Spiritual leader and founder of Art of Living Foundation Sri Sri Ravi Shankar advised media, including Parikh Worldwide Media and ITV Gold, to convey the correct perception of meditation or ‘dhyan’ as an everyday practice and not an isolating act practiced only by giving up hearth and home.
“The media’s role is to reach people and correct the wrong perception about ‘dhyan’. Some people think dhyan means giving up their daily lives and going into the Himalayas,” Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said evoking laughter from hundreds who came to hear him at the Spring Studios in New York City. “This wrong perception needs to be changed by media. Those who want to be happy, live in harmony with others, and progress as a society – for all of them, dhyan is very necessary.”
Whether it is soldiers fighting wars or returned from war, policemen, firefighters, every profession in every field of life, they need to understand the importance of meditation, he said, urging his audience with the words, “So, let us all be ambassadors for meditation – to have a free and loving and caring planet.”
Gurudev Ravi Shankar who was in the tri-state for World Meditation Day, said meditation did not belong to any one entity or person. “People are changing through meditation. That is an established fact. And it will happen.”
His advice to people around the globe he said, is to follow this teaching of dhyan and meditation practiced for ages by India’s sages. Attention, focus, dhyan, or meditation, whatever it may be called, those who want to succeed and progress in life whether for happiness or development, need this practice, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar advised.
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