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Simplicity & skilfulness seem opposites, but they are not. Being simple is not naivety & being skilful is not cunningness. You need skill to excel in the world outside & you need to be simple & innocent to be able to go deep within yourself. Both are essential in life. — @Gurudev

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Trying to comprehend love is a futile exercise; you can only be it. — @Gurudev

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.@Gurudev explains why #GuruPurnima is the true New Year for a seeker — a time for reflection, gratitude, and fresh resolve on the spiritual path.

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If you hold on to comfort, you can never grow. The more you let go of comfort, the more it comes along; in fact, it chases you. Holding on to commitment gives a direction to life. If you let go of your commitment, you cannot be successful.

Don't give up commitment for the sake of comfort. If you commit to something wrong, it is alright to let go. When you let go of some commitment, take up a bigger commitment.

@Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji

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When there are total harmony and synchrony between the left and right hemisphere of the brain, and when the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system is working in harmony, then you say that this is an altered state of consciousness. And this altered state of consciousness which can be physically measured today is what is called Enlightenment.

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Sanyama: The Secret to Unshakable Power

@Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji beautifully explains that Sanyama is the effortless mastery of the mind, senses, and emotions—a state where the mind neither chases desires nor resists anything but simply rests in total awareness.

It’s not suppression but a flowing discipline that arises from deep meditation and spiritual maturity. In this state, your perception sharpens, intuition awakens, and your presence radiates power and healing.

When you master Sanyama, you unlock limitless energy, unwavering calm, and an unstoppable inner force that remains untouched by external chaos.

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Approval, Attention and Appreciation: If you stay away from these 3, there will be no tension in life.!
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Celebrate World Happiness Week With Gurudev!

Learn Sudarshan Kriya in the first-ever Global Happiness Program with @Gurudev Sri Sri, March 20-23 via @ArtofLiving Happiness Program

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THIS YEAR Mahashivratri Celebrations in @ArtofLiving @BangaloreAshram is the most special ❤️ Want to know why? Listen to @Gurudev explain it in this video 📸 about the special Somnath JyotirLingam 😲

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Is Money Everything? Gurudev @SriSri on Money vs. Relationships

Gurudev reveals how to balance ambition for money with the importance of meaningful relationships, reminding us that while money is important, it’s not everything. True happiness comes from love & true connections

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World Meditation Day is just around the corner, and we’re inviting YOU to shine on the 21st of December at 8 PM IST!

In times when the world is facing conflict and tension in various places, this day stands as a silver lining—a moment of collective peace and healing.

You have the unparalleled chance to join @Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and millions of people across the world in a global meditation to mark this historic occasion!

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Take pride in sharing your participation with the next generation as part of this historic moment.

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Meditate in harmony for a peaceful world.
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7 Layers of Human Existence Explained in Detail by @Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji

Meditation & 7 Levels of Existence
Spirituality is observing your own existence. Have you experienced your own body? Experiencing the various levels of existence - your own body, your breath, your mind, your emotion, and the source of your life - is meditation. Meditation is experiencing the life force and being conscious of it - and this is done effortlessly.

Have you noticed - that the mind and body function on completely opposite laws? In the realm of mind, effortlessness is the key. You cannot remember something by putting effort. The moment you relax the memory comes back. Creativity, intelligence, and memory — all these faculties within us happen effortlessly. But you can build muscles only when you put effort.

1) Body

We look at everything but we do not look at our own faculties. Life has many faculties — body, breath and mind. Are you aware of your body? You become aware of your body only when it aches. Just as a child throws tantrums when it is not given attention, your body throws tantrums when you don’t attend to it. If you attend to your body constantly, it won’t throw tantrums. And attending to the body is not just about food and exercise; it is taking your attention to each part of your body and loving it consciously. Your body is the closest thing to you; it is the first layer of our existence.

With meditation, your physiology undergoes a change, and every cell in the body is filled with "prana". You bubble with joy, as the level of "prana" in your body rises.

On a physical level, meditation helps:

a) To decrease any tension-related pain.
b) To turn your body into a powerhouse, as you generate an inner source of energy.

2) Breath

The second faculty is breath. What makes the skin different from leather. It is the breath. Even shoes have some value. But your body, when it is not breathing, has no value. Our first act, when we came to the world, was to breathe in and the last act will be to breathe out but we ignore this primordial function of our life.

When you sit for meditation, observe your breath.

Is your breath steady? Is the prana is haphazard or is it going smooth and normal?

