For the first time after the launch of Art of Living in Mangalore University in the year 1996, the Art of Living Founder Ravishankar Guruji’s arrival to Mangalore pulled a jam packed crowd of nearly 9,000 people gathering in Mangala Stadium on Wednesday evening.
Addressing the crowd at ‘Mangala Sandhya’ programme, Ravishankar Guruji, urged the public to fight against ‘Slum India’ and 'Scam India', thus to create a ‘Spiritual India’ for the welfare the nation. “The people from nook and corner of the country should join their hands together irrespective of their caste, creed and religion, to throw away corruption and poverty in India. Let us all worship humanity,” he said.
Launching ‘Clean Mangalore Drive’ in association with the district administration on the occasion, Guruji asked Mangaloreans to spend at least two Sundays of theirs for the purpose of cleaning Mangalore. “We can just turn Mangalore into a beautiful city in two Sundays,” Guruji said.
Spiritual note
On the spiritual note, Ravishankar Guruji said, blessings from a satisfied person will always be true. When elders bless, it is most likely to turn into reality as those elders must have attained the peak of satisfaction. Every human being can attain this stage through meditation, stressed Guruji. He asked everyone not to waste his/her life without any purpose, but to attain ‘Yoga Siddhi’ through meditation. When few of his devotees offered him flowers and sweets, he smiled and said “Don’t offer me sweets, flowers and honey, instead give me your problems.”
Speaking out his views on the separatists movement in Jammu and Kashmir, Ravishankar said, J & K cannot be separated from India until and unless they are financially independent.
In Kasargod
Earlier on the day, Ravishankar Guruji, who was at Bandadka in Kasargod to offer Dhyanaksetra to the world, informed that Dhyanakshetra has been established to render peace and satisfaction to all those living in the society. “By cleansing the mind and the environment, the God will shine within us,” he said.
He put forth his dreams of constructing a school, launching a project to provide employment and to initiate women self help groups in a village like Bandadka.