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Guruji's Knowledge Sheet: Prestige & Honor
- Your Golden Cage
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Honor reduces the freedom. Your fame, honor and virtue can limit your freedom.
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Nobody
expects a good person to make a mistake. So the better person you are, the higher the expectations people have of you. It
is then that you lose your freedom. Your virtues and good actions are like a golden cage. You are trapped by your own good
actions, for everyone expects more from a good person. Nobody expects anything from a bad person.
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Most of the people
are stuck in this cage of prestige and honor. They can not smile. They are constantly worried about keeping up their prestige
and their honor. It becomes more important than their own life. Just being good or doing good to keep the prestige and honor
is worthless. Prestige and honor can bring more misery in life than poverty.
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Many desire fame, but little do they
know that they are looking for a cage.
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It is an art to be dignified, and yet not be suffocated by it. Only the wise
would know this. For the wise one it is natural to be in honor, and he has no concerns even if it falls apart. Despite having
fame or prestige, he will live as though he has none.
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A wise person can handle any fame without feeling suffocated,
for he is crazy too!
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By doing good in the society one gains prestige, then enjoying the prestige and honor, one loses
their freedom.
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Question: Then how do you keep your freedom?
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Answer: By being like a child, considering the
world as a burden a joke or a dream.
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- Sri Sri
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Your questions.. Sri Sri answers..
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Your
questions.. Sri Sri answers..
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Q: Guru which is your favorite quote from the Gita?
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: I
have so many. There is no point in you picking my favorite quote. You read it and find your own favorite quote and keep reviewing
it every few years because it may change. You can't find a more contradictory scripture than Bhagwat Gita. In every chapter
Lord Krishna says something different. It is like climbing one step after another. And all that is said is relevant from a
bigger picture. Arjuna also said, `Krishna, you say different things at different times. I am so confused. Please tell me
one thing that I should do.' Then Lord Krishna says intelligent people know there are many facets, many angles, all is spherical
whereas dull people think everything is linear. :)
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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/*
Jai Gurudev :)
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Guruji's Knowledge Sheet: Nigra, Agra, Satyagra
& Duragra
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Nigra means control.
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Agra means insistence.
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Satyagra means steadfast determination.
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Duragra
means blind adamancy, reckless stubbornness.
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These four will give you progress when practiced for a limited period
of time. They give limited results, positive or negative. But if they stay on for a longer period, they eat away the potential
of life. One has to transcend all these four to attain peace.
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Freedom is when you transcend all four. They are inevitable
to streamline life but you need to transcend them to be free.
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Give your own examples and discuss nigra, agra, satyagra,
and duragra.
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- Sri Sri
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|| Jai Guru Dev ||
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