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Ganga Narayan Das
50 WORDS
Short bio
Ganga Narayan Das is a monk-engineer and the founder of Apply Gita Wisdom. He teaches the Bhagavad Gita as applied neuroscience for founders and leaders whose mind never switches off. A Ceramic Engineering graduate of NIT Rourkela, he has been a practising monk since 2008 and created the Sthirā method.
100 WORDS
Medium bio
Ganga Narayan Das is a monk-engineer, the founder of Apply Gita Wisdom and the creator of the Sthirā method. He teaches the Bhagavad Gita as applied neuroscience for founders and leaders whose mind never switches off. An engineer by training, he holds a B.Tech in Ceramic Engineering from NIT Rourkela, worked in the corporate world from 1999 to 2008 [GND TO CONFIRM] and has been a practising monk since April 2008 [GND TO CONFIRM]. He has delivered sessions at KPMG, NPCIL, Tata Steel, PwC, HDFC, TIMA, MPA [GND TO CONFIRM] and TMA [GND TO CONFIRM], and at UNEA 4 and UNEA 6, the United Nations Environment Assembly, held in Nairobi.
200 WORDS
Long bio
Ganga Narayan Das is a monk-engineer, the founder of Apply Gita Wisdom and the creator of the Sthirā method. He teaches the Bhagavad Gita as applied neuroscience for founders and leaders whose mind never switches off. He trained as an engineer and holds a B.Tech in Ceramic Engineering from NIT Rourkela. His corporate career ran from 1999 to 2008 [GND TO CONFIRM]. In April 2008 [GND TO CONFIRM] he became a practising monk, and he has remained one since. He works with founders and business heads who have built everything except an off-switch. Sthirā, the method he created, uses the Bhagavad Gita as a working manual for the nervous system. His talks take up why a founder's mind will not switch off at night, why eight hours in bed can still leave a person unrested, how numbness gets mistaken for calm, and what an engineer learned from 18 years as a monk. He has delivered sessions for audiences at KPMG, NPCIL, Tata Steel, PwC, HDFC, TIMA, MPA [GND TO CONFIRM] and TMA [GND TO CONFIRM], and at UNEA 4 and UNEA 6, the fourth and sixth sessions of the United Nations Environment Assembly, held in Nairobi. More of his work is at applygitawisdom.com and neural-acoustics.com, and on his YouTube channel.
TOPICS
Talk topics
1. Why a founder's mind will not switch off at night 2. Eight hours in bed and still not rested 3. Numbness mistaken for calm 4. The Bhagavad Gita as a manual for the nervous system 5. What an engineer learned from 18 years as a monk
FOR INTERVIEWERS
Ten suggested interview questions
1. You trained as an engineer and then became a monk. What did each world teach you that the other could not? 2. Why does a founder's mind keep running long after the working day ends? 3. Someone sleeps eight hours and still wakes up tired. What is going on? 4. How can a person tell the difference between being calm and being numb? 5. What does it mean to read the Bhagavad Gita as a manual for the nervous system? 6. What is the Sthirā method, and what does a founder actually do with it? 7. You describe founders as having built everything except an off-switch. Why is that the piece that gets left out? 8. What changes when you teach this inside a company rather than to one person? 9. You have presented at the United Nations Environment Assembly. How does inner stability connect to the questions discussed there? 10. What is one thing a founder can try tonight to begin switching off?
SESSIONS
Where he has delivered sessions
KPMG NPCIL Tata Steel PwC HDFC TIMA MPA [GND TO CONFIRM] TMA [GND TO CONFIRM] UNEA 4 and UNEA 6, United Nations Environment Assembly, Nairobi
PORTRAIT AND CONTACT
Portrait and contact
For interviews, podcasts and speaking enquiries: connect@applygitawisdom.com
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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