*Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

 Renew your spirit everyday. All that it needs is being blown on like hot coal or charcoal. You need to keep blowing on it again and again. There could be hot charcoal,  but it may be covered with ash. You have to look at it and blow. We usually do this but we look elsewhere and keep blowing. Blow at the source of fire. That is satsang.

At the satsang sing bhajans and the moment they are over, write down the knowledge given. When you go through it sometime later, you will remember. From the memory the intelligence is awakened. Otherwise,  it will remain like a hot charcoal covered with its own ash. The ash, which is generated by the burning charcoal itself will finish it off.

So too, the impressions which have arisen in the mind will swallow it. If you do not keep blowing away the impressions regularly,  they, like the ashes of charcoal, will suppress the mind. Then the fire will get put out and you will become depressed. 

What is satsang ? It is the process to blow away the ashes and expose the charcoal again. The fire is present anyway. You just have to keep coming often and getting the ash blown away.

So keep coming every week, get brightened and return happy. 

*Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji*