From engineer to monk
I am Ganga Narayan Das. I trained as a ceramic engineer at NIT Rourkela and worked in the corporate world from 1999 to 2008. In April 2008 I took formal vows as a monk. I have practised every day since.
Ganga Narayan Das
Why the engineer matters
An engineer is trained to ask one question: where exactly does the system fail. I asked that question of the human being under pressure. The answer I kept finding was the same. The mind was not the weak part. The body's stress response would not switch off, and the mind was working for it.
Why the monk matters
The Bhagavad Gita describes a steady person with great precision. I read it the way an engineer reads a manual: as a description of how a system behaves when it works correctly. I did not study this from outside. I have lived the practice daily since 2008.
What I do now
I teach the Bhagavad Gita as applied neuroscience for leaders under relentless pressure. The work is called Sthira. It teaches the body to stand down, so the mind can stop when the day is done. Leaders at KPMG, NPCIL, Tata Steel, PwC and HDFC have sat in these sessions.
What this means for you
I do not fix your business. I work with the one running it. If the inside is not steady, no outside tactic holds.
Sources
• None. This page is first-person.
This page is education, not medical advice.
Ganga Narayan Das
Neuroscience × Bhagavad Gita. A protocol that recalibrates the executive, trains the educator, and installs coherence in the child, before the pressure arrives.
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