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How to become capable of unleashing possibilities in the communities one serves, free of intellectual pride or arrogance?
How to integrate purpose and context meaningfully?
A Sutra on what makes us ordinary, and how we can choose to become extraordinary…
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 work lies in organizing one’s intentionality around purpose…
Reason, as we know it, is built on the individual self-interest.
Enlightened reason looks at good of all stakeholders. This is therefore about ‘widening’ one’s frame…
Where does ‘reason’ (as opposed to faith) sit? In the realm of matter? In the realm of society? On in some other space.
The answer to this question comes when we recognize that the fundamental axiom on which religion itself is based is neither knowledge nor experience at either the physical plane or the social plane. Religion is based on realization at the plane of the human being…
“What I can reason out” is more true than what I have faith in – Mapping the reasoning mind.
Cognitive Intelligence, when applied to a problem, re-frames the situation such that the problem ceases to exist…
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…
The minute I “know”, and I have not “realized”, discontent is born. So, I become the engine of my own transformation. “Inside-out” I evolve…
Is it necessary that change be born of negation?
Convert your years of struggle into years of joy and fulfillment…
The challenge of life is to observe and do together…
This map lays out 4 levels of fulfillment: beginning from the level of “seeking harmony with that larger good while pursuing one’s personal welfare” to the level of “living in the ideal and enabling others to live in the ideal” …
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 is nothing but man’s desire to evolve. This desire to evolve is the finest manifestation of consciousness-in-action…
The Practice of understanding “what is essential” is the core of meditation-in-action…
Man moves from personal ego to enlightened self-interest when he is able to complete the “cycle of universalization” of the individual ego. This cycle comprises of 4 stages…
The I cannot be transcended by the I. It can be transcended only when it ceases to be…
Ownness is to see the other person as myself. Not as complementary, not as my friend, but as me. That person’s success is my success, that person’s failure is my failure…
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)…
When you focus on the student, do not focus on the personality or on creating excitement; instead focus on fundamentally reducing the pain associated with learning, and enhance the value associated with the outcome of learning…
Evolving through ideas means recognizing, living with, sharing and personally practicing an idea – irrespective of the work context, and irrespective of the life context…
Words as truth is the representation of an ideal in order that ‘being and becoming’ are manifested in that word…
Most organizations have learnt to pay so much importance to processes, that when a new process comes, all accept it blindly and the new process becomes the next dogma. But, the end can be different…
How is order generated – By a consciousness, awareness, attention on that which is most valuable…
The search for truth is the struggle to unpack the next framework from the existing “tempfacts” (temporary facts) at our command…
Building Bridges: Education, Industry & Society – Exploring Swami Vivekananda’s vision of total human development
Swami Vivekananda had an extraordinary vision that put man’s development and the unfoldment of human possibilities at the center of all three – industry, education and society…