A takl on fear loneliness by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Wisdom by Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Q: Gurudev, why do we fear loneliness? Why do we always long for someone’s company?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

You feel this way because you have never gone deep into your inner Self. You have not met your Self. The moment you become aware and realize your inner true Self, I tell you, all fears and negativity simply disappear.

How can one meet one’s true Self? For a few moments just keep all your roles aside and think, 'Who am I?' Go on asking yourself. When you continuously question yourself this way, you sink deeper and deeper into meditation, and then you will realize what the truth is. Once that happens, there will be no place for any kind of hatred, negativity, and aversions. In a matter of moments all this will simply vanish.

So it is a good exercise to keep asking yourself these questions. If you feel like, you can do this every day for a few moments.

Just sit with yourself and go on asking yourself, 'Who am I?' As you do this, you will experience that the mind becomes silent, and begins to settle, and that very moment you becomes joyous and filled with happiness.

Q: Dear Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji, my mind is very scared and not ready to accept the emptiness of the present moment. It constantly looks for something or someone to hold on to.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

This is the nature of the mind! Never mind! People who are fed up with the mind only say, ‘Never mind!’ The mind is like that, but you are not just the mind, you are much more than that.

Don’t try to repair the mind. Repairing the mind is like trying to stop the waves in the ocean. Can you stop the waves in the ocean?

If you want to see an ocean without the waves, you have to dive a little deeper! When you dive deep inside of you, you will experience the stillness of the ocean. And if it all frozen, that is enlightenment!