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Life Lessons from Krishna in Vyasa's Mahabharata
July 14,2020 / Vedic Management / 0 CommentsThe name Krishna, or Vasudeva Krishna, has become synonymous with the Bhagavad-Gita. But not many may know that it was not named so by the Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa a.k.a. Veda Vyasa a.k.a. Vyasa, author of Jaya which eventually came to know as the...
What is the true meaning of Dharma? Why is it relevant even today?
July 12,2020 / Uncategorized / 0 CommentsDharma is a Vedic Sanskrit word that comes from its root word Dhri or Dhriti which means “to sustain.” In an era where humans are severely affected as a result of the “unsustainable action” and are trying to find ways to find “sustainable...
The Rishikas: Who were they? Why are they important?
July 02,2020 / Uncategorized / 0 CommentsThe word Veda comes from the root word Vid, which implies Wisdom. Vedic texts, including the Vedas, Upanishads, Aranyakas, Shastras and Sutras are collection of greater knowledge and deeper wisdom on achieving sustainable peace and prosperity at an...
Kautilya's Arthashastra on Personal Wealth Creation
June 21,2020 / The Kautilya Project / 0 CommentsA significant amount of people invest their energy today in building their careers, and organizations, in the hope to achieve a financially secure future. Starting from their schooling, college education until professional skill development, they...
The Yoga of Management
June 21,2020 / Vedic Management / 0 CommentsYoga is known to many as an exercise, posture, and meditation. This kind of Yoga is called Astanga Yoga which happens to be a small part of larger Yogic Knowledge practiced and professed by Yogic seers. The Sanskrit word Yoga comes from the root...
The Kautilya's Perspective on Wealth: Artha, Vyartha and Anartha
June 15,2020 / The Kautilya Project / 6 CommentsKautilya advises, “Wealth has only three ends – it’s either spent on deserving people or things, misspent on undeserving people and things or just rots away and falls into the hands of others (deserving or undeserving).” Stagnant wealth is...
The Vedic origins of Rationalism
June 12,2020 / Vedic Management / 1 CommentsDoes Vedic literature, starting from the Vedas, Aranyakas, Upanishads, Ramayana, Mahabharata, up until Arthashastra, qualify as “religious” scriptures? Do they, in any way, promote misguided ideas like blind beliefs? Are they bereft of...
The True Nature of Vedic Knowledge & Wisdom
June 10,2020 / Vedic Management / 0 CommentsThe Vedic texts are neither theist nor atheist in nature. They are beyond the petty ideas that are born of hating, fearing, or confused human mind. Everything the Vedic texts professes is for bettering our lives. You do not have to leave your...
Why Meditating is not the same as Praying?
June 09,2020 / Vedic Management / 0 CommentsDhyana or Meditation and Prarthana or Prayer are never the same. Prarthana is a concept in which you declare yourself to be weak as well as helpless and, therefore, you seek help from someone else - earthlings or God(s). Dhyana or Meditation is...
YUGAS: Understanding their Origins & Prevailing Misconceptions
June 08,2020 / Sanskrit Translations Vedic Management / 1 CommentsFear is the worst enemy of humanity. It is a tool of the despots for restraining and subjugating their victims. It’s also the ultimate deception. Most of the time fear itself is worse than the object of fear. Ignorance is the root of fear....
Hitashatru: That mortal enemy we mistake for a dear friend
June 06,2020 / Vedic Management / 1 CommentsJealousy of people is among the many things that come along with success and wealth. And it is by far the most potent threat as it could turn even a dear friend into a deadly enemy. And when that enemy continues to pose as a friend, enjoying...
How can practitioners of Yoga & Ayurveda benefit from Kautilya’s Arthashastra?
June 02,2020 / The Kautilya Project / 0 CommentsKautilya’s Arthashastra is also the world’s oldest book on management. It explains the intricate connection between individual happiness and institutional prosperity. It provides realistic ways to find one’s true potential and utilize it to...
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7 Crucial Steps PM Modi must take to protect Indian Economy
April 19,2020 / The Kautilyan Perspective / 0 CommentsOn April 17, 2020, Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Shaktikanta Das, addressed a much-hyped media gathering. Indian stock markets, hopeful of "additional stimulus package," led to a modest spike in the market indices. In his statement, Das...
Why the collapse of Chinese Communist Party may now be inevitable?
April 05,2020 / The Kautilyan Perspective / 1 CommentsCorona Virus, better known as Covid19, started in China, which is the reason why US President Donald Trump insisted on calling it the Chinese Virus. “It originated in China!” that is how POTUS explained it. And it may not be right to call him...
Is Collapse of European Union Imminent?
March 30,2020 / The Kautilyan Perspective / 0 CommentsOn March 29, 2019, amid chaos and economic uncertainty in his country, and the European Union, finance minister of Hesse state in Germany, Thomas Schäfer committed suicide. Hesse is home to Germany's financial capital Frankfurt, where major lenders...
Corona Lock down: Contemplate instead of Complaining
March 29,2020 / The Kautilyan Perspective / 0 CommentsAs the world is locked down and people are confined to homes exposed to countless mindless forwards and a flood of data, mindfulness can keep your head above water. An empty mind is the devil’s workshop. These days having fed the mind with...
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How can practitioners of Yoga & Ayurveda benefit from Kautilya’s Arthashastra?
June 02,2020 / The Kautilya Project / 0 CommentsKautilya’s Arthashastra is also the world’s oldest book on management. It explains the intricate connection between individual happiness and institutional prosperity. It provides realistic ways to find one’s true potential and utilize it to...
