24 August 2014 - QA 8

Gurudev, there are reservations based on class or race for many courses. Should Art of Living followers utilize these reservations or not?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

That is up to you. If you want to utilize it, do so. If you don’t want to, it is fine. All I want is that you be happy and make everyone around you happy. The best scenario is if there is no reservations, as everyone is equal. They do these for political reasons.
Reservations were initially set up for a ten year period and we should have discontinued it after that. But instead we have reservation after reservation nowadays, and we are dividing the country because of this. But now people are waking up. We should all unite and move ahead.