Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Take a stick and start chasing your mind. See where it goes. Chase, keep chasing and you see your mind is so tired that it will come and fall at your feet. Maharshi Patanjali says to meditate on everything, meditate on elements, on Rishis, who are out of craving. When you meditate on Rishis who are out of craving, you get into meditation. You get into meditation also when you sit for Satsang. But, if you do not sit for Satsang with 100%, you look at the ceiling, you look here and there. You have to bring interest yourself; you have to bring the juice (ras/ nectar) yourself. It is already there, you have to see the one behind. The one who puts the juice. I tell you need not do anything it’s all burning for you, and you don't have to light it at all. When you are taking a dip in the Ganges, why do you need to have a tap and a shower? Become effortless. Just know that I am nothing and I don't want anything. But don't start thinking about it continuously, this is also a Maya. That's why Adi Shankaracharya says it is foolish to even think that I am Zero.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Where do the thoughts come from the mind or body? Close your eyes and think about it. That itself becomes a meditation. Then you will reach the point or space within you from where all the thoughts come. And that is fantastic.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: If you are not having good experiences in meditation, then serve more, you will gain merit and your meditation will be deeper. When you bring some relief or freedom to someone through your service, good vibrations and blessings come to you. Seva brings merit; merit allows you to go deep in meditation; meditation brings back your smile & you can experience the best effects of meditation.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Don't worry about the experiences of others. Be with your own experience and the experience varies from time to time. So don't worry. The process of meditation helps in the best physical relaxation.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: One is vertical another is horizontal. For now, just think that much. But tomorrow when you sit for meditation don’t think about it. You’ll neither be able to meditate nor be able to sleep. Now is the time.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: It does not matter! Don’t lose heart! Let them come! Say, “Come, sit with me, five-year-old, or ten-year-old, or twenty-year-old memories. Come! Sit with me.” The more you want to run away from them, the more they will bother you.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Yoga and meditation give you time! No time for these means - you have to go to a hospital or doctor! Some physical exercises, yoga, breathing exercises, & and then meditation is good.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: You know our mechanism is like a system, in which after a while you automatically come out. Like sleep, you can't sleep for fifteen hours a day. You sleep six hours, and at the end, when you have had enough rest you wake up. Similarly, there is a biological clock in us that brings us out, so you shouldn't force yourself to go into mediation. So I would recommend twenty minutes, twenty-five minutes a day should be good enough. You can do it two, three times, but no more than twice, short bits. You are doing twenty minutes, twice, thrice – it will do you good.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Yes!

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: What happens in your mind when you have to wait? What is happening in your mind right now? Do you see time passing by? This very waiting can take you into meditation. When you have to wait, you can either be frustrated or meditative. Meditation is ‘feeling the time’.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: One, is by meditating, and the other, is by serving people around you - by getting into some service activity. Seeing God within you is meditation. Seeing God in the people around you is love or service. They both go hand-in-hand.