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 beyond control. If I enrich myself by looting another then why shouldn’t I do so? The relativist and rational answer is rather weak on this, a lame duck response. I should not loot or kill others because they should not do it to me, not because it should not be done. These are mutualist arguments based on the principle of buy and sell. Thieving is not wrong, but getting caught is, can be the logical extension of this concept of mutuality. Any number of people who will show you the legal loopholes if you are caught. Once it is accepted that a person’s criminality is subject to.being convicted, then legal loopholes, buying judges or other methods, are always available, and they are all very rational ways.

If I am not benefitting then why should I work? Why should I obey the laws? Why should I be good? Why should I not exploit anyone? Why should I accept equality in social intercourse? Why should I give up what is already in my hand? Every society has to find answers to these questions from time to time. Unless you have clear confirmation in your mind, you cannot proceed in human resource management. Whether we are consciously aware of these answers or not, they are basic assumptions in any given society. When I am working as a manager in India I must know the value systems of the people who work with me. If I look at them with foreign spectacles my perception is likely to be wrong. Often perception of a problem indicates the solution of the problem. It is how

” you see yourself that defines how you would see and interact with others. This is the connection, this Yoga we were seeking at the beginning of the previous chapter.

In Indian Darsanas the Body (Deha %&) of a human being is considered temporary or ephemeral. According to assumption of Rebirth only the soul of a person is permanent. Body is considered ephemeral. Soul or Atman is permanent and it does not have any beginning or end. Body is like clothes. Old ones will go and new ones will come. Therefore this body is not me. Answer to ‘Koham?” or who am I? is not my body. In Indian philosophy considering body as ‘I’, is called Dehabhav. According to Adwait philosophy the answer to who am I? is I am Brahman or Aham Brahmasmi.(3%@ sees) If you understand this larger connotation of yourself then you are in a position to look at many things with a different perspective. This perspective signifies a basic change in your Self-Concept. A complete transformation takes place. This is a ‘perspective shift’ It is very crucial in managerial life.

When you look at a natural scene through a viewfinder of a camera you select a piece of physical reality present before your eyes. You capture that piece of reality and freeze it in the camera. It is your view. It is your Darsana axa of reality, Is it a Truth? The answer could be both Yes and No, Any photographer will tell you that from any actual scene before your

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