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noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 01:23:00 +0000

WHY MANAGEMENT INSTITUTES, FAIL TO CREATE THOUGHT LEADERS ?

noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:46:00 +0000

The most of the management institutes of India , have failed to create thought leaders and only produced line managers well fit for the low profile Corporate “babus” or routine jobs. Isn’t it the right time we rethink the state of Management education in India.Sri Joydip analyses the state of management education in India and how it can be improved.

Yes , it is the single reason, that the focus is on result, and not on the process. Very interesting to note, that this has been also the Hallmark of Bhagvad Gita's philosophy as delivered by Sri Krishna to Arjuna, in the sections related to Karma Yoga .

Sometimes , academia has a role , not only to provide manpower which deliver “0 hour performance” to Industry , but also to set new standards of expectation for manpower to Industry. The manpower, who could come up with a new line of consciousness, where process is given equal emphasis along with results , where people who come out from management institution have an inbuilt societal and environmental consciousness , which can stand up in testing time of value erosion.

But then who will build those people , where is the time for it, in the age of rat race ? .

Obviously , we all know , the consequences for it and there are ample examples from Bhopal Gas Tragedy to Satyam Saga and Oil spill , if we don't do it . But then we have these incredible attitude of "Chalta hai" , everything is good and fine as long as the student is placed.

The problem is also the involvement of the student after he joins the industry, becomes weak with academia, and there is no life-long learning process. The time period of the academia gets to mould a student in right direction is so short , that there is hardly a ethic or character building exercise, could be taken on, apart from the skills building exercise.

If we have to practically implement some of the reflection of Bhagvad Gita on the education system , there is a need to incorporate a life long learning process, that a individual can balance with process and results, and became a part of expanded management consciousness’ which is transformational incorporating societal , environmental and economic values on the same breadth .

Beyond Gunas : Wisdom Stimulus 187 : Application of Bhagvad Gita in Management

noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:21:00 +0000

Lord Krishna here mentions, that when the seer, in us, can see beyond the gunas, and the source, which is higher than the gunas, and from where the gunas, originate, he attains to the being of Lord Krishna.

Spiritual growth : Wisdom Stimulus 186 : Application of Bhagvad Gita in Management

noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:45:00 +0000

Lord Krishna further continues, that the sattwic people, who have positive belief system, along with light and knowledge, moves upwards towards higher spiritual development, bringing both prosperity and peace to himself and others . On the other hand, the Rajasic people move along the middle, as it have some positive and some negative beliefs, which makes him fall sometimes, and rise sometimes . Whereas the tamasic people are found to be always moving downwards, due to there heedlessness and ignorance which creates a negative belief system , flooded with negative thoughts .

What rises from Gunas ? : Wisdom Stimulus 185 : Application of Bhagvad Gita in Management

noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:23:00 +0000

Lord Krishna in this verse explains how each gunas gives rise to different kinds of characteristics. He mentions that sattwa gives rises to knowledge , rajas gives rise to greed and tamas gives to rise to ignorance and heedlessness.

Fruits of Gunas : Wisdom Stimulus 184 : Application of Bhagvad Gita in Management

noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:44:00 +0000

Lord Krishna further continues that the fruit of sattwic action is purity and the fruit of rajasic action, is pain and suffering, and the fruit of tamasic action is ignorance .These way we can see , how each gunas a certain category of action.

Dying in Rajas/Tamas : Wisdom Stimulus 183 : Application of Bhagvad Gita in Management

noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:43:00 +0000

Lord Krishna here mentions that when one dies when he is absorbed in rajas, he is born among those who are attached to action. While dissolving in tamas he is born in the womb of senseless . That’s why dissolving in higher gunas is preferred as the last impression on the mind creates the first impressions in next life .

Dying in Sattwa : Wisdom Stimulus 182 : Application of Bhagvad Gita in Management

noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:42:00 +0000

Lord Krishna here mentions that when one dies when he is absorbed in Satwaa he attains to spotless world of the knowers of the highest . That’s why dissolving in Satwaa is preferred as the last impression on the mind creates the first impressions in next life .

Inertia Dominates : Wisdom Stimulus 181 : Application of Bhagvad Gita in Management

noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 01:49:00 +0000

Lord Krishna in these verse explains what is the time period when inertia dominates . It is when one takes on considerable amount of indulgence, the indolence drives and the tamas become predominant.

Activity Dominates : Wisdom Stimulus 180 : Application of Bhagvad Gita in Management

noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 01:47:00 +0000

Lord Krishna in these verse explains what is the time period when activity dominates . It is when one takes on considerable amount of action, the passion drives and the Rajas become predominant.

