In this candid chat with Brut's Nihal Ranjit, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar spilled beans about his favourite things, how he uses social media and much more. #BrutSauce
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00:00What's up, guys? Today, we're here at the Art of Living Ashram.
00:09I'm very curious into what all you eat in a day.
00:13So, what does breakfast look like for you?
00:16I usually skip breakfast.
00:18If at all I take, I take a bowl of pomegranate.
00:22Okay, that's nice.
00:24Don't I look young?
00:25Yes, you do. And very fit.
00:26Is there a gym routine you'd like to share with us?
00:30What are we growing over here?
00:32We grow many things.
00:34I think this is sort of cucumber here.
00:38Do you like cucumber?
00:40Yeah, sure.
00:41Yeah, definitely.
00:42Ah, look at that.
00:44A little snack for our interview, is it?
00:49Oh wow, thank you, thank you.
00:52I am very curious.
00:53Do you have a phone?
00:55Do you use a phone?
00:56Oh yeah, sure.
00:58With internet?
01:00So, it's a smartphone?
01:01Yeah, I'm smart enough to be with the time, you see.
01:05Of course, of course.
01:06No one's denying that.
01:08I'm on internet.
01:10I'm on Instagram.
01:12I'm on Twitter.
01:14I tweet myself.
01:15Okay, so on Instagram, how are you spending your time?
01:18Do you watch any reels?
01:20Now and then, I don't get much time to do so.
01:22But I do post all the interesting things.
01:26When I find some beautiful, you know, scenery, flowers, birds.
01:32There's another wood apple.
01:35Wood apple?
01:35I've never heard of that.
01:36You've never heard of it?
01:37This is...
01:38It's a fruit?
01:39Yeah, it's a fruit.
01:40A little tamita fruit.
01:42Okay.
01:43It's very tasty and very good.
01:44It's good for your skin.
01:46It's good for your tummy.
01:47There is a way to test whether this is ripe or not.
01:50Oh, okay.
01:50You know what you do?
01:51You just drop it.
01:53And if it stays, that means it's ripe.
01:56Okay, this rolled away, so it's not ripe.
01:58No, it didn't bounce.
02:01Okay, got it, got it.
02:02If it bounces, that means it's not yet ripe.
02:05And they have got some interesting smell.
02:11Elephants do like this a lot.
02:14I see, okay.
02:16If you had to pick your favorite fruit, what would it be?
02:20I never say what is my favorite thing.
02:22You know why?
02:23If I say that I'm doing justice to all of the fruits, number one.
02:27Second is people will just flood me with only that fruit.
02:32In that sense, I will lose the favoriteness of that.
02:35That's true.
02:35So I just enjoy everything that comes to me at that moment.
02:40But you've already said pomegranate now.
02:42So I think you're going to receive a lot of pomegranate.
02:45That is...
02:45It's not that I enjoy...
02:48I mean, that's the only fruit I like.
02:50Of course, yeah.
02:51But I just take it sometimes.
02:53It's your favorite genre.
02:55I know you won't say your favorites, but we can discuss music.
02:58What do you like?
03:00Music should not be discussed.
03:02We should just enjoy it.
03:04When I was Zen Z like you those days, you know,
03:08when the moment Hindustani music comes, we had only radio.
03:14Because from the South, we would enjoy all South Indian music, Carnatic music.
03:18But the moment Hindustani music comes, we would just put it off.
03:24Are you familiar with Taylor Swift's new album?
03:34Put a little honey or sugar or something.
03:37Jaggery.
03:38I'll taste yummy.
03:41There are seeds.
03:41You have to eat the seeds also.
03:43Okay, thank you so much.
03:44Wow.
03:46Two things.
03:47Keep my produce over here.
03:50All right, guys.
03:51Rapid fire with Sri Gurudev.
03:54First question.
03:56If you were stranded on a deserted island and you can only bring three items with you,
04:01what would it be?
04:03Myself.
04:05Myself and myself.
04:07There it is.
04:07There it is.
04:08Okay.
04:09What's your favorite color?
04:10As I said, all colors are beautiful.
04:13Safe answer.
04:14Multicolor.
