Dealing With Uncertainty

The dire need of today is to awaken the society and the world to the reality of who we are, and what we want! If you ask anybody, why they do what they do; and if they ponder upon this question, the answer is: “Happiness”. Everybody is looking for happiness. Spiritual people are looking for happiness in liberation. Religious people are looking for happiness in scriptures. Socialists are looking for happiness as absolute comfort in technology. Commerce and industry are looking for happiness by making more profits. Politicians are looking for happiness in creating a happy society, and by making the country stronger. So, who does not want happiness? Everybody wants it! But, are we finding that happiness?

- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

If you are not happy, why is it so?

The answer is we have too much to do and too little time and energy. As a result, we are getting stressed, and are not reaching where we want to be.

We need to ask ourselves certain questions as human beings!

We started asking questions about life from an age of three. Where did we come from? What is this and what is that…? These questions indicate that our intellect is maturing. These questions are pure and inquisitive. But later on in life, we don’t ask these questions. Instead, we ask questions that indicate misery and sorrow. We ask questions that have no answers. ‘Why am I having this problem, why am I unhappy? ’

And we don’t ask these questions to others, we ask them to ourselves! Unanswered questions ferment in the mind and become violence.

Tap into the enormous strength within you

Are you all here? Are you listening? (Audience: ‘Yes’) See what is happening, when your presence of mind is complete, then questions transform into wonder!

When the energy (prana) in us is high, we ask questions that lead us to the truth. When energy is low, we ask questions that only bring us more misery.

What is that one thing that can shift the energy (from low to high) and make us more positive? What can bring that sense of happiness that we all had when we were children? It is meditation.

Meditation is that which shifts our energy from negative to positive; from a state of despair to a state of hope and joy, and from a state of worry to a state of vision for a better life!