Guruji's Knowledge Sheet: Simple Or Complex
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Sri
Sri: Life is utterly simple and yet most complex. You have to simultaneously attend to both facets
of life. When life appears most complex, turn
to the simplicity. Simplicity brings peace. When you are
peaceful attend to the complexity within you.
That will make you more skillful.If you are only with
simplicity, it makes you lazy and dull. Being
only with complexity makes you angry and frustrated.
The intelligent ones balance them and rejoice
in both. If you look only to simplicity, growth is not
there. Looking only at the complexity, there
is no life at all. All that you need is a skillful balance. If
you recognize both simplicity and complexity
of life, you will be skillfully peaceful!Colors are the
complexity of life. White is the simplicity.
When your heart is pure, your life becomes so
colorful.Vikram: Guruji, you are all white and
yet so colorful.Pramila: Like our knowledge, which is so
profound and yet so simple!
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Guruji's Knowledge Sheet: Important & Unimportant
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So many people are stuck with what is "important". Why do you always have to do only that which is
important? Most people are caught up thinking
about what is important.
For something to be important, there need to be many things that are unimportant. So you cannot
eliminate unimportant things. It is important
to have unimportant things to make something else
important. (Laughter.) Things are either themselves
important or they make other things important.
So that means everything is important, and. everything
is unimportant.
When you realize this fact you become choiceless.
When you say something is important you are limiting
your vastness.
A journalist asked me, "Why is it important to breathe?" "Why is it important to be happy?" "Why is it
important to have peace?" These questions are
not relevant at all. Why should you always look for
what is important? Something that is unimportant
can contribute to something that is important.
And what is important and unimportant changes
with time and space. Food is important when you
are hungry and unimportant when you are full.
When
something is inevitable you don't categorize it as important or unimportant. It is beyond
choice.
"Everything is important" is karma
yoga. "Nothing is important" is deep meditation.
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- Sri Sri
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Your questions.. Sri Sri answers..
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Q.
Please talk about domestic violence and how one can live with it?
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Domestic and social violence
both arise out of
stress. We never teach people how to handle stress. No one is given
spiritual knowledge. Don’t
you think this knowledge of meditation and
Sudarshan Kriya should reach everybody? This knowledge of non-violence
should
reach all.
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Somehow we have to reach this knowledge to
people. You cannot tolerate domestic violence. Educate people.
Put your
100 percent to bring them to knowledge and meditation. Through this,
you will see how their whole attitude
changes.
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There is a
village of 700 families in Nanded Province in India. It had the usual
challenges of a village
- alcohol, debts, etc. One 'Art of Living'
teacher took it as a challenge and started teaching courses in small
groups.
Within a few months there was a huge change in the village.
Today everyone gathers together in the evening and sing together.
Nobody
drinks or smokes, or takes tobacco. There is no crime. There is
one store in the village that runs on trust, without a
shopkeeper. It
has been running in this manner since three years without any theft.
The entire village is organic. Nobody
is unemployed. There are no locks
on doors in the entire village. All the houses are painted pink to show
unity. They
keep it so clean. They are self-sufficient and
environment-friendly. They have received the “Most Ideal Village”
award.
One hundred and eighty villages of Karnataka and altogether 500
villages are now following this model. Every person does
pranayama.
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A lot needs to be done. We have 140 schools in areas where there are no
roads or electricity. We have
a good number of children studying in
these schools. They receive free education. First generation literates
achieve
such good grades in school.
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The President of the World
Bank asked us how our projects are successful. I explained
that money
is not always the reason. Love and spiritual energy make projects
successful.
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Keep smiling... Jai
Gurudev
