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Wednesday, Dec 07, 2005

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

The philosopher cricketer

Suresh Krishnamoorthy

A. Parthasarathy

HYDERABAD: He is all of 79 years young! A few decades ago, he used to play cricket and was a reasonably good player, but never got to making cricket a career and went off the beaten path.

A few of his peers, who include C.D. Gopinath, Kirpal Singh and Suryanarayana, played for India. He helps people reduce stress, identify their priorities, focus energies, enable them to concentrate and achieve success.

That's A. Parthasarathy of the Vedanta Academy, Lonavla, who runs an educational institution at Malavli, which is just 10 minutes away from the railway station. A globe-trotting teacher, he is different from all other typical preachers and godmen.

Useful science

He says Vedanta (`Veda' meaning knowledge and anta which means `end') is useful for just about anybody and explains how pressures are brought upon oneself, reduced and finally eliminated in everyday life. After the pressure is off, it makes individual practitioners focus and concentrate all energies on the job at hand, for success.

His passion for cricket made him meet Greg Chappell a few days ago and say a few things about the current team and the game. Ask him about the team and he simply says, "the team that is least pressurised wins."

His schedule is hectic. For three weeks he is delivering lectures at the academy and for six weeks he is away, hopping from one country to the other. He arrived from the Middle East on December 3 and barely 24 hours later caught a train. On December 5, he played a day-night cricket match as a member of the Vedanta Academy 11 against Neeraj Cricket Academy. Doesn't jetlag affect him? No way. It's all in the mind, he says.

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