Leela - 2: Master under Meditation

This incident was during the days when as a company we were aiming towards CMM certification and the Master was moved from Project Manger role to Quality Manager role by this time. Unfortunately, he owned to get CMM certification for our company.

So, we had some CMM consultants flying to our place to provide us 'Gyan' on what this is all about. The world of Quality manager till such time was limited to only bugs and it took a lead assessor to fly to our place at the company's cost to make him understand Quality processes are just not limited to bugs but it is far beyond that.

Target dates were aligned from the CEO, the project got kickedoff and our clock started ticking towards achieving our goal.

To ensure every one is aware and contributes to this noble initiative, we had regular team meetings in our office pantry area where there was enough room for all of us to sit. The documents were projected on a big white wall near the pantry area and all of us had to listen what the SEPG (Software Engineering Process Group) member had to say. People who had gone through the process of acquiring training on quality process would definitely understand how boring the sessions would be unless the presenter is humorous to crack jokes during his presentation. I mean for one who is generally with a coding / design mind set.

During couple of such presentations Master use to close his eyes and sit quietly with out much movements. Well, we all knew that he was sleeping as we heard a mild snore but we only whispered among ourselves to show others watch Master sleeping.

It so happened Master suddenly woke up with the sound of our giggle. Immediately without any hesitation he simply said that he was just closing his eyes and was in a Transcendental Meditation.

I really appreciated his presence of Mind thought no body believed him :-). From then on, he use to sleep without any worries as all of us knew he is in Transcendental Meditation (Deep Sleep) :-)