Q. 186: Gurudev, what is driving many people away from faith and religion, and why do faith and power to pull people from doing good towards the society exist?

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

I am for preserving the natives around the world, and I always encourage them
to preserve it. I have seen similarities between aborigine in Australia,
Maori in NZ, Arunachal Pradesh in India and British Columbia in Canada.
The way they welcome a guest is so loving. They all have similar traditions
and cultures. 

In the past, there was some connection or similar culture all over the world. You know, we need to celebrate the diversity and not think that everybody should be like us. We should take good things from every culture and I feel that is the way we can overcome the terrorism in the world. 

If every child knows a little bit about all the wisdom in the world then they grow up much wiser. They don’t become fanatics or fundamentalist or terrorist. You know, terrorists think that only they know the truth, only they will go to heaven and everybody else will go to hell but they create hell for everybody else. No sense of global wisdom and we have to take responsibility because we haven’t globalized wisdom. 

We have globalized everything else on the planet from eatables to equipment to cold drinks but we haven’t given a comprehensive wisdom for youth of the world, don’t you think so? Once a child asked me a question, Guruji dogs can communicate with any other dog in the world, but why not human beings? 

I still remember, this is some 25 years ago, in Manchester, UK. A small girl came to me and asked me, “Guruji, Why not human beings connect with everyone else in the world”. This is because we are so stuck in our identities, we have to grow beyond that, it’s good to have identity but we have to grow beyond that. Don’t you think so?

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