Jhyni ravi shankar biography
Jhyni ravi shankar biography
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Ravi Shankar (spiritual leader)
Indian spiritual leader
For other people named Ravi Shankar, see Ravi Shankar (disambiguation).
Ravi Shankar (born 13 May 1956) is an Indian guru[1] and spiritual leader.
He is also referred to as Sri Sri or Gurudev.[2][3] From around the mid 1970s, he worked as an apprentice under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of Transcendental Meditation.
In 1981, he founded the Art of Living foundation.[4]
Life
Shankar was born in Papanasam, Tamil Nadu, to Vishalakshi and R.S.Venkat Ratnam. He was named "Ravi" (an Indian name which means "sun") because his birth was on a Sunday, and "Shankar" after the eighth-century Hindu saint, Adi Shankara, whose birthday was the same day as Ravi Shankar's.[5]
Shankar's first teacher was Sudhakar Chaturvedi, an Indian Vedic Scholar and a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi.[6][7] He graduated from the St.
Joseph's University, Bangalore wit