Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was born on 13th May 1956 in Papanasam, in Tamilnadu.
His father R.S.V. Ratnam, western educated, traditional Brahmin
Mother- Visalakshmi
Parents called him Ravi Shankar. Sri Sri is the title.
Childhood:
He was a gifted child
Ravi was devotional from his young days. Learned Sanskrit.
Could recite Bhagavad Gita at a very young age(4)
He got degrees in Vedic literature and physics.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (Transcendental Meditation)
Sri was spotted by Yogi in 1973, during a puja in Bangalore. Sri was a good pujari.
Yogi sent him to many European countries to lecture on Vedas and science. Sri organized many yagnas for Yogi.
Sri became popular. Some, suspicious Sri’s progress.
In 1982 Sri and Yogi went their separate way.
Ved Vigyan Maha
Vidya Peeth – a school in Bangalore in 1981
It was run by Maharishi. But he wanted to close it and move the kids to Delhi.
Sri revolted and started to care the kids in a building.
Sudarshan Kriya
In 1982, Sri
Sri entered a ten-day period of silence in Shimoga located in the Indian state
of Karnataka. The Sudarshan Kriya, a powerful breathing technique, was
born. With time, the Sudarshan Kriya became the center-piece of the
Art of Living courses.
SK boosts bodily functions, including those of the heart, the liver, the brain, the kidney; it alleviating suffering in many diseases, from heart problem to epilepsy.
Art of Living
The first Art of Living course was held in Shimoga soon after the experience of SK.
Officially Art of Living Foundation was established in1982, first as an educational institution.
Secondly as a huge Seva Movement
Thirdly as a revolutionary spiritual movement
For the first five years, Sri taught the course himself.
The Ashram
In 1985, Sri was given, by the Karnataka Government, a piece of land in the Kanakapura road, 21 kilometers away from Bangalore.
It was a rocky place.
The same year he started in the very place, the first Sanskrit school with 20 students and also soon transferred the Vedic school there.
Many new buildings came up.
In 1988, the first international conference with eighty people took place.
Rajshree was the first advanced course teacher
Techniques and
Courses Developed by Sri Sri
The Pranayama
Techniques:
In Sanskrit yama is to direct and prana is a ‘subtle life force energy’ that pervades everything.
Controlling our emotions by using and controlling our breath-
And quietening our nervous system.
The Silence Course
Silence is a tool for enhancing self-discovery.
Maintaining silence even for just a few days can have remarkable effects on the nervous system
Silence and joy can go hand in hand.
Meditation was another component of the silence course
According to Sri Sri Meditation is not concentration it is de-concentration.
Courses
for the Young
Famous are the ART Excel and YES+
Here the adolescents can learn in a playful manner how to breathe and meditate, which remains with them all their life.
ART
Excel (for ages eight to thirteen)
Sri believes the world belongs to children.
They are going to shape the future.
It is All Round Training in Excellence
It helps drop inhibitions, lethargy, shyness
Through yoga, breathing techniques and
meditation to reawaken traditional value systems of love, compassion, peace,
generosity, gratitude and grace.
In other words, learning to face life.
Youth
Empowerment Seminar-YES (age fourteen to seventeen)
It is a dynamic and fun programme to releasing
stress, mastering emotions and raising self-awareness.
The
YES+ Course (ages eighteen to thirty)
It is s smooth blend of ancient wisdom, yoga,
pranayama and meditation, fused with modern-day intellectual exchanges, music,
and games,
The
Meditation Technique
These are created by Sri.
One of his main mottos is ‘from the mind to
the heart’
Heart is considered to be the place where soul
lives.
It is connected with breath control
After meditation Sri used to say mantra. The
most famous is:
Asatoma satgamaya
Tamsoma jotirgamaya
Mirtiyoma amirtingamaya
Om, shanty, shanty, shanty
Courses
for getting rid of addiction
For alcoholics to techniques to de-addict
people, using Sudarshann Kriya.
Prison
related courses:
Criminals are possessed by dark forces on the
spur of the moment but are not necessarily dark people.
The programme is to reduce stress-SK
Sri
Sri Yoga-The path to a stress free body and mind
A combination of gentle and vigorous series of
asanas is taught for the well-being of the body, while an equal emphasis is
placed on techniques for nurturing the mind and the spirit.
Sahaj
Samadhi meditation-the
effortless path to relaxation through meditation:
Sahaj means a natural or effortless
Samadhi is a deep blissful meditative state.
It is therefore a natura, effortless form of
meditation.
The
art of living program for excellence at the workplace
It offers
micro, small and medium enterprises a structured intervention to
eliminate stress, enhance inspirational levels and arrive at an overall work
life balance for their employees.
Mostly breathing techniques.
The
Art of Living Teachers: A unique Category
Sri allows
followers to become teachers of his pranayama and meditation techniques.
TTC- Teachers the training course is very special
It is an intense fifteen-day course- you get
up very early, sleep very late, are always on the run, do a lot of seva (such as cleaning toilets) are quizzed
constantly by your teachers and share overcrowded rooms with one common
bathroom.
It is part of a drill to teach you to come out
of your comfort zone
Most participants graduate and very few do
not.
Sri
Sri A Secular Guru
He has Christian and Muslim disciples.
To accept and respect persons of every faith,
every creed and every ethnicity.
Providing a unifying teaching
The
man of peace
Got Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian
work and peace mediations
Rural
development: to clean the villages. He has a huge network of rural
volunteers. Building toilets. Safe drinking water.
Skill development program: tailoring. Tree plantation. River
Rejuvenation. Sri Sri goes green.
Importance of Ayurveda
University: in 2009, Odisha, one of India’s
first tobacco, alcohol and drug-free university campuses.
The curricula offer yoga, naturopathy,
classical performing arts, good governance and management etc.
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