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Your questions.. Sri Sri answers..
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Q:
In Art of Living we promote vegetarianism. Even plants & vegetables have life. Are we not killing them while eating?
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Sri
Sri: Dont find excuses. Your white blood corpuscles are killing bacteria in your body everyday. Does it mean you can also
start killing people and justify saying I am not responsible. Logic is not the answer for everything. Your body is suitable
for only vegetarian food. Non vegetarian takes food takes 8-20 hrs to digest while vegetarian food takes 3-4 hrs to digest.
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NOTE: Do YOU have any questions? Now you can get your Spiritual Quest quenched from where ever you are by sending
the queries to
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askguruji@srisripublications.com*
These questions will be read out in the satsangs wherever
Guruji is. You can find the transcription of answers on http://wisdomfromsrisriravishankar.blogspot.com/+++
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Simply we are Blessed.
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*Q: In our childhood
we heard that there is someone named 'Chitragupt' who
is talking note of all our actions and is responsible for counting
our karma
balances. Is that true? Is there really someone who is watching us every
moment?*
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Sri(GURUJI):* *'Chitra' means photo, picture and 'Gupt' means secret,
hidden. The self who is witnessing the actions,
the conscious mind is
referred here to as Chitragupta. You know there is this saying which says,
'Under
the foot-print of an elephant, all other marks dissolve'. Therefore
under the Guru when are doing your Sadhana Seva
and Satsang then everything
else dissolves. Similarly Chitragupt is not the (Malik) God, he is the
(Sevak)
servant. But I tell you without self knowledge everything is false!!
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Guruji's Knowledge Sheet: Is War Violence
Or Non-violence
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Violence and non-violence do not depend on the act but on the intention behind it. The basis of violence
is anger, lust, hatred, jealousy, greed, frustration or aggression.
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A surgeon cuts open a person's belly; so does
a criminal. The action is similar. But the surgeon's intention is to save and the criminal's is to destroy.
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Violence
or non-violence is determined by the attitude and not the act.
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Even a war can be non-violent if it is devoid of anger,
hatred, jealousy or greed and it is for educating someone who cannot be educated in any other way.
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Even charity can
be an act of violence if it takes away self-esteem and inflicts slavery, and a war can be an act of compassion if it helps
to put things in the right perspective.
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Strange but True!
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- Sri Sri
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Five Factors That Influence
The Mind
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Place, Time, Food, Past Impressions, and Associations and Actions
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The space -the place you are
in.
Every place you are in, has a different impact on the mind. Even in your house, you can see that you feel different
in different rooms. A place where there there has been singing, chanting and meditation has a different influence on the mind.
Suppose you like a particular place; you may find that a little later it will not be the same.
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Time is also a factor.
Different times of the day and year have different influences on the mind.
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Different types of food that you take
influence you for some days.
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The past impressions-the Karmas- have a different impact on the mind. Awareness, alertness,
knowledge and meditation all help erase the past impressions.
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Associations and actions
The people and events you
are associated with do influence your mind. Your actions and associations effect your mind. In certain company your mind behaves
in one way and with others in a different way.
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Question: Should we worry about them?
Answer: No need to be paranoid
about it. Just know them!
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Though these five factors influence the life and the mind, know that the Self is much more
powerful. As you grow in knowledge, you will influence them all.
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- Sri Sri
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