Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on the relation between consciousness and intuition

[Ajay0]

Insightful article by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on  the relation between consciousness and intuition...

https://wisdom.srisriravishankar.org/everything-manifests-meditate/

 

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When we were building the ashram, I did not seek advice from a Vaastu consultant. Several years later, some Vaastu specialists commented on how all structures were in their proper place with respect to one another. Our consciousness itself is Shaastra, so if we listen to our consciousness, our intuition, we will function in accord with nature.

 

Suppose you have no knowledge of electronics, but you need to tackle an electronics issue, you intuitively play around with the wires, and eventually the problem gets resolved. Many people have experienced this. Once I was going from London to Birmingham where I was scheduled to give a talk. This happened more than twenty years ago. Birmingham is a big city. One gentleman realized an hour after we had left London that he had forgotten to obtain the address or the directions to the venue in Birmingham. There were no cell phones then. So I decided to intuitively guide him, telling him to take this turn here and that turn there, until we reached the street in Birmingham on which the venue was located!

 

Shaastra is not a book, you yourself are the Shaastras. If you study your consciousness, your mind, that is what is in the Shaastra. This is how the knowledge of Vaastu Shaastra, Ayurveda, etc came into being. Dance, music, art, science, have all emerged from the consciousness of the spirit, through meditation. So meditation is supreme.

In english it is known as intuition. Intuition means that which is ‘right’. This power is within everyone.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

 

 

[SHaYap]

When one Sri is not enough you can always pay more for another Sri... 

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[XenoFish]

Yeah, just ask yourself a question. Give the subconscious time and it'll put together a answer. Nothing unusual about it. 

[XenoFish]

20 minutes ago, SHaYap said:

When one Sri is not enough you can always pay more for another Sri... 

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Sriously!?!

[SHaYap]

21 minutes ago, XenoFish said:

Sriously!?!

Yes indeed... The "Art" of living... 

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Ravi Shankar explains the decision of an additional honorific through a blog post, “that evening, I called our key organisers to discuss changing my name and that of the organisation. This was a grave matter and everybody had something to say. I easily dropped the ‘Pandit’ from my name. A colleague who had been with me at Maharishi’s came up with the idea of Sri Sri. Everybody agreed that one Sri is very common, generic and confusing. My opinion on the matter was irrelevant in this animated discussion. I was just a silent witness. And so, I was rechristened at Waldorf.”

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https://www.thequint.com/news/india/sri-sri-ravi-shankar-the-mystery-of-two-sris-and-more

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[eight bits]

22 hours ago, XenoFish said:

Yeah, just ask yourself a question. Give the subconscious time and it'll put together a answer. Nothing unusual about it. 

Unfortunately, sometimes the unconscious answer maker works on the principle "It doesn't have to be right, but it does have to be right now."

22 hours ago, Ajay0 said:

Suppose you have no knowledge of electronics, but you need to tackle an electronics issue, you intuitively play around with the wires, and eventually the problem gets resolved. Many people have experienced this. Once I was going from London to Birmingham where I was scheduled to give a talk. This happened more than twenty years ago. Birmingham is a big city. One gentleman realized an hour after we had left London that he had forgotten to obtain the address or the directions to the venue in Birmingham. There were no cell phones then. So I decided to intuitively guide him, telling him to take this turn here and that turn there, until we reached the street in Birmingham on which the venue was located!

This is a singing commercial for confirmation bias. Sometimes you guess right. (It would be as remarkable to always guess wrong as it would be to always guess right). Whooptedo, you cut the blue wire and the bomb didn't go off. Pete wasn't so lucky, but then again, Pete won't be telling us about how reliable his inutition isn't, will he?

[XenoFish]

1 hour ago, eight bits said:

Unfortunately, sometimes the unconscious answer maker works on the principle "It doesn't have to be right, but it does have to be right now."

