tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195617872012-02-03T12:37:57.848+05:30Not exactly a Blog, but a collection of perspectives on the Vedic path for a rapidly changing environmentTushar Kansalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831814145002241491noreply@blogger.comBlogger1231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19561787.post-1134118393764715072005-12-09T14:22:00.001+05:302010-05-14T12:46:42.161+05:30

Arbor mentis : Subroto BagchiThe power of inclusionThe way to build ‘inclusion’ — extend concern to people who are twice removed from youThe author is co-founder & chief operating officer of MindTree Consulting.Whenever someone begins with a sense of inclusion while building a vision, it is almost certain to be great. We see this in the way human history has unfolded. The concept of vision in the

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Arbor Mentis : Subroto BagchiLooking beyond self-preservationGreat vision is not only about audacious goals, but about one goal that involves a committed leaderThe author is co-founder & chief operating officer of MindTree Consulting.When people envision a future for others around their own self-preservation, it never produces anything worthwhile. That is the reason why politics is a poor engine

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my view : prasoon joshiPromotions in the Indian contextPromos and freebies must be in sync with the brand’s value — and the social context of the consumerThe author is regional creative director, South and South-East Asia, McCann Erickson IndiaAt a recent client meeting, a research study was being discussed fervently. It put forth that promotions do not work in India. For, consumers say that the

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coach’s business : john buchananThe leader in everyoneA team must seek to make all its players capable of taking highquality decisions in varied situationsjohn buchananThe author is coach of the Australian cricket team which won World Cup 2003 and continues to be a competitive international team.In my previous column, we had touched upon the concept of leadership. We discussed the role of a

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arbor mentis : subroto bagchiLet's talk about visionHistory shows that visionary leaders have been pathcreators, capable of action even when the picture was hazysubroto bagchiThe author is co-founder and chief operating officer of MindTree Consulting.The subject of vision has always intrigued me. What is vision? What makes someone a visionary? What makes ordinary people raise themselves to

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arbor mentisLet's talk about integrityHow do you communicate a code of conduct to a fellow worker who is seeing the positional collapse of government, big business and organised religion?subroto bagchiThe author is co-founder & chief operating officer of MindTree Consulting.These are difficult times indeed - when people look up to sources beyond the self for reassurance. When we were children and

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Why Be A Hindu:The Advantages of the Vedic PathBy Stephen KnappPoints of Consideration1. WHAT DOES HINDUISM STAND FOR?Hinduism is, basically, the modern name for the Vedic way of life, especially the spiritual path usually associated with India. Previously, those who followed the Vedic system were also called Aryans. It is often considered that the Vedic Aryans were a race of people. However,

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10 Ways to Nurture Your Child's Spiritual DevelopmentSue Frederick, author of A Mother's Guide to Raising Healthy Children When my daughter was born, I felt a great responsibility to nurture and strengthen her connection to God as she made her way through the challenges of growing up. Over the years, I've gathered a few ideas (from talking to moms and spiritual teachers) about how to keep that

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British Education in IndiaAs has been noted by numerous scholars of British rule in India, the physical presence of the British in India was not significant. Yet, for almost two centuries, the British were able to rule two-thirds of the subcontinent directly, and exercise considerable leverage over the Princely States that accounted for the remaining one-third. While the strategy of divide and

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What Most People Do Not Know(Extract from "The Knowledge of Reality")An eminent modern scientist answered the question whether mankind has as yet succeeded in exploring one per cent of reality: "No, not even one ten thousandth of one per cent".That is, not even one millionth! One certainly has respect for such a scientist. Nobody makes a greater impression than he who realizes man’s immense

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Vedic Culture: The Last Bastion of Deep Spiritual TruthBy Stephen KnappWhy would Vedic culture be called the last bastion of deep spiritual truth? It doesn't take much to understand, at least after a little investigation, that the Vedic process of spiritual advancement promotes individual freedom of thought, complete liberty of inquiry, and the privilege of independent and personal development

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East is east - get used to itAs Japan has shown, and China will too, the west's values are not necessarily universalMartin JacquesFriday May 20, 2005GuardianNot so long ago, Japan was the height of fashion. Then came the post-bubble recession and it rapidly faded into the background, condemned as yesterday's story. The same happened to the Asian tigers: until 1997 they were the flavour of the

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Do you known how much energy, how many powers, how many forces are still lurking behind that frame of yours? What scientist has known all that is in man? Millions of years have passed since man first came here, and yet but one infinitesimal part of his powers has been manifested. Therefore, you must not say that you are weak. How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the

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Think it Over All religions are not the same By M.S.N. Menon No, they are not. Only a moron would say so. Or a politician. Religions are different. As different as chalk and cheese. They reflect the history and character of the peoples who gave them birth. Religions are of two kinds: theistic and philosophic. The first is born of blind faith; the other, of logic and reason. The Semitic religions

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SUFI THOUGHT #1'There is One God, the Eternal, the Only Being; none exists save He.' The God of the Sufi is the God of every creed, and the God of all. Names make no difference to him. Allah, God, Gott, Dieu, Brahma, or Bhagwan, all these names and more are the names of his God; and yet to him God is beyond the limitation of name. He sees his God in the sun, in the fire, in the idol which diverse

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QuotesJune 12, 2004You can have anything you want ?if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. - Abraham LincolnLearn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. - St. Teresa of AvilaNo one is in control of

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Vedanta as Basis for Social OrganizationSuccess of any organization depends on proper integration of five tenets on which it rests. These are:1) Ideology,2) Program,3) Strategy,4) Tactics, and5) Field work.There is a sort of hierarchy. At every level an attempt is usually made to recruit or select talented persons with specialized qualifications. Every level acts as the 'ideal' for lower level.

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Inspirational Quotes1.We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.2.Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.3.You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.4.When we really begin to live in the world, then we understand what is

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Dharma Talk given by Thich Nhat Hanh on November 20, 1997 in Plum Village, France.The good, beautiful, and true is in us © Thich Nhat HanhDear friends, today is the 20th of November 1997, we are in the New Hamlet. There is a French writer whose name is Antoine de Saint Exupéry. He said that to love each other doesn't mean we sit and look at each other, but it means we both look in the same

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Be Emotionally Intelligent: Follow Bhagvad Gita“Mind is very restless, forceful and strong, O Krishna, it is more difficult to control the mind than to control the wind”Arjuna to Sri KrishnaIn this chapter, we will see how our ancient sacred teachings may enlighten a modern day manager to identify, interpret and apply emotions in personal and professional life. We will also see how an

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BOOK REVIEWThe inscrutable IndiansBeing Indian by Pavan K VarmaReviewed by Chanakya SenThe greatest asset of any country is its people. This aphorism holds especially for India, whose pool of human resources and talent makes the best in the world envious. Diplomat Pavan Varma's new rendering is a discourse on what it means to be Indian in the 21st century, and what characteristics make Indians

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The Awareness LifestyleBy using the very word "meditation" there is a possibility of moving in a wrong direction -- because English has no exact word for "dhyana," meditation only comes close to it. English has three words: concentration, contemplation, meditation. Concentration is of the mind. You focus your mind on a particular object, you exclude everything else, you just go on narrowing your

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Witnessing the Spirit of MeditationMeditation is an adventure, the greatest adventure the human mind can undertake. Meditation is just being, not doing anything; no actions, no thoughts, and no emotions. You just are and it is a sheer delight. From where does this delight come when you are doing nothing? It comes from nowhere, or it comes from everywhere.Whenever you can find time for just

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The roots of the conflict Where did the trouble called Kashmir originate from, E. Ahmad traces outFor its persistence as an unresolved international conflict, the question of Kashmir resembles the question of Palestine. For two decades, beginning in 1947, it occupied world attention. India and Pakistan fought two inconclusive wars over it - in 1948, and 1965. Then, after India defeated Pakistan

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Indian and Islamic philosophy1) India.Indian philosophy is traditionally divided into four periods: 1) the Vedic period; 2) the classical (or Brahmin-Buddhist) period, lasting from the 6th century B.C. to the 10th century A.D. approximately; 3) the post-classical or Hinduistic period, from the 10th to the 18th centuries; and 4) the modern period, from the British conquest to the present

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When the fully enlightened teachers do not appear and when the disciples have disappeared, the wisdom of the self-enlightened ones will arise completely without a teacher.- Naagaarjuna's Mulamaadhyamaka Kaarikaa (2nd century CE)IntroductionEverything has a reason - or atleast that is the basic assumption underlying philosophy itself and the quest for that reason is the fundamental objective of

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The Principal upaniShadsEdited with Introduction, Text, Translation and Notes by S. RadhakrishnanPrefaceHuman nature is not altogether unchanging but it does remain sufficiently constant to justify the study of ancient classics. The problems of human life and destiny have not been superseded by the striking achievements of science and technology. The solutions offered, though conditioned in their

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The Buddha’s Place in Indian Thought THE BUDDHA is the greatest personality that India has produced in the many millennia of her history For the people of Asia’s wide expanses, to day as centuries ago, the Buddha is the great exponent of the spirit of India, His name is known to the uncivilized nomad in the icy steppes of Siberia as well as to the cultured son of China. To him turn in

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How can India Defeat Militant Islam?By: By Moorthy Muthuswamy PhD August 30, 2004(Updated on September 07, 2004)IntroductionIn my previous paper titled “The Art of War on Terror”, I had outlined strategies America, the world’s pre-eminent power, could use to win the war on terror efficiently. In this paper after discussing the nature of militant Islam in India and its surroundings, I delve into

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Think it over Who looted India more?By M.S.N. MenonThe British, say the ignorant Hindus. And they are not a few in this country. The talk is always of colonial exploitation. Of Jalianwala massacre. It is also said that the British transferred huge amounts to Britain and that they tried to maximise revenue collections in India. What are the facts? Prof. Dharma Kumar of the Delhi School of

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The West seems to be obsessed with with sex? People are stuffed with endless techniques and porno images, why?Osho:It is not a question of West or East. Both are obsessed with sex -- of course, in different ways. The West is indulgent, the East is repressive, but the obsession is the same. And the significant question is: Why is the West so indulgent? It is two thousand years of Christianity and

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Osho:The ordinary mind always throws the responsibility on somebody else. It is always the other who is making you suffer. Your wife is making you suffer, your husband is making you suffer, your parents are making you suffer, your children are making you suffer, or the financial system of the society, capitalism, communism, fascism, the prevalent political ideology, the social structure, or fate,

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Original question: Beloved Osho, what are your views on sexual ethics?Osho:My views on sexual ethics are against all the views that have been held up to now. They were all repressive of sex; they were condemnatory and created a split in the human mind. The whole schizophrenia and all the perversions of man are rooted in those wrong sexual ethics.I conceive of sex as a natural phenomenon. There is

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Why can't I see any meaning in life?Osho:Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning. Meaning has not to be discovered: it has to be created. You will find meaning only if you create it. It is not lying there somewhere behind the bushes, so you can go and you search a little bit and find it. It is not there like a rock that you will find. It is a poetry to be composed,

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Do we have to transcend sex before getting enlightened? Osho:You don't have to transcend anything. You have to live everything that is natural to you, and live it fully, without any inhibition -- joyously, aesthetically. Just by living it deeply, a transcendence will come. You are not to transcend anything. Remember my words. A transcendence will come by itself, and when it comes by itself it is

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The world seems to be getting more and more crazy from day to day. nobody knows what is going on and everything is upside down and confused. this is what is told in the newspapers. is it real? and if so, is there any intrinsic balance in life which is keeping everything stable?Osho:The world is the same; it has always been the same -- upside down, crazy, insane. In fact, only one thing new has

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Osho:I have very little to say about it -- but it will still take two and a half hours! The law of karma, in the first place, is not a law. That word gives it an aroma as if it is something scientific, like the law of gravitation. It is merely a hope, not a law at all. It has been hoped for centuries that if you do good you will attain to good results. It is a human hope in existence which is

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Osho:It is one of the perennial questions of humanity: the question of freedom and responsibility. If you are free, you interpret it as if now there is no responsibility. Just a hundred years ago Friedrich Nietzsche declared, "God is dead, and man is free." And the next sentence he wrote is, "Now you can do whatsoever you want to do. There is no responsibility. God is dead, man is free, and there

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OSHO, I HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO YOU FOR YEARS TO FIND OUT THE RIGHT WAY TO GOD, BUT THE MORE I LISTEN, THE MORE CONFUSED I BECOME. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?Satya Prakash,THERE is no right way to God. There are ways and ways, but there is no RIGHT way to God. There are ways, but don't seek THE way. The search for THE way creates fanatics. And all ways are His, so don't be too worried about the RIGHT

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BELOVED OSHO, WHAT IS LOVE?Swami Anand Tallis,LOVE is the radiance, the fragrance of knowing oneself, of being oneself.Anand Tallis is very young -- he is only nine -- but he is far ahead of his age. His mental age must be almost double that, nearabout eighteen, hence the question.Love is overflowing joy. Love is when you have seen who you are; then there is nothing left except to share your

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OSHO, WHAT IS FEAR MADE OF? IT IS ALWAYS THERE BEHIND A CORNER, BUT WHEN I TURN TO FACE IT, IT IS ONLY A SHADOW. IF IT IS NON-SUBSTANTIAL, HOW DOES IT MANAGE TO HAVE SUCH A POWER OVER ME?Anand Hamid,FEAR is as non-substantial as your shadow, but it is. The shadow also exists -- non-substantial, negative, but not non-existential -- and sometimes the shadow can have a great impact on you. In a

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Two persons non-thinking are one.Two persons thinking are two: two persons non-thinking areone because there is no distinction, no boundary ...both are in the same sane state. Thoughts will be different, will draw a boundary of separation. But has no boundary and no distinctions, no differences. OSHOOsho:... That's true, there is no need of marriage, friendship is enough. Marriage came into

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Parents have to learn to say "Yes."Osho:The work of the parents is very delicate, and it is precious, because the whole life of the child depends on it. Don't give any positive program -- help him in every possible way that he wants. For example, I used to climb trees. Now, there are a few trees which are safe to climb: their branches are strong, their trunk is strong. You can go even to the very

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We are a middle-aged couple watching our daughter go through a depressing divorce. How can we help her and her little girl get through this with less pain? Below is Osho's reply to a similar question: To fall in love is so easy. Why is it so difficult to fall out of love? So many discussions, tears, fights, fears.... I don't want to hurt the

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OSHO, ARE ALL THE JOURNALISTS BLIND? CAN'T THEY SEE THE TRUTH? WHY ARE THEY CONTINUOUSLY SPREADING LIES ABOUT YOU?Nisha, THE PROFESSION OF A JOURNALIST is such that it lives on lies. Truth is not news; lies are news, beautiful news. The bigger the lie the better the news, because it has a certain quality in it: the quality of creating a sensation. Journalism lives on lies. If journalists decide

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Meditativeness and science are difficult to reconcile. Yet painting a picture, writing a poem, and solving a scientific problem all bring the same joy. The same joy! Why is it so difficult to be meditative and a scientist? Why has there never been a society in which the inner and the outer sciences, the science of gentleness and love and the science of aggression and death, live in harmony?Osho:

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The Three Fears going crazy sexual orgasm death In therapy group situations, there are three fears that always come up in people: the fear of going crazy, the fear of sexual orgasm and the fear of dying.The fear of going crazy is essentially the fear of being alone.The fear of orgasm in essence is guilt.The fear of death is essentially fear of the unknown.Osho's comment on the three fears was

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Osho:The first thing to be understood is what ego is. A child is born. A child is born without any knowledge, any consciousness of his own self. And when a child is born the first thing he becomes aware of is not himself; the first thing he becomes aware of is the other. It is natural, because the eyes open outwards, the hands touch others, the ears listen to others, the tongue tastes food and

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Osho:If you are feeling miserable, let it become a meditation. Sit silently, close the doors. First feel the misery with as much intensity as possible. Feel the hurt. Somebody has insulted you: now, the best way to avoid the hurt is to go and insult him, so that you become occupied with him. That is not meditation. If somebody has insulted you, feel thankful to him that he has given you an

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From some book I remember this sentence: "For the pilgrim to reach his destiny, it's essential to move instantly, but without hurry. It is so urgent that he reaches his destiny, that there is no time to hurry." Could you please comment on this?Osho:You have got caught into a verbiage; otherwise the message is very simple.And it should be simple to you, because that's what I'm saying in many, many

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Osho:Love is painful because it creates the way for bliss. Love is painful because it transforms; love is mutation. Each transformation is going to be painful because the old has to be left for the new. The old is familiar, secure, safe, the new is absolutely unknown. You will be moving in an uncharted ocean. You cannot use your mind with the new; with the old, the mind is skillful. The mind can

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Osho:The ability to concentrate is not something to feel blessed about. It is a frozen state of mind, a very narrow state of mind. Useful, of course, useful -- for others. Useful in scientific inquiry, useful in business, useful in the market, useful in politics -- but absolutely useless for yourself. If you become too attuned with concentration you will become very, very tense. Concentration is

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I suffer immensely from loneliness....Osho:The darkness of loneliness cannot be fought directly. It is something essential for everyone to understand, that there are a few fundamental things which cannot be changed. This is one of the fundamentals: you cannot fight with darkness directly, with loneliness directly, with the fear of isolation directly. The reason is that all these things do not

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Caste in injusticeThe rhetoric of ‘social justice’ conceals all manner of ills: pandering to sectional interests, appeasing of labour aristocracies, subsidising of dying PSUs and most crucially, robbing of the Indian state of talent by arguing against all forms of merit. By equating caste with class, Left orthodoxies are setting the clock back on modernisation. Excerpts from the Nani Palkhivala

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The need for Common Minimum ConductA leader must adhere to codes of conduct and behaviour. Winning votes through immoral means strikes a body blow to democracy. The tragedy is that today a Palkhivala would probably never be able to win elections. Excerpts from the Nani Palkhivala Memorial Lecture:ARUN SHOURIE STRUCTUREEven in the decades that immediately followed the adoption of the Constitution,

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Thinking like usARUNABHA GHOSHAT some point we all expect it to happen. India has developed the comparative advantage of keeping the world in anticipation of its advent as a great power. Having been called both a rising superpower and a third rate power, India’s foreign policy-makers have a hard time explaining away this contradiction. When analyses on India conclude that ‘what is true, the

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By Makarand ParanjapeThe spiritual resurgence in India was the moving force behind the country's freedom struggle that ultimately led to independenceWHAT HISTORY DOESN'T TELL US The history that we are taught doesn't always tell the truth. I realized this many years after I had left school and college. I came to this conclusion in two ways. First, I began to arrive at my own understanding of how

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The spiritual genius of IndiaIF RELIGION were not at the root of the Indian psyche, we would not be facing the grim chaos of religious alienation in our country. We are suffering precisely because religion which is supposed to unite man and God has divided us so tragically. Neither secularisation nor industrialisation has, as yet, sidelined religion in our collective ethos. The religious genius

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India's Soul-Offering India?s soul-offering is the perennial light of the Upanishads. The Upanishads offer to the world at large the Supreme achievement of the awakened and illumined Hindu life.1The Vedas represent the cow. The Upanishads represent milk. We need the cow to give us milk, and we need milk to nourish us.2The Upanishads are also called the Vedanta. The literary meaning of Vedanta is

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Commentary on the Isha UpanishadThe Undivided Unmoving SelfThe teachings of the upanishads are the supreme expressions of the eternal wisdom, the eternal vision of the Vedic Seers. Consequently, though simple in their mode of expression, they can be extremely hard to grasp. The rishis lived in a state of consciousness almost opposite to that of most of us. But it is possible of attainment, and so

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Undoing the Knots of the HeartBy Coen VonkWhen all the knots that fetter the heart are cut asunder, even while here on earth, then a mortal becomes immortal. -- Katha Upanishad II.iii.15Why do we create new inner knots or pull old ones tighter? Within us are two natures, a higher and a lower. The higher leads to inner strength, vision, peace, and love, the lower to weakness, narrow-mindedness,

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arbor mentis : subroto bagchiExecuting a great visionThe gap between the best and the average people in any organisation is constant. The trick is to improve the performance of the bestThe author is co-founder & chief operating officer of MindTree Consulting.Great vision must take people along with it. The greater the ability to carry people with you, the greater the chances of success for the

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The stretch to realise visionStretching a team is about linking processes which affect its members with the team’s visionjohn buchananThe author is coach of the Australian cricket team which won World Cup 2003 and continues to be the most dominant international team.Henry Kissinger once said: "The task of a leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been." The

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Coach's Business : John BuchananThe path to performanceVision is critical to the leadership and ongoing success of any team. It provides an ability to control the future. Selecting the right people rather than skilled people can contribute to the culture of the team.The author is coach of the Australian cricket team which won World Cup 2003 and continues to be the most dominant international

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Chicago Addresses -Buddhism - The FULFILLMENT OF HINDUISMSwami Vivekananda26 th September 1893I am not a Buddhist, as you have heard, and yet I am. If China, orJapan, or Ceylon follow the teachings of the Great Master, Indiaworships him as God incarnate on earth. You have just now heard that I am going to criticize Buddhism, but by that I wish you tounderstand only this. Far be it from me to

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Lok Pal: America has something to teach usM. S. N. MenonThe founding fathers of America were highly suspicious of states and governments. It followed: they had no great faith in men, either. Everything they did was to check the evil in men.The founding fathers of the Indian state were men in the make of the Mahatma. Or so they claimed. They thought they could do not wrong. This is what has made

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Changing colours of the mediaIs Press freedom for India-bashing?Hari JaisinghThere has of late been considerable criticism of the way the Indian media has conducted itself on various matters of vital importance, especially during and after the flop show of the India-Pakistan summit at Agra. Is this criticism warranted? This in itself is a tedious question. For, no objective test has been evolved

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On changing the course of historyM.S.N. MenonA World Bank report says that South Asia is the poorest region of the world. It was the richest for two thousand years. Who is responsible for its present debacle? Pakistan. It has turned the lives of the nearly 1300 million peoples of South Asia into a misery. But on this later.President Musharraf says that his mission in India is to change the course

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Demography in American destinyBy M.S.N. MenonIT is its demography which will determine the final destiny of America. The same can be true of India. They have much in common, and much more to learn from each other.America and India are nations of immigrants. They still keep going to America at the rate of a million a year. It is this continuing immigration which will re-shape America more

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Global financial crisisBy M.S.N. MenonTHE ills of globalisation are on the increase. The frequent spasms of fever are turning into delirium. But the medicine-man’s diagnosis continues to be incoherent.When the BSE stocks fell recently (April 4), following the New York crisis in stocks, some sighed in relief and some let out deep groans. The sigh came from those who were happy that India caught

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Multipolar world — India’s top priorityby M.S.N. MenonON October 1, China marked 50 years of Communist rule. True, China has changed much over the years, but it remains as inscrutable as ever. What role will it play in Asia and the world? We have no clear answers.Nehru once confessed: “We were living in a fool’s paradise about China”. We still are to a large extent. We were victims of false

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Do we know America well enough?M. S. N. MenonNOW that we are hailed as a “great power” do we know how to play the part?We are indeed moving steadily to a wider arc of global concerns. For instance, we have a new strategic partnership with South Africa, a joint security concern with Oman and Qatar in the Gulf, a new “look East” policy of alliance with the Buddhist countries, plan to have a new

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What links India, South AfricaBy M.S.N. MenonWHAT is it that is drawing India and South Africa closer to each other? And also inspires them to play a larger role?A possible answer is: with India, the motivation comes from its long and ancient civilisation; with South Africa, it is its long suffering under white rule. They think the world could be better.But Africa is in a bad shape. Under the

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Monkey and the cats: our world todayM. S. N. MenonDO we want a hegemon — a Leviathan — over us? No one will say “yes” to that. And yet by giving America arbitrary power and making it a hegemon, the world is creating a great tragedy.America is a queer country. It is where greedy people go to make money. They accept no rule which restrains their greed. But we never seem to learn the American ways.

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India’s ties with Iran: building oncivilisational linksM.S.N. MenonCIVILISATIONAL link between India and Iran — that is what has been in focus throughout Mr Vajpayee’s visit to Iran.But, is it that important? Yes, indeed, for it has added depth to our relations and made it “special”.It is said that the Aryans and Iranians were cousins, that they had common gods and that they fell out over the

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Plea to return to Asia’s identityM. S. N. MenonTOLERANCE and diversity, we are told, are the two distinguishing features of the Asian identity. Who said this? Two eminent ladies of Asia — Ms Kumaratunga and Ms Soekarnoputri. And yet there is no tolerance to be found anywhere in South Asia.How is one to explain this? There is only one explanation: while the religions born in South Asia are founded

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Search for new social systemsBy M.S.N. MenonTHE world is again in search of ideologies. Globalisation, like a computer virus, has made na-kaam of every extant ideology. They are of no relevance today.The Congress is in a state of utter confusion. The CPM is in a worse plight. As for the BJP, it is being torn between two anti-thetical forces — swadeshi and globalisation.But in a world without

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China over-rated as a market?M. S. N. MenonDOES China matter, asks Gerald Segal, Director of Studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, in an article in “Foreign Affairs” (Sept/Oct. 1999). Perhaps a very odd question. But his answer makes one sit up. He says that China is over-rated as a market, as a power and as a source of ideas.Then, why is America so obsessed about

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China a prison of nationalitiesBy M.S.N. MenonHALF of China, lying beyond the Great Wall, was added by conquests. And all along its western border, 5000 miles long, live the conquered peoples — Tibetans, Manchus, Uighurs, Mongols — sullen and rebellious. China is a prison of nationalities (this was said of Russia before). It is highly vulnerable.Unlike other empires of old, the Chinese empire

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Allow Indian MNCs to grow — Japan styleBy M.S.N. MenonTHERE is an explosion of job opportunities, both at home and abroad. Thanks to the infotech revolution, India must prepare itself to take advantage of it.India has the brains. What it lacks is the organising skills. That is why the Union Government must step in: it must provide the back-up.Happily, the infotech industry is growing fast. In

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Key to Kashmir lies in Central AsiaBy M.S.N. MenonTHE proxy war — in Kashmir — cannot be solved by well advertised trips to Washington and London, Paris and Beijing. The key to the problem lies in central Asia and Moscow.To have recognised it at last is an achievement. But the mere setting up of a Joint Working Group by India and Russia to combat terrorism is not enough. To make it meaningful,

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The economic profile of South AsiaM. S. N. MenonFOR two thousand years, South Asia was the most developed region of the world. It produced cotton 2000 years before anyone else. It traded with the entire world. There was never anything like poverty.Then how can we explain its present abject poverty? I don’t think we have the answers. Muslim rule? European conquest? Yes, these contributed to

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West has no answers to our problemsBy M. S. N. MenonFROM Plato’s “Guardian” to Laloo Yadav, it is truly a fall from the sublime to the ridiculous. But how has this come about? The answer is: from an unthinking imitation of the West.Who should rule over men? asks Plato. The “Guardians”, he says. But they are not easy to find. Hence he put laws above men. “However, high a man may be, the law is

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Time to correct India’s West Asia policyM.S.N. MenonTHE horse is the only animal dearer to Allah, says the Prophet of Islam. Now that we have been gifted a horse by no less a person than Prince Abdullah, we should hope that it has brought with it the goodwill of its masters.Prince Abdullah is next in line to the Saudi throne. And he is the most powerful man in his country. What is more, he hates

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Will India learn the American ways?By M.S.N. MenonINDIA and the United States have at last set up a Science and Technology Forum. This has been in the making for over a decade. But one thing or the other stood in the way. In 1993 it was because of differences over intellectual property rights. Then came Pokhran II in 1998, which sent the proposal back to the cold storage.Now that it is a reality,

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Between the Indus and the NileM.S.N. MenonTHE greatest theatre of human history falls between the Indus and the Nile. Here arose the earliest empires of the world and most of the religions of men. Arnold Roynbee, the historian, says: “One glance at history from the Indus basin told me more than 50 years of my studies.”According to Sir John Marshall, India and the Middle East were closely united

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China wins the trust of America by its silenceM. S. N. MenonCHINA remains as unscrutable as ever. What role will it play in Asia and in the world? What is the essence of its policy today? These are serious questions, but the answers remain as unpredictable as ever.And, yet, today, there is a greater need to know China’s mind, if only for the reason that the generation which brought about the

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Collapse of the Bretton Woods systemBy M.S.N. MenonHOW to run the world on the cheap — this is a theory that none but the Americans have mastered. The rest of the world is not even aware of how it is done. But it seems the game is up.The new economic crisis that has struck the world is not of countries, but of the system itself. It is perhaps the end of the Bretton Woods system.Naturally, the IMF

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Is Myanmar lost to Chinese dragon?M.S.N. MenonThe answer is no. The Myanmarese are a fiercely nationalistic people. The country is already part of ASEAN, part of the Ganga-Mekong project, part of the Great Mekong Region and a member of the economic association of India, Bangladesh, Thailand and Sri Lanka. Its future is thus already committed.But what of Burma’s long association with China — for

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Can India be a world model?M. S. N. MenonCAN India be a “model” for the world? Yes, says Stephane Dion, Canadian Minister for Inter-Governmental Affairs. To Canada, India is a source of hope for humanity.But how? According to Dion, India is all about the art of living in harmony, all about co-existence of races and religions and cultures. And India has had a large measure of success.India has

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The future of EuropeM.S.N. MenonTHE European Union (EU) has crossed yet another milestone with the issue of euro notes and coins on January 1, 2002. It was the biggest currency conversion in history.When the Common Market was launched, it was a great gamble. The imponderables were far too many. Yet it can be said today that it is a great success.A common currency is not merely notes and coins. It

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A turning point in South Asian historyM. S. N. MenonTHE moment of truth has come for Pakistan. The bomb has just failed it. On what shall it rely now?“If ever there was a turning point in Pakistan’s history, it has now arrived,” says Najam Sethi, Editor of the Pak journal “Friday Times.” True. But it is a turning point for all — Indians, Kashmiris and for all South Asians.Pakistan’s history was

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Is a second Cold War around?M.S.N. MenonIT is said that America needs an enemy. It has at last found one. But it is not Islam, as was feared. It is Russia.The information war of the Bush Administration is taking on shrill anti-Russian overtones. It reminds one of the Cold War years.Russia is, of course, an old enemy. Perhaps it is the real enemy, for it is the only power in the world which can

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Will USA go the European way?M. S. N. MenonA new spectre has come to haunt the continent of Europe — the spectre of Neo-Nazism. It has shown up its ugly head in Norway, Holland, Denmark, Austria, Italy, Germany, Portugal and Spain. In short, all over Europe.The success of Jean-Marie Le Pen in the French presidential election is the latest scare. He came second after President Jacques Chirac. But

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It’s now the turn of the Middle EastM.S.N. MenonMuslim fundamentalism was a reaction to zionist fundamentalism. And Muslim terrorism was a reaction to zionist terrorism. Now that we have contained the epicentre of fundamentalism and terrorism, it is time to turn our attention to the Middle East.The USA, the UN, the EU and Russia have called for a conference to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian

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Those who own the world ought to govern it?M.S.N. MenonSO says John Jay of the tribe of Kipling.That is why we should not allow anyone to own the world, for, then, he or they will impose their rule over us. And since globalisation allows the rich nations to buy the world, we must oppose the buying spree.But nations do sell industries to foreigners. This causes less harm. If, however, a whole

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Indian media & global developmentsM.S.N. MenonIs the Indian Press aware of its role in Indian society in the context of global developments? I am afraid, it is not. Which is why it imitates the Western model. But on this later.There was a time when the Indian Press used to pride itself on being patriotic and nationalistic. That was when the country fought for its freedom, and the political

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Enigma of Japanese mindM.S.N. MenonIn 1543 a Portuguese ship reached one of the islands of Japan. It carried with it a weapon that “fired lead bullets with great power and accuracy.” The Japanese copies it and made their own guns. Which is why Japan escaped subjection and colonialism.In 1549 the Jesuit Priest Francis Xavier reached Japan and began to convert the Japanese into Christianity. In

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Let’s be realistic about ChinaM.S.N. MenonTO talk today of an economic and military “competition” between India and China is nothing but idle talk. China is so far ahead of India that it will take nothing short of a miracle to catch up with it. That is why one is astonished at the Prime Minister’s talk of a “healthy competition” between India and China. Did he use the word “competition”? I doubt

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Knowing the mind of DragonM. S. N. MenonCHINA is our neighbour. But do we know it well enough? Perhaps not.What role will China play in Asia, and in the wider world? What are its real objectives? What are the beliefs which have shaped the Chinese outlook? These are questions of great consequence. But answers are wanting.Are we any wiser after our 1962 experience? Perhaps not. We are still without

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