Swami Tejomayanada- Head Chinmaya Mission-Worldwide
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
Introduce to you the School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL)
We humbly introduce to you the School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL). Inspired by the teachings of Pujya Gurudev, based on Chinmaya values, SOIL is a business school based in Gurgaon, INDIA, that provides a transformational learning experience that has been designed to harness the true potential of young minds in management education. SOIL has been founded by Anil Sachdev, a devotee of Pujya Gurudev and an active member of Chinmaya Mission who has spent his life in spreading HIS message. SOIL’s philosophy is based on the five pillars of mindfulness, compassion, ethics, sustainability and diversity.
The foundation of SOIL was laid down by Pujya Guruji, Swami Tejomayanadaji on 5th November, 2008. By Lords grace and blessings of well wishers, SOIL is now entering into 3rd year of its operation. The highlights of education at SOIL include
a. Social Innovation Programme: 1 day every week all students spend time at NGO’s of their choice working for a purpose close to their heart
b. Mentoring: Every student has a senior industry leader as mentor who guides him/her through the learning journey
c. Industry Interface: Heightened interactions with industry practitioners through multiple platforms such as academies, leadership series, internships.
d. International Faculty & unique curriculum: Leading faculty from across the globe teach courses of relevance for planet and leadership development. http://www.soilindia.net/soil-faculty.html
SOIL currently offers 3 full time one year post graduate programs.
HR Leadership (Post Graduate Program) – This one year full time program enables you to deal with contemporary human capital challenges and issues that shape modern organizations. Both fresh graduates and working professionals can apply for this program. To see the course outline of the HRLP please see http://www.soilindia.net/hr-leadership-program.html
Marketing Leadership (Post Graduate Program) – This one year full time program gives you the perspectives, insights and tools to become successful marketing professionals and create value for your organizations. Both fresh graduates and working professionals can apply for this program. To see the course outline of the MLP please see http://www.soilindia.net/marketing-leadership-program.html
Business Leadership (Post Graduate Program) – This one year full time program gives executives the perspectives and insights to take on the complex challenges of an interconnected business environment. Professionals with a minimum of 3 years working experience can apply for this program. To see the course outline of the BLP please see http://www.soilindia.net/business-leadership-program.html
A select Industry Consortium of corporate firms who share SOIL's vision and ethos is invited to partner with SOIL to enhance mutual learning and standards in higher education. Some of these companies are Hindustan Unilever, Infosys, Glaxo SmithKline, Johnson & Johnson etc. This network of reputed companies help impart overall direction to curriculum design, participate in the admission process, review the quality of teaching, learning & industry research and lead the placement process. To read more on the Industry consortium please visit http://www.soilindia.net/industry-consortium.html
SOIL invites bright young minds from Chinmaya family to come and avail this opportunity of transformational learning. May we request you to kindly connect us with members of Chinmaya family who would be looking at higher education in management. We are actively seeking to identify meritorious and gifted individuals who would be interested in our course. SOIL would be keen to offer scholarships to deserving candidates. We would be delighted to fund part or full cost of attending any of the SOIL programs for meritorious students who would not be able to finance the cost of attending our programs yet truly deserve to be a part of the SOIL student community. Kindly write back to inspired@soilindia.net with the name, email and phone number of the nominee and we will get in touch with them.
Admissions for the 2011-2012 batch are now open. Please visit http://www.soilindia.net/application-process.html to find more details on the admissions process.
If you have any queries, you can get back to us over email or call at the numbers 91 – 0124 - 4302222 / 91- 98713 39158
Thanking you.
Yours in the Service of the LORD
Adwaita Govind Menon
CHYK & Member of SOIL Family
Friday, January 14, 2011
Spirituality in the mundane
What is spirituality? People visualise spirituality with the image of a person renouncing home and family, besmearing himself with ashes and chanting incantations or meditating in the Himalayas. At the outset I would like to dispel the notion of spirituality as any special or particular action. Spirituality is performing every action in a special way. Spirituality lies not in doing something special but in doing everything with a vision. Spirituality is a vision or an understanding of life and is indeed a great adventure.
There is an inherent difference between the vision of a spiritual person and a materialist person. The thinking of worldly people is always fragmented, not holistic but incomplete. Faced with problems, they focus on particular aspects arriving at solutions without taking the totality of a situation/issue into account; hence their solution is also partial and works only for a short time.
Most people would agree with a worldly man’s thinking that “might is right”. A spiritual person would say the very opposite — for him it would be, “right is might”. With which one do you agree? Commonly, he who has the might — physical, financial or political — wields power and therefore his word is final. Most people would go with the tide, but there are a few brave ones who have the courage to stand by their convictions.
