Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji: 

My dear, I have given you one of the most beautiful techniques, the Sudarshan Kriya. When you do it, you already get the same experience that Vivekananda got. This is exactly what that is! Vivekananda experienced some current and some nothingness, nothing more than that.

Hasn’t Sudarshan Kriya changed your whole outlook? There are two lives, one before Sudarshan Kriya and one after it. How many of you vouch for it? (Everyone in the audience raise their hands) See, everyone is raising their hands! You cannot even relate to that person before you did your Sudarshan Kriya. You cannot even say that it is the same person. That is why you feel like you have been born again.

When you are initiated into meditation, you have a new life. Some places they even give you a new name because you are not the same person anymore, you are totally transformed; you are different. Your vision has become broader, your approach has become much more intelligent, your perception much sharper and your heart much softer and stronger. I don’t have to keep my leg or hand or head on you. You have been given the tools by which you can uplift yourself. And not just one, you also have Shakti Kriya and Sahaj Samadhi meditation. All this has come from time to time.

The mind runs for new things all the time, and the heart longs for the old, it takes pride in the old. And so here you have both the old and the new. I have spoken about all the ancient scriptures, knowledge and new techniques.