Q: Guruji I get panic attacks and my mind chatters while I meditate even though I observe my breath, how to get over this? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Ujjayi breath and relax.

Q: Guruji, does anything called luck or bad luck exists? How to overcome bad luck? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: of course! When things happen the way you want everything to happen you say yes its good luck and when everything goes wrong you say it bad

If you have total detachment then nothing but love comes from you. ~ Sri Sri

Q: Guruji, it is true that God is present every moment but why do we feel sometimes separation or duality? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: That’s a game!

An old ancient Vedic prayer is, ‘God of the wealth is in the beginning of my palm, residing in my palm. God of wisdom is residing in my palm. God’s valor is residing in my own palm. So let the good things happen through me’. This is how we

Q: Guruji, I want You to be with me always. What should I do for that? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Just know I am with you. Do Sadhana, Seva, Satsang - that you don’t leave or forget. Do your duty, meditate, do your duty.

Devotion is abiding in your own nature; like the sweetness cannot leave sugar, the coolness cannot leave ice; the nature to flow does not leave water right! Similarly devotion is your nature it won’t leave you. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Q: Dear Guruji, I am stuck in-between worldly things and the Divine. The longing does not let me focus on my work but I have to work to fill my family’s stomach. Please guide. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Look, don’t think they are in contradiction.

Q: How can I offer both positive and negative to God? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Just let go. If you find it difficult, just live in the present moment. Now, now. The past is gone. The future is yet to come.

Take a sankalpa that only good things will happen to me. As you sow so shall you reap; so have faith in yourself that you will be successful in whatever you do! ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar