Religion and Spirituality

           We live in a world in which religious bigotry has reached alarming proportions. People, however well educated, tend to become narrow minded when it comes to the question of religion. Vociferous proponents of every religion claim that their religion is the best and others are worthless. However, all religions agree that there is only one God and the varied representations are the different manifestations of the single God.

This actually beats the very purpose for which religions were established. The Latin term "religare" from which the word religion originated means "to unite." However, the religions of today not only create discord among human beings, even exhort them to kill each other. All in the name of God!

Thus it becomes necessary to differentiate between religion and spirituality. It is rightly said that religions divide and it is spirituality that unites people. It is necessary to graduate from religion to spirituality. If one might ask for the difference, it could be said that religion is settling with a certain understanding of the beyond, whereas spirituality is an unending search for the ultimate with a scientific temper. This is what Albert Einstein probably meant when he said that "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

Religion is a set of codified principles, whereas spirituality is its practice. It would, however, be a mistake to think that religion is completely divorced from spirituality. As it was said by the saint Shri Ram Chandra of Shahjahanpur, "The end of religion is the beginning of spirituality." Religion could be considered the kindergarten of the school of spirituality. This is not to say that different religions are unnecessary or should be avoided. On the contrary, people are different and therefore require different methods of practice which suits their respective temperaments.

If we look at the teachings of some of the contemporary spiritual leaders, we could find that their lives are the inspiration rather than their teachings. It is said by all spiritual leaders that all their teachings are repetitions of what has already been said since the values that they taught were timeless. As Gandhiji said, "I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could." Though better known as a political leader, Gandhiji was more a spiritualist than anything else. Gandhiji also famously said that "God has no religion." Though he talked of Ram and Ramrajya, he made it very clear that his reference was not the Hindu religious icon. On his view of Rama, Gandhiji said, "My Rama, the Rama of our prayers is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the King of Ayodhya. He is the eternal, the unborn, the one without a second." Thus spirituality becomes an inner search, rather than an outside one, without being limited by geographical particulars.

Religion implies a theoretical understanding of the divine, whereas spirituality indicates a practical experience of divinity. The formation of all religions were triggered by the spiritual achievements of the great saints, and their teachings metamorphosed into religions. However, over time, these teachings could become fossilized when it is divorced from the life of the saint who inspired them. This is the danger faced by all religions, whether institutionalized or otherwise.

Mother Teresa, the saint of recent times, said it very succinctly when she said, "Everyone of them is Jesus in disguise." She was referring to the unfortunate human beings ranging from infants to elderly invalids whom she took care of with great love and devotion. It could seen that the religion of Saint Mother Teresa was the service of the sick and the destitute. She was a living example of the saying that the hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.

Shri. Kamlesh Patel, the global guide of Heartfulness and the author of the international bestseller The Heartfulness Way, says that it is time to find ourselves and stop searching as is the wont in religion. In his own words, "What if the tables were turned and god, or the ultimate, or the source, is actually seeking us? Imagine for a moment that we don't have to go anywhere, or to do anything except simply sit wherever we are, and allow ourselves to be found? Imagine that heavens are waiting to enter our heart, right here and now! What a powerful concept!" Thus spirituality becomes a patient waiting for enlightenment which could get missed in the frantic searches characteristic of religions.

Bare religion is nothing more than a set of theories. Sri M, born Mumtaz Ali Khan, founder of The Satsang Foundation says, "Go to the core, theories are useless." The core of all religions is spirituality. Sri M is a crusader for interfaith harmony and has deep knowledge of and insight into many religions. His "Walk of Hope" conducted under the banner of Manav Ekta Mission from Kanyakumari to Kashmir is reminiscent of the walks of Swami Vivekananda, the major icon of Indian renaissance.

In the words of Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, "My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness." Therefore, let our effort too be not to complicate religion, but to bring in the simple values of kindness and value into our practice and thus rise ourselves above religion to spirituality.

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Goals and Ideals

           When I was a child, I used to think that people who travel together were going to the same venue. For instance, if we were going to attend a wedding, I imagined that everyone in the bus or train were going to the same venue. Whereas, the fact is that even people going to the same venue have different purposes for being there.

