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A contemporary spiritual leader known for founding the Art of Living Foundation, which focuses on personal well-being and global peace through meditation and service. His teachings blend ancient wisdom with practical tools for stress relief, emotional balance, and humanitarian work. He emphasizes the importance of spirituality in daily life and has been a proponent of interfaith dialogue and social initiatives aimed at fostering global harmony.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Icon Image
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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A contemporary spiritual leader known for founding the Art of Living Foundation, which focuses on personal well-being and global peace through meditation and service. His teachings blend ancient wisdom with practical tools for stress relief, emotional balance, and humanitarian work. He emphasizes the importance of spirituality in daily life and has been a proponent of interfaith dialogue and social initiatives aimed at fostering global harmony.

When a bud breaks it becomes a flower, when a heart breaks it becomes divine.

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Keeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity!

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Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.

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When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team.

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Charity should be self-sustainable. That is, it should create more wealth rather than perpetuating the cycle of poverty and dependence. In this sense, the best form of charity would be providing quality education for children and more importantly, building a good character in them.

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Everywhere you see in creation there is Divine love. Love is the highest force, the greatest force, and the simplest.

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In your very nature, in the depth of your mind, there is omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience. All knowledge is already in the depth of your consciousness, of your mind.

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For a seeker, Guru Purnima is a day of significance, is a day of New Year. It is the day to review one’s progress on the spiritual path and renew one’s determination and focus on the goal, and to resolve what one wants to do in the coming year.

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Shiva is chidambaram, like the inner sky. Shiva is the inner sky of consciousness.

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When you are infinitely indebted for your body, for Knowledge, for things you have received, and for your own life, then you bask in the abundance of the Creator.

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Make your smile cheaper and anger expensive!

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Don’t keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. This is why you feel miserable. Just let go!

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Your richness is on your ability to share and not in how much you have.

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

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Nature will never confront you with a problem you can't solve. You already have the answer, that is why the question appears before you.

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

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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.

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Faith makes you stable and steady. It brings out the totality in you. Consolidation of your energy is faith. Dissemination of energy is doubt.

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Why can't we control our anger? Because we love perfection. Make a little room for imperfection in our lives.

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Meditate. A few minutes of deep meditation will connect you with the ocean of intuition deep within you.

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

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Knowledge is a burden if it robs you of innocence. Knowledge is a burden if it is not integrated into life. Knowledge is a burden if it doesn't bring joy. Knowledge is a burden if it gives you an idea that you are wise. Knowledge is a burden if it doesn't set you free. Knowledge is a burden if it makes you feel you are special.

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In the East they say suffering is avoidable and not necessary. Life is bliss! You know why? This is because wisdom, yoga and meditation are ways to avoid suffering which has not yet come.

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