On September 21st, 2013, Maulana Kalbe Sadiq was honored by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar at the Art of Living International Center in Bangalore, India. He addressed the evening gathering and strongly denounced violence saying, “Anyone who kills the innocent cannot be a Muslim.” He also shared that when he accidentally found that many verses in the Gita and the Quran have the same message, it piqued his interest in Vedic scriptures which he later studied in depth.