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Q: Gurudev, When the parent dies, why does only the son have all the right to do the kriyas (rituals) and not the daughter? Also, can women chant Gayatri Mantra as initiated in Upanayan?
@Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji - No women also have the right to do. This is only in the middle ages they changed. There is nothing like that. Sita had done for Janaka. All that man does, women has the right to do them all. Between boy and girl, there is no distinction whatsoever. This is word ‘kanyadaan’ which we have put, it is completely wrong. We should not use this word at all. Kanya(girl) is not an object to give ‘daan’ (donation). I have removed it here (in @ArtofLiving), I told the pundits, remove it.
This is not there in the shastras at all. In Shastras there are two things.
One is the Rudis, meaning which has come as a tradition as a custom, another is Vidhi, which has come as a shastra, injunction from the scriptures. This Rudis has no place at all. And this kanyadaan is one such Rudi.
If you see that there is really nothing like that in the original Vivah vidhi. That’s why we should tell people not to put the kanyadaan and all that. Somewhere we must change. See till marriage a man has one set of yagnopaveetham, after marriage he gets two of them. Why? Because he is wearing the wife’s also. You can’t eat for your wife, have her have her own food.
Also you may ask, Can women chant The Gayatri Mantra?
Yes. Nowhere it is said that women cannot chant.
It is unfortunate that somewhere in the middle ages, these rights of women were taken away. We have reinstated this in the Ashram. Many women are learning.
See it was a male dominated society. The men thought that if ladies do Gayatri Mantra, it will bring them a lot of power; healing power and sankalpa Shakti. Whatever they wish for those things will start happening. So the men said, ‘No our wives are already powerful, we don’t want to make them more powerful. So we won’t let them chant the mantra’.
This is why only a small section of people kept this as a highly guarded secret.
The Gayatri mantra is one of the greatest prayers mankind has. One who sings it, sails over the ocean of misery to go to bliss.
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“You suffer because you believe you are the body.” — Ashtavakra
This one line is enough to shake the entire structure of human suffering.
Ashtavakra doesn’t offer comfort.
He offers truth.
According to Advaita Vedanta, suffering is not caused by pain, loss, or circumstances.
Suffering begins the moment you say:
“This body is me.”
The body ages.
The body falls sick.
The body will die.
And when you mistake the body for the Self, every change feels like a threat.
Ashtavakra’s teaching is ruthless and liberating at the same time: You are not the body.
You are not the mind.
You are not the thoughts observing this post.
You are the witness of all of it.
Pain may arise in the body.
Thoughts may rise in the mind.
But suffering exists only when the witness forgets itself.
The moment you see this lie—
Not fight it.
Not suppress it.
Just see it clearly—
Suffering collapses on its own.
No rituals required.
No renunciation needed.
No escape from the world.
Just clear seeing.
The body continues.
Life continues.
But bondage ends.
This is why Ashtavakra was feared by scholars and ignored by masses.
Because ego cannot survive this truth.
Freedom doesn’t come from changing life.
Freedom comes from knowing who you are not.
Read that again.
Slowly.
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In the early days at Skandashram and later at Ramanasramam, village children often played near Bhagavan. They ran, laughed, argued, and made noise. Bhagavan never objected.
When someone once complained that the children were disturbing the silence,
Bhagavan gently replied:
“Why should children be controlled?
They are natural.
It is our minds that are restless.”
Bhagavan did not protect silence from sound.
He pointed us to a deeper truth.
Silence is not the absence of noise.
Silence is the absence of inner resistance.
When resistance drops,
even noise does not disturb peace.
@davidfrawleyved
People often misunderstand samadhi. Bhagavan told the story of a yogi who spent hundreds of years in a trance beside the river Ganges, whose first thought on awakening was for some water he had requested before entering the trance. The thoughts had resumed, so the trance was useless.
Real attainment, said the Maharshi, was to be fully conscious,
to be aware of people and one's surroundings,
to move among them all,
yet not to merge one's consciousness in the environment,
but to retain an inner independent awareness of That.
This is the highest, not sitting in a trance, which merely halts the mind. The mind must be destroyed entirely, not merely arrested.
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Conscious Immortality
@davidfrawleyved@k_bhairav@truthalone
Question: What is the truth that I have to attain? Please explain it and show it to me.
Bhagavan: What we have to attain and what is desired by everyone is endless happiness. Although we seek to attain it in various ways, it is not something to be sought or attained as a new experience.Our real nature is the 'I' feeling which is experienced by everyone. It is within us and nowhere else. Although we are always experiencing it, our minds are wandering, always seeking it, thinking in ignorance that it is something apart from us. This is like a person saying with his own tongue that he has no tongue.
@chittukuruvi4@mccoy_bert@arbsridhar@kumarsrivatsa@CommanMan777589
Resignation And Renunciation:
Devotee: I have a good mind to resign from service and remain constantly with Sri Bhagavan.
Bhagavan: Bhagavan is always with you, in you, and you are yourself Bhagavan. To realize this it is neither necessary to resign your job nor run away from home. Renunciation does not imply apparent divesting of costumes, family ties, home, etc., but
renunciation of desires, affection and attachment. There is no need to resign your job, but resign yourself to Him, the bearer of the burden of all. One who renounces desires, etc., actually merges in the world and expands his love to the whole universe. Expansion of love and affection would be a far better term for a true devotee of God than renunciation, for one who renounces the immediate ties actually extends the bonds of affection and love to a wider world beyond the borders of caste, creed and race. A sannyasi, who apparently casts away his clothes and leaves his home does not do so out of aversion to his immediate relations but because of the expansion of his love to others around him. When this expansion comes, one does not feel that one is running away from home, but drops from it like ripe fruit from a tree; till then it would be folly to leave one’s home or his job.
Devotee: Can everybody see God?
Bhagavan: Yes.
Devotee: Can I see God?
Bhagavan: Yes.
Devotee: Who is my guide to see God? Do I not need a guide?
Bhagavan: Who was your guide to Ramanasramam? With whose guidance do you see the world daily? God is your own Self beyond body, mind and intellect. Just as you are able to see the world yourself so also you will be able to see your Self if you earnestly strive to do so, your Self alone being your
guide in that quest also.
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Crumbs From His Table
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