How relevant is Spirituality?
First of all, are you spiritual??
Even if some of you say that you aren't spiritual, at the deep of your heart there will be signs of spirituality in you!
By spirituality i mean the influence of a POWER in your life which sows principles and values within you...
Why i am writing all this is, few days back we were taken to a Ashram called Kayavarohan in Baroda (Gujrat). The ashram is run a Swami Viditatmanandji. Mind you, he is an MBA from Harvard university!!
Am not sure of the details of what motivated him to become a swamiji...
The agenda of the visit was to get some "values" inculcated within us through Bhagavadgita and help us realise certain aspects of life with the help of Gita... I felt that it was more directed towards Self Management......
By batch has people from different religion and what surprised me is that all of them "volunteered" to visit the ashram!
We were in the ashram for 2 days...We had to attend a meditation session on each of these days early in the morning...In the meditation session, the swamiji used to make us sit on the floor with our ankles locked. I dont remember what exactly he used to say since i fell asleep (most of them infact) on both the days during the meditation session ;)..The meditation session was followed by 2-3 sessions of Gita Bodan...and in the evening of the first day we had "Bhajan" in the mandir...
Few of the things that i can remember from the session:
1. Sense of inadequacy leads to all problems in life
2. Success does not fulfill desires, it fulfills needs!
3. We have a say in the effort but we cannot control the outcome
4. Gracefully accept the outcome
5. Death is the departure of the subtle body (SOUL or Sookshma Shareera) from the gross body (Sthoola Shareera)
6. Read the 15th chapter of Gita before your Meals!
7. All good actions that we perform are YAGNA's - Every action has a physical aspect and a spiritual aspect...
Now coming to the title of my blog, how important is Spirituality for a management student, for that matter to any individual??
Even if some of you say that you aren't spiritual, at the deep of your heart there will be signs of spirituality in you!
By spirituality i mean the influence of a POWER in your life which sows principles and values within you...
Why i am writing all this is, few days back we were taken to a Ashram called Kayavarohan in Baroda (Gujrat). The ashram is run a Swami Viditatmanandji. Mind you, he is an MBA from Harvard university!!
Am not sure of the details of what motivated him to become a swamiji...
The agenda of the visit was to get some "values" inculcated within us through Bhagavadgita and help us realise certain aspects of life with the help of Gita... I felt that it was more directed towards Self Management......
By batch has people from different religion and what surprised me is that all of them "volunteered" to visit the ashram!
We were in the ashram for 2 days...We had to attend a meditation session on each of these days early in the morning...In the meditation session, the swamiji used to make us sit on the floor with our ankles locked. I dont remember what exactly he used to say since i fell asleep (most of them infact) on both the days during the meditation session ;)..The meditation session was followed by 2-3 sessions of Gita Bodan...and in the evening of the first day we had "Bhajan" in the mandir...
Few of the things that i can remember from the session:
1. Sense of inadequacy leads to all problems in life
2. Success does not fulfill desires, it fulfills needs!
3. We have a say in the effort but we cannot control the outcome
4. Gracefully accept the outcome
5. Death is the departure of the subtle body (SOUL or Sookshma Shareera) from the gross body (Sthoola Shareera)
6. Read the 15th chapter of Gita before your Meals!
7. All good actions that we perform are YAGNA's - Every action has a physical aspect and a spiritual aspect...
Now coming to the title of my blog, how important is Spirituality for a management student, for that matter to any individual??