I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and

thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind, body, spirit,

and work.

So Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has touched the lives of 370 million people.

He set up an organization called the Out of Living Foundation, which is now in 159 countries,

thousands of centers around the world.

Sixteen universities have awarded him an honorary degree. He's

received awards from the Simon Weisenthile Center, the Foundation of California. He's authored

over 40 books. And science has been studying his method of meditation called

Sudashian Kria and have found that it decreases anxiety, stress and depression.

Sri-3 has spoken at Stanford, Harvard, Ted, and now Mind Valley.

So please make a big round of applause to Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

Hi. So, tell me what you want to know.

So, tell me what you want to know.

You know, there is a say in India. The first sign of intelligence is not to say anything.

First, of course, we lost. The second sign of intelligence is not to say anything

unless a question is asked. I want to maintain this sign of intelligence.

What do you say?

What is it you want?

What is that you want? You know, let's just wake up and sit and see what is that we want. If we can

figure this out for all our life, which is almost impossible because our wants keep

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