Prof. Devdas Menon says,"Remember two things in life:
1) Be relaxed all the time and yet alert, wakeful.
2) Pay attention. Most people attentive towards results. Do best out of you whatever you do even trivial things. Do not think of anything else while doing something. Sweeper when sweeps, the grounds should be free from dust. Then he has done the job with perfection."
Monday, September 21, 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Time Management (VSC)
Time is eternal. So when we say time management, we are concerned of self-management. "Work expands to fill the gap of time available", a westerner. By this he means that we have habit of extending the work for longer time if time is available. For example, if a letter has to be written and posted before 5 days, we do it in 5 days although it can be done within few hours.
Multitasking is a trend popular nowadays. Is that really productive? Its not. We are in illusion to think that we are doing many things at a time. It is switching the mind here and there. At a time mind can take only one task. Bringing back our attention from one task to another requires unnecessary effort and time and the performance is compromised.
Sometimes multitasking becomes essential. For example, when you are driving to hospital in emergency. You have to make calls and look for the patient, etc. while driving. You can not deny it.
We do lots of things which are urgent and non-urgent, important and unimportant.
We are much concerned of works which are important but non-urgent. These require initiative and planning. Fix of long term goals and achieve them by self-discipline. For example, prevention from many things like disease, wasting time, etc. Conscience (vivek) and vairagya is needed to perform this kind of work. When we do not care the important and non-urgent works, these become important and urgent and eat our head. We most often do it. For some people it is life. They say until you get squeezed under dead line, you would not get joy of freedom following. But it is not a healthy attitude.
When we say we don t have time for certain thing that mean we are not interested in that. If we are interested, we definitely find time for it. We set priority of works according to a order of works which we are more interested in.
Ques: I see my rival who has drinking and smoking habits nevertheless getting better grades in lesser efforts. Should I take inspiration from him?
Ans: He may be performing better but in long run he is going to suffer. There are people who have excellent IQ bad EQ(Emotional quotient). EQ determines ones stand in long run. You must have control over emotions. Be child-like not childish. Being child-like means being innocent, expressive, straight forward and being childish means not being able to control sudden release of emotions such as anger, sorrow, fear, extreme joy, etc. So make the character because that only pays in end.
(This post contains contents taken from the lecture by Swami Atmashraddhanand ji at IIT Madras, who is editor of Magazine Vedant Kesari, from Ramkrishna Math, Mailapur, Chennai)
Multitasking is a trend popular nowadays. Is that really productive? Its not. We are in illusion to think that we are doing many things at a time. It is switching the mind here and there. At a time mind can take only one task. Bringing back our attention from one task to another requires unnecessary effort and time and the performance is compromised.
Sometimes multitasking becomes essential. For example, when you are driving to hospital in emergency. You have to make calls and look for the patient, etc. while driving. You can not deny it.
We do lots of things which are urgent and non-urgent, important and unimportant.
We are much concerned of works which are important but non-urgent. These require initiative and planning. Fix of long term goals and achieve them by self-discipline. For example, prevention from many things like disease, wasting time, etc. Conscience (vivek) and vairagya is needed to perform this kind of work. When we do not care the important and non-urgent works, these become important and urgent and eat our head. We most often do it. For some people it is life. They say until you get squeezed under dead line, you would not get joy of freedom following. But it is not a healthy attitude.
When we say we don t have time for certain thing that mean we are not interested in that. If we are interested, we definitely find time for it. We set priority of works according to a order of works which we are more interested in.
Ques: I see my rival who has drinking and smoking habits nevertheless getting better grades in lesser efforts. Should I take inspiration from him?
Ans: He may be performing better but in long run he is going to suffer. There are people who have excellent IQ bad EQ(Emotional quotient). EQ determines ones stand in long run. You must have control over emotions. Be child-like not childish. Being child-like means being innocent, expressive, straight forward and being childish means not being able to control sudden release of emotions such as anger, sorrow, fear, extreme joy, etc. So make the character because that only pays in end.
(This post contains contents taken from the lecture by Swami Atmashraddhanand ji at IIT Madras, who is editor of Magazine Vedant Kesari, from Ramkrishna Math, Mailapur, Chennai)
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Emptying the Ma-ind
It was the traumatic period of last month of the semester. Assignments, presentations and projects have been postponed for this month. I was not sure of how much better I could be able to cope up and do everything well, very similar to the previous semesters. "Can I think of anything else at the moment?"
One day when last exam of the semester got over, I sat on the ground in veranda in front of my room swinging my legs below the plinth. I felt quite different at the same place where I had stayed for long. I saw the trees around and leaves flattering in joy. The breeze humming. I looked up in the sky. It was long since I have seen the blue clear sky. I made up my ecstatic mind which was estranged for long to see the stars that night.
Distinguished Prof. Dr. Devdas Menon usually talk about emptying our mind. By this he means forgetting everything of the world and look at the sight before you as a gift. "We are usually so much occupied and concerned by pressures created by us which blame to be imposed by the world. We are receiving certain demands. We do everything but cry. There is another way of doing these. Get at least few seconds for yourself and forget everything. You have the privilage of living in such a wonderful campus. I have travelled across places and have never found such a beautiful campus. Look at the nature which is graciously and fervently calling you for your mere attention. Listen the voice of the birds creating non rythemic music. Then come back to your work and feel the differnce in your productivity. The letter you write would seem to be much different."
"We have got tremendous capacity for everything but we fail to utilize it. There is a fixed demand from us. If you enhance your capacity (to carry stress or loads), DCR(demand to capacity ratio) would be neglegible and you will be able to deal with any situation by not even using your single hand. This is the purpose of the education not the book learning."
Med-it-tation (med-it-stable) seeks the same idea of achieving thoughtless state of mind for mental heeling of stressed mind.
One day when last exam of the semester got over, I sat on the ground in veranda in front of my room swinging my legs below the plinth. I felt quite different at the same place where I had stayed for long. I saw the trees around and leaves flattering in joy. The breeze humming. I looked up in the sky. It was long since I have seen the blue clear sky. I made up my ecstatic mind which was estranged for long to see the stars that night.
Distinguished Prof. Dr. Devdas Menon usually talk about emptying our mind. By this he means forgetting everything of the world and look at the sight before you as a gift. "We are usually so much occupied and concerned by pressures created by us which blame to be imposed by the world. We are receiving certain demands. We do everything but cry. There is another way of doing these. Get at least few seconds for yourself and forget everything. You have the privilage of living in such a wonderful campus. I have travelled across places and have never found such a beautiful campus. Look at the nature which is graciously and fervently calling you for your mere attention. Listen the voice of the birds creating non rythemic music. Then come back to your work and feel the differnce in your productivity. The letter you write would seem to be much different."
"We have got tremendous capacity for everything but we fail to utilize it. There is a fixed demand from us. If you enhance your capacity (to carry stress or loads), DCR(demand to capacity ratio) would be neglegible and you will be able to deal with any situation by not even using your single hand. This is the purpose of the education not the book learning."
Med-it-tation (med-it-stable) seeks the same idea of achieving thoughtless state of mind for mental heeling of stressed mind.
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