Top 100 Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes
#2. In always wanting to be comfortable, you become lazy.
In always wanting perfection, you become angry.
In always wanting to be rich, you become greedy.
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#5. Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma).
One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa.
Rely on your Self; self-reliance
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#8. Just open your eyes, shake your head, and look at what is happening in the world. It is amazing! This universe is amazing!
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#9. Faith makes you stable and steady. It brings out the totality in you. Consolidation of your energy is faith. Dissemination of energy is doubt.
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#10. The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel love for all humanity.
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#12. Foolishness is giving up without any effort or not giving up after putting in all your effort. Secret of freedom is putting all your effort and giving up!
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#13. I tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth, light, love, there is no guilt there, there is no fear there. Psychologists have never looked deep enough.
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#14. Real beauty is when you're centered, when our mind is with the truth. That is how every baby is beautiful because they are centered.
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#15. Spirituality is a harmonious blend of outer silence and inner celebration; and also inner silence and outer celebration!
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#16. A game is where you win and lose, and both are part of it. When there is more chance of losing, it is more charming. The game has value when it is tough. So some little problems that come in life are part of the whole game.
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#17. Navratri represents how the negativity can be conquered by the inherent positive qualities in us.
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#18. Never underestimate your life. It is most precious. You never know what talents are hidden within you and what you have to offer to the world!
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#21. Have "eternal wait," infinite patience. When you have infinite patience, you will realize God belongs to you. Either through awareness or through practice you reach the same spot.
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#22. Don't keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. This is why you feel miserable. Just let go!
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#23. Just as when spring comes, Nature celebrates, When Navaratri comes, the Spirit celebrates.
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#24. When you move with this thought that 'I want', then the mind wanders. When you move with this thought that 'I have received', then you are content.
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#25. Prayer within breath is silence, love within infinity is silence, Wisdom without word is silence, compassion without aim is silence, action without doer is silence, smiling with all existence is silence
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#26. Silence is bringing you back home, and it gives you that much needed energy to realize 'Who You Are', to realize that there is bliss, there is beauty, there is joy, and that is 'You'
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#27. Effort is the key in the relative; effortlessness is the key to the Absolute.
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#28. You walk until you come to the ocean. You don't walk or run in the ocean - you float and swim. Like this once you come to the Master, seeking stops, blossoming begins.
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#29. I say, drop all your defenses. Anyone can make a mistake - even you. Do not defend your mistakes; just accept them and move on. When you are totally defenseless, that is when you will be completely strong.
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#30. If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the harmony and union within us.
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#31. The positive aspect of competition in a business scenario is it helps you to be more alert and innovative.
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#32. When you are happy time appears shorter, when you are sad time appears longer. And in meditation we transcend time!
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#33. If you are not having good experiences in meditation, then do more seva you will gain merit and your meditation will be deeper. When you bring some relief or freedom to someone through seva, good vibrations and blessings come to you
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#35. You are solidified silence, awareness. A thousand hours of speech cannot equal one glance: a hundred glances cannot equal a minute of silence
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#36. Healthy is being physically strong, mentally calm and steady and emotionally soft
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#38. Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.
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#40. Meditation is the only way you can transcend the negative thoughts, and then positive thoughts will come spontaneously & automatically.
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#42. Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears.
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#43. Material wealth does not equate to success. Equanimity and peace of mind does
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#44. There is nothing for you to take away from this world. You have come to give.
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#45. When people lose faith in the natural goodness of the human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness, that is one reason why corruption has become so widespread today.
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#46. People search for joy everywhere not knowing that the Self is the source of all joy
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#47. Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free.
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#48. Whatever you put attention on will start manifesting in your life. Intention, attention, manifestation; that is how the universe works.
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#50. To love someone whom you like is insignificant.
To love someone because they love you is of no consequence.
To love someone whom you do not like means you have learned a lesson in life.
To love someone who blames you for no reason shows that you have learned the art of living.
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#51. In meditation, healing can happen. When the mind is calm, alert and totally contented, then it is like a laser beam - it is very powerful and healing can happen.
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#53. Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.
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#55. When you are in touch with the Inner Being then
irrespective of the outer state, you remain in a perpetual state of happiness!
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#56. Life teaches you the art of letting go in every event. When you have learnt to let go, you will be joyful and as you start being joyful, more will be given to you.
