Gita Have A Balance Between The Inner World And The Outer World Analysis

If the teaching of Gita is to be summarised in one line that one line is, “have a balance between the ‘outer world’ and the ‘inner world’”. This balance is essential for sustainability. Regardless whether it is an individual or an organisation its demise in short run is inevitable if doesn’t focus on the Spiritual and the Environment aspect it is a part of. Spirituality in an individual or business sense stands for being true to its long term purpose, developing faith in others, strength and support, trust, loyalty, personal values and morality. An entity with sustenance in mind, which wants to stand the test of time never disregards its environment. If it wants presence it has to consult with nature. “Besides the noble art of getting things
Most of the western literature talks about the importance of intellectual capacity, imaginative powers, how to handle operations and interpersonal skills. All these skills helps us to handle the outer world, however the western literature smoothly skips the inner war that goes on within a leader. A leader cannot inspire others unless he is himself inspired. In case he is motivated by results, then his motivation is going to be like the ebb and rise of tides. He needs to maintain a state of equanimity. He needs to appreciate that there is an unknown factor, similar to rolling of dice which determines the outcome of an activity. This unknown and untameable factor should inspire any aspiring leader to not fret over results. Not fretting over results makes the leader more objective, more focussed on actions and hence more
An untrained mind becomes a slave to the pleasures derived from these senses. A trained mind makes the sense organs its slave; a weak mind gets enslaved by the sense organs and that spells disaster for him, for he is reduced to the level of other mammals. A trained mind is a mechanism to deal with our outer world. Stanford Professor Walter Mischel in the 1960s did a series of experiment called the “marshmallow experiment”. It showed that the kids with “restraint” at a very young age grew up to become more confident individuals, they had better SAT scores and were in general more happy and successful than the kids who did not show restraint. A weak mind is restless, turbulent, strong and unyielding. Through the process of “practice” and “renunciation” an untrained mind becomes a “trained mind”-a master of the sense