Spirituality at Work

Spirituality at Work Atis Kaundinnyayana Pharmacist & Freelance spiritual activist

What to discuss? • Work • Spirituality • Spirituality at work

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Work • What is work? • Why we work? • We live to work or we work to live?

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Spirituality • What is spirituality ? • Spirituality is the concept of an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality. October 4, 2012

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Religiousness? No worries? Happiness? Bliss?


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Religiousness and Spirituality • Spirituality is considered the ultimate religious experience for a long time. • Accepts the existence of god

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Secular Spirituality • Secular spirituality emphasizes humanistic ideas on moral character (qualities such as love, compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, responsibility, harmony, and a concern for others) • Aspects of life and human experience which go beyond a purely materialist view of the world without necessarily accepting belief in a supernatural reality or divine being

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“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind” -Albert Einstien

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Universal Spiritual Attributes • Moral • Ethics • Values • Virtues • And all profession require this October 4, 2012


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Politics

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Judiciary

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Medicine

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Business

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Management

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Ethics is very important for all professions BUT….

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Ethics can not be enforced on gunpoint

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How to enforce ethics? • • • •

Laws/penalty Rules regulation Code of conducts Oath

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Awareness of Spirit makes you ethical

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Concept of Spirit • Individual spirit –Consciousness –I

• Cosmic spirit –Superconsiousness –God October 4, 2012


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“I was atheist till I realized I was god” October 4, 2012

Jiddu Krishnamurti ( 1895 – 1986) Atis@PU with MBA students on Spirituality at Work:

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Expanded Spirit

seer

I

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Skin encapsulated ego October 4, 2012


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Spirituality

Vs Spiritualism

• Acceptance of non material reality (Spirit) • Practice of Personal and social codes – Moral, Ethics, Values, Virtues

• Meditation/Prayer • Harmony with nature • Humanitarian October 4, 2012

• Acceptance of non material reality (Spirit) • Real World/Spirit world • Spirit Communication • God/Demon • Ghost/Evil spirit • Afterlife (Spiritism) • Heaven/Hell


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Spirituality at work • Awareness • Acknowledgement • Holistic than analytical

• Process approach – Quality

• Continuous improvement October 4, 2012


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Workplace Spirituality Movement • Workplace Spirituality or Spirituality in the Workplace is a movement that began in the early 1920s. • It emerged as a grassroots movement with individuals seeking to live their faith and/or spiritual values in the workplace

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Quotes from Geeta 2:46 • sd{0o]jflwsf/:t] df kmn]if' sbfrg df sd{ kmnx]te"{ df t] ;Ëf]:Tjsd{l0f .. • Your right is only to perform your duty, but never to its results (fruits). Let not the results be your motive, nor you be indolent. Lesson: Perform your duty with a mind free from the anxieties of fruits of action. Neither you be indolent nor consider yourself as the cause ( agent) of results.

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Quotes from Geeta 2:47.49 • of]u:yM s'/m sdf{l0f ;Ë+ ToSTjfdgfdod\ l;4Øl;4Øf]M ;df] e"Tjf ;dTj+ of]u pRot] .. • Leaving the attachment of success and failure, O Dhananjaya, be established in yoga. Equipoise in yoga (yoga of evenness/equanimity of mind) perform your duty

a'l4o'Stf] hxftLx pe] ;'s[t b'is[t] t:dfb\ of]ufo o'Ho:j of]uM sd{;' sf}znd\ .. • A man with evenness of mind discards here and now good and evil. Therefore endeavour for Yoga. Yoga is proficiency in action. October 4, 2012


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Man and machine are different because machine do not have soul

But Man is forgetting that he has soul (spirit)

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How man can realize himself ? • Yoga is the answer • Then What is yoga?

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• of]ulZrQj[lQlg/f]wM •

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Yogashchittavrittinirodhah) – Patanjala Yoga Sutra (1.2)

– When you are in a state of yoga, all misconceptions disappear.

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Meditation is the tool • How Meditation can be done? – Meditation happens it can not be done.

• Then what we can do? – We can create the circumstances

– Then how to create the circumstances? – We have to workout – Not only in the gym but more importantly in the mind.

– How to start the mental gym then? – With the steps of Astanga Yoga October 4, 2012


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Ashtanga Yoga • • • • • • • •

Yama Niyama Asana Pranayama Pratyahara Dharana Dhyan Samadhi

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Social Codes Personal Codes Postures Breathings Drawing Senses Inward Dharana Meditation Super consciousness


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Yama (Social Codes) • • • • •

Ahimsa Satya Asteya Brahmacharya Aparigraha

 Panchasila

August 27, 2010

 Non

violence  Truthfulness  Honesty  “Celibacy”  Generosity

of Buddhism Yoga @ MCOMES ©Atis 2010

Niyama (Personal Codes) • • • • •

Shauch Santosha Tapa Svadhyaya Ishwara-Pranidhana

August 27, 2010

Purity  Contentment  Discipline  Spiritual exploration  Surrender to the divine 

Yoga @ MCOMES ©Atis 2010

Asana (Seat/Position/Posture) • Flexibility of Body – immortality

• Mind Body coordination

August 27, 2010

Yoga @ MCOMES ©Atis 2010

How spirituality impacts on work? • Spirituality not only improves spiritually but also you personally, socially. – Reduces pressure, stress, Keeps you in better state of mind resulting good physical, mental and spiritual health – Creativity the innate quality of human sprouts with spirituality. It enhances your performance, success. – Improves your relationships. – It decreases the complications : No corruption, less legal issues. – Makes you stronger to cope with problems.

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How the impact can be assessed? • I/O Psychology – Performance, Satisfaction, Well being

– Output – Human Capital development – Economic Value

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Human Capital

Spirituality

Human Resource October 4, 2012


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Human Capital

Human resource October 4, 2012

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Five Keys to remain blissful at work 1. Always be cheerful. Your happiness should flow from within you. Never let the external circumstances be the cause of it. 2. Be thankful for what you have rather than complaining for what you don’t. 3. Stick to your working ethics and work hard. Here the ultimate bliss is the reward. Shortcuts and will give the momentary and fake rewards. 4. Take hard or negative circumstances as opportunities or examinations for your spiritual endurance. 5. Try to watch yourself. Your actions and your thoughts. One day you will experience the oneness. But the journey itself is important irrespective of achieving the destination. October 4, 2012


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Reverence

HH Sri Shivaraja Acharya Kaundinnyayana(1941-)

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Thank You

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