Good health and peace of mind are what we seek in life and yet chase things that take us away from it by indulging sensory pleasures/ego trips…Who is to blame for this?
Pleasure seeking and pain avoiding is considered “normal” so as Nisargadatta Maharaj points out “Moments of pleasure are merely gaps in the stream of pain” and this is our experience of life since we are under the impression that we are our body/mind.
The point is, you are not your body/mind, you have a body/mind. Then who are you? That my friend is the question that you need to meditate, reflect & contemplate over and arrive at an answer for yourself…
Silence helps in this process – just sit still and observe the urges of the body/mind and allow them to pass without indulging them, this settles the mind in due course just like if you allow muddy water to settle, all the mud will settle at the bottom and you will have clear/still water through which you can see. In this process you will realise that you are nothing but a witness to the entire process of life and only then perhaps the body/mind attachment will wane…
Everybody knows not to get caught in Hell(Pain), but a very few people know how not to get caught in Heaven(Pleasure) – Zen
Explorer, Philanthropist, Mentor:
Exploring and researching on practices of Self Realisation
Philanthropist: engaged in projects with social and environmental impact
Mentor: guiding people crystallise and achieve their material and spiritual goals
Background:
Former CEO of Mahindra Integrated Business Solutions- an Advisory and Business Process Management Arm of the Diversified US$ 17 Billion Mahindra Group. Ajit was responsible for transforming a Shared Services Centre of the Mahindra Group into a full-fledged Advisory and Business Process Management Company with products/services spanning Strategy & Enterprise Risk Management Advisory to Digitization and Transactional Outsourcing.
He has over 23 years of experience in the industry as an Entrepreneur. He has built businesses in Music Publishing, Media (Compact Discs/DVD’s) Manufacturing, Logistics and Financial Services and is currently nurturing his own initiative called FREE (Forests, Renewable Energy and Environment) & associated with NPO Trusts/ Organizations and mentoring select people and a few start-ups in his personal capacity.
A Chartered Accountant by Qualification with extensive continuing education in Executive Management Programs @ Harvard Business School, Michigan- Ross Business School, IIM-A
He has pursued spiritual interests since an early age exploring inner facets of self through Vipassana, Isha Yoga, Kriya Yoga, other yogic approaches / meditation techniques An Avid Marathoner, trekker/mountaineer, scuba diver, writer and motorbike traveller, is passionate about exploring the outer world as much as the inner.
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