Tantra, Mantra & Rajaneeti: The Unmistakable Connection
May 13,2020 / The Kautilya Project / 3 CommentsMantra and Tantra were regarded by Kautilya as two crucial elements in the art and science of Vedic approach to politics – Rajaneeti. Without a plan and a strategy to execute it Shakti (read Power) is of no use. In Arthashastra, he declares...
Vinayam: The hallmark of Vedic Knowledge and Wisdom
May 09,2020 / Vedic Management / 2 CommentsVedic greetings like Namaste, Namaskaram, and Pranam – are a sign of respect shown for all beings – animate, inanimate, and, even idols. These words convey respect and reverence by recognizing and honoring divinity in others. The Rishis...
Kautilya's Perspective on Justice & Revenge
May 04,2020 / The Kautilya Project / 4 CommentsIn the absence of justice, error and evil thrive. Truly, evil only gets worse when those who are righteous resort to revenge and do not insist upon justice. The Ahimsa of Kautilya was based on the idea of Dharma. Ahimsa doesn’t mean you will never...
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The Vedic Perspective on Criticism
May 30,2020 / Vedic Leadership Counselling Vedic Management / 0 CommentsAccording to Vedic rishis, anyone dedicated to criticizing others without the willingness to accept criticism is a Murkha or a fool. But this doesn’t mean that we must not criticize or that...
Vedic Counseling for Leaders
May 21,2020 / Vedic Leadership Counselling Vedic Management / 0 CommentsIn simple term Vedic Leadership Counseling is about attaining a Sattvic state of mind whose intent is to alleviate the impurities of the mind (Manokalmasha), increase the power of the mind...
The Vedic Wisdom on Relationships
July 28,2019 / Vedic Leadership Counselling / 0 CommentsRelationships are bondage, indeed. But not all bondages are bad. Relationships that can give us peace, help us pursue our paths with limited distractions are always welcome.
Vedic Approach to Resolving Emotional Crisis
July 26,2019 / Vedic Leadership Counselling / 0 CommentsThe mind consists of ideas and thoughts. If you choose ideas and thoughts of helplessness, chance, and luck – your mind will function in ways supporting those ideas undermining your potential. But...
A Threat might be Real, Fear is Optional, but Hate is always Detrimental
May 04,2019 / Vedic Leadership Counselling / 0 CommentsWhen people undermine your interests, that is a threat. The threat is always real. But fear is of the mind, therefore optional. If you know you are not the mind, you’d know how to handle the mind...
Vedic Wisdom on Desires
May 02,2019 / Vedic Leadership Counselling / 0 CommentsLiving without desire doesn’t mean living in a despicable condition. It doesn’t even imply relinquishing everything you have and becoming hermits or mendicants; quite the contrary. Living without...
The Healing Power of Conversations
April 08,2019 / Vedic Leadership Counselling / 0 CommentsOne of the most credible ways to destress a mind, other than distracting it momentarily, is to engage in a productive conversation with another mind that is without any trace of stress. The mind...
Satyavati’s Paradox: The forgotten crucial lesson from Vyasa’s Mahabharata
We often think we know what we want. Yet we forget that we’ll have more respect for something only when it’s not there or when it is lost. We are all mortal with frailties – we don’t live...
Rishi Tales - Vedic Stories of Wisdom
The Three Crucial Questions
April 19,2020 / Rishi Tales / 2 CommentsThis story is a part of RISHI TALES (Volume 1) by U. Mahesh Prabhu with Foreword by Dr David Frawley. The book is available on Amazon.com for $9.99 and Amazon.in for INR 200.00 Bhoja Raja, also known as Raja Bhoj, was one of the greatest kings...
When a Rishi drank wine
September 25,2019 / Rishi Tales / 0 CommentsLong ago, in a city called Avantika, there lived a Rishi. He was held in high esteem not only by the common people but also by the king of the land. Whenever the king felt disturbed in mind, he would approach the Rishi. The Rishi’s wisdom-enriched...
The king who relinquished his throne to teach a deserving student
June 12,2019 / Rishi Tales / 0 CommentsAn aging Brahmin was overwhelmed by his poverty. Without any wealth, he was respected neither by his relatives, nor his children nor his wife. All that he wanted was to find a way to earn enough wealth to win back his dignity and respect in the...
A Rishi, a Dimwit and the Distortion of the Vedic Teachings
April 22,2019 / Rishi Tales / 1 CommentsThis ancient Vedic Sanskrit tale, translated and retold by U Mahesh Prabhu, explains how downright materialistic and heathen practices wrongly came to be known as "Vedic."
The Story of Rishi Ashtavakra
January 11,2019 / Rishi Tales / 0 Comments“O King, Knowledge is that which instils humility. In the absence of humility, knowledge destructs and wisdom become elusive. The collapse of great empires and destruction of finest people has happened not due to external factors but owing to...
Trivial Actions. Severe Consequences.
January 10,2019 / Rishi Tales / 0 CommentsA Rishi wandered from village to village, and from town to town, followed by a lone disciple. The disciple, a restless young man, was in the habit of talking rashly and doing things which were not necessary. “My child, you must try to exercise...
Bhartrihari: The King who became a Rishi
January 07,2019 / Rishi Tales / 0 CommentsAs wise Rishis have justly declared, ‘To die is a passing pain but to be poor is an eternal anguish.’ Besides, I am also in agreement with the Rishis’ declaration, ‘It is better to die loved in youth and not hated in old age.’ If you would...
Rishi Tales 2: Foreword by Dr David Frawley
January 06,2019 / Rishi Tales / 0 CommentsMahesh Prabhu presents these wisdom stories in their core essence, relaying and focusing their deeper meaning, not interfering with it or reducing it to alien and superficial concepts. His stories are short, poignant, and diverse, with multiple...
