9 September 2014 - QA 7

Gurudev, how do we manage stress and anxiety?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

Keep smiling as you are doing now. Don’t hold on to stress and anxiety. If you don’t hold on to it, then there is no question of managing it.
What is a Guru and ashram for? Leave all your anxieties, pray, have faith and move on. If you have the faith, you will reap the fruits.
Do you know in Bangalore city, some people have the faith that on Sunday, if they come to the ashram and eat the holy food here, their stomach and other illnesses get cured? They have the faith and this faith gives them the desired result.
Maybe the people who work here have stomach pains and take medicines, but people from outside who come with this faith on Sundays, get cured totally. This is the experience of a lot of people.