Does Lord Krishna need to take management lessons in guiding Arjuna
Seems YES..
Treta Yuga Lord Krishna and 'Karmanyevadhikaari' way of guiding Arjuna certainly needs some new inputs. Whether Lord Krishna needs training or not Modern Lord Krishna who are take the responsibility in guiding their chelas and students surely cannot take to the Lord Krishna path !
There is need to recognize that Gen Y of needs Gen Y Lord Krishna like managers !
1. Lord Krishna's guidance on how to approach work for Arjuna is illustrated in the following shloka in Hindhi version ..
कर्मणयेवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन।
Seems YES..
Treta Yuga Lord Krishna and 'Karmanyevadhikaari' way of guiding Arjuna certainly needs some new inputs. Whether Lord Krishna needs training or not Modern Lord Krishna who are take the responsibility in guiding their chelas and students surely cannot take to the Lord Krishna path !
There is need to recognize that Gen Y of needs Gen Y Lord Krishna like managers !
1. Lord Krishna's guidance on how to approach work for Arjuna is illustrated in the following shloka in Hindhi version ..
कर्मणयेवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन।
मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि। 2.47
English version of this stanza reads like..
Karmanye vadhikaraste Ma Phaleshu Kadachana,
Ma Karmaphalaheturbhurma Te
Sangostvakarmani
English translation of lines :
1. “You have a right to perform your prescribed action,
2. but you are not entitled to the fruits of your action.
2. but you are not entitled to the fruits of your action.
3. Never consider yourself the cause of the results your activities,
4. and never be associated to not doing your duty.”
4. and never be associated to not doing your duty.”
It is find to bear with the words of Lord Krishna. Set of questions for OB and HR professionals :
However this does not mean everything Lord Krishna said will be acceptable to Gen Y Arjunas !
Some of the questions that are raised are ...
1. If Arjuna has the choice to do / not to do the work prescribed for according to birth of the Arjuna ? ... NO Choice .....It is duty .. Must do..
Some of the questions that are raised are ...
1. If Arjuna has the choice to do / not to do the work prescribed for according to birth of the Arjuna ? ... NO Choice .....It is duty .. Must do..
2. If Arjuna has the choice to select the work that is liking to him ? ... NO Choice .....! !
3. If Arjuna has got any control over the final outcome out of the work ? ... NO Control .....
4. If Arjuna is the reason for achievement of final outcomes ? ... NO Choice .....GOD is the reason for outcome !
5. If Arjuna has any right over the results of his actions ? ... NO RIGHT ....Done for GOD !
6. If Arjuna has the choice to shield from the negative outcomes if any that affect Arjuna ? ... NO Choice .....
7. If Krishna can do something which help Arjuna to pickup his choice of work ? ... YES He can .....
8. If Krishna can do something which help Arjuna to shield the onslaught of the negative outcomes of doing the Karma ? ... YES.. He can .....
9. If so, what is the contribution of Krishna in all this doing the Karma ? ... No role to play at all ! .....
10.. Does this mean Lord Krishna is playing a role like this ?
At the same time Lord KRISHNA ( 5 ) plays tacit and anti role against the wish of Arjuna to see to that disinterested work is inflicted on millions of unwilling Eklavyas and Karnas with the reason showing that they are born to do such a prescribed work and they must bear the negative results with out any complaint ! .. What a curse this shloka advocates for the millions of Karna and Eklavyas !
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SO what .. then .. !
Gen Y Arjunas will agree for most of the qns.. 1 to 9.. But they ask the Gen Y Krishna to work on the TWO important qns.. they are .. No.. 2 and No... 6..
2. If Arjuna has the choice to select the work that is liked ? ... NO Choice .....! !
6. If Arjuna has the choice to shield from the negative outcomes if any that affect Arjuna ? ... NO Choice .....
If modern Krishna does not try to address Qns. 2 and 6 then the same Krishna will be accused of Qns. 9 and 10 ..
9. If so, what is the contribution of Krishna in all this doing the Karma ? ... No role to play at all ! .....
10.. Is this villain role played by Lord Krishna try to inflict pain to Karnas and Eklavyas ?
What a curse this shloka advocates for the millions of Karna and Eklavyas !
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Designing and Redesigning the Work !
Designing and Redesigning the Work !
Karma / Work , Purpose of Karma
Kaarmee ( Doer) , Mindset , Competence
Guru role - Krishna
Exclusion / Inclusion of worker;
Outcome of work - Positive / Negative,
Redesigning / Innovating the work by Krishna for Simplification - Ease and enjoyment , Efficiency, Inclusion..
1. RIGHT TO CHOOSE WORK or RIGHT TO FRUITS of Karma ! Karma allocation among Arjunas .. Karnas !
- Everybody is entitled for the every Work !
- Inclusivity of work to one and all !
- Right to do your ( my ) or any work ! Who decides which work is to whom ? Competence / Birth / Individual Will / Society norms
Every person is allocated the kind of work suited to the body that they take up ! As per four Varnas !
Rule is ... Your liking / wish has no role in picking up the work you want to do !
You are born in to the work you are going to pick up by your birth..Not by your choice and liking .. !
