If you want to get away from the daily grind and spend a few hours in absolute quietude, here comes the perfect opportunity.
Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar will be in Ranchi this month to conduct meditation camps. The four-day tour will begin on February 17.
Media-in-charge of the programme Ajoy Mukherjee said Sri Sri Ravi Shankar would reach Ranchi in the evening of February 17 from Durgapur.
A stasang (prayer meeting) will be held at Morabadi grounds in the same evening.
The meditation camps will be organised at the same venue on February 18, 19, and 20. The timings of the camps will be from 6am to 8am.
The founder of Art of living will also visit the Birsa Munda Central Jail to meet the inmates.
In fact, the Jharkhand government has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Art of Living Foundation for conducting free yoga and meditation sessions at the prisons.
So far, 500 inmates from Ranchi, 212 from Dhanbad, 200 from Latehar, 110 from Daltonganj, 55 from Garhwa, 198 from Hazaribagh, 41 from Giridih, 70 from Jamshedpur and 53 from Jamtara prisoners have attended the sessions. The inmates have been immensely benefited by the course.
This apart, the Art of Living Foundation is also running schools in Gumla, Khunti and Ghatshila, where children are being given imparted free education.
The foundation has also carried out plantation work in different parts of the state and is running several other schemes for the welfare of children and youths.
“These schools are known as Sri Sri Vidya Mandir and are affiliated to Jharkhand Academic Council. The expenses incurred on running these schools are borne by our trust,” Mukherjee added.
He said the art excel course aims at bringing out hidden talents among children in the age group of 6 to 14 while the youth empowerment seminar course helps curb the use of tobacco and other intoxicants by youths.
These seminars also enable the youths get rid of psychological stress and inferiority complex.
In Ranchi, the youth empowerment seminar course has been conducted at Vikas Vidyalaya, Ursuline Convent and St Anne’s Girls’ High School.
Over 1,000 students participated in it. This course is also been run in other parts of the state, benefiting over 200 children.