{"id":6310,"date":"2017-07-19T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isbr.in\/blogs\/industrial-visit-to-art-of-livingaol-ashram\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T12:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T07:09:17","slug":"industrial-visit-to-art-of-livingaol-ashram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isbr.in\/blogs\/industrial-visit-to-art-of-livingaol-ashram\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Visit to Art of Living(AOL) Ashram"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A disciplined, organized, and sustainable environment is what our industry needs to adapt. Utilization of resources efficiently is critical which we look forward to imbibing in our day-to-day activities to transform our lives eventually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visiting Art of Living Ashram was indeed a treat to the eye and a great learning for the students of PGDM 2017-19 on 17 July 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sri Sri Ravishankar Ashram is located at Kanakapura Road, Bangalore with the campus engulfed in greenery, resembling a small ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Ishwar,our guide,directed thestudentstoalarge hall and briefed the students about the functionality, vision, and mission of the organization and how a mind can be managed with scientifically proven breathing methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students were\u00a0accompanied\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 to the majestic Vishalakshi Mantap(named\u00a0after\u00a0Guru\u00a0Sri\u00a0Ravi\u00a0Shankar\u00a0Ji\u2019S mother) which is nothing less than an architectural Marvel, with intricate details, standing 108 ft. tall uprising of 3 floors. It resembI\u2019es a blossomed lotus With over 1008 petals. Students boarded the bus that drove past Radha Kunjgarden,Panchakarma and arrivedattheGurukul.It hddD mystical feeling of being amidst the ancient Indian <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vedic ages. The entrance of Gurukul had a temple in whichthreeods(PanchmukhiGanesh,MahaVishnuand Mahalaxmi) idols were elegantly decorated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They proceeded further and met a techie Mr. Binay, who worked with the IT industry for a decade and yet chosetopreachtheancientwaysofliving.Hehighlighted the issues with our generation and at the same time explained to us how Vedic and ancient techniques are superior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visit to efficiently managed Bio Gas Plant and water treatment plant was a great learning experience for students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ThenwastheshowstopperAnnapur\u0144amegakitchen (also featured on National Geographic), a gigantic kitchen that serves an average of 5000 meals each day. During Navaratri the demand spikes to 1 lakh meals. In reality, only 12 staff members run the system supported by the mass number of volunteers. Managing different tasks at the ashram was a challenge. The visit exposed the students to learn how things are organized and managed at ease. The transformation from barren land to greenery all around required a lot of passion, hard work, and a driving force to achieve such a great fest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A disciplined, organized, and sustainable environment is what our industry needs to adapt. Utilization of resources efficiently is critical which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[494,625],"tags":[674,317],"class_list":["post-6310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-isbr-voice","category-isbr-voice-2018","tag-art-of-livingaol-ashram","tag-industrial-visit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/isbr.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/isbr.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/isbr.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isbr.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/isbr.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10535,"href":"https:\/\/isbr.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310\/revisions\/10535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isbr.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/isbr.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isbr.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isbr.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}