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Your questions.. Sri Sri answers..
Wed Mar 3, 2010 10:17 pm (PST)
Your questions.. Sri Sri answers..
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Q:
How do I maintain consistency in life? I find myself going up and then suddenly I find myself going down?
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Sri Sri:
Your desire for consistency itself will set you on the right path. As long as you keep going up, never mind if you come down
once or twice. If you are worried that you should never go down or if you go down and start blaming, then you get angry and
stressed. So just take it.
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(The person: But what can I do with the insecurity that I will fall down?)
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Look
back and see. If you have taken 10 steps forward, you can never go back all the 10 steps. Isn't it? If you climb 10 steps,
you may come down three, four or five steps but never all the ten steps. When you look at the positive changes in you, do
you relate to the person you were before you started doing practices? (Reply: No).
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That was a completely different
person. So this gives you complete confidence that you have never come down completely all the ten steps. You are somewhere
four, five or six steps down the line.
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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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Jai Gurudev :)
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The Best Form of Worship
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The best
puja," the best form of worship, is to be happy, to be grateful."
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Jai Gurudev!
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In a state of ignorance, imperfection is natural
and perfection is an effort.
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In a state of wisdom or enlightenment, imperfection is an effort; perfection is a compulsion
and is unavoidable!
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Perfection is taking total responsibility, and total responsibility means knowing that you are
the only responsible person in the whole world. When you think that others are responsible, then your degree of responsibility
diminishes.
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When you are in total Vairagya (dispassion), you can take care of even trivial and insignificant things
with such perfection. For example, during the Pooja every morning, Guruji decorates the Pooja table with flowers with such
great care, choosing different color combinations and patterns everyday; fully knowing that the decoration is not going to
last even 10 minutes. After the Pooja He himself would remove the garlands from the Pooja table or shower people with the
flowers on it. Yet even while He is in a deep state of Samadhi, He would effortlessly and lovingly decorate the Pooja table
everyday. It is obvious that it does not matter how the flowers are kept, but still attention to even such a trivial thing
with such keenness of awareness can only come through utter dispassion.
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Perfection is the very nature of the Enlightened
one.
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|| Jai Guru Dev ||
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The entire creation is a huge organization.
Everything is made up of atoms.
The whole world is nothing but organization, where the atoms have decided to
organize
themselves in a specific pattern to form a particular substance.
And those particular patterns bring them specific qualities.
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Death/decay/transformation
happens when the atoms get bored of patterns and
decide to recognise themselves.
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e.g. : When the atoms of the apple
say "Enough of being an apple", that's
when the rotting starts. If there is never boredom of patterns, there can be
no
decay.
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The movement from one organized state to another is also organized. This is
the transient organization which
we call chaos. This transient organization
may need a catalyst. Knowledge is such a catalyst.
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So, you have absolutely
no escape from organisation.
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- Sri Sri
John
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