*Some pearls of Wisdom from 💝Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar*

*Some pearls of Wisdom from 💝Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar* 💎"Challenge & Change are cousins. If you are strong, you change the challenge! If you are weak, the challenge changes you! 💎If you are with the Guru, it is to Learn, Serve, Dissolve and Disappear. Not to achieve, accomplish, compete or perform~ 💎Even thorns have a purpose, else the rose cannot exist! 💎Life is a combination of free will & destiny. As you go deeper in meditation & align with the laws of Nature, your free will increases. 💎It is easy to disparage someone. It takes courage and intelligence to uplift people and bring out the divine qualities in them. 💎To love someone whom you like is insignificant. To love someone because they love you is of no consequence. To love someone whom you do not like means you have learned a lesson in life. To love someone who blames you for no reason shows that you have learned The Art of Living. 💎The role of meditation and other spiritual practices is to withdraw the mind from the sense objects and take it back to its source. This is critical for success in life. The knowledge of coming back to the Self, the self-referral value of consciousness makes it rich, energetic and beautiful. Q-The breath is so powerful. How does it work in connecting us to the subtle dimension? 💎My dear, in the subtle you are already connected. The breath only makes you realize that you are connected. Your mind is always outside and it does not come back to itself, so the breath is the first step in bringing the outgoing mind inward. It is the doorway or the pathway, and meditation keeps the mind in the inner chamber.