"Shiva means that which is peaceful, that which is beautiful, that is all pervading. Shiva is like the sky. Shiva has no body. Shiva has never come on the planet as a person like Krishna, Rama. Shiva was not a personified person. It is energy, the universal energy is called Shiva. ‘lasha’ means enthusiasm. ‘Kailasha’ means only enthusiasm, that place which has only enthusiasm is called Kailasha. In that state of meditation, when you are inside you, in that state of mind when only happiness is there, that state of mind is called Shiva. The space in the air, fire, water, earth, in all five elements is Shiva, is the prana, mind. They are all forms of Shiva. Shiva doesn’t does not have any form, but He is exists in all the forms. And the trishul signifies going beyond the three states of waking, dreaming and sleeping. It is a sign of the fourth state.. We just break one coconut in the temple to satisfy God. How many of you don’t know wy we break coconut in the temples? Our life should be like a coconut. You should be strong like the outer husk of the coconut. Even if it falls from the top, it will not break. The mind should be like the tender white thing inside and your heart should be like the water inside. See God has made such a beautiful fruit and said this is how you should be! How the water is inside the coconut, in the same way everybody’s heart should pour out to everyone. When you meet someone, you give them flowers. Because the heart wants to express.. when you meet the dear ones you blossom. Something happens in the heart… Why we break a coconut is because you want to break heart open and express the love inside. Your mind should be white like the inside of the coconut and the heart should be like water. The coconut tree grows where you get salt water. It takes the salty water and turns into sweet water and offers it to everyone. In the same way my life should also be sweet to everyone. God doesn’t become happy because we break a coconut. It is for us to understand. In the same way when we burn camphor, there is nothing that is left behind. In the same way, we also want our life to melt and be offered to others, to God."
"When we get more than the effort which we have put in, the ego will not come in. You should feel grateful that you got more than the effort that you put in. So don’t look at other people, just look at yourself, how grateful you. If the people who do bad deeds are progressing, it is only to fall down. They are going up to fall down that much! SO don’t worry if for some time bad people progress. Whoever rises up fast through bad deeds will fall all the way from the top. That’s the law. If our mind is good, our heart is pure, everything will be good. Sometimes some challenges will be there, you just keep the faith that truth will prevail and only good things will happen for you."
"According to law of thermodynamics, matter and energy cannot be destroyed. When the body goes back to the earth, the mind, which is energy, where does it go? It stays. How does it stay? With the impressions that it has. And it goes and stays and when it finds suitable situation, it comes back. So even by the law of thermodynamics, energy cannot be destroyed.. Suicide is a very wrong thing to do.. if you find someone who wants to commit suicide, you tell them to come here and we will find a better way for you.. Our life is so precious! So many people are trying to commit suicide. My call to them is you come here, I will tell you the right place to commit suicide! Don’t hang yourself on the ceiling fan. Suicide is like saying, I’m feeling very cold and then removing all your jackets! That is the most stupid thing one can do. Dedicate your life to cause where people are suffering much more than you. When people don’t have a mission, they don’t know how to raise the prana level in them, they commit suicide. It’s a big issue around the world. When the prana level is normal, you feel normal. When it is high, you feel enthusiastic. When it is even higher, you feel very creative and a lot of energy. When the prana level dips down, first thing that comes is depression. It goes further down, you feel depressed, and then you feel dejected, you feel nobody loves me, and then you want to commit suicide. So the only way to tackle this increase the prana level. Do pranayama, it will all go away."
