Excerpts from "Expanding dharma for success." by Devdutt Pattanaik:
Dharma has often been translated as ethics, morality, righteousness and goodness. It is not an objective concept. It is a subjective conceptualized on gaze. Empathy expands gaze, our notion of dharma changes. Depending on our varna (mental state), we will see dharma differently.
For a sudra: it is doing what the master tells him to do;
For a vvaishya: it is doing what he feels is right;
For kshatriya: it is doing what he feels is right for his team:
For the brahman : it is realizing that everyone is right in his own way;
but everyone can be more right by expanding gaze.
Dharma is about realizing our potentials. While all other creatures grow at the cost of others (plants feed on minerals, animals feed on plants and other animas) humans can grow by helping others grow. This is not sacrifice. This is making the Yajama's (Leader ) growth an outcome of the Devata's (follower ) growth.
When we open our mind, our notion of dharma changes for we have more empathy and are more sensitive and caring when responding to the problems posed by the market.
Referring to the Nanda Utsav the author demonstrates how Krishna gets butter from the pots hung high. Those at the bottom need to stand on their feet to balance the whole pyramid so that the leader (Krishna) gets his "butter"
Source: Corporate Dossier: June 27-July 3
Dharma has often been translated as ethics, morality, righteousness and goodness. It is not an objective concept. It is a subjective conceptualized on gaze. Empathy expands gaze, our notion of dharma changes. Depending on our varna (mental state), we will see dharma differently.
For a sudra: it is doing what the master tells him to do;
For a vvaishya: it is doing what he feels is right;
For kshatriya: it is doing what he feels is right for his team:
For the brahman : it is realizing that everyone is right in his own way;
but everyone can be more right by expanding gaze.
Dharma is about realizing our potentials. While all other creatures grow at the cost of others (plants feed on minerals, animals feed on plants and other animas) humans can grow by helping others grow. This is not sacrifice. This is making the Yajama's (Leader ) growth an outcome of the Devata's (follower ) growth.
When we open our mind, our notion of dharma changes for we have more empathy and are more sensitive and caring when responding to the problems posed by the market.
Referring to the Nanda Utsav the author demonstrates how Krishna gets butter from the pots hung high. Those at the bottom need to stand on their feet to balance the whole pyramid so that the leader (Krishna) gets his "butter"
Source: Corporate Dossier: June 27-July 3
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