Top 100 Ravi Shankar Quotes
#1. I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
Serj Tankian
#2. As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar's fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar.
Christina Westover
#5. Your life is infinite. You are as old as these mountains and you will remain for ever.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#6. The source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source, is spiritual practice.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#7. 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.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#8. Do not be feverish about success, if your aim is clear and you have patience to move towards it, nature will support you.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#10. The third one is culturing the mind. One who has never meditated has no right to even touch the book of Ashtavakra.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#11. I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.
Ravi Shankar
#13. 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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#18. Just open your eyes, shake your head, and look at what is happening in the world. It is amazing! This universe is amazing!
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#19. Faith makes you stable and steady. It brings out the totality in you. Consolidation of your energy is faith. Dissemination of energy is doubt.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#20. I have my own spiritual guru, and I'm so happy, and I feel so satisfied that I might appreciate many other famous gurus, but, you know, I am not attracted that way because I have found the person.
Ravi Shankar
#21. Let my hands be of service to people. Let me earn wisdom through my hands. Let my hands do good work
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#22. 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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#25. When people say that George Harrison made me famous, that is true in a way.
Ravi Shankar
#26. That which you cannot express is Love.
That which you cannot reject/renounce is Beauty.
That which you cannot avoid is the Truth.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#27. Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
Ravi Shankar
#28. With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.
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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. When you are infinitely indebted for your body, for Knowledge, for things you have received, and for your own life, then you bask in the abundance of the Creator
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#33. Yoga is a study of life, study of your body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. Study of your inner faculties!
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#34. I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.
Ravi Shankar
#36. Spirituality is a harmonious blend of outer silence and inner celebration; and also inner silence and outer celebration!
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#37. 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.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#38. I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a long time; sometimes it comes just like that.
Ravi Shankar
#39. Navratri represents how the negativity can be conquered by the inherent positive qualities in us.
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#41. 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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#43. I appreciate very much Vilayat Khan, the sitar player, and Bismillah Khan, the shehnai player; and among the tabla players, of course, Alla Rakha, Kishan Maharaja, and all these people.
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#45. Charity should be self-sustainable. That is, it should create more wealth rather than perpetuating the cycle of poverty and dependence. In this sense, the best form of charity would be providing quality education for children and more importantly, building a good character in them.
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#46. If you're saddened by another's sorrow, then sorrow will never come to you. If you are happy at another's joy then joy will never leave you.
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#47. Enlightenment is the journey back from the head to the heart.
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#49. Nature will never confront you with a problem you can't solve. You already have the answer, that is why the question appears before you.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#50. Don't focus on what others want. See what it is that you want.
When you stop looking inside and look at others, that is when you miss the boat.
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#51. When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.
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#52. Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory.
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#54. I have received and I want to give. This is the path to happiness and contentment.
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#55. Everywhere you see in creation there is Divine love. Love is the highest force, the greatest force, and the simplest
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#56. Service brings merit, merit allows you to go deeper in meditation, meditation brings back your smile.
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#57. In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.
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#58. Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life.
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#59. Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life - this is what you are here for
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#60. Everything is cleansed and purified by the rains, and the Earth blossoms in beauty.
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#61. Success means crossing a limit. To cross a limit you need to assume that you have a limit. Assuming a limit is underestimating yourself. If you have no boundaries then where is your success?
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#62. If something is not working today, then something better is in store. This surety should be in our mind.
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#63. Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.
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#64. Purpose of words is to create silence. Purpose of action is to bring deep rest. Purpose of deep rest is to bring you fulfillment. In fulfillment you find joy, bliss
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#67. In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of Western classical music - they don't read between the lines, they just read the lines.
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#68. Why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#69. Meditate. A few minutes of deep meditation will connect you with the ocean of intuition deep within you.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#70. 'Ravi' means 'sun.' It's a Sanskrit original word. And 'Shankar' is another name of Shiva, one of the holy trinity god that we worship.
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#71. Peace is the first step to equip yourself to face problems. Once you find the peace and the inner strength, then you can face any problem. It won't even appear as a problem then.
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#72. Celebrate Life. Care for others and share whatever you have with those less fortunate than you. Broaden your vision, for the whole world belongs to you.
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#73. Think about a world which never irritated you. You'd be stuck with it forever.
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#74. Every emotion is connected with the breath. If you change the breath, change the rhythm, you can change the emotion.
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#75. I will keep playing as long as my body lets me, and as long as I'm wanted by my listeners. Because music is the only thing that keeps me going.
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#76. Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.
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#77. 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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#79. Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious
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#81. What path you choose is not important. How intensely you pursue that path is much more important
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#82. 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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#83. In your very nature, in the depth of your mind, there is omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience. All knowledge is already in the depth of your consciousness, of your mind.
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#84. Don't postpone your happiness until some perfect future date. Be happy now, tomorrow will take care of itself.
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#85. Keeping the mind open to new ideas, not being too anxious about success, putting 100% effort and meditation is the formula for entrepreneurs.
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#87. When mind controls man, it's ... Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it's ... Yoga
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#88. Just as when spring comes, Nature celebrates, When Navaratri comes, the Spirit celebrates.
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#89. I try to give to my music the spiritual quality, very deep in the soul, which does something even if you are not realizing it or analyzing it - that's the duty of the music.
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#90. Satguru knows that there is no death to the disciple. Atma never dies. Even after death he continues to get direction on the path
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#91. 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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#92. A healthy mind always likes to adore others, elevate them. An unhealthy mind likes to pull everything down.
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#93. My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.
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#94. There is freedom when you realize that you are just a witness to all that is happening.
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#95. 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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#96. 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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#97. Effort is the key in the relative; effortlessness is the key to the Absolute.
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#98. I believe in one thing: that anyone who is able to do something good for someone, I mean, should be praised.
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#99. When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.
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#100. Why do you think you are weak? Wake up and see you have all the strength.
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