Atanu Dey on Art of Living
Atanu Dey makes another quoteworthy post on Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Atanu correctly points out that his objective is not to trash SSRS or Art of Living (AoL); his criticism of SSRS/AoL is very specific:
AoL is a personality driven cult. It makes many of its followers zombies who worship SSRS and have abdicated their reason.
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I am all for the promotion of good ideas — and Indian philosophy and religions have an incredible store of that sort of thing. But when the personality becomes the focus, the ideas take a back seat. This is a pity because the ideas are important while the person is merely the instrument.
Touché. Although I might add that the definition of “personality driven cult” and “abdication of reason” is also applicable to religions.
Having done the Art of living course, I find you comments very accurate and impressive.
I am glad - the human bulldozers have yet not bullied you into it.