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 have to motivate people to achieve these great results. You have to kindle their minds. Poetess Bahinabai (afeorras) has aptly put it; “when there is no feeling there is no worship and when there is no inner urge there is no strength”. The primary task of any manager is to create this inner urge in the minds of workers to do their job. Once this problem of motivation is solved then all other problems become soluble. Without this motivation all the goods, machines, wealth and conveniences cannot produce great Works. Nothing constructive happens.

People educated in English in India and of a certain vintage have cut their connection with the land of their heritage. This is a class among current educated elite. The elite imported science and technology from the West, while many of its members subjugated themselves to the economic ideologies prevalent in the West. In practice they could not motivate the sons of the soil to do Work. They only talked of or created Jobs. They could not provide motivation and inner urge amongst the workers. This elite class behaved and acted with indifference towards its own people and their traditions. This class and rejected whatever was Indian, and considered it worthless.

Atmarthe prithvim tyajet 31a yf <stct (Give up even world for ‘self’-realisation) is the position of basic philosophy of India as far as individual liberty is concerned. Extreme freedom of thought and action in self-realisation is the creed of India. In this land Stalinist centralisation of economic and political power was foisted on the inhabitants by the English speaking educated elite. People were treated as nuts and bolts or dolls from the mould and it was emphasised that human beings are only one dimensional Economic Man .That people have no ambitions except the monetary kind was the belief held by the elites. Western science and technology are superior and therefore, the Western social ideas are also better was the message spread by the elites through education. Western spectacles were ready and a large class among the elite in India started using them with slavish fervour. It was no wonder that they started thinking in English and saw India in that image. Perversely, they failed to see or perhaps they were incapable of seeing the Judaeo-Christian heritage, the Calvinistic work as worship model,that has propelled much of the thought behind gainful work in the Western countries. This elite as a class did not absorb the work ethic, devotion for acquiring knowledge, or compassion from Christianity. They accepted only the superficial layer of materialism or acquisitive methods. A simple habit like punctuality was ignored. Sanctity accorded to manual work remained alien. How can we hope to compete with the West by imbibing the worst of their negative points? We must have their science, their technology, but we should not uproot our philosophical base covering all living beings and their connection to the Supreme reality. Our social thinking must be true to our roots and true to our philosophical

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