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    Life Is Balanced Living Is Not!
    Life Is Balanced Living Is Not!
    Life Is Balanced Living Is Not!
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    Life Is Balanced Living Is Not!

    By Prof. G. Lakshman

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    This book serves as a self- help guide for personal growth. The eight chapters need not be read sequentially, but each chapter builds on the other. To keep the interest of the reader alive, each of the chapter has apt stories to convey the theme. The activity sheet in each chapter also provides the individual, insights through experiential learning.

    The insights shared in each chapter is like clay, it can be mud in shoes, brick in building or a statue that will inspire all who see it. The clay is the same. The result is dependent on how it is used.
    The Pause, Reflect and Scribble notes are touch points for the adult readers to delve deeper, and eventually your revelation will guide you to Connect to your true nature, for your healing.

    The book can also be used as an additional reading material on the subject of ethics, values, wellness and integration of body, mind and soul. The book is apt course ware on, The Principles of Self Science for graduate and post graduate programme.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPartridge Publishing India
    Release dateAug 16, 2013
    ISBN9781482811353
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      Book preview

      Life Is Balanced Living Is Not! - Prof. G. Lakshman

      Copyright © 2013 by Prof. G. Lakshman.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Partridge books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting:

      Partridge India

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Foreword

      Foreword

      From the Author’s desk

      Acknowledgements

      Chapter 1 The self science Model

      Chapter 2 Induce the spirit of Inquiry

      Chapter 3 Work on your habits to create the change you are seeking

      Chapter 4 Surrender your habits & link it with a meaning and purpose at different stages of life

      Chapter 5 Work on the principle of impartial introspection

      Chapter 6 Align passionately to Present Moment (Now) by practicing awareness and silencing the mind

      Chapter 7 Develop high levels of maturity, and Judgment for understanding reality

      Chapter 8 Strive for Balanced living

      Comments from Readers

      This book is targeted to touch a billion lives and

      bring about transformations in people and in society.

      Prof G. Lakshman

      FOREWORD

      I am indeed privileged to write a ‘FOREWORD’ for Prof.Lakshman’s book "Life is balanced, Living is not . It is an excellent book and a guide for all who wish to live a balanced life with spiritual and physical success. Prof.Lakshman is a teacher and author. He receives ideas, thoughts and knowledge from everywhere analyzing and accepting those which add value to life in traditional Indian philosophy Aano bhadra krtavo yantu vishwatah".

      He studies, and works on the principle of analyze, experiment and experience and then translates into a teacher’s language and style with single minded devotion to reach his experience and wisdoms to others.

      Life is balanced, Living is not is one such book authored by him based on his own experiments and analyses and presents Common Denominators of Success and Leadership. He starts with a detailed definition of success and explains true meaning of success in professional and personal life. Life is divine. We are spiritual beings with Physical form. Everyone is blessed with life as a human being with a purpose, a dharma to perform. Identifying one’s God given gifts, talents and acquired skill & knowledge and putting these in the service of society and nature is the journey to success.

      The book is divided into eight chapters, each chapter dealing with a process leading to success in life. Under each section, there are exercise, which may be carried out under the supervision of a teacher, so that the subject covered and process explained could be experienced by the participants. In this way, it is a different kind of book as it is not only presenting topics, but also guides the reader through well written exercises. I understood from Prof.Lakshman that these exercises were carried out by groups of students under his guidance and refined based on the experience gained through experiments. The book can therefore be used by a reader for self-teaching the various methods suggested by Prof.Lakshman. The book deals with success in a holistic manner and I am sure it will be a very useful book on, "The Principles of Self Science" for those who want to achieve success in a holistic way.

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      Dr C.G.Krishnadas Nair

      Padmashree Awardee

      Former Chairman, Hindustan Aeronautics LTD. (Hal)

      President, Society of Indian Aerospace Technologies & Industries (SIATI)

      Foreword

      I f any enterprise has to succeed in the true sense of the term, one has to pay equal attention to the deed as well as the doer.

      The deed will be perfect if done as per the rules of the game.

      The doer will be perfect if his intentions are clean and the techniques adopted are efficient.

      Then and then alone, the greatest good of the greatest number will be achieved.

      Hence we have to pay as much attention to the reformation or transformation of the individual as to the system itself.

      This is what Prof Lakshman is trying to impress upon the readers in this work, Life is Balanced Living is not!

      In eight short chapters with catchy titles, he has tried to amalgamate the ancient values of morality and ethics with the modern principles of management. He has prescribed several practical methods such as self enquiry, scribbling notes to remember things, self evaluation including one’s behavioral pattern towards others. Above all, he advises the readers to search for and discover a meaning for one’s life.

      In a way, we can say that the spirit behind the famous saying of Swami Vivekananda viz, for the liberation of oneself and for the service of mankind (one should strive) has been reflected in this short treatise on successful Management.

      Swami Harshananda,

      Adhyaksha

      Ramakrishna Mutt

      Bangalore-560019

      From the Author’s desk

      T his book serves as a self-help guide for personal growth. The eight chapters need not be read sequentially, but each chapter builds on the other. To keep the interest of the reader alive, each of the chapter has apt stories to convey the theme. The activity sheet in each chapter also provides the individual, insights through experiential learning.

      The insights shared in each chapter is like clay, it can be mud in shoes, brick in building or a statue that will inspire all who see it. The clay is the same. The result is dependent on how it is used.

      The Pause, Reflect and Scribble notes are touch points for the adult readers to delve deeper, and eventually your revelation will guide you to Connect to your true nature, for your healing.

      The book can also be used as an additional reading material on the subject of ethics, values, wellness and integration of body, mind and soul. The book is apt course ware on, The Principles of Self Science for graduate and post graduate programme.

      Prof G.Lakshman

      www.glakshman.com

      glakshman1@gmail.com

      Acknowledgements

      Over the years I have learned from, and been influenced by many individuals. I would like to acknowledge and give a public praising to the following people:

      My parents—for inculcating the values of personal honesty and transparency

      Dr Chenraj Jain for what he taught me about unlocking human potential.

      My sincere appreciation to Dr Nagendra for what he taught me about skillfully weaving the various Yoga sciences into Self sciences.

      I am also grateful to Ms. Kalpana Shashimohan for proofreading the text and making the necessary corrections.

      I would like to acknowledge all the great leaders, thinkers, and sages of all religion who have walked this earth, and whose words and thoughts have been shared and quoted widely throughout the book.

      Last, but certainly not least, I bow down to my Guru, Paramahamsa Yogananda for his guidance, to all humanity.

      Chapter 1

      The self science Model

      Life is half spent before one knows what it is!

      -French Proverb

      A Brigadier once said, I can command the whole brigade, but I cannot say a word to my wife and my children. The other day I heard the Vice Chancellor of a university commenting likewise, in a pensive mood, Thousands of students flock to hear my lecture in my campus but the moment I open my mouth at home my children run away.

      These people are successful in their profession, but in their domestic lives they have no sense of success. They are experts when it comes to handling some problems, but are incompetent when it comes to facing life as a whole—such indeed is the case with most of us

      In the 21st century, the most popular books are books on Management and books on Self—Help. A lot of literature has also been written on how to be successful.

      Management courses such as effective communication, business management teach people to be effective, productive and successful. But each of these courses deals with only one particular aspect of success.

      We divide life into many small compartments and try to live in this piecemeal fashion. Merely accomplishing a task that we undertake cannot be the definition of success.

      True meaning of Success:

      Following the path of righteousness which is beneficial to the individual and the society, and attaining the end result with peace of mind and happiness is success. The joy of living, which is born of a sense of contentment in life, can be termed as

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