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Vicharasetu Dec 2010 1 However stupendous the Universe, consisting of numerous planets and heavenly bodies is, it should not the least delude and unsettle the seeker. For, it is the mind that makes one perceive and experience the Universe and its magnitude. The inner mind is thus far greater than the visible expanse around. The message of spirituality is that the Supreme verily dwells within one’s own body. All that the seeker should do is remember this message fondly, and strive to live and move under its persuasion. December 2010 Vol. 46 No. 03 Vicharasetu - December 2010 2 Contents Infusing Values in an Organization 03 Verses for Introspection 2. Wholesome Devotion – M¡ Gurupriy¡ 11 Prabh¡ta-ra¿miÅ 182. Fruition of Spiritual Pursuit 14 Bangalore Jµ¡na Yajµa 17 Lighting the Lamp of Knowledge – Mala S. 23 Back to Eternity Dr. T Bhama 29 News & Notes 31 The Supreme Duty of Man ∫… ¥…Ë {…÷∆∫……∆ {…Æ˙…‰ v…®……Ê ™…i……‰ ¶… HÚÆ˙v……‰I…V…‰ * +Ω˲i…÷C™…|… i…Ω˛i…… ™…™……%%i®…… ∫…∆|…∫…“n˘ i… ** áreemad Bh¡gavatam 1.02.6 The supreme duty of man is to develop devotion to the Lord. By such devotion, which has no other motive (than love for the Lord), which flows incessantly (with no obstruction), one’s mind becomes completely peaceful. Narayanashrama Tapovanam Venginisseri, P. O. Paralam, Thrissur. Kerala - 680 575. India. Fax & Tel. (0487) 2278363 email: [email protected] Website: http://www.brahmavidya.org Vicharasetu - December 2010 3 Infusing Values in an Organization [Extracts from Poojya Swamiji’s video conference (Oct 02, 2010) with about 60 Chief Ethics Counsellors of Tata Group, assembled for a 2-day deliberation at Khandala (Maharashtra). This “Ethics Counsellors’ Meet”, had the aim of ‘enhancing employee engagement’ throughout the organization, so as to achieve ‘value-based commitment to improve ethical climate’.] HariÅ Om Tat Sat. Jai Guru. I shall recite an invocation so that all of you will feel sufficiently spiritually inspired, blessed and there will be a benedictory influence on all concerned. ®…n˘“™… æ˛n˘™……EÚ…∂…‰ S…n˘…x…xn˘®…™……‰ M…÷Ø˚: * =n‰˘i…÷ ∫…i…i…∆ ∫…®™…M…Y……x… i… ®…Æ˙…Ø˚h…: ** Chanting of ‘Om’ has a great effect on rejuvenating and reinforcing our heart, a point that modern medicine recognizes very much. (Poojya Swamiji chants ‘Om’ three times; others across the internet follow.) First of all, this is a kind of a reunion for me. I have been with the officials of Tata organizations on earlier occasions also. I understand that you have already had two days of deliberations and discussions on how to generate ‘ethical climate’. I congratulate all of you and also shower my compliments on you. That you thought of inviting an ascetic, a sanny¡sin for a discussion like this, particularly with a team consisting of the Chief Counsellors of Tata organizations, is very significant. Importance and relevance of Values The objective before you, as I understand, is ‘enhancing employee engagement’. More particularly, you have said that this is a conference on value-based commitment to improve the ethical climate in your industrial units. I have kept this objective in my mind. Vicharasetu - December 2010 4 How does a value become desirable or compulsory? Can human life Can a society survive without values? Can human be meaningful, relevant and life be meaningful, relevant and progressive without progressive values? When I look into the dictionary, I find ‘value’ without values? is described as ‘worth, desirability and utility’ of anything. It also denotes the qualities on which these depend. I am sure that all of you, along with your large teams in your respective industries, will be aspiring to become ‘useful and relevant’ to the world. You must be useful to yourselves, your families, the society at large, the nation as a whole, and also to the globe. Once you understand that this is the import of the Only when term ‘value’, there can be no question of anyone not guided by wanting it. Every one of us should become worthy values, we will and admirable. And only when guided by values, become worthy and admirable. we will become so. If values lead to progress, who will be reluctant to incorporate them, manifest them, pursue them and also take them to the logical climax? Values are Secular – not Religious Our country has got a hoary culture. And yet our cultural greatness is even now not fully understood. We have lived for countless number of millennia. In spite of all these generations, during which we had to withstand a number of invasions, you will find that we have preserved our cultural values. When we established the ‘Foundation for Restoration of National