It is the state of our mind that makes our happiness or unhappiness. If that inner state is adjusted and corrected, then nothing has the power to give us any experience except that which we give it.

~Swami Chidananda.

प्रश्न: संकल्प का क्या महत्व है, और इसे कैसे शक्तिशाली बनायें? क्या विश्व संकल्प के बल पर ही चलता है?

श्री श्री रविशंकर: मन में संकल्प और विकल्प भरे हुये हैं। हर काम संकल्प से ही पूरा होता है। अपना हाथ हिलाने की प्रक्रिया के पहले हाथ हिलाने का संकल्प आता है। अगर मन में एक साथ २० संकल्प उठें तो कोई काम नहीं होता। जब हमारा मन शांत और विश्राम की स्थिति में हो तो हमारा संकल्प शक्तिशाली बनता है।

एक कमज़ोर मन का संकल्प कमज़ोर होता है, और शक्तिशाली मन का संकल्प शक्तिशाली होता है। हम अपने मन को साधना और ज्ञान से शक्तिशाली बना सकते हैं। तब संकल्प भी शक्तिशाली होगा। एक ज्ञानी व्यक्ति ५० दिनों के बाद एक संकल्प करता है और एक अज्ञानी व्यक्ति एक दिन में ५० संकल्प करता है।

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You should increase the strength of your body and then increase the strength of your mind.

The best way to increase mental power is to try to accomplish something worthwhile every day. Choose some worthy task or project that you have been told you could not do, and try to do it. Each strive to accomplish something that you have always thought you could not accomplish.

~ Paramhansa Yogananda

The present system of education is all wrong. The mind is crammed with facts before it knows how to think. Control of the mind should be taught first. If i had my education to get over again and had my voice in the matter, I would learn to master my mind first, and then gather facts if I wanted them. It takes people long time to learn because they cannot concentrate their mind at all.

~ Swami Vivekananda

"Those who remain on the thinking level do not get the opportunity to see what they are within."

~ Swami Rama

Breathing exercises, pranayam, sudarshan kriya, and total devotion to the divine are tested methods to go beyond the chaos and conflicts of the thinking mind :-)

Points from the video…

It’s the language of love. You see how a new born baby communicates with her mother.

When we become one-pointed. That prayer never goes in vain. More...

See a mistake as a mistake. Not as a 'my' or 'his' mistake.

‘My’ means guilt. ‘His’ means anger.

~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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