Piercing Hundred Lotus-Leaves - One at a time AS085 [Video Post]

Piercing Hundred Lotus-Leaves | One at a time

One at a time!

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PIERCING HUNDRED LOTUS-LEAVES

utpala-shata-patra-vyatibhéda-vat

उत्पल-शत-पत्र-व्यतिभेदवत्

"Like the simultaneous piercing of a bundle of hundred lotus-leaves."

Lotus leaves are very soft. Softer than the already-soft stems of lotus. A bundle of hundred lotus leaves can be pierced with a sharp needle in no time, almost instantaneously, and yet the actual process is linear. An example, which is important from another aspect as well, in Shlokavārtika says, "You say the example of lamp and light as an instance of simultaneity of cause and effect, but still there is a finite little time, just like piercing hundred lotus leaves." This also means that even then it was understood that light has a finite speed, just as it was known that sunlight takes about 8 minutes to reach the Earth.

~ One at a time.

Language notes: उत्पल-शत-पत्र-व्यतिभेद-वत् = utpala_shata_patra_vyatibhédavat | utpala = lotus. shata = hundred. patra = leaf. vyatibhéda = (vi-ati-bhéda) simultaneous piercing

Attitude Shift - Sanskrit Maxims for Contemporary Life and Leadership

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Position and Responsibility - AS002 - Attitude Shift [Video Post]

Position and Responsibility | Do not just desire your chair, deserve it

With great power, comes great responsibility!

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POSITION AND RESPONSIBILITY

tat-sthānāpanné tad_dharma-lābhaḥ

तत्स्थानापन्ने तद्धर्मलाभः

“When you take that position, its responsibilities also come with it.”

You cannot just have the rights and power of the position, you need to take the duties as well. Everyone wants to be a doctor, engineer, IAS officer, lawyer, minister or the CEO, SVP, Director etc. But these positions are not just of power and money; they bring with them the responsibilities. You need to put in lot of hard work to be worthy of these positions of influence and impact.

~ Do not just desire your chair, deserve it.

Attitude Shift - Sanskrit Maxims for Contemporary Life and Leadership

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So, You Think You Know Your Ramayana? - Valmiki Ramayana Webinar Series

Join me for a 3-week long, 21-day webinar series on going beyond just devotion and understanding Valmiki Ramayana as well - So, You Think You Know Your Ramayana? - Valmiki Ramayana Webinar Series 

Ram Ram, Jai Siya Ram, or Jai Shri Ram – whichever one you prefer!

How well do you know Ramayana?

• Why was Ayodhya called Ayodhya?
• What were fair wages and tax rate in Rama’s time?
• What does Rama say about destiny and karma?
• There are plenty of Yes-men, but what should a leader watch out for?
• What is more difficult than making friends?
• What did Sita give to Hanuman as proof of their meeting?
• What was the rationale behind Sita’s agni pariksha?

Bhakti and Gyan/Jnana

You may be worshipping Rama daily, or you have stopped worshipping because you became progressive or woke!

Your bhakti may be deep, shallow or non-existent, but Ramayana can still benefit you.

Bhakti is great, especially in Kaliyuga, but our Rishis always emphasized the importance of gyan, or knowing; doing something knowingly - what today we may call mindfulness, living aware etc.

Without gyan/jnana, bhakti becomes andh-bhakti, open to manipulation.

Without bhakti bhava, gyan gives rise to arrogance. 

True bhakti and true gyan go together.

This webinar will also help you guide our younger and modern generations, our future, who don't follow anything, without explanation of the rationale behind it.

Webinar Series on Understanding Deeper Wisdom of Ramayana

There is Rama in the Indian ethos in the month of January 2024.

Political affiliations aside, Ramayana is the heritage of this land for everyone living here. Beyond the TV serials, comic books, we should make an effort to understand this great epic as adults now.

Towards this purpose, I have a special invitation for you. 

I am conducting a 21-days, 3-weeks long, daily, online, live webinar series from 1st to 21st January at 7 PM IST. 

Come, join me, and discover lesser known gems of wisdom from Ramayana.

If you think you can't make it to all the sessions or can’t make it at 7 PM or can’t make it for any other reason, you don’t have to worry at all! Recordings of all live sessions will be made available online within a day or two after each session. So, be sure to join and register for this series.

Please visit Wisdom.PracticalSanskrit.com to register today.

