Tuesday, 24 June 2025
Unveiling infinity - Colombia- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Unveiling infinity - Colombia
What happens when you wait?
Waiting not all the time causes anger or frustration. Many times, you fall asleep. But there is a third thing that hardly anybody knows. Waiting leads you to meditation.
Waiting enhances the patience in you. Waiting expands your consciousness.
Waiting takes away a lot of pomposity and garbage we have been collecting. Just waiting rejuvenates your body and mind.
Sleep rejuvenates you.
There is no expectation in sleep. In waiting for infinity, expectations go down and rejuvenation happens.
Can you embrace waiting? Then you get enlightened.
There is a story about sage Narada. He used to travel around. When he was traveling he saw a man sitting and meditating. He went and asked Narada, "How long do I need to meditate? How many hours of meditation should I do? I have done so much." Narada said, "3 more lifetimes," and he got so angry that he threw his beads and asana and got mad. "I am no longer going to meditate. I will go party now." Narada was shaken.
Then he met a young boy who was meditating. He went to him and asked him, "Don't you want to know when you will get enlightened?" And the boy said, "I don’t care, but if you want to tell me, that’s fine." Then Narada said, "You look at the tree and you see how many leaves it has; you will take that many lifetimes to get enlightened." The boy was excited and started dancing and said, "There are so many trees in this world!" (But he showed only one tree.) It is said the boy got enlightened immediately.
Embracing the time is waiting. Resisting the time in the present moment is making the mind swing and foster all the negativity.
Long time ago, I was in a rally station and the train got delayed, and there was an elderly lady who would go to the end of the platform and see when the train would come. I told her that the train is big and you will know when it is here. I was worried that she would fall.
If you are alive in the moment while waiting then you are meditating, otherwise sleeping.
Do you know why our creation is so beautiful? So many flora and fauna. In Peru, there are 3000 varieties of potatoes. There are so many types of fruits here in Colombia. New types of birds. The creation is so diverse and is amazing. Do you know why God created this? He could have created one potato and left you to eat that every day.
God wants to charm you. Nature wants to charm you. Wants to create a wonder in you. Wonder! What happens on a birthday of a child? You give a gift to the child and you expect that they say "wow." Do you like it when they don’t get excited?
God wants to create a wow in you, and what you do is the opposite.
In the path of spirituality, the first thing is you are amazed at the creation. Wonder is the preface for yoga.
When do people come to spirituality? Not only when depressed, but also when you are ready. We don’t even experience the wow moment in life. So busy and so busy.
To appreciate the world, you need a meditative mind and vice versa.
We keep crying for what we have and what we don’t have. Very strange.
I was in England. One boy came and said, "I want to buy a Mercedes Benz." He was very desperate. I was more compassionate in the 90s and 2000s than now. And I said, "Ok." He got a loan and everything and bought the car. I thought he would be very happy. He said, "The streets in Birmingham are very short, that there is no parking anywhere. It takes too much petrol, and I am trying to sell it for the last 6 months and I am not able to sell it. Please bless me that I can sell it."
I came to give higher knowledge and am stuck as an old car dealer.
We are stuck in small things.
Heard the story about the man going in the boat?
A man is sailing in a boat and saw another boat coming his way and about to collide anytime.
So what if I don’t continue the story? You want completion in everything, and I tell you, you never know, you may die anytime.
The boat came, and this man started shouting, "Go away! Go away!" He got angry and started yelling, "Don’t come!" Nobody was hearing him. The other boat still came. The two boats collided. The boatman saw there was nobody on the other boat. It was moving by the wind. He felt so foolish. He was shouting for 20 mins and there was nobody in the boat. And he felt so foolish. Suddenly all his anger disappeared. What happened here? What is the moral of the story?
All the anger he had, who suffered from that?
Think about it. All your anxiety and anger is like that. Of no use at all.
Many are interested in astrology. Ancient Rishis are very smart. They say, "When you say this problem or the other," they say, "Saturn is moving in this direction or Jupiter is going to some other direction." You are putting the blame on the planets. You can’t get angry at Saturn and throw stones at it. You are throwing the case of happening to the cosmic happening. That expands your awareness; that is the purpose of knowing astrology. This science has been misused and they stretched it too much. It has become another business of guesswork.
In reality, what is the use of it? Expanding your awareness from the limited cause to the universal cause.
If your spouse is behaving nasty, know that planets are not ok.
Human mind is managed by many energies. Your mind is different in the morning, afternoon, and evening. The moods change. When certain moods are strong, they stay for 2 to 5 days, 4 or 5 days, and then it changes. Time and mind are connected.
One is astonishment and the other thing that human mind develops as a child. We inherited it from our ancestors - curiosity.
Curiosity is part of love. If someone is in love, they are very curious about what their partner is doing. "Where did you go? What time did you go?" and they want to know everything about them.
The curiosity gets into policing. Nobody likes it. With policing come doubts.
Curiosity - policing - doubt - divorce.
From the age of 3, curiosity starts in life. They pour you with questions. They are not bothered what answer you give. What has happened from sometime in history is what we have been shutting down children from asking questions. "Just believe. Don’t ask questions." That led to fanaticism. But the ancient wisdom is not that. It says, "Ask questions." Ask questions to yourself also. Question is a double-edged sword. Ask your self, "Who am I?"
Even that can lead you to meditation. There is an ancient Upanishad called Prasna Upanishad. How to ask questions.
The presence of mind comes up with questions. If you ask a child "What, what, what," they say "nothing."
The truth is beyond the intellect. The heights of intellect transcend thoughts and descend to feeling level, and going beyond the feeling level is divinity.
43 mins meditation
Do you know why a horseshoe is a lucky sign?
Your breath goes like the horseshoe. It goes in and goes out like a horseshoe.
Know that you are breathing, and that is good enough to be feeling lucky. Just the fact that you are alive, you are lucky. Give a slap to all those who are depressed.
Among millions of lives, human life is the most precious. Imagine you are a cockroach, how miserable you would have been. Feel lucky you are a human being. Horseshoe is a sign.
This is what the Buddhists do. Vipassana. Keep observing the movement of the breath. People would sit 7-8 hours a day, keep observing the breath so their mind becomes calm.
But today nobody has time to do that. That’s why nature gave you Sudarshan Kriya. In 10 minutes, you can calm your mind down.
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