Ì am not a follower of Art of Living. However, whatever little I know of Pujya Sri Sri Ravishankarji, his life itself is a gift to Mankind. One should not demean Him by discussing about \\\"will He get the noble prize?\\\". If He doesnt, you will curse the Noble Prize organising body, which will \\\"not be inline with his teaching\\\". Better one should getaway from this controversy. I believe, the real saints do not want such prize or publicity given by the mankind, as they are born to serve them with all kindness and teach others by their deeds that one should serve the society without any expectation and recognition.
The article by Francois Gautier has not been able to cover all the aspects of the work done by sri sri ravishankar & his soldiers of peace in bringing peace to this world ... there are a zillion more things that can be put in words ,if all the work that he had done & is still doing ,are to be put on paper.
If at all the effort for bringing about peace in this world has to be rewarded then none other than Sri Sri Ravishankar or GURUJI -as he is fondly & lovingly addressed - can be the recipient ..
I & so many other dwellers of this earth would hope & wish & pray that a person coming from hindu background does not have to suffer because of the religion that he is born with or the country that he is born in ... For Guruji... all human life is above any religion ,all life is part of the spirit no matter what form it has been given!!! as he aptly says ... LOVE & PEACE IS EVERYBODY'S NATURE... & surely peace or love does not belong or NOT BELONG to a certain religion or country .. so if the noble prize finds a deserving recipient .. it HAS to be our beloved guruji!!!!
Once again FG is doing a Don Quixote when out of the depths of his very black soul he starts comparing Sri sri Ravi Shankar to Mother Teresa. It is amazing that FG does not realise that by comparisons to Mother Teresa he is doing a great disservice to his case. The whole world knows and respects the mother (even if the author does not to his detriment) saying that she was restricted to Calcutta is stupidity because everyone knows that the missionaries of Charity are Global. Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity served throughout the world making no distinctions between caste and creed and their trade mark outfit of white arees with a blue lined border have been visually noted in all the darkest and dirtiest areas of the world reaching out to the poorest of the poor. So just by the fact that the mother was awarded the Nobel peace prize does not extrapolate into Sri sri should also be given the peace prize. He might be a good man too and my intention is not to belittle him but you lose your case by stating his eligibility because Mother Teresa got it is totally unfounded. Yes we do take pride in her as an Indian because that was her nationality to the end.
It is indeed heartening to note on this great soul being nominated for the Nobel Prize. As someone mentioned Guruji is not worried that some one who is sitting in the panel is going to decide whether Nobel Prize would be rewarded to him as there is always some reason for not selection also. Let's wait. However the yeomen service rendered by this great soul in freeing some many souls through spiritualism is phenomenal. Also I would like to agree that Spiritualism which is based on India's ethos,a major contribution to the world humanity beyond any religion which is able to to solution to human problems in this globalised society is to be acknowledged by the world society. No better way way than recognition to this guruji who has been pioneering this effort.
There is a very dedicated team of volunteers and teachers trained and blessed by His Holiness Sri Sri Ravishankar who carry out the work mentioned by Francois Gautier. The article did not say that Sri Sri Ravishankar himself carried out the the work in 75000 villages.
