Wherever you turn you see people signing up for yoga and meditation classes rather than guitar or salsa dance class. The Art Of Living started by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is the new weekend hangout. Gone are the days when Bhagavath Gita used to be just on literature or a mere book on which a convicted places his hand to swear by whatever he says. Today its on every college going or office going people along with their john Gresham and management books. Dont blame your ears or your age if you come across Vikram hazra's bhajans blaring out from a car belonging to the person from where you could have heard 'aerosmith' or 'pink floyd'. You would probably see more crowd gathered to watch Sri Sri Ravishankars lecture in webley arena, london than westlife's concert in O2. Yes spirituality is not just in india but all over.
Lalitha sahasranamam is in every young women's lips and most of the men can say vishnu sahasranamam by-heart. Have you heard to Sacred Chants series of music composed by a very young lad and sung by many young girls it has every sloka you could ever imagine from Mahalakshmi ashtakam, suryashtakam,krishna ashtakam, madhurashtakam, lingashtakam. I came to know about this when i had been to landmark in bangalore and i heard this CD being played and every body there started crowding the counter to ask which CD is being played. I have all the CDs and listen to them almost everyday.The idea behind making the CD is to target the young crowd. And the CD is sure a hit amongst the young and even children. My nephew listens to the CD very fondly.
Spirituality and religion cannot be forced on todays youth, the feeling has to come from within and i must say that the youth of today seem to have embraced spirituality and religion very well and have realised that such beliefs and spiritual activities help them to pause their busy life and enjoy the goodness that life has to offer.
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