Managing by the Bhagavad Gītā by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319996110
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Qualitative evidence in the section below called “Enlightened Leadership”, shows how managers describe the growth of higher states of consciousness in terms of real, practical experiences.

Transcendental Meditation

The Bhagavad Gītā exhorts that the leader transcends and then acts grounded in Yoga, grounded in cosmic natural law. These principles are operationalized in the Transcendental Meditation® (TM) program1. The TM technique is practiced for 20 min two times per day, sitting quietly with the eyes closed. These periods of meditation in the morning and evening are alternated with the activity of going about one’s life throughout the day.TM is described as a simple, natural practice which is said to be “independent of all matters of belief and affiliation (Shear, 2006, p. 47).” Transcendental Meditation involves a specific sound or mantra—utilized for its sound value without reference to meaning. During meditation the mantra is experienced at progressively deeper and finer levels of thinking until thought is transcended in “a state of inner wakefulness with no object of thought or perception, just pure consciousness aware of its own unbounded nature” (Maharishi, 1976, p. 123).

The TM technique is not practiced just for some peaceful moments during meditation but for the cumulative effects of regular twice-daily practice. Daily cycles of meditating and then coming out into activity, cultivate the nervous system to more and more maintain the restful silence of Transcendental Consciousness even outside of meditation. Meditation and action both play a role in personal evolution to Cosmic Consciousness. Maharishi explains:Integration of life depends upon the mind passing in a cycle between the field of the Absolute and the field of activity. The mind goes to the unmanifest and comes back to the manifest, thus experiencing both fields of life, absolute and relative. This is the state of an integrated man in Cosmic Consciousness. (Maharishi, 2015/1967, p. 213)

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