Values’ (FRNV) – in the advisory board of which Sri Ratan Tata also is there – I had done a lot of deliberation on ‘culture’. Many people do not know what ‘culture’ is. Also, there prevails a wrong notion about it. ‘Culture’ doesn’t have a religious connotation. Nor is it merely traditional. The meaning of ‘culture’ pertains to ‘arts, beliefs and other products of human work and thought’. Mark my words: arts and other manifestations of Vicharasetu - December 2010 5 human intellectual achievements regarded collectively by a society become ‘culture’. Understand that culture can become so only when it has the stamp of rational approval. The intellectual aspect of human personality should incorporate it, understand it and pursue it. It is fully secular. Whenever I refer to ‘cultural-values’, I mean values that are blended with cultural note. We are not bringing here any reference to religion or orthodoxy. Rather, you must recognize the harmony and commonality between culture and values. Thus, because we have a great culture, it is understood that we have great values also. Inspired by Values – not by Material Rewards When I am addressing you, I see you as great cultural and value-based stalwarts. May be many of you had not thought of yourselves like this earlier. Now, look at me; I am an ascetic. A mendicant. For We are not the past fifty-five years, I have been travelling in our appointed by country as well as abroad, disseminating age-old anybody. We are values of our country, like a ‘walking university’. In not rewarded by anybody. doing so, what is it that guides me? It is my own personal commitment, perseverance and dedication. We, in our Ashram, along with other sanny¡sins and inmates, are given to the mission of social welfare, loka-sa´graha. We are not appointed by anybody. We are not rewarded by anybody. But all of you are employed. You get your remuneration from your employers. You are employed for a purpose. I will be very sorry if you have only a remunerational point of view about your employment. You may want to ask a question. Can there be any other motive? Yes. There can be. What I want to say is that all along, throughout our life, we sanny¡sins Vicharasetu - December 2010 6 are guided by values. For the past few months, I have been disseminating this value-based culture through a telecast programme in Asianet, the Malayalam TV channel. We have been discussing values all along. How to make values inspire a human being? And how can values persuade or enthuse him and make his life more meaningful, so that he can take up any given task, pursue it vigorously, zealously, with commitment, dedication and zeal? And while doing so, how to find joy right from the beginning? This is what I speak to our listeners. Values bestow fulfillment It is not that we pursue a task and at the end of it, when it fructifies, we become joyous. No! Values are such that when you are enriched and empowered by them, you will be able to proceed with your task in a joyful manner, and at every point of the task, you will have a sense of fulfillment. This is how I am moving around with my mission. We expect that this programme in Asianet may have more than seven hundred episodes. We have completed only around hundred and sixty. Whether the task will be completed or not, I do not know. But I am doing it with a sense of abundant joy and fulfillment. You may wonder: how does Swamiji get this joy? My dear souls, I get it from my own heart! I am not looking to anything else! It is my mind that produces this joy, preserves it, reinforces it, enhances it and makes it finer and finer every time. Enriching Contribution to the World In all this, I have got a formula. What is that? Every day of my life My own ethical-sense tells me that every day of should be enriching to me, and there my life, whatever work I do, should be enriching should be enriching to me and I must be making enriching contribution to the contribution to the world. world. Why am I telling you all this? When you work, if your consideration is only about contribution to your company, it will be a very constricted Vicharasetu - December 2010 7 outlook. Your company is only one of the several industries that the nation has. Every thing that you produce goes into the open market. If they are vehicles, they are used for transporting goods, from one point to another. They may be in India, in Asia, perhaps in Europe and other areas also. If they are services, they are availed of by the people. The productivity is always not for Tata Group alone. It is a contribution to the overall productivity of the nation, of the globe.
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