Top 300 Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Foolishness is giving up without any effort or not giving up after putting in all your effort. Secret of freedom is putting all your effort and giving up!”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

202. “Make the whole life a game. There is no purpose there is no aim, nothing. Just take it lightly, easily. Play the game. that is worship, which is celebration.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

204. “Charity should be self-sustainable. That is, it should create more wealth rather than perpetuating the cycle of poverty and dependence. In this sense, the best form of charity would be providing quality education for children and more importantly, building a good character in them.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

207. “You need to see your life in context of time and space – how vast creation is, how big the universe is and how small your life is, relative.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

208. “This deep sense of feeling that, ‘I am’ blessed can help you overcome any obstacle in life. It gives you courage and confidence and it will open you up for grace to pour in.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

210. “Worry is the enemy of love. You cannot be in love and be worried at the same time.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

211. “What path you choose is not important. How intensely you pursue that path is much more important.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

212. “When you judge others, look at yourself – You too have flaws and the divine nature has accepted you with all your flaws. It doesn’t judge you. Who are you to judge?”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

213. “Your life is infinite. You are as old as these mountains and you will remain for ever.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

216. “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

217. “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

218. “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

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

220. “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

221. “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

222. “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

223. “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

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

225. “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

226. “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

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

228. “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

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

230. “How far to heaven? Just open your eyes and look. You are in heaven.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

231. “Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

232. “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

233. “If our mind is pure, our desires get manifested quickly.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

234. “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

235. “A Guru is there to show you what you are. You are not different from Me. Whatever I am, that is what you are.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

236. “Creativity can only come from silence. If we maintain two minutes of silence every day, then we will see that a whole new dimension of life opens up.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

237. “If you are passionate, be passionate about the highest, the most wonderful, and the most beautiful. Be passionate about this entire creation for everything is so beautiful.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

238. “The source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source, is spiritual practice.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

239. “A Presence is in control of the whole Universe. You just do your part and relax!”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

240. “I say, drop all your defenses. Anyone can make a mistake – even you. Do not defend your mistakes; just accept them and move on. When you are totally defenseless, that is when you will be completely strong.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

241. “The knowledge that unites love and wisdom, that uplifts the spirit is spirituality. The knowledge which gives you a broad vision and a big heart is spirituality.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

242. “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

243. “Worrying doesn’t make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

244. “Someone who does not have any responsibility can feel very detached, ‘Oh, I am doing nothing. I am free.’ But that freedom has no value. If someone who is responsible for the whole of society, the whole kingdom can say, ‘I am not doing anything’ in spite of this responsible job; then that ‘not doing’ something is great. That is enlightenment.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

245. “Your world is very small. Your world is bundle of your experiences. Have you observed this?”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

246. “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

247. “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

248. “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

249. “Why do you think you are weak? Wake up and see you have all the strength.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

250. “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