Top 300 Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Being unconditionally happy is a practice: “Come what may, today I’m going to smile. Anyway, everything is going to die! Everything is going to vanish and disappear-so what! Who cares! Let me at least be happy, smile this moment, enjoy my very breath.””

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

202. “Do not make an effort to impress others. When you come from the self, your expression is perfect and your impression lasts for ages.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

203. “You are all that you are longing for.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

204. “The role of women in the development of society is of utmost importance. In fact, it is the only thing that determines whether a society is strong and harmonious, or otherwise. Women are the backbone of society.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

205. “If someone blames you directly, do not believe it. Just know that they are taking away your bad karma and let it.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

206. “Love is the essence of the universe,. Love in action is service.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

207. “Peace is the first step to equip yourself to face problems. Once you find the peace and the inner strength, then you can face any problem. It won’t even appear as a problem then.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

208. “The first thing we do when we’re born is we breathe in, and we cry. And the last thing we do when we die is we breathe out, and other people cry.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

209. “Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

210. “Effort is the key in the relative; effortlessness is the key to the Absolute.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

211. “More tiring than the work itself is the memory of hard work, just thinking you have worked hard interferes with the quality of rest. Some people take pride in working hard without any results. And there are others who crave for a long rest without knowing that true rest is in non-doership. Thinking you need rest makes you restless. Thinking you have to work hard makes you tired. Thinking you have worked hard brings self-pity.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

212. “Beauty is an inner phenomenon. Beauty is not in objects, not in people, not even in the eyes of the beholder. It lies in the heart of every person.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

213. “Knowledge is the vaccination that keeps you away from the flu of misery.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

214. “For external beauty, you put on things; for real beauty, you have to drop all things. For external beauty you have to have make-up; for real beauty you only have to realize that you are already made up.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

215. “Make your home God’s home and there will be light, love and abundance.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

216. “Everywhere you see in creation there is Divine love. Love is the highest force, the greatest force, and the simplest.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

217. “Be light. Smile. Drop. Learn the tendency to drop and smile and move through.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

218. “Human rights means protecting another’s freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

219. “Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

220. “A healthy mind always likes to adore others, elevate them. An unhealthy mind likes to pull everything down.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

221. “Technology has made the world into a Village. Spirituality has made it into a Global Family.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

222. “Your desire for consistency itself will set you on the right path. As long as you keep going up, never mind if you come down once or twice.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

223. “Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

224. “Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

225. “All these seven colors are part of one rainbow, yet they are all different. They have their own quality, their own identity, their own flavor to it. So it is a rainbow. The Divine loves diversity, that is why he made us all different.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

226. “When you become content in life, you gain the power to bless others. This is the law of nature.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

227. “When you are infinitely indebted for your body, for Knowledge, for things you have received, and for your own life, then you bask in the abundance of the Creator.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

228. “Through knowledge and devotion, transcend all karma and be free.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

229. “We should not exit from this world without finding out who we are and where we have come from. This is very important.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

230. “Worldly love can be like an ocean, yet an ocean has a bottom. Divine love is like the sky – limitless, infinite. From the bottom of the ocean soar into the vast sky.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

231. “If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the harmony and union within us.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

232. “Satguru knows that there is no death to the disciple. Atma never dies. Even after death he continues to get direction on the path.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

233. “When everything is in abundance, dispassion happens. And when dispassion is there, everything comes in abundance.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

234. “You walk until you come to the ocean. You don’t walk or run in the ocean – you float and swim. Like this once you come to the Master, seeking stops, blossoming begins.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

235. “The Path of Love is not a tedious Path. It’s a Path of joy. It’s a Path of singing and dancing. It’s not a desert. It is a valley of flowers.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

236. “Let my hands be of service to people. Let me earn wisdom through my hands. Let my hands do good work.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

237. “Sickness is not just in the body, it could be in the mind, it could be in your intellect; it could be in the inhibitions of your intellect.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

238. “The entire universe is one whole, when you drop holding on to your limited boundaries, then what you gain is the entire universe.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

239. “If you are bombarded by so many thoughts in solitude, you are in ignorance. If you are calm even amidst a crowd then you are in knowledge.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

240. “The problems in the world were made so that you don’t get stuck and attached to this world. You get stuck with this world even though there are so many problems. Imagine if there are no problems, then you will never want to leave this material world!”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

241. “There is some virtue to be learnt from every part of the world – teamwork from Japan, precision from Germany, marketing and negotiation skills from the United States, courtesy, decency and refinement from the British, and human values from the villages of India. You.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

242. “Space and silence are synonymous. Joy, fulfillment brings the silence. Desire brings noise. Silence is the cure, because in silence you come back to the source, and that creates joy.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

243. “Your richness is on your ability to share and not in how much you have.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

244. “See the possibility that people and things can change at any time and don’t hold on to judgements.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

245. “Make the Universal personal and you become richer, wiser and stronger. Make the personal Universal and you will find freedom, compassion and love.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

246. “Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

247. “If you are not having good experiences in meditation, then do more seva you will gain merit and your meditation will be deeper. When you bring some relief or freedom to someone through seva, good vibrations and blessings come to you.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

248. “When attention is given to the spiritual aspect of one’s life, it brings a sense of belongingness, and responsibility, compassion and caring for the whole of humanity.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

249. “Whatever is needed for you and your body will be taken care of, when you know this the lack will disappear from your life. When you realise ISHA permeates your everything you relax and are at ease – that is when things happen.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

250. “In the presence of your Satguru, knowledge flourishes; sorrow diminishes; without any reason joy wells up; lack diminishes, abundance dawns and all talents manifest.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar