Rule the World as Krishna Did

By Dr. Vikrant Singh Tomar

The objective of this book, Rule the World as Krishna Did, is to put forward the age-old wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita in a simple way that enables readers to understand and comprehend its message. Research has shown that the youth of today have more complex problems in life and work than ever before and need more sophisticated treatment for these issues. A common person takes the Gita as a spiritual text that talks about the divine song of Lord Krishna addressing a confused and shattered Arjuna. This book focuses on the relevance of Gitas selected verses in our day-to-day life. It explores the following questions:

How can a person lead his or her life the Bhagavad Gita way?
How can a leader assure triumph the Bhagavad Gita way?
How can a student choose his or her career the Bhagavad Gita way?
How can a human become a super human the Bhagavad Gita way?
How can a businessman manage his business the Bhagavad Gita way?
How can anyone achieve self-realization the Bhagavad Gita way?
How can an individual remain self-motivated the Bhagavad Gita way?

The book also establishes some elementary models of knowledge, action, self, personality, perception, motivation, and decision making, which can help scholars venture into virgin areas of research and discussion.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Mar 20, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504938518

Dr. Vikrant Singh Tomar

Dr. Vikrant Singh Tomar is a young acknowledged Trainer, academician, scholar, writer and a management consultant. Worked as a National Training Resource of INC, ICFAI University, Hyderabad. He is a qualified trainee member and a Merit Award holder in Electronic Enabled Training of the prestigious Indian Society of Training & Development (ISTD), N.Delhi, recognized by Ministry Of HRD, Government of India. He as freelance trainer, he has conducted many EDPs (Executive Development Program) & MDPs (Management Development Program) for more than 15000 employees of various institutions of repute across the country and abroad. Have done graduation (BBA), post graduation (MBA in Marketing & HR) & Doctorate in Business Management. He has crafted a multidisciplinary vision by doing formal education in journalism (MJMC), and Public Administration (M.A.), Philosophy (M.A.) & Yoga (PGDYEP) with rank in university’s merit list in all the above. Varied educational background has made him interdisciplinary and versatile in training & consultancy. Presently working as Group Director, Prashanti Group of Institutions, Ujjain (M.P.) INDIA and Director Project Self Inc., New Jersey, USA. Dr. Vikrant Singh Tomar, PhD., MBA, MJMC, MPA, MA (Phil.), DTD, CHR, PGDYEP, PGDHE, BBA National Trainer & Management Consultant, Director, UMS INDIA, 09826066939/ [e-mail]

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Published by AuthorHouse 06/18/2015

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Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgement

Chapter 1: What Is the Bhagavad Gita Way?

Chapter 2: Career Management—Bhagavad Gita Way

What Is Career Management?

Steps in Career Management

Occupational Personality and Congruent Occupations

Chapter 3: Work and Motivation—The Bhagavad Gita Way

What Is Motivation?

How to Motivate Our Self?

How to Motivate Others

Chapter 4 Leadership—The Bhagavad Gita Way

What Is Leadership?

What Does It Take to be a Good Leader?

Spiritual Leadership

Chapter 5 Self-Realization—The Bhagavad Gita Way

1. Being purified by intelligence

2. Controlling the mind with determination

3. Giving up the objects of sense gratification

4. Being freed from attachment and hatred

5. One who lives in a secluded place

6. Who eats little and who controls the body and the tongue

7. Is always in trance and detached and is without false ego, false strength, false pride, lust, anger

8. Who does not accept material things

References

To my father, the late Mr. Surendra Singh Tomar,

who sowed the seed of inquisitiveness in me,

and to my mother, Mrs. Saroj Tomar,

who nourished that seed

Introduction

The objective of this book, Rule the World as Krishna Did, is to put forward the age-old wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita in a simple way that enables readers to understand and comprehend its message. Research has shown that the youth of today have more complex problems in life and work than ever before and need more sophisticated treatment for these issues. A common person takes the Gita as a spiritual text that talks about the divine song of Lord Krishna addressing a confused and shattered Arjuna. This book focuses on the relevance of Gita’s selected verses in our day-to-day life. It explores the following questions:

• How can a person lead his or her life the Bhagavad Gita way?

