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Articles: Devotion | Between HIM and we all
- Prof. venkata ramanamurty mallajosyula
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The reason for living and working is to act, and the reason to act is to seek excellence in everything that you do. If you are going to run a business, then run it well. The most successful person is the person with the least desires. The successful individual is the contented individual. Whose quote, do you think, this is? A spiritual master? What if we tell you these are actually the words of an internationally renowned gold and silver trader who called the top of the gold market in 1980. James Sinclair is today the Chairman and CEO of Tan Range Exploration Ltd, a prestigious mining company in the gold-rich region of East Africa.
Take another leader. Alvaro Cruz is the owner and CEO of a large construction company ICM Ingenieros Ltda. and also the Governor of Cundinamarca, a state in Columbia. He says, “Being spiritual means being able to listen to one’s intuition. Spirituality is something you must persist in everyday, every hour... It is a permanent attention to the inner self. Now, many a skeptic would ask, what business do these prosperous and successful entrepreneurs have with spirituality? Some would even dismiss it out rightly – “It is all just words.”
Ask any graduate these days, “Do you think you can be spiritual and also be a successful businessman?” All you will get is a scornful look for asking a stupid question. And believe it or not, this is at the crux of all tragedies and trauma mankind is facing today - be it terrorism, global warming, pollution or poverty. In the name of secularity, rationality and what not, spirituality today is shunned in educational institutions. In corporate boardrooms, no one dares make a reference to it, lest they may be considered unfashionable; and in professional forums people are tight-lipped about it to save themselves from being branded as ‘not-in-tune-with-the-times’.
And as a result, what do we see today? Countries are spending currency in billions on defense and other allied projects when a large part of the population is still marginalized, without access to even minimum satisfactory healthcare; post-graduates and doctorates, without an iota of guilt or hesitancy, are joining terror networks and masterminding them; companies which originally started to serve people’s needs, are now only seeking to intensify their greed and maximize return at any cost; and divorces, which used to be the exception a few decades ago, are now as common as marriages. With the family system in peril, society is unable to hold together, for how long can a beautiful rosary last once the thread has become weak and beads are falling apart?
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