• The gift Of Silence: Even though Param Poojya Gurudev was travelling teaching meditation and delivering talks and lectures to many HE felt that something more was required to truly make a difference in people s lives. In early 1982 When HE went into ten days of silence at the small temple in Shimoga Poojya Gurudev emerged from this with the Sudarshan Kriya which Poojya Gurudev began to teach in a programme that came to be known as The Art Of Living. HE was twenty-six years then and this was HIS gift to humanity