Make this New Year even more meaningful by delving into the wisdom-ocean of our long and successful civilization and heritage. Understand why and how Rama and his story are still relevant – in modern times, modern settings, because human motivations, aspirations, desires, demotivation, sorrows etc. are still the same as in ancient times, but in a new dressing!

Please share this information with your friends and family and ask them to join as well.

See you on Jan 1st.

Raam Raam!

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Webinar: Success Management: Indian perspective from Mahabharata, Panchatantra, Chanakya and others.

Success Management: Indian perspective from Mahabharata, Panchatantra, Chanakya and others.

Come join me on Dec 11, in a webinar on Sanskrit wisdom on business and leadership!

Prior registration is required.

India has been a highly flourishing civilization for at least 3-5 thousand years, if not more. Material prosperity doesn’t come only from spirituality. A vast realm of Indian wisdom is untapped by modern thinkers and those in the making for the future.

In this short introductory series of four 1-hour sessions, we cover some ideas about economy, business, wealth, leadership, human motivations and mind as found in various popular Sanskrit works, which may not be very well known outside the Sanskrit circles. Guaranteed with informative and interesting tidbits as well as deep thought provoking wisdom, and viewpoints that you may not have thought at all.

Along with Language Curry, I am giving a webinar of 4 one-hour sessions over two weekends. 

Duration: 4 one-hour sessions.

When: Sat/Sun Dec 11 & 12, 18 & 19    at 8 PM

Registration: Required.

Medium of instruction: English

For further details and registration, please see Registration page at Language Curry.

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Medium of instruction - English

In this short introductory session of four hours, we cover some ideas about economy, business, wealth, leadership, human motivations and mind as found in various popular Sanskrit works, which may not be very well known outside the Sanskrit circles.

What is the Indian take on wealth, prosperity, economy, commerce, hard work, industry, leadership, managers, tax, learning and earning? What are the identified qualities of a wise and successful person?

Session 1:

Introduction to the aspects of Indian literature and thoughts around the topic of management, leadership, wealth and attitude towards life. It will open with some tasty samplers from various works. It will kick off with a 10-step ladder that creates a comfortable and prosperous society by creating good leaders - something modern management and leadership gurus and psychologists also grapple with. It beautifully sums up the vision and mission of any economic project and policy.

Session 2:

Mahabharata is considered the greatest epic of the world. A treasure chest of ideas and information about its time, and perennial wisdom. The greatest empire of its time and Vidura is the prime minister and one of the wisest of its characters. This session will cover many ideas from Vidura regarding administration, management, leadership, projects, long term planning and the qualities of the wise and the fool.

Session 3:

Everyone has read the animal stories of Panchatantra and Hitopadesha, thanks to Amar Chitra Katha. This session will provide a peek into the real work, which is way beyond the kids comics, but meant for future pillars of administration and government. The street smart wisdom for managers, leaders, employees alike! We will see how Indian wisdom has treated the concepts of wealth, prosperity, earning, use or lack of it, business, entrepreneurship, hard work, tax, giving, happy and unhappy boss, knowledge and application, networking and planning.

Session 4:

We will look at various Sanskrit maxims or pithy sayings that have a deep impact on modern work ethics and attitude to life and leadership.

Opium eater and the boatman; position and responsibility; Slithering lizard and Ghajani; Arundhati star in leadership; Perched eagle; Of bees, flowers and grass; Threshold lamp; Planting a mango tree; Water wheel; Crow spoils the curd and many more maxims and how they apply to workplace and life.

For further details and registration, please see Registration page at Language Curry.

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Sanskrit and Leadership - Webinar organized by IIT Kharagpur under Sanskritotsav 2021

The journey to success is a marathon, not a sprint.

Come join me in a webinar on Sanskrit and Leadership!

The wisdom of Vidura, the prime minister of the great empire in Mahabharata has its special place in the vast field of Niti Shastra - the literature of policy, governance, administration, leadership, management all rolled in one.

I will cover Indian thoughts on economy, wealth, prosperity, along with a sampler of Vidura Niti in the webinar I am delivering as part of the Sanskritotsav2021 (Sanskrit Festival 2021) organized by IIT Kharagpur, Ministry of Education, Samskrita Bharati, AICTE.

• Date: 28/11/2021 (Sunday)
• Time: 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
• Joining link ( https://iitkharagpur.webex.com/iitkharagpur/j.php?MTID=m50e1d641751b6c396ad9e33b05c04123 )
• Meeting number: 2513 337 8387
• Password: sanskriti_2021

Below is the communication from the organizers at IIT Kharagpur.

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Namaste! 

Warm greetings from the  Sanskritotsava 2021 team, IIT Kharagpur! 

Hope you are enjoying our lecture series on exploring the wealth of Sanskrit Knowledge Traditions initiated on Sanskritotsava 2021 as part of the nationwide Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations being organised by the Centre of Excellence for Indian Knowledge Systems, Sanskriti Club with the  collaboration of AICTE, Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) Division of the Ministry of Education at AICTE, Delhi, and Samskrita Bharati. 

For those of you who have missed the previous lectures, you can access the videos from this link.

In continuation of the Sanskritotsava 2021, there will be a talk on the topic ' Sanskrit and Leadership - 9 Success Factors from Vidura Niti Shastra' by Shri. Shashikant Joshi and the session will be chaired by Professor Partha Pratim Chakrabarti, former Director and Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur.

The poster of the talk is attached. We request you to attend the talk and widely share the message in your networks and to your family and friends. The link to join the talk is mentioned below:

Date- 28/11/2021 (Sunday)

Time- 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

WebEx joining link

Meeting number: 2513 337 8387

Password: sanskriti_2021

Thank you.

Look forward to your wholehearted participation.

Team Sanskriti club, IIT Kharagpur

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Attitude Shift - Sanskrit Maxims for Contemporary Life and Leadership - ebook

  

Sometime back, I had written the above book called Attitude Shift - Sanskrit Maxims for Contemporary Life and Leadership.
It has been an embarrassingly long while since the last project. 😞
I am now creating online content, but hope to write some more books very soon.

The book is out of print now, but I am happy to say that the book is now available as an online course.

From the Foreword:

Education through English medium tends to cut people off from the beauty and wisdom contained in Indian languages. It is to the credit of Shashikant Joshi that using the same medium of English he has conveyed the distilled wisdom of ancient Indian maxims, selected from the vast sea of Sanskrit literature. Moreover, he does so in a language to which the modern SMS-texting generation can relate.

We live in an age of information overload, in which we often lose sight of the distinction between information, knowledge and wisdom. The objective of Attitude Shift is not only to communicate ancient wisdom in today’s idiom but also to make it applicable in day-to-day life. One must remember, though, that wisdom is an end in itself and not just a means to better management practices. The very first nyāya, Ahibhuk and the Boatman, is about spiritual realization and not merely about mundane concerns. In Indian tradition, there is no dichotomy between material life and spiritual life. The maxims chosen in Attitude Shift point towards that continuum; they are applicable to worldly as well as spiritual pursuits. They are meant for contemplation. Their real purpose is to make us better human beings first, and subsequently better managers.

Shashikant has used a light conversational style to drive home the message, in his words “The take home message,” but I find the language notes at the bottom very interesting. Interpretation of the maxims is subjective; the language notes take the reader to the original source. One can draw one’s own conclusions. Therein lies the usefulness of this book, which for Shashikant has been a labor of love. It should interest both young and old readers; the older ones will get the perspective of the youth and the younger ones the insights of the old.

Chiranjiv Singh

Former Additional Chief Secretary to Government of Karnataka

Former Ambassador of India to UNESCO

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From the Preface:

"The photo captures the basic traits of a leader. No one is born as a leader. Only money can be inherited, and in some countries, even the position. We call it as dictatorship, not leadership. Title is not a cause, but the result of leadership. Titles do not make leaders; leaders make titles. So, step out of your titles, your big shoes; or the big sandals, as the case maybe. 

 

Have a vision as grand as the ocean, nothing less will suffice. For when you aim for the ocean, you may be lucky enough to get a lake. Do not be afraid of your vision. 

 

Go embrace it with passion and have courage to take on the ocean, even if on your own! Everything else – determination, execution, persistence etc. – is required for success even if you are not a leader. However, these are essential to be a leader – courage to dream, courage to think beyond oneself and courage to start alone!"

Shashikant Joshi

BTech, Computer Science (IIT Kharagpur)

MS, Computer Science (University of Minnesota)

Author, Speaker, Sanskrit Enthusiast.

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Rama - the best among men. But why?

You don't wanna miss this

LIVE, ONLINE on AUG 8

#1 10 am New Delhi and, 

#2 10 am New York (730 pm India)

(Join any one session)

RAMA - the best among men

but why?

Exploring some aspects of the timeless wisdom of:

Rama - the universal hero

You will come away with more subtle knowledge about Ramayana and Rama.

Leadership. Ideals of life. Inspiration.

Addressing some popular controversial topics as well!

