The Kautilya Project
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How can practitioners of Yoga & Ayurveda benefit from Kautilya’s Arthashastra?
May 18,2019 / 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...
Moles and Mentors: Utility of the saffron-clad in ancient Vedic India
April 04,2019 / The Kautilya Project Vedic Management / 1 CommentsChanakya devised an advanced system of human intelligence-gathering in which operatives wore saffron to deceive the masses. There were instances when, before sending in the army to raid a village, for example, these pseudo-renunciates were sent...
Kautilya’s approach to conflict resolution: Sam, Dam, Dand & Bhed
March 10,2019 / The Kautilya Project / 3 CommentsArthashastra, compiled, edited and commented by Kautilya a.k.a. Chanakya a.k.a. Vishnugupta, speaks more about administration, organization, clandestine operations, economy and diplomacy than war. Considering this, many political and diplomatic...
Rajaneeti, Artha Shastra & Artha Sutras
Despite the significant transfer of power to people in most parts of the world through democracy, there isn’t a single school that can claim to teach politics. Even the greatest schools of politics either teach the history of politics or...
Articles on Vedic Leadership Counselling™
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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...
Resolving Emotional Crisis with Vedic Leadership Counselling™
May 03,2019 / 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...
Is it Possible to Live without 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...
The Vedic Perspective on Criticism
March 07,2019 / 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...
Rishi Tales - Vedic Stories of Wisdom
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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...
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...
