Meditation is a way to overcome misery.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is humanitarian leader, spiritual teacher and ambassador of peace. His vision of a stress-free, violence-free society has united millions of people the world over through service projects and the courses of The Art of Living.

Q: Guruji what is the use of Seva? How does it help meditation? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Listen, suppose you are stranded in some place and you need someone to give you a lift in their car or taxi and nobody stops their car to give you a lift,

People who meditate grow bigger brains than those who don’t. Researchers at Harvard, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found the first evidence that meditation can alter the physical structure of our brains. Brain scans

Q: How do I avoid negative thoughts? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Negative thoughts, why do you want to avoid them? Let them come and they go. Avoiding means you are trying to hold on to them. If they come say,'Oh you have come, hi, bye bye', and they

Giving too much importance to sensory objects leads to greed; giving too much importance to the senses leads to lust; and giving too much importance to the mind and its desires leads to delusion. We hold on to the concepts of the mind and want

Q: Guruji when I think about death, I feel dispassionate. How can one remain a karma yogi in that situation? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Look, whatever you do with dispassion (vairaagya) that has a lot of power. We work not for ourselves, but for

Q: Guruji I get panic attacks and my mind chatters while I meditate even though I observe my breath, how to get over this? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Ujjayi breath and relax.

Q: Guruji, does anything called luck or bad luck exists? How to overcome bad luck? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: of course! When things happen the way you want everything to happen you say yes its good luck and when everything goes wrong you say it bad