21 March 2016 - QA 3

Are you happy with The World Culture Festival?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

See, I am happiness, nothing need make me happy. I don’t have to derive happiness from any event. I am happy and the event happened very well, and it has become the talk of the town; the talk of the world, in fact! Everywhere people are talking about it. It has happened the way it should happen. The little shower on the first day, the terrible wind on the second day and the heat on the third, all the elements played their roles! We also had a hailstorm! So we saw all the seasons in the three days!

We expected some 3.5 million people, but it went up to 3.75 million people. And it was also watched from around the world, in 188 countries. I don’t think any country is left in the world right now that has not watched The World Culture Festival! On the first day itself, one particular television station had 1.9 million viewers.

Now what we will do is go deeper into knowledge. All this activity is done, now we need to go more into knowledge. I want to take you on more meditation knowledge trips. So we will do deeper meditations because that is the real stuff! That’s when we are all the happiest.