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Welcome to Our May
Newsletter
Dear Friends,
When we come to a
corporation to present what we have to offer, the
human resource director wants to know how we are
different from other corporate training companies.
This is an easy question for us to answer because
we have the confidence of successfully teaching
people for over 40 years. The principles we offer
are a modernization of the ancient teachings of
yoga philosophy—applied to everyday life. Many have
read and memorized yoga philosophy but how many
truly practice it? Yoga philosophy is not limited
to lofty ideals for hermits living in caves. Even
a hermit may not practice yoga very well. There
are plenty of things to worry about in a cave if
the mind is unfocused and the heart is closed: food,
flies, heat, cold, animals, other hermits, etc....
And of course, trying to “realize” these teachings
in a cave is not for most of us.
Most
of us are called upon to be in the world—we work
hard, support our families, and try to take care
of ourselves. The world constantly challenges our
ability to practice our spirituality—in ourselves,
and in the cold light of day. This is what is meant
by being in the world and not of it. This challenge
is independent of any particular religion or system
of belief. We must not ignore that light inside
ourselves, which in time helps us become causes
in our environments, rather than being passively
affected by life’s obstacles hurdled from different
directions.
Material
Success Through Yoga Principles
seminars and lessons are designed to help you access
your inner strengths as well as deal with the external
details of work, home and society. When we are strong
in ourselves we are able to meet life’s challenges
head on. When we know how to move from our centers
we find that we can often see challenges coming
before they hit us.
We invite you to read
through our newsletter and take a look at the courses
we are offering at our Gurgaon facility in May.
You will find courses that are practical, professional
and directly applicable to your life. If you are
part of a corporation and would like our brochure
we would be happy to send one to you and come and
visit you at your office. Starting this quarter,
we are now offering lunchtime meetings in corporations.
We can come to your facility during lunchtime and
meet with your employees about our workshops. Interested
individuals can sign-up and attend courses offered
in your business during or right after work.
In addition to corporate
training, we have study groups all over the world,
including, in India, the NCR area, Mumbai, Chennai,
Bangalore and, soon, Hyderabad and Pune. If you
do not live in these areas you can still join a
group.
Most of our courses
feature the meditation and energization techniques
from the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. In order
to change or improve your life, you need first to
connect inside and learn to raise your energy. Then
you will be able to see things clearly and make
decisions from the mountaintop rather than from
the mud. With these techniques and the principles
offered by Material
Success Through Yoga Principles,
you will surely find success in your life. We are
here to help.
The Material Success Team
A
Testimonial for Material
Success Through Yoga Principles
by
Asha Praver
Other
successful entrepreneurs have written courses about
how to make money. But a high-minded person finds
it impossible to use many of the self-centered techniques
common in business today. Material
Success Through Yoga Principles
is the answer to a prayer.
At the age of 36,
Swami Kriyananda was penniless and alone. All he
had was his discipleship to his guru, Paramhansa
Yogananda, his commitment to dharma, and his determination
to bring his Master’s teachings to the world. Four
decades later, he leads a worldwide spiritual organization,
with thousands of followers in dozens of countries.
His was no otherworldly
adventure. As he describes in this course, he faced,
and overcame, more than his share of obstacles:
natural cataclysms, bankruptcy, betrayal, persecution,
lawsuits, ill health. But he persevered, and remained
loyal to his principles, until success was achieved.
Now he has translated
his life experience into a study course for all
those who seek to achieve success by honorable means.
Swamiji is the author of more than 80 books, including
another study course on yoga. You can’t say, “This
is the best.” Each is a unique jewel in itself.
But Material
Success Through Yoga Principles,
more than
anything else he has done, combines a vision of
eternity with the feet-on-the-ground practicality.
Dozens of people I know are studying this course,
and wisdom from these lessons is part of every conversation
now. Whatever life problems we face, the course
seems to offer a solution.
Asha
Praver is an author, lecturer, and acharya of Paramhansa
Yogananda’s principles for the past 30 years. She
currently lives in America’s Silicon Valley in Palo
Alto, California and is co-leader of an Ananda Sangha
center with her husband, David.
