Top 300 Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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

252. “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

253. “Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

254. “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

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

256. “Don’t be over complacent or too feverish, take a middle path.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

257. “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

258. “Keep wondering whether your waking reality is a dream and you will wake up to the real.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

260. “Science is about learning ‘what something is’ and spirituality is about knowing ‘who I am’. The.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

261. “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

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

263. “Your desire for pleasure or happiness makes you unhappy.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

264. “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

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

267. “Forgetfulness of the infinite is misery. Forgetfulness of the trivial is ecstasy.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

269. “If people are not inspired from within, it will not be possible to build a good work ethic. Work.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

270. “Service brings merit, merit allows you to go deeper in meditation, meditation brings back your smile.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

272. “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

273. “Just open your eyes, shake your head, and look at what is happening in the world. It is amazing! This universe is amazing!”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

274. “Problems are here in this world so that we can realize our purpose in this world.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

275. “Truth is hidden by the golden veil of the mundane. Pierce through this thin glittering sheath and know that you are the Sun.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

276. “In always wanting to be comfortable, you become lazy. In always wanting perfection, you become angry. In always wanting to be rich, you become greedy.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

277. “If you are unhappy, even the moon irritates you, sweet things nauseate, music disturbs. When you are calm and centered inside, noise is musical, clouds are magical, rain is liquid love.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

278. “Rejection itself means the finite.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

279. “When people lose faith in the natural goodness of the human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness, that is one reason why corruption has become so widespread today.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

280. “Retain your shyness and drop your shame.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

281. “If you’re saddened by another’s sorrow, then sorrow will never come to you. If you are happy at another’s joy then joy will never leave you.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

282. “Just as when spring comes, Nature celebrates, When Navaratri comes, the Spirit celebrates.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

283. “The wave uniting with its depth is yoga.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

284. “All that you can do is to raise the level of sattva. And then when sattva’s level is high, we have to wait one moment, any moment knowledge can dawn there. All that you can do to have sunlight in this room, is to open the curtains and keep the windows open. And when dawn comes, it just dawns. You have the sunlight inside. If you close your curtains, even if it’s midsummer afternoon, you will still find your room dark, because the gunas are cloudy.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

285. “Yazidis are facing the worst genocide of our times. They have been reduced from 23 million to 1 million.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

286. “The rush to enjoy robs the joy from life and only denies the happiness and freedom of here and now.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

287. “The fire of love or fire of knowledge creates unpleasantness or a sense of longing in the beginning, but it moves on to the blossoming of bliss, the blossoming of fullness.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

288. “This ancient practice of the Rudrabhishekam, with the chanting of mantras, has been happening since thousands of years. It creates such a deep resonance in our consciousness, because our consciousness is very ancient.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

289. “Activity and rest are two vital aspects of life. To find a balance in them is a skill in itself. Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when to have activity, and how much of each to have. Finding them in each other – activity in rest and rest in activity – is the ultimate freedom.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

290. “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

291. “Dissolving the name is awareness. Dissolving the form is meditation. The world is name and form. Bliss transcends name and form. Bangalore Ashram, India September 24, 1997.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

292. “In joy, in peace, in that soothing inner state, you will find happiness.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

293. “Have this faith that someone is there to take away your weaknesses. Ok, you slipped once, twice, thrice. It does not matter. Keep moving ahead. People take vows never to commit mistakes again. Breaking the vows makes it worse. Surrendering is better.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

294. “Our words are there to bless people and bring peace to the world.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

295. “We are always looking for solutions from someone else. We forget that if we turn our mind inward, we can get some ideas, some solutions.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

296. “Young children, who have not yet accumulated a lot of stress, exhibit an abundance of energy, enthusiasm, profound joy, and unconditional love. These qualities that manifest spontaneously in an innocent child demonstrate the truest, unadulterated, essence of humanness. We are all born with a wellspring of love and joy. These qualities are not just emotions, they are the essence of our existence. The truth of our essence cannot change, it can only be covered over and hidden from us.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

297. “The more you give, the more you will get. Then life will become a sheer dance of love.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

298. “Healthy breathing is the key to eliminating these toxins and harmonising emotions. Neither.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

299. “Feel indebted. Feel grateful. Then abundance grows.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

300. “The purpose of laughter is to bring one to silence, and the purpose of silence is to bring one to laughter.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar