10 August 2013 - QA 5

Gurudev, what is the difference between tendency (Prakriti), and crime (desire to harm). If love and service is our natural tendency, then why is crime increasing?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Lack of spiritual education, lack of human values in society.
People are stressed and they have never been taught how to release the stress, and so crime is happening.
As I said, if you talk to these convicts in the prison, you’ll find that they’re not bad people. They are good people. But in an emotional upsurge they committed a crime. Something happened through them. If you ask them, they say, 'Oh, it happened. I never expected this to happen'.