tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55631852665530854762024-03-16T00:07:48.085-07:00Answering AOLAnalysing Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and the Art Of LivingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563185266553085476.post-3765883527858924582008-07-12T18:48:00.000-07:002012-07-15T14:33:50.200-07:00How to go about on this BlogOn this blog i published my email-discussions with several people who had some comments on my article "How genuine is Sri Sri Ravi Shankar?" This polemic was after all probably more revealing than the article itself.
You can read the original article and you can read all the emails that have been send to me. I also published my replies on these emails. They can all be accessed through the menu Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563185266553085476.post-88807016732190519802008-07-12T09:36:00.000-07:002008-07-12T09:49:51.127-07:00Email from MM wrote me the following email:Hi: Whoever wrote this article on How much genuine is ravishankar?, hatsoffto him. I too had the same opinion as yours. I felt awkward when people exagerated saying 4 days of sudarshankriya has changed there entire life.You are absolutely right, he is more or less a businessman.Most importantly I loved the way you gave answers to those who criticised your article. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563185266553085476.post-41374004894835058372008-05-14T12:20:00.000-07:002008-05-14T12:21:47.965-07:00Email from MVM.V. wrote the following email:I appreciate your writing on How genuine is sri sri ravishankar? ( I read it only yesterday)Though I don't have enough knowledge about pshycological matters, as an Indian and most importantly as a Bangalorean I agree with your explanation.I loved the way you replied to those who criticized your article.Before thinking of god and religious things, there exists Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563185266553085476.post-66690053083138902012008-05-09T11:42:00.001-07:002017-12-10T07:30:20.644-08:00A summary of the most common arguments and my replies to them
On this page of the blog you will find the most commonly used arguments and criticisms on my article send to me by the various AOL people that reacted to my article. I divided this 'summary' of arguments into several topics. Which i list here. (You can click on a topic if you immediately want to go to that part of the page).
The three main arguments
About SK
About scientificness
About the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563185266553085476.post-6201391269750274172008-04-29T09:30:00.000-07:002009-04-18T23:15:08.538-07:00Email from J.J send me the following email:I think you are doing a great job by tarnishing a Great Leader like Sri Sri. You have missed all the great work done by him in India and abroad and have only pointed out incomplete facts. You are doing a great Sin. I request you to please rectify. Allah does not like ill-words against anyone, even if he is a non-muslim. The effects permeates this life as well as Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563185266553085476.post-76050711306327052902008-04-29T08:55:00.000-07:002008-07-12T09:57:05.491-07:00Email from P.P. send me the following email:What ever your thought is about my guruji is wrong , I had gone for many yoga classes but no one teach about breathing technic. Once I had done sudarshan kriya , I had gone in deep maditation & then I had arrange for my whole family. After basic couse has been done my life has changed a lot. in same way i had seen many people life has been changed after Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563185266553085476.post-39927261798208074692008-04-16T08:12:00.000-07:002008-04-16T10:11:20.766-07:00email from JMJM wrote me the following email:Je m'inquiète du développement que prend la fondation Art de Vivre en France. Vous êtes un des rares sites à connaitre et décrire la personnalité de Ravi Shankar. Comment se fait-il qu'il ait été accueilli au Mémorial de La Paix à Caen et que sa méthode ne soit pas plus remise en cause. D'une part, les professeurs formés à son école sans beaucoup de suivi Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563185266553085476.post-36968467746332005222008-04-16T07:42:00.000-07:002008-04-29T10:16:23.471-07:00Email from AGAG send me the follwong email. My replies are between her comments (in bold).I am amazed from time to time how armchair intellectuals find it is their responsibility to cast negative light on great Beings. It's like intellectual vomit.I find the start of a discussion by use of the wording "intellectual vomit" not very positive, constructive - or for that matter - non-violent (one of the supposed Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563185266553085476.post-40496351794018465222008-04-16T07:11:00.000-07:002008-04-29T11:16:23.808-07:00Email of Vasu GokarajuVasu Gokaraju wrote me an email. He went through great lengths to comment on most paragraphs of the original article. The text of his email is in bold, my replies are in between his comments.His introductory text:Dear Mr. Jonas Slaats,Thank you for publishing the article “How genuine is Sri Sri Ravi Shankar?”, I have recently came to know about AoL and started searching for content about the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563185266553085476.post-27359168952492174882008-04-15T09:06:00.000-07:002008-04-16T10:12:19.282-07:00Email from R'R' wrote me the following email:I would like to know that the facts you have collected on Sri Sri are your own observations or have been from the people who have been part of the organisation.I plan to do the course very soon. Let me know where i am heading for.I replied:Dear R.,My findings, facts and arguments are partly due to my general expertise (both from personal experience as well as fromUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563185266553085476.post-63401251722635501302008-04-15T08:54:00.000-07:002009-12-11T15:40:02.907-08:00Email from A'B' wrote me the following email:Dear Sir/Madam,I refer to the article published on yr site about Sri Sri Ravi Shankar being a genuine guru or not..... While I admire the critical capabilities of the writer, I would also remind that why then you people are asking for donations?.....For the same motives probably with such a nice site builtand driven by one of the best CMS available!And I would Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563185266553085476.post-43911177780921831002008-04-15T08:51:00.000-07:002008-04-16T10:14:41.098-07:00Email from B'B' (name not used as there was no immediate consent to give it out) wrote the following email:Your story on His Holiness Sri Sri denotes your ignorance.This was my reply:Your reply to my article denotes your peaceful, respectful andfriendly spirituality.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563185266553085476.post-30532237647271239102008-04-15T08:38:00.000-07:002008-04-16T10:14:09.365-07:00Email from Sanjay PareekSanjay Pareek send me the following email:Dear Yunus,Congratulations on achieving your objective of tarnishing the image of Sri Sri on the net. I am sure those who read such articles will get affected partly, specially the ones who do not know about the man and his great mission. In the process, you also get your share of fame by indulging in these antics. From the very beginning to the end, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563185266553085476.post-26066170613860939772008-04-15T05:52:00.000-07:002014-12-07T03:13:39.530-08:00Email from the AOL bureau of communication
Rajaque Rahman of the Art of Living Bureau of Communication at the Art of Living International Centre in Bangalore had taken the time to comment on the article "How genuine is Sri Sri Ravi Shankar?" which was first published on the now closed Yunus News website.
He wrote "I am of the view that the author is prejudiced against His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and the article was Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563185266553085476.post-63545454349089106452008-04-15T05:36:00.000-07:002018-11-23T02:45:40.722-08:00The original article: How genuine is Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar seems to be one of India's biggest export products these days. His popularity already being huge in India itself, many positive reports in several (above all American) media outlets make the guru hugely popular world wide. His popularity reminds us of other best seller gurus before him, like Maharishi or Osho. But these examples in turn remind us perhaps that we should be Unknownnoreply@blogger.com34