2. Introduction :
• Let all being everywhere be happy.
• 5000 years old Civilization
• Ancient India : reach with spiritual and material wealth.
Two Types
of People
have Have not ?
3. Purushartha: Goals of Life
• Physical Growth
• Rapid Growth
• Lion Population
• Nature Rule
4. Four Goal of Life:
• Dharma
• Artha
• Kama
• Moksha
• Jain Text: “The More you get, the more you want; your desires
increase with your means”.
5. Exploring Quality in Indian Context
• TQM – Total quality management ;
• TQM- Total Quality of Mind
• Cradle to Cradle Design(Michael Braungart,)
• In this design model, all materials used in an industrial/commercial process are seen as either
technical or biological nutrients. Non-toxic, non-harmful synthetic materials that have no harmful
effects on the natural environment fall in the category of technical nutrients.
6. QUOTATIONS FROM SPIRITUAL LEADERS/SCRIPTURES, ON
WEALTH
CREATION, DISTRIBUTION AND CONSUMPTION
• Sri Sri Ravishankar: Sadhana= Dhana+ Sa
• Sri Sathya Sai Baba: ‘Money is of the nature of manure. Piled up in one place, it pollutes the air.
Spread it wide, scatter it over fi elds – it rewards you with a bumper harvest.
• Swami Chinmayananda (Non Attachment)
• The Holy Bible: ’Do not gather and heap up and store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where
moth and
rust and worm consume and destroy, and where thieves break through and steal...where your
treasure is, there will your heart be also.’
7. THE ECONOMICS OF GIVING:
• Bhishma said to Yudhishtira, ‘Rulers should be like good householders. If householders are like
trees planted in compounds, rulers are like huge trees that grow at the crossroads. A common
householder should extend hospitality to his guests; a ruler should provide protection and support to
the poor, the homeless, the destitute, the old and the widowed.’
• Shubh Laabh:
• You share because you derive happiness by sharing.
• The scriptures from India state ShadRipus (six enemies) – kama (desire), krodha (anger), lobh
(greed),
moha (delusion), mada (pride) and matsarya (envy).
8. Law of Karma
• In Sanskrit, karma refers to action or deed.
• As you sow, so shall you reap’
• life of Gautama – the Buddha
• there are three types of karma: sanchita karma, aagami karma and
prarabhdha karma.
9. ENFORCING A WORK ETHIC THAT IS ALIEN TO THE
ETHOS OF THE
LAND
• Particular incident relates to Amber Chand, co-founder of the former Internetbased
company Eziba
• This business enterprise, Eziba, soon failed.
10. WESTERN MANAGEMENT DISCIPLINES, ON THE
FOUNDATION OF
INDIAN PHILOSOPHY
• ‘West versus East’ to ‘WE’ approach.
• Peter Senge, ‘If the larger context does not change, spirituality becomes yet another
technique to keep doing what we have always been doing’.
• Hindu scripture
• Brihaspati Smriti says:
• ‘The businessman must be a person of character and integrity with self control… and be an example to
others
• for the practice of ethical values.’ (Brihaspati Smriti 17.9)
• To begin with, individuals can start ‘mining the rich, bountiful reserves of spiritual gold’ in their own
organisations,
• no matter what country or culture they may belong to:
• Strengthen personal spiritual foundation and draw from it in the course of day-to-day work;
• Make spiritual principles the foundation for all relationships;
• Embody spiritual principles in daily business transactions; and
• Build communities of like-minded people who genuinely desire to mine this gold and employ it within
11. NON-VIOLENT ECONOMY: BUDDHIST ECONOMICS
AND GROSS
NATIONAL HAPPINESS
• Bhutan
• Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of
one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to
a person other than oneself.
~ Viktor Frankl
12. WESTERN ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
• technology, medicine and the provision of essential and non-essential goods and
services.
• every life-support system on the planet is on the decline (e.g. clean air, clean water, forests, topsoil,
aquifers,
fisheries, wetlands, biodiversity).
• Lack of Systems Perspective
• Short-term Thinking
• Lack of Natural Wisdom
• Lack of Natural Wisdom
• SYSTEMIC FLAWS DRIVING UNSUSTAINABILITY
• Flaws of the Economic System
• Flaws of the Political System
• Flaws in the Social System
13. Gross National Product
• GNP was never intended to be a measure of overall social wellbeing. Instead, it was to be a
measure of economic growth. The
14. DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING GROSS
NATIONAL HAPPINESS
• ESTABLISHING GOALS(Social goals and priorities)
• Developing GNH Metrics
• Developing a Strategy to Achieve GNH Goals
