Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravishankar has hit back at his detractors at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru, calling them “prejudiced”. Referring to a section of students who had petitioned the IISc director to intervene and denounce the event as they felt endorsing Sri Sri’s “unscientific” methods would hurt the reputation of the premier institute, he said that ‘prejudice’ was detrimental to science.
He was addressing a talk titled ‘Excellence Through Inner Peace’ on Thursday afternoon, 10 October, at the JN Tata Auditorium on the IISc campus.
According to Edex Live, to a room full of applause, he said, "I heard some people opposed my talk at IISc today. People who opposed me don't know me. Even to oppose something or someone, one needs to study and know it in detail. You study something properly and then you discard it."