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Monday, October 26, 2009

Catholicity of Leadership

“MITRASYA MAA CAKSUSAA SARVAANI BHUUTAANI SAMIIKSANTAAM
MITRASYA CAKSUUSAA SARVAANI BHUTAANI SAMIIKSE
MITRASYA CAKSUUSAA SAMIIKSAA MAHE”
(Yajurveda XXVI-18)

“MAY ALL BEINGS LOOK UPON ME WITH THE EYE OF A FRIEND
MAY I LOOK ON ALL BEINGS WITH THE EYE OF A FRIEND
MAY WE LOOK ON ONE ANOTHER WITH THE EYE OF A FRIEND”





Could there be a better hymn/prayer to glorify corporate life? For, it is not a routine petitional prayer.
It transcends the stage of petty needs and longs for communion with the highest. It is an intensive spiritual aspiration. Certainly, it is an emotional contemplation of an idea. It is indeed sublime prayer.

Now the moot question is could a hungry man, lingering at the door of a palatial building for a morsel of food, really be generous enough to cast a friendly eye on the owner of the palace more so when he is not enthused to part with a little of his possession.

Similarly, could the owner cast a friendly eye on a destitute looking at him for a share in his wealth.

But what is most important for the corporate world is —how in the maze of hierarchy, an employee at the lowest rung can turn a friendly eye on the CEO for whom his presence is oblivion. Inequalities of life relegate “friendly eye” to wilderness.

Then, is it not all the more necessary to chant such a prayer/mantra. For, mantras, as the wise say, are really the verbal expression of one’s benign emotions. And such benign prayer can only come out of a soul that apprehended one “reality” everywhere — the reality of each being a member of the same Homo sapiens.

That is when the difference between individual welfare and social welfare vanishes, paving the way for spiritual altruism as the natural consequence of one’s equanimous vision.

And how rejuvenating such a prayer would be for organizational welfare, and universal welfare, as well!

This universal welfare chanted in the form of a mantra has another connotation. They are better understood, for articulated sounds unite the sub-conscious and the super-conscious planes and when properly meditated upon, have the power to bring the individual to a higher state of consciousness.

Such mantras, when repeated silently or aloud, are expected to set off certain vibrations, which impact different psychic centres in the body.

Such repetitions release energy that was previously knotted up or lying dormant—a release that leads to specific patterns of thoughts and ultimately to stillness and silence.

That stillness and silence shall ultimately allow everyone across the organizational hierarchy to turn a ‘friendly eye’ on each other.

What a catholicity of a prayer! In today’s competitive world, such a benign prayer can alone build up the much-needed team-spirit in the organizations for weathering the constant threat of change and emerge with an acceptable output to the stakeholders.
- GRK Murty  

Extracts from the Book: "HRM in Knowledge Economy"


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