K ravi shankar biography wikipedia

Indian spiritual leader

For other people named Ravi Shankar, see Ravi Shankar (disambiguation).

Ravi Shankar (born 13 May 1956) is an Indian guru^[1] and spiritual leader.

He is also referred to as Sri Sri or Gurudev.^[2][3] From around the mid 1970s, he worked as an apprentice under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of Transcendental Meditation.

In 1981, he founded the Art of Living foundation.^[4]

Life

Shankar was born in Papanasam, Tamil Nadu, to Vishalakshi and R.S.Venkat Ratnam. He was named "Ravi" (an Indian name which means "sun") because his birth was on a Sunday, and "Shankar" after the eighth-century Hindu saint, Adi Shankara, whose birthday was the same day as Ravi Shankar's.^[5]

Shankar's first teacher was Sudhakar Chaturvedi, an Indian Vedic Scholar and a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi.^[6][7] He graduated from the St.

Joseph's University, Bangalo