have dreams
and all of us
heroic potential in us
but unfortunately
it isn’t always that we trust it
it isn’t always let me invest in it and
interestingly there’s been research done
on this and what we find is that in Ivy
League colleges also a very small
percentage of people really believe in
themselves and have a vision for who
they can be and interestingly the
percentage of people have a vision for
themselves always accomplished much more
than people who don’t have a vision for
themselves and it’s not as though they
achieve everything that they set out to
achieve but their achievements and
accomplishments are significantly higher
than people who do not make this
commitment is there a way an easy way by
which we can do this the answer is yes
and interestingly the puranas and the UT
Haase give us a very interesting way of
working with this the word if the Haase
means Wow is that the way it was and
that excites us to start listening these
very beautiful stories the word purana
means para apena vom buddha means old
and nagham means nation now how can
something which is old written for 5000
years ago be Mason and the way we agreed
the Puranas makes it present now one of
the ways in which it’s often used is to
project ideals and ask you to imitate
the ideal
and that’s not what the Piranha was
designed for piranhas a design for a
slightly different purpose you read the
piranhas and the first thing that
strikes you is you are excited by the
character and you ask yourself can I be
like this so there’s an identification
and then if you start working with it a
little more you can get into an
immersion into the character and then
you work with it a little more you get
into self mastery so the piranhas are
actually meant to be mirrors unto
yourself and to enable you to touch the
okay I’m going to take you through a
very quick taxol of how you can do this
so I’d like you if you willing to just
close your eyes and follow me when I’m
talking and see what happens and the
heroes I’m going to talk to you about
are not gender sensitive because while
at the surface they look as though
they’re heroes
you’re actually talking about archetypal
energies and archetypal energies are
present in all of us yeah I am you
district I am the one who is called to
bring order into society whenever there
is disorder I awaken I am disciplined
I understand tradition I bring in rules
I bring in standard operating procedures
and sometimes I get caught with rigidity
I’m Deema I am the one who is called to
adventure I live a life of passion
challenges awaken me but there are times
when I have become very caught with my
impulse ability and don’t always
exercise for thought
I am Nikola I am compassionate I am
drawn to the suffering of people and I
serve me I bring about inclusivity I
create themes I make people feel a sense
of belonging but in my eagerness to
offer I sometimes forget to replenish
I am Sahiban I am the one who gets
extremely triggered by intellectual
problems I’m a great problem solver I
think of the things I make things better
I am very innovative but I too can get
caught with my intellectualism and
and I’m a little different from my
brothers while I’m also very similar to
them I am talented enough to be any of
them and therefore often I am the one
who orchestrates these four
so when Dima goes out and conquers new
territory I am there to help my brother
yudishtir to create order bring an
administration if a Sahadeva invents
something I convert it into a production
of scalable items but I’m also different
from them in the sense that I am the one
who steps outside the system and I asked
very deep questions I often ask the
question in doing what we are doing what
are we really doing what am i part of
and when I ask these questions I delve
since I’m not just a hyper masculine
hero I also invest in the feminine side
of me I’m a great dancer
I love the aesthetics and I’m capable of
understanding many things that happen
simply because I spend time in
understanding myself Carla is a great
hero he’s exactly like me
but since garner has had to live a life
where he faces deprivation and denial
and discrimination day in and day out he
has developed strong armors and defense
mechanisms around himself
and he is also very compulsive about
giving perhaps because he’s searching
for affirmation and society will not
give it to him
I understand draupadi the vulnerability
of a woman who at the point when she’s
being humiliated finds no help coming
forward neither us the protectors could
do anything now the holder of the law
and now if you’ve been with me you can
take the next step the next step is to
turn around and ask ourselves how do we
action these people inside us how do I
look at my society am i creating a
society where merit is honored am i
creating a society where vulnerability
and once some of these seeds of heroism
in ourselves has been touched we can
take the next step and the next question
is how do I know these and again the
piranhas come to our aid because there
are several situations there are
hundreds of situations where the heroes
and they counterpoint nor the Kauravas
are very very similar to the Pandavas
but every point of a hero is an equal
cordova hero what’s the difference the
difference is that whenever a situation
happens the Carrabba’s seemed to react
very immediately and they failed to sit
back and ask the question in doing what
I’m doing what am I really doing they
failed to listen to wise people the same
wise people are available for both sides
for the Kauravas and the Pandavas and by
asking these questions of themselves
they’re able to deal with life because
the seeds have to be nurtured in life
your seeds are not nurtured in some
quiet nursery corner so life will
continuously throw up surprises some of
these surprises will be beautiful
wonderful some of them will be scary
some of them will invite you to be
courageous how do I discover the ability
to nurture the seeds as they grow and
here again the Puranas give you many
many situations when both sides had to
deal with them one set of people learnt
and the others didn’t and it’s only what
I am able to ask these three questions
and answer them clearly if I can act
with conviction
I have to answer the question Who am I I
have to understand the situation and say
where am I finally ask myself why am I
here an act from that deep conviction so
the world around us is constantly
changing
we can’t make decisions which are
calculations of the external reality we
have to have an internal compass and
these three questions are the internal
compass now when I learn to ask these
questions of myself and use the Puranas
as a mirror I discover something very
beautiful about my life every day is
actually a small struggle in itself so
do I make my life of kuruksetra a
meaningless struggle a reactive struggle
and one side which constantly acted from
egocentric motivations created a
Kurukshetra and it’s only because an
Arjun I was able to ask the question is
this the right war with the whole
battlefield become a Dharma chatter and
when we stop to ask these very difficult
questions they’re actually questioning
our whole life and they’re very
stressful situations and you find that
Arjuna had to encounter all the symptoms
of deep stress he had high blood
pressure his BP was very high
his muscles wouldn’t work
even this falls at the right moment
right yeah and his vision became
extremely narrow he couldn’t understand
things properly but he had the ability
in him the physical ability his
emotional ability and the mental
capability to ask these questions deeply
ask them anew and find meaningful
answers for it
that’s how each of us becomes a leader
we’ve become a leader by being able to
ask deep questions of ourselves the way
our genetics have a physical mastery and
emotional mastery and a mental mastery
which allows us to ask this question to
its final death every one of us has the
seeds every one has these resources and
it’s up to us to make the commitment to
self mastery how do I know everyone can
do it because I’m helping hundreds of
leaders in all walks of life every year
to look at themselves ask these
questions and I am constantly helping
them to immerse themselves in the
Mahabharata in the Puranas and discover
how they can encounter very small
challenges in life learn self mastery
and become capable of taking very strong
important conviction based actions all
you have to do is to make a commitment
and start and every one of you I am sure
can do it thank you