Sports Illustrated
What a sport! At 86, post a hip replacement surgery, Swami Parthasarathy says he’s not out. He mixes cricket with Vedanta to spread his brand of philosophy and has one mantra for all: Focus on the present. The octogenarian Swamiji is always on the move— whether it’s delivering daily lectures, spreading the Vedanta word across the globe or hitting the cricket pitch
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Business Week
Signs of the worldly success abound as members of the Young Presidents Organization met at a mansion in a tony New Jersey suburb, BMWs, Lexuses, and Mercedes-Benzes lined the manicured lawn. Waiters in starched shirts and bow ties passed out vegetarian canapés. And about 20 executives
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Time Magazine
The private dining room in Manhattan’s timelessly tony 21 Club is packed with more than 60 CEOs, corporate presidents and managing partners. They represent a cross section of mostly midsize New York City-area businesses. There’s a biotech exec from Manhattan, an aerospace guy from Long Island, the head of a jewelry firm in New Jersey, a manufacturer of architectural lighting–all of them members of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO)
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Forbes Magazine
More than 3,000 years ago, pupils sat down with their gurus in the seclusion of Indian forests with the intent of learning Vedanta, which in Sanskrit means the end (anta) of knowledge (veda). Their discussions on the nature of the mind, the intellect, the senses, the world, and of cause and effect, were transmitted through oral tradition first
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CNN
Learn to live with it: Becoming stress-free.
People the world
over
believe that stress comes from external sources. One complains of a nagging wife or
hysterical husband. Another finds fault with the demands of work or the exploitation
of
management. Someone else grumbles at summer being too hot or winter being too cold.
Everyone thus lives with the belief that factors outside themselves produce stress -
so
their entire focus is on correcting the external world.