Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Satsang today Ques: What is the significance of Sankalpa(intention) and does mantra give power to intentions? #SriSri: Mantras energize the mind. And Sankalpas come in the mind.. Each person has a hundred intentions coming into the mind. But why don’t all those intention get fulfilled? The more thoughts you have, weaker the Sankalpa. The weaker the Sankalpa, it doesn’t fructify. With mantra the mind gets energized and in that energized state when Sankalpa is taken, it fructifies. Ques: What is the meaning of Aashirvaad mantra? #SriSri: Aashirvaad mantra is everyone saying together ‘So be it’. Let there be prosperity, let the rains come in time, may the rulers rule according to the law. Like this prayers and everyone say so be it and everyone puts their Sankalpa into that. Everyone’s mind work in unison for betterment of society. ‘S be it’. It’s so beautiful! From thousands of years ago these mantras are recited, chanted. All that counts is the intention. Purity in heart, clarity in mind and sincerity in action. That’s all that counts. Ques: In the Bible it is said that a rich man cannot enter heaven. Is money not a good thing? #SriSri: Charity is part of any religion. Right? Even Christianity. How can charity happen from an empty bowl? Can someone do charity with an empty purse? No. it’s wrong understanding. Yes, people who are stingy, who are greedy, who are misers, misers cannot go to heaven. Money is not bad. It is just a means to do something good. Whatever you earn you can’t use it all on yourself. Some percentage you put it to some good use. In that case that becomes good money. Here is in the east that is not the case. Here you should be rich in your heart, rich in the mind. Richness is not just having money, somebody may be having a big bank balance but that doesn’t mean they are rich. Richness is in your consciousness. So the Goddess of wealth, is consort of Narayana. Wealth is considered as Goddess. And there are different types of wealth. Confidence is wealth, compassion is wealth, knowledge is wealth, wisdom has got richness, generosity is a kind of richness. How can someone who is so poor be compassionate. Even to have compassion, to have any virtues you need to be at some place. Right? So richness is in your ability to share, not in how much you have. Many times poor people do so much more. The other day some people came and said that they want to give something. I said it’s good that you have the feeling that you want to give. But I’m not going to take from you. Because if you give, then you feel that ‘I have given’. That will spoil it. If you think have given, what is it that you have given? You have been given by God to give! But you think gave, then it creates demand inside your mind. I gave, I want. That is counter-productive. Love is when, even when you give you feel like you have not given. That wanting to give keeps your consciousness at a higher level. Feeling I have given and I want to gain is a sign of weakness or poverty. When you are content when you have received so much that you have to give now, this feeling keeps you uplifted. I have given I want to get will keep you in a very dicey situation. Ques: What to do when you we have longing for the divine? #SriSri: Feel very happy about it. Longing is essential. This longing for the divine will keep you away from all other bad habits in life. Mind anyway longs or craves for something. Either it craves for some mundane things, it is the nature of the mind. And if it craves for mundane things and you shift it to the divine, it’s a very good thing. But don’t be in a hurry. You can’t say ‘I want to possess everything, I want to have tit right away.’ No. With that longing have patience, develop patience. This is the time to develop patience. Knowing whatever is best for you will be given at the RIGHT time. A gardener know when to pluck the fruit. If it plucks it too early it will not taste good, it is raw. This longing is really your good luck. You have really done some good thing some time in your past life. So this longing has come. This longing itself is so beautiful. Don’t try to fulfil it by some act. Allow it to be there. Life swings between longing for the divine and the love. The longing happens, it is time for prayers. When love is experienced time to bless. So each one of us should bless everybody when you feel that way. When you feel content, bless and when longing, pray. Pray means be grateful for it, thankful for it.
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 18:33:08 +0000
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