Blessings

You can sit anywhere and ask for blessings in your mind, and you will receive blessings.

You may ask me how is that possible.

Tell me, how does Kama Vasana (lust) get aroused just by thinking such thoughts, isn't it? Hormones are then secreted in excess in the body.

How do you get angry? Just by thinking!

How does hatred come? By thinking about others whom you dislike. You think about those who you don't like and your body begins to quiver.

How does fear come? By thinking!

So, if by thinking, lust can come, anger can come, fear can come, hatred can come, then can blessing also not come just by thinking? Are blessings so ineffective, or do you think that you have to work so hard to get blessings? No! You don't need to do anything. Just by thinking you get blessings. This is how it happens.

So, whenever you feel grateful just think that blessings have certainly come along with it.

--H. H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji

The Way Out Of Sorrow

The Way Out Of Sorrow – H. H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji

 

If your are unhappy you better check if one or all of these are lacking: Tapa (penance), Vairagya (dispassion), and Sharanagati (surrender).

 

·        Tapas is agreeing with the moment, total acceptance of pleasant or unpleasant situations.

·        Vairagya means I want nothing and I am nothing.

·        Sharanagati is "I am here for You, for Your joy."

 

If you are grumbling then these are lacking, because when you accept the situation you cannot grumble; when you take it as Tapa you will not grumble; when you come from a state dispassion ("I don't want anything") you don't grumble; and if you are surrendered you will have no complaints.

 

All these three (Tapas, Vairagya and surrender) purify your mind and uplift you in joy.

 

If you don’t do it willingly you will do it in desperation. First you say, "Nothing can be done." Then in anger and desperation you say, "I give up, I want nothing, I have no choice, to hell with it!"