This presentation suggests the idea of Sanatan VAD rooted in the four basic needs of human society and its contemporary significance in terms of KPCL (Knowledge, Power, Capital, Labor) and corresponding rights and duties to achieve harmonious equilibrium at the global level.

1. Sanatan VAD and Loksangraha
for a New Planetary Community
(Viswa Kutumb)*
Dr. Subhash Sharma
Director
Indus Business Academy (IBA), Bangalore
*Workshop on Upholding Our World and Regenerating our Earth:
Lokasamgraha and the Contemporary Challenges of Creative Gathering of Soul, Society and Cosmos, Indus Business
Academy (IBA), Bangalore, July 25, 2017
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2. Scientific Foundations of Sanatan VAD
What are the Fundamental Needs of Human Society/ Global
Community?
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3. Core Fundamental Needs
• Need for Protection
• Needs for Wealth
• Need for Services
• Need for Knowledge
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4. Expressions of Fundamental Needs
• Need for Protection: Build Army and Political Institutions
• Needs for Wealth creation: Develop Entrepreneurship and Build
Businesses
• Need for Services: Develop Service providing organizations
• Need for Knowledge creation: Develop Scientific institutions and
Research
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5. Qualities and Competencies Needed to Meet
the Societal Needs
• Protection Needs: Courage and Sacrifice
• Wealth Creation: Proper Understanding of the Market and its
functioning
• Services: Service orientation
• Knowledge Creation: High level of Intellectual capabilities
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6. Categories, Stage in Life/Career and Rights &
Duties (CSRD)
• For an Individual, following three aspects of his life are important:
• What is his/her category? Do we have a framework to have a broad
classification for this purpose, in contemporary human society?
• Ans: KPCL Classification
• What is his/her stage in his/her career? His/her status in Organization
(Organization hierarchy)?
• What are his/her rights and duties/obligations corresponding to his/her
roles in organization and social context?
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7. KPCL Model for Meeting Global Community
Needs
• K: Knowledge
• P: Power
• C: Capital
• L: Labor
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8. KPCL-CSRD Matrix
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K
P
C
L
Entry Level Middle Level Senior Level
Status
Category
RD41 RD42 RD43
RD31 RD32 RD33
RD21 RD22 RD23
RD11 RD12 RD13

9. CSRD and Its VAD Origin
• VAD: Varna-Ashram-Dharma
• Varna: Category
• Ashram: Stage in life
• Dharma: Rights and Duties (Duties lead to Rights/ Rights are inherent
in Rights: Adhikar is in consonance with Duty)
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10. Sanatan VAD and CSRD
• Varnas New Terminology*
• Brahmin K - Class
• Kshtriya P - Class
• Vaishya C - Class
• Shudra L - Class
These terminologies have been changing across human history and various
societies. In future some other phrases may be used. Words, Varnas and
Caste may be replaced by some other phrase, however, scientific foundation
of four broad categories will remain.
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11. VAD Driven by Loksangraha
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Varna
Ashram
D11 D12 D13 D14
D21 D22 D23 D24
D31 D32 D33 D34
D41 D42 D43 D44B
K
V
S
B G V S
Loksangraha

12. Purpose of CSRD
• Basic Purpose of CSRD Framework is to do Good for the Human
Society which in Gita is referred to as Loksangraha
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K
P
CL
Loksangraha/
HOPE: Higher Order Purpose of Existence

13. Loksangraha Swastika for Global Community
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Loksangraha
K
P
CL

14. Implications for the Corporates: A New
Corporate Model
KPMG Model as a New Corporate Model Rooted in Loksangraha
(Goodness)
K (Knowledge)
P (Power)*
M (Money)
*Power of Management as well as Labor/ Worker/Human Resource
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G/ Loksangraha

15. New Corporate Model (New Mantas in
Corporate Corridors, 2007, p. 77)
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Loksangraha
Avoid Extremes
Organization as Family (Theory K)
Shubh labhNishkam karma
Self development Work as worship

16. Transitions in Varna Theory/ Modification of
Varna Terminology
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B
K
V
S
L L C O
Land Labor Capital Org.
Adam Smith
Varnas
(Ancient Times) K, P, C, L
Knowledge Society
Industrial Revolution

17. Towards An Integral Model
Integral model is one in which components are integrated to arrive at a
holistic view. Thus it takes us towards Holistic Perspective of a
Worldview e.g. Integral Yoga (Aurobindo), Integral Humanism (Deen
Dayal Upadhyaya), Integral Development (Ananta Giri).
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Loksangraha
Varna Purushartha
Global Community*:
(Viswa Kutumb)
* Vasudhaiv Kutumbkam

18. Towards A New Planetary Community
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Concern for Humanity
Work Responsibility
Categorization
Purpose of Life: Wealth,
Ethics, Pleasure,
Transcendence
New Global Community
An Integral Model for A New Planetary Community

19. Further Reading
• Subhash Sharma (1996, 2006, 2017), Management in New Age: Western
Windows Eastern Doors, New Age International Publishers, New Delhi
• Subhash Sharma (2007), New Mantras in Corporate Corridors: From Ancient
Roots to Global Routes, New Age International Publishers, New Delhi
• Subhash Sharma (2012), New Earth Sastra: Towards Holistic Development &
Management (HDM), IBA Publications, Bangalore
• Subhash Sharma (2016), New Ideas in Strategic Thinking & Management: A
Knowledge Tree of New Age Mantras, New Age International Publishers, New
Delhi
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