Gunman opens fire at Art of Living founder Ravi Shankar’s car

Bangalore: Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravishankar had a close shave on Sunday evening after an unidentified gunman opened fire at him at around 6 pm near his ashram at Kanakapura Road on the outskirts of the city.

However, a disciple of the spiritual guru was injured in the leg. He sustained minor injuries and has now been discharged from hospital.

Speaking to CNN-IBN later Sri Sri Ravi Shankar reassured his devotees that he is fine.

"I am fine ek dum thik hu main, koi chinta ki bat nai hai (I am perfectly fine). I want the people not to worry. Everything is as usual, normal sab chal raha hai (every thing is going smoothly). There are many people who come here who have been in the path of violence and they have abjured violence, thousands have given up violent lives, so this must have bothered some other people. We continued with our programme as usual. The police are there and they are taking the details and they are investigating. I am not at all worried. In fact, I am happy that nothing much happened, it could have been worse. The gunman could have fired many bullets instead of just one and hurt many more people but that didn't happen and the shot was just in my direction. He shot and ran away. As usual, we'll continue. So I appeal to all the people not to worry. Such one or two freak elements are there and we have to raise the voice of nonviolence. So much violence is happening all over the country and all over the world. In fact, we have to be loud and clear about the violence and we have to be clear about the nonviolence and we have to go towards the more spiritual and peaceful society. You know many people have given up violence.

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