each to be strong.

Bill : Atheists have faith in themselves and faith in the world, but not in God.

Sri Sri : They don't have complete faith in themselves. Lack of faith in God, in the world or in the self brings fear. Faith in the world cannot be constant because there are always changes.

Faith makes you full - faithful. If you have faith, you are full.

Rajesh : What is the difference between faith and confidence ?

Sri Sri : Confidence is the result. Faith is the beginning.

Faith in yourself brings freedom.

Faith in the world brings you peace of mind.

Faith in God evokes love in you.

You can be at peace by having faith in the world and without faith in God, but it is not complete peace. If you have love, there is automatically peace and freedom. People who are extremely disturbed should only have faith in God.

Jai Gurudev :)

KNOWLEDGE AND FAITH

If you want to get married then marry. If you don't want to get married then don't marry. There are people who are married and miserable. There are people who are unmarried and miserable. All I want you to be is wise. Be wise in either case. Be centered. That is most important - Guruji

KNOWLEDGE AND FAITH

In science you have knowledge first, and then faith follows.


In spirituality, faith comes first, and then Knowledge follows.

For example, the knowledge that pesticides and chemical fertilizers are good for plants came through science, and people had faith in it, and all over the world they were used. And then another knowledge came that they were not good and the faith shifted to organic farming. The same with antibiotics.

The knowledge brought faith, the knowledge changed, and then faith changed. The knowledge and faith of science is of "happening." In spirituality, faith is first and Knowledge comes later. Like Kriya, Yoga, and meditation -- first you have faith and then Knowledge follows. For example, if you do pranayama faithfully then you get the Knowledge of the prana; if your do your meditation faithfully, the Knowledge of consciousness follows. Even an illiterate, through faith, attains deep Knowledge.

Human is the best composite material. ( this is the NASA scientist mind.)

Punditji: Science considers even human as matter, and spirituality considers even earth as mother, even rivers and mountains as living beings.

Science regards life as matter and spirituality regards even matter as life.

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"True love will not bring sadness, sorrow, misery, problems. But with vasanas (cravings) a tail is always attached---pain, problems, misery, discomfort." - Sri Sri

Attachment is that which gives you pain. Love is that without which you cannot live. If love becomes attachment, then the same love which was giving you joy, starts to inflict pain. Attachment is when you want something in return. If you love and do not want anything in return, then that love doesn't turn into attachment - Guruji

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When you fall ill, do whatever needs to be done. But don't keep thinking and talking about it every day. It brings down your spirit. We shouldn't pity people, 'Oh! You poor thing! You have this problem, you have that problem.' Come on, the spirit has no disease, no death, no problem. The body always has some problem - sometimes a minor illness, sometimes a major one. All this can be overcome. And it will overcome! Body will fight it out - Guruji

लालबहादुर शास्त्री (2 अक्तूबर, 1904 - 11 जनवरी, 1966), भारत के तीसरे और दूसरे स्थायी प्रधानमंत्री थे । वह 1963-1965 के बीच भारत के प्रधान मन्त्री थे। लालबहादुर शास्त्री का जन्म 1904 में मुगलसराय उत्तर प्रदेश में लाल बहादुर श्रीवास्तव के रुप में हुआ था। उनके पिता शारदा प्रसाद एक गरीब शिक्षक थे, जो बाद में राजस्व कार्यालय में लिपिक (क्लर्क) बने।
भारत की स्वतंत्रता के पश्चात शास्त्रीजी को उत्तर प्रदेश के संसदीय सचिव के रुप में नियुक्त किया गया था। वो गोविंद बल्लभ पंत के मुख्यमंत्री के कार्यकाल में प्रहरी एवं यातायात मंत्री बने। उन्होनें प्रथम बार किसी महिला को संवाहक (कंडक्टर) के पद में नियुक्त किया। प्रहरी विभाग के मंत्री होने के बाद उन्होने भीड़ को नियंत्रण में रखने के लिए लाठी के जगह पानी की बौछार का प्रयोग प्रारंभ कराया।
1951 में, जवाहर लाल नेहरु के नेतृत्व मे वह अखिल भारत काँग्रेस कमेटी के महासचिव नियुक्त किये गये। उन्होने 1952, 1957 व 1962 के चुनावों मे कांग्रेस पार्टी को भारी बहुमत से जिताने के लिए बहुत परिश्रम किया। ।

जवाहरलाल नेहरू का उनके प्रधानमंत्री के कार्यकाल के दौरान 27 मई, 1964 को देहावसान हो जाने के बाद, शास्त्री जी ने 9 जुन 1964 को प्रधान मंत्री का पद भार ग्रहण किया।

Hunger of Power

Why are people hungry for power?

People are hungry for power because they want attention and recognition.Power is a means, just like money. Passion is for an end. People who do not see power or money as a means, but see it as an end in itself, they do not live, they simply exist.If you do not realize that you are THE power -- that is to say that you are enlightened, then you crave for power.

You crave for attention and recognition if:

1. You don't have any talents,

2. You have no love or passion,

3. You are not innocent and childlike.

If you don't have any talent and you are not contributing anything substantial to society, like an artist or a scientist, or an Art of Living teacher or volunteer, then you are hungry for power.If you don't have love or passion to bring about transformation in the society, then you are hungry for power.If you are not innocent and childlike and don't have a sense of belongingness with the whole world, then you are hungry for power.Those who do not have any of these four, like some politicians, crave for power.The true power is the power of the spirit; real confidence, strength and happiness all spring from the spirit. And one who knows this and has this is not hungry for power at all.

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"When they are doing good things with good intention and the action has gone wrong, then you don't mind that mistake so much." - Sri Sri...

"'Om Namah Shivaye' mantra, pranayama, Satsang. All these take care of your previous karmas. Surrender all your sins & move further in life."- Sri Sri...

When you see a ray of light, start moving towards it instead of thinking or worrying Ohh,,, there is darkness here, darkness there. As you move towards light, darkness disappears completely. So follow knowledge in life, spend time for it instead of sitting and worrying about different kind of negativities in you - Sri Sri

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