Bhagavadgeetha in Professional Life

Abstract

Since time immemorial, ancient philosophical texts have spiritually provoked people to awaken from the delusion incurred from being baffled at life’s myriad circumstances. Today’s rapid advance in applied science and technology has not only removed problems of daily activities such as transportation, communication, information exchange etc, but also has greatly improved our comfort and lifestyle. Despite such major benefits brought by globalization, mankind is facing higher levels of competition and the struggle for success is becoming intense in almost all professional fields such as research, medicine, commerce, management, production technology and intellectual property rights to name a few. As a result, our progress can be obscured by normal human tendencies to quickly achieve the desired results in short time, thus sacrificing on quality and other values that inevitably lead to failure and frustration due to possible conflicts. This paper sheds light on ancient Hindu philosophy, namely the Bhagavad-geetha (popularly known as the Bhagavad-Gita), and attempts to correlate certain successful strategic decisions and guidelines made in the past – with the modern day human activity management by expounding the similarities in both situations. Such profound knowledge of the ‘Geetha may not necessarily be restricted solely to religious grounds, but also applied as insights to the modern-day human interaction, perception and behavioral transactions to not only achieve success but primarily to eliminate personal differences and conflicts.