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CALENDAR
Upcoming Workshops
and
Corporate Trainings in Gurgaon
(See below for
course descriptions)
| May
2 |
Raise
Your Energy, Take Charge of
Your Life! |
| May 4 |
Free
Introductory Workshop |
| May 5 |
Meditation
for Successful Living |
| May 6 |
Free Introductory
Workshop
in DLF
Phase III-see note |
| May 9 |
Material Success
Through Yoga Principles 6 week course week #1 |
| May 12 |
Develop Your
Money Magnetism |
| May 16 |
6
week course week #2 |
| May 23 |
6 week course week #3 |
| May 30 |
6 week course
week #4 |
| May 31 |
The
Art of Supportive Leadership |
To reserve your space
or for more information, Please email us at:
MaterialSuccess@anandaindia.org or call: 9873-408784.
Discounts are available for groups of 3 or more.
Fond Farewell and Warm Welcome
Vijay Girard, who led our Material Success Through
Yoga Principles team, is now pursuing new directions
in his career, continuing to teach and write books.
We thank Vijay for his two years of inspiration
and energy. He helped our company expand and he
helped many people through our courses. If you would
like to get in touch with Vijay please feel free
to call us and we would be happy to put you in touch
with him. Thank you, Vijay! We now welcome Dharmaraj
Iyer as our new managing director. You can reach
him at (+91)9873-408784. Please feel free to call
him anytime about your company’s needs.
Wisdom
from Lesson Four:
Knowledge,
Inspiration, and Energy
Below
are excerpts from Swami Kriyananda’s Material
Success through Yoga Principles
course. If you are not currently receiving the
course lessons, these excerpts will give you an
idea of the structure and outline of the lessons
as well as the many techniques it offers. Each
lesson features a section on specific principles,
application of the principles, an affirmation
and meditation to help you deepen your understanding
and internalize that which you’ve learned, and
practical exercises and “action items” for you
to practice in your day to day life.
Excerpt from “The Principles”
“My
own experience in life has convinced me that right
attitude is actually even more important than
good karma. For although good karma can ensure
success, no one, generally speaking, can say whether,
when, or for how long that good karma will last
before it crashes again, washing up onto the beach—
a spent wave.”
Excerpt from “The Application”
“There
is another way to keep a consistently good attitude:
Make good company your priority. Mix more, and
attentively, with people whose attitude in life
is basically positive—people whose will power
is strong, and who at least try to face their
difficulties cheerfully.”
Affirmation
for Lesson Four
“I am the
divine light, shining into everything that I undertake
in life, filling it with bliss and truth.”
Excerpt from: Action items
(contributed by Joseph Cornell)
Success
or failure depends to a great extent on the direction
taken by the energy in the spine. Throughout the
day, sensitively feel in your spine how people,
thoughts, music, and the environment affect your
energy. Try to keep your energy in an upward flow
and see how much more centered and calm you feel.
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All
of our workshops are based on the Material
Success Through Yoga Principles
lessons, by Swami Kriyananda. In addition, each
course features meditation and energization techniques
based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda.
Course
Descriptions
Group and
member discounts apply, please call for details
All workshops below will be held in B-20/1, DLF
Phase 1, Gurgaon
To pre-register, please call us at 0973408784.
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Material Success Through
Yoga Principles:
Come find out who we are
Offered: Friday,
May 4th, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Attendance Fee: no cost
Come
to this introductory class to learn more about us
and ask questions about what we can offer you. As
the Sanskrit saying puts it, “Yato dharma, tata jaya”;
Where there is adherence to truth and right action,
there lies victory. This is the purpose of the Material
Success Through Yoga Principles
seminars and lessons. We teach and provide support
to individuals who desire to integrate their spiritual
lives into their daily lives on all levels—home, business,
personal time, and society. Come to our center, have
some tea and cookies, and let’s get to know each other.
Meditation
for Successful Living
Offered: Saturday,
May 5th, 7:00pm - 8:30pm,
Attendance Fee: Rs 500
One of the keys to
living a successful life is to learn how to live
from the inside out rather than the outside in.
In order to bring about true change into your life
you need to be able to view it from the mountain
top rather than from the mud. Meditation can help
you do this. Whether you are already a meditator
or would like to learn how to mediate, this course
will help you integrate meditation more deeply into
your life. In this course you will explore:
• How
to use meditation to enhance every aspect of your
life.
• Practical
ways to integrate your spirituality into your work
and home
• How
to develop your intuition and make the right decisions.
• How
to balance home, work and your own personal time.
• How
to control your reactions and be more centered in
difficult situations.
