Celebrating His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Birthday

Bankali, Pashupati, Kathmandu, Nepal
13th of May 2012

“Sangita gnanamu bhaktivina Sanmargamu galade manasa.”

 
The 18th century Saint-composer, Thyagaraja asked: Can the mind find salvation without the knowledge of music and devotion?
 
Music nourishes every form of life - plant, animal and human. So said the saints of yore and today’s scientists couldn’t agree more. “Unless we have a stress-free mind and a violence-free society, we cannot achieve world peace,” declares Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. In addition to its educational and humanitarian activities, The Art of Living has always recognized music as sangita yoga, a profound, potent means of combating aggression and violence, promoting inner harmony and world peace.
The Art of Living has organized many events of music and dance, not as a soloist’s display, but as a congregational celebration of a community of artistes coming together joyously and purposively. Since The Art of Living’s Silver Jubilee in 2006, the idea of music and dance has taken on a juggernaut scale:

 

  • 5,700 musicians performing together at Naadha Vaibhavam (Chennai)
  • 3,500 musicians performing together at its Silver Jubilee (Bangalore)
  • 1,200 dancers performing Mohiniyattam (Cochin), setting up a Guinness record
  • 1,094 sitar artistes from across the country creating Brahm Naad (New Delhi)
  • 2,750 Hindustani classical vocalists in an enchanting spectacle in Antarnaad (Pune)
  • 500 Bharatanatyam dance artistes weaving traditional magic (Chennai)
  • World Culture Festival with Largest Guitar Ensemble (Berlin)

In Nepal, The Art of Living Nepal itself has conducted various grand events on music and others

  • Maha Satsang with thousands from various places across Nepal (Birgunj and Kathmandu)
  • 30th year Celebrations with H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (Bhairahawa and Kathmandu)
  • Mission Green Earth Grand Concert (Kathmandu and Bhairahawa)
  • Stand Up Take Action Grand Events in 2006, 2007 and 2009
  • Yogathon – Surya Namaskar Challenge all across Nepal

 

 
 

“Music takes you from words to silence,from shabd to

nishabd, thus helping to create a calm and meditative state of

mind. Spirituality and music,together,can uplift people,get

them out of depression and help them start a new life with enthusiasm.

For a stress-free life,you have to embrace both these facets.The

aim is to come together to uplift consciousness - through

meditation, talks, togetherness,celebration,and through

song and dance."

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

 

 
 

 

       In this tradition of celebrations by The Art of Living, Guruji’s Birthday Celebrations (May 13, 2012, Bankali, Pashupati) brings large number of musicians to the stage, to create in unison a symphonic soundscape. This outreach program has a twofold thrust
- Music as a resemble of peace and culture and
- Spirituality blossoming in every performer and listener.
 
The multiple resonance of music, devotion-steeped as it is, can achieve meditative transcendence, uniting the individual soul with the all-pervasive Oversoul. In this 13th May Maha Satsang Celebrations , worship through sound, singer and listener perceive no difference between Antarnaad and Brahmnaad. At such moments of heightened consciousness, achieved by not just the individual sadhaka (spiritual seeker), but by the entire global community, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s vision of a violence-free, stress-free, service-minded society no longer remains a utopian dream, but an attainable goal.

 

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