Over 12 million people from 150 countries join world’s largest collective meditation in New York

23 December,2025 09:32 AM IST |  New York  |  Agencies

From Indian cities and villages to communities in Africa, Europe, Asia, the Americas and Australia, participants included students, professionals, farmers, and prison inmates, with organisers highlighting the scale of shared silence and collective stillness

World Meditation Day was adopted by the UN in 2024. Pic/ANI


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More than 12.1 million people from 150 countries participated in what was billed as the largest collective meditation in history, led in New York by India's spiritual leader Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, on World Meditation Day (December 21).

From Indian cities and villages to communities in Africa, Europe, Asia, the Americas and Australia, participants included students, professionals, farmers, and prison inmates, with organisers highlighting the scale of shared silence and collective stillness.

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