Daaji woke up at 4.30 am and worked in his office. He went for a walk after 6.30 am. After breakfast, Daaji went to the backstage office to meet with the School Connect Coordinator and Correspondent of the Omega School, Bharat Madhavan, who had come accompanied by some teachers from the school.
Divya, Shilpa, Ganga, Ushma Subra, and Satbir Bakshi represented the Omega school, whereas Praveen Dagdee, Sowmya, and Kanakavalli were from the Heartfulness Learning Center. Sister Anna Dearden of the Kanha Global School was also there. They showed him the future plan of the school. They presented him with various possible options for the vision, motto, and logos for Heartfulness International School, which they had carefully prepared to put before him.
While choosing the vision statement, Daaji suggested adding "Cultivating Intuition" to the statement. For the motto, amongst several options in Sanskrit, Latin, and English, he selected "Hṛidayādeva sarvaṁ vidyādhanaṁ" which translates as "All knowledge stems from the heart.".
For the logo, he chose the esoteric symbol and added it to the center of the green circle design, which was the original logo.
Regarding the 5 bundles of light that flow from the center, he spoke about the Pancha Bhootas, and he gave two options, one is to use the colors of these 5 elements as the colors for these 5 lines or to have all 5 colors on all of these 5 lines. He also asked for a change in the green circle color accordingly.
Some updates on the Omega School were as follows. Daaji was updated about the quadrangle enclosure and hoped that he would come to visit the school to inaugurate it when it would be done. With a huge smile, Daaji said "It is already inaugurated now.". The team smiled in unison but insisted on his coming for the official inauguration. Instead, Daaji suggested inviting CBSE in-charge, Himanshu Gupta for the inauguration.
Daaji instructed them to watch the video on biophilic structures, saying that, “If you have a 5000 sq ft space, you get 5 classrooms of 500 sq ft each, and the remaining for indoor greenery, and it is a self-sustaining, light structure.” For the Tiruvallur project, he suggested that we did not need to build another floor on the existing medical center but to build a new building from the ground up.
Daaji asked Dr Sarika Singh being prepared for preceptor work, if she was fasting that day so that he could give her the final sitting of becoming a preceptor. But she had already had her breakfast, so he postponed it for the next day in the evening.
Daaji conducted meditation from 9.41 am to 10.02 am for everyone there. After the meditation, a couple who wanted to get married met him, and he asked them when they wanted to get married. He suggested that they perform the ceremony that evening, as there were already a few weddings taking place. Then, seeing them not responding, he gently suggested that they could have the ceremony the next day morning. When both still remained silent, he asked them why did they hesitate to get married the next day. They said that the bride’s parents were not there in Kanha. So Daaji then said that April 28 could be a good date too, and they thanked him with joy, deciding that by then both their parents would be able to be there for the ceremony. A young boy was sitting there, and Daaji jested with him, saying that if he wanted to get married, they would start searching for a girl for him! Everyone started to laugh.
When he left his office, Daaji asked Dr. Jayaram Thimapurram to sit in his car and they went home to Daaji’s residence, where they discussed research projects over tea. Daaji suggested studying the practices of Heartfulness in its entirety. Heart rate variability with meditative practices and EEG changes were discussed. They also discussed studying meditative states with the devices which were shared by HeartMath Institute. Then Daaji said goodbye to everyone and went to take a rest.
