Basker's Random Thoughts

After many years I have come here, after 6-7 years, Dresden is not the same place. So much transformation has taken place. So have we all, the human race, everyone changes. You are not the same person you were yesterday. What you were 10 months ago, you are not same today. We all progress on the steps of evolution. Our body changes, mind changes, feelings change, thoughts change, - (looking into the crowd) Alice changes! But there is one thing that does not change. Knowing it, recognizing it, holding on to it is what spirituality is. To recognize change you need something that does not change. Only that is eternal, stable. To feel stable in life you need to hook on to something that does not change. Because only that which is eternal, which is stable can bring relief, peace. No one is interested in temporary peace. Ok! You tell me are you interested in 10 days peace? No. We want permanent, stable peace. That knowledge which gives such peace, such love that uplifts your spirit, I call i...

A speech by Sri Sri Ravishankar - Founder Art Of Living. Q:Western scholars talk about Aryan invasion of India. Please comment on this theory. Guruji’s answer : See the western scholars who wrote Indian history had no knowledge of Sanskrit in which all the records are written. They had no knowledge of pali or Sanskrit. They just wrote with some assumptions, for them everything began 6000 years ago. So they downgraded almost everything every age. This was 150 years ago. Historians had a different concept about the universe. They thought world commenced 6000 years ago. They could not digest anything beyond that or 10000 or 50000 years ago that people had a civilization. So they totally discard what is thousands of years before as fictitious. When Indian scriptures talked about planet, origin and time of present day, the sun is 19 billions years, they laughed. Adding so many zeros had no meaning. So western scholar thought man was born in one place and went throughout the world. Which nee...

You are what you are only between two storms. So how settled you are is determined by how less frequently storms arise in your life. When the Welcome and embrace the perfect storm. storms arise, the breath becomes heavier, the body becomes unbearable and you are not at all aware of your mind. You are thrown off balance. How to free yourself from the grip of storms? This is the only basic problem in this universe. The first thing is to become aware of it and stop regretting it. Like waves come and go, storms in your life too will subside. No one storm can be there for ever. One storm comes and subsides, another comes and subsides and it goes on. As the storm subsides, you experience that inner cool, soft, delicate aspect of yourself. In that space of calm, all the anxiety, fear, feverishness lose their grip on you and you become yourself again. Love dawns. When you stop resisting the storms of life and start accepting them with open arms, they will subside on their own. That is the purp...