Punarnava - New Again
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A compilation of short talks given by Gurudev Sri Sri on day to day issues, and evolution on the spiritual path.
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Punarnava - New Again - Sri Sri Ravishankar
Punarnava
New Again
Talks by
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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CONTENTS
Innocence & Intelligence
Essence of Life
Enlightenment
Alone in the Crowd
Are You Tired?
Are You Happy & Peaceful
Breath - The Fountain of Life
Dealing with Emotions
What is Precious in Life?
The Six Attributes of Divinity
Perfection & Imperfection
Pride, Humility, Luck & Beauty
Turbulent Times
Feeling the Presence
Letting Go
Creative Impulse
Effort & Effortlessness
Youth & Spirituality
The Art of Living & The International Association for Human Values Transforming Lives...
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Trivial or important, mundane or sublime
... aspects of life
Punarnava
a compilation of short talks, given by Gurudev
on day-to-day issues, and evolution on the spiritual path
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Innocence & Intelligence
We all came into this world gifted with innocence, but gradually, as we became more intelligent, we lost our innocence. We were born with silence, but as we grew up, we lost the silence and were filled with words. We lived in our hearts, but as time passed, we moved into our heads.
The reversal of this journey is enlightenment. It is the journey, from the head, back to the heart – from words, back to silence; it is getting back to our innocence inspite of our intelligence.
Knowledge should lead you to that beautiful point of I don’t know!
The purpose of knowledge is wonder. The completion of knowledge leads you to amazement and wonder. It makes you aware of this existence.
Mysteries are to be lived, not understood. They move you from an ugly I don’t know
, to a beautiful I don’t know!
As our intelligence grows, we tend to lose our innocence. The crookedness of the intelligent, or the innocence of the ignorant, has no value, but the innocence of one, who is in knowledge, has value.
If one can maintain a gap between doing
, the happening
, and one’s self, then this is very precious... and it is also very simple. It is not that one has to strive hard to do something to maintain innocence. An ignorant person won’t say, I don’t know!
One passes through knowledge, and then one comes to another I don’t know!
which is the beautiful I don’t know!
Knowledge increases your idea of not knowing. As you know more, the unknown seems to increase. It can be in any field – music, science or the arts. With this, comes the beautiful I don’t know!
and that is what innocence is. Ignorance, which has passed through knowledge, gets into another state, which is the beautiful I don’t know!
Astonishment is the basis of a spiritual opening. Creation is filled with so many amazing things, but we take things for granted, and when we take things for granted, inertia dawns, tamas arises, inactivity and ignorance come. A sense of astonishment brings wakefulness. A miracle shocks you; shock is wakefulness, and when we awaken, we see that the whole creation is full of miracles. The entire creation is to be astounded with, astonished about, and wondered upon, because it is all the display of one consciousness. The same consciousness burns as oxygen in a lamp... and there is light. What is the similarity between light and life?
A lamp (light) needs oxygen to burn – so does a life. If you are put in a glass cage, the life in you will be put out. In the same way, if you put a glass cage over a lamp, the lamp will only burn as long as there is oxygen, otherwise it will be put out.
Our little brain is programmed to one or two languages, and we think that all understanding and all knowledge can be captured in this little brain of ours. From the point of view of animals, your language has no meaning. It is just like howling! If cats or dogs hear you, unless you have trained them for a long time, they will think you are mewing or barking at them – just with a different sound; it makes no sense to them! Our language, our intellect, and our mind are so limited; their perspective is limited. Even now, when I am speaking in English, not everybody can follow what I am saying – it needs translation into different languages. We think we can reason out, find logic in, and understand all that exists, because that feeling of I know it all!
can keep us in a little shell of dullness. But, I don’t know!
creates wakefulness, and you need to be awakened!
What is this I don’t know!
?
This I don’t know!
is the key to spiritual progress.
Nature reveals a little bit of its secrets, a little bit of its mysteries, so that you can be amazed. Nature provides you with opportunities to be amazed, again and again; to wonder about: What is life?
, What is consciousness?
, What is the universe?
, Who am I?
You are so fortunate, if you come to this point. This is the beginning of spirituality, of yoga – union with the one Divinity.
Let us get astonished at the union. Wonder is the preface of the union... and when you are united, you wonder at everything! You walk around; look at a flower, and wonder, Wow! This flower is so intelligent!
Recognize the intelligence in every petal, in every leaf, in every human being that walks around you. Look at every human being. Consciousness has its own mind, it looks through the eyes, it speaks through the mouth, it responds to you (or doesn’t respond to you) many times.
The prana – the life force – is present in every stone, in every object. There is nothing inanimate on this planet. We are all floating in the ocean of life. From the microcosm, to the macrocosm, everybody is just a shell in the ocean of life – it is such good fortune, and this is one such phenomenon. The time scale of the present, past and future, is within the purview of the consciousness.
Consciousness is beyond time and space; it is all just vibrations.
So if you are amazed, astonished, wonderstruck, just close your eyes with a smile,