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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.

The problems in the world were made so that you don’t get stuck and attached to this world. You get stuck with this world even though there are so many problems. Imagine if there are no problems, then you will never want to leave this material world!

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

When you share your misery, it will not diminish. When you fail to share your joy, it diminishes. Share your problems only with the Divine, not with anyone else, as that will only increase the problems. Share your joy with everyone. Listen to others; yet do not listen. If your mind gets stuck in their problems, not only are they miserable, but you also become miserable.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The first thing we do when we're born is we breathe in, and we cry. And the last thing we do when we die is we breathe out, and other people cry.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

A game is where you win and lose, and both are part of it. When there is more chance of losing, it is more charming. The game has value when it is tough. So some little problems that come in life are part of the whole game.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Diwali means to be in the present, so drop the regrets of the past and the worries of the future and live in the moment. It is a time to forget the bickering and negativities that have happened through the year. It is a time when you throw light on the wisdom you have gained and welcome a new beginning.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The signs of good health are an intellect which is free from inhibition and arrogance, a heart which is full of compassion is healthy, a confusion-free mind, a trauma-free memory and a sorrow-free soul.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

A goal or cause in life, will help you come out of your hunger for insatiable desires.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Knowledge of life brings confidence, and Knowledge of death makes you fearless and centered.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

When you are in touch with the Inner Being then irrespective of the outer state, you remain in a perpetual state of happiness!

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Have this faith that someone is there to take away your weaknesses. Ok, you slipped once, twice, thrice. It does not matter. Keep moving ahead. People take vows never to commit mistakes again. Breaking the vows makes it worse. Surrendering is better.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Don't Fall in love, Rise in Love!

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The Path of Love is not a tedious Path. It's a Path of joy. It's a Path of singing and dancing. It's not a desert. It is a valley of flowers.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Events bring you small joy, while existence brings you bliss.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Much energy is wasted in trying to charm others. And in wanting to charm - I tell you, the opposite happens.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

In the presence of your Satguru, knowledge flourishes; sorrow diminishes; without any reason joy wells up; lack diminishes, abundance dawns and all talents manifest.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Navratri represents how the negativity can be conquered by the inherent positive qualities in us.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

For those who do not have faith in God, fear is a way to protect them. But if faith is strong, there is no anxiety about something in danger.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Patience in the mind and dynamism in action is the right formula.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

In life you can either have a guru or misery, you cannot have both.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Life is a combination of destiny and free will. Rain is destiny; whether you get wet or not is free will!

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

To love is to see the divine in the person beside us, and to meditate is to see the divine within us.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar