According to Forbes, the guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is one of India’s most influential people. The spiritual leader and peace ambassador with a patented breathing technique has several million followers worldwide. As well as a few critics.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar communicates his vision of a peaceful and stress-free world through his Art of Living courses, in which a special breathing technique for inner peace is taught. But it is not only stressed-out managers that end up on the master’s meditation mats. The Colombian rebel group FARC and the Colombian government have benefited from Shankar’s breathing technique and meditation instructions. Photos even show the rebels moved to tears. After his three-day intervention, a peace agreement was reached and the guru was awarded the republic’s highest honour. But Shankar also has his critics, who say that he commercialises spirituality, that he serves himself syncretically from various religions and that by appearing with Narendra Modi's, he is supporting his Hindu nationalist policies. Who Shankar really is, how he became a guru and what the situation is with his critics – all this is discussed in conversation with Olivia Röllin.

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