When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarRead
When mind controls man, it’s ... Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it’s...Yoga
Interpretation
The quote illustrates the importance of self-control over one's thoughts to achieve freedom.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's quote emphasizes the difference between being dominated by one's mind, which leads to a state of confinement or bondage, and cultivating mastery over one's thoughts, which leads to liberation and personal growth through the practice of Yoga. It suggests that true freedom and fulfillment come from the ability to control one's mind rather than letting it control us.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal development.
When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.
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.
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?
A child does not try to know the mother, it simply has faith in her. In the same way, having faith in the Divine is the source of the greatest strength.
A Guru is there to show you what you are. You are not different from Me. Whatever I am, that is what you are.
Diwali means to be in the present, so drop the regrets of the past and the worries of the future and live in the moment. It is a time to forget the bickering and negativities that have happened through the year. It is a time when you throw light on the wisdom you have gained and welcome a new beginning.
Live for this life as though you live in it forever and live for the life to come as though you die tomorrow.
Presume not that I am the thing I was.
Without knowing myself, I have no real basis for thinking.
There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth.
If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.
A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
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