Ravi Shankar

About

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is a spiritual teacher and humanitarian who founded the Art of Living Foundation. He teaches pranayama, meditation, and yoga philosophy rooted in Vedantic and classical yoga traditions.

Teachings

Books

An Intimate Note to the Sincere Seeker2003

This book is a compilation of the seventh year of intimates notes of weekly knowledge and wisdom from Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, founder and spiritual leader of the Art of Living Foundation.

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Buddha - The Manifestation of Silence2018

The Manifestation of Silence Buddha is the manifestation of silence. His silence came from saturation, not from lack. Lack creates complaints and noise. Saturation brings silence An ultimate talk given by H. H. Sri Sri Ravishankar on Buddha

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Celebrating Love2006

Short discourses by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on spirituality, relationships, how to transform negative emotions, and more. These insights open our minds to the beauty of life's mysteries.

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Celebrating Silence2014

In this book, Sri Sri discusses topics ranging from doubt and fear to love and dispassion. He describes what it means to be on the spiritual path - a path of service, sadhana and surrender. He leads us through an understanding of God and back to our inner Self - what we really seek, often without knowing. "Some questions can only be answered in silence. Silence is the goal of all answers. If an answer does not silence the mind, it is no answer. Your soul is solidified silence and this solidified silence is wisdom, knowledge. When wisdom dawns, it gives rise to celebration." - H. H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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God’s Council2017

God’s Council is the story of eleven Creators, the original forms of life created by the Eternal Energy worshipped as God . After many galecs , these Creators created humans, fairies and many more. The Four Auins is the first book in the God’s Council series about the birth of the four brothers. The story begins galecs after Vernakula created humans and when Irunkula, the youngest of the Kulas decides to create fairies. However, before the fairies were created, the Kulas are attacked by an army of crimson wexs . Though the Kulas win, their portal to travel across the Omasian Universe is sealed and after the war, Orunkula and Irunkula are never the same again.

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Know Your Child2014

Raising children can be a big challenge. In this competitive world; we want our children to be successful? How do we measure success after all? And fulfilled life. In this book, His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar highlights simple points for parents and teachers, on raising children. These subtle cues go a long way in laying the foundation for children to grow into fine human beings- happy yet responsible, focused but wit a large perspective on life, having a strong character with the softness of human values.

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My Music, My Life2023

With stunning new photographs and a new final chapter detailing Ravi Shankar’s hope for the preservation of Indian classical music, this updated edition of My Music, My Life profiles an extraordinary man. In his own words, Shankar describes his transformation from a young traveling dancer to a Grammy Award-winning, internationally known musician. An autobiography, a history of Indian classical music, and a manual on how to play the sitar, this book is about music as a both a lifestyle and an art. It embodies Ravi Shankar’s unique approach to his craft.

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Notes for the Journey Within2023

Do you want to find balance, peace, and joy amid the ups and downs of everyday life? ​Renowned spiritual teacher, global humanitarian, and tireless advocate for peace Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has changed the lives of millions of people around the world for the better. Yet many in the West have not been introduced to his profound and practical approach to living a spiritual life. This book will change that. In June of 1995, Gurudev began a weekly tradition of creating a short talk, often on a subject that was relevant to current events or in response to questions posed by audiences at his international gatherings. What resulted were • powerful words of wisdom; • much celebration, laughter, lightheartedness; and • messages of inspiration and encouragement. Notes for the Journey Within is a collection of those transcribed talks, spanning almost a decade. Gurudev’s teachings can make a huge difference in how you live your life, interact with your family, friends, and coworkers, and understand your spiritual path and how you walk it. This extraordinary compilation of insights can help you on your journey within, to that all-encompassing love, joy, and peace at your core!

