How to be successful

THE WAY OF SUCCESS- According to Vedanta

     Swamy Parthasarathy, A graduate from University College in London,quit his corporate career study and teach vedanta to students at Harvard and Wharton universities, employees at Microsoft and Nasa, and economists and politician at the World Economic Forum and the World Bank.

           According to him,Vedanta is not a retirement plan but a technique for dynamic living. He founded Vedanta Cultural Foundation, which runs the non-profit Vedanta Academy in Malavali, Pune.

     "Vedanta teaches you to use the intellect to hold the mind in its present job. You do that by developing the intellect,"

      "The essence of Vadanta for business people is to throw yourself into the action and to fully play the part, but not to become so involved and attached to the outcome that your judgement gets impacted and you lose objectivity, When pressure to win a match become intense, you almost always lose. The trick  is to practice hard and throw yourself into the game without worrying about the outcome, and Vedanta teaches you that kind of detachment,"

      "Business schools teach you mechanics of negotiation. They don't teach you how to use your mind and your intellect to transact. It's all about case studies. You don't get to study the person or learn about how your inside works and how you relate to the world," he says.

    Swamy Parthasarathy Feels that most business schools teach students to manage budgets, people and projects, but not themselves, a skill essential to achieving better work relations, higher productivity and stress free fulfillment of goals that are mind full of others.

He cautions about the mind's natural tendency to slip into memories of the past and anxiety for future, a habit that impacts current action negatively.