Has someone have any information on Sri Sri Ravi Shakar’s Pakistan visit this year. He is a spiritual guru who teaches a breathing based meditation technique for relieving stress. His foundation is called “Art of Living”. Was it as successful as it was claimed…just wondering.
Re: Does anyone have information on this
a better person to contact is naeem zamindar. he was the host and the president of AOL in pak i think.
it was successful in the sense that we was accepted and tolerated. but i dont think he was able to gather much crowd.
Re: Does anyone have information on this
I think it was ... he recieved a warm welcome and i guess this is his second visit to Pakistan!
I dont know more of the story but i read about his visit on tribune.
**As Guru ji settled on the stage, adorned heavily with roses, Fareed Ayaz greeted him by singing “Mera piya ghar aaya,” and then presented him with an Ajrak and a Sindhi topi.
A teacher, Shakeela Jabeen, had come from Norway just to see Shankar. “I got to know three days ago that he was coming to Pakistan,” said Jabeen, beaming. “He was coming to my homeland I had to be here.”
*Finally, the wait was over and Shankar said that it was overwhelming to visit Karachi after eight years. Soon after, he began a session of serious and thought-provoking questions and answers, packed with humorous one-liners. He spoke in English and Hindi and kept asking the audience for Urdu equivalents during his one-and-a-half-hour-long talk.
The first question was a predictable one: How to promote peace between Pakistan and India?
“There is real love between the masses,” he said. “But to increase it, there should be an increase in trade, exchange of culture, tourism, and, religious and political dialogue.”
When he entered Pakistan from the Wagah border, he saw onion-laden trucks coming here from India. “I wish that pyar (love) also arrived with piyaz (onions),” he said. “From the other end, I saw trucks with cement. Most of the buildings in India are made of Pakistani cement.”
He admitted that top intelligence personnel and others had tried to stop him from coming to Pakistan and told him that the country was ‘dangerous.’ “But I wanted to come,” he said pointing upwards. “My security is up there.”