Performance Excellence

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Performance Excellence

• A presentation by
• Dr. P.V. Mohanram
• HoD, Dept. of Mech. Engg.
• PSG College of Technology

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Maintaining a Cheerful Atmosphere
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Behavioural training
In-house Gurukulam Different age groups Self
Development programmes
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Goal?
Excellence
Material success in the external world without
compromise of joy, peace, composure and
fulfillment in the inner world.
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Excellence?

• The citizens of this great nation shall perform
  their duties in an EXCELLENT way rather than
  perform them half heartedly
• EXCELLENCE means surpassing merit, virtue, honest
  performance
• Know your limits and go beyond them

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What is Necessary for Excellence?

• Intellectual openness.
• Willingness to be criticized.
• Willfully seeking criticism and alternatives.
• Creative, innovative thinking.

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Collective Excellence
Eg Mahatma Gandhi
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Fulfillment in life

• Being in the present happily
• No regrets of past failures
• No arrogance or vanity of the present
  achievements

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COMMON GOAL
Everyone wants
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RIGHT LIVING

• Ways physics of human life are to be understood
  

• If one rubs with nature he/she gets
• rubbed..

• Tragedy of today
• Rich are comfortably unhappy
• - Poor are uncomfortably unhappy

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Goal?

• Peace of mind

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Our uninfluenced Nature?
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Self Observation?

• MIND -

• Functional Mind ?
• knowing, memory, deciding, intelligence
• picking up knowledge, skills
• inner controller of the body

• Mind reflecting noble values ?
• love, peace, joy

• Mind propelled by the EGO ?
• projecting mind, comparing mind,
• concluding mind, the seat of
• sorrow, grief, disappointment, low self esteem

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Desirable aspects of the Mind
Flame without smoke

• Clarity of vision
• Spontaneity in response
• Correct decision making
• Creativity
• Better inter-personal relationship

Lamp without flicker
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Main objectives in any endeavor?

• Individual prosperity
• Benefit for the society
• Understanding and recognition of Self

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Basic understanding

• There is no plant which does not have medicinal
  value
• There is no word which does not have the power of
  mantra
• There is no person who doesnt have any special
  skill
• Eg. The car driver who maintains the car so
  well appreciate whole heartedly, sincerely in
  public using many words about the special
  skills/talents

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Fundamental facts contd

• There is no person who doesnt have any
  shortcomings
• Let us not condemn the individual
• (Can I be all inclusive?)
• No bundling of the individual with his
  shortcomings the individual is fine

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RELATING TO PEOPLE
FOUR DIFFERENT CATEGORIES
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1. ELDERS
ATTITUDE

• REVERENCE

• AGE

• FINANCIAL STATUS

• LEADERSHIP

• KNOWLEDGE

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2. CONTEMPERORIES
ATTITUDE

• ACCEPT THEM AS
• THEY ARE

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3. YOUNGSTERS
ATTITUDE

• FORGIVE AND FORGET

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4. SOCIAL MISCREANTS
ATTITUDE

• INDIFFERENCE

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• Can I accept people as
• they are?

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ACTION

• Attitude towards action?
• Slightest element not wanting to do?
• How many things at a time?

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• Can I be free from
• attachment to the
• results of my action?

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• How to handle the talents of others?
• - Glory
• is not fame burdensome?

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How to handle the achievements of others? -
Celebrate
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External thingskeep them where?
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GENERATING SPACE
attributes
Space
Generate space How?
Role is me Am I the role?
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Recognise the backgroundReaction?
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How to relax?

• Recognise the Universal order

Appreciate what is unfolding See the background

• Connection
• Laws

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Should I know the background?

• ...Need not
• Why?
• My knowledge and skills are limited.
• Result
• Enlightened/sublated Ego

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Problematic Life situations How to handle?
ALLOW ISNESS OF ALL THINGS
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Different forms of Resistance to WHAT IS?
Some form of judgement

• Thought level

Psychological pain
Some form of negativity
Emotional level
(Resentment, hatred, self-pity, guilt, anger,
depression, jealousy etc.)
EGO is in charge
Arguments, need to be right, accusing,
defending, attacking, hatred, judgement
Solution Honour and accept the PRESENT
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Acid test for being in the PRESENT

• Joy, ease and lightness in what I am doing
• Giving full attention to what is being done
• Total acceptance of what is
• Non binding expectations
• Every cell of my body feels vibrant with life

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Nature of Past accumulated emotional Pain

• Sets in negative thoughts
• Attempts to replenish itself

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What is Freedom?

