hyderabad former chief minister chandrababu naidus penchant for organising spiritual tuitions to his ministers and bureaucrats seems to be continuing under the new regime too but lack of enthusiasm on the part of officials to take such lessons was in evidence on mondayas naidu himself used to turn up along with his ministers to the spiritual discourses of the likes of brahma kumaris and guru ravishankar unfailingly senior officials in his government followed suit on many occasionsbut on monday a workshop organised at marri channa reddy human resource development mcr hrd institute on success without stress and calm in crisis by brahma kumaris for officials failed to attract voluntary takers from ias and ips ranks neither the chief minister nor his cabinet colleagues turned up for the workshopthough it was meant primarily for senior officials there were hardly a dozen of them from among ias ranks and very few from ips stable the auditorium wore a deserted look with media contingent outnumbering the officers at the scheduled start of the programmerealising the problem organisers rushed out and managed to fill up the auditorium with institutes employees rajayogini b k jayanti counselled the participants on ways to overcome every day stress with examples from city lifeciting the example of traffic snarls in the city she said suppose you are in a hurry to attend an important meeting but caught in a traffic snarl instead of getting worked up about it and becoming tense begin to think that you have a lot more time to spend with yourselfthe participants were taken through a guided meditation session and were invited to the brahma kumaris academy for a better world named as shanti sarovar at gachibowli