When you are not feeling so good, or when you are down, unhappy or afraid, observe your prana - it is very shaky.

Steadiness in Prana is essential for meditation.

When the senses get steady - then the prana (which was shaky inside you) also becomes stable.

The four-fold inner equipment
It is the same consciousness that functions as mann (mind), buddhi (intellect), chitta (memory), ahankaara (ego). In ancient times, people have grouped these four different faculties as Antahkaran Chadushtaya (the four-fold inner equipment).

3) Mind

The third faculty that we possess is our mind. This is the faculty through which we perceive and yet this is what we know the least about. The mind is the biggest mystery. It can be your best friend or your worst enemy. The mind is responsible for your happiness as well as misery. When the mind is in the present moment, everything appears beautiful. However, when the mind is a mess, even in the best of places it can find a thousand reasons to be miserable. We should learn the method of cleansing it of these distractions. Once the mind is free, everything you hope to find in life starts to fall into place.

How do you listen? The sounds fall on the eardrums - but if the mind is elsewhere, can you hear? You are listening through the faculty in you - that is called the mind. Similarly, you experience all the other senses - through the mind.

Mind gallops towards world of five senses (sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch). You may sit quiet – with closed or open eyes. If your eyes are going all over the place, the mind is not in a meditative state. Only when the mind withdraws from the senses, it is ready for meditation.

If you have a positive state of mind you become creative, and successful in anything you do. People in the West, talk about affirmation. Affirmation is, you wake up in the morning, sit on your bed and affirm to yourself, ‘‘I will be good from today and that I will love myself’’. All these affirmations that you force on yourself – is not a healthy thing.

Meditation is the only way you can transcend the negative thoughts, and then positive thoughts will come spontaneously and automatically.

Stress and tension cause negative attitude. Suppose you don’t sleep for two days small things can irritate you. And if you have rested well, the situation is different.

With regular practice of meditation, the mind becomes fresh, energetic, and intuitive.

4) Intellect

The next faculty is intellect. Even as you are reading now, your intellect is saying something. It is passing some sort of judgement, it is accepting or rejecting what is written, questioning my words. It harbours inhibitions, likes and dislikes, approvals and disapprovals, alongwith wisdom, which brings forth intuition. The pure intellect is not caught up in the emotional turbulence of the mind. Otherwise it often gets coloured by the emotion and becomes impure like muddy water. Then it is unable to reflect the self. Whereas pure intellect, still and serene, reflects the self.

When you are listening, you are either agreeing or disagreeing. Notice whether you are saying ‘yes’ or ‘no’. This something by which we say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ - is called the intellect.

Life is very complex. There is no set formula. When you think that you are very honest, that you are righteous, you become a little stiff inside, without even knowing it. You point your finger towards others and become intolerant. When you recognize that there are flaws in you, you are then able to accommodate the flaws in other persons.

That’s why it is said, ‘‘do a good deed and forget about it’’. It is not only your vices or bad qualities that will harm you. Even your good qualities can make you stiff, rude and angry. That is why you should surrender both bad and good qualities. With meditation, you can relax and let go - of the judging nature of the intellect.

5) Memory

The fifth faculty, our memory, functions in a funny manner; if you receive 10 compliments from someone and one criticism, it is that one criticism that will cling to your memory. Basically, memory feeds on interest. If you enjoy astronomy, your memory will also treasure it. Memory is a blessing and your best friend, when it comes to your true nature. It is a hindrance when it does not let you be free of events, pleasant or unpleasant. Pleasant events create cravings and competition in the mind and do not allow fresh experiences, whereas unpleasant events give a biased perception and create paranoia. So the memory is both a blessing and a hindrance.

If you observe memory, it clings onto something that is negative. You will forget ten compliments from someone, but one insult from a person will stick to your mind.

This needs to be reversed; and the process of reversing this tendency of the mind from clinging to the negative and moving to something positive is called yoga. Yoga makes you like a baby again. It not only revives your nature, it also keeps your heart and mind young and bright.

Memory can make you either sad or enlightened. Through meditation and pranayams, you can overcome painful memories.

Meditation can bring that shift in your memory – to let go of the trivial, and to recognize your infinite nature. With meditation, you can regain the memory of "Who am I”. When people get enlightened, they say, "I remember." They have remembered - their true nature.

