The Art of Living- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I have been reading and researching about the religions, races, and languages of the world. I was moved recently after reading about the Lost continent of Lemuria in the southern part of India(I will explain about it in the next blog). My extensive research and reading for the past few days or a week and more, has led to know some hidden secrets that gave me a self realisations. I'm not religious person but would have kinda involvement in spiritualism. Religion and spiritualism is two different thing and they don't walk in parallel. Recently today when i was going through the youtube, I found about this person called as Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (not that sitarist), a spiritual leader from India (as usual). I was wandering to myself why every spiritual leaders must come from India. What is that in that soil that is mass producing spiritual leaders without fail. We heard of Bhagwan Sri Rajnees who panicked the US government(if I'm not mistaken), until he was branded as a cult movement and sent back to India. Another famous Guru in the western world is Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who enlightened the popular rock band the Beatles. His disciple is Sri Sri Ravi Shankar also gaining popularity in the western and eastern world. I was shocked of my life after watching one of the videos showing he is visiting the war torn Iraq. He was there as a peace ambassador and teaching the people meditation and the art of living. People of Iraq were so overwhelmed with his presence. He met the Muslim leaders including the Prime Minister. The leaders were welcoming him and the whole scenario has enlightened the whole world that only love and peace is the solution for everything. Here again I watched a video on 25 years of the art of living as an organization with more than 20 million members being celebrated in Washington DC with political leaders and some VIPs. Hundreds of thousands people from various ethnic groups regardless of race, language and colour attended and praising the Guruji with only one thing bearing in their mind which is for love and peace.

After all this I realised that there's nothing in this world called as religion. They are the eveolvement of spiritualism and meditation that took shape in various forms and teachings. Through my research I learned that India has been an Institution for spiritualism, yoga and meditation for many many years. Spiritual leaders had visited India to seek and learn the technics of meditation and Yoga thousands of years ago. They brought back the teachings to their homeland and later they evolved as religions. Jesus Christ and Prophet Mohammad must have visited the Indian Land for enlightenment. Both the teachings never described their early life in younger days and always put you in puzzles. Prophet Muhammad has been a trader in Between Indian ocean and Arab lands. Wikipedia says that Prophet Muhammad's biography has been terminated living no clues about his meditation techniques and where he learnt them. In some notes saying Jesus has had visited the Rishikesh in India and his presence were recorded in some scriptures in India. Meditation and Yoga has been a root for both the religions.

Lets comeback to our Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's story. Now Iraqi government has agreed to send some of their youths and government servents to be trained for a month in the Art of Living, Bangalore. Just imagine, let's say this teaching has been successful and people started to adapt to meditation and spiritualism. Let me take you to 100 years from today. The Art of Living will slowly evolve as another religion in various forms, such as in Iraq it will be taught in Arab, in America in English, in China in Mandarin etc. What I'm trying to say here is just simple the root and foundation will be the same, its us as human being should realise that.