Wisdom from Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

If you think you are ignorant, you know who you are.
And if you know who you are, you are enlightened.
And if you are enlightened, then you certainly are not ignorant.

Buddha was enlightened under the Bodhi tree. He then stood up and watched the tree from a distance for seven days. He took sixteen steps towards the tree and under each step blossomed a lotus flower. This is the legend.
The Bodhi tree is symbolic of both sansara (the world) and dharma. The lotus flower symbolizes clarity, dispassion, love, beauty and purity....

There is a Big Mind and a small mind. Sometimes the Big Mind wins over the small mind and sometimes it is the other way around.
When the small mind wins, it causes misery and when the Big Mind wins, it is joy. The small mind promises joy but leaves you empty-handed. You may initially be resistant to the Big Mind but it will fill you with joy....

A pure atheist is impossible to find. An atheist is one who believes only in the concrete and tangible, but life is not all concrete and tangible, nor is this universe.
Whether it is business, science or art, all involve a certain amount of guesswork, assumptions, imagination and intuition. All of them have some aspects that are abstract in nature and are not tangible. The moment an atheist accepts, even remotely, something...