Sri Sri:...why not list what should not be the goal of human life! Like getting miserable, making others unhappy, getting depressed. Negate what is not the goal...then you will arrive at the goal!
Sri Sri : Today is Independence day, do you all feel free?
Audience : No answer
Sri Sri : ...you cannot even say a yes!
Q: What is the difference in meditating in the morning Vs meditating in the evening ?
Sri Sri: never mind, when you meditate, just meditate! We should make your smile cheap and anger expensive. We do the opposite.smile more and more That is what is the meaning of prasad, when you go to a temple, they will give you prasadso that you leave the temple with a pleasant feeling, that is what a prasad is supposed to do!
Q: What is your advice to human beings?
Sri Sri: .take a different stance in lifethink how can I be useful to this planet...if you keep this question, things will change, that is what seva meansacting like HIM.. Se Ye Va like HIM that is how GOD works, he does everything for you without your knowing what all he has done!if you thank God, it is for your own benefitdoing what God does, imitating God is sevaService comes from the root word *seva*
Q: Can you speak about personal will and surrender?
Sri Sri:.what bothers you tension, anger i.e when you need to let of ....you surrender something that does not belong to you...Do you surrender love, joy, happinessno, because it is your very nature!! Surrender is to give what you is not yours that which is a burden. And when you surrender, you become freethen you have a will...free-will!
Q: What is the solution to lifes problems?
Sri Sri: If you are learning to ride a bicycle, it seems so difficult But over a period of time, if you practice it , it becomes easy The same thing with cooking, or driving a caranything appears to be difficult because it is the beginningbut dont give up!...first take a position that it is possible, then being in knowledge often, that is what is satsang.then you cannot be shakenand if your behavior is in a decent manner, you cannot get upsetit is just a matter of training yourselves.
Q: What is a good action and what is a bad action?
Sri Sri: Good action is the one which brings long term happiness and short term sadness Bad action is the one which brings long term sadness and only short term happiness
Q: How do you achieve a thoughtless mind?
Sri Sri: Seewe meditated for 20 minutesdid you feel the time?
Audience : no.
Sri Sri: If you do the Sudarshan Kriya, you will be more calm and will be able to meditate more and more. I could not get the question...the answer follows!
Sri Sri: for a right thought to come to you need 16 impulses in the brainwhen you do the Sudarshan Kriya and breathing techniques...you become more relaxedit helps the right thought come to you when you are relaxed!
Q: How to develop positive thinking?
Sri Sri: by accepting negative thinking! (laughter)
Q: How do you control your mind?
Sri Sri: why do you want to control your mind?
Audience member :when I am praying my mind goes all over and I am not able to pray / worship.
Sri Sri : because you are not getting the joy in prayer that is why your mind is going all over.when you want to do prayer out of want / greed your mind is not with you, in anything that you do! when you do prayer out of fullnessout of gratitudewhen you become so complete, then there is an expansion and your mind will not run here and there!
Q: What is the difference in shavasan (dead mans posture in yoga) and meditation?
Sri Sri: they are different!
Q: I tend to prayer more and more
Sri Sri:...prayer happens you are helpless or grateful and ie ok ...at such times, prayers will be heard.
Q: No matter how nice, loving , caring you are to others, they make your life miserable, how to deal with such people?
Sri Sri: ...good exercise for you to be strong! (laughter :-)
Q: How do you show that God is one?
Sri Sri:...the spirit loves diversityyou have not one type of vegetable, fruit, flowers.different types of humans...when the universe is so diverse, why do you have to restrict God in one uni-formie. The ancient rishis understood this and so they worshipped a lot of gods / goddesses.each god has the other one in itlike Lord Ganapati is also Shiva, Vishnu * Vishwarupa *all the forms are in you. As many forms to the one formless!! One mistake that people do is get confused and impose your feelings onto the divinitythis is ignorance.
Love,
YES!+ Chennai Team
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