20 January 2016 - QA 2

How do you run The Art of living in 155 countries at such a pace and with such peace?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

I simply don’t run them at all. (laughs). That is the secret - it all happens with some divine law. See, knowledge has organizing power. If you are in knowledge, then everything happens. When you are in a center, the circumference is already there. When you are centered, you are equi-distant from every point in the circumference. So when you are centered, it has tremendous organizing power because the centeredness itself will bring it to you, and that is knowledge. Self knowledge has organizing power because the higher self has organized this entire universe in its perfection.

Why don’t you ask me - why are these hibiscus flowers all so perfect in their color and in their texture. There are millions of hibiscus trees, and millions of hibiscus flowers blossoming. The jasmine is blossoming and are so perfect. The fragrance of the little flowers are the same way throughout. Why don't you ask me how is that this coconut is so nice and tender with such sweet water! There are a million things and zillion things to be amazed about in this creation. And you see that power, that consciousness which is the basis of whole creation, has tremendous organizing power and infinite knowledge. When we are with it, it manifests within us also. A little bit here and there.