“…Try to look at things and understand them with a new vision and a new understanding based on something higher, something deeper, vaster, something truer, something which is not yet but will be one day. And it is because we want to build this future that we have taken this special stand." - Mother
April to October has not been a journey of silence, though many of you connected personally inquiring about absence of our connection through this penning of insights. They’ve been a roller coaster ride of teaching in B-Schools and sharing the above in essence of education.
It pained me tremendously to experience many of them as physically exhausted, mentally battered and spiritually empty. These are the managers who touch lives of many everyday- internally within organizations and externally with customers. Drained of energy and clueless of meaning in life, what interactions do they provide? And through supposed to be ‘higher’ education, what are they benefiting?
I’ve written pained as past tense, because every valley of pain ultimately helps you scale another height. Every dark shadow finally ends in new dawn of Light. These plays of Eternal cycles reveal themselves in moments of