Kind of the reason i used A Answer. Could've also used An Answer. Sometimes the answer. Mostly when getting the answer, it's stuff that the person knows but forgot. 

Edited September 24 by XenoFish
Too early in the morning for this.

[+joc]

On 9/23/2023 at 7:06 AM, SHaYap said:

Yes indeed... The "Art" of living... 

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Can one be Sri Sri III ? 

[SHaYap]

1 hour ago, joc said:

Can one be Sri Sri III ? 

Why not? 

If it empties the wallets of those who are the seekers of emptiness, one can Sri Sri Sri Sri till it fills up the Waldorf anytime... 

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[Ajay0]

On 9/23/2023 at 5:14 PM, XenoFish said:

Yeah, just ask yourself a question. Give the subconscious time and it'll put together a answer. Nothing unusual about it. 

The subconscious can provide an answer provided we had studied the subject, and given some time and space for it to process the information.

Can the subconscious provide answers for subjects we have not studied ?

Sri Sri had not studied Vaastu but got his placing of complex Vastu architecture correct. 

He similarly navigated his way to a venue in a foreign country without knowing the address. 

Also Sri Sri did not sleep on the problem giving it time, but got the answers instantly when he needed it in a timely manner.

I had similarly witnessed experiences of intuition in other people who had a higher state of consciousness and were able to make timely but seemingly irrational decisions that actually warded them and their loved ones from tangible danger evident later on.

[XenoFish]

2 hours ago, Ajay0 said:

The subconscious can provide an answer provided we had studied the subject, and given some time and space for it to process the information.

Can the subconscious provide answers for subjects we have not studied ?

Sri Sri had not studied Vaastu but got his placing of complex Vastu architecture correct. 

He similarly navigated his way to a venue in a foreign country without knowing the address. 

Also Sri Sri did not sleep on the problem giving it time, but got the answers instantly when he needed it in a timely manner.

I had similarly witnessed experiences of intuition in other people who had a higher state of consciousness and were able to make timely but seemingly irrational decisions that actually warded them and their loved ones from tangible danger evident later on.

We absorb tons of information a day, just not consciously. The conscious is slow and such an amount of information would overload would our brains. So its processed subconsciously. All this mystical stuff is just psychological functions by a different name. 

The function can be trained. It's not magic, never was, never will be. 

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Edited September 25 by XenoFish

[Ajay0]

21 minutes ago, XenoFish said:

All this mystical stuff is just psychological functions by a different name. 

The function can be trained. It's not magic, never was, never

 

Sri Sri has not said that it is magic and had stated that anyone can develop this skill. 

[XenoFish]

4 minutes ago, Ajay0 said:

Sri Sri has not said that it is magic and had stated that anyone can develop this skill. 

The more you 'listen to your gut' the easier the process works. Which is why things such as mother's intuition and doctor's intuition are a thing. It's learned to utilize a nature function. 

[Ajay0]

5 minutes ago, XenoFish said:

The more you 'listen to your gut' the easier the process works. Which is why things such as mother's intuition and doctor's intuition are a thing. It's learned to utilize a nature function. 

Can you describe your experiences with intuition !

[XenoFish]

1 hour ago, Ajay0 said:

Can you describe your experiences with intuition !

Mostly revolve around people and the impress they give me. 

[SHaYap]

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[Ajay0]

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar describing an experience of intuition ... 
 

https://www.artofliving.org/what-happens-after-death

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Gurudev, I have lost my intuition. What do I do?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: You are in the right place, no problem.
See, yesterday we were having a meeting upstairs in Krishna hall and suddenly I said that I want to go and see the basement. I have not been to the basement for probably more than a year now.

So I said that I want to go to the basement and so we all went to the basement. In the basement, I suddenly went to this room and asked, ‘Who is staying in this room?’

They said, ‘We don’t know, somebody is staying.’

