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You Are Capable.
You Are Busy.
So Why Does It Still Feel Like Enough Is Never Enough?

The professional grinding through 12-hour days still anxious at night. The homemaker holding everything together and invisible to everyone — including herself. Arjuna was accomplished too. And he still broke down on the battlefield. The Gita was written for exactly this moment.

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Madan Sundar Das
Madan Sundar Das
Monk · Author · Leadership Educator
📖 Living the Gita — HarperCollins India · Wisdom That Works — Penguin
📖 Published by HarperCollins India
📗 Published by Penguin India
🏛 Director, EVOLVE Pune
🎓 MS Engineering, Ohio State University
🪷 GM, ISKCON Hinjewadi
What's Actually Wrong

You're Not Failing.
You're Running Without an Inner System.

No promotion, no productivity app, no weekend retreat has addressed what's actually happening inside. Here is what the Gita saw 5,000 years ago — and what your life is probably proving right now.

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"I Know What I Should Do. I Just Can't Decide."

Change jobs or stay? Push back or hold your tongue? Step away or push through? Every option has a cost and the mind keeps running in circles. Arjuna froze on the battlefield for the same reason. His confusion opened the Gita.

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Working Hard but Burning Out Anyway

You give everything — to your targets, your family, your responsibilities. And you're still exhausted, still anxious, still wondering if any of it means anything. The problem is not the effort. It's what the effort is costing you on the inside.

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"Who Am I Outside of What I Do?"

The professional whose identity collapses when the project fails. The homemaker who cannot answer who she is beyond her roles. The Gita's first and most radical teaching is about identity — and most people never encounter it.

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Everyone Is an Influencer. Nobody Is a Guide.

A manager's opinion. A spouse's expectation. LinkedIn thought leadership. A mother-in-law's voice. A WhatsApp forward. All of it competing in the same mind. The Gita has a precise framework for knowing whose advice to actually follow.

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The System Is Unfair. And You're Absorbing It.

Merit doesn't always win. Good people carry invisible burdens. The credit goes elsewhere. And the anger — or the helplessness — just sits inside. The Gita's answer to unfairness is not acceptance. It's something sharper.

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Doing Everything. Seen by Nobody.

The woman who runs the house, manages the children, tracks every detail, anticipates every need — and still has to justify why she's tired. The Gita does not call this ordinary. It has a name for it, a framework for it, and a way through it.

"Arjuna was accomplished, capable, and trained. He still broke down the moment the stakes became real. The Gita was not written for the weak. It was written for people exactly like him — and like you."
— Madan Sundar Das, Living the Gita
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The Masterclass That Changes the First Question You Ask Yourself

Not a teaser. Not a preview. A complete, standalone session that gives you one real tool to take home — whether you join the course or not.

In 40 minutes of teaching, we go to the root of why intelligent, capable people still feel lost — and what Krishna's opening response to Arjuna actually teaches.

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Why Your Best Thinking Isn't Solving the Real Problem The Gita's diagnosis of the paralysed mind — and why more information makes it worse
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The Identity Question That Reframes Everything Krishna's first teaching to Arjuna — the one that made every other answer possible
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One Decision-Making Tool You Can Use This Week From BG 2.7 — practical, non-religious, tested across boardrooms and living rooms
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Live Q&A — Nothing Is Off Limits Ask about the Gita, about your specific situation, about the course. 20 minutes, open floor.
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The Full Journey

Three Levels. Eleven Sessions. One Operating System for Modern Life.

Each session is 40 minutes of teaching followed by Q&A. Every topic is built around a real situation you already face — not a philosophical lecture.

Free Entry
Masterclass — The Gita for Busy, Capable People
1 Session · 40 min Teaching + 20 min Q&A · Live on Zoom
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Why Busy, Capable People Still Feel Lost — and What the Gita Says About It
You are not lacking information. You are lacking an inner framework. This session identifies the exact gap — and gives you Krishna's opening response to Arjuna as your first tool.
BG Ch 1–2 · Decision Paralysis · Identity
40 min + Q&A
The masterclass stands completely on its own. No obligation to join the course. Register Free on WhatsApp →
Level 1
Know Yourself — The Foundation
3 Sessions · 40 min each + Q&A · The starting point for every other answer
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Decision Making — When Every Option Has a Cost
The Gita's 3-question framework for decisions that involve competing loyalties — your family vs your career, your peace vs your responsibility, your values vs the opportunity in front of you.
BG 2.7 · Arjuna's Paralysis · Practical Framework
40 min + Q&A
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Work Hard, Live Stress-Free — The Nishkama Karma Method
Why you can give your absolute best and still not be anxious about the result. This is the most misunderstood teaching in the Gita — and the most useful one for people who actually work hard.
BG Ch 3 · Detachment Is Not Apathy · Action Without Anxiety
40 min + Q&A
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Who Am I Beyond My Role? — The Growth Matrix
Arjuna's real question was not what he should do — it was who he would become if he did it. A framework for evaluating decisions by who they make you, not just what they give you. For the professional and the homemaker equally.
BG 3.21 · BG 2.13 · Identity Beyond Achievement and Role
40 min + Q&A
Details and enrollment shared exclusively after the Masterclass. Join Level 1 →
Level 2
Know Your World — Relationships, Clarity, and Inner Peace
4 Sessions · 40 min each + Q&A · The tools for how you live with others
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Choose Your Influencer — Whose Voice Is Running Your Life?
Your manager, your mother-in-law, social media, your own inner critic — all competing to tell you what you should want. The Gita has a precise and practical test for identifying whose advice is actually worth following.
BG 4.34 · Guru-Shishya · Discernment
40 min + Q&A
05
Mindfulness and Meditation for a Noisy World
Not a forest retreat. Not 20 minutes you don't have. Practical stillness for someone with a full schedule, a full house, and a mind that will not stop. The Gita's dhyana applied to real life.
BG 6.10-17 · Micro-Meditation · Daily Practice
40 min + Q&A
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Conflict Without Bitterness — At Home and At Work
The difficult colleague, the unfair expectation, the argument that never resolves. The Gita's sama-buddhi is not "be patient." It is a specific inner posture that lets you engage fully in conflict without losing yourself to it.
BG 6.9 · BG 2.14 · Emotional Boundaries · Office Politics
40 min + Q&A
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From Invisible Labour to Living Offering — The Meaning of Seva
Whether it's the homemaker whose work is never counted or the professional doing everything behind the scenes — the Gita draws a sharp distinction between serving as burden and serving as purpose. It is the difference between resentment and peace.
BG 9.27 · BG 18.46 · Karma Yoga in Everyday Life
40 min + Q&A
Available after Level 1. Details shared by the team. Join Level 2 →
Level 3
Know the Path — Advanced Frameworks for Lasting Change
4 Sessions · 40 min each + Q&A · Where the Gita goes deeper
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Ego — The Promoter and the Prisoner
It takes credit when things go well and collapses when they don't. It resists feedback, needs validation, and quietly sabotages growth. The Gita's diagnosis of ahankara is the most uncomfortable — and most liberating — session in the course.
BG 3.27 · BG 16.4 · Ahankara · Why Talented People Self-Destruct
40 min + Q&A
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Money, Ambition, and Dharma — Can You Want More and Still Be Spiritual?
The Gita does not condemn desire — it refines it. This session gives professionals and homemakers permission to pursue growth, wealth, and ambition — and a precise framework for when those pursuits start costing you something more important.
BG 7.11 · Dharma-Aviruddha Kama · Ambition Without Corruption
40 min + Q&A
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Dealing With Unfairness — When the System Fails You
Merit doesn't always win. Good people carry invisible weight. Credit goes elsewhere. The Gita's answer to this is not "accept it" and not "fight harder." It is something more sustainable — and in this session, it becomes practical.
BG 2.38 · Equanimity Under Injustice · Beyond Bitterness
40 min + Q&A
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The Art of Letting Go — When to Quit and When to Persist
Not every battle is your Kurukshetra. The Gita's framework for knowing which commitments are yours to carry and which are yours to release — without guilt, without abandonment, and without confusing surrender with failure.
BG 18.32-35 · Dhriti · Wise Persistence vs Stubborn Attachment
40 min + Q&A
The capstone. Available after Levels 1 and 2. Details shared by the team. Join Level 3 →
Silicon Valley → Monk
Madan Sundar Das
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Your Teacher

From Research Engineer to Monk — and Back to the Boardroom

Madan Sundar Das holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University and spent years as a Research Engineer at Juniper Networks in Silicon Valley. In 2008, he walked away from an H1-B visa, a tech career, and every conventional measure of success.

He did not walk away because he failed. He walked away because he realised the system he was optimising for had no answer to the question underneath every other question: What am I actually doing this for?

Since then, he has spent over 15 years translating Bhagavad Gita wisdom for the people the Gita was written for — not scholars, not renunciates, but people in the middle of real life. Professionals. Parents. Decision-makers. People who cannot afford to wait for a retreat to figure out how to live.

He is the Director of EVOLVE Pune and General Manager of ISKCON Hinjewadi, and the author of two books: Living the Gita (HarperCollins India) and Wisdom That Works (Penguin India).

🎓 M.S. Electrical Engineering, Ohio State 💼 Former Research Engineer, Juniper Networks 🪷 ISKCON Monk · 15+ years 📖 HarperCollins India Author 📗 Penguin India Author 🏛 Director, EVOLVE Pune
What Participants Say

Real People. Real Situations. Real Shifts.

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"I came in expecting a philosophy lecture. I left with a framework I actually used in a difficult conversation with my manager the next morning. The decision-making session alone was worth far more than the fee."

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Rahul S.
Senior Manager, IT sector · Pune
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"The session on invisible labour and seva completely changed how I think about my own work at home. I had stopped calling it work. He gave it back its dignity — and gave me back mine."

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Priya M.
Homemaker · Hinjewadi
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"I've read the Gita. I thought I understood it. This course showed me how much of it I had kept at arm's length — treated as wisdom for other people. The Ego session made me deeply uncomfortable. That's how I knew it was working."

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Ananya K.
Founder, Early-stage startup · Mumbai
Is This for You?

You Belong Here If…

This course was designed for people who play multiple roles, carry real responsibilities, and cannot afford spiritual wisdom that doesn't work on a Monday morning.

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The High Performer

Excellent at work, quietly anxious underneath. Success keeps arriving and satisfaction keeps leaving.

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The Homemaker

Holding everything together for everyone else. Ready to ask — for the first time — what she needs for herself.

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The One Wearing Both Hats

Managing a career and a family simultaneously. The person no framework was actually built for — until now.

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The Chronic Overthinker

Over-informed and under-decided. Has read all the self-help books. Still stuck in the same loop.

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The Seeker Who Is Tired of Theory

Interested in the Gita but wants it practical. No interest in philosophy that doesn't survive contact with real life.

Before You Register

Common Questions

Is this a religious program? Do I need to believe in anything?
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No. Every session is built around real situations — career decisions, relationship friction, overload, identity — and introduces frameworks grounded in Gita wisdom. The frameworks are tested for practicality, not belief. Participants from all backgrounds and no religious background have attended and found them useful. Skeptics are welcome and the teaching addresses doubt directly.
I've never read the Gita. Is that a problem?
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Not at all. No Sanskrit, no prior knowledge required. The course is designed as a first encounter and an advanced encounter simultaneously — starting from the situations participants already face and tracing each one back to the relevant Gita teaching. Participants who have read the Gita often find they're encountering it in a new way.
Why are sessions only 40 minutes?
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Because the people this course is built for don't have more. 40 minutes of focused teaching — with one clear takeaway — is more useful than a 2-hour lecture that exhausts you. The Q&A that follows allows depth for those who want it. Every session is designed so that even if you miss one, you can re-enter the next.
Do I have to attend all levels? Can I stop after Level 1?
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Yes — each level is complete and independently valuable. Level 1 gives you the three foundational tools. Level 2 takes them into relationships and daily practice. Level 3 is where the deeper Gita frameworks come in. Many participants attend Level 1 and return for subsequent levels weeks or months later. There is no pressure to continue.
Is this only for professionals? What if I am a homemaker?
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This course was built specifically for both — and for the many people who are both simultaneously. The situations, examples, and discussion in each session span the boardroom and the household. The Gita makes no distinction between the roles — it speaks to the person behind the roles. Every session is equally relevant whether your Kurukshetra is a quarterly review or a family decision.
Will there be a recording if I cannot attend live?
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The live session is where the real value happens — the exercises, the energy of the room, and the Q&A. Registered participants receive a limited-time replay link. We strongly recommend attending live if at all possible.
Can we bring this program to our organisation or community?
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Yes — Living Wisely is available as a corporate leadership program, a community workshop series, or a residential intensive for housing societies, trusts, and ISKCON centres. Programs are customisable by duration, format, and audience. Reach out on WhatsApp to start a conversation.
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The Gita Was Written for the Battlefield You're Already Standing On.

You don't need more information. You need a framework that holds under real pressure. Start with 60 minutes that could change the first question you ask yourself every morning.

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40 Min Teaching + 20 Min Q&A · Live on Zoom · For Professionals & Homemakers
By Madan Sundar Das, author of Living the Gita (HarperCollins) and Wisdom That Works (Penguin)