Q&A

There is no one rule, sometimes you want to speak and become calm and sometimes speaking doesn’t help in any way.

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Gurudev, you have said that we shouldn’t give explanations to people. But. If we have something weighing on our hearts and feel the need to talk about it, what can we do?

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: There is no one rule, sometimes you want to speak and become calm and sometimes speaking doesn’t help in any way.

Wake up and see that the whole world is like a dream. All those thoughts, the behavior of people will all disappear soon. Some people act good and some act bad, but everyone is going to die, and the world will be finished. This set of people presently living will all go away. Then new people will come and they will also die. Then, another set of people will come, they will fight among themselves, they will hug, love, kiss, do everything, and they will all die.

Seven billion people on the planet today and all these seven billion people will all die. It is only a matter of a few years. In another hundred years, do you think the same people will be here? Not one person who is here today will be alive. And two hundred years later, even their grandchildren will not be there. See, the world is like a river, there is fresh water flowing every moment in this river. What is it that you are so bothered about?

If you want to leave something behind, it should be some knowledge that would help someone; that would be useful to someone.

Not what he said, what she said, and what do you think about so-and-so? This is all nonsense! Throw them out of the window. It has no meaning. Hours, you waste in explaining why you felt the way you were feeling and how and why others are feeling the way they are feeling.