Art of Living

I have met quite a few eminent personalities from all walks of life but His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is among the few people I have the highest regard and esteem for. I have been enormously attracted by his simplicity, his love for humanity and his tireless efforts in promoting world peace. He goes right to the middle of the problem wherever and pours balm on the souls that are affected. I am impressed with his sincerity of vision and compassion.

I first met Sri Sri several years ago, when he came to address one of the management schools in Pune, with which I was associated. We had invited him to come to the school and he had kindly agreed to. He spoke for some time and at the end, instead of taking questions from the students, he began asking questions to the students, provoking them to contemplate on the basic realities of human truth. This is how I first came to know him.

Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY) was researched for six months on a small group of patients suffering from minor forms of depression, generalised anxiety and panic attacks. The results, which were verified by clinical and laboratory tests, were more than encouraging: a 60% reduction in the symptoms related to depression; a 40% reduction in the rate of psychosis in the form of sense of guilt, phobic anxiety or obsessive compulsive symptoms; an increased capacity to concentrate; and an improvement in the ability to ‘function socially’ in 100% of the patients.

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