            Life is also metaphorically compared to a journey. People have different destinations when they undertake the journey. Some people have no specific goal and travel just for the fun of it. Though Lord Buddha said that happiness is in the journey, and not in the destination, he clearly did not mean a journey without a destination. It is generally agreed that it is important to have a goal in life. We may have many minor goals, but to have an overarching goal lends life a larger purpose.

            In a place of worship, people go for different reasons. Some people go for personal gratification of their desires, some go to consume the sweets and savories served there, some to enjoy the peaceful ambience and some even to steal. People also go there to make others think that they are devout believers. However, rare are those people who go because of real devotion to God.

            In an educational institution, the goal of the students is to learn and earn a diploma or a degree. However, they do it in different ways and for different purposes. The goal does not stop there. The qualification they gained has the purpose of getting a job for some, or for others to get the label of being educated. Rarely, someone learns for their own edification. As Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher said, "Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." Our father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi, also said, "Education which does not mould character is absolutely worthless."

            Thus, it can be seen that it is not enough to have goals in life, but it is even more important to have ideals to guide those goals. Pursuit of Goals are spurred by the urge to grab the opportunities for personal success while ideals always put oneself in the context of the community to which one belongs. Such a community could be a family, a society or even the whole world. As the circle of community one encompasses in one's ideal widens, the stature of the person also increases. Therefore, by pursuing great ideals we do not lose anything, but stand to gain more and contribute more to the society in which we live.

            It is enormously disturbing to see that there is too much emphasis on goal setting, which actually is limited to personal success. Then the individual loses sight of the needs of the beings around them and becomes more selfish. That is why we have incidents like the one where a tribal youth was beaten to death for allegedly stealing food to appease his hunger. That this happened in a so-called progressive community like that of Kerala might come to many as a surprise. However, it only points to the misnomers that terms like 'progress' and 'development' have become.

            It was not for nothing that Jesus Christ said that "Man does not live by bread alone."

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The Management of Anger

None of us are saints not to be moved to anger at one time or other. Command over anger is considered to be a great achievement in all cultures. Some of the great sages even, were known to be moved to frequent bouts of anger. So it is evident that it is not an easy achievement at that.

      Anger is not bad either, if we can use it properly. It was Socrates who said that it is only a great man who can get angry with the right person, for the right reason, at the right time, and the right measure. Many a time we overdo it and make a mess of it. Becoming angry and yet being in control is a delicate balancing act.

      Victory over anger is not an overnight achievement. We have to keep trying though we may fail many times. We have to find the root cause of anger which is not necessarily the immediate provocation. We are driven to anger usually when we are frustrated of satisfying some desire. It was Buddha who said that "Desire is the cause of all evil." Attachment to objects of the world leads to desire and the non-satisfaction of desire leads to anger. Now we may thing that it is the people around us who make us angry. A small story might set this right. A young ascetic was meditating on an ark tied to the river bank. His ark was rocked a few times but he continued to remain with his eyes closed. After some time he became angry that someone could be so senseless as to disturb his meditation. He opened his eyes and found that it was an empty boat that was moving in the wind and hitting his ark repeatedly. The ascetic then realized that the anger was not created from outside. It was within him and the rocking boat was just incidental in manifesting it outside.

      There are some methods which can come in handy when we become angry. Looking at the sky can abate our anger. The vastness of the sky can make us realize our smallness in the scheme of things. Drinking a glass of water sip by sip will also help us in reducing our anger. When water enters our system, the condition of the mind is also soothed. However, these are not permanent solutions nor may they work at all times. To get a firm grip over anger we need to work on ourselves. The mind being the basis of all that we think and feel, meditation is a sure-fire way of managing anger in the long run. Regular systematic meditation moulds the individual gradually and fine-tunes the mind to respond in a balanced manner. 

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The Value of Humility.

Student life is the most crucial period in one's life. All the values that we imbibe in this period stay with us to the end of our life. Hence, it is very important that we pick the right impressions and the right attitude. It may become very difficult to change ourselves at a later stage.

