What is the Purpose of Living ?

Jiddu Krishnamurti on Purpose of LivingQuestion: We live but we do not know why. To so many of us, life seems to have no meaning. Can you tell us the meaning and purpose of our living? Jiddu Krishnamurti: Now why do you ask this question? Why are you asking me to tell you the meaning [...]

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Who is the ideal devotee ?

January 16, 2010(Below is the transcript of Satsang with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.You can watch the Live webcast of future satsangs) Q: Guruji, the way I feel so connected to you, do you feel the same? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: More than that. You know, connection means that there is a difference. I don’t feel [...]

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How to do Charity ?

Doing good to others “You people speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world? First realize God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power, then you can do good to others; otherwise not.“ A [...]

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How not to be bored ?

Question – Beloved Osho, don’t you get bored, bored and fed up, day after day answering the same questions, while we sit there with ears blocked, eyes tight, mouth sealed, never ever getting the message — that there are no answers? You continually astound me in your dewdrop freshness in the early morning light, and [...]

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Tears of love most precious

January 22, 2010(Below is the transcript of Satsang with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.You can watch the Live webcast of future satsangs) Q: Guruji, the world knows you as a spiritual leader. Would you please share your experiences of your knowing that you are endowed with such spiritual power?Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: What do you want [...]

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Purpose in Life

Question – Is the only purpose in Life Self-Realization? Osho – No sir, not even that. Even self-realization is not the purpose. Somehow, you cannot live without purpose. You have an obsession with purpose, some purpose HAS to be there. Now if there is no other purpose, let it be self-realization. And you will feel [...]

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How to come out of depression ?

January 25, 2010(Below is the transcript of Satsang with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.You can watch the Live webcast of future satsangs) Q: I feel so good and full here but at times when I see rich and famous people, I feel I am nothing, I feel lack. Please help. Basically my feeling is different. Famous [...]

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HOW TO BE HAPPY?

‘I am independent means I am inner dependent’January 26, 2010(Below is the transcript of Satsang with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.You can watch the Live webcast of future satsangs) Q: Guruji, during the course I feel very good but once I go out, I feel misery again. What to do to get rid of that?Sri Sri [...]

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A LITTLE LIE IS ALLOWED

Both Science and Spirituality are needed to bring contentment to our soul March 31, 2010(Below is the transcript of Satsang with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.You can watch the Live webcast of future satsangs) Q: After coming on the path I find it difficult to fulfill religious rituals. I don’t understand should we continue doing that [...]

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HOW TO DECIDE BETWEEN YS AND NO ?

October 13, 2011(Below is the transcript of Satsang with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.You can watch the Live webcast of future satsangs)There are three type of knowledge or information we get. One is through the five senses. You see and you get some knowledge, you listen and you get knowledge, you smell and you get information, [...]

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MARRIED OR SINGLE

Anytime you feel that I am total, I am complete, death can come this moment, I welcome it. Then that completion is NirvanaOctober 11, 2011(Below is the transcript of Satsang with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.You can watch the Live webcast of future satsangs)Q: Beloved Guruji, could you say something about the meaning of purnanava?Sri Sri Ravi [...]

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ACCEPT WHATEVER SITUATIONS COME TO YOU

Hsihu Center, Formosa July 15, 1995.When you go home, take care of your family members. Even though your bugging husbands and wives are fit to throw away (Master and everyone laugh); but since you have already accepted him or her in the first place, better continue. Because sometimes we think if we change partners, married [...]

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Benefit of Puja

Q: (A member of the audience asked a question and it was inaudible)Sri Sri: Yes. In Ashram everyone is needed, you can definitely do Seva. Whoever wishes to do Seva in the Ashram, come and talk to the Seva administrator and say how many months, one month or two months or how many days you [...]

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The Body Remembers All

Today, we are living in a culture where it is not necessary that you have lived with one partner all your life. Things have changed. I mean, a partner comes with an expiry date. When you made the relationship you thought this is forever, but within three months you think, “Oh, why the hell am [...]

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