There is another point to be considered here. Nowadays we only hear of people fighting for their rights. Spirituality gives you a different perspective — in spiritual life we only have duties and one who remains steadfast in the performance of duties, automatically gains rights and the authority that comes as a result. He does not have to fight for his rights. Those who constantly fight and struggle only end up creating more friction.
All over the world, many are failing in their duties. They are busy fighting for their rights. They follow the policy of — I fight for my right and you fight for yours. Now, if people were to respect the rights of others and concentrate on the performance of their own duties, they would grow in stature, spiritually and otherwise.
So more than our rights let us remember our duties and see what changes this brings about.
Whenever people speak of spiritual life they entertain ideas of renunciation, dispassion (vairagya), sacrifice and sanyasa. People do not like the word “renunciation”. But is there anything we can achieve in this world without renunciation? We may not like the word but no growth or accomplishment is possible without renunciation or sacrifice. If you hold onto your childhood, will you become a youth? To gain maturity you have to renounce your childishness.
Life offers no choices on whether or not to renounce. The only decision is, what to renounce! If a seeker of knowledge, education and learning is also constantly wanting pleasure and comfort, he or she cannot be successful. Let us consider the vast difference between compromise and sacrifice. To give up higher values and ideals for lower gains is a compromise and to renounce lower gains for higher goals is a sacrifice. These parameters of respect hold true in all societies of the world. Everywhere, it is only men and women of sacrifice and never those of compromise who become ideals.
Please, never think that spirituality is running away from life or that it is very difficult. Spirituality is a complete vision of life. It is not a particular activity done specially, but every action done in a special way. We must act with the understanding of the totality of life, keeping in mind the long-term consequences of our actions. The actions will then be more responsible and not ad-hoc or impulsive. In this spiritual adventure, true importance lies in gaining a total vision of life and undertaking every action keeping that in mind. Swami Vivekananda said that just by doing one great action, a man does not become great. A great man is one who is great in every little action.
— Swami Tejomayananda, head of Chinmaya Mission Worldwide, is an orator, poet, singer, composer and storyteller. To find out more about Chinmaya Mission and Swamiji, visit http://www.chinmayamission.com/.
© Central Chinmaya Mission Trust.at drvenganoor@yahoo.co.in
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Saturday, November 6, 2010
Get, set, go!
Get, set, go!
by Swami Abhedananda
Chinmaya Mission-Australia
Most of the time we spend on our lives thinking of what to do! We are not able to be our own inspirational center. Something else, something other than me is required to prompt me, to flog me, to exhort me. The more external factors required to bring out the contributory aspect in one’s personality for society, the more weak a person would be in time.
Geeta says, “Uddharet atma natmanam...” meaning, “Lift yourself by yourself; you are your own enemy and your own best friend”. We have to be our own “Prerana Srot” – source of inspiration. Nobody from outside can inspire us for a very long time. One person went to Gurudev and said, “Swamiji, there are hardly any realized masters in the world now”. Gurudev said, “Yes, why don’t you become one?”
On Your Mark
A goal has to be all-pervasive. Academic goal should accompany emotional goal. Emotional goal consists of two points:
Secondly, we should develop those emotions that we should have, but are not having. I should have the emotions of being prompt, but I am not prompt, I need reminders. I should have the emotions of “quietness”, but I am not quiet. I should have the emotion of love for the Lord, but I don’t; I should have the emotion of happiness in seeing somebody else’s success, but I don’t have. That goal I should keep, that “this is my goal”.
Get Set
There should also be intellectual goal. Intellect means “cutter” and “penetrator”. Mind is the “identifier” and intellect discriminates. It will clear right and wrong, do’s and don’ts. The intellect should be used to see what negative tendencies are, which then should be cut again and again.
We live a life of compromises. Where compromise is there, sacrifice is not. Compromise is winning of the mind over the intellect. Sacrifice is winning of the intellect over the mind. Intellect should have a strong say over the mind. It should say, "shut up", and the mind should say “yes”. Such a strong intellect with strong determination, discrimination and dedication is required, so that the mind will fear it. The second intellectual goal is to read the scriptures, as depth should be there.
Go!
Third is the spiritual goal. We don’t have a spiritual goal at all. My faith should be so strong that even if the whole world falls on me, my faith should be there that Lord is still with me. Prahaladji had this faith. When Hiranyakashipu had him dropped from the mountain top, he was still with the conviction that Lord was embracing him from behind. Everything in this world is for providing security, whether it is hospitals, schools or insurance. We struggle to secure our future. But the more we try to secure the more insecure we become, because we cannot catch hold of anything. Faith is the answer; tremendous faith has to be there. One Mahatma told me about the faith that we have (he was saying about himself): “An evolved person does not have more than 30% faith that is required”. What to say of an ordinary person, his faith is in decimals! There is probably not even point one percent. Faith is the mother of quietness. Quietness is not possible without strong faith. What is faith? “Lord is with me; He is helping me. He will help me to attain what I want”. This faith has to be there. This is called spiritual goal.
