Talk by His holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji on Buddha Purnima

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Talk by His holiness Sri Sri 
Ravi Shankarji..

Today is Buddha Purnima, the day Buddha was born.
He got Enlightened, he attained Nirvana and he died also on the same day.

Today, it seems the moon is 20% more than other full moon days.It is a very big moon.So U should watch the moon rise.
There is little Buddha in all of us, and that Buddha is in form of Siddhartha.

Do you know who Siddhartha is? Before Buddha became Buddha he was Siddhartha.
He was wandering, lost.He had tried everything but couldn't find but he had a spirit of enquiry.

He said, 'The world is all sorrow and I want to get rid of the sorrow'.Siddhartha understood that everything is sorrow, but he did not know the way.

So everybody has a little Buddha inside of them, only one has to wake up.

Buddha tried this & that.He ran after pillar to post.He did techniques after techniques but nothing worked. 
Because while doing all this, his mind was outward,and when he got sick & tired of everything and dropped everything, that very moment he got Enlightened. This is how the story goes.

So when he got tired of trying hard,than he said, ' Okay, let me just relax, I give up.' So he gave up & sat, and the mind turned inward and than he became Buddha.

So turn the Mind inward.

Unfortunately Buddha never got a Guru.He couldn't get a Guru @ that time.
But Adi shankaracharya had a Guru.So he met the Guru and path became easier, much smoother.He could just sit and go into samadhi.
But for Buddha to go into Samadhi & Meditation was not possible.It was hard for him.So he fasted.
Somebody told him to fast and he fasted,because he was the king from the royal family and he didn't know about surrender, devotion or about letting go.
Doing, doing and doing, that is what he heard, and what he knew has he was trained.And so the big Ego,and that big doing made him run around for several years.

Finally he gave up and than he got Enlightened;this is how the story goes.

So the little Mind inside you doesn't want to let go & just give up, it wants to go on a trip of want to do this & that. Want to achieve this & that.

When you see, what is there to achieve? Then everything drops you surrender, you let go and Meditation happens.
You know its like getting onto an Ayurvedic massage table.
You get onto the table and that's it, you don't do anything.Everything is done for you; so even meditation will be done for you.
You just sit and Meditation will happen.