Education has five aspects:
1. Information - Often we think information is education, but it is only one aspect of education.
2. Concepts - Concepts are the basis for all research. You need to conceive in order to create.
3. Attitude - An integral aspect of education is cultivating the right attitude. Proper attitude at the right time and place determines your actions and behavior.
4. Imagination - Imagination is essential for creativity, for the arts. But if you get stuck in imagination, you can become psychotic.
5. Freedom - Freedom is your very nature. Only with freedom do joy, generosity and other human values blossom. Without freedom, attitudes become stifling, concepts become a burden, information is of no value and imagination becomes stagnant.
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" Prayer is not asking for something, Prayer is gratefulness, a recognition of the huge tidal waves of Love that God is pouring on you every moment.."-Sri Sri
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Truth
Truth is that which does not change.
Examine your life and identify all that changes as not truth. With this outlook, you will find that you are surrounded by only untruth.
When you identify that which appears to you as untruth, then you will become free from it. When you do not identify the untruth, you cannot become free from it. Your own experiences in life make you identify your own untruth.
As you mature in life, you find everything is untruth - events, situations, people, emotions, thoughts, opinions, concepts, your body - everything is untruth. It is only then that satsang (the company of truth) happens in the real sense. For example, a mother cannot see the child as untruth until the child becomes an adult. For a baby, sweet is not untruth, and for a teenager, sex is not untruth.
Question: Is knowledge also untruth?
Sri Sri : Yes, if it is words, it is untruth. But as existence, it is truth. Love as an emotion is not truth; as existence, it is truth.
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"The Path of Love is not a tedious path. It's a path of Joy, singing and dancing. It's not desert. It is a valley of flowers."-Sri Sri
Examine your life and identify all that changes as not truth. With this outlook, you will find that you are surrounded by only untruth.
When you identify that which appears to you as untruth, then you will become free from it. When you do not identify the untruth, you cannot become free from it. Your own experiences in life make you identify your own untruth.
As you mature in life, you find everything is untruth - events, situations, people, emotions, thoughts, opinions, concepts, your body - everything is untruth. It is only then that satsang (the company of truth) happens in the real sense. For example, a mother cannot see the child as untruth until the child becomes an adult. For a baby, sweet is not untruth, and for a teenager, sex is not untruth.
Question: Is knowledge also untruth?
Sri Sri : Yes, if it is words, it is untruth. But as existence, it is truth. Love as an emotion is not truth; as existence, it is truth.
|| SUTRA ||
"The Path of Love is not a tedious path. It's a path of Joy, singing and dancing. It's not desert. It is a valley of flowers."-Sri Sri
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Seekers Beware
You can only seek that which you know and when you really do know, you already have it.
You cannot seek something you do not know.
Whatever you are seeking and wherever you seek, it is always only One; and the One is what you already are.
So, you cannot seek something you do not know and when you know what you are seeking, you already have it. When you seek the world, you get misery and when you want to find the way out of misery, you find the Divine.
A man lost a penny and was seeking it in a bush when he found a huge treasure. He was not seeking treasure but only for his lost penny. In the same way, when you seek something, you may get something else.
The truth, or Self, cannot be sought directly.
Dean: Many people come to the Art of Living seeking some mundane thing and find something else.
SUTRA
"A good leader should be multidimensional and should see from the other's point of view."-Sri Sri
Friday, August 14, 2009
Ram Navami
Ra in Sanskrit means "that which is radiant" and ma means "myself."
That which shines forth within me is Rama. That which is radiant in every particle of the being is Rama.Rama was born to Dasharatha and Kaushalya.
Dasharatha means "the ten-charioted one" in Sanskrit.
It signifies the five sense organs and the five organs of action.
Kaushalya is Sanskrit for "skilled." The skillful driver of the ten chariot can give birth to Ram.
When the five sense organs and the five organs of action are used skillfully, radiance is born within.
Rama was born in Ayodhya, which in Sanskrit means "the place where no war can happen." When there is no conflict in our mind, then radiance can dawn.Lakshmana, the brother of Rama, was born of Sumitra - the good friend.
When the ten are cooperating with you, awareness is born.Often we try to look for radiance within. Just realize that you are radiant.
Once when Sri Sri was 5 or 6 years old, he closed his eyes and said to a visiting saint, "Swamiji, I do not see any light." The saint replied, "You are the light! How can you see the light?"
SUTRA
“We need to educate people in human values like friendliness, compassion, cooperation, a sense of belonging and spirituality.” -Sri Sri
That which shines forth within me is Rama. That which is radiant in every particle of the being is Rama.Rama was born to Dasharatha and Kaushalya.
Dasharatha means "the ten-charioted one" in Sanskrit.
It signifies the five sense organs and the five organs of action.
Kaushalya is Sanskrit for "skilled." The skillful driver of the ten chariot can give birth to Ram.
When the five sense organs and the five organs of action are used skillfully, radiance is born within.
Rama was born in Ayodhya, which in Sanskrit means "the place where no war can happen." When there is no conflict in our mind, then radiance can dawn.Lakshmana, the brother of Rama, was born of Sumitra - the good friend.
When the ten are cooperating with you, awareness is born.Often we try to look for radiance within. Just realize that you are radiant.
Once when Sri Sri was 5 or 6 years old, he closed his eyes and said to a visiting saint, "Swamiji, I do not see any light." The saint replied, "You are the light! How can you see the light?"
SUTRA
“We need to educate people in human values like friendliness, compassion, cooperation, a sense of belonging and spirituality.” -Sri Sri
Monday, August 3, 2009
Form and formless, aggression and intuition
Form and formlessLife is a combination of form and formless.
Feelings have no form but their expressions have form.
The Self has no form but its abode has form.Similarly, wisdom and grace have no form but are expressed through form.
Desicarding the formless, you become inert, materialistic and paranoid.
Discarding the form, you become a lost ascetic, a space cadet or an emotional wreck!Aggression and intuitionAggression and assertiveness overshadow intuition.
Often, people who are sensitive tend to become aggressive in order to avoid being hurt.
In this process, they lose sight of their fine intuition.Fine intuition needs sensitivity, but sensitivity is often painful.
In order to avoid pain one becomes aggresive and assertive, and in turn loses one's intuition ability.Intuition is close to the truth.
Often, aggression and assertiveness thrive on the idea of truthfulness - an aggressive person is convinced of the rightness of his position.
To be truthful, you do not need to be aggressive and assertive.
SUTRA
In everything in this creation there is Divine Love. Love is the highest force, the greatest force, and the simplest."-Sri Sri
Feelings have no form but their expressions have form.
The Self has no form but its abode has form.Similarly, wisdom and grace have no form but are expressed through form.
Desicarding the formless, you become inert, materialistic and paranoid.
Discarding the form, you become a lost ascetic, a space cadet or an emotional wreck!Aggression and intuitionAggression and assertiveness overshadow intuition.
Often, people who are sensitive tend to become aggressive in order to avoid being hurt.
In this process, they lose sight of their fine intuition.Fine intuition needs sensitivity, but sensitivity is often painful.
In order to avoid pain one becomes aggresive and assertive, and in turn loses one's intuition ability.Intuition is close to the truth.
Often, aggression and assertiveness thrive on the idea of truthfulness - an aggressive person is convinced of the rightness of his position.
To be truthful, you do not need to be aggressive and assertive.
SUTRA
In everything in this creation there is Divine Love. Love is the highest force, the greatest force, and the simplest."-Sri Sri
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