Sri Lankan cricket team captain Kumar Sangakkara called on His Holiness Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji in Colombo. He thanked His Holiness and the Art of Living for helping Sri Lankan cricket team to come out of trauma after the Lahore attack. The team had undergone breathing sessions and meditation techniques of the Art of Living in Colombo immediately after the Lahore attack.
Sri Lankan players Kumar Sangakkara, Vice Captain Muttiah Muralitharan, Chaminda Vaas, Dilhara Fernando, Prassanna Jayawardene, Tilakaratne Dilshan, Malinga Bandara, Chamara Kapugedera and Thanga Paranavitana attended the program.
The sessions went well and the players enjoyed the program. They shared the experience of relaxing, eye opening and calming the mind; Sadyojathah said Six Sri Lankan cricketers were injured when terrorists attacked a bus carrying the team in the Pakistani city of Lahore March 3. Six Pakistani Policemen were killed in the audacious terror strike along with two others.
Sangakkara, the team captain said that he felt relaxed and calm after just two sessions of the Sudarshan Kriya breathing. ‘It was a really pleasant experience’, the sports ministry quoted him as saying. Muralitharan, who was vocally critical of Pakistani security failings in Lahore, said he felt ‘a new calmness’ after learning the breathing technique, which H. H. Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living has taught to millions around the world.
Jayawardene, the former captain, described the breathing lessons ‘healthy and helpful’. Sadyojathah added that the foundation is now trying to organize trauma-relief camps for the wardis-placed people in the Vavuniya and Tricomalee districts of Sri Lanka. ‘Our aim is to conduct trauma and counselling programme for the thousands of displaced people living in relief camps. We are waiting for the formalities and security clearance to visit the camps’, Sadyojathah said.