6) Ego and your emotions

Then there is ego. When you are happy, something in you expands. That something is ego. It brings happiness; it brings creativity, shyness and grief. If you are shy and timid, it is because of your ego; joy and pride are also due to ego. Behind every fear, there is ego which causes heaviness and discomfort. It doesn’t let love flow. Ego can be transcended by knowing the Truth; by enquiring “Who am I ?” Ego is separateness; non-belongingness.

It is wanting to prove and to possess. And when you wake up and see, there is nothing to be proved and nothing to possess, ego dissolves. There is also a positive aspect. It drives one to do some work. A person will do a job either out of compassion or out of ego. We know very little about the function of ego. Knowledge of your ego can strengthen you; it will eliminate your vulnerability.

You need to take a look at your own thought patterns and emotional patterns - there is a rhythm in them. And there is a rhythm in the consciousness. We need to find a harmony between all these rhythms within us - and that’s called spirituality.

Just look at yourself. Have you always agreed with yourself? You had some idea yesterday; today you may have a different idea. Five years back you had other ideas - that do not necessarily agree with the ideas that you have today. So when you have disagreement with yourself, why should it not happen with someone else? The ‘someone’ you have a disagreement with -is just a photocopy of your old or the new self.

For maintaining interpersonal relationships:

a) Have a relationship with yourself - this is called integrity.

b) Be informal - for it gives space for mistakes to happen. This keeps your interpersonal relationship strong. You cannot expect perfection in any relationship or situation.

Today one of the biggest problems with the world is emotional instability. When we create an informal outlook and cordial environment around us, we grease the friction and become the master of our environment.

Take life as it comes. Sometimes you are upset or angry; it’s OK to be upset or angry. Life does not stop for anything; it moves. Meditate and just move with the flow.

7) Self / Soul

The next faculty is something that does not have tangible boundaries. Sometimes when you are relaxed or you are in love, you feel a sense of wonder, that there is something more mysterious in life than you are aware of. That something is the self, the consciousness, the atma. You may hardly notice it but those few seconds give you so much peace and tranquility. Preserving those moments will enrich your life.

Any joy you experience in life is from the depth of your self when you let go all that you hold on to and settle down being centred in that space. That is called meditation. Actually, meditation is not an act; it is the art of doing nothing! The rest in meditation is deeper than the deepest sleep that you can ever have because in meditation you transcend all desires. This brings such coolness to the brain and it is like servicing or overhauling the whole mind-body complex.

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There are seven layers to our existence: Body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, ego and the soul. See, we keep breathing but many of us don’t even know that we are breathing unless we have an asthma attack or some problem. We don’t realize how important it is for us to breathe deeply.

Body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, ego and the soul or self. The self is that total consciousness. There is something in you that doesn’t change, which is the reference point for all changes. Your thoughts are changing, your emotions are changing, your body has undergone so much change. If you look at a 25 years old picture of you, you can’t say it’s the same body. It’s much different than what you are now, but still you are the same person. So there’s something in you that is not changing in spite of all the changes. That non-changing aspect in you, or the reference by which you recognize the changes so to say ‘this is changing’, there should be something that doesn’t change, and that is what is the soul.

When we go deep into this, it’s amazing, amazing, and amazing! An arena opens in front of you. And the way to go deeper into this is meditation.

A disease-free body, quiver-free breath, confusion-free mind, inhibition-free intellect, trauma-free memory, sorrow-free soul and a violence-free society is the birthright of every individual.

Question - Gurudev, What can make us centered? If we are shaken, how can we come back to ourselves?

@Gurudev Sri Sri - Become more hollow, and empty. Practice more meditation. Do more seva. Seva brings the merit to go deep in. When you go deep in, the mind becomes fresh, energetic, and intuitive to do more seva. Meditation is the only way you can transcend the negative thoughts; and then positive thoughts will come spontaneously and automatically.

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Generosity is a quality of the spirit. When you feel generous, your life becomes abundant, full of compassion and love

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Like weather, time has its own impact on you. Your Sadhana and Satsang are your shield, your protection.
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It is lack of spirituality more than religiosity that is leading to corruption and scams in the country. Nobody is corrupt with their own family. Corruption is happening because there is no sense of belonging.

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I have heard from many @ArtofLiving Teachers that Gurudev @SriSri ji walks the talk.

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Give satsang and meditation your highest priority.
Give prime time to the Divine and know that God belongs to you.
Either through awareness or through practice, you reach the same spot. When you know you are part of the divine plan, you stop demanding.

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