So I said, ‘Open the door’, and so we opened the door and we found a candle burning there. The candle was almost finished and the flame was about to catch on to the bed and the cot. We would have had a fire there because the flame of the candle was all over. If we had gone ten minutes later, perhaps the bed would have caught fire. Somebody lit the candle and forgot. There was no business for me to go there to that room.

That is intuition. I felt I should go there and I opened that room only.

I would never go and open somebody’s room. But now you know anything is possible. I may just barge into anybody’s room.
So I barged into that room and we found that nobody was there of course and the candle was burning.

So intuition is something that everybody is born with and everybody has it. The more hollow and empty, the more meditative you are, it is very obvious then. Isn’t it?

 

 

[+joc]

On 10/6/2023 at 1:07 AM, Ajay0 said:

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar describing an experience of intuition ... 
 

https://www.artofliving.org/what-happens-after-death

 

If the story is true...and I  have no reason to not doubt the story...there is more to the story than intuition.  Some people have a sense of smell that is so keen it doesn't even register as a sense of smell.  Nonetheless that can trigger the subconscious mind into 'creating' intuitive reasons for why/what the smell actually is.  The subconscious mind is so powerful.  Not poo-pooing anything SRSS said...just iterating that the subconscious is so powerful and most people don't even understand what it is or how it even works.

[parafish]

On 9/25/2023 at 7:48 PM, Ajay0 said:

Can you describe your experiences with intuition !

Interesting article but electronics follows set laws as does most things and enough messing about can show this.

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Suppose you have no knowledge of electronics, but you need to tackle an electronics issue, you intuitively play around with the wires, and eventually the problem gets resolved.

But as you have said try this with predicting the future and the Subconsciousness falls in a heap.

Try and predict Lotto numbers and it falls in a heap, (since most cannot handle it) predict when someone drops money and it works, affirm that you want to find a lot of money and you end up in the right place and time and find well a few bucks but still.

[Ajay0]

1 hour ago, parafish said:

Interesting article but electronics follows set laws as does most things and enough messing about can show this.

There is an illiterate Indian farmer named Sidappa who created a windmill and watermill to generate electricity for himself and self-sufficiency. He had no knowledge of electronics terminology or the technical terms and processes involved but learnt by observing and asking questions, and his own empirical studies by trial and error.

https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/illiterate-karnataka-farmer-uses-windmill-to-ensure-uninterrupted-electricity-for-his-family-245948.html

He also repairs his own tractors and has modified his one-row plough to a three-row one, providing three times the output. He has also attached a dynamo to his bicycle wheel that lets him charge batteries of mobile phones.

This is what Sri Sri meant when he stated "Suppose you have no knowledge of electronics, but you need to tackle an electronics issue, you intuitively play around with the wires, and eventually the problem gets resolved. Many people have experienced this. "

 

Edited October 14 by Ajay0

[Ajay0]

 

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on accessing the intuitive state through inner silence...

https://wisdom.srisriravishankar.org/inner-silence-is-the-source-of-intuition/

 

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There are three types of Silence.

The first is the silence where there is no talking. This is very beneficial for people just to be aware of what they are saying and how much energy they spend talking.

The second is the silence of stillness. This is the silence inside us that is detached from the noise in the world. Silence is disinterestedness in activity, an inward journey of the mind. This inner stillness is very important if we want to understand and grow spiritually. Inner silence frees us from the noise of the world.

And finally, there is the silence of Oneness – Oneness with the entire universe. Oneness is the goal of silent practice. Whatever knowledge we study and understand with our intellect is limited. The knowledge that we gain by effort is immanent. The knowledge which is gained through effortlessness, through silence and intuition is transcendental.

 

 

[+joc]

12 hours ago, Ajay0 said:

 

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on accessing the intuitive state through inner silence...

https://wisdom.srisriravishankar.org/inner-silence-is-the-source-of-intuition/

 

 

Oneness is not attributable to Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. 

Oneness is attributable to Sri Bhagavan.