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  1. A Bravura called Bawa

    “Many people think that they know everything. I knew that I know everything! That was my attitude before The Art of Living course. But once I did the Sudarshan Kriya, once I explored the alternative states of consciousness, I realized that it’s very far f ...
  2. Love, Duty and Service

    “At some level, I feel that the Guru’s grace was always there in my life in a subtle way,” says Kishore Prasad, secretary to His Holiness Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. “So many students take deviant paths when they face pressure, but somehow I was away fr ...
  3. When the Master Chose Me

    It was only after his parents stopped calling him Junior Durvasa (the Indian saint famous for his temper and the equally harsh curses), that Harish Ramachandran, CEO of Sumeru Software Solutions realized that he had not lost his temper in a while. “My par ...
  4. From Selling to Sharing

    From marketing time on national television to being responsible for the distribution of spiritual knowledge to the nook and corner of this planet, Prasanna Prabhu’s life has taken on a paradigm shift of epic proportions. Fifteen years ago, Prasanna was wo ...
  5. Where Royalty, Communism, Service and Devotion meet

    Once someone asked Gurudev (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar), if communists can be spiritual. Gurudev said that, communism originally had three goals: to check greed among the rich, to check fanaticism in religion and to care and share. These goals can only be achie ...
  6. Growing up with Gurudev

    “What is grace?” she once asked His Holiness Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar and he told her that grace was about making the impossible possible when all that is possible has been done. The answer reflects in many ways in Shreya Chugh’s life. Shreya first met ...
  7. Terribly Happy

    The 25-year-old tattooed-punk realized that coolness doesn’t have much to do with being all grunge and wearing black nail paint. It has to do with growing from within and becoming more and more centered. Priya Mani- YES+ teacher did her TTC (Teacher’s Tra ...
  8. Taking a leap, one step at a time

    Mentoring every kind, for he knows what it's like to be angry and frustrated. And he also knows how to transform that anger into love and compassion. “My house (in Kashmir) was burnt and relatives were killed because of terrorism. I wanted to kill at ...
  9. Shooting Her Way Through Excellence

    Studied in nine different schools spread all over India, Pragya Rathore, a YES+ teacher, started off as a social recluse, but today, has friends in over 30 countries. She shares her journey so far, “My father was in the army, which is the reason we moved ...
  10. Shift from violence to love

    From irreverence to reverence, Mohan Lal Banerjee armed himself with love and compassion as opposed to guns and bombs ‘Inside every culprit there is a victim crying for help’  -   Gurudev The one who metamorphosed from being destructive and hateful to cal ...