Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #677

Today's guest is a humanitarian. He's a spiritual leader, a soul summoner, if you will. He founded the art of living movement and he's one of the most respected teachers of meditation in the world. A fascinating chat with today's guest Gurude Dev Shri Shri Avi Shanka. Shine on me and I will find a [music] song I've been

singing. [music] >> Guru Dev Shri Sri Ravi Shankar >> is that correct? >> Right. >> Thank you for being here today. I appreciate your time. Uh I appreciate your um your energy that you've put into the world. Uh thank you so much for your uh just your just uh your ability to be

a guide for people. Um for our listeners that don't know, you're a humanitarian, a spiritual leader, um a practicer of peace. Is that fair to say? >> Yeah. >> Okay. And Gurudev Shri Shri Ravi Shankar. >> You can just call me Gurudev. >> Gurudev is fine. >> Excellent. Um you had an experience that

happened when you were very young uh at the age of four years old from what I from what I hear if the story is true. Um that >> I could recite the ancient text. >> You could recite the ancient text of the bag >> Bhagavad Gita. >> Bagavad Gita. >> Yeah. >> Can you tell us what the Bavad Gita is

for our listeners that don't know? uh Gita is the scripture um which was uh written 5,000 year old but when Lord Krishna gave uh advice to or lessons to Arjuna his uh the warrior of that time so it's about it's a knowledge of yoga and about everything about life so this is what Mahatma Gandhi had is as

a handbook >> ah Okay. >> And everyone in India, it's almost like a Bible for the uh Indian continent. You can say Hindus and mainly. >> Got it. So at four years old, you were kind of a prodigy. You were kind of like the Justin Bieber kind of of meditation maybe, you know,