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Think Tools for the Evolutionary Adventurer - by Srinivas V.

Category: Sutras

Sutras are pithy clusters of seed-thoughts. A seed-thought is the basis on which the new “world” born of that thought will come into being and grow. A seed can be said to be an infinite manifestable form, free of context, axiomatic at one level, infinitely adaptable at another.

The heroism of the spirit – the engine of evolution for an ideals-driven hero

True heroism is not about winning over nature, winning over other human beings, or even winning against one’s limitations. True heroism is about jumping from one level of…

The bridge to a new eternity – ‘Seeing’ as an evolutionary practice

How can the contours of a new world emerge?

Future-creating Leaders

Ardhanarishvara

How to become a Future-creating Leader?

This state is not to be learnt or understood, but is to be actualized – everyday. Through the warp and weft of one’s aspiration and action.

Evolution through Work – The paradox of “identity with work”

Identity with the work makes you strive for excellence. Yet to grow and evolve, one has to transmute that very identity. That is the paradox of “identity with work”…

Visioning as a tool for reconstructing identity

This piece is a Sutra on the purpose of vision. It describes the levels at which the “state” revealed in a vision manifests itself.

How does an idea become a force? – The value of role models in evolution

Ideas become Forces when they are embodied in individuals…

Role-model Leaders (Raja Rishis) The choice to live by an ideal

…to live a great life, you live for an ideal. Live the life, and both principle and precept follow.

Manifesting our unique Human Possibilities – Through our sameness – not differentness

A Sutra on what makes us ordinary, and how we can choose to become extraordinary…

How do we effectively fuse our will and cognition towards a single goal? – A perspective based on Indian Vedantic Thought

Cognition is a wide word that means many things. In traditional Indian thought-cognition is of three kinds – one associated with reason / mentation / etc. (Manas); two, associated with insight / perception (Buddhi); and three, associated with change in consciousness (Chitta)…

The Heroic Attitude

The path of the hero is not gaining in knowledge. It is not meditation. It is not the desire to excel. It is something deeper than that. It is the way of expansion…

We don’t change because we don’t want to change – Introducing the notion of Ego of Evolution

Is it necessary that change be born of negation?

Don’t change the system, change the mind

Convert your years of struggle into years of joy and fulfillment…

How are meaning and purpose to be aligned?

Meaning and purpose are integrated if and only if there is a singular understanding in both the higher discriminative intellect (the medium of purpose) and the psycho-emotional mental system (the locus of meaning)…

Psychological Time

Psychological time is nothing but man’s desire to evolve. This desire to evolve is the finest manifestation of consciousness-in-action…

Meaning – the elixir of life

The I cannot be transcended by the I. It can be transcended only when it ceases to be…

The Learning Mind

A learning mind is an Intelligent Mind.

It is your own responsibility to act out of the Intelligent Mind.

The Intelligent Mind is accessible to all of us. Only two qualities are required for it: the quality of Receptivity and the quality of the Receptacle. (to receive and hold, to encounter Grace and to be Grace worthy, to surrender and to serve)…

Words as Truth

Words as truth is the representation of an ideal in order that ‘being and becoming’ are manifested in that word…

How is one’s life to be organized? – The practice of generating order

How is order generated – By a consciousness, awareness, attention on that which is most valuable…

The heart-mind

A heart-mind acts swiftly. Without fear. Intelligently. Without seeking…

The destiny of the ‘medium’ is to become the ‘means’ – a new paradigm in communication

The power of a ‘means’ is the message it communicates…

The craft of human possibility

Is man’s physical frame itself a boundary? History has shown not…

The song of i-become

“Behold, The Alone Way
The Choice of Progress Alone
Welcome to Evolution Now
Man Incarnate as God Becoming…”

Designing a Strategy for Human Fulfillment – Leveraging the interaction between will, emotion and reason

Emotion is the engine of human transformation.

Will is the ‘axle’ of the human car, on which depends the safety and well being of the occupants.

Cognition is the chief strategist, the perceiver of opportunity within experience.

When Cognition is fused with Will, the effect is a quantum event…

How to know an Ideal?– The Notion of “Form & Function”

Form and Function are to be understood as a whole …