           

            The most important quality required for a student is humility. There is nothing in this world which humility cannot win us. The greatness of a human being is measured by the humility he or she possesses. The more we learn, the more we understand that what we know is but very little. In Tamil, they say, "therinchathu kaiyalavu, theriyathathu ulakalavu." It means that what we know is just the measure of the palm of our hand, what we do not know is as large as this world. It was Newton who said that he would consider himself as a small child picking up small shells in front of the great ocean of knowledge.

           

            Our Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, was once visited in his Ashram by a western gentleman named Louis Fischer. He was amazed at the disciplined life that Gandhiji lead. He told Gandhi, "I have travelled around the world, but I have not seen someone who is as perfect as you are." Gandhiji's humble reply was, "Before you leave this place, you will find a hundred imperfections in me. Should you find it difficult to find, I will help you in finding it." Louis Fischer later went on to become the biographer of Gandhiji.

 

            Humility is praised by the scriptures of all religions. The Bible says that the higher we reach, the more humble we should be. In a heavy storm it is the huge unbending trees which breaks and fall but the tiny grass bends and survives. The Gita defines a scholar 'panditha' as someone who has not just knowledge but also has humility. "vidya vinaya sampanne" says the Gita. The Vedas also say that knowledge must bestow humility: "vidya dathathi vinayam."

 

            It is easy to go through the troubles of this world if we have humility. If we look at the trees those which have borne fruit will bend their branches in humility. Similarly among human beings the greatest scholars are the most humble.

 

            "Not on our merits, but on His grace." Humility also means accepting the fact that we are what we are simply because of some strange destiny that put us here. There have been many business men but not everybody succeeded. Of those who succeeded not everybody became a Dhirubhai Ambani or Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. If the trick was in the business everybody could have done it. There is some unknown ingredient which adds and gives the different results as it were. People call it by different names – destiny, fate, God, luck, and the like. Call it what you may, the fact remains that it is not the merits of the businessman which made him succeed. Similarly, it is not necessarily the demerits of another that made him a failure. It is here in the picture that humility comes in.

 

            There were hundreds of thousands of candidates who applied for a course of our choice or a job of our dreams. That we were selected doesn't by any means mean that we are 'superior' to the others. Surely there were many others who were more brilliant, who more deserved to be here. But the fact remains that we were selected. Humility means those who are out there are equal, or even better, and surely respectable.

 

            Humility does not mean that we should degrade ourselves. It only means that we should respect others as much as we respect ourselves.

           

            Student life is the ideal period to develop humility in us. We will meet many other students who come from diverse circumstances – social and economic. We will see many of our peers who come from humbler dwellings and poorer families than ours, yet their lives are full of hope, their faces are always bright and have a contagious charm. Their lives also should inspire us to be more humble in our attitude, simple in our needs, and pleasant in our behaviour.

 

            How do we identify a humble person? A humble person listens more than he speaks, watches more than he listens and thinks more than he watches. He doesn't try to be on the limelight (though we may find him there often), doesn't talk much (though others are all ears to listen) and is self-effacing (though the whole world may be praising him). He considers all as equals and treats them as such. A humble person knows that life is simple. When we lose our humility life becomes complicated. Haven't we seen people singing that life is beautiful and on the other hand others crying that life is misery. Life is neither. Life is just life for the humble person. For, the humble person can have pain without suffering and happiness without ecstasy. If it is one or the other doesn't matter much to him. For he knows that life is but an intermingling of both.

 

Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

                                                                                    (St. Matthew 5:5)

 

            Consideration for others before oneself is a major aspect of humility. A humble person sees oneself in others. He thinks about others before he thinks of himself.

 

            People are different. It is most interesting to observe people. Often we judge people by what they say. Most of our interpersonal problems are because we set people into certain patterns and blocks. Whereas, like us, they also are continuously changing and evolving. Hence, in interpersonal relations it is very important to forgive and forget the bad experiences that people have given us. They themselves may have later regretted their words or actions. But the ego comes in the way of revealing these regrets. If at all these regrets are revealed, it will help to make up strained relations. There is no use in our enmity for little things, except that it will become a laughing matter for others.

