“Meditation is not just about God-Realisation. It is also about creativity. When we scan through all our life’s decisions especially when we made the wrong ones which made us unhappy. What was behind it? Was your mind agreeing to it? Was your heart agreeing to it? Your mind may have agreed due to greed or some sort of logic. But if your heart says don’t do it and you overrule your heart and still do it, then the consequences are always bad. The immediate result of meditation is discernment.”
In the morning, Daaji asked the in-house team to take the big electrical sprayer can with a 15-litre capacity and water mixed with starter fertiliser to spray the broccoli, lemon, and tomato plants. As a lot more plants and vegetables needed to be sprayed, Daaji asked for a tractor tanker to be brought so that they could complete spraying all the plants there.
During breakfast, Malvika Ragavendar from Chicago and her mother Viji Ragavendar joined Daaji at the breakfast. After breakfast, Atul Veghad and another person from Kolkata came to meet Daaji and handed over some letters written by Babuji Maharaj. After coffee, Daaji got ready to go to the meditation hall office to meet the guests from the HTC company who were in Kanha for a few days.
After getting ready, Daaji was working on his computer when brother Pavan Kumar from the civil work team came and met him before marking the new polyhouse plan. Daaji got up and went to see the marking and confirmed it. By then brother Ram Nimaganda came along with the Thumkunta ashram manager and two other practitioners. They wanted to see Daaji regarding the land allocated to us by the government on lease in the Sagar Lake area. Daaji instructed on the arrangements to be made. He promised that he would go there and stay for one day to conduct meditation there.
Daaji went to the meditation hall office around 10 am to join the online meeting with the participants from Hindustan Aeronautical Limited management. He gave a talk followed by a meditation session.
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is a public-sector aerospace and defense company that is one of the oldest and largest aerospace and defense manufacturers in the world. Heartfulness meditation has been introduced to over 8000 people from their staff. The HAL management would like to enable further training in Heartfulness for their employees who seem to have truly appreciated these sessions so far.
Daaji then gave a brief talk to them. He spoke about his experience as an entrepreneur. He said that when he used to work he noticed that we spend a lot of time at our workplace. So what if we make our work environment as loving and harmonious as at home?
He explained, “At home, parents don't think of competing with their children, do they? They are happy to see them surpass their elders in skills and achievements. So imagine we create an environment at work where if a colleague surpasses our abilities, instead of feeling jealous and threatened we can feel happy that someone with a greater expertise is better than me.
But unfortunately, we jail ourselves with such negative tendencies and destroy ourselves in the process. Negative tendencies produce negative neurotransmitters, which in turn, create negative hormones in our bloodstream. As a result, our physical and mental health suffers. Because of that consequence, our spiritual health also suffers. And what is spiritual health? Spiritual health can be measured just as we measure our temperature. It can be measured by our level of enthusiasm. Do you have the required level of enthusiasm to undertake any task given to you? You may not be familiar with the task but you are so piqued that you are willing to try to do your best.”
Then he explained how ingenious creativity is possible when we are deeply meditative. Tapping into our superconsciousness unleashes our creativity. Daaji gave an example from his pharmacy study days when he had been able to solve a complex problem due to the time he spent in deep meditation.
He said, “Meditation is not just about God-Realisation. It is also about creativity. When we scan through all our life’s decisions especially when we made the wrong ones which made us unhappy. What was behind it? Was your mind agreeing to it? Was your heart agreeing to it? Your mind may have agreed due to greed or some sort of logic. But if your heart says don’t do it and you overrule your heart and still do it, then the consequences are always bad. The immediate result of meditation is discernment. In making decisions we have to not just think of what we would like to choose but also what the others in our life will like. As a CEO or Head of department, we need to weigh if our decisions are for the overall good or is it that I am imposing our egoistic ideas however right they may be on others. If it is not for the overall good then I should swallow that bitter pill.
This can be critical in the context of HR. We must work as a family and if my decision is going to hurt the family then I don't make that decision. Period. As CEO of a company, I have often observed that there are many types of employees. There are part-timers and full-timers and then there are people who are indispensable. Without them, the company can really suffer. If they come up and say that they want to work at home during vacation, would you fight with his proposal? No, you won’t. Because their contribution is whole-hearted and in the interest of the company.
If the company is not profitable how can the employees get their salaries? So actually you are paying yourself with your hard work. At any given time, the good, happy, enthused employees can easily be identified at a glance. You can also recognise a troublemaker. You can do all this by cultivating a meditative mind. The meditative mind perceives things beyond words”.
Then Daaji explained the importance of the heart in meditation. In the King James Bible, Vedas, Upanishads and other books the heart is mentioned a stupendous number of times. Whereas the brain is not mentioned even once in the King James Bible. In the human foetus, the heart is formed before the brain. Even Lord Krishna says in the Gita that he is present in the heart of each seeker. After speaking further on Heartfulness meditation Daaji then led them into relaxation and a practical session of Heartfulness meditation.
Many guests were also present. They were all from HTC. Four of them from the US and six of them from the company’s India operations were present.
1) Nalin Vij- President of Sales and Marketing 2) Sangy Vatsa- Chief Technology and Digital officer, 3) Chary Mudumby- Chief Information officer, 4) Rosalee Kombial- Chief Human Resources officer, 5) Suresh KV -Chief Delivery officer, 6) Amit Tyagi - Chief Marketing officer, 7) Sanjeev Babel - Sales strategy 8) Ankit Verma- family member, 9) Teja Reddy- Executive Board member, and 10) Madhava Reddy - Chief Executive Officer
After the session, brother Bharath Madhavan, correspondent of Lalaji Memorial Omega School, Chennai met Daaji and discussed matters related to the school. There were many practitioners waiting outside to meet Daaji. He met all of them patiently before he got into his car
That day a few functionaries from Kanha met with the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Telangana Shri Revanth Reddy. They had a fruitful discussion and he promised a visit to Kanha at the earliest.
In the evening, Daaji went to the Kanha Sarovar. A Kanha Coaching Centre student came and met him there. Brother Bhavani Shankar from Chennai, Subra, and Viji came to meet Daaji.