Purity Dominates : Wisdom Stimulus 179 : Application of Bhagvad Gita in Management

noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 01:32:00 +0000

Lord Krishna in these verse explains what is the time period when purity dominates . It is when after a considerable amount of spiritual practice, the wisdom light shines the Sattwaa become predominant.

Choosing Career and Convincing People : Wisdom Stimulus 178 : Application of Bhagvad Gita in Management

noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:27:00 +0000

Vijay Bhaskaran : How to choose the right direction in between a mid career change ?

Sri Joydip: Lord Krishna mentions in Bhagvad Gita about “Swadharma” . Swadharma is a important principles according to him , to carry out action according one own inherent nature . This is how one should make his career choices . Swadharma can help one to take important direction in one’s career . Success is the career requires you to bear with maximum number of failure . It is only when you do something you love to do , as it is based on your swadharma ,you can bear this failure and become more competent . If you swadharma is of painter don’t get into stock market , just because stock analyst offers your more money and opportunity . Lord Krishna it is better to die performing to die performing swadharma , then to live doing paradharma. Reflect on your inherent nature , that is the kind of work which comes to you naturally and you have some natural talent into it , and at the same time you love it . After this reflection , you would be choose the right direction between a career change .

Remember : If you choose a career which not according to swadharma , you might have to return back to a career which is according to your swadharam , that would mean a lapse of time , inbetween . Rather losing 4 years , loose 4 days to reflect and find out what is your swadharma and what would be the right career choice for it .

Vijay Bhaskaran : How to convince people and get them in your way of thinking ?
Lord Krishna in Bhagvad Gita , takes Arjuna into his way of thinking . While doing so , he follows some principle which can used by any managers to take people in his way of thinking as a leader does.

Sri Joydip:

1.In the whole first chapter of Bhagvad Gita ,Krishna listen to Arjuna and never speaks a word . This is the first skill you require to listen other , before you try to express your thinking .

2.On the whole Bhagvad Gita , even knowing that Arjuna was always falling short of the understanding of a deep complex philosophy , he never stopped praising Arjuna for whatever he has understood . Lord Krishna often before any important discourse or philosophical points showered with praise to Arjuna to make his mind receptive to Lord Krishna way of thinking .

3.However at certain times , he found that Arjuna mindset requires a change and that is the time when to criticized him indirectly.

4. At every chapter of Bhagvad Gita ,Lord Krishna is able to generate
an eager want in the mind of Arjuna to listen the next important
discourses . He had a perfect understanding of Arjuna’s emotional
state and delivered a knowledge according to the growing maturity
Of his mind.

5.In all chapters Lord Krishna transformed a man,who is about to run away from a battle , due to his emotional despondency and who had his own
definition of ethics and spirituality which are most of the times
confusing to a man of strong character , ready to take the
challenges of life and win the battle, just by power of his thought .

Attachment : Wisdom Stimulus 177 : Application of Bhagvad Gita in Management

noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:57:00 +0000

Lord Krishna here clarifies the attachment map of different gunas . The sattwa or purity gets attached to happiness , the rajas or the passion gets attached to action , and the tamas gets attached to indolence .

Inertia : Wisdom Stimulus 176 : Application of Bhagvad Gita in Management

noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:59:00 +0000

Lord Krishna in this verse talks about inertia . Now, what is inertia ? . Can stillness which comes from purity, be equated with inertia . Obviously not. It is true that inertia bind a person into ignorance and he can then fall into the grasp of sleep and indolence. At the same time , Inertia deludes and binds fast, any embodied being to less activity . But, then when people are wise , they are also less active . However the cessation of activity, with wise ness is a positive phenomenon, where one choose to act or not to act on based of deep understanding. In case of inertia, one chooses not to act because of ignorance .

Passion : Wisdom Stimulus 175 : Application of Bhagvad Gita in Management

noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:21:00 +0000

Lord Krishna Mentions “Rajas”, to be of the nature of passion, the source of thirst (for sensual enjoyment) and attachment. Passion is a driving force. However one need to be a good driver, to put this driving force into constructive action.

Purity : Wisdom Stimulus 174 : Application of Bhagvad Gita in Management

noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:18:00 +0000

Lord Krishna continues that Sattwa (Purity), which from its stainlessness is luminous and healthy, binds by attachment to knowledge and to happiness. One must also have the courage to go cross higher stages of personality leaving sattwa(Purity) and reach the ultimate goal of self realization.

Truth : Wisdom Stimulus 173 : Application of Bhagvad Gita in Management

noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:13:00 +0000

Jamai :What is truth and how to reach it . Why did Arjuna and Sri Krishna engaged on disciussion in Bhagvad Gita about truth ?