• You
will learn a new techniques of meditation, as taught
by Paramhansa Yogananda, through clear, step-by-step
instructions.
Develop Your Money Magnetism
Offered: May
12, 7:00pm - 8:30pm,
Attendance Fee: Rs 500
The
true meaning of wealth is having the consciousness
of abundance. Success is something you become, not
only something you achieve. Developing money magnetism
depends to a great extent on understanding how to
use money properly. In this course you will learn
that money is energy, and if you learn to live your
life with full concentration and energy, you can
change your karma. Paramhansa Yogananda wrote, “The
greater the will, or willingness, the greater the
flow of energy.” Will is desire plus energy, directed
towards fulfillment. In this course you will learn
to:
• Use
energy and will power to change your karma.
• Unblock
and redirect your energy flow to cultivate a consciousness
of abundance.
• Focus
your intentions and put all your energy behind whatever
you are trying to achieve.
• Develop
the right mental attitudes towards money so that
you do not lose your peace of mind around it.
• Get
rid of your muddy thoughts and feelings and develop
deep concentration and inner clarity with meditation
and the right use of affirmation.
• Raise
your energy to overcome obstacles in your life through
the use of Energization Exercises.
Our
Booth at Ananda Sangha’s
World-Wide Meditation Retreat
Our
team set-up a booth at an International Meditation
Retreat sponsored by Ananda Sangha. Over 250
meditators from arround the world attended.
(top photo)
Dharmaraj showing a retreatant the lessons.
(bottom
photo)
Haridas helping a guest.
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Raise
Your Energy, Take Charge of Your Life!
The Energization Techniques of Paramhansa Yogananda
Offered: Wednesday,
May 2nd, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Attendance Fee: Rs. 500
Tired
of feeling burned out and stressed out? Drinking
an abundance of tea or coffee just to make it through
the day? Why not learn to raise your energy naturally
and permanently?
This course focuses on the series of Energization
Exercises as created by Paramhansa Yogananda. In
this course, you will learn how to:
• Consciously
relax and draw energy to the body at will.
• Develop
dynamic willpower.
• Gain
energy naturally (without coffee or tea!).
• Develop
calmness and clarity of mind.
• Break
through patterns that hold you back.
• Create
the magnetism to attract what you need.
• Raise
your energy to overcome obstacles.
• Avoid
burning out and stressing out.
Material
Success Through Yoga Principles: A Six Week Seminar
An In-depth Interactive Workshop
Offered: Wednesday
evenings for six weeks
May 9 - June 13, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Attendance Fee: Rs. 2000 (for 6 week workshop)
Advanced registration necessary
The
path of dharma, or righteousness, is the best and
straightest path to true success! Following this
path does not in any way put a brake on the achievements
one is seeking in life. This course will give you
an in-depth experience of the Material Success Through
Yoga Principles lessons which will provide you with
the inspiration and confidence to live your life
dharmically. You will obtain practical solutions
for everyday issues that you can immediately
apply to your life and business relationships. You
will learn how to:
• Increase
you energy, focus and concentration.
• Be
a good leader.
• Develop
your intuition and make the right decisions.
• Balance
home, work and your own personal time.
• Control
your reactions and be more centered in difficult
situations and people.
• Be
successful in life and magnetize what you need
The Art of Supportive Leadership
How to Be an
Effective, Happy Leader
Offered: May
31, 7:30pm - 9:00pm,
Attendance Fee: Rs 500
Whether
you’re pressured by budget, schedule, or poor performance—when
the stress is on, it can be difficult to be a good
leader. It can be tempting to pass this stress onto
those we lead. Does it really make circumstances
better? Learn the art of supportive leadership to
create a winning team. This workshop will give you
fresh and clear insights to help you become happier
inside, no matter the circumstances and, thus, a
much more effective leader. In this course you will
learn to:
• Achieve
your goals by inspiring your employees rather than
dominating them.
• Win
the loyalty of others and build an effective team.
• Lower
your turnover rate and retain your employees.
• Manage
your stress under heavy responsibility.
• Leave
your work at work so you can enjoy yourself at home.
• This
workshop also includes group practice through role-playing
to understand and demonstrate the process of supportive
leadership.
Corporate Sponsorships
We offer corporate
sponsored scholarships to educational institutes
who would like their students to study the Material
Success Through Yoga Principles
course. We invite you to help us bring these ideas
to others. Please contact us if you are interested
in joining us in this venture via email or phone.
