neeta Shah : Which duty is the best of all duties?

His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar : To be dutiful

Kiran : I am an agnostic, how to overcome anger

His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar : Satsang and group meditation will help. Engage in service activities. Tendencies which are bothering you, remove everything

vivek pandey : : How to handle stress in IT job. Because in IT sector the job is not secure. Always have great tension tommorrow I will be in Company or not.Waiting for your kind reply.

His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar : Do pranayam, meditation, Sudarshan Kriya, see how stress evaporates. Learn how to handle your mind. Have faith in you, the confidence will automatically dawn

goutham shanker : why is patriotism required, when we see the whole world as on family?

His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar : Patriotism will in no way stop you from having universal brotherhood or love. You have love for your family or brother, it does not come in the way of you having love for all the others in society.

Ajit Dongarkar : If happiness and sorrow are two sides of the same coin which are in compliment with each other, how we can remove sorrow/sufferings from this world??

His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar : It is dark at night, but you have the intelligence and power to bring light even when it's dark

Srinivasarao : Guruji, Why do I do those things I do not want to? Where from these impulses are coming from? How to handle this conflict?

His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar : Conflict arises in the mind, do meditation. That will resolve the answer

muruli : Namaste, I am in software industry and I get opportunities to go to US and meet our clients. Offline discussions, some times, turns into our Religion and Culture. Common question that most of the people ask is, "Why Hindus have so many gods?". How do I answer this question? One of the answers that I got was "Hindus have one God and many Gods that we pray are symbolic representation". But, this answer does not convince me. So, please let me know how do I answer this question.

His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar : Our body is created by one cell, that one cell multiplies and becomes eyes, brain etc. There are different impulses of intelligence. Our ancient people knew all this. Like the seven colours of the white line. Similarly, there many attributes to one parmatman, those attributes are called by various names

B. KOTI REDDY : 1. Millions of People particularly many children all over the world are sleeping several nights with hunger. Why is so??. 2. Can we see a world where there is no terror, no murders, no hunger , no corruption, no manipulators, no harrasment to fellow mankind. If yes, what is the message and what is the pragmatic plan. Who has to do to achieve this. 3. The rivers and the environment are going polluted day by day. This is happening mostly since 50 years. Earlier the rivers and canals waters are clean and hygenic. Today they are dirty and harming the human kind. Can we clean them and protect from pollution. I am with you Poojya Gurudev. Can we take up cleaning of all rivers, all canals, all ponds in the villages to bring them back to their original shape. Where to start, how to start?. Thanks and thanks. B. Koti Reddy New Delhi

His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar : The 5H programme was started in 25,000 villages just for this purpose, just jump in

Ajay Bagga : Dear Guruji, How should one reconcile spirituality and business imperatives ? How to go beyond cosmetic corporate social responsibility to a more meaningful corporate ethical code?

His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar : Even if this question arises in corporate minds, half the work is done. It is lack of awareness in corporate minds that people are not moving ahead. The willingness to share, care, in corporate minds can make a huge difference

Image: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is mobbed as he steps out

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