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Ravi Shankar (born 13 May 1956) is an Indian guru [1] and spiritual leader. He is also referred to as Sri Sri or Gurudev. [2] [3] From around the mid 1970s, he worked as an apprentice under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of Transcendental Meditation. In 1981, he founded the Art of Living foundation. [4]
The Art of Living Foundation is a volunteer-based, humanitarian and educational non-governmental organization (NGO). [1] It was founded in 1981 by Ravi Shankar . [ 2 ] The Art of Living Foundation has centers in 180 countries.
The book begins with the story of the historic peace negotiations with the FARC in Havana, Cuba resulting in the FARC's new vision of non-violence. Tracing back to the beginning, the book jumps to Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's birth and tells about his childhood's incidents and also describes how his decision to take sanyas was received by his family. [5]
The campus' centerpiece is a larger temple, called the Akshardham, which measures almost 90,000 square feet, reaches 191 feet into the sky and was made from 1.9 million cubic feet of marble and ...
In 2016, the festival was held on the Yamuna floodplains in New Delhi from 11 to 13 March. [4] It was organised by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to celebrate the Art of Living Foundation's 35 years in service. [5] Attendance was estimated at around 3.5 million people in audience and 37,000 artists over 3 days. [6]
In 2011, a public-interest litigation petition filed in the Karnataka High Court alleged that some of the center's structures encroached on the Udipalya tank. [6] The government of Karnataka found on inspection that the center had encroached on 6.53 hectares (16.1 acres) of the tank area and issued a show-cause notice.
The Sri Venkateswara Temple, Pittsburgh, inaugurated on June 8, 1977, and the Hindu Temple Society of North America in New York, consecrated on July 4, 1977, became the first Hindu temples in the U.S. built by Indian immigrants. In the 1980s and 1990s, temples were built in nearly all major metropolitan areas.
In 2000, at the age of 16 years, he met Sri Sri Ravi Shankar at a public program in Amsterdam, and became a regular participant of the Art of Living programs. [ 6 ] Soon after completing his high school studies, he took a year off to work and travel to India for 3 months, where his interest in the Indian traditions, and especially the Vedic ...