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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
12+ albums
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His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is a renowned spiritual leader and humanitarian whose mission of uniting the world into a violence-free global family has inspired millions the world over. An icon of non-violence, human values and universal brotherhood, he seeks global peace through service and fostering human values. Born in 1956 in southern India, Sri Sri’s appeal cuts across all barriers of class, race, religion and nationality. Millions of Hindus revere Sri Sri as their religious and spiritual leader, while people of other faiths look up to him for inner peace and promoting ecumenical values. After Mahatma Gandhi, it is Sri Sri who has succeeded in uniting people of different traditions into a spiritual communion throughout the length and breadth of India. As a child, Sri Sri was often found deep in meditation and at the age of four, he surprised his parents by reciting the Bhagavad Gita. His first teacher, Pandit Sudhakar Chaturvedi, was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi. By the age of 17, he had obtained an advanced degree in modern science and later received honorary doctorates from Kuvempu University, India and Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, India. In 2006, Open International University for Complementary Medicine, Sri Lanka conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Holistic Medicine) on him. In 1981, he started the Art of Living Foundation, an international nonprofit educational and humanitarian organization with a presence in over 140 countrie