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All opposite values – creation and destruction, compassion and violence – exist in this Universe, exist within God, as God

~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Q: How can we remove the physical desires that harm us and our relationships?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: By enhancing your prana (energy). When there is lust, there is a feeling of wanting to grab. When there is love, there is a feeling of wanting to give.
How can the feeling of lust be transformed to love? By raising the energy level in our system.
When energy is stuck in the lower chakra (two-three inches above the base of the spine), there is a feeling of lust. However, when the energy channels open up, the energy rises. Then there is more love, compassion, awareness. All these other beautiful, finer emotions also get opened up. Then violence disappears from the system.

Who Wakes Up First? You Or God?
You wake up first. God is still asleep. When you wake up first, you experience pain and pleasure. You become aware of the shortcomings of the world and its beauty. Then you cry for help and seek the ultimate and then you wake up God. And when God is awakened in you, there is no “two”.
When both God and you are asleep, there is inertia. When the “I” is asleep, there is no experience.
God is in you in seed form. When He wakes up, you cease to exist. God is asleep in every particle in this universe. It’s you who wakes up first and then you awaken God. And when God wakes up, neither you nor the world remain.
The rishis made a mockery. They created a practice of awakening God every morning. They call it Suprabhatam service. Many find this ridiculous because they don’t understand the depth of it. Only awakened God can see that God is asleep everywhere.

~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Have awareness in the mind, love in the heart and righteousness in action to go ahead in the spiritual path.

~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Withdraw your senses from the object to its source, then the union happens, then the yoga happens. You look at something beautiful—now, take your attention from that something to the feeling of beauty that is arising in you. When you can appreciate beauty in every inch of the creation that is Yoga.

~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar