4 Types Of People

Gauni tridha gunabhedat, aarta adi bhedat va

- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

This is unconditional love. This is the love that is beyond all characteristics, beyond all the gunas, beyond all conditions. But lesser than this is the three types of love, that is, the satvik, rajasik and tamasik love, as we already heard.

There are four types of people who pray to God. In the world you can categorize four types of people:

First is aarta - one who is miserable, one who has problems nobody else can solve - no doctors can, nobody can do anything about you, then you pray to God. Aarta - those who are miserable, they pray to God.

Then artharti - the second type of people who pray to God are those who want something, some gains, some material benefits, or whatever, satisfaction. You will see just before the exams, students go to places of worship and pray just before exams or just before results come out! Or if they have to go to an interview, people pray. Sometimes even for lottery tickets! While buying a lottery ticket people pray and say, “If I get the lottery, 10% I will give to you, God!”