Presented by Shashi Joshi, IIT Kharagpur, PracticalSanskrit.com

To join the FREE, LIVE session, signup at PracticalSanskrit.com now!

(One time signup, gives you access to all future live sessions)

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Rama does things perfectly the very first time.

Rama doesn’t aim twice, doesn’t establish the refugee twice, doesn’t give twice to a seeker, Rama doesn’t speak twice (the same thing). He does it perfectly the very first time.

द्विः शरं नाभिसन्धत्ते द्विः स्थापयति नाश्रितान् ।

द्विर्ददाति न चार्थिभ्यो, रामो द्विर्नाभिभाषते ॥

(हनुमान्नाटक १-४८)

सन्धि-विच्छेद -

द्विः शरं न अभिसन्धत्ते द्विः स्थापयति न आश्रितान् ।

द्विः ददाति न च अर्थिभ्योः, रामः द्विः न अभिभाषते ॥

(राम) बाण को दो बार निशाने पर नहीं साधते,

(राम) शरणागत आश्रित को दो बार स्थापित नहीं करते,

(राम) माँगनेवाले को दो बार नहीं देते,

राम (एक ही बात) दो बार नहीं कहते।

अर्थात् एक ही बार में कार्य पूर्ण करते हैं, दूसरी बार करने की आवश्यकता ही रहती।

शब्दार्थ:

द्विः = दो बार; शरं = बाण; न = नहीं; अभिसन्धत्ते = साधते ।

द्विः = दो बार ; स्थापयति = स्थापित करते; न = नहीं; आश्रितान् =शरणागत आश्रित को।

द्विः = दो बार; ददाति = देते ; न = नहीं; च = आउर्; अर्थिभ्योः = माँगनेवाले को।

रामः = राम; द्विः = दो बार; न = नहीम्; अभिभाषते = बोलते (एक ही बात को) ।

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dviḥ śharaṃ nābhisandhatte dviḥ sthāpayati nāśhritān |

dvirdadāti na chārthibhyo, rāmo dvirnābhibhāṣhate ||

(hanumānnāṭaka 1-49)

Sandhi-break -

dviḥ śharaṃ na abhisandhatte dviḥ sthāpayati na āśhritān |

dviḥ dadāti na cha arthibhyo, rāmaḥ dviḥ na abhibhāṣhate ||

Meaning:

Rama doesn’t aim twice, doesn’t establish the refugee twice, doesn’t give twice to a refugee, Rama doesn’t speak twice (the same thing). He does it perfectly the very first time.

Word for Word meaning:

dviḥ = twice; śharaṃ = arrow; na = not; abhisandhatte (aims) |

dviḥ = twice; sthāpayati = establishes; na = not; āśhritān = the refugee (Sugreeva, Vibhishana) |

dviḥ = twice; dadāti = give; na = not; cha = and; arthibhyoḥ = to the seeker|

rāmaḥ = Rama; dviḥ = twice; na = not; abhibhāṣhate = speaks (the same words)||

The refugee is a reference Sugreeva and Vibhishana.

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What are the qualities of a good leader? (Online, Live session)

You don't wanna miss this!

LIVE, ONLINE on AUG 1

10 am New Delhi and, 

10 am New York.

From the Master of Puns

QUALITIES OF A GOOD LEADER

How is good leadership connected to:

- fluttering flags,

- empty chess boards,

- golden-rod umbrellas,

- jingling anklets,

- hair pulling and,

- broken bowstrings?

Dear readers,

The weekly online live sessions are still continuing.

Please join every Saturday (only a few are left) at 10 am India time, and another session at 10 am New York Time (730 pm India time).

Check out videos from previous sessions as well.

More theme based courses coming soon.

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Opium Eater and the Divine Boatman - "Ancient Wisdom. Modern Times." Weekly session with Shashi

Ahibhuk Kaivarta Nyāya - Opium Eater and the Divine Boatman

Ahibhuk was a constant consumer of opium.

ahi means a poisonous snake, and phena is the froth.

Ahi-phena is the oozing juice from a poppy flower, like the one shown below.

From ahi-phena comes opium. It is an alkaloid, gives a great high, and is poisonous in larger quantities.

Ahibhuk was always high on opium. And one day he boarded a ferry to cross a river.

What happened then? See the video below.

A profound Sanskrit maxim (nyāya) about our true nature and the difficulty in realizing it. Part of the 2nd May 2020 online session. This is part of Session 1 (2 May 2020) of the weekly online series - "Ancient Wisdom. Modern Times."

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