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Your questions.. Sri Sri answers..
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What
is this soul? We have heard so much about it, about self-realization.
What is soul? What is self?
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Sri
Sri Ravi
Shankar: Want to know it? How many here have studied Physics
or Chemistry? Everyone here must know a little about Physics.
Our body
is made up of billions of cells. Each cell in the body has a life. You
use body scrub to get rid of dead skin
cells. So many cells are born
and dying every day. You are not an individual person. This is how the
ancient rishis
or sages referred to it. You are a walking township.
Purusha is a town. The soul lives in the town or the body that moves
around.
Do you know that in your intestines there are 50,000 bacteria?
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This
body is changing everyday. Yet something is
also not changing. To
understand this, you should study a beehive. You have seen a beehive?
What keeps it there? The
queen bee. Once the queen bee is gone,
everything disappears. In the same way, your body is made up of
billions of atoms.
There is a queen bee in your body. Each body is a
beehive full of honey. Locate the queen bee within yourself and that
is
meditation. Billions of atoms are present throughout your body. It is
the same in a human body as in an ant or an
elephant. The outer size of
the body is irrelevant. It is the unknown or atma (self) which is
non-changing. It always
remains. Nothing can shake you with this
knowledge. You will feel at home with everybody. Nothing will disturb
you.
This is the essence of spirituality.
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Your questions.. Sri Sri answers..
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Q:
Why does love always come with attachment? Is it possible to love your partner and still be dispassionate?
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Sri
Sri
Ravi Shankar: Attachment brings pain, but nothing comes without
pain. We came into this world in a lot of pain. The process
of birth
itself is very painful. For nine months, we were comfortable and then
suddenly the ocean around us disappeared
and we had to come out!
Attachment happens when your focus is not on the Being, but on the
outside. Wanting to control,
possess and hold on brings pain. When we
are relaxed and content, love transforms to bliss. Demand and control
only
bring pain. Wisdom, along with love, is the answer.
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Guruji's Knowledge Sheet: When Someone
Blames You -1
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Sri Sri: When someone blames you, you feel a heavy load on your head, and when you talk about it you
spread the unpleasant feeling all around you. At this moment wake up and see you are Being and nothing can touch you. This
is all just a drama, which you yourself have created. You have gone through this over and over again. All the blames you face
in your life are your own creation. Knowing this, you feel free and light.
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Owning responsibility for all your experiences
in life makes you powerful and will put an end to grumbling, planning counter attacks, explanations, and all those host of
negative tendencies. Owning full responsibility you become free.
(... to be contd.)
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