Ambition in Equanimity
Ambition is not the problem.
Attachment to the outcome is.
An [EIGHT-WEEK] cohort for senior professionals who are performing well and paying for it privately.
Eastern answers to Western problems.
Fit
Who this is for
- Senior professionals and founders, fifteen years in or more, still ambitious
- Anyone who has tried the productivity systems and found the problem was never time
- Anyone who wants the source texts rather than the airport-bookshop version
- Anyone who suspects the next win will feel like the last one
Who this is not for
- Anyone looking for stress-management techniques or a wellness retreat
- Anyone who wants to renounce ambition. This course does the opposite
- Anyone who cannot protect [three hours a week] for [eight weeks]
- Anyone who wants a certificate
What changes
- See the reaction before it runs you. Sakshi Bhav — the witness position, trained rather than discussed.
- Hold gain and loss with the same steadiness. Sam Bhav, applied to negotiations, appraisals and losses that matter.
- Decide under pressure without the pressure deciding. Sthitaprajna as a working state, not an ideal.
- Act fully and release the outcome. Nishkama Karma in its practical form. The part everyone quotes and no one operationalises.
- Locate your own dharma. Through the Trimurti Profile assessment, mapped to how you actually work and lead.
- Direct energy instead of managing it. Shakti and Tantra treated as method, not mysticism.
Six ideas, each two thousand years old, each tested against a Monday morning.
Who teaches it
Samatva is taught by Pawan Lohia.
Twenty-four years in corporate finance. Thirteen of them at EY, ending as Senior Manager. Senior roles at Vedanta, SRF and Greenply. Founder Director of Leverest Financial Services, a boutique investment bank with a debt syndication track record beyond Rs 2,000 crore. Chartered Accountant. Executive MBA, IIM Calcutta.
This is not taught from a monastery. It is taught from inside the pressure it addresses. The texts came second — after two decades of deal deadlines, boardrooms, and the particular fatigue that success does not fix.
The cohort
- Format
- [Live online, weekly. Recordings available.]
- Duration
- [Eight weeks]
- Starts
- [DATE]
- Cohort size
- [15]
- Fee
- Rs 50,000
- To hold a place
- Rs 10,000 at enrolment. Balance before the first session.
Places are confirmed by conversation, not by checkout. Every applicant speaks with Pawan before enrolling. It protects the cohort and it protects your money.
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