A professor lost his temper in a faculty meeting. A student lost her nerve before a placement interview.
Not unheard of. Two sessions this week at IBS Pune (ICFAI Business School). One for faculty. One for second-year MBA students. Different rooms. Same pattern.
Blow it up. Rehearse the disaster. Avoid what matters. Blame everyone but ourselves.
I recognised it because I've done all four — usually in the same week.
Arjuna named this on a battlefield, long before psychology had a word for it. He tells Krishna the mind is harder to control than the wind.
Krishna doesn't disagree. He just says it's possible. Not by force. By practice. And by loosening the grip on the result.
Thirty years of expertise didn't exempt the professor. Zero years didn't exempt the student. 20 years of trying to teach this didn't exempt me either.
Nobody teaches this by default. That's the part you find out only when you're standing in a faculty meeting, or outside an interview room, watching your own mind do exactly what it always does.
एक रोचक और विचारोत्तेजक बातचीत Speaking Tree पर Madan Sundar Prabhu जी के साथ।
हमने चर्चा की कुछ ऐसे प्रश्नों पर जो शायद आपके मन में भी कभी न कभी आए हों—
🔹 क्या हमारी किस्मत पहले से लिखी हुई है? 🔹 क्या कर्म वास्तव में भाग्य बदल सकता है? 🔹 क्या Manifestation सच में काम करता है? 🔹 Astrology की भूमिका क्या है? 🔹 क्या भक्ति जीवन की दिशा और दशा दोनों बदल सकती है? 🔹 सुख, सफलता और आध्यात्मिकता के बीच सही संतुलन क्या है?
यदि आप इन विषयों पर एक संतुलित, तर्कसंगत और आध्यात्मिक दृष्टिकोण सुनना चाहते हैं, तो यह Podcast अवश्य देखें।
A Rooftop. Four Conversations. One Beginning. Nobody teaches us how to deal with criticism. Or comparison. Or disappointment. Yet these are the experiences that shape our lives far more than any textbook ever will. Perhaps that is why, over four Sunday evenings, more than 200 people joined us in Pune, with many more participating online—not for another seminar, but for conversations about life itself. Together, we explored L.E.A.D. L — Living with Clarity Navigating life's challenges with wisdom instead of worry. E — Emotional Mastery Learning to understand our emotions before they begin controlling us. A — Acting with Wisdom Choosing thoughtful responses instead of impulsive reactions. D — Discovering Dharma Finding purpose before chasing success. What stayed with me wasn't the attendance. It was the conversations after every session. People weren't looking for more information. They were looking for language to understand what they had been feeling for years. Perhaps that is one of the greatest needs of our time. Not just career skills. Life skills. This four-week journey was only the beginning. We're now building a comprehensive online Life Skills Course so these conversations can reach many more people. Until then, here are a few moments from a journey that reminded us of one simple truth: The most important subject we will ever study... is ourselves. ... See MoreSee Less
He didn't wait for us to come home. He came looking.
What forgotten relationship is waiting for you to go looking?
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अगर जगन्नाथ जी पुरी से बाहर न आते?
कुछ चमत्कार इतिहास की किताबों में नहीं होते।
वो सड़कों पर होते हैं। ... See MoreSee Less
A professor lost his temper in a faculty meeting.
A student lost her nerve before a placement interview.
Not unheard of.
Two sessions this week at IBS Pune (ICFAI Business School).
One for faculty. One for second-year MBA students.
Different rooms. Same pattern.
Blow it up.
Rehearse the disaster.
Avoid what matters.
Blame everyone but ourselves.
I recognised it because I've done all four — usually in the same week.
Arjuna named this on a battlefield, long before psychology had a word for it. He tells Krishna the mind is harder to control than the wind.
Krishna doesn't disagree.
He just says it's possible. Not by force. By practice. And by loosening the grip on the result.
Thirty years of expertise didn't exempt the professor.
Zero years didn't exempt the student.
20 years of trying to teach this didn't exempt me either.
Nobody teaches this by default.
That's the part you find out only when you're standing in a faculty meeting, or outside an interview room, watching your own mind do exactly what it always does.
#consciousliving #BhagavadGitaWisdom #evolve ... See MoreSee Less
He thought he was expressing love.
She heard something completely different.
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#marriage
#relationships
#love
#appreciation
#family ... See MoreSee Less
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#books #Motivation ... See MoreSee Less
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एक रोचक और विचारोत्तेजक बातचीत
Speaking Tree पर Madan Sundar Prabhu जी के साथ।
हमने चर्चा की कुछ ऐसे प्रश्नों पर जो शायद आपके मन में भी कभी न कभी आए हों—
🔹 क्या हमारी किस्मत पहले से लिखी हुई है?
🔹 क्या कर्म वास्तव में भाग्य बदल सकता है?
🔹 क्या Manifestation सच में काम करता है?
🔹 Astrology की भूमिका क्या है?
🔹 क्या भक्ति जीवन की दिशा और दशा दोनों बदल सकती है?
🔹 सुख, सफलता और आध्यात्मिकता के बीच सही संतुलन क्या है?
यदि आप इन विषयों पर एक संतुलित, तर्कसंगत और आध्यात्मिक दृष्टिकोण सुनना चाहते हैं, तो यह Podcast अवश्य देखें।
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A Rooftop. Four Conversations. One Beginning.
Nobody teaches us how to deal with criticism.
Or comparison.
Or disappointment.
Yet these are the experiences that shape our lives far more than any textbook ever will.
Perhaps that is why, over four Sunday evenings, more than 200 people joined us in Pune, with many more participating online—not for another seminar, but for conversations about life itself.
Together, we explored L.E.A.D.
L — Living with Clarity
Navigating life's challenges with wisdom instead of worry.
E — Emotional Mastery
Learning to understand our emotions before they begin controlling us.
A — Acting with Wisdom
Choosing thoughtful responses instead of impulsive reactions.
D — Discovering Dharma
Finding purpose before chasing success.
What stayed with me wasn't the attendance.
It was the conversations after every session.
People weren't looking for more information.
They were looking for language to understand what they had been feeling for years.
Perhaps that is one of the greatest needs of our time.
Not just career skills.
Life skills.
This four-week journey was only the beginning.
We're now building a comprehensive online Life Skills Course so these conversations can reach many more people.
Until then, here are a few moments from a journey that reminded us of one simple truth:
The most important subject we will ever study... is ourselves. ... See MoreSee Less
I received an email yesterday.
Beautifully written.
Clear structure.
Every point landed exactly where it should.
For a moment, I admired the writing.
Then I reached the last line.
"If you'd like, I can also make this more corporate, more inspirational."
It was still there.
Never deleted.
The email wasn't written by someone who had thought deeply.
It was written by someone who had prompted well.
I sat with that longer than I expected.
Not annoyed.
Something quieter than that.
In Vedic thought, our faculties are divided into two kinds.
Karmendriya — the faculties we use to act, execute and build.
Jñānendriya — the faculties we use to think, discern and decide.
AI in the Karmendriya is a gift.
It should sharpen our work.
Not replace our judgment.
But somewhere in that email, the Jñānendriya had quietly stepped out of the room.
The thinking wasn't outsourced on purpose.
It just...
drifted there.
One prompt at a time.
Comfortably.
Without anyone noticing the moment it happened.
Then I remembered something uncomfortable.
A few days earlier, I had caught myself asking AI to form an opinion I should have formed myself.
I deleted the message before sending it.
Not because the opinion was wrong.
Because it wasn't mine.
AI doesn't need to convince us to stop thinking.
We surrender that responsibility one convenience at a time. ... See MoreSee Less