Sri Sri was misquoted: The Art of Living Foundation says on Nobel Peace Prize statement
The Art of Living Foundation said the spiritual guru never said he was offered Nobel Prize.
"Gurudev @SriSri Ravi Shankar ji has never said that he was offered Nobel Prize. Hoping media will correct the reporting error," the Foundation tweeted.
The foundation released a statement where it said that Sri Sri was responding to a question asked by a journalist that if the foundation’s work was aimed at a Nobel peace prize.
"Not at all. What will I do with a prize? We have been doing social work for years now and it has not been for prizes. When good work is done, people think it is for a prize. There is no logic in this. When a 16-year-old girl, without any body of work, gets the prize, you get a sense that you dont need to do much to get the Peace Prize. There are political factors at play," Sri Sri had said.
He had added that once someone had told him you have to lobby for the prize. Sri Sri refused, saying, "I will not do so."
In the statement, the Foundation further said: "The Art of Living firmly refutes the statement made in several articles that quote Sri Sri Ravi Shankar as saying that he had been offered the Nobel Prize in the past and had rejected it."
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