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  1. Self Reflect And Find The Nectar Of Life

    Today Iranians are celebrating their New Year! It’s New Year in Iran, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, and what they have kept here is very interesting. It is the same tradition that is followed in Kerala since centuries. On a New Year day they keep a mirror, some ...
  2. How can we recognize our mission in life?

    First thing is to get rid of your laziness. When laziness disappears and you hold on to your commitment, then you will see that what you are doing is what you have come here for. If you keep thinking, "What about my comfort and my need", then ...
  3. People from many countries are very inspired by what happened at The World Cultural Festival and want to move that spirit forward in their own country, and in their own communities. What can we do to not just make it a onetime event, but really move it forward, all around the world.

    Yes, first of all, create a buzz, tell everybody what it was, how it was and how it is possible. The very concept of so many different people from so many different cultures coming together on one stage itself is a great thing, and not having one incide ...
  4. Children play too many video games, what can we do? Thank you for introducing a spiritual video game!

    Substitute a nice game for a violent game, and slowly you have to take that also away. The very purpose of creating our own game is to make it inspiring and not violent. It is the same thing with knowledge. ...
  5. How to raise my 9 year old daughter to be a harmonious person and have a sense of belongingness with other people. (The speaker also asks about raising her child to be a vegetarian which is a rare thing in her country).

    We have to quickly teach more and more people because when it becomes a fashion then it is easy. See, all good habits, either it is a tradition or it is a fashion. If you take it as tradition, it is already there. You just have to nurture the tradition. ...
  6. Recently we have seen the turbulence in the youth, can’t we setup cells that address this misconception about Hinduism, etc.?

    Yes, you know some people have made up their mind to fight with everybody, they can make a demon out of an angel. And you would wonder, why they would say things that dont make any sense? This is because they are not in their senses themselves. They hav ...
  7. Why do people do what they do?

    Why does anyone do what they do? It is because they can, they do. If you are happy you want to spread happiness. If you are agitated you want to be violent. If you are angry then you want to express that. If you are jealous you want to express that, and ...
  8. Practice Of Yoga And Meditation Brings Inner Peace

    Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Are you more enlightened than what you were when you started The Art of Living? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Unfortunately not! I am the same, I have not changed. Incorrigible! I don’t think there is any scope in the future also! But now, I ...
  9. How do we de-radicalize them?

    Our experience in many places is that when we put them through Sudarshan Kriya and meditations, something opens up in them.You know about the Al Qaeda man who was caught in Mumbai? It was all over the newspapers in the last decade. This man who ca ...
  10. With today’s news of terrorist attack in Brussels, I am starting to feel that Europe is becoming an unsafe place. How we stay fearless and strong in such circumstances? And how can we as teachers contribute to the betterment of this situation.

    We have to de-radicalize the world. To me, the only way out of this is to make available this spiritual knowledge in schools and colleges; in madrassas (Islamic religious schools). Today, there are seminaries (theological institutions) and ...