“1) "Beloved Swamiji,I have a question regarding the corporate world:…”

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1) "Beloved Swamiji,I have a question regarding the corporate world: How can we embed spiritual and social goals into an organization’s innovation agenda and processes? How can an organization encourage social responsibility and social entrepreneurship?" - Rafik loreal, China

First, Rafik, you need to understand, life is not capitalistic. Life is neither capitalistic, nor communistic or socialistic. Please understand, capitalism teaches the ownership - whoever owns is the big guy. Communism teaches - whether you work or not, everything belongs to you. Communism is a way of tamas – means, inertia. The whole communist philosophy is born out of inertness – tamas; the whole capitalistic philosophy is born out of restlessness - rajas. But life is peace – sattva! Then what is life? Does life believe in communism or capitalism? No. The major components of your life, like disease, death, contentment, life satisfaction… just like job satisfaction, there is something called life satisfaction. See, every morning, only just before the screen opens for satsang, I decide what to speak. This morning, one thought suddenly came - whatever mood I have now, let me just express that. Then I looked in - what mood do I have? I got this one word - life satisfaction. Completely, the life is satisfying. Nothing more needs to be achieved. Whatever happens, the life satisfaction, the depth of life satisfaction is so much.

I wanted to tell you, an important component of life is life satisfaction - which is neither capitalistic nor communistic. A country may be capitalist or communist, but life, the principles of life, are neither capitalist nor communist - why you take birth, where you take birth, why you get a disease when you get the disease, why somebody has a high life satisfaction, why somebody has such worst mental disorders? I tell you, I know millions of fellows who are loaded with billions of rupees, but if you see their personal life you will not be jealous of them, because there is so much suffering. They may be loaded with money and can do anything they want, but the major components of life, the principles of life are not supporting. Maybe the principles of country and society are supporting them, not the principles of life. There are many capitalistic fellows who built their lives with narrow self-interest, without any ethical foundation. But the principles of life is totally different. Let me make it very clear. If a country supports capitalism, you may get the benefits given by the country‘s infrastructure - you may have wealth, house, boathouse, more zeros in your bank balance. But only when the life’s principles support you, you will have the gifts of life – health, life satisfaction, the feeling that life is overflowing. I tell you, anything is worth sacrificing to have this feeling - life is overflowing, life is romance. I am not talking about the ordinary romance between men and women, which is skin deep ,which just goes away the moment the sweat is wiped off. I am not talking about that. I am talking about the feeling, life itself is romance. As I said, just sipping a cup of juice is not some great action to feel life satisfaction. But just that action, I can see, wow! I can feel very clearly inside, the life satisfaction. The whole life is moving from one satisfaction-moment to another satisfaction-moment. This moment is so beautifully satisfied, and the next moment much more satisfied. In Tamil, there is a proverb - if your husband is standing by you, the whole world is standing by you - you can win the whole world. Means, if there is no internal problem, you can win the world. I tell you, if your mind is standing by you, if your body is standing by you, you can win the whole cosmos.

I can see very clearly, when this life satisfaction is oozing out, you can inspire, elevate anybody. You need to understand the principles of life. With the country, go with the principles which the country believes. If you are in China, go with the principles of Communism - that is what that country believes. If you are in the US, go with principles of capitalism - that is what that country believes. Of course, democracy is nothing but that which is created by capitalism to divert your eyes away from their money! That is why all capitalistic countries are democratic. They say it is all about democracy, let us talk about democracy. Public says, No, let us talk about capitalism. Let us not hide our ugly capitalistic concepts behind a thin screen of democracy. Unfortunately, the corruption has made even our political system into capitalism. Man with money wins, that’s all. If corruption is not removed, if our elections are not tightened and reformed, even our elections are made capitalistic. In this capitalism, media also takes part, that’s all.

Principles of life are neither capitalistic nor communistic. Capitalism says, man who has more is a big guy. Communism says, everybody is equal. The principles of life says, man who takes the responsibility has the right to enjoy - that’s all. Not that the man who owns has the right to enjoy. Not that the man who can grab has the right to enjoy. No. Man who takes the responsibility has the right to enjoy. Understand, all your questions related to money, all the parts of your life impacted by money, attend all those problems with the principles of your country’s ism – capitalism or communism. If you are in China and you have a problem of money, you need to find a solution through principles of communism, in Bharat, through capitalism. But if you have problems related to life’s principles, find solutions with this truth – man who takes responsibility has the right to enjoy. Health, life satisfaction, the happenings of life like birth, death, mental health, life satisfaction, fulfillment in the life – for these problems, this is the principle of life! If you have questions about disease, desires, karma, questions related to life, why somebody has so much of mental peace, why some other people don’t have it, why some people have so much of life satisfaction, some people don’t have it – for these problems, find a solution through the principles of life.

Do you know, one recent survey by UNESCO shows that world’s happiest country is Bharat! They have done a very beautiful survey, taking specimens from all backgrounds, giving them a long questionnaire. Finally, end of the survey, they say that the world’s most happiest country is Bharat. It means, more number of people report life satisfaction for all these questions.

One more thing I wanted to remind you - if you want to infuse the life principles into your corporate place, in your workplace, understand a few things. First thing you need to know - capitalism without a strong ethical foundation degenerates into narrow self- interest. With capitalism, you do not have a strong ethical foundation. So re-write, re-think; infuse responsibility in all your thinking processes and evolution. Let every person who is part of your organization be told about his responsibility. Spend at least one hour on making everybody understand their responsibility. Never think that if you take one hour for this, the productivity is lost. No. I am spending 5 hours every day with all my ashramites, volunteers, whoever is part of my sangha. Every morning I am there with them, from 5 am to 10 am. I am personally involved with them, where their physical, mental, spiritual identities are enriched. The physical identity is your body, mental identity is your thoughts - whether you are depressed or excited. The spiritual identity is your consciousness. Every morning I make sure they spend 5 hours enriching all the three. The corporate company will think, Oh God, morning is the time to work, this Swami is keeping them away from work till 10 am? No. I tell you, every morning, you are reminded about your life’s responsibility.

And I also tell you, if you can wake up by 5 every morning, all the engrams which are making you not taking responsibility will be killed. Because usually, they are up even before you get up! They start arguing inside you - Why should I get up?... because Swami said it is good for health… so what, even if I die early what is there?… See all the demons which are sitting inside you! You have to fight, and only then you can get out of bed. You don’t know, some 25 demons are standing around you. One fellow says - Keep quiet, what is there, are you a slave or what? Every day you have to get up and go there, and the same Yoga teachers will be there, stand up, bend down… one day if I miss, what is there? After all, this fellow in my next bed does not attend four times a week, I only miss once a week… That is the 2nd sword. So many demons are standing around you!

And I tell you, all these demons are the same patterns which never let you take any responsibility at your work. It is the same demon which comes up in your workplace, asking - why are working so much, you are not a slave, it is okay... I tell you, exactly those patterns which never lets you take the responsibility of life and life’s principles, they will be awake and alive between 4.30 and 6.00 am . Your whole day’s mood is controlled by time. You can see very clearly, if you are habituated to go to office at morning 9 am, exactly at that time, you will be agitated! And now for all you guys, even if don’t have morning satsang for two days, you will feel sleepy at 7 am, because everyday you are in the habit of sleeping in satsang, and it has become pattern now!! Anyhow, if you break the morning tamas, morning inertia, you will break many of the patterns which does not let you take the responsibility of life.

I recommend this very sincerely to all corporate companies - when you gather for your work in the morning, whether is 7 am, 8 am, or 9 am, whatever time, first spend one hour making everybody responsible for what they are there for. Not just the work they are supposed to do that day. No. Let them make themselves fit with a clear understanding about what they want from society and what society wants from them. Their requirements from society, and vice-versa. See, everybody is living in a society. Your society - your family, your boss, your sub-ordinates - what they need from you, and what you need from them. Understand, you are there because you need something from them. You are always there in any situation only when you need something from them, not otherwise. When you need something from them, be responsible to offer what they need from you. Let every individual feel the responsibility. Let every individual look into the responsibility. Corporate organizations will be successful only when every individual understands the principles of life, not otherwise. You might have trained him spending lakhs of rupees and thousands of dollars. Suddenly he is depressed - what can you do? All your investment is waste. So when you are training people to work, train them to be alive and live. Train people to live first only then all your other training will be useful. Your BBA, MBA, then training on work, training in vacation, training abroad, everything will be useful only when you train the person to be alive!

TECH-Corp-I can give these two as techniques to all corporate companies. First, make sure that everybody who is part of your organization wakes up at 5 am, because at that time they will have to kill so many demons, they will have to kill so many patterns; it will be a powerful way to break patterns throughout the day. When you learn to break patterns the moment you wake up every morning, your consciousness - the knife that destroys your patterns - will be sharp and alive whole day. You will go on cutting patterns. Next, one hour before you start your work, they have to understand life’s principles – why they are here, the way they are here, what the society around them expects from them, what they expect from the society around them - then you will understand that everything is a business, pure give-and-take. When you understand that everything is a business, you will be cleaned from many of the pseudo-sentiments.

Many workers feel they are sacrificing for the company, and company feels it is sacrificing for the workers. Many parents feel they are sacrificing for children, and children feel, you don’t need to sacrifice for me I am only sacrificing for you! This is forced sacrifice. Sometimes I see parents – Oh, whole life I have sacrificed so many things for you, you have to be with me and do as I want. Children say, I don’t want your sacrifice. Whether it is a company or the society, when you understand what you expect and what you need to give, a lot of your concepts about pseudo-sacrifice disappear. And not only that, when your concepts of pseudo-sacrifice disappear, they just don’t go alone, they take away many of your weak sentiments also. Vivekananada says, weak sentiments are death. You get drained by the weak sentiments. A man whose life is not built on weak principles will always be successful. See, it is like trying to build your building’s foundation on weak sand - the building will not stand. But if you build on strong foundation, building will stand. Same way, do not build your life on weak foundation.

Now I am watching this serial on TV, Devon ke Dev. I am seeing, Daksha is so adamant, stubborn, about getting Sati married to somebody other than Shiva. What is his sentiment? It is only about seeing his daughter getting married in front of his eyes. That’s all. He does not bother about her happiness after that. These are many of the weak sentiments which are part of your life. Look at your life. You know that some of the ideas, the relationships you are jumping into, are not going to be long lasting, or leading you to stable life, life satisfaction. Even knowing that, you think - It is okay, now let me somehow push it, after that we will face whatever happens. Doing things which are not for long term. Doing things which are not for the principles of life.

I tell you – you cannot have separate principles for your life and separate principles for your corporate company. Your work place is a major part of your life. You need an integrated principle. Only way to have integrated principle is, every morning when you gather for work, spend at least one hour understanding responsibility. If you are a devotee, and running a corporate company, I tell you - this one hour will not reduce your productivity. Everyday morning, you yourself sit and head that meeting. Discuss, discuss, discuss. Let every staff worker imbibe this principle in their life – principle of responsibility. I tell you, only after I started the morning Satsang, Even a Sangha started evolving around me. Till then there was no sangha; it was like a group of people sitting together for various reasons. Only now everybody’s motive is aligned to one truth. You are here for one common purpose, and you need to take this responsibility. When this alignment happens between two persons, it is not 1+1 \= 2. NO. It is 1+1 \= 11. When understanding happens between two people, it is 2; when alignment happens between two, it is 11; when at-onement happens between two, it is explosion. When consciously melting disciple meets with the consciously awakened being, it is explosion! That is what has happened between Ramakrishna and Vivekananda. The explosion that happened when they both met is the Ramakrishna movement. I am waiting for my Vivekanandas! Of course, I know for sure that each one of you guys will become Vivekananda. Now, only in some people understanding is happening; in very few, alignment is happening. If the understanding has happened, you have become ‘+’ if my organization. If alignment is happening, you have become ‘x’ – squares of my organization. If at-onement is happening, you become squares and cubes of very me, not just my sangha. Everybody says, I am one with you Swamiji, please tell me straight, hit at me straight! But one word in right place will flare up the whole Rahu and ego! Everybody feels, I am already in alignment state, now I just need to go to the at-onement state. No. Relax. There is so much of honesty and authenticity that is needed. Just honesty can take you to the level of understanding, but only when the authenticity happens alignment happens, and from alignment at-onement happens.

I tell you, any corporate company, any organization, has to spend at least 10% of their time for understanding and alignment. Understanding and alignment itself should take at least 10% of the energy. It can go even up to 25% of the energy. In my organization, I am spending around 20% of energy on this. Because 5 hours, from morning 5-10 am, means 20% of the time. If you honestly use this five hours, whatever I am doing will reach you. It is like, I can cook the food and make it available. But if you only want to go to the sewerage system, then what can I do? Whoever uses this 5 hours properly, I can say 20% of your life is used for proper alignment to life’s principles.

For each corporate company, alignment to life’s purpose is the need. I will give a series on principles of corporate life, where neither capitalism nor communism works. Responsibility is neither capitalism nor communism. I wanted to create a new theory called responsibilism. Life’s principles are based on responsibilism. If you want to be healthy, take responsibility in that direction. If you want to explode in spiritual zone, take responsibility. If you want wealth, take responsibility in that direction. Take responsibility. Chisel your life with the tool called responsibility.

We will go to the next segment morning Satsang – Dial the Avatar.

1. Mangai from Metur, Tamil Nadu

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