Word: vedanta
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...suitors coming, it will have to do more to reform its business climate and address foreign companies' concerns on everything from corruption to its tangled bureaucracy to widespread environmental, child labor and health issues. Earlier this month, a Norwegian sovereign fund withdrew investments from Indian-owned mining firm Vedanta Resources over its environmental practices in India. And big-box European chains like Carrefour are frustrated over the slow pace of reform in India's retail sector, where complete foreign ownership of multi-brand retail outlets is still not allowed. Partly to tackle such issues, Europe is helping to fund bilateral...
...including at such bastions of commerce as Wharton, Kellogg and Harvard business schools--luring them with assertions about learning to improve concentration and productivity, eliminate stress and develop their intellectual discipline and overall well-being. His message derives from his lifelong study of the ancient system of philosophy called Vedanta, the focus of a nonprofit academy he established 19 years ago outside Mumbai (formerly Bombay...
...book, The Fall of the Human Intellect, one of 10 he has written over the decades ("Every word, between 4 and 6 in the morning," he later explains. "After 6, it's not worth reading.") He invites the audience to come to a YPO retreat in January at his Vedanta Academy, 67 miles (108 km) southeast of Mumbai...
...yoga. "A year ago, if you said I'd go a week without eating meat, I would have said you are crazy." But after six days with Swamiji, Moon is not only "about 90%" vegetarian; he's also a man transformed. He now rises early every morning to study Vedanta. "I've not missed a single day," he says in amazement. At the end of each evening, he spends 10 or 15 minutes reflecting on his day--"like doing a superfast advance through a dvd," he explains. "To be diligent and focused like this, I can't even tell...
...this happy mix of earnestness and mischief to the realm where it is most essential and most rare: the search for God. When he determined to dedicate himself to the Swami, he made it plausible by remembering that he "hated anything which sounded like 'religion'" and "had always regarded Vedanta philosophy, or yoga, as the ultimate in mystery-mongering nonsense." Here is the perfect skeptic's guide to faith, in which even the most vaporous of concepts is rendered with a brilliant everyday lucidity ("The Ego...is like a man who will stand right in front...