 

            In interpersonal relations, it is important also to accept the blame especially when it is difficult to find who strained the relation. In quarrels, it is commonly observed that when we give in, when we yield to the other person, the quarrel immediately comes to a end, irrespective of whether the problem is solved or not. Not only that, the other person starts respecting us for our humility. Let us understand that our success lies not in winning quarrels but in making up, not in waging wars but in building peace, and not in creating opponents but in adding friends.

 

            Sometimes we tend to think that if we were in a different circumstance with a different set of people we would be happier and behave better. However, the fact is that the change has to happen in us and not in circumstances or other people. A person who constantly tries to refine himself will surely enjoy every moment of his life. As it is rightly said, "Happiness is not at the end of the road, it is the path itself."

 

            If people are different let us enjoy it because variety is the spice of life. If everyone were the same how monotonous and boring it would be! It takes different kinds of people to make the world. Let us become embodiments of humility and appreciate everyone and everything.

 

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Character

Character Daily Reflections Tuesday, June 03, 2014   A good heart, benevolent feelings and a balanced mind lie as the foundation of character. It must be capable of standing firm in the world of daily work, temptation and trial, and be able to bear the wear and tear of actual life. Taken from the book "Truth Eternal (5th edn., 2010)", Chapter "Lalaji", pg. 8, by Babuji Maharaj

Thought of Sunday, May 18, 2014

 

Sunday, May 18, 2014 « One day, a man who was suffering cruelly because of the attitude of his grown-up children came to see me. Although he showed them a lot of kindness and generosity, in return he received only ingratitude, cruelty, and he was incensed and devastated by their unfairness. I told him, 'Would you like me to give you a remedy, an effective antidote? You will overcome these difficulties if you accept the idea that fate is using this means to strengthen you, to free you, to make you think or to make you a better person. What is consuming you and making you ill is the thought that what is happening to you is unfair. Tell yourself it is fair and you will be healed'. This man trusted me, and he recovered. He was also willing to tell himself that he might be paying for mistakes he had made in a previous lifetime… As long as you are unable to accept this way of thinking, you make yourself sick with worry and destroy yourself. So, if you feel you are a victim of injustice, accept the idea that things only appear to be unfair. It may not be true, you might be entirely innocent, but this idea will help you, for by accepting it you become free. I have verified the truth of this for myself. » Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

 

Food for thought.

 

