Rediscovering Life: The Highs of Meditation and Sevice

Ravindar Singh’s life revolved around alcohol and tobacco for ten years. Since he was 28 years, his addiction dictated over his life, and took a toll over his mind and body, straining completely his relationship with his family and friends. It wasn’t until his wife persuaded him to do the Art of Living’s Youth Leadership Training Program (YLTP) that his life began changing course.

‘I agreed to do the program only because I was promised I would find a job after completing it. I came drunk to the program on the first day,’ he says. But in the course, when they told him to give his 100%, he followed that and today he has found life through the YLTP program.

‘Life is a delight now!’ he beams. He continues to work with a lawyer as a clerk at the District Court in Chamba, but works 100% now, he says. Not only has his relationship improved with his wife and children, he now mobilizes the community he lives in to get together and find ways to contribute to society. They take up cleaning projects in the area. Every chance he gets, he talks to the youth, he emphasizes, from a place of firm conviction that there is a better high in yoga and meditation and serving society than in alcohol and drugs.