Indian Ethos and Values
INDIAN ETHOS MANAGMENET:
Oxford defines ethos as
“The characteristic Spirit and Beliefs of community/ people” which distinguishes one culture from the other.
Indian ethos is drawn from the Vedas, the Ramayana,
Mahabharat, the Bhagwadgita, and Upnishads.
Right from the Vedic age it has been discovered two basic universal truths of life.
1. The essential infinitude and divinity of all souls.
2. The essential oneness and solidarity of universe and all life.
The first truth was expressed UPNISHADA as
AHAM BRAHMASI (I am Brahman)
Or
AYAM ATMA BRAHMAN i.e. The Individual soul is
Brahman
Or
TATTWAMASI (Thou art that).
This is the first truth thought to every child. Even a poor uneducated man living in a hut knows that God is in everybody and therefore there is sameness in all.
The second truth is about a holistic universe. Where at a level of pervading consciousness everything is interconnected at VYASTHI LEVEL (Individual level) my limbs, hands, legs, ears, eyes, heart, lungs…. Everything are me. I live in all of them. Their sorrows and joys are my sorrows and joys. Similarly at SAMASTHI level (the whole universe) I am not a single individual but I am a part of the whole universe just as my limbs are part of me.
Modern science has accepted that in this holistic universe all minds and matters are interconnected at a deeper level. The basic unity of life cannot be broken. Love, sacrifice therefore emerge as the only for a meaningful living. On the basis of this holistic vision, Indians have developed work ethos of life. They found that all work, physical or mental, managerial or administrative have to be directed towards single purpose. The manifestation of the divinity in man by working for the good of others, for the happiness of others.
These Indian ethos are required all over the world in present scenario in managing business and industry effectively and efficiently.
Some of these ethos are as follows:
THE VEDANTIC VIEW OF
Oxford defines ethos as
“The characteristic Spirit and Beliefs of community/ people” which distinguishes one culture from the other.
Indian ethos is drawn from the Vedas, the Ramayana,
Mahabharat, the Bhagwadgita, and Upnishads.
Right from the Vedic age it has been discovered two basic universal truths of life.
1. The essential infinitude and divinity of all souls.
2. The essential oneness and solidarity of universe and all life.
The first truth was expressed UPNISHADA as
AHAM BRAHMASI (I am Brahman)
Or
AYAM ATMA BRAHMAN i.e. The Individual soul is
Brahman
Or
TATTWAMASI (Thou art that).
This is the first truth thought to every child. Even a poor uneducated man living in a hut knows that God is in everybody and therefore there is sameness in all.
The second truth is about a holistic universe. Where at a level of pervading consciousness everything is interconnected at VYASTHI LEVEL (Individual level) my limbs, hands, legs, ears, eyes, heart, lungs…. Everything are me. I live in all of them. Their sorrows and joys are my sorrows and joys. Similarly at SAMASTHI level (the whole universe) I am not a single individual but I am a part of the whole universe just as my limbs are part of me.
Modern science has accepted that in this holistic universe all minds and matters are interconnected at a deeper level. The basic unity of life cannot be broken. Love, sacrifice therefore emerge as the only for a meaningful living. On the basis of this holistic vision, Indians have developed work ethos of life. They found that all work, physical or mental, managerial or administrative have to be directed towards single purpose. The manifestation of the divinity in man by working for the good of others, for the happiness of others.
These Indian ethos are required all over the world in present scenario in managing business and industry effectively and efficiently.
Some of these ethos are as follows:
THE VEDANTIC VIEW OF