Quotes from Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Regretting the past is the first sign of ignorance. Anxiety about the future is the second sign of ignorance. And being miserable is the sign of total ignorance. If you are in regret mode, then you are on the first step and that is 'Vishada Yoga'.

We all cried when we came into this planet, but it is important, that at least when we go, we are happy and smiling. Do not have regrets in life. You should feel that, 'I have done what I had to do, and whenever the time to leave this body comes, I will die happily'.

People lose half of their health to gain wealth, and they lose half of their wealth to regain their health. When I had all my teeth. I had no nuts to chew, and now that I got the nuts, I have no teeth to chew. Caught up between gaining and losing, they lose their entire life.

In joy there is neither desire nor ambition. Ambition promises joy somewhere in the future. It creates a mirage of joy and leaves frustration in your hands.

La negatividad no puede mantenerse sin algo a lo que aferrarse. El positivismo y la felicidad pueden existir sin ninguna razón.

Your head will be in the mud in a few years. Don't put mud in your head while you are still alive.

If we think we have all those qualities in us, then they will remain in us. Remember, a bud has all that it needs to become a flower, and so it is with you. You have everything that is needed for you to blossom. It will not be lost.

Past should be seen as destiny. Future should be seen as free will. This is wisdom. Wise people do like that. Otherwise what you think; you think the past was free will so you regret the past and future you think is destiny and you do nothing about it. You simply sit. We must reverse this tendency.

What is honour? Have you ever thought about it? What is honouring? Honour is total attentiveness to the present moment with a tinge of greatfulness. Honour every moment in your life, that is practice. You respect your own body, that is practice, that is asana. Asana is what? Respecting your own body at every moment consciously. Honouring your breath and keeping it up for a period of time - that is pranayam.

Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.

Calm, quiet and uniting all the loose ends of your existence. You become the object of your perception.

Cuando consideras que un símbolo, o un lugar, o un momento, o una persona o un acto es sagrado, entonces toda tu atención deja de estar dividida y se integra.

A good leader is satyadarshi (truthful), samdarshi (equanimous), priyadarshi (pleasant personality), pardarshi (transparent) and doordarshi (farsighted). He has a mission and a vision and a spirit of sacrifice, compassion and commitment.

This is what is expected of a leader — better perception, clear observation and graceful expression.

There is a verse in a Shankaracharya composition: Bhaja Govindam, Kasya sukham na karoti viragaha? What pleasure is there that dispassion cannot give? It gives all pleasure because you are so totally in the moment. It puts you one hundred percent into the moment. Every moment is a peak experience.

Shasana means rules someone else imposes on you. Anushasana means rules you impose on yourself.

Dvityadvai bhayam bhavati which means, Fear is the result of duality.

Surrender is the venture of the bold man. A fearful person cannot surrender.

Otherwise, whatever you are resisting, you promise yourself one hundred times, "I will not do this, I will not get angry, I'll not be rough to people," and you will see when the time comes, your emotion comes like a storm and all your affirmations are just washed away. All your promises get blown

Thoughts are like the clouds in the sky – clouds are not the sky. Like that thoughts come and go from you. Good thoughts, bad thoughts, so what? You say, "I am not this," let them come and go. By doing a little meditation, this becomes very clear to you. It is an experience.

Free from feverishness or desires in the mind, united with your Being, centered, when you act without expecting something from it, without wanting to grab or take anything, your action becomes perfect and free from blemishes.

Self realisation is living in a state of love which is unconditional, and living in a state of joy which is unconditional

Otherwise, every act has something positive and something negative.

Once you feel jealous, you will justify all your wrong actions, because it clouds your discrimination, it clouds your wisdom.