• How can a leader assure triumph the Bhagavad Gita way?

• How can a salesman direct his or her sales the Bhagavad Gita way?

• How can a trainer train his or her target group the Bhagavad Gita way?

• How can a student choose his or her career the Bhagavad Gita way?

• How can a human become a super human the Bhagavad Gita way?

• How can a businessman manage his business the Bhagavad Gita way?

• How can anyone achieve self-realization the Bhagavad Gita way?

• How can an individual remain self-motivated the Bhagavad Gita way?

• How can a commoner develop personality the Bhagavad Gita way?

• How can a professional execute his or her work and life the Bhagavad Gita way?

The book is comprised of five chapters that deal with various facets of life. The first chapter explains the dynamism of the Bhagavad Gita and its pervasiveness over all worldly human affairs. The second chapter deals with career management and four occupational personality types that can help students and professionals choose the right direction in their careers. Chapter 3 takes up work and motivation and refers to the philosophy of karma associated with self-concept to remain self-motivated and illuminated. The fourth chapter concentrates on the art of leadership, which can apply to both situational leadership and spiritual leadership because it deals with the inherent traits necessary to lead and motivate others. The fifth chapter probes the culmination of our being and discusses the art of self-realization as narrated by the Lord Himself. It puts forward eight divine sutras of self-realization.

The pattern of quoting Gita Sanskrit verses in whole book is as under:

TEXT 2/37: Chapter 2, Verse 37

"hato va prapsyasi svargam

jitva va bhoksyase mahim

tasmad uttistha kaunteya

yuddhaya krta-niscayah"

: Original Gita Sanskrit verse from His Holiness Prabhupada A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami’s ‘Bhagavad Gita as It Is’

"Either you’ll be killed in war with heaven in your sight,

Or win an earthly kingdom. So get up, Arjun, and fight!"

: From Carl E. Woodham’s ‘Bhagavad Gita, The Song Divine’

O the son of Kunti, either you will be killed on the battlefield (failed in achieving target) and attain heavenly planets (experience and skills), or you will conquer (achieve target) and enjoy the earthly kingdom (career advancement). Therefore, get up and fight with determination.

: From His Holiness Prabhupada A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami’s ‘Bhagavad Gita as It Is’. But the contents in bracket are added to depict its relevance in modern day to day work life. To make it clear, quoted text is shown in italics.

The book also establishes some elementary models of knowledge, action, self, personality, perception, motivation, and decision making, which can help scholars venture into virgin areas of research and discussion.

Special care has been taken to choose simpler words so that any person with an ordinary command over language can grasp the essence of this great epic. Some grammatical liberties have been deliberately taken to make points clearer. I have tried my level best to do justice to the concept … modestly. Happy reading.

Acknowledgement

I express my gratitude to His Holiness Prabhupada A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami for his monumental work Bhagavad Gita as It Is, which became the inspiration for this book. I would like to put on record my thanks to Carl E. Woodham for his legendry work Bhagavad Gita, The Song Divine, which is quoted throughout this book just after every Gita Sanskrit verse.

I am grateful to Mr. Raghuveer Singh Tomar and Mr. Karan Singh Chouhan for their blessings. This book could not have ever reached readers without the unconditional love and support lent by my brother Rajesh Rabindranath, his wife, Deepti, and their cute baby, Daksha. I humbly bow down for their affection and encouragement. Special thanks for team Project Self Inc., New Jersey, USA for their direct and indirect support.

I would like to extend my sincere thanks to Professor Vikrant Shah for helping me with creative ideas and making all the pictures of this book; Colonel R. K. Singh for motivating and correcting my mistakes; some loving friends who directly or indirectly contributed toward the work; Mr. V.P.S.Tyagi, Mr. Samarat Singh Sisodia, Rupal and Vinisha for always being there; my wife, Shweta, for her affectionate handling of my aloofness while writing this book, for her valuable suggestions in evolving the ideas, and for being the first one to read this book patiently. Finally, I thank my son, Shourya Pratap, and daughter, Titiksha, who sacrificed the demands of their juvenile activities.

CHAPTER 1

What Is the Bhagavad Gita Way?

