Dearest Ones, Note that the next Live Webcast of Satsang with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar will be on 30 May at 7:00 pm IST from Art of Living International Center, Bangalore. Link to watch satsang: http://www.artofliving.org/live-satsang.html Jai guru dev                 Note: Unable to see the above images? Please click on 'Display images' in your mail Art of Living Universe: Facebook | Twitter | Google Plus | YouTube | Pinterest

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar leads special meditation to mark Africa Day

Johannesburg: Indian spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar led thousands of people gathered in 23 countries via a live weblink in a special meditation session billed I-Meditate Africa to mark Africa Day on Saturday. "Let's pray for a violence-free, stress-free and prosperous Africa where nature is preserved, with its wildlife and water," the founder of the Art of Living Foundation said after guiding thousands of people from all races and religious groups in a meditation session. "The whole continent of 53 countries is celebrating today 50 years of joining hands together. A peaceful, prosperous Africa is my dream and I'm sure the dream of millions of people around the world," Shankar said. The I-Meditate Africa concept was created by two young South African members of the Art of Living Foundation, Vanishree Pavadai and Kirtida Bhana. "Instead of Africa being called the Dark Continent as in the past, let's create a pattern of vibrations that will make it the Continent of Light," Bhana said at the gathering in Johannesburg, which joined Durban and Cape Town in South Africa as host cities. Source: IBN live                 Note: Unable to see the above images? Please click on 'Display images' in your mail Art of Living Universe: Facebook | Twitter | Google Plus | YouTube | Pinterest

Mind stealing snaps of Sri Sri's very recent visit to Mongolia

Dear Ones, Click on the link below to view beautiful Snaps of Sri Sri's very recent visit to Mongolia http://www.artoflivinguniverse.org/2013/05/Sri-Sri-in-Mongolia-2013-photos.html Share with everyone. Jai guru dev :)                 Note: Unable to see the above images? Please click on 'Display images' in your mail Art of Living Universe: Facebook | Twitter | Google Plus | YouTube | Pinterest

Ask questions to Sri Sri

Dearest Ones, As we all know "face2face: Live on facebook with Sri Sri" event is approaching quickly. Find below link of the video in connection to this event. You can share your comments and questions that you want to ask Sri Sri over the following link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxjd37Rzlgg To know the details of this event, please visit http://srisriupdates.artoflivinguniverse.org/2013/05/face2face-live-on-facebook-with-sri-sri.html  Jai guru dev :)                 Note: Unable to see the above images? Please click on 'Display images' in your mail Art of Living Universe: Facebook | Twitter | Google Plus | YouTube | Pinterest

Webcast Schedule: Upcoming Satsangs with Sri Sri

Dearest Ones, Find the flyer with details on upcoming webcasts. Click on the link below to watch these webcasts of satsangs with Sri Sri: http://www.artofliving.org/live-satsang.html Jai guru dev.                 Note: Unable to see the above images? Please click on 'Display images' in your mail Art of Living Universe: Facebook | Twitter | Google Plus | YouTube | Pinterest

Key relationships: Sri Sri

Relationships can either take the form of strength or weakness depending on the mind. If the mind is strong then relationships can be like a gift to us, but if the mind is weak and not in control, then relationships can feel like bondage. How would you like to see yourself - happy and bubbling with enthusiasm or dull and difficult to please? Often you like to be pleased, appeased and cajoled. So you put up a tough, upset face and act difficult to please. If a person has to appease and please ten people all the time, it will be so tiring. People who keep a long face and expect others to cajole and appease them make others run away. Lovers often do this. They expend a lot of energy in cajoling and this brings down the joy and celebration of the moment. It is okay for you to show your upset mood or tendency once in a while, but doing it over and over again is taxing for you and the people you love. If you feel low, appease and please yourself. Your need to be appeased by someone else is the sign of grossness. This is the root of ignorance. If you want attention, all you get is tension. There is a secret about relationships. Women should never make their husband feel small. If you tell your husband, ‘You are like a vegetable, good for nothing. You are a lazy goose!’ his self esteem goes down and he really becomes good for nothing. However, hopeless or weak he is, you should always tell him that he is the best. You should pump his ego. The whole world may say that he has no brains, but you should not say that. As a spouse you should say, ‘You have the best brains in the world. Just because you don’t use it, it doesn’t mean that you don’t have any.’ In the same way, men should never pour cold water on women’s emotions. For women, emotional bonding is very important. You should never complain about her parents, her father or her mother or sisters or brothers. If she herself complains, you keep quiet, don’t say anything. If you oppose her parents, you will be in trouble and if you side with them, she will feel left out. Either way you are in trouble, so keep quiet. Simply move away from there or change the topic. If in the relationship, both come from a sense of giving then there will be no problem.  But if both want to take, there will be fights for sure. ‘I am here to contribute, what I can do for you?’ - your relationship will last longer with this attitude. Similarly, don’t be feverish about a relationship, just relax and you will find your relationship with people will improve and become better. If you are like a leech, clinging on to somebody and bugging them, even though you say all nice words, that person will run away from you because they can’t handle it. One aspect is to give love, and another is to know how to handle love, receive love as well. It needs only a centered, enlightened person. You have to be very much at ease with yourself. If you are at ease with yourself, everyone will be at ease with you. Just be yourself. Be natural and simple. Relationships develop naturally. If you try to build a relationship that is when you become a little artificial and unnatural. You like someone to be very honest, open, natural, unassuming with you. That is exactly what others also want from you. If you are a boss, what type of assistants or subordinates would you like?  Someone who is open. And that is also what your boss wants. Don’t try hard to impress your boss, or impress your girlfriend or boyfriend. That is when everything goes wrong. The best is to be yourself, natural, to be forgiving and to be in the present moment. It makes a big difference. Source: The new Indian express                 Note: Unable to see the above images? Please click on 'Display images' in your mail Art of Living Universe: Facebook | Twitter | Google Plus | YouTube | Pinterest

face2face: Live on facebook with Sri Sri

Dearest Ones, After the Longest Google Hangout on Jan 26, 2013, yet another opportunity to Interact with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and create a new milestone. Do go through the details on the above flyer to know more on this upcoming event with Sri Sri. Visit the link below to know more on the event and to ask your questions to Sri Sri https://www.facebook.com/events/155873924593298/                 Note: Unable to see the above images? Please click on 'Display images' in your mail Art of Living Universe: Facebook | Twitter | Google Plus | YouTube | Pinterest