It is not the decision by Arjuna and nor the allocation by Krishna of work ! It is the F A T E which decides the work to be done by the worker ! . It is NOT the worker who picks up the work.
Arjuna / Karna's desire to do work must override and their Competence must lead the work they will do !
Here work can be picked up by the Arjuna and Eklavyas on their own as per their wish and will ( and not even based on competence !)
Work can be remodeled (by Krishna ) in such a way that any work can be done by any worker irrespective of the talents, skills ..and birth ! Krishna with his expertise can remodel the work in such a way that 'not talented' persons lack of talents used as a criteria to exclude certain persons to do the work is unjust !
Case of Hyderabad based blind person who made it to MIT Engg. due to his interests and not due to ones endowments ! It is the work and contribution done by the Krishna in favour of blind boy from Hyderabad to achieve this possible !
Rule is ... Your liking / wish has no role in picking up the work you want to do !
You are born in to the work you are going to pick up by your birth..Not by your choice and liking .. !
It is not the decision by Arjuna and nor the allocation by Krishna of work ! It is the F A T E which decides the work to be done by the worker ! . It is NOT the worker who picks up the work.
Arjuna / Karna's desire to do work must override and their Competence must lead the work they will do !
Here work can be picked up by the Arjuna and Eklavyas on their own as per their wish and will ( and not even based on competence !)
Work can be remodeled (by Krishna ) in such a way that any work can be done by any worker irrespective of the talents, skills ..and birth ! Krishna with his expertise can remodel the work in such a way that 'not talented' persons lack of talents used as a criteria to exclude certain persons to do the work is unjust !
Case of Hyderabad based blind person who made it to MIT Engg. due to his interests and not due to ones endowments ! It is the work and contribution done by the Krishna in favour of blind boy from Hyderabad to achieve this possible !
2. Karma's negative result !
- Arjuna can " NOT entitle for the NEGATIVE' fruits of work !
- Negative results are easily avoidable with the help and design thinking / and proper plan by Krishna !
.. You have responsibility to pick up the work forced upon you which you are ( 1 ) not interested and you have the responsibility to do the work with ( 2 ) full potential and you have ( 3 ) no right to the results of the work , you must undertake the ( 4 ) undesirable result as the GODs will for you .. At the same time KRISHNA ( 5 ) plays tacit and anti role againest you ..by seeing to that bad work is done through millions of unwilling Eklavyas and Karnas with the reason showing that they are born to do such a work and they must bear the negative results with pleasure ! .. What a fun this is ..
What a curse this shloka advocates for the millions of Karna and Eklavyas !
3 . What is the role of KRISHNA in Karma ! Is there any role .. ! Is this role stressed in the shloka?
- Krishna can see to it that Arjuna can " NOT be entitled for the NEGATIVE' fruits of work !
Sure.. Good results due to action are outside of the Arjuna and his working. But avoiding the undesirable results due to action is possible ! This can be possibly done by Krishna..
Krishna+ Arjuna together can plan to avoid such painstaking results ..
Avoiding Negative is surely can be done ! ..It is not UNFAIR to do so ! Planning Positive may not be accurate.. But surely negative can be planned !
This issue is paid no attention / neglected / ignored aspect related to KRISHNA role ! The shloka stresses too much on the part of Arjuna without focusing on Krishna role .. Gen Y and new times expect this change !
Krishna+ Arjuna together can plan to avoid such painstaking results ..
Avoiding Negative is surely can be done ! ..It is not UNFAIR to do so ! Planning Positive may not be accurate.. But surely negative can be planned !
This issue is paid no attention / neglected / ignored aspect related to KRISHNA role ! The shloka stresses too much on the part of Arjuna without focusing on Krishna role .. Gen Y and new times expect this change !
.. Arjuna played the cricket very hard.. But Arjuna cannot be a victim of / targeted for the loss due to playing Cricket ! Pl. note here .. Arjuna is not focused on the positive results but on negative results ! But Arjuna can be careful not to get over empowered by the negative results !
- A startup can be designed in such a way that it cannot have loses.. it might and or might not have profits..It is possible to plan a startup . Lean startup is the model that suggests that framework ..
- A mobile can be developed for 100 % UNEDU.. or HIGHLY EDU.. It is a choice .. Krishna does this .
- A journey might be designed to give BENEFT for sure at the same time not to inflict LOSS ! .. KRISHNA does this .. Arjuna cannot be penalized and burdened and blamed and exploited for this.
- A mobile can be developed for 100 % UNEDU.. or HIGHLY EDU.. It is a choice .. Krishna does this .
- A journey might be designed to give BENEFT for sure at the same time not to inflict LOSS ! .. KRISHNA does this .. Arjuna cannot be penalized and burdened and blamed and exploited for this.
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Loved this line - "Arjuna / Karna's desire to do work must override the Competence to do the work !"
ReplyDeleteOne more point, while the outcome - positive or negative may not be in hands of Arjuna, he still needs to observe, measure the outcome and learn to recalibrate his effort (Karma) based on the outcome. This is also a core part of Lean Startup framework. Build, Measure, Pivot.