‘Antarmanache Niyojan’: A Session by Dr. Shirish Limaye

 ‘Antarmanache Niyojan’, a session by Dr. Shirish Limaye, the former Head, Department of Accountancy, Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce, Pune, and a volunteer at Ramakrishna Math, Pune, was organised on July 16, 2021 by the Department of Commerce under the guidance of Dr. Deepa Sathe, Co-Ordinator, Commerce Dept. under 'Commerce Horizon’ programme. Dr. Limaye’s lecture on the topic mentioned above was organised for seeking guidance regarding psychological well-being, given the current pandemic context.

 Principal, Dr. Ashok Agrawal, welcomed the guest speaker.  In his introductory speech, he emphasised the need for physical and psychological fitness in the current context, and hence the need for expert advice on mental health. He further assured the Kaveri family that quality education, our hallmark, would continue as ever, despite the pandemic.

The actual session started with a prayer. Dr. Limaye initially listed problems such as negative thoughts, confused emotions, depression, lack of confidence, anger issues, faced especially by young students. He argued that proper planning of the subconscious mind would be the only solution to all these problems.

Dr. Limaye next appealed that it would be necessary to take care of ‘what you think’ because, in his opinion, ‘you receive what you think, what you trust and not what you are eligible for’.   While guiding about how to increase such trust, he advised the young audience to be bold, strong, confident, and thus to accept the entire responsibility for oneself.

For increasing such mind power, he felt, parents need to take efforts from their wards’ childhood. If parents could not spend quality time with their children, they might grow up with a confused mind-set and a lack of self-confidence. The speaker thus made students feel that ‘mind is the problem, the obstacle in their proper development.’  He explained that everything happens twice, once in the mind and then in reality, and if the youngsters would properly train their mind, the instrument to achieve their goal, they could achieve anything and everything, he opined.

Dr. Limaye next discussed the “3 Rahasyas, 7 Siddhants and 11 Niyams of mind” that can help human beings to be responsible for their lives. He explained a few basic laws of mind as well.

Dr. Limaye shared with the audience the talk by Ms Iesha Choudhari as an effective example of the ‘Power of Thought and Power of Mind”

The very useful and interactive session, attended by many participants from the Kaveri family and other colleges, ended with a very interesting question/answer session. Ms. Dandekar, the compere of the programme, proposed the vote of thanks.