Poornima

"Today is Purnima, but it is covered by clouds. This is the story in everyone’s life, you are a full moon but it is not visible because of the clouds. When winds of grace blow away the clouds then the full moon shines through. In the same way there is covering on the knowledge. Know that whenever you are sad, unsatisfied or anxious, there is a covering on us and we are standing with our backs turned away from the light, from God. That is why we are seeing only darkness, we feel scared looking at our own shadow. If there is any fear in our life it is because of the shadow that we cast. And we keep fighting with this shadow. What do you do for that? You simply have to turn towards the light, the Guru. Then the darkness is gone in seconds and the shadow with which we were fighting is finished. Believe that this mind and the world is part of God. If you believe that this world is part of God, then your attachment to this world goes away, anger goes away, greed comes to an end and the feverishness of cravings gets pacified. This is an experiential truth. It is not just talk, you can experience it in your own life. We often say that the mind is restless, why do we say that? Because the mind is always looking for more pleasure. We want the highest happiness. And we look for it in someone’s company or fame or power. You feel so much joy when ten people compliment you. You have to first understand this illusion of the mind or the tendency of the mind. When you understand this, then you simultaneously you will also realize that the highest happiness is with God alone, God itself is happiness. Your love is God who is happiness and there is no distance between you and your love. There is no distance and there is no difference. What my Love is, that is what I am. And that is what this whole world is made up of. That is all there is to know. Keep reminding yourself this. Then your sadness will go away." Ques: What do I do that everyone likes me? ‪#‎SriSri‬: Don’t try to make everyone like you. It is enough for that One to like you. How far will you go to make everyone happy? No. You make your own Self happy, satisfied. Make God happy. You just have to make that One happy. Ques: Even though everyone genetically different, I see your face in all. What do I do? #SriSri: It’s ok. If I come in you too then it will be great! Ques: Why do offer incense and lamps to pray to God? #SriSri: The use of incense, lamps is like a play. It just creates an environment, nothing more than that. You don’t need to light a lamp or incense to please God. If you are happy then God is happy. Ques: How to take out fear from a kid’s mind? #SriSri: Kids don’t really fear things, and even if they do you make them understand. You can ask them to chant Om Namah Shivayah or Jai Gurudev, all the fear will go away. You just need a few supports to remove fear, like mantras, pranayama, meditation. Mantras are the biggest support. Ques: What is the significance of performing Ayushya Homa on birthdays and anniversaries? #SriSri: Chanting of mantras gives rise to purity in the environment, in the subtle level. See we have a gross body, then we have a subtle body that is one and a half times larger than the gross body. And then we have the causal body which is many thousands of times bigger than the subtle body. We have these three bodies. When the subtle body starts become smaller than the gross body, then a person starts feeling restless. When it shrinks further, a person feels like committing suicide. This is the root cause of suicide. It’s like when your vest shrinks and becomes smaller than your size, then you feel like tearing it off and getting out of it. Don’t you feel irritation when your inner vest shrinks smaller than your body size? This is what happens in suicide, when your subtle body becomes smaller than your gross body. Now through chanting of mantras and meditation, the subtle body expands and becomes stronger. When the subtle body is strong, then you feel normal. When the subtle expands a lot then you feel that you are in bliss. And when the subtle body stretches thin and merges with the causal body, then that is liberation. And this is what Ayushya Homa does, it is an ancient tradition where we pray that our life becomes longer, our health is good, our keeps seeing and our ears keep hearing, this is what we pray. And along with it, we give offerings in the fire for the nine planets and we also pray that we only do good and feel belongingness with everyone. This is an ancient way of celebrating one’s birthday.