"Sine ira et studio" (Without fear or pretentiousness) - Tacitus
Speech at the 2013 PRME Summit (under the auspices of the United Nations) Delivered on September 25, 2013 in Bled, Slovenia   I have come to celebrate CEEMAN's 20th Anniversary and applaud and acknowledge Danica Purg's leadership. I have known Danica for 40 years. I met her in Dubrovnik, at a conference on self-management ,and I immediately realized that she was a live wire. She has developed something that is absolutely amazing. I am proud to be her friend, and I am always available if I can help as I think that she is doing a fantastic job.   CEEMAN's celebration is tomorrow. Unfortunately, I cannot attend it as I have to leave for another event. But never the less, today, let me share my thoughts on developing future leaders, the topic of this gathering.   We have three words in our topic: "developing", "future", and "leaders." Let me first talk about the future and then about what it means to be a leader in the future. Finally, I will address the issue of leadership development.   I have been in the field of change management for 40 years, and I have come to a very sad conclusion. You should not try to predict the future. Although there are 20 Nobel Prize winners in economics in the United States, none of them managed to predict the economic crisis from which we are emerging just now. Who would have believed that the Lehman Brothers would go broke? Who would have believed that if the US government had not helped the country's banks they would have all gone bankrupt? This would have resulted in a total economic disaster across the world.   Remember how arrogant General Motors used to be, saying that what is good for General Motors is good for America. That company would have also gone down the drain without the support of the US government. Nobody predicted that.   Why are we unable to predict the future? Because the world has become extremely complex. It is not atomistic anymore. Its different parts are all interconnected and overlapping. Technology advances have sizable social repercussions, which in turn have political and economic repercussions. It is one big bouillabaisse.   Is it not strange that nobody went to prison for the financial crisis? Do you know why? Because nobody can find who is the culprit. Even the government did not know what to do. They were changing their policies every 24 hours.   "Let us do this!", "No, wait; let us do that", "No, no; that is not a good idea. Let us do something else." Why was that? Because they did not know what to do.   Even the Federal Reserve admitted that the crisis was unpredictable. We are becoming increasingly confused. Do we really know what is going on? And because of accelerated change we are becoming older at a younger age. Some people are old at the age of 40. They are considered too old to be given a job. They are too old for the new technologies that are in vogue at that time.  I am ready to bet that the age at which people are considered old is going to fall even further. In some fields, like rock music, you are too old at 23. What are we supposed to do?   Two things to start with:   First, you cannot be educated in one particular field and assume that this will be enough for the future. You have to have a multidisciplinary education. That is why I told the International Academy of Management that our business education is wrong. We teach Marketing, Finance, Sales, Supply Chains, Human Resources, and Accounting, and we assume that we can manage the totality. But there is no course that teaches anything about the totality. How do you integrate all elements of the system? How do you think in a systemic, integrated way?   Business education should have a much wider scope. It should provide a background in political science and sociology among others. You have to know multiple disciplines so that you are not lost in one.   Training of future leaders has to be systemic. At the Adizes Graduate School, the most important courses for future leaders are not Finance, Strategic Planning, or Human Resources. It is Epistemology and Systemic Thinking. Epistemology has to do with knowing what you know.   Second, please, do not ever graduate. The diploma that you get from the Adizes Graduate School does not say that X, Y or Z completed his studies. A good diploma should say "Allowed to continue studying." The day you stop learning, you stop changing, and unless you change fast, you die slowly. This happens to persons, companies, cities, and countries. The world is changing so fast that you should never assume that you know enough. As you study, you do not discover how much you know but how much you do not know.   Let me tell you a story, even though some of you know it because I like to tell it. I got my doctorate from Columbia University. I worked hard for it and made tough sacrifices. I was walking down the hallway with my diploma in my hands, very proud of myself. I had finally made it. I had the doctorate in my hand. I was very arrogant. At that point, a door opened and two students came out. They had just taken their Qualifying Examination for a doctorate degree. That is the exam that you take before writing your dissertation. I asked them if I could see the exam questions. I was shocked. I would have failed that exam if I had sat for it. The day that I got my doctorate, I was already obsolete.   To be leaders of the future do not be dogmatic - "I have a plan, I know which way I am going and that is it!" No! You have to be extremely flexible. You have to be extremely humble. You must admit to yourself that you do not know. This means that you are willing to learn from others all the time. And from whom do you have to learn the most? From the people down below. The workers. The people on the line. The rule of health is "Listen to your body."   The day you stop listening to your body, you become sick. Managers, listen to your organization! Leaders, listen to the organization! The higher you climb up the company's hierarchy, the smaller your mouth should be and the bigger your ears! Listen because you do not know. That will be your strength.   Good education should teach you how much you do not know rather than how much you know. The more you know, the more you should realize how much you do not know. That is good education. That means that good management education is not about teaching you to know but teaching you to be: Open-minded, humble, a good listener. Willing to admit mistakes. Willing to surround yourself with people that are better than you.   