• Can I suspend my point of view ?
• Can I facilitate what is unfolding without
  exercising control ?
• Can I co-operate with the principle of existence
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• Do I know when to withdraw ?
• Can I be free from calculation and manipulation ?

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What is Freedom?

• Can I suspend my point of view?
• Can I facilitate what is unfolding without
  exercising control?
• Can I co-operate with the principle of existence?
• Do I know when to withdraw?
• Can I be free from calculation and manipulation

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What happens when I complain about others/
situations?... Label othersAre in they
concepts?Is it not a form of violence?Can one
be like water freely flowing?
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Can I offer the 2nd place to the thinking mind ?
eg. Mastery in any field of endevour
- music, art, science
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Am I doer?
Flow Manifest form of the Potential
Potential
ACTION
Capacity Need
Manifestation of the Capacity as action
Doing Less Being more
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Delusion ?

• Can I get carried away by my likes and
  dislikes?Arguments?Truth of thoughts?Fragmentat
  ion of the reality

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Am I aware of awareness ?
No mental commentary

• Watching the sky/ocean/amazing mountains
• Any thrilling experience
• Moment of danger
• a
• Breath watching

Thought
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Ways of Ego

• Miserable, getting disturbed

• Complex ? I vs You This vs That
• Desire
• Fear
• Being in the past
• Remains in constant conflict with someone/
  something
• Order to cherish
• Question again again
• Who am I in relation to these thoughts?

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Wisdom
Perceiver
Perceived
Dissolved
Unified field of awareness
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What to do when tension mounts?
Be STILL
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Ownership?
Objects seem to enhance my worth
Objects are pulsating energy field Born in time
it must end Seemingly SOLID yet fleeting
TRUTH
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Am I the experiencer?
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How to handle EXPERIENCES?

• Rejoice from a distance
• Meditating on the object
• Attempt to possess

• Object of
• experience

• Devalue the objects
• (likes, dislikes)
• Making a memory out of experience
• (joyful, sorrowful)

Experience

• Devalue the experiencer
• (ego gets sublated)

Experiencer
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Why the mind runs into the field of objects ? -
Happiness

• Recognising the Limitations
• ? Short lived
• ? Mixed with sorrow
• ? Source of bondage
• Is it not an endless pursuit?
• What is that I seek in these objects?

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Result of listening to the thought?

• Attention is on the witnessing self
• Attention is NOT on the thought

Involuntary/mechanical/compulsive thinking
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Mind identified state

• Eg. Arguments / Justification

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When am I in the present?

• The moment I recognise that I am NOT in the
  present
• I AM IN THE PRESENT
• If I WATCH the thoughts
• If I FEEL the emotions
• If I OBSERVE my reactions
• Eg Ramana Maharishis tool
• Who am I?

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As one goes about life.
Immunity ? Creativity ?
Joy of Being
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Essence of all Practices ?
Result
Space Objects Time
Well Controlled Mind (sajnama)
Saying HALT to the mind with respect to
Holding the object of contemplation in the same
place for prolonged period of time
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Perfection

• Let me apply perfection on me
• Accept gladly the imperfections of the world
• Let me do what is to be done instead of doing
  what I like

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How to handle change?
Contd.
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How to handle Anger?
Relative approach - Welcome strategy
Absolute approach - I am full
complete limitless (Knowledge)
Fear?
- Sense of otherness
What is meant by intelligent living?
Seeking help when required
How to make a person receptive?
Only through questions
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How to handle your weaknesses?
Talk and laugh about it
How to handle naughty children?
Mimic them
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Result of this practice?
I can dictate my mind to be focused on one theme/
object, whenever I am for any length of time
WITHOUT RECEIVING ANY COMPLAINT from the
MIND Indication of MATURITY Effortlessness,
Independence, Freedom, Unconditional Happiness,
Compassion Love
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Result of this practice?
Only such a person alone can influence the minds
of others in the long run
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CHANGE WHAT CAN BE CHANGED WITH FULL WILL POWER
ACCEPT WHAT CAN NOT BE CHANGED CHEERFULLY
LET US PRAY FOR THE WISDOM TO DIFFERENTIATE
BETWEEN WHAT CAN NOT BE CHANGED AND WHAT CAN BE
CHANGED
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The learnings ....
We cannot change the wind direction But we can
always adjust our sail....
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Thank You