Saturday, March 22, 2008

Sri Sri- Message-2-Corporates

Sri Sri- Message-2-Corporates

 

http://artofliving.org.hk/2008/03/20/srisri-message-to-corporates/

New age guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has some very practical advice for the
hurried and harried corporate.

He is the undoubted leader in stress management, time management and
internal happiness. Art of Living, the foundation he started over 20 years
ago, is today spread over more than 140 countries, teaching special
breathing techniques, Yoga and meditation. With a schedule that reads like
that of a corporate head honcho, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar still manages to
remain calm, happy and healthy. *CNBC-TV18 *caught up with the new age guru
to find out how he manages to hold onto his child-like smile despite
travelling 25 days a month.

*Q: What is the relevance of the Art of Living to the young corporate?*

A: It helps them to cope up with the pressures of the day. It helps one
mentally be happy and calm, peaceful. And physically, it makes them very
strong and healthy.

*Q: There are so many people who are followers of the Art of Living who are
celebrities in their own right. How does this entire process actually
happen?*

A: That which is useful to people, they will take it. Like today mobile
phones have become a common thing. Similarly a technology or an art, which
brings some soothing benefit for an individual, they go for it.

*Q: How does one adapt something to like the Sudharshan Kriya breathing
technique or the Art of Living? Given we have hectic schedules, we rarely
manage time for our families and friends.*

A: It is just like personal hygiene. Whatever work one has, however busy one
is, one takes time to brush their teeth. No body says that they have no time
to brush teeth. In the same way if you do Kriya and a little bit of or
Pranayam for 15-20 minutes, it brings so much alertness in you, it brings so
much energy in you. So your time becomes a good time, it becomes quality
time.

*Q: Anything else that you would like to tell your corporate followers to
keep in mind since they are battling very busy schedules, stress, deadlines,
family pressures? What can you actually advice them?*

A: Time-to-time get out of the steam and get into the team. Corporates
should also take social responsibility, otherwise you become so greedy and
when you become greedy, it kills the customer and it kills yourself too. So
we need to bring up human values in life. This lack of spiritual values is
causing violence and frustration or depression and suicidal tendency.

*Q: What is your advise to these corporates who seem to be mindlessly
following some mad rat race?*

A: When the shoe pinches, then you know that you have to get out of it. So
many people don't even feel that pinch. They live life till they get sick
and when they get sick then they start running around and try to find some
alternative. So a healthy lifestyle needs to be adopted before you get sick.
There is no end to greed and 24 hours it's there for everybody, whether it
is a peon in a bank or the Prime Minister of a country. Everyone complains
that there is no time. When you complain that there is no time, you are
simply underestimating your own capability. You can do so much more and you
can always accommodate a little more time in your life and that willingness
to stretch the time is what is creativity.

*Q: Give one message to those corporates out there?*
A: Underneath your corporate coat, you are a lovely human being. Don't
forget that. We should not forget human values in whatever role we play,
whether as a corporate or as someone in politics or in industry or in
business or in student life, underneath all the roles that we play, we are a
beautiful human being

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