Q: Guruji, How can we love someone who did a terrible thing to us?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Don’t love them. Just accept them. First accept and then see the
culprit not as a culprit but a victim. Due to circumstances they did so.
If they would have had wisdom they wouldn’t have done it. Just a few
days ago, a lady came to the ashram. She has three children and her
husband was killed by Maoists. Later she became an Art of Living teacher
and when she went back, she taught the Maoists Sudarshan Kriya and
pranayama. Maoists were so amazed. They asked her: ‘You are not angry
with us, we killed your husband?’ She said, ‘No, you didn’t have
knowledge of what you were doing. I want you to be in knowledge’. They
all did Sudarshan Kriya, pranayama and left the path of violence. They
were crying in front of her like babies. The way she described brought
tears in everybody’s eyes. All those 2000 people present had tears in
eyes. This is the power of wisdom. It unites people of all roles and
attitudes.
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