“Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Fraud” is a term offered up by Google when you search for “Sri Sri Ravi Shankar”, why Google offers up the search term “Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Fraud” is rather strange, bearing in mind Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is anything but a fraud, in fact he is a renowned religious leader who has changed the lives of thousands of people for the better.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was born in 1956 in Southern India. By the age of four he was able to recite parts of the Bhagavad Gita, an ancient Sanskrit scripture and was often found meditating. His first teacher was Sudhakar Chaturvedi, who had had a long cooperation with Mahatma Gandhi. By the age of seventeen, in 1973, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar had graduated with degrees in both Vedic literature and physics.
In 1981, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar entered a ten-day period of silence in Shimoga, India. The Sudarshan Kriya, a powerful breathing technique which became the centre-piece of The Art of Living’s Part 1 course was born.
When asked about the origin of the Sudarshan Kriya technique, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar says, “It came like an inspiration. Nature knows what to give and when to give. After I came out of the silence, I started teaching whatever I knew and people had great experiences.”
Following this, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar established the Art of Living Foundation in 1982, as an international non-profit educational and humanitarian organisation that today works in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
The Art of Living’s educational and self-development programs offer powerful tools to help eliminate stress and develop a sense of well-being and have been effective worldwide at all levels of society.
In 1997, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar founded the International Association for Human Values (IAHV) to coordinate sustainable development projects, develop human values and coordinate conflict resolution in association with the Art of Living. In India, Africa and Latin America, the two sister organisations’ volunteers are spearheading sustainable growth in rural communities, and have already reached out to over 32,300 villages.
How a search engine like Google can possibly call Sri Sri Ravi Shanakar a fraud is beyond me, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar should be celebrated and not called a fraud.
Some suggest it is people searching for the phrase “Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Fraud” that causes it to appear in the search results, other say it is because people are publishing articles and web pages containing the phrase “Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Fraud”, whatever the reason anyone who has seen the work of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar or who has been lucky enough to meet him will know he is not a fraud.
