Everyday, we experience living on many levels of our being. Our energy lifts up and drops down. Our awareness brightens and dims. Most people consider these experiences their lot in life! They may reason that some are born happy while others less so—there’s not much one can do but squeeze the most out of life and forget the rest. The art and science of yoga takes a more energetic approach to the challenges of life’s constant ups and downs.
The formula is simple and straightforward: practice inner stillness and you will know your center. Read the rest of this entry »
Here is the video. The following is transcript of the unabridged interview. It has been edited slightly for clarity.
Hi Dharmaraj. First of all, what is ‘Harmony at Work’? What is this program all about?
Hi Rashmi. Thank you for having me here with you. Harmony at Work offers stress management, personal productivity, and leadership training for corporates. We take our hats off to all you corporates because the pace is grueling and we’re running at top speed just trying to keep up with you.
We base our offerings on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, who wrote Autobiography of a Yogi. His teachings have been applied to daily life by his direct disciple, Swami Kriyananda. One course that Kriyananda wrote is called Success and Happiness through Yoga Principles—that’s our training manual.
Success, happiness, and harmony are things that everybody wants. There are so many powerful techniques that we can practice to achieve these. Read the rest of this entry »
26 November, Delhi, 6:30-8:00pm, India Habitat Centre, Gulmohar Hall
(We hope to have audio and photos from this past event soon. Stay tuned.)
When we face tough times in our lives, it can be challenging to know what to do–what direction to take, how to proceed, what to change, etc. We will explore some unique tools and powerful techniques to help you:
Change your habits, and patterns in your life
Tune into your intuition more deeply, for direction and decision-making
Magnetise success through energy and right attitudes
Presenters: Dharmaraj Iyer, CEO of Harmony at Work, graduated from MIT with a Masters Degree in Computer Science. He spent several years in computer research, consulting at AT&T Bell Labs, Xerox, National Semiconductor, and AOL.
Haridas Blake, Director, is a founding member of Ananda Sangha, an internationally recognized NGO. He helped manage two of its international retreats, teaching professionals throughout America and Europe a wide range of yoga-related subjects.
“Mere 7% of corporate Bangalore happy at work” reported DNA today. The article reads:
A whopping 93% of corporate Bangalore is unhappy at work, with employees showing moderate to strong signs discontent.
This has been revealed by a health risk assessment study, ‘HealthTrac’, done by PeopleHealth, a Bangalore-headquartered health management organisation. The study was conducted among 2,106 employees of 7 leading IT companies from the city, of which 85% were in the age-group of 25-35 years.
A general reaction from the employees was that they felt the pinch when they had to work with uncooperative colleagues or managers. (our emphasis)
The CEO of PeopleHealth, G. Krishnamurthy, added that the unhappiness was due to “long hours of traveling, hostile work atmosphere, and almost zero social interaction.”
This discontent is surely not limited to Bangalore, or even India. It is disturbing that so many people should be suffering at the office. What to do? It may not be easy simply to change jobs in today’s market, especially in the US, for example.
Swami Kriyananda gives these suggestions to employees seeking more harmony at work with their colleagues: Read the rest of this entry »
For those who want to follow well-worn paths, familiarity with what has been done before is important. This is the path of tradition, which to a great extent means a path of imitation. To follow this path, one needs knowledge, but doesn’t particularly need inspiration or energy. For success in any tradition, one needs the necessary education taught by people competent to instruct others in the basic “rules of the game.”
I remember the organist at the church where my mother’s funeral was held. The purpose of the ceremony was to comfort the bereaved and to send blessings to the departed. The organist’s job was simply to play a piece of music for the event. What I asked her to play was a composition of my own. She was graceless enough to tell me that she wouldn’t play it because, as she pointed out firmly, “This melody doesn’t end on the tonic note.” In fact she was right according to the “rules of the game.” Had she played the piece first, however, and listened with her heart, she would have seen that, in this case, she was wrong. Read the rest of this entry »
Brian Kernighan (pronounced ker-ni-han), Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, co-authored The C Programming Language, which has sold millions of copies and has been translated into 27 languages.
C is one of the most popular computer programming languages, and it has influenced nearly all languages in use today, including C++, C#, Java, Javascript, Perl, PHP, and Python.
Before becoming a full-time professor at Princeton, you had a long and brilliant career at AT&T Bell Labs. But let’s go back further. Can you tell us about your childhood and early interests?
Professor Brian Kernighan
I was born in Canada and grew up in and around Toronto. My father was a chemical engineer, which gave me a bit of exposure to some kinds of science and engineering. I went to the University of Toronto in a program called “Engineering Physics”, which was meant for students who were pretty good in math and science but didn’t have any idea what they wanted to do. It was extremely tough because there was a heavy workload and a lot of material — academically, I don’t think I have ever worked as hard since. But it was a very good foundation for all kinds of later studies, and of course the experience of just working hard full time was good (though painful at the time). I didn’t really encounter computers until I was nearly done with my undergrad education, but when I did first start to play with computers, I found them great fun, and of course still do. Read the rest of this entry »
Dr. van Houten serves as Medical Director of the Sierra Family Medical Clinic and is a longtime resident of Ananda Village. This article was originally published in Ananda’s Clarity Online Magazine.
In the early 1980’s, I attended a revolutionary conference for scientists who specialize in the brain and nervous system called, “The Ever-changing Brain.” New information was being discovered about the nature of our brain and central nervous system that corroborated strongly with what the ancient spiritual traditions of yoga said about the brain’s ability to change. According to the old scientific model in the West the brain didn’t change much during a person’s lifetime. The brain developed through childhood and adolescence and somewhere around age twenty, it was thought, our brain cells began to die off without being replaced. After that, it was a race to see how many brain cells you would lose before you died! It was pretty grim. Read the rest of this entry »
From Rashmi Bansal, author Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish, and Founder/Editor, JAM Magazine:
I think the biggest issue I see with young people today is that they have taken this whole thing of “I’ll get into the right college” as the end of their ambition. They try very hard, and they struggle, and they get into the college of their dreams like an IIT or IIM or whatever. Or, on the other hand, they don’t get into the college of their dreams. Either way, they don’t see that that’s just the first point. That’s the steppingstone for their whole life. Read the rest of this entry »
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