Much has been said and written about the concept of emotional intelligence, a brain-child of the eminent psychologist, Daniel Goleman. However Goleman’s conception is only one way of looking at emotional intelligence. This article presents an alternative perspective on the concept and development of emotional intelligence based on yogic psychology, and examines its implications for the knowledge-worker.
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The preoccupation with universal beauty even in its aesthetic forms has an intense power for refining and subtilising the nature, and at its highest it is a great force for purification.
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Art, poetry and music, when rightly used, can lead to a deep purification and refinement of emotions which in turn has a positive impact on character.
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There is this beauty, this dignity of soul – a thing about which I am very sensitive. It is a thing that moves me and evokes in me a great respect always. Yes, this beauty of soul that is visible in the face, this kind of dignity, this harmony of integral realisation. When the soul becomes visible in the physical, it gives this dignity, this beauty, this majesty, the majesty that comes from one’s being the Tabernacle. Then, even things that have no particular beauty put on a sense of eternal beauty, of the eternal beauty.
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How important is ‘Vision’ for an organisation and for the individual. When we trace the creative source of a civilization, culture or organization which endured long and achieved greatness, we will find at its source aRead More…
Equality, renunciation of all desire for the fruit of works, action one as a sacrifice to the supreme Lord of our nature and all nature – these are the three first Godward approaches in the Gita’sRead More…
Man embodied in the natural world cannot cease from action, not for a moment, not for a second; his very existence here is an action; the whole universe is an act of God, mere living evenRead More…
The concept of “Personality Development“ is well known to all teachers of self-development. But not many among them are aware of the deeper laws that govern the process of this development. In this article a modernRead More…
(On the occasion of India’s Independence day on 15th August) There is almost a consensus among modern intelligentsia that secularism, as it was conceived and practiced in the West, is the best ideology for democratic governance.Read More…
A Synopsis of Sri Aurobindo’s Major Works M.S.Srinivasan Sri Aurobindo is a versatile spiritual genius, who is not only a Master-Yogi with profound spiritual realizations, but also a great scholar and thinker who wrote extensively onRead More…
Our human organism has a limited capacity for prolonged periods of activity. This capacity for work can perhaps be extended indefinitely through proper discipline, but rest and relaxation is part of this discipline. Prolonged expenditure ofRead More…
A collectivity, like a nation, community or an organisation is a living human organism with an inner and outer being. So, as in the case of the individual, for the integral development of the human potentialRead More…
