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A contemporary spiritual leader known for founding the Art of Living Foundation, which focuses on personal well-being and global peace through meditation and service. His teachings blend ancient wisdom with practical tools for stress relief, emotional balance, and humanitarian work. He emphasizes the importance of spirituality in daily life and has been a proponent of interfaith dialogue and social initiatives aimed at fostering global harmony.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Icon Image
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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A contemporary spiritual leader known for founding the Art of Living Foundation, which focuses on personal well-being and global peace through meditation and service. His teachings blend ancient wisdom with practical tools for stress relief, emotional balance, and humanitarian work. He emphasizes the importance of spirituality in daily life and has been a proponent of interfaith dialogue and social initiatives aimed at fostering global harmony.

We need to do a cleansing process within ourselves. In sleep we get rid of fatigue, but the deeper stresses remain in our body. Sudarshan Kriya cleanses the system from the inside. The breath has a great secret to offer.

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Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.

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Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.

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Peace is the first step to equip yourself to face problems. Once you find the peace and the inner strength, then you can face any problem. It won’t even appear as a problem then.

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Just open your eyes, shake your head, and look at what is happening in the world. It is amazing! This universe is amazing!

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Life is more than matter. If it were just matter, there would be no need for comfort. Matter does not feel comfort or discomfort, beauty or ugliness, love or compassion, joy or sorrow. Will a chair ever feel sorry or happy? No, matter does not have these finer values. They belong to the realm of the spirit. But life is also more than spirit. If it were just spirit, there would be no need for water, food, or rest. Human life is a combination of both matter and spirit.

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Ego is just a feeling of having a wall between you and others. There is no wall. You belong to me and I belong to you. You are accepted the way you are.

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Make the whole life a game. There is no purpose, there is no aim, nothing. Just take it lightly, easily. Play the game, that is worship, which is celebration.

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Meditation is not 'going somewhere;' it's diving deep here, this moment.

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Be ready to face the worst. This will leave you with stability in your mind.

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Remember those wonderful moments you have had. Sit and be with it. In that very memory your entire Being gets back to that state

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When you are happy time appears shorter, when you are sad time appears longer. And in meditation we transcend time!

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Prayer within breath is silence, love within infinity is silence, Wisdom without word is silence, compassion without aim is silence, action without doer is silence, smiling with all existence is silence

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If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly, unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the harmony and union within us.

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Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.

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One whose mind is turned inwards is ever in bliss

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Spirituality is a harmonious blend of outer silence and inner celebration; and also inner silence and outer celebration!

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Space and silence are synonymous. Joy, fulfillment brings the silence. Desire brings noise. Silence is the cure, because in silence you come back to the source, and that creates joy.

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Retain your shyness and drop your shame.

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If you can win over your mind, you can win over the whole world.

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When you are totally defenseless, that's when you'll be strong.

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We do yoga to make life more beautiful.. to stop misery from entering our world.

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Beauty is an inner phenomenon. Beauty is not in objects, not in people, not even in the eyes of the beholder. It lies in the heart of every person.

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