New age guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Saturday said the arrest of Kanchi Shankaracharya had "shaken [the] Hindu psyche" and appealed to the people to not turn it into a communal issue.
"His holiness has appealed to the people to keep calm and not to make the present crisis that Hinduism is going through into a communal issue," the guru's Art of Living Foundation said in a statement from Rishikesh in Uttaranchal.
