Going strong at 83,seer who teaches Vedanta to play cricket

“Every year,engineering students pass prestigious engineering schools around the world,” he says,“but it takes a single man to design the Eiffel Tower. Why? While most of us acquire intelligence,only a few develop intellect. And the loss of this intellect is the root cause of all human downfalls- be it stress,depression,disease or economic breakdown and act of terrorism,” he adds.

Parthasarathy has written several books on the philosophy of Vedanta —which explains the eternal principles of life and living. His discourses on Vedanta and the preachings of the Bhagwad Gita,his self-management courses,often sees full house in India and abroad and are attended by corporates worldwide.

From Monday to Friday this week,Parthasarathy will organise one such open-for-all discourse of Bhagwad Gita in Mumbai’s Ravindra Natya Mandir,Prabhadevi.  

“The problem with humanity is that we choose to follow herd mentality. Most of us live life not by using intellect,but by following what is fed to us. No wonder,so many businesses are going down and on personal front the western world sees 70 percent failures regarding marriage,” the guru said.

The corporate guru of sorts is now working on an unusual book for management students that will put the idea of ‘think outside the herd’ in their minds.

His last book,‘The Fall of the Human Intellect’ that puts in a nutshell what ails the world and how,humans still have the ability to rebuilt their intellect was a worldwide best-seller in 2007.

“This book was written by Swamiji between 4 am and 6 am everyday. This is the time when the thought process is the sharpest and the intellect is fresh. Swamiji has always done important work during this time,” his followers say.