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Question: How can I not see ugly feelings behind ugly words?

Sri Sri: Sometimes people say words and they really don’t feel that way.
Don’t you do it sometimes? As children, you say things that you don’t really mean.
Kids usually say things they mean.
As we grow older, our feelings and words grow apart. They are not the same.
Now, don’t worry about what other people are feeling.
Feelings are fleeting. One day they feel good, next day they don't.
Don't bother about this.
Simply acknowledge that that person is not feeling good and that they are here to work on it.
Our being angry that someone is feeling bad doesn’t make sense.
Sometimes their feelings change but your feelings remain the same.
Someone puts a doubt in your head and then they forget but you hold on to it.
The same is with senior citizens who complain but then forget while you hold on to the complaint.

Look at the present moment - now, now, now!
Wake up NOW!
Everything else is stupid. All that has happened has gone into emptiness.
Everything dissolves into emptiness. Your entire past - wiped out!
All the things that you felt are gone. Good or bad, they are gone.
So, wake up to the truth of the present moment. Divinity is in the present moment.
This is yoga. Yoga is being established in the moment.

Take a challenge.
Whenever someone is nasty towards you, do something so nice that it takes them by surpise.
You will suddenly find there is a shift happening. If it does not happen also it's fine.
At least you have done something good.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar