Concept of Man
DEPENDING UPON THE INSTRUMENTS OF EXPRESSIONS OF LIFE MAN IS DIVIDED AS FOLLOWS:
The Physical Man: Operates more at the gross level of the Body.
The Mental Man: Operates more at mind, thoughts and the emotional level. Right brain more pre- dominant.
The Intellectual Man: Operates more through logic, analysis and discrimination of apparent evidence. Left-brain more predominant.
The Spiritual Man: Operates at higher level of universal values.
Greater the integration between these personalities greater is the harmony in behavior and higher are the performance levels.
DEPENDING ON DIFFERENT LEVELS OF EVOLUTION OF CONCIOUSNESS:
Stone Man: A stone is totally unaware of the external world of circumstances because of minimum level of consciousness. You just exist. We should be aware of such state of existence which does takes place once in while.
Vegetable Man: Very low level of consciousness but nevertheless higher than in the Stone man. Able to look for your own nourishment needs without any movement.
Animal Man: Much higher level of consciousness signified by more developed instincts and ability to certain level of communication and procreate.
Man Man: Highest level of consciousness in stimulus and response not only with external but also very deeper levels of internal existence. Take off at higher level can take place only from this platform.
Concept Of KARMA
Karma means in Indian philosophy, a duty or Dharma in a given situation. Karma or action or work is very natural for the MAN. Only dead body is non-working. The purpose of work is to bring out divinity and to achieve growth and development.
Moreover, all work/ karma are to manifest divinity, hence these must be pure, good, honest and sincere. Indian philosophy also teaches to perform every work without having any attachment to result, as one should understand that every action produces result and it is inherent in the action itself and is governed by the laws of nature and one does not know all the laws which contribute to the results but one know that THINGS function very systematically and in an organized manner in this universe according to these laws.
You are free to act/work or not to work or how to work. You can plan, organize and build a good strategy to perform your work, but you cannot control the result. Hence, accept, that result comes from the laws of nature/GOD. This is also called the Vedantic View OF KARMA.
The GITA considers KARMA as DUTY or SADHNA. Action is to be performed by dedicating it to the SPIRIT (Divinity) within. And whatever result/fruit comes is to be accepted as the grace of GOD (PRASAD BUDHY) with equanimity of mind. The cultivation of PRASADHBUDDHI towards the results of actions/work is KARMA YOGA (the yogic science of doing work with samatwa or it is selfless work/service to others). Nishkama Karma (fruits of work) is the result of doing your duty with discipline and devotion without attachment to work and agency (egoistic pride) and without calculations of gain or loss.
The fruit i.e. Karma Fala is given as Prasad from the Divine to develop the healthy attitude.
KARMA VADA is an ethico moral law of causation for regulating karma, which includes thoughts (manasa), words (vacha) and actions (karmana). Thus, even a thought wave of envy or hatred is karma, a cause, which will produce its inevitable consequences in one way or another at some later point in time.
If some one knowingly cheats his organization for personal benefit, this too is Karma, a casual force, with its corresponding backlash.
It is only the right that leads to good results like perennial prosperity and the wrong.
Concept Of DHARMA
Dharma is the law of right living, the observance of which secures the double object of happiness in your own life and also the happiness in others life. It stands for all those ideals, purposes, influences, institutions, and the ways of life and conduct that shape the character and evolution of man both as an individual and as a member of the society.
The openly spirit, righteousness (godliness), and fearlessness are the three divine elements of Dharma given explained below:
Dharma is spirit (or evolves from spirit) in Indian ethos. The inclusion of dharma is like rediscovering a vacant upstair room in one’s heat chamber. ‘Do right thing (‘Dharman Chara), do good, be good and the whole chamber of our heart shines with Light of Consciousness’. In dharma, not mere action but rightness is given great emphasis.
Dharma stresses fearlessness. Divine touch is enough to convert difficulties into opportunities. Of course one should know the truth about oneself. Dharma is the ‘inner law of one’s life’, the moment we are unconscious or ignore that inner law, our life is paralyzed. We feel isolated. Our degeneration is sure. No wonder we feel missing and incomplete. Dharma is ethics and spirituality combined.
Follow your Dharma and it will protect you or stand by you. One has to comply with his own Dharma. Nobody has ever violated Dharma without ultimately courting disaster. Each one has his/ her own dharma.
Dharma Of Management/ Organization
Each organization and management is considered by Indian ethos as a living entity, having heart, soul and Dharma. The traits of dharma or integrity, e.g. Courage, self discipline, goodness, righteousness and all other essential and ethical values constitute the character of management / organization just as they are of the individual character.
They must follow their own dharma (collective heart/soul), otherwise pay the price. A soul less company has no life. The spirit is the root or ultimate source of all values and character, which are the invaluable assets of the credibility and goodwill of individuals, organization and management.
Concept Of YOGA
There is a lot of talk about yoga, nowadays. It is becoming a fashion to talk of yoga and especially Integral Yoga. What does it ‘really correspond to in our head’ when we speak of yoga? For most, both in the West and the East, it is primarily Asanas – Hathayoga Asanas. For those who have read a bit the literature of yoga, make it their ‘final goal of life’. But Integral Yoga is not interested in these ambitions for power. Integral yoga is done for the sake of the Divine – primarily and ultimately.
For the seeker of Integral Yoga, yoga is not the aim or goal of life – it is the only way to live, the true way of life.
Aim Integral yoga is ‘the conversion of the human soul into the divine soul and of natural life into divine living.’ Normally, the old yogas reject the lower nature, the outer nature, but Integral Yoga wants to transform the lower – a total transformation of our integral being into terms of God-existence.
Bhagvadgita defines YOGA (II 48) as evenness of mind, the tranquility of mental composure in facing all the pairs of opposites.
Work is to be performed without having any kind of wrong imaginations, false expectations, and anxieties for the results and fears for the future. In all these preoccupations we lose the immediate valuable moments available to us to act and to strive efficiently and effectively to achieve the desired objectives- therefore it is said, Act established in equanimity abandoning attachment.
Just as an artist forgets everything-even himself while performing on his art, if manager forgets himself in work, that he performs, his mind is said to be in YOGA. He will not be anxious for the success or failure of his activity because he knows that to worry fro the results is to worry for the future and to live in future is not to live in present.
It does not mean that one should not plan or think about future implications of current decisions. Instead it insists that do all things very sincerely well – in – advance but when you start to perform the work, concentrate fully on that work only. Therefore the LORD says in GITA that apply yourself to the devotion of action. The LORD has also defined YOGA in another way. He says YOGA is nothing but dexterity and skill in action performed with evenness of mind.
DEPENDING UPON THE INSTRUMENTS OF EXPRESSIONS OF LIFE MAN IS DIVIDED AS FOLLOWS:
The Physical Man: Operates more at the gross level of the Body.
The Mental Man: Operates more at mind, thoughts and the emotional level. Right brain more pre- dominant.
The Intellectual Man: Operates more through logic, analysis and discrimination of apparent evidence. Left-brain more predominant.
The Spiritual Man: Operates at higher level of universal values.
Greater the integration between these personalities greater is the harmony in behavior and higher are the performance levels.
DEPENDING ON DIFFERENT LEVELS OF EVOLUTION OF CONCIOUSNESS:
Stone Man: A stone is totally unaware of the external world of circumstances because of minimum level of consciousness. You just exist. We should be aware of such state of existence which does takes place once in while.
Vegetable Man: Very low level of consciousness but nevertheless higher than in the Stone man. Able to look for your own nourishment needs without any movement.
Animal Man: Much higher level of consciousness signified by more developed instincts and ability to certain level of communication and procreate.
Man Man: Highest level of consciousness in stimulus and response not only with external but also very deeper levels of internal existence. Take off at higher level can take place only from this platform.
Concept Of KARMA
Karma means in Indian philosophy, a duty or Dharma in a given situation. Karma or action or work is very natural for the MAN. Only dead body is non-working. The purpose of work is to bring out divinity and to achieve growth and development.
Moreover, all work/ karma are to manifest divinity, hence these must be pure, good, honest and sincere. Indian philosophy also teaches to perform every work without having any attachment to result, as one should understand that every action produces result and it is inherent in the action itself and is governed by the laws of nature and one does not know all the laws which contribute to the results but one know that THINGS function very systematically and in an organized manner in this universe according to these laws.
You are free to act/work or not to work or how to work. You can plan, organize and build a good strategy to perform your work, but you cannot control the result. Hence, accept, that result comes from the laws of nature/GOD. This is also called the Vedantic View OF KARMA.
The GITA considers KARMA as DUTY or SADHNA. Action is to be performed by dedicating it to the SPIRIT (Divinity) within. And whatever result/fruit comes is to be accepted as the grace of GOD (PRASAD BUDHY) with equanimity of mind. The cultivation of PRASADHBUDDHI towards the results of actions/work is KARMA YOGA (the yogic science of doing work with samatwa or it is selfless work/service to others). Nishkama Karma (fruits of work) is the result of doing your duty with discipline and devotion without attachment to work and agency (egoistic pride) and without calculations of gain or loss.
The fruit i.e. Karma Fala is given as Prasad from the Divine to develop the healthy attitude.
KARMA VADA is an ethico moral law of causation for regulating karma, which includes thoughts (manasa), words (vacha) and actions (karmana). Thus, even a thought wave of envy or hatred is karma, a cause, which will produce its inevitable consequences in one way or another at some later point in time.
If some one knowingly cheats his organization for personal benefit, this too is Karma, a casual force, with its corresponding backlash.
It is only the right that leads to good results like perennial prosperity and the wrong.
Concept Of DHARMA
Dharma is the law of right living, the observance of which secures the double object of happiness in your own life and also the happiness in others life. It stands for all those ideals, purposes, influences, institutions, and the ways of life and conduct that shape the character and evolution of man both as an individual and as a member of the society.
The openly spirit, righteousness (godliness), and fearlessness are the three divine elements of Dharma given explained below:
Dharma is spirit (or evolves from spirit) in Indian ethos. The inclusion of dharma is like rediscovering a vacant upstair room in one’s heat chamber. ‘Do right thing (‘Dharman Chara), do good, be good and the whole chamber of our heart shines with Light of Consciousness’. In dharma, not mere action but rightness is given great emphasis.
Dharma stresses fearlessness. Divine touch is enough to convert difficulties into opportunities. Of course one should know the truth about oneself. Dharma is the ‘inner law of one’s life’, the moment we are unconscious or ignore that inner law, our life is paralyzed. We feel isolated. Our degeneration is sure. No wonder we feel missing and incomplete. Dharma is ethics and spirituality combined.
Follow your Dharma and it will protect you or stand by you. One has to comply with his own Dharma. Nobody has ever violated Dharma without ultimately courting disaster. Each one has his/ her own dharma.
Dharma Of Management/ Organization
Each organization and management is considered by Indian ethos as a living entity, having heart, soul and Dharma. The traits of dharma or integrity, e.g. Courage, self discipline, goodness, righteousness and all other essential and ethical values constitute the character of management / organization just as they are of the individual character.
They must follow their own dharma (collective heart/soul), otherwise pay the price. A soul less company has no life. The spirit is the root or ultimate source of all values and character, which are the invaluable assets of the credibility and goodwill of individuals, organization and management.
Concept Of YOGA
There is a lot of talk about yoga, nowadays. It is becoming a fashion to talk of yoga and especially Integral Yoga. What does it ‘really correspond to in our head’ when we speak of yoga? For most, both in the West and the East, it is primarily Asanas – Hathayoga Asanas. For those who have read a bit the literature of yoga, make it their ‘final goal of life’. But Integral Yoga is not interested in these ambitions for power. Integral yoga is done for the sake of the Divine – primarily and ultimately.
For the seeker of Integral Yoga, yoga is not the aim or goal of life – it is the only way to live, the true way of life.
Aim Integral yoga is ‘the conversion of the human soul into the divine soul and of natural life into divine living.’ Normally, the old yogas reject the lower nature, the outer nature, but Integral Yoga wants to transform the lower – a total transformation of our integral being into terms of God-existence.
Bhagvadgita defines YOGA (II 48) as evenness of mind, the tranquility of mental composure in facing all the pairs of opposites.
Work is to be performed without having any kind of wrong imaginations, false expectations, and anxieties for the results and fears for the future. In all these preoccupations we lose the immediate valuable moments available to us to act and to strive efficiently and effectively to achieve the desired objectives- therefore it is said, Act established in equanimity abandoning attachment.
Just as an artist forgets everything-even himself while performing on his art, if manager forgets himself in work, that he performs, his mind is said to be in YOGA. He will not be anxious for the success or failure of his activity because he knows that to worry fro the results is to worry for the future and to live in future is not to live in present.
It does not mean that one should not plan or think about future implications of current decisions. Instead it insists that do all things very sincerely well – in – advance but when you start to perform the work, concentrate fully on that work only. Therefore the LORD says in GITA that apply yourself to the devotion of action. The LORD has also defined YOGA in another way. He says YOGA is nothing but dexterity and skill in action performed with evenness of mind.