Navratri 2015 at Bangalore Ashram - Part 3

Sri Sri in satsang today

Art of Living International Centre, Bangalore

October 21st, 2015

"It’s a completely different world right? Very good. Just for a moment imagine, just remove yourself from the world and see everything in this world is happening and it will continue to happen. Some good, some bad, some right, some wrong. Which appear to be right now but then becomes wrong. Some appear to be wrong and then becomes right. But the whole Universe is continuing, with you or without you. Isn’t it? You just have to imagine, the whole world, everything is happening. Just remove yourself from it. Everything is happening. Put yourself back, everything is happening! This little intellect which thinks it knows everything, it does everything, but the space around that is much more intelligent than this little one. This is what we forget. The Brahman, the Divinity is all around us. The space has enormous intelligence. And because of the enormous intelligence there, everything is running. Of that was not present, then nothing in the world can function! See the flowers are blossoming, the birds are chirping, whole universe has its own orderliness, its own arrangements. This whole arrangement cannot happen unless there is intelligence. This whole arrangement cannot happen unless there is intelligence (pointing to the arrangements for pujas and satsang)! So in this whole Universe, nothing happens without intelligence. When you believe in your little intelligence, because I have a brilliant mind, I am intelligent, so I can make this happen, but that space which is around this little intelligence, has enormous potential and is much more intelligent! And that is most fascinating thing. Even when you just sit and think, your mind goes ‘Waa! Waa! Waa!’, saying something. Then you say, ‘Hey come on, you shut up! The Big Mind which is all around me, is much more intelligent and it will take care.’ Let the massive intelligence function. Allow it, I mean, it anyway functions! You cannot stop it. But your recognizing it makes a difference. What difference does it make? It makes you happy. And that’s the real cool thing! It’s really a cool thing. The in thing is to recognize that there is a greater intelligence and it is alike an ocean, an unseen ocean, and that is what is called ‘Saras’. ‘Saras’ means an ocean. ‘Saraswati’ means containing the ocean of intelligence. So our tradition of Masters, they had the name Saraswati Shankarcharya, after Shancarcharya all the other Swamis who came, brilliant swamis were all called Saraswati. But today, many people keep that name (laughter) but then the title is given. Event today, the government when it gives big honours to artists or scientists, they all have Sharada or Saraswati in it. Swaraswati means containing or recognizing the infinite ocean. So the infinite ocean is present all over and if you recognize that, then you become that Saraswati. You need all the three aspects – Mediation, music and knowledge. Book for knowledge, the instrument is for music and there is a bead, because you cannot represent meditation, beads or rosary is the easiest way to say that someone is meditating or inward. So you are inward and you are balanced with left and right brain. Then that is Saraswati. Then you have access card!"

Ques: How can Brahmacharani, the one who pervades in the Brahman and Kalaratri (the terrifying form), be both the Devi?

‪#‎SriSri‬: Yes, this is it. It is all possible. Mother Divine is more beautiful than the most beautiful and is the terrifying Kalaratri too. She is both, and it happens. A mother doesn’t always deal in the same way. When a child misbehaves, then the mother scolds, doesn’t she? We have all grown by her scolding! There is not one person who has not been scolded by their mother, not had their ears pulled by her. This form is also there but in that too there is good. That is why Goddess Kali, in her form, is standing on top of Shiva. This means that the basis of Kali is good. Now see, if a building has become old, don’t you break it down and make a new one. And you are breaking the building down only to bring up a new building. If someone says, ‘No don’t break down the wall, it will anyway one day fall on top of you’, then that is not intelligence! If you go to Old Delhi, there are so many buildings that look like they are going to fall down any moment.. That is why know that even when there is destruction, it is only for something new. It is strange but true. Now, if a plant is going out of control, don’t you trim it? A gardener will trim the branches so that new leaves can grow from it. This is how life is.

"In Sadhana or in life, comparing yourself with others should not be done. If you cannot do it at all, then at least reduce it. Because this is like the medicine for mind and it keeps that mind centered. ‘ I am sitting at the back and he/she is sitting in the front’ or ‘He/she got a garland and I did not’. Leave all this! I gave a garland to one representative from every trust like Sri Sri University trust, where we have just started a new course on Osteopathy. This is going to be very good. So a representative from every trust was garlanded but some thought ‘ Oh he was given a garland and I was not’. I know that is going on in your mind! A garland is just a symbol and you should not fight because of that. We should not get into these symbolic things. You enjoyed everything but if a guard stops you from entering somewhere, you get sad because of it. You should understand that they have the most difficult jobs! They understand that some people get emotional and try to enter places where they are not allowed to go, just to get some blessings. Blessings are in abundance, wherever you are, you will get home delivery of blessings! Even those who did not come, just remembering the celebrations here itself will get them the blessings. Just remembering is enough. Touching the Guru’s feet is not necessary, just remembering is enough to make the Master content. This you should remember. There are roses and there is Jasmine. When everything is good, then see Me as jasmine. There are no thorns on Jasmine. And when you feel the thorns, then see Me as a thorn”. Don’t leave the rose because of the thorns!.. Even the thorns have purpose, else the rose cannot exist! So a rose cannot exist without thorns. If you keep looking only at the thorns then you will lose the beauty of the rose. If you go to garden, and look at only the thorns without enjoying the flower, then you will become unhappy. You have experienced so much joy here but if your room partner snores too much.. or the person sitting next to you is coughing and not letting you meditate, then it goes for a toss. Small things are enough to make the mind lose it’s center. Just become aware of it, then you will win over it. So there is beauty in every person. Look at that, not the thorn, look at the flower.. This is important to understand. Nobody is less or more, just do your seva. Increase the size of your asking bowl. There is no dearth of grace, there is a shower of blessings, but you have upturned your bowl. Make it straight and make your bowl bigger, then there will be no lack of anything. If you come with a small container and ask for 10 litres of milk, how is it possible to get? So you get everything, at the right time’ and you will keep getting according to the size of your bowl. Have this faith and keep moving ahead in life.

We have to make the whole world like this, awaken the Devi Shakti everywhere. We conducted 40 pujas across the nation, 2 in Nepal and in Mauritius and it is happening in all our Ashrams. This is good, those who cannot attend the pujas here, can do this where they are. Now even through television, the pujas and homas have reached you. A devotee from Germany called and said that he had an experience of the pujas as if he were here!"

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• Navratri 2015 at Bangalore Ashram - Part I
• Navratri 2015 at Bangalore Ashram - Part II
• Navratri 2015 at Bangalore Ashram - Part III