Power of Positivity!! - Page 13

Originally posted by: sharmacatty

Originally posted by: sharmacatty

SriSri: Why Hari is having thousand hands is clear now. To tie so many rakhis, I feel two hands are not enough. So not four, thousand hands are required. Nowadays new trend is friendship band and friendship day, some other day. But people have already envisaged these things in the ancient times by bonding day. Why bonding? Bonding brings protection. Raksha Bandhan where raksha means protection and bandhan means bonding. Protection from bonding. Some bonding gives sadness, some bonding blossoms the love. Raksha bandhan is such a bonding in which our love increases. Some bonding gives you headache and create danger. Bonding of desire brings sadness; bonding of love brings protection. This is the only difference between desire and love. When we have desires, we don't discriminate what is right and what is wrong. Only we become selfish. When we are in love, in one way we lose our senses and in another way it raises our awareness. Awareness gets awakened in love.
SriSri: I am coming directly from Andhra Pradesh. There was Kumbha mela. Government has made such nice arrangements, cleanliness, systems which are very impressive. See throughout the ages, all our festivals have been happening at the banks of river. Civilizations are settled in the bank of rivers. See London is on the bank of the river Thames. British Civilization blossom on the bank of the river Thames and if you see Paris, again it is on the bank of the river. Frankfurt is on the bank of the river. Washington is on the bank of the river. New York is on the bank of the river. So wherever you see civilization blossoming over the ages, it is always being on the bank of the river. Here in India, Ganga, Yamuna, Godavari, Krishna, Saraswati, Kaveri - all the cultural and religious festivals always happen in the banks of rivers. Now there is a group in India funded by some agencies who want to stop all this festivals on the bank of the rivers. How foolish their exercises are! These people who said World Cultural Festivals should not happen at Yamuna and should go somewhere else, as though there is any chance to pollute that. They haven't left any possibility to pollute it. This is the most toxic, most polluted river today. Now they are saying all ghats should be destroyed. There should be no ghats. The same people are saying today, no ghats should be constructed. The people get into the rivers. Ghats along Ganga, Yamuna should be removed. All of the ghats of Rishikesh,Haridwar are ghats of Ganga .They say Kumbhamela should not happen. They are gone a little crazy. You can talk to sane people but to the people who think they are sane but totally insane, what is there to talk to them! Unfortunately these people have gotten into committees, connected with the justice systems. It will take a little time to change.
#Jai Gurudev Guruji. What is meditation? How do I know I am meditating?
Sri: To know what meditation is, why don't you sit with our Sahaj Meditation teacher? 2 days .They will give you all the idea about meditation. They will make you meditate, teach you meditation and then take all your questions and you will come out totally satisfied. No stone will be left unturned in Sahaj Samadhi course. That's why I made Sahaj Samadhi, how to meditate and all is in the Sahaj Samadhi. That is why I made it into a separate course. In three sessions two hours each, you will know everything. Not everything but most of the thing.

#All the three days of Bhagwat Geeta sessions, I felt I was sleeping all through. Was I sleeping or meditating?
SriSri: Never mind you were here that is good enough. Either your conscious mind understood or your subconscious mind has absorbed it. So that is good enough.
# Jai Gurudev Guruji. Can you please speak about where enlighten souls and souls of Sadgurus go after leaving their body? Is this space very different from where the souls of others go?
SriSri: One thing I know when you die, the first person you meet, it is your Guru. On the other side also, Guru will take you by hand and lead you and you will have no fear. That is why it is important to have Guru in life, here of course and here after also.
#Gurudev, today we did Upakarma and we offered til (sesame) to our ancestors. Could you talk about Upakarma and why we offer til to our ancestors?
SriSri: Til means sesame seeds. Upakarma is an annual rememberance of your commitment, three responsibilities on your shoulders:
1> to your parents and ancestors
2> responsibility to the knowledge and the m asters
3> to the society
Parents-Guru-Society. So these three layers of thread you put on your shoulders as a yearly thing and change it because you cannot get when something getting so old. So they put a particular day. This day you revive your commitments. But I f you become a Sanyasi you don't have that. You have finished all that. So Sanyasis don't have to wear the thread. Only the householder's have. Householders have the responsibilities for the parents and ancestors so that they have to continue the family tree, continuing the progeny.
2>Responsibility for the knowledge you have learned from elders and we have a responsibility to pass it on, not let it die within ourselves.
3>we are getting benefit from the society; we have to give back to society. The previous poornima was Guru Poornima, remembering the Guru . This Poornima is remembrance of sages, Rishis of the past. So many Rishis have walked on this planet and so you show your gratitude to the Rishis.

