2 Dec 2011 - QA 14

Guruji, I am an AOL teacher from the United States. How should our behavior be so that along with the Lokpal bill, we can eradicate corruption?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: What we can do is, we need to take a vow. I am not going to give bribe nor take bribe. That’s it. And when you take that vow, you will stick to it.
For an individual person it may be difficult. That is why you must gather together and collectively put pressure to get your work done.
One industrialist cannot possibly get his work done because time is success or failure for him and profit for him. So he gives the bribe and gets the work done. But in an Ashram we can afford to stand on the strict principle.
What the industrialist need to do is get together. All those industrialists who were pressurized for bribes need to get together and say ‘No!’
We are not going to give bribe you have to give us a license. Then that will do the work.
That is why the Lokpal Bill is essential. If Lokpal has been establish then people can immediately go to the Lokpal and say this person is asking for bribe.