I am very disappointed with management education as practiced today. We have to change our education. I was a professor at UCLA, Columbia, and Stanford, as well as in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. And I gave up. I gave up my professorship and my tenure because I was disgusted with management education. The reason is that the natural sciences have penetrated the social sciences in a dysfunctional way. The prevalent logic is that if you cannot measure something it does not exist. Therefore, everything must be measured. People get promoted on the basis of statistical analyses of answers to questionnaires. This is totally useless. After that, they will get a doctorate and ask "What do I do with this degree now?" I have no idea.   The quantitative approach has penetrated education so deeply that it has put an end to thinking. People are not thinking anymore. Developing questionnaires and doing statistical analyses is not thinking.   A quantitative analysis is fine but it can only be a tool, not a purpose. What we need is qualitative thinking although qualitative thinking is fuzzy. There is nothing precise about it. This is why management and leadership are not only a science. There is very little science in it by the way. It is mostly art. You have to spend sleepless nights and make judgments and evaluations. You have to suffer because there is no clear answer to your problems. You just have to bite the bullet.   I observe that the discipline of General Management has actually disappeared from management education. There is only one course called Strategic Planning. But that is only one little piece of what is known as General Management.   Many years ago, I came to the conclusion that the excellent manager of an organization does not exist. We are trying to produce something that does not exist. It is a fata morgana. Why is that so? To manage any organization, be it a city, a country, a company, or a family, you need to produce results. You have to do that efficiently so that you do not waste resources. At the same time, you must think about the future and prepare the organization for it. This means that you have to be entrepreneurial. But you should also surround yourself with competent people and make them work as a team so that they do not waste energy fighting with each other. You want a constructive culture in your organization.   This means that we want a leader who is task-oriented, efficient, active, organized, systematic, motivated, ambitious, detail-oriented, creative, innovative, inspirational, sensitive...   In the prevalent management education that today is called leadership development we try to produce that person. There are not many of us around that fit this description, right? Because it does not exist. And I have to tell you that the worst clients that I have had as a consultant are those that graduated from Harvard Business School. They are arrogant. They end up in private equity firms and consulting companies and start putting on airs.   What makes a good leader? Think of a family. It is very difficult to raise a child as a single parent, is it not? It takes a family; a man and a woman. It takes masculine and feminine energy. They have to complement each other.   Building a company is like building a family. You need a team whose members complement each other. You cannot do it on your own. That is why dictators destroy countries. That is why democracy is better. So who is a good leader? Somebody who is not afraid of working with people who are different. A leader must not be afraid of differences. A leader must not curse a rose because it has thorns. Try to learn something from the differences that you observe rather than being afraid of them. This takes mutual respect and trust. Team members should be like the fingers of a hand: different yet united. And they should not be united despite of being different but because of being different. When we are different, we learn from each other. Our differences make us stronger.   Can you command respect and trust? Are you a person who can work with different people? If you are, you can be a leader of the future. That leader is not one who has a degree and is knowledgeable. If you think you know everything and you can predict the future, you are in trouble.   There is another problem with education. What does it teach you?  How to maximize Profits. As a consequence, profit has become a religion in our education. That is what we teach in finance, strategic planning, marketing... It is all about how to measure and achieve profit. That is the ultimate goal.   Milton Friedman got a Nobel prize for turning profit into a religion. But do you know what this is doing to us? It is destroying our environment. By trying to obtain more and more profit, we produce more and more things that we do not need.  In California, where I live, people have enormous houses and three cars each in their garages, and they are still miserable because it is not enough. They want more. But more is not better. It is worse. By trying to have more we destroy the world that we live in.   I do not mean to say that profit should be ignored. I have been a consultant to several socially conscious organizations, like the Body Shop. They all got in serious trouble because they ignored profit. Do not ignore profit! But accept that there should be a limit to it. You need it so that you can survive and grow. The real goal must be different: make a better world. Make it a better place to be.   I just came from Montenegro where I was an advisor to the Central Bank. The bank's executive director took me to his village where he was born, in the north of the country. He introduced me to his brother. I asked him how he felt in that small mountain village of 3,000 people. He said, "Great!" I wondered how one can feel great in such a small place. He answered, "I have a roof over my head. I have food. I have rakia to drink. What am I missing?"   I hear more laughter in a developing country in one day than in a whole year in a developed country. As the standard of living goes up, the quality of life goes down. Which of the two is more important?   The leaders of the future must have a different set of values. We need a new value system in which less is beautiful. Less is better. Small is wonderful.   Sincerely   Dr. Ichak Kalderon Adizes   Click here to discuss this article. Blog URL: http://www.ichakadizes.com/blog   Ichak Kalderon Adizes, PhD. CEO/President, Adizes Institute www.adizes.com What do you think? Please post your comments, criticism or support on my blog ...let me have it all. ***Reprint granted on the condition that a link to www.ichakadizes.com is provided. Copyright © 2013 Ichak Adizes. All Rights Reserved.		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