Question: Gurudev, there are many Rishis on this planet. And today we acknowledged someone whom we call Jamadagni'. Could you speak about Jamadagni?
SriSri: No we acknowledge everyone, all the Rishis, known and unknown Rishis. Rishis are the scientist, actually we are honoring the scientists of the past and present. I don't know much about Jamadagni. What I know is that he is the father of Parasurama. You know there is no end to knowing, learning. Why don't you find out in Google? What you can find out in google, that info you should not ask to Guru. You ask Guru only what you don't find in the Google. Those days are gone when you don't know anything, you go and ask Guru. But today there is a Google also. And that's a big help.
Question: Guruji today you have gone to a place called Krishna Pushkara. Could you speak about how political will can transform people?
SriSri: Yes. See, in Krishnapushkara, the entire city was so well organized. All the ghats were in order. Though the programme was happenning in one place, it was connected by Loudspeaker with the entire City. So I am talking to few hundred thousand audience in one place but it telecasted and spread through loud speaker all throughout the city, through out the entire stretch of the river. And for the first time, I see that they don't have to visit a place to listen the talk, because all along the street, there are hundreds and thousands of people walking and going into the temple, and they can all hear what is happening in the main stage. And there was laser show explaining the entire history. You can see the combination of ancient and the modern technology there. It is 12 days fair. It has been very nicely organized.
Question: Guruji you spoke about the Kumbha. Could you spoke about how and why the Kumbha Mela should happen?
SriSri: You know, you should not ask such questions, why expos, why exhibitions, why melas, why parties, why celebrations. Why should not? Why shouldn't wise people gather? Kumbha means wise people gather together.
Question: Guruji I am told I am going to go into silence from tonight. Can you please introduce us into the silence?
SriSri: You know what, just wait for a little while and the teachers are going to introduce after the satsang.
Today live webcast is going on. People from everywhere in the world, a very happy Raksha Bandhan. Happy friendship day. I would like to tell everyone around the world, there is enough love on this planet, no need to be anxious. There are lot of good people on the planet. So they are with you. Their protection is with you. Today is the day that you shut the insecurity that is in your mind. Greatest enemy for blossoming is insecurity. When you feel insecure, your intellect become dull. You will not be sharp. Your perception become colored. Your body undergoes a lots of hormonal changes. Too much adrenaline body produces, and you feel weak, your immune system gets affected. Look at the disadvantages of insecurity. Look at the harms that insecurity can create in you. See what insecurity can do to you. What damages insecurity can bring on you. First, your adrenal gland functions too much. So your immune system goes down. As a result, the strength in your body goes down. More weakness and all types of ailments will start. Insecurity causes this. On an emotional, mental plane, insecurity obscures your vision, it blurs your vision, so your perception is flawed, your sharpness of intellect will be gone, and your ability to see things as they are gets seriously affected. And there is no peace, and your social behavior is severely affected. A person who is insecure, doesn't know how to be friendly, how to be trusting, how to trust anyone in society. And the antidote for insecurity is trust. And insecurity doesn't allow you to trust anybody. So you get into a catch-twenty two situation. A vicious cycle in our life, of insecurity, depression, anger, bad behaviour, you do not even realize that your behavior is not palatable. And this happens from within, you lose a lot of good opportunities in life, you lose the enthusiasm, the drive to take any new initiatives. It becomes an end of creativity, end of entrepreneurship, that is end of any type of progress, and that is end of happy joyful living. That's why, sisters tying rachis to their brothers saying, I am there to protect you. Man however strong he is, somewhere he might be needed some protection and this comes from a lady's strong will and mindset. How psychologically significant this is. When you look back the ancient times and how they kept these bonding and communication lines between families. Usually when a girl married to another family and goes away to another place, Raksha Bandhan brings them close together, open the lines of communication. So, the messege of this Raksha Bandhan Rakhi Poornima is, shut your insecurity, there are so many Rakhis waiting for you. The world is giving you the protection. The goodness of the world is with you. No need to be insecure. Wake upYou are safe and secure. The fountain of life will simply gush in your life. There will be enthusiasm, creativity, adventure. Your behaviour towards everyone become normal, pleasant and uplifted.

Originally posted by: sharmacatty