Farmers Meet at Lonar, Maharashtra, Nov. 20

The overhead mid morning scorching sun did not deter more than 50000 people from occupying the grounds and roof-tops at the Kisanmela in Lonar. “If the village improves, the country will improve, the heart of the country is in the villages,” said Sri Sri. He also urged farmers to make our country free of harmful chemicals and fertilizers and preserve our land, water and environment

20 November declared as Cleanliness Day in honor of Sri Sri, Selu, Maharashtra

The local body, the Selu Nagar Parishad commemorated Sri Sri’s visit to Selu by declaring November 20 as Sri Sri Swachata Divas” or cleanliness day.

Sri Sri spoke on promoting organic farming. He also inspired the gathering to choose non-violence: “Transformation can be brought about peacefully without violence.” He shared the successful transformation of 340 Naxalites who underwent a month-long stress-relief workshop at the Art of Living International Center. “(After it) They vowed never to commit violence,” shared Sri Sri

The overhead mid morning scorching sun did not deter more than 50000 people from occupying the grounds and roof-tops at the Kisanmela in Lonar. “If the village improves, the country will improve, the heart of the country is in the villages,” said Sri Sri. He also urged farmers to make our country free of harmful chemicals and fertilizers and preserve our land, water and environment

20^th November declared as Cleanliness Day in honor of Sri Sri, Selu, Maharashtra

The local body, the Selu Nagar Parishad commemorated Sri Sri’s visit to Selu by declaring November 20 as Sri SriSwachata Divas” or cleanliness day.

Sri Sri spoke on promoting organic farming. He also inspired the gathering to choose non-violence: “Transformation can be brought about peacefully without violence.” He shared the successful transformation of 340 Naxalites who underwent a month-long stress-relief workshop at the Art of Living International Center. “(After it) They vowed never to commit violence,” shared Sri Sri.

Interaction with dignitaries, Akola, Maharashtra, Nov. 19

Sri Sri reached Akola where he addressed a large gathering of dignitaries saying, “Learning should never stop. Corruption begins where belongingness ends. And spirituality is expanding the belongingness. Service to society and service to God is one and the same.”

After the meeting, Sri Sri moved on to the satsang grounds and was welcomed by a sea of people.

Sri Sri reached Akola where he addressed a large gathering of dignitaries saying, “Learning should never stop. Corruption begins where belongingness ends. And spirituality is expanding the belongingness. Service to society and service to God is one and the same.”

After the meeting, Sri Sri moved on to the satsang grounds and was welcomed by a sea of people. 

Satsang at Gondia, Nov. 18:

After a knowledge session at Nagpur, Sri Sri traveled to Gondia, around 200 kms away. The evening satsang had cultural performances by children along with lovely artwork to welcome Sri Sri. Speaking on the occasion, Sri Sri encouraged everybody to make intelligent choices, choose healthy lifestyles and not subscribe to corruption.

 After a knowledge session at Nagpur, Sri Sri traveled to Gondia, around 200 kms away. The evening satsang had cultural performances by children along with lovely artwork to welcome Sri Sri. Speaking on the occasion, Sri Sri encouraged everybody to make intelligent choices, choose healthy lifestyles and not subscribe to corruption.

After interacting and meeting Art of Living teachers on November 16^th, Sri Sri began the next day with a puja. Thousands joined Sri Sri for the morning puja and the evening mahasatsang. Sri Sri told the audience: “Divinity is not somewhere outside - it is inside you. Knowing this, you simply relax. Just like a corn pops up with a little heat, similarly Divine energy is within us.” 

At the festival of lights Deep Utsav, Sri Sri addressed the gathering saying, “Diwali is a festival where we explode our ill feelings with the crackers and spread sweetness in the society by distributing sweets.”

Over 6000 people participated in the PranayamDhyanShivir (PDS) where Sri Sri spoke on the eight limbs of Ashtanga Yoga.

Later in the town of Anand, a special prayer and satsang was held for individual and social peace. “Lakshmi comes only where there is cleanliness, hence we should have clean hearts and clean surroundings. We wish to do a lot but the lack of potential and time, results in stress. Stress is extremely contagious and spreads in society, fostering discontent. We lose our belongingness in society and this in turn, fosters corruption and lack of trust. Only spirituality can foster human values and weed out the ills from our society.”

More than 15,000 farmers from all around Gujarat came to the “RishiKrishiUtsav” farmer’s meet at Idar. Sri Sri highlighted the importance of chemical-free farming, sustainable farming practices as well as the importance of saving the desi(Indian) cow