Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Satsang today The consciousness is like the ocean. The mind is like a wave. Consciousness and the mind are not different. The mind is just a wave in the consciousness. Mind is made up of thoughts. Thoughts keep coming up in the mind. The brain is like a frequency analyzer. Consciousness consists of the three state of sleeping, waking and dreaming. There is a fourth state that can be attained through meditation. Where you are neither sleeping nor awake. . Our consciousness is amazing! The more you study about it, the more amazed you will be. And the more you learn about it, the more you will realize how little you know. There are many different sorts of people in this world with different thinking. Some accept some type of people, other’s accept another. I accept all! We should know how to criticize and we should have the strength to take criticism.. the sign of a strong person is that he has the ability to listen and take criticism and not run away from it. Ques: If there is an argument between and God and a devotee and they both get stuck to their points, who wins? #SriSri: A devotee always wins. Ques: Please help in reducing the plight of the Dalits. #SriSri: Absolutely. We have to educate everyone with regard to Dalits. You know there have been about a thousand Rishis (sages), out whom a lot of them were from the Dalit caste. The two holy books, Ramayan and Mahabharata, are both written by Dalits. And the Dalits are the basis of the Hindu religion. Most of the books written were all written by them. Even Lord Shiva is said to be a Dalit. The different castes are on the basis of occupation, not by birth. And all are the same. The legs of the society are the labour class. Without them the society will not move forward. The legs are not unworthy. It is because of the them that the society progresses. That is why you should never look down upon the labour class, you should give them due respect. When you do puja, then do you first worship the feet or the head? The feet, right? In India and Nepal we first bow down and touch the feet! So this untouchability should be eradicated at its root. The practice of untouchability I think is mainly in the villages, not in the villages. Whatever is left of this practice in the villages, should be completely eradicated. There are two very important tasks that need to be undertaken. One is untouchability. Will everyone take a Sankalpa (intention) to remove it? Go to the villages and educate people. The second is ending the tradition of animal sacrifice. So many animals are being slaughtered. Nowhere in the Vedas and scriptures, has there been any sanction given to this practice. We have to remove this sort of a superstition. This is a problem in both India and Nepal. How many will work on this? (Many raise their hands). Go to every home and educate them. Tell them that all of humanity is one. What have we been always saying? Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (one world family). The whole world is one family. Ques:Why did Rama ask Sita to go through the Agni Pariksha (test through fire)? #SriSri: Listen I am not Rama’s lawyer.. Instead of this we should think about what we have to do in society. If we sit to find fault, we will find fault in everything. What we have to focus on is how to bring about progress in society. And how to bring together the hearts and minds of the people. This is what we have to focus on! Ques: If God is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent, then Rama, Krishna, Shiva, Jesus, who are all of them? #SriSri: Yes God is only one. But God’s different qualities and attributes are displayed in different forms. Like how a ray of sunlight is only white in colour but when you see it through a prism you see seven different colours. So in this way the different qualities and attributes are represented in the different names of the Gods. That is why Jesus said that everything is Light, Love and Life. So God is also Light, Love and the Universal Life.. Ram and Krishna were historic personalities while Lord Ganesha etc are Gods in the subtle level of existence. So here we have two things. One is the Parmatama, the one God and then the Devatas who are parts of the one Parmatama. Ques: When innocents get killed in riots or terrorist attacks, is it because of their past karmas? How do we explain this? #SriSri: What is the need to explain and understand? Do what you can.. An eye for eye, tooth for tooth will not do. What has happened has happened, it is the past. What can you do now? You see a victim inside a culprit. The opportunities that you have got to learn, they have not got it. They have either not got education or have got wrong education. Broaden your vision then inside every culprit you will see a victim. That’s why they are put in prison.. you go to any prison and then you will see how they regret what they did.. There are only two causes for violence. One is wrong indoctrination. Someone tells you, you kill people then you will go to heaven, there you will lot of pleasures. This is something that instigates people to kill. The other one is because they have scars or wounds, broken families, they have such anger and stress inside their hearts, that makes them blind. I want to ask you that when you are overcome with anger, don’t you regret what you say then? Whatever you do in stress and when tensed, don’t you regret it later? So tension, stress and ignorance is the cause of all the violence in the world.. If the Taliban people had a little broader education on human values, they had been taught on compassion, non-violence, love, you think they would have done what they did today? Impossible! Because they lacked education, all that they knew and learnt is one-sided, one angle, so they came to killing others. Dr. Gunnar Stålsett, Bishop Emeritus of Oslo and Hon. President of Religions of Peace, was the honoured guest in Satsang today. He said We have had many conferences around the world.. but it is only when I am here that I understand the strength and depth of His vision and Spirituality
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