The Me

All attempts to "indicate" in words the indefinable infinite source of us all create more markers in a journey that isn't.

Why sustain the illusion that there is actually a fixed place and a multitude of pathways to get that illusive place called nirvana, moksha, graceland?

When, before the beginning and after the end of time, there is nowhere to go, nowhere to hide!!

When there is nothing "real" about "maya"?

When there is nothing but a

"Seeing of our blindness"?,

"listening to our deafness",

"tasting our own blandness",

"speaking our own dumbness",

"touching our senselessness" and

"minding our mindlessness"?

And in this embracing of current reality, it simply dissolves away!

A choiceless Awareness arises or rather shines through

And then we realize the timeless truths

The wisdom of the sages through the ages

Ihaiwa, Ihaiwa -- here only, now only

Tat Twam Asi -- Thou art that

Aham Brahmasmi - I am Brahma is me

Khalawida Brahma -- The whole is Brahma

The journey that begins with Kohum? - Who am I

Ends when one realizes the destination is Sohum -- That I am!

And then Srushti shines -- the Divine Nature within and without!

Powered by the smiling Savita -- the Sun that gives and gives and burns till it dies out

Blessed by the eternal Shankar and the serene Shailaja -- the Shiva and Parvati

Ably challenged into Being Love by the Chandrasekhar and Shailaja -- the moon bearer and his consort

And the Ganesha - lord of wisdom, the jidnyasu, Dances on

Weaving the fabric of magical insights in multiple languages

Always inviting "eternal light" into the "ephemeral darkness"

What a truly amazing trip this round around the "Ananda" spiral is turning out to be..

Anil Shankar Paranjpe --> Actualising Sacred Potential --> Ananda Silence Peace

From Having to Doing through Being to Source

-- All the time becoming the BEING!

The Smile that never ends is Breaking out

Being Disciplined --> Being Love --> Being Whole

my life's work

Life is a path we create as we tread it – this is I hold to be a fundamental truth.

The individual and the collective are on a march towards greatness – always in a spiral, never in a straight line nor in loops. The spiral of Ananda – wonder leading to dawning of wisdom which ushers in true wealth. This leads to fleeting experiences of the Reality of Wholes – a network of wholes ultimately leading to the source of it all – the deep void, the silence that is before the beginning and after the end – the Wishwa Yoni.

As I am becoming increasingly clear, I have been, am and will continue to be a student of “Life”!

It started with the foray into the field of Process Improvement for software, graduated into an inquiry into the science of organisational learning which led into the world of “Architecting Value generating systems”. Currently I am seeing the transformation space as leading directly to this Discovery of Divine Designs.

We all are essentially on a journey of discovering divine design and then living the disciplined life of a sadhak-senani to eventually become a Raj-Rishi. In the institutional space this “ultimate destination” appears to be “Co-creation of Conscious Communities”

Books like Goal, The Fifth discipline, The Living company, Birth of the Chaordic age, Zen and the art of Motorcycle maintenance, etc are vehicles of the Western thought to bring about excellence in our working lives.

Based on direct personal experience, and engaging with Illumine Knowledge Resources Private Limited, as well as the subsequent forays at two start-ups and into facilitation with Athanor, I am convinced that the lack of a deeper basis for living, is the source of great trouble in the individual and social life.

I believe that Oriental culture at its roots contains the principles relevant to the current times. These have to be integrated into a whole with the “developmental scientific and engineering” work of the Occident! I see that the need is to take these principles and architect the new age practices, which are by design, value creating and at the same time liberating for the individual.

Performance at all levels comes from available Capacity and paradoxically all capacity comes from prior performance! Often a lack in performance is caused by “invisible” gaps between our beliefs and our actions (espoused theory vs. theory-in-action).

I am interested in the ongoing work of aligning the actual daily practices with the various guiding frameworks (informal or formal). This is the “discovery” of the latent capacities which leads to sustained performance.

Thus my life’s work with individuals, teams and organisations is to be a Capacity Discovery Coach.