Nurturing the emotional and intellectual goals is called “Getting set”. Spiritual goal is “Go”. Those who have not met their emotional and intellectual goals cannot have spiritual goal. The second part of spiritual goal is to have a life one day – I may not know when the day will come when I hope my whole time, my whole energy, my whole body and intellect, will be for God alone and I will realize that Truth behind this pulsating world of diversity. I will realize That.
We may have progressed with science and communication, but the globe has shrunk and so has the heart. We have become selfish an isolated selflessness is not there. Spiritual goal is required. Life has more to offer than what we are taking. Life is like a big Ganges, and we are just having a cup of water from it and saying this is what the Ganges is giving me. It is a mountain if sweetness, but we are only taking a bit of that. Instead, we are taking more bitterness from life. We are taking frustration, anxiety, bitterness and worry from life. Divinity is not there. Quietness is not there. Faith is not there. Depth is not there. Emotion is not there. Life has all his and more to offer and we have rejected all that. The problem is, we are not “Getting set” in something. Our goal is decided by the situation. Then how can we go? When the racing starts, we don’t know whether we are participating or not. On the starting line they announce, “On your mark, get, set, go!”. We are not ready and so we lose the opportunity. We are only in the setting mode. Some are there who start running even before the “Go”. These people are disqualified and have to go back. We have to run at the right time. We are not ready. We are not prepared. We are not enthusiastic. We are not inspired. We have a routine life and situations have all the sway. We cannot assert our Godliness.
Discover the Timeless
We don’t know that the human being is the only creation that can have a goal in life. He can change his nature. We have never explored the possibilities. We are whipped and tossed. Our goals are very small. Please note that the material goal can never inspire a person for a long time. The moment you attain it, you would find that the goal was too low. We all had the goal of passing Grade 5. We passed. After that? We all had the goal of graduation, marriage ... any goal you attain in the world, you will find that it was not that big a goal. We make our goals small after sometime.
Our goals have to be above the material. Material goal should be used for the emotional, intellectual and the spiritual goals. Emotional and intellectual goals should not be used for the material goal. Today we are using our intellect only for the material goal; emotions only for the material goal, and there is no spiritual goal at all. We are neither on the mark, nor is there any setting. How can we “Go” then? Those who are not on the right track will get whipped by the situations.
Assert your Godhood. Claim the best in life. Go ahead with a smile on your face. Face the world. Don’t think of success and failures. Success and failures have nothing to do for a confident person; he will use both as stepping stones and not as stumbling rocks. Use the success for higher success. When tired, smile. When exhausted, rest. When disgusted, surrender to God. When nothing strikes, strike your head at His feet. When nothing works, just look into the Eyes of the Lord, the spark of hope in His Eyes, remember the Teacher, remember Gurudev, go ahead.
Keep emotional goal much higher than the material goal. Keep the intellectual goal much higher than the material goal. Let the spiritual goal stand tall above all other goals. That should be the guiding factor of our lives. Life is waiting for the one who has given to life, taken for life. Let the time wait for us; let the people wait for anything. You go as a masterpiece; you go as a master in this flow of time and discover the Timeless. In this world discover That which is beyond the world. That is the purpose of living; that is the fulfilment of life. Go, but never come back. That is the final thing “Yad gatva na nivartante tad dhama paramam mama”. This “coming and going” should stop.
Most of the time we spend on our lives thinking of what to do! We are not able to be our own inspirational center. Something else, something other than me is required to prompt me, to flog me, to exhort me. The more external factors required to bring out the contributory aspect in one’s personality for society, the more weak a person would be in time.
Geeta says, “Uddharet atma natmanam...” meaning, “Lift yourself by yourself; you are your own enemy and your own best friend”. We have to be our own “Prerana Srot” – source of inspiration. Nobody from outside can inspire us for a very long time. One person went to Gurudev and said, “Swamiji, there are hardly any realized masters in the world now”. Gurudev said, “Yes, why don’t you become one?”
On Your Mark
A goal has to be all-pervasive. Academic goal should accompany emotional goal. Emotional goal consists of two points:
- Eradicating the lower emotions of expectation, demands and complaints;
- At the same time increasing the emotion of love for God and Teacher in time.
Secondly, we should develop those emotions that we should have, but are not having. I should have the emotions of being prompt, but I am not prompt, I need reminders. I should have the emotions of “quietness”, but I am not quiet. I should have the emotion of love for the Lord, but I don’t; I should have the emotion of happiness in seeing somebody else’s success, but I don’t have. That goal I should keep, that “this is my goal”.