If I were to look over the world to find out the country most richly endowed with all the wealth, power and beauty that nature has bestowed on some parts, a very paradise on earth, I should point to India. If I were asked under what sky the human mind is most fully developed some of its choicest gifts have most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant, I should point to India. If I were to ask myself from what literature we, here in Europe, we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greek and Romans, and one of semantic race the Jewish, may draw that corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect more compressive, more universal, in fact more truly human, a life not for this life only, at a transfigured and eternal life—again I should point to India.

—F. Max Muller

There is a basic disagreement between ancient wisdom and modern management. The main focus of ancient wisdom has been man’s inner journey of spiritual peace, measured on a very subjective basis, whereas modern management deals with objectivity and materialism. External achievements and productivity at the cost of enduring inner peace and perfection has become the slogan of the day. Though we have been talking about extensive external development during the five thousand years of human civilization, the basic concerns of mankind have remained unattended. As explained by Bertrand Russell, threefold classification of struggles and conflicts of man in his earthly existence are as follows:

» man versus man

» man versus himself

» man versus nature

The problems of man versus man have intensified with increasing levels of jealousy, rivalry, and ego over a long period of time. Of man versus himself, one Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita is now converted into millions of Arjunas struggling with their puzzles of life. It is only in the struggle of man versus nature that some nominal development can be seen—nominal because in spite of all the development, we are still not in the condition to defeat nature. The only thing technology has equipped us with is the ability to be prewarned of natural calamities so that we can attempt to save ourselves. If these successes amount to, say, 10 percent of the total, then the remaining 90 percent of human problems remain unsolved. Hence, if old Indian wisdom was pertinent at that time, why should it not be equally relevant today?

Moreover, the real catalytic agents for any society are not the politicians, professionals, social workers, or the saints, but the common people like you and me. This book attempts to call upon not only the common people, but also the academics or scholars of futuristic studies and technical professionals to take basic lessons of life again from the treasurers of ancient Indian wisdom.

With the third wave of globalization, the human factor within organizations has risen exponentially in its relative importance. With the emergence of multinationals, a new order has surfaced that has posed unprecedented challenges for the corporate world of tomorrow:

» Managing work culture

» Managing workforce diversity

» Stress management

» Work philosophy

» Collaborative leadership

» Reinventing motivation

After 250 years of industrial revolution, world management has shifted from IQ (intelligence quotient) toward EQ (emotional quotient) and is finally skirting the edge of SQ (spiritual quotient). As it is said in Upanishads, Tatve Masi Swatekaitu (you are that), or as Socrates said, Know thyself. The journey of external excellence begins with internal perfection. It is said that the real world is the perceived world, so correct vision is a prerequisite in order to analyze personal and professional problems properly. For this study of the self and deep thinking is required.

This is spiritualism. (When a professional person develops such spiritual quotient, he or she is called a spiritual man or a spiritual woman.) In contrast to Descartes’s aphorism, I think, so I exist, Indian philosophy stresses, I exist, so I think.

With the development of management thought, the economic corporate environment all over the world has also changed.

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With the advent of the twenty-first century, the importance of the service sector has ascended like the rising sun. As physical labor is replaced by mental efforts, the philosophy of work and productivity has to be redefined. Hence, all the major theories of management need to be redefined in light of this new economic global world order.

The concept of spiritual man, or SQ, the latest craze of modern management, is the first chapter of age-old Indian philosophy. There are many important lessons that the Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, and the Ashtangika Marga (eight fold path) of Buddha can teach to modern management, as these were the first spiritual teachers of civilized man.

The Bhagavad-Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations and duties of life; yet keeping in view the spiritual nature and grander purpose of the universe.

—J. L. Nehru

The Bhagavad Gita, the spirit of Hinduism, is a part of the Mahabharata. It is said in the Vaishnaviya Tantrasaar that Upnishads are the cows and Krishna is the cowherd. Arjuna is the Calf. Intelligent person is the drinker and the pious Gita is the milk. Thus, Gita is the essence of all Indian wisdom. It starts with blind King Dhritarashtra requesting his assistant Sanjaya to narrate the battle between