21 June 2015 - QA 2

How can we help friends who are experiencing trauma and have no interest in spirituality?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

I leave this question to you. You may find many ways and apply all those ways. Whichever way works, good luck to you!

Once I had sent my teacher to talk to the Naxals. The teachers went and sat with them. They were with their guns. The teacher asked them do pranayama. They asked, “Why? What do we get?”
The teacher said, “You feel very shaky, right? You feel very afraid. This will help you gain more strength".
They said, “Oh, is it so? Let's learn”.
Once they did the pranayama, they never took back the gun again. These are skills. There is skill in teaching.
Yoga is skill in action. 'Yogaha Karmasu Kaushalam', that is what Lord Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita. Yoga is Skill in action.
Usually people say, “My mind is all over the place. It can never stay in one place. I cannot meditate”. Now, you meditated for 20-minutes, did it not calm down?
It needs that little skill to make the mind settle. It is not difficult to have a mind without any thought and go into deep meditation. You only need skill.