15 May 2015 - QA 2

How to be peaceful and yet prosperous?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

See, peace and prosperity go hand in hand. Where there is no peace, there cannot be prosperity. And this is what is happening with all the Naxal affected areas. Since there is no peace, there is no economic development at all.

All other districts have developed except the 200-odd districts that have Naxal problems? Why? Nobody wants to start any business there.

Now how to be peaceful? This one should learn. If you have mental peace, you have energy to work. If you are disturbed and are feeling upset, then you do not want to do any work. When you do not do any work, your productivity will be zero. And if you have zero productivity, you will have no income. So through meditation develop your intuition and increase your peace and enthusiasm, and you will be prosperous.