Divine madness of great persons.

 

Monday, 24-September- 2012

Divine madness of great persons.

Most of the geniuses had a streak of “divine madness” in them. Thomas Alva Edison, the great inventor would spend all his time facing his problems connected with his inventions, by sitting at his desk for hours, deeply thinking, ignoring his food brought on his table. He would not touch food until a solution was found to his knotty problems.

Wilberforce committed some small crime, went to jail, saw the terrible prison life inside and came out to agitate for prison reforms  He deliberately committed petty crimes to go to jail. Every time he came out, he lunched his agitation for jail reforms, in which he succeeded. Wilberforce earned the gratitude of jail birds and social reformers.

Lala Hardayal was a highly intelligent man who could have adorned the chairs in universities as a professor with distinction. But he left India  and went to Italy, Paris, London, Algiers, West Indies, Honolulu (Hawaii), etc. He became the leader of the Ghadar (Revolution) Party during the First World War . A born rebel, he was appointed a professor of Sanskrit and philosophy in Berkely university (USA).  But he renounced al chairs and went to Switzerland. Germany and Sweden to organise the freedom fight for India. This great scholar who knew many language was absolutely penniless in Sweden where he remained fro nine years. He preferred to die in Philadelphia (USA)on 4^th march 1939 as a forgotten mad man than live in luxury in imperialist Biritish India of those days.

These ‘mad’ men take up their work as a sort of human fulfilment, as dedication to a cause . they are men of action who renounce their all for a great cause.  They have succeeded in converting hteir country from a nation of salves to a nation of firm wills.

Advice to Managers.

Keep physically fit and mentally strong. Study and follow professional management principles. Apply them logically and practically to your

Organization. Think about every difficult problem.

Decisions; men grow making decisions and assuming responsibility for them.

Criticism; do not criticise people but make a fair judgement of their qualifications. Remember, anything you say about someone may get back to them.

There are few secrets in the business world! See the good in people and try to develop those qualities. Inefficiency; if it cannot be overcome and an employee is obviously incapable of the job, fired a job he can do or terminate now. Do not wait. People are No1 their development, loyalty, interest, team spirit- develop managers in every area- This is your prime responsibility.

Manage your time. Short conversations to the point. Delegate and hold accountable for results. Let your staff take care of details. Save your energy for planning thinking and promoting.

Ideas and competition; Ideas keep the business alive. Know what your competition are doing and planning . encourage management to think about better ways and give suggestions on anything that will improve business.

Guard your habits; bad ones will destroy you . Do not try to do an employee’s job for him- counsel and suggest. Think objectively and keep a sense of humour. Make the business fun for you and others. –(Courtesy; “The Lighthouse”)

Understand Before You Advise.

Understand before you advise Before we try to tell others what to do, we need to establish good relationship. The key to your influence with me in your understanding of me. Unless you understand me and my feelings you wont know how to advise me. Unless you are influenced by my uniqueness. I am not going to be influenced by your advise.

Quote from the True charm and power of Vedanta

This is what is meant by religious practice; To have a definite consciousness regarding the Real, regarding Spirit, not  through books or through some one else, but through one’s own self. Each one must be able to awaken his own inner nature. He must be able to grasp the meaning of life, to perceive the existence of God directly. That  is the aim of all study and practise. A man who lives here performs the duties of life must know the purpose of life; he bust know his relation with the Unseen Doer; he but understand the Force which is constantly working within and without him. The science of Yoga teaches this. The very word signifies man’s union with the Supreme. Until he has attained that union and feels that he is being guided by God along the right path, he cannot have any sense of security; and  so long as he does not feel that he is safe, he cannot enjoy life. If , however, at every moment of his existence he is wholly devoted to the Supreme, then he can never feel separated from Him. When under all circumstances, in our waking and sleeping , we carry the thought of God and put it into all o9ur actions, then we are living the spiritual life.

But, if He exists?

I drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.

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