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Question: What is success?
Sri Sri: Whom do you call a successful person? What are the signs of success? Blood
Pressure? Fear? Ego? Anxiety? Are these the signs of success? Then what are the
signs? Power?
Look at all the people who are in power, there is such a struggle and they are not happy.
Then when they have power, there is so much fear that they may lose it! To maintain it,
again there is struggle and when they have lost it the memory of that power makes them
miserable...
A smile that comes from the depth of an innocent heart, the freedom which you are able to
feel in life.. these are the signs of success.
Question: What does Yoga do?
Sri Sri: There are 4 types of miseries:
Yoga does 2 things:
Sri Sri: Whom do you call a successful person? What are the signs of success? Blood
Pressure? Fear? Ego? Anxiety? Are these the signs of success? Then what are the
signs? Power?
Look at all the people who are in power, there is such a struggle and they are not happy.
Then when they have power, there is so much fear that they may lose it! To maintain it,
again there is struggle and when they have lost it the memory of that power makes them
miserable...
A smile that comes from the depth of an innocent heart, the freedom which you are able to
feel in life.. these are the signs of success.
- Are you free? Then you are successful!
- Are you in the present moment? Then you are successful!
- Are you useful to the people around you? Then your life is a success!
- Then that is a sign of success in Life!
Question: What does Yoga do?
Sri Sri: There are 4 types of miseries:
- Physical (pain),
- Mental (worries),
- Emotional (sadness, anger etc.,)
- Spiritual (uncomfortable, feeling of darkness in life etc.,).
Yoga does 2 things:
- It makes life beautiful. It brings harmony.
- Reduces the 4 types of miseries.