"There are 5 types of dreams. The first is, all your desires and fears come to you in your dreams.. second type is whatever you have experienced in the past will come to you in your dream. The third thing is intuitive dream, whatever is going to happen tomorrow or ten years later, you may dream today. The fourth type of dream has nothing to do with you, it has to do with the place that you are sleeping in.. the fifth type of dream is what you get 95% of the time, it is a mixture of everything. It has no meaning.. so it is best to not interpret the dreams. When you wake up from the dream, juts drink a glass of water and move on! But wake up and see in life, all that has happened till this moment, is it not like a dream?.. Some good events, some pleasant, some unpleasant events. All that is like a dream, when you wake up and see. This could be a dream! Could this be a dream? Just project your mind to the future, one year, two years, pleasant unpleasant events, the whole day will pass on, the whole life will pass on. One day you will go and everything will be finished! One day you will breathe out and you wont take breath in again. When you came to the planet, the first thing you did was take a deep breath in and you started crying. And the last thing you will do is breath out and make others cry. If others don’t cry because you took the last breath, then you have not lived a good life. Isn’t it? So see the whole phenomenon as a dream. The future as a dream, the present as a dream, suddenly something happens in your consciousness. You wake up to another dimension. A dimension from which all the prophets, all the saints, Sufis.. they all spoke wisdom. That wisdom is here inside us. All you need to realize is this is all a dream and waking up to another dimension of existence. People call it detachment, oh u have to be detached. These are all big big words that scares us… I don’t want you to be detached. I just want you to wake up and see that all this is a dream. That is good enough. Another level of consciousness wakes up inside. That is meditation. That is ‘Sat-chit-anand’. That is truth, consciousness and bliss… There is nobody who is not me is the mantra of knowledge. There is nobody who does not belong to me is the mantra of love.. Our body is like the wick of a candle, our mind is the glow around it. So at a deeper level you are connected to everybody, every single individual. This is knowledge. I am the space, this is the essence of Gita. Whatever is inside me is inside everybody else.. it doesn’t require skill. Everybody has different skills and knowledge, but everyone has the same life force in them, the same light in them. Recognizing that is love.. And knowing that everyone belongs to you is the mantra of love. There are thousands of cells in your body, like that everyone is part of you. And this is love… Now you can ask, the person is not right, how can he be mine. Wicked people are sick. If someone in your family is sick, will you be angry at them? The person who is sick will only go towards violence. His heart is filled with hatred, he is hurt. When one is full of hurt, he can only hurt others."
"Move from the object to the seer, that is Yoga. Bringing your mind from the object to the seer, that is Yoga. How do you do that? First observe your body, then your breath, then your mind, then the thoughts and emotions and if you go beyond emotions there is light. You cannot see it, you just have to experience it. We had a good 30 minutes meditation today.. how many people lost their aches and pains? How many had their wished fulfilled? The mind has such power. God has given this power to us, we need to use this properly.. Our intentions are very strong. We have to use this in a positive way"
Ques: Through hypnotism we can see our past lives? Is it true?
#SriSri: Yes we can, it’s a therapy. You come to know what is in the sub-consciousness mind. They call it regression therapy. And for some people it is beneficial also. In Art of Living also we have the Eternity Process.
Ques: How did Lord Krishna say the Bhagavad Gita to Arjun in such a short time?
#SriSri: There are many dimensions. For you to remember the experiences of 10 years, do you need 10 years? No you just need 10 mins. To remember what you did from morning till evening do you need that much time to remember? You will just need a few minutes. In the same way to give the knowledge a special power is used, a special force gives it.
Ques: Parents have done the course but they are not yet in the spiritual field. What should I do?
#SriSri: They will come. Already they are there in the spiritual field. There is nobody who is not in the spiritual field. Everybody wants happiness and peace. Whoever doesn’t want this is not in the spiritual field. Is there anybody who doesn’t want peace? Who doesn’t want happiness? Who doesn’t want love? Is there anybody like that? People are running behind love! Everybody needs these three things. They are all stuck in small things, but they will all rise above it. You have patience and meditate. You just be relaxed. They will come, they may take some time.
Ques: Sometimes things happen and my faith is shaken
#SriSri: Doesn’t matter, let it shake! Ultimately faith will win. The faith that will come after all the doubts will be very strong. When you put a pole in the ground, you shake it and see if it is strong or not. Faith is inside us and it can never be erased. However much you can doubt, you doubt! Don’t leave any effort on that. Because doubt is always for the good.