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Patanjali Yoga Sutras2014

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are the foundational texts of the science of yoga. In this book, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, a master of yoga for the 21st century, offers his own commentary on this fundamental work. "The aim of Patanjali Yoga is to set man free from the cage of matter. Mind is the highest form of matter and man freed from this dragnet of Chitta or Ahankara (mind or ego) becomes a pure being." - H. H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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Pro HTML5 Games2013

Build your next game on a bigger scale with Pro HTML5 Games. This book teaches you the essentials of advanced game programming in HTML5. You’ll learn techniques that you can transfer to any area of HTML5 game development to make your own professional HTML5 games! Led by an expert game programmer, you’ll build two complete games in HTML5: a strategy puzzle game based on the Box2d physics engine and in the style of Angry Birds and a real-time strategy (RTS) game complete with units, buildings, path-finding, artificial intelligence, and multiplayer support. In the process, you’ll learn how to do the following: Create realistic physics in your game by incorporating the Box2d physics engine Design large worlds with lots of characters and let users interact with them Use sprite sheets, panning, parallax scrolling, and sound effects to build a more polished game Incorporate pathfinding and steering to help characters navigate through your world Create challenging levels with intelligent enemies by using decision trees, state machines, and scripted events Add multiplayer in your games using Node.js and the WebSocket API This book will help you take your HTML5/JavaScript programming experience to the next level. It gives you the knowledge and skills you need to develop more complex, bolder games and become an HTML5 games pro.

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Raga Mala1997

A beautiful record of the extraordinary life of the world's leading sitar player & elder statesman of Indian culture. After studying in India with classical Hindustani music master Allauddin Khan, Ravi Shankar's early career culminated in a successful tour of Soviet Russia in 1954. In 1956 Ravi beca

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Secrets of Relationships2014

Head-to-head communication happens through thoughts and words, while heart-to-heart communication happens through feelings. People, throughout the ages, have felt that they cannot communicate their feelings. If we could communicate all our feelings through words, then we would be leading very shallo

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Source of Life2018

Source of Life Become aware of this impermanent nature of life; that is wisdom. Being aware of this impermanent nature of ones life-the changing nature of happenings-you find that there is something in you that has not changed? There is a reference point, in comparison to which, you can say things are changing. Getting to that reference point is "being"? and that is the source of life; that is wisdom.

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The Little Book of Goodbyes2025

AN EVOCATIVE COLLECTION OF STORIES THAT WEAVES TOGETHER WARM MEMORIES OF FRIENDS, PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS, AND CITIES CLOSE AND FAR. An unusual and evocative gaze back over the shoulder, The Little Book of Goodbyes captures the innocent intimacy that binds children, parents and grandparents, friends and lovers, and unlikely landmarks in faraway cities. Rooted in the memory of a childhood spent in Kerala, it travels through Malabar and Delhi to Dresden and New York, encountering gods, ghosts and old friends with equal aplomb, landing finally in the cool valleys of Mussoorie. Along the way, it weaves stories that illuminate the best things of life: friendship, loyalty, affection, laughter, while being mindful every moment of the inevitability of departure. At once joyful, tender and melancholy, this is an immersive work that blurs the boundaries of fiction and autobiography.

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The Tiger by the River2002

Swati Varma is one of modern Delhi's more bleesed inhabitants. Then on brilliant morning when the world seemed cleansed by the coming of the rains, the unthinkable happens: his pregnant wife is killed in a road accident. Devastated, Swati makes a pilgrimage back to the land of his forebears, Panayur, in the state of Kerala, to scatter his beloved's ashes in the sacred waters of the Papanasini river. Returning to this long-forgotten world, he is reunited with a childhood companion who now cares for the crumbling, ghost-filled palace that was his home. For Panayur - seemingly still free from the religious turmoil that threatens so much of the country - was once a kingdom, and Swati is the direct descendant of the its last king. As two friends talk, share memories and exchagne secrets, thousands of miles away, Vel - a cousin Swati never kew he had - sets out on a quest for the truth about his family that will take him from America, to Berlin and, ultimately, to Panayur. And so begins an extraordinary and healing journey. One that will lead both Swati and Vel back through the cruel, vibrant, myth-filled history of the kings of Panayur to the legend that lies at its heart - the legend of the tiger by the river...

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