I want every home to be like an ashram. Ashram means where there is no shram _(effort)_; where all the efforts, all the strains of the mind, heart and body drop. All the fears, insecurities, stress, everything drops and you experience deep rest. Every home should be like an ashram.

People dream of beautiful homes. They spend so much time, money and energy decorating and re-designing their houses or they keep changing homes. Yet they are not at rest. You can be at rest only when you are comfortable first within yourself.

The first step is to relax and the last step is to relax as well! The most relaxing or comfortable place is right within you. Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your being—this is immensely valuable and precious. Book yourself in this most beautiful, most comfortable home in the whole universe. Bring the mind which is all over the place, back to its source. Welcome home!

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji