Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in satsang today ; Today (Makar Sankranti) is like Thanksgiving in America and Europe.. Today is the festival of harvest here in India. The tradition is that you share the first harvest. The harvest when it comes home, people make a small kit of all that like sugarcane, pulses, sesame seeds, all this and they go door to door and exchange gifts and give this to everybody. There is a proverb that says eat the sesame and the jaggery and speak and behave sweetly with everyone around you. So that’s the tradition people have been following since centuries, we don’t know when it started. I gave a different message for Sankranti - when you realize that you are like a sesame seed in this huge Universe, magnificent Universe, your life becomes sweet like the jaggery. The joy that is there in being egoless, is not there in being egotistic. The one without ego lives in bliss. An egotist lives in fear, doubt, this is what ego is made up of – fear, doubt, separateness and judgments, criticizing others, all this is part of ego. When you are natural, when you are at home with everything around you, then there is more sweetness in life. The egotistic attitude constrains you, because there is doubt, there is fear, there is separateness, saying I am different, I am separate, all judgments come in about other people, all these things come as a by-product of an egotistic personality. If the personality is child-like, innocent, blossomed, then you feel at home with everything. You don’t sit and keep judging right wrong, he is this way she is that way.. this sort of judgmental attitude constrains your happiness, your joy. So that’s the message. Innocence has got more sweetness and beauty in life than crookedness.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:55:31 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015