Get Set
There should also be intellectual goal. Intellect means “cutter” and “penetrator”. Mind is the “identifier” and intellect discriminates. It will clear right and wrong, do’s and don’ts. The intellect should be used to see what negative tendencies are, which then should be cut again and again.
We live a life of compromises. Where compromise is there, sacrifice is not. Compromise is winning of the mind over the intellect. Sacrifice is winning of the intellect over the mind. Intellect should have a strong say over the mind. It should say, "shut up", and the mind should say “yes”. Such a strong intellect with strong determination, discrimination and dedication is required, so that the mind will fear it. The second intellectual goal is to read the scriptures, as depth should be there.
Go!
Third is the spiritual goal. We don’t have a spiritual goal at all. My faith should be so strong that even if the whole world falls on me, my faith should be there that Lord is still with me. Prahaladji had this faith. When Hiranyakashipu had him dropped from the mountain top, he was still with the conviction that Lord was embracing him from behind. Everything in this world is for providing security, whether it is hospitals, schools or insurance. We struggle to secure our future. But the more we try to secure the more insecure we become, because we cannot catch hold of anything. Faith is the answer; tremendous faith has to be there. One Mahatma told me about the faith that we have (he was saying about himself): “An evolved person does not have more than 30% faith that is required”. What to say of an ordinary person, his faith is in decimals! There is probably not even point one percent. Faith is the mother of quietness. Quietness is not possible without strong faith. What is faith? “Lord is with me; He is helping me. He will help me to attain what I want”. This faith has to be there. This is called spiritual goal.
Nurturing the emotional and intellectual goals is called “Getting set”. Spiritual goal is “Go”. Those who have not met their emotional and intellectual goals cannot have spiritual goal. The second part of spiritual goal is to have a life one day – I may not know when the day will come when I hope my whole time, my whole energy, my whole body and intellect, will be for God alone and I will realize that Truth behind this pulsating world of diversity. I will realize That.
We may have progressed with science and communication, but the globe has shrunk and so has the heart. We have become selfish an isolated selflessness is not there. Spiritual goal is required. Life has more to offer than what we are taking. Life is like a big Ganges, and we are just having a cup of water from it and saying this is what the Ganges is giving me. It is a mountain if sweetness, but we are only taking a bit of that. Instead, we are taking more bitterness from life. We are taking frustration, anxiety, bitterness and worry from life. Divinity is not there. Quietness is not there. Faith is not there. Depth is not there. Emotion is not there. Life has all his and more to offer and we have rejected all that. The problem is, we are not “Getting set” in something. Our goal is decided by the situation. Then how can we go? When the racing starts, we don’t know whether we are participating or not. On the starting line they announce, “On your mark, get, set, go!”. We are not ready and so we lose the opportunity. We are only in the setting mode. Some are there who start running even before the “Go”. These people are disqualified and have to go back. We have to run at the right time. We are not ready. We are not prepared. We are not enthusiastic. We are not inspired. We have a routine life and situations have all the sway. We cannot assert our Godliness.
Discover the Timeless
We don’t know that the human being is the only creation that can have a goal in life. He can change his nature. We have never explored the possibilities. We are whipped and tossed. Our goals are very small. Please note that the material goal can never inspire a person for a long time. The moment you attain it, you would find that the goal was too low. We all had the goal of passing Grade 5. We passed. After that? We all had the goal of graduation, marriage ... any goal you attain in the world, you will find that it was not that big a goal. We make our goals small after sometime.
Our goals have to be above the material. Material goal should be used for the emotional, intellectual and the spiritual goals. Emotional and intellectual goals should not be used for the material goal. Today we are using our intellect only for the material goal; emotions only for the material goal, and there is no spiritual goal at all. We are neither on the mark, nor is there any setting. How can we “Go” then? Those who are not on the right track will get whipped by the situations.
Assert your Godhood. Claim the best in life. Go ahead with a smile on your face. Face the world. Don’t think of success and failures. Success and failures have nothing to do for a confident person; he will use both as stepping stones and not as stumbling rocks. Use the success for higher success. When tired, smile. When exhausted, rest. When disgusted, surrender to God. When nothing strikes, strike your head at His feet. When nothing works, just look into the Eyes of the Lord, the spark of hope in His Eyes, remember the Teacher, remember Gurudev, go ahead.
Keep emotional goal much higher than the material goal. Keep the intellectual goal much higher than the material goal. Let the spiritual goal stand tall above all other goals. That should be the guiding factor of our lives. Life is waiting for the one who has given to life, taken for life. Let the time wait for us; let the people wait for anything. You go as a masterpiece; you go as a master in this flow of time and discover the Timeless. In this world discover That which is beyond the world. That is the purpose of living; that is the fulfilment of life. Go, but never come back. That is the final thing “Yad gatva na nivartante tad dhama paramam mama”. This “coming and going” should stop.
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