04:15Tea or coffee?
04:18I prefer tea.
04:19Okay.
04:19Because it's part of the alphabet.
04:23How many musical instruments can you play?
04:28I can put my fingers on anything and it starts playing.
04:32Okay, how many musical instruments are you good at?
04:35Well, anything I take at that moment, I'm good at it.
04:38You visited so many countries.
04:41Which country did you have a lot of fun at?
04:44You know, I bring fun wherever I go.
04:48I knew you were going to say that.
04:49I create fun.
04:51So, there's no preference?
04:52Like, oh, I really enjoyed that time.
04:54No, no, no.
04:55I create my atmosphere.
04:56I create fun around me.
04:58So, wherever I go, there is always fun.
05:02It's beautiful.
05:04What's the longest time you have meditated?
05:07When you meditate, you go beyond time.
05:10So, there is no longer short time.
05:12Meditation itself means transcending time.
05:16So, it can't be measured in time.
05:17Okay.
05:18Got it?
05:18For us, traditional meditation is like sitting like this.
05:22For you, you can sit for 15-20 minutes.
05:25Anybody can sit for 20 minutes.
05:2620 minutes.
05:27And really enjoy.
05:29Okay, guys, that was the end of the rapid fire.
05:33So, I do have some fun questions planned.
05:35Yeah.
05:35I'm on the internet a lot.
05:36I make a lot of videos for the internet.
05:38But more and more recently, I have found myself very desensitized.
05:43If you had to advise me on what should be my very next step, what would that be?
05:50Listen, what the sweet you like the most?
05:53I like candy, sour candy.
05:56Sour candy.
05:57Suppose you are asked to eat a dozen sour candy.
06:02Easy.
06:03And then, if it was two dozen sour candy,
06:06and then if it was two dozen sour candy.
06:09Love it.
06:09Breakfast, lunch taken care of.
06:12If you are given more than that, about 50 candies,
06:15at some point, you'll say, oh, no, stop it.
06:18I don't want to see the candy anymore.
06:22Like that?
06:23Yeah.
06:23Right?
06:24So, anything that we overdo will saturate us from that.
06:30And we lose taste in it, interest in it, and joy from it.
06:35Let's say I were to take a break and reduce my time on the internet.
06:40There'll be that other kid.
06:41Next time, you will do it much better.
06:44You can't push creativity to just come out of you.
06:48It doesn't work.
06:50My mother is a big, she's a big endorser of yoga.
06:54She's told me to do it almost every day for the last 20 years.
06:58She's told me.
06:59And I've never actually done it.
07:03And I think a lot of kids my age, we can see the value in it.
07:06Like, yeah, I know it works.
07:07But there's a level of, I don't want to get up.
07:10I don't want to do it.
07:11It's like seven minutes of it.
07:13So, if there was a starter thing, like what's one thing to do to join that path?
07:18What would it be?
07:20Like a morning practice, perhaps?
07:21There are many things you don't want to do.
07:23Still, you do it.
07:25As a kid, you were not so charged up to brush your teeth, right?
07:31But you had to do it.
07:33So, similarly, you need to do some exercise.
07:36If you want to really excel in your career, in your personality,
07:44you want to be a charming personality, then I think a little bit of yoga would be good.
07:52So, you agree with my mom.
07:53That's my takeaway from this.
07:56If you could say one thing to all 8 billion people on the planet at once,
08:02what would it be?
08:03We are all part of one family.
08:07Smile more and serve more.
08:12It's beautiful.
08:13I had an absolute lovely time chatting with you.
08:17Thank you so much for these fruits.
08:20I'm going to be cutting it up and my dinner is sorted.
08:23Yeah.
08:23Okay, all the best.
08:25Yeah, thank you.
08:26You know, before we leave, so in all of the shows that we do,
08:30we have this segment where we quiz our guests on Gen Z lingo.
08:34I was told you know what FOMO means.
08:37Is that true?
08:38FOMO.
08:39F-O-M-O.
08:40I know FOMO, but I want to tell you one more.
08:43ROMO.
08:44You know what ROMO means?
08:47Regret of missing out.
08:48Okay.