Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes

Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.

I never intended to start a new organisation but to share what I knew.

The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel love for all humanity.

Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.

When there is a fountain of colours, they add charm to your life. In ignorance, emotions are a bother; in knowledge, the same emotions add colours.. enjoy the day with Wisdom!

How far to heaven? Just open your eyes and look. You are in heaven.

If you are bombarded by so many thoughts in solitude, you are in ignorance. If you are calm even amidst a crowd then you are in knowledge.

Patience in the mind and dynamism in action is the right formula.

A Presence is in control of the whole Universe. You just do your part and relax!

The master is presence. The world is relativity and relativity has limitations. Presence is unlimited.

Life is more than matter. If it were just matter, there would be no need for comfort. Matter does not feel comfort or discomfort, beauty or ugliness, love or compassion, joy or sorrow. Will a chair ever feel sorry or happy? No, matter does not have these finer values. They belong to the realm of the spirit. But life is also more than spirit. If it were just spirit, there would be no need for water, food, or rest. Human life is a combination of both matter and spirit.

Hold on to your dreams, one day, it will come true.

There are 64 divine mother impulses which govern the subtle creation. These are responsible for restoring all earthly and spiritual benefits. They are simply part of one's awakened consciousness. These nine nights are celebrated to rekindle those divine impulses and celebrate the innermost depth of our lives

One who can learn to flow with the current as well as manage the current is the successful one.

Let the mind calm down and the heart start to open. Then everything will be very obvious.

Whatever you put attention on will start manifesting in your life. Intention, attention, manifestation; that is how the universe works.

Feel indebted. Feel grateful. Then abundance grows.

If you ever feel lonely and feel that no one loves you and cares for you - remember me.

A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature.

For external beauty, you put on things; for real beauty, you have to drop all things. For external beauty you have to have make-up; for real beauty you only have to realize that you are already made up.

The whole creation is the dance of one consciousness

When mind controls man, it’s ... Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it’s...Yoga

You should not delay the good things in life. Just do them. Whenever you get a chance to do spiritual practice or seva, don’t miss it. Those are the real precious moments of your life.

The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes and live with a smile.

No emotions are bad. But if they stay for long, then it is bad. Emotions should be like a line drawn on the surface of water.

Do not try to correct the mind. Trying to correct the mind is like trying to correct the waves in the ocean. Can you stop the waves in the ocean? If you want to see an ocean without waves you only have to dive deeper. When you dive deep inside you will experience the stillness of the ocean. And if it is all frozen that is enlightenment.

The rush to enjoy robs the joy from life and only denies the happiness and freedom of here and now.

This ancient practice of the Rudrabhishekam, with the chanting of mantras, has been happening since thousands of years. It creates such a deep resonance in our consciousness, because our consciousness is very ancient

Be light. Smile. Drop. Learn the tendency to drop and smile and move through.

A poor man celebrates the New Year once a year. A rich man celebrates each day. But the richest man celebrates every moment.

Foolishness is giving up without any effort or not giving up after putting in all your effort. Secret of freedom is putting all your effort and giving up!

The problems in the world were made so that you don’t get stuck and attached to this world. You get stuck with this world even though there are so many problems. Imagine if there are no problems, then you will never want to leave this material world!

Practice meditation. Become a seeker. Walk the path of the seeker. You will get the best of everything the world has to offer.

The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our minds.

The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched, pure and ever green,blissful area of our Self

In joy, in peace, in that soothing inner state, you will find happiness.

Space and silence are synonymous. Joy, fulfillment brings the silence. Desire brings noise. Silence is the cure, because in silence you come back to the source, and that creates joy

It is the inner peace that can bring peace in our family, in society and ultimately, in the world.

Acceptance does not mean inaction; acceptance is actually acknowledging the present situation.

Every cell in our body has the capacity to hold infinity. Let us tap the full potential that nature has bestowed on us, the potential to hold infinity in every cell of the body. For that, we must practice meditation regularly. Then our physiology undergoes a change and every cell in the body is filled with prana - life force. As the level of prana in the body rises, we bubble with joy.

Beauty is an inner phenomenon. Beauty is not in objects, not in people, not even in the eyes of the beholder. It lies in the heart of every person

If you are passionate, be passionate about the highest, the most wonderful, and the most beautiful. Be passionate about this entire creation for everything is so beautiful.

Every little thing has a purpose, at the same time, it has no purpose because this whole thing is a game. It is the existence which is total, beyond purpose. So you can say, virtually there is no purpose. If at all you have to pin down to a purpose then the purpose of nature is to take you to the Source, is to remind you of the Source, connect you to your Source.

Your desire for consistency itself will set you on the right path. As long as you keep going up, never mind if you come down once or twice.

Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.

Your life is infinite. You are as old as these mountains and you will remain for ever.

Do not make an effort to impress others. When you come from the self, your expression is perfect and your impression lasts for ages.

If you're not at peace, nothing else matters