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#58. Knowledge of life brings confidence. Knowledge of death makes you fearless and centered.
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#59. For success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom).
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#60. Space and silence are synonymous. Joy, fulfillment brings the silence. Desire brings noise. Silence is the cure, because in silence you come back to the source, and that creates joy
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#61. You will find the Divine in the last place, because once you find it, you will not go on searching.
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#62. Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not other, it is your own mind.
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#64. One who can learn to flow with the current as well as manage the current is the successful one.
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#65. The signs of good health are an intellect which is free from inhibition and arrogance, a heart which is full of compassion is healthy, a confusion-free mind, a trauma-free memory and a sorrow-free soul.
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#66. Lord Shiva is seated deep in everyone's heart. He is Nirguna (One who is without form or its attributes). He is Nirakaar (Has no shape or form), and He is the Para-Brahman (Supreme transcendental Consciousness) that is all pervading. Believe in this. This is Rudra Puja
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#67. A disease-free body, quiver-free breath, stress-free mind, inhibition-free intellect, obsession-free memory, ego that includes all, and soul which is free from sorrow is the birthright of every human being.
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#68. A goal or cause in life, will help you come out of your hunger for insatiable desires.
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#69. Walk lightly on this # planet and yet leave such a # footprint that cannot be erased for thousands of years!
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#70. Your desire for consistency itself will set you on the right path. As long as you keep going up, never mind if you come down once or twice.
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#71. If you are bombarded by so many thoughts in solitude, you are in ignorance. If you are calm even amidst a crowd then you are in knowledge.
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#72. Either a princess or a pauper can feel generous. Generosity is the quality of the spirit. When you feel generous your life becomes, abundant full of compassion and love.
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#73. We do yoga to make life more beautiful.. to stop misery from entering our world.
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#75. The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched, pure and ever green,blissful area of our Self
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#76. If everything appears meaningless then
congratulations to you! You have started on the path. This is the first sign of intelligence, of waking up.
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#77. You sell your happiness for peanuts! You sell your smile for pennies! I tell you, it's not worth it. The entire world is not worth your smile. Even if you are made the king or the emperor of the world, it's not worth giving away your smile.
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#78. Worrying doesn't make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work
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#79. For those who do not have faith in God, fear is a way to protect them. But if faith is strong, there is no anxiety about something in danger.
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#80. See the possibility that people and things can change at any time and don't hold on to judgements.
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#81. Your non attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the divine is your beauty.
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#83. Keep wondering whether your waking reality is a dream and you will wake up to the real.
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#84. Even stupid people have a role to play
in your life. They make you wiser and
more patient.
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#85. Make the Universal personal and you become richer, wiser and stronger. Make the personal Universal and you will find freedom, compassion and love
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#86. Remember those wonderful moments you have had. Sit and be with it. In that very memory your entire Being gets back to that state
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#87. You should not delay the good things in life. Just do them. Whenever you get a chance to do spiritual practice or seva, don't miss it. Those are the real precious moments of your life.
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#88. Life is a combination of destiny and free will. Rain is destiny; whether you get wet or not is free will!
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#89. Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.
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#90. A Presence is in control of the whole Universe. You just do your part and relax!
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#92. When the energy is high and when there is love, healing happens automatically!
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#93. For external beauty, you put on things; for real beauty, you have to drop all things. For external beauty you have to have make-up; for real beauty you only have to realize that you are already made up.
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#94. The master is presence. The world is relativity and relativity has limitations. Presence is unlimited.
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#95. Faith is the subject of the head. Devotion is the subject of the heart and meditation connects both.
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#96. In the Vedic Calender, the year 2013 is said to be the year of Victory. Victory of the Good over Bad.It is said to begin in the end of march.
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#97. Be light. Smile. Drop. Learn the tendency to drop and smile and move through.
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#98. When we look at the world through the eyes of the Master, the world will look so much more beautiful - not a nasty place, but a place filled with love, joy, compassion and all virtues
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#99. The entire universe is one whole, when you drop holding on to your limited boundaries, then what you gain is the entire universe.
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#100. For a seeker, Guru Purnima is a day of significance, is a day of New Year. It is the day to review one's progress on the spiritual path and renew one's determination and focus on the goal, and to resolve what one wants to do in the coming year
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