Gurudev SriSri RaviShankarji in Satsang (3rd May 2017) at the Art of Living International Center, Bangalore!!
Q. When does the spirit enter into a fetus? Does karma of the fetus affect the mother? Can mom do spiritual practice, seva, charity to change the karma of the fetus? What do you recommend for someone who is pregnant?
Sri Sri: Yes. Your karma is not like stone. It is constantly changing. There are three options of when the soul enters:
1. At the time of conception
2. Between the fourth and fifth month
3. Even at the time of birth.
There are three options and you never know. Mostly, it is during conception only. Don’t worry. Everyone’s karma affects everybody else, so you shouldn’t be too worried about what karma is affecting. Keep doing good and that’s it. That will uplift your spirit. That will wash away all those negative things.
Q. Based on reincarnation, souls with unfinished business will come back. If two loved ones cannot become a couple in this lifetime will they have to come back? If so should they overcome the obstacles in this lifetime so that they can get enlightened?
Sri Sri: All possibilities are open in front of you. Don’t sit and think too much. Be spontaneous and keep moving forward. Don’t worry about it. I think you have too much time. Do your meditation. Keep your heart clean and pure. If some impurities come, you know how to get rid of it by doing some bhastrika, some singing, dance in the satsang. That’s it. All that past is gone. Don’t you see the entire past as a dream? Is it not like a dream? It is all done. Finished. Right? Just wake up to this reality.
Q. Gurudev, you celebrate birthdays at the end of each satsang. How important is birthday?
Sri Sri: Well, celebration is important. Celebration uplifts life. Birthdays is for you to remember that you have come here as a visitor and be happy as long as you are here on this planet and spread happiness. Where were you before your birth? You were the space; you were everywhere. Birth is, you took a name and form. First, you took form and then your parents gave you a name. After your death, your spirit goes back to the space. Like the ocean rises in the form of a wave for sometime only to go back to the ocean. So, when the wave remembers I am the ocean, I have the depth of the ocean, the width of the ocean, the wave never thinks, ‘Oh! I will be extinguished.’ The fear is totally removed with the memory that you are the ocean. Otherwise if the wave thinks, I am only this much. Then the waves time is very small; very tiny. Few seconds it rises and then it finishes. You are not like that. You have a dimension which is eternal and this is the best example possible. Birthday is when the wave remembers I am the ocean, so nothing can make me afraid.
Q. Is devotion the most important between a Guru and Disciple? Is it true that the Master will make devotional disciple enlightened no matter what his capability or personality is?
Sri Sri: Yes. You are on the conveyor belt. Just a little bit more grooming, a little bit more polishing here and there is essential for you. That’s it.
There are two types of enlightenment. One is something suddenly happens, dramatic. There are three types of kundalini experience. One is dramatic. You start shaking. This is prana kundalini. It is the gross one. It is lower level of kundalini where there is a lot of jerk and shakes.
Subtler than this is the awakening in you which happens to you very gradually and naturally. And sometimes you don’t even notice it. When the day breaks, it comes very gradually. The dawn comes, first it gets a little brighter, then red color comes, then the Sun fully comes. But when lightening comes, it comes suddenly. In seconds a flash comes and disappears. This awakening that we are talking about in The Art of Living is chit kundalini. In this there is very gentle growth in you which you suddenly find one day that you are so centered and nothing bothers or disturbs you and nothing can take away the smile from you. Whatever you wish, it happens. For how many of you, whatever you desire it happens to you? This is the kundalini shakti. This is awakening. This awakening happens and spontaneously everything happens.
If someone says that they will awaken your kundalini, just say bye to them from a distance. Don’t get into it. That is only a lower level of Kundalini where you get a lot of jerks and shakes. It is not bad, but you don’t need it. You are already in a different state. You don’t require that. The danger with that is sometimes it hits the brain, and then they loose the so-called normal behavior. They may go crazy, they lose sleep, the mind becomes dull. All these sort of things happen. Many people go here and there and finally they come here for repair. To fix them back, we have such a difficult time. Someone says I will awaken your kundalini, and they go. Then they say, ‘I cannot eat. I cannot sleep. I have all these experiences. I cannot think.’ And that becomes an issue.
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