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Happy New Year: What is Truth?

Friday, January 1st, 2010

Happy New Year! We thought you might find inspiration for 2010 with this poem. Click here for a printable version (pdf).

What is Truth?
by Swami Kriyananda

Truth is all-embracing.

Truth knows no barriers;
it is, therefore, always kind.

Truth fosters harmony, never disharmony;
unity, never disunity;
universal respect, never judgment or intolerance.

Truth is ever beneficial;
its rays heal, though they cauterize our imperfections.

Be wary of statements made in the name of truth, if they lack charity.

View skeptically such statements if they are self-serving.

Should anyone, moreover, claim unique possession of a truth,
turn apart, and gaze up into the vast heavens:

For truth is expansive;
its native land is Infinity.

Truth inspires joy in our souls
even if we, in our human littleness, fear its liberating rays.

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Harmony at Work Interview - Video

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Dharmaraj presents ways to create harmony at work, shares a technique to recharge yourself, and answers emailed questions from viewers.

You can also watch the entire show or individual questions and answers, or you can read the transcript.

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Tags: business, calm, career advice, energy, leadership, productivity, techniques
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Public Programme: Tools for Tough Times

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

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.

Sponsored by: Foundation for Peace, Harmony & Good Governance

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Creating Harmony at Work: 12 Tips

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

“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: (more…)

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Tags: anger, calm, harmony, negative emotions, office politics, stress, techniques
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Knowledge, Inspiration, and Energy (Part 1)

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

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(Excerpted from Swami Kriyananda’s Knowledge, Inspiration, and Energy, Lesson 3 of Success and Happiness through Yoga Principles)

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. (more…)

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Tags: creativity, energy, innovation, leadership, opportunity, productivity, success
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Make Inner Peace Your Bottom Line

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

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(Excerpted from Swami Kriyananda’s First Things First, Lesson 6 of Success and Happiness through Yoga Principles)

Money is something I myself have never sought for personal gain. Yet I have certainly had to earn it for the benefit of others. The spiritual communities I founded could not have come into being without money, and it was I myself who, in the early years, had to earn almost all of it. There were times, in fact, when my financial needs must have been as pressing as any family man faces whose interests are focused entirely on his personal needs. Indeed, mine may have been heavier, for hundreds of people came, in time, to depend for their material security on my activities, and thousands more for their spiritual well-being. The pressures on me to “perform” were sometimes, to my sighs of regret, intense.
(more…)

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Reevaluating The Bottom Line

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

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(Excerpted from Swami Kriyananda’s First Things First, Lesson 6 of Success and Happiness through Yoga Principles)

There is an expression in America today: “the bottom line.” I don’t know if this expression is used in England or in other countries where, as in India, English is widely spoken. Usually the expression refers to monetary profit. By extension, it also indicates something of fundamental importance to an undertaking. Because profit is so often people’s concern, unless they make it clear that they mean something different it is generally understood that they are talking about money.

Let me clarify what I mean, then, in naming this lesson as I have. For this course of lessons serves a dual purpose, and may be said, in this sense, to have two “bottom lines.” First, it accepts the common equation of material success with monetary profit. It also attempts to show, however, that monetary profit, without corresponding inner satisfaction, is a hollow victory. As the Bible puts it, “What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world, but lose his own soul?” (more…)

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Creating Opportunities with Your Voice

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

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We’ve all heard the phrase, “You don’t get a second chance to make first impression.” We know that, to make a good impression, one should dress in nice clothes, look the other person in the eye, and give a firm handshake. But one of your most important assets may be neglected: the sound and quality of your voice. (This is of course crucial if your first impression is made over the phone.)

Here is an example. Haridas and I once got into a cab in Calcutta. The driver gave us the silent nod, thereby asking us where we wanted to go. We weren’t sure of the exact location or the directions, so we called a friend and handed the phone to the cab driver. He proceeded to shout into the phone with a voice so harsh that it was almost frightening. We were so put off by his tone of voice that we jumped out of the cab, and he lost our business.

Swami Kriyananda explains how to improve the quality of your voice in Creating Opportunities (Lesson 25 of Success and Happiness through Yoga Principles). (more…)

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Tags: diaphragmatic breathing, energy, law of attraction, magnetism, opportunity, voice
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When the Boss Smiles…

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

At a recent meeting, the CEO of a financial services company shared with me a conversation he had with one of his leadership team members. They were discussing ways to keep the staff motivated.

The CEO had said, “It’s important to be cheerful. I do my best to be cheerful every day. I may not always smile—if I am lost in thought, for example—but I am usually cheerful.”

“Boss,” said the other, “it’s always better when you smile.”

Whether we are bosses or not, we may not always be aware of the signals we are sending at the office. The rest of the team may be scrutinizing us, analyzing and interpreting our mannerisms, which, on our part, may be unconscious. (more…)

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Not Enough Time?

Friday, July 17th, 2009

We often feel that there is not enough time for us to finish everything—or anything! In this article Swami Kriyananda touches on a new way to view time. He then offers tips on how to achieve calmness—and get your work done—when under intense time pressure.

Time is, of course, essential to our perception of the things of this world. Nevertheless, great yogis have all described time as a delusion. It certainly seems real, however, to all of us. Time is even logically sequential: we see past becoming present, and present reaching out to become the future.
(more…)

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Harmony at Work

Archive for the ‘success course’ Category

Happy New Year: What is Truth?

Harmony at Work Interview - Video

Public Programme: Tools for Tough Times

Creating Harmony at Work: 12 Tips

Knowledge, Inspiration, and Energy (Part 1)

Make Inner Peace Your Bottom Line

Reevaluating The Bottom Line

Creating Opportunities with Your Voice

When the Boss Smiles…

Not Enough Time?

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