Yoga's greatest guru deserves Peace Nobel

January 05, 2014 00:42

Curiously, although India is often associated with ideas of peace and tolerance, no Indian has ever been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (Mahatma Gandhi remains the most prominent of those denied it.) Is there an Indian today who deserves it? There certainly is, and its curious that his claim on it has apparently never been taken with the seriousness it merits, when one might say he hasn't just advanced the cause of peace in the world, but considerably enlarged its meaning.

As the Dalai Lama, the winner of the Peace Prize in 1989, has said, World peace must develop from inner peace. And theres perhaps no man alive who has taught humanity as much about inner peace and its many dimensions -- peace as a physical science, peace as a state of self-awareness and power -- as the great Indian yoga master B K S Iyengar.

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