This too shall pass…

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Ups and downs in life are as certain as high tides and low tides. So long as you keep external metrics for deciding highs and lows in your life, they would come inevitably. Being happy or sad accordingly is as inevitable. If you’re happy today due to some metric, sadness would be lurking somewhere around the corner and vice versa. You try to cling on to what you believe makes you happy and try to avoid what you believe makes you sad.

Only the wise know the magic of the fact “This too shall pass” since they have experienced the impermanent nature of things and know nothing lasts, so why crave for either highs or try to avoid lows? They find the joy within and are not dependent on a stimulus(people/event/situation) to trigger it. This is letting go or being detached. Detachment doesn’t mean renunciation, it simply means that you are not making it a Condition Precedent to experiencing joy in your life…

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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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