Informational
Workshop For a
New Study Group Forming
in DLF Phase III
Sunday, May 6th, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Different location: L402, Ambience Island Apartments
(near Shankar Chowk), DLF PH III
Attendance Fee:none
A
resident in DLF Phase III, Sabina Sehgal, saw our
flyer in the newspaper and inquired about starting
a study group in her home. We invite you to join
us for an introductory workshop to find out more
about what we offer and explore the possibility
of joining this study group.
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Interview with Simon Hartley
 Simon
Hartley has been involved with global commerce
for the past 20 years. Owner of a consulting business,
The Noble New, he also works for Red Hat, an open
source software
company. He has consulted with and managed continental
and worldwide operations for companies around
the world, including Chevron, Ebay, Amazon.com,
Morgan Stanley and Union Banque Suisse. Simon
was the first purchaser of the Material Success
Through Yoga Principles course. We were grateful
for the opportunity to ask him how the course
has influenced his life.
Which
particular principle stands out to you from these
lessons? There
are so many examples, but the one that stands
out to me in this moment is that the means used
to succeed are just as important as the ends achieved.
The consciousness we have behind the means is
as important as the consciousness behind the ends.
After studying these lessons I looked at the lives
of successful
people such as Sam Walton (Wal Mart), Ray Kroc
(McDonald’s), and Bill Gates (Microsoft).
I noticed that they have spiritual beliefs and
values that they applied in their businesses.
They cared not only about profit but also for
their customers and employees. They didn’t
intend to make only themselves rich—unlike
the old style of management where an owner reaps
all the profits and everyone else is a drone who
works his or her fingers to the bone for nothing.
Instead, these business owners were willing to
share with others and create serviceful organizations
that help people on a global level. And their
companies have expanded beyond what anyone could
have imagined.
Have
you been in business situations where it was hard
to do the right thing—to be dharmic—when
others around you were behaving dishonestly?
Yes. This issue has even cost me my job. I think
the higher levels of management are the hardest
positions because their focus is not on the customer,
product or service
but on social dynamics. The upper echelons resemble
the intrigues around Caesar rather than any focus
on business. It was a situation like this that
spurred me towards getting the Material Success
Through Yoga Principles lessons. I was managing
Europe, the Middle East and Africa for a very
large company. An opportunity was placed before
me to basically sell out my ideals and do whatever
it took to keep my place in the company. I preferred
to leave. At that time I made a pilgrimage to
India, where I discovered the lessons. Strangely,
when I came back and started to apply these lessons,
new opportunities came to me. I moved to the US
and became a citizen. One day I received a phone
call out of the blue from a man I had never met
before. He said, “How would you like to
come to Boston and work for us?” He offered
a super salary and a very interesting role in
a company named Red Hat. This man was a meditator
and a vegetarian, like myself, (continued
next column)
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which was an added
benefit. After joining the company I ran their Wall
Street practice. I went from running my own consulting
company to representing Red Hat’s three topmost
accounts in the world. It all happened very miraculously.
Some
people want to be honest but at times lack the faith
that, if they do take the high road, things will turn
out okay. It often appears that others are successful
by cutting corners—with the justifications that
“business is business” and “you
need to play the game.” What encouragement would
you offer to people who want to live more dharmically?
Sometimes it is very hard to do the right thing. Abraham
Lincoln said, “A house divided against itself
cannot stand.” When you start compromising your
values and tuning into negative scheming, you open
yourself up to those dark vibrations. Once you sell
yourself out you are on a slippery downward slope.
Through wrong action you are allowing karmic seeds
to germinate and you can slide a long way down. Look
at all the American corporate CEOs who thought they
could make millions by doing an obscure accounting
scam on the dating of stock options. They are now
going to prison—being dishonest didn’t
pay off! I’d rather give up the work I love
than be dishonest. I’d rather be killed for
doing the right thing than give up my principles.
I know this sounds a little extreme, but I do feel
very strongly about dharma.
How
would you recommend this course to someone?
There are many books that describe the mechanics of
business. I have read books by people such as Dale
Carnegie, Tony Robbins and Zig Ziglar, and I have
taken many professional courses. Swami Kriyananda’s
Material Success Through Yoga Principles course is
the best thing I’ve seen. None of these other
books really talk about the mechanism behind why things
happen. Why was Bill Gates in the right place at the
right time to find DOS or Word? What are the mental
states and consciousnesses that are behind these things?
