Share the Wisdom of Sri Sri Ravishankarji - 7 & 8.

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Dear friends and devotees,

 

Bhakti is eternal.

 

Share the wisdom of His holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji

 

7. DOUBT

 

Doubt cannot come where there is a sense of closeness. Doubt needs distance to

appear. You can never doubt something that is dear to you, close to you. The

moment you doubt something, it is no longer dear to you; a distance has come.

You may doubt yourself, but you do not doubt that which is yours. Self- doubt is

a lack of closeness to oneself. Belonging, closeness and intimacy are all

antidotes for doubt.

 

Doubt is a grey area. Grey neither black nor white. Doubt means you want to

get rid of something. It is a temporary state. It is neither up nor down and

that is where the tension arises.

 

So how do you eliminate doubt? An event, knowledge or convectional wisdom

cannot help. What can help? Accept what you doubt either black or white. Make it

back and accept that, regardless of whether it is black to something in between.

See the grey as just a shade of black or white. Either way, you accept it.

Honest or dishonest – accept it. Then the mind is quiet and you are no longer in

the grey matters.

 

8. CONFUSION

 

Decision comes only when there is confusion. When there is no confusion, there

is no decision. If there is a piece of wood and a biscuit on your desk, do you

decide which one to eat?

 

A decision is always about choice and choice is always confusing. So, all

decision makers are confused. Are you confused, decided or happy? When you are

confused there is no freedom.

 

Action is spontaneous when there is no actor. In you, there is an actor and

there is a witness. An actor is either confused or decisive, but the witness

smiles and realizes that the action is spontaneous.

 

The more decisions you make, the more confused you are, and as a result you

swing between pain and pleasure. The more witness grows in you, the more playful

and untouched you are. Trust, faith, love and joy all manifest in and around

you.

 

To be contd. . . . 9.

 

With love and regards,

 

Sastry.