UN Meditation Day: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s address on World Meditation Day in the United Nations, millions of people will join together today

New Delhi: Problems related to mental health are coming before the world as the biggest challenge. According to an estimate, one suicide occurs every 45 seconds in the world due to mental problem. The most effective way to deal with this problem is meditation. The whole world is now recognizing the importance of this heritage based on ancient Vedic knowledge. The United Nations has declared 21 December as ‘World Meditation Day’. An important contribution in this is of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, who has been trying to popularize meditation globally for many years. he/she spread meditation in more than 180 countries and connected more than 80 crore people during this period.Millions of people will join together all over the world
This journey related to meditation was not so easy. According to Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, when he/she traveled around the world teaching meditation and yoga a few decades ago, many people considered it ‘weird and taboo’. Today times have changed. On Saturday, he/she will become the first spiritual leader to address the first ‘World Meditation Day’ at the United Nations. This will be the biggest meditation session ever, through which lakhs of people will come together. From Times Square in New York to the European Parliament and India Gate to Dakshineswar Temple in India, people will gather for this historic moment and meditate together at 8 pm. This program will also be live streamed on YouTube, link of which is: http://youtube.com/@Gurudev

It aims to bring together people from all walks of life and promote the importance of meditation to achieve personal well-being and social change.

Effective in reducing stress and depression
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar took meditation and Sudarshan Kriya to those places surrounded by conflict. These also include places like Kosovo, Colombia and Lebanon. These breathing techniques have helped the Yazidi community in Syria overcome the trauma of the genocide and reduce tensions between communities in Iraq. This has given hope to people like Ibrahim who have suffered the pain of losing their loved ones to the bullets of ISIS terrorists. Ibrahim’s two brothers were murdered by ISIS.

Later, Ibrahim was looked after by teachers from the Art of Living. Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences have found that meditation techniques have similar effects to the anti-depressant drug Imipramine. Similarly, Delhi AIIMS reported that meditation sessions reduced serum cortisol levels, an indicator of stress.