Many people talk about the how of success but Swami
Kriyananda explains the why—and not just of
material success. If you understand the why, it is
much easier to take specific steps to get a particular
business outcome.
Swami Kriyananda is
one of the most successful people I’ve ever
met. I should qualify that—I used to work in
the leveraged hedge fund industry. I’ve worked
with people for whom five to ten million dollars is
a small chip. In comparison, Swami Kriyananda is one
of the most successful people I’ve ever met.
I have spent years reading every book he has written.
This new course has been the most useful piece in
terms of my everyday life. It has stimulated my creativity
to think of personal side projects and future projects.
This course does not just expound on abstract principles.
Swami Kriyananda has written this course from his
life experience of creating a worldwide spiritual
organization and choosing the path of dharma along
the whole way. Thank you, Simon!
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Leadership Means Loyalty
By Swami Kriyananda
(The
following is an excerpt from the book, The Art of
Supportive Leadership)
It’s
easy to drive people, but difficult to lead them.
No matter how good an idea is, if the people you
lead aren’t ready for it they will obstruct
your efforts to implement it, or else change it
in some way to reflect what they are ready for.
Many an institution
has died when some project, often quite worthwhile,
was rammed down the throats of members who were
unwilling, or unable, to swallow it. And many a
leader has ridden to defeat under the standard of
a beautiful theory that he preferred over reality.
People are more important than things. No matter
how good an idea, if the people under you are not
ready for it, respect their position. Work with
them as they are, not as you would like them to
be. Be patient. Understand that it often takes time
to bring people to new points of view. Reflect on
how long it probably took you to come to your new
point of view, before you could present it to them.
To win loyalty from subordinates, first be loyal
to them. Never demand loyalty of others, for true
loyalty cannot be commandeered: It can only be won.
Be concerned only with being completely loyal yourself.
The same is true for
love: Never demand love of others. Love them without
worrying whether or not your love will be returned.
One who gives love freely is, of all people, the
most certain to receive it back-even a hundredfold.
In correcting someone, think not only of his need
to hear what you have to say; think also of his
readiness
to hear it. Wait until the right time to speak,
when what you have to tell him will do the mot good.
If you speak at the wrong time, you may never get
another chance: When next you raise the issue, he
will be likely to remember only the inauspicious
time when “you said that before.”
Be loyal first of
all to your own. In a school where the students
were invited to share in the administrative
work, complaints (not necessarily justified) were
made against one of the teachers. The headmaster,
eager to win the students by showing his loyalty
to them, immediately took strong action against
the teacher. Wouldn’t the wise and more truly
loyal thing to do have been first to inquire into
the justice of the charges, and then, if possible,
to work quietly with the teacher to correct her
fault? By courting the students at the expense of
his own staff member, the headmaster showed himself
not actually worthy of anyone’s loyalty.
Moreover, he demonstrated
that he was an incompetent leader, for the teacher
and the fellow staff members
were, after all, members of his work force. They
would, if he treated them right, remain with him
long after that particular group of students had
graduated. But without the continued support of
his teachers, the school itself would cease to exist.
Yet, how many bosses,
the moment they feel a little displeased with something,
take the brunt of their displeasure out on those
who are least in a position to defend themselves:
their subordinates? Authority so exercised is disloyal,
incompetent, and even cowardly.
To be given authority
over others is to be placed in a position of trust.
The wise leader will, if anything, bend over backwards
to defend and support his own, for he knows that
whatever good he may hope to accomplish for others
depends first on the strength of his own team.
Remember, then, these rules
on loyalty:
• Work
with people as they are, not as you would like them
to be.
• Work
with things as they are, and not as you would like
them to be.
• Be
patient. Understand that it takes time to bring
people to new points of view.
• To
win loyalty, first be loyal, yourself.
• To
win love, first give love yourself.
• In
correcting someone, consider first his readiness
to hear what you have to say.
• Be
loyal to your own first.
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Material
Success Through Yoga Principles, Gurgaon, India
For
more information, please contact us via ph: 0124-405-9553,
mobile: 9873-408-784
or email: MaterialSuccess@AnandaIndia.org
also visit our website: www.materialsuccess.com
In association with Ananda Sangha’s Yoga Institute
for Living Wisdom
Ananda Sangha is recognized by the government of India
as an NGO |
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