3 Dec 2011 - QA 16

Guruji, spiritual leaders are there to keep society on the moral track. But recently there has been a trend where spiritual leader are becoming part of the public affairs. So Instead of having devotion, people are starting to doubt them. What is your suggestion to this?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: This is a wrong idea that spiritual leaders should not involve in the public affairs.
‘If there is a wrong law that is being made, spiritual leaders should just sit in their ashrams and not say their opinion.’ This is not correct.
Every spiritual leader, every human being who has a good heart always says what is right and what is wrong. From time immemorial in this country spiritual leaders have always been advising the kings. They used to tell them what kind of law is good and what law is not good.
If people make obsolete or absurd laws any intelligent person would say this is wrong. They have to do that, it is necessary.