Sri Joydip :Let me tell you story, to explain,n what is truth, and how to reach it . King Janaka, saw himself playing a role of beggar in a dream . Becoming very disturbed on the scene, he seek advise of Sage Astavakra that whether he is the beggar on the dream or the King in waking . Sage Astavakra replied that he is neither of them . Both of the identity changes , but the truth never changes which is with him . Infact that is Why Krishna and Arjuna, enaged in a debate to bring the changeless truth in changing time. ..

Love is Life : Wisdom Stimulus 172 : Application of Bhagvad Gita in Management

noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:50:00 +0000

Moumita : How to become loving child to my parents ?

Love is not a emotion. It is a state of mind , where you feel oneness with the entire universe. Normally, we see people fall in love . But true love makes you rise. Lord Krishna, who is known more popularly as god of love describes different of love or bhakti. The core focus, on these to have the ability to surrender to the highest ideal, or God. Love organizes our mind and makes our life work. When you surrender, everything in our life falls in place . You find that love is not weakness , it is a strength which helps us to live a better life . It is a force, which makes the entire universe work .Love is life .

Nichole asked me whether love is important and I replied whether life is important to him. If life is important to you, than you should give importance to love. But then again love is not a petty emotion, which makes you feel weaker. It is the strength in you, by which you can move the entire world . It is the only healing force in the world, and all are substitutes of these healing force. Infact, being in a true love makes you lovable from any individual of the world and same holds true for your parents . True love is like a gravitational pull, which attracts all people around him, and makes you lovable to everybody.

Taking refugee in Knowledge: Wisdom Stimulus 171 : Application of Bhagvad Gita in Management

noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:39:00 +0000

Lord Krishna here mentions to Arjuna, that, those who take refuge, in the Knowledge of Bhagvad Gita, becomes united with the Lord . Not only that, he is neither born, in the time of creation, or nor destroyed, on the time of dissolution . The last phrase is very symbolic, as he describes that surrendering on the knowledge of Bhagvad Gita, helps us to remain steady and unaffected on the continuous changes on the world which are created around you, and get dissolves in due course of time .

Towards Supreme Knowledge : Wisdom Stimulus 170 : Application of Bhagvad Gita in Management

noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:32:00 +0000

After discussing on the distinction between the field and the knower of the field, which enables one to move, beyond the nature of being, and move to the path of supreme , Krishna on the next chapters on the “Yoga of the three gunas”, declares that he is going to give the supreme knowledge in this chapter .

Path of Supreme: Wisdom Stimulus 169 : Application of Bhagvad Gita in Management

noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:31:00 +0000

Lord Krishna continues that, when one can perceive the essential difference between the field, and the knower of the field, through the eye of knowledge , and get liberation from the nature of being, which most of the cases, get affected by the ups and downs of field, are able to move beyond the nature in the path of supreme .

Illumination of reality by consciousness: Wisdom Stimulus 168 : Application of Bhagvad Gita in Management

noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:14:00 +0000

Lord Krishna in this verse explains, Arjuna, that how the “Lord of the knower of the field”, illumines the field. These way he again brings the point forward, that it is the consciousness, which creates the reality of the field we see around us . That again makes us to look inside us, for a solution we might face as a problem, in the level of field . We have to go back and understand, that what is the consciousness, which is originating that problem.

Indicator of Spiritual progress : Wisdom Stimulus 167 : Application of Bhagvad Gita in Management

noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:18:00 +0000

The self seated everywhere in the body in not tainted. Lord Krishna continues his discourses on the field, and the knower of the field to Arjuna.
While he delivers the highest wisdom, he also mentions that one who reaches this zone of highest wisdom, is not tainted by the movements of the nature. Probably, that is one of the indicator of the progress in the spiritual path, as discussed by Lord Krishna in Bhagvad Gita .

Supreme Self : Wisdom Stimulus 166 : Application of Bhagvad Gita in Management

noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:17:00 +0000

Lord Krishna here explains to Arjuna about the essential qualities of supreme self or infinite . The Supreme self doesn’t involves in any action or neither gets tainted though it stays in the body . At the same time , supreme self is without beginning and devoid of qualities.

Becoming Brahman : Wisdom Stimulus 165 : Application of Bhagvad Gita in Management

noreply@blogger.com (Joydip Chakladar) — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:59:00 +0000

Lord Krishna, now goes to the crux of the wisdom of Bhagvad Gita . In these verse, he gives on not only understanding of infinite (Brahman), but becoming the infinite (Brahman) . It again proves the point why Bhagvad gita , has been the source of wisdom and enlightenment, to so many beings around the world . It is these verse, where he describes that, when one starts seeing the variety of beings resting in the oneness , and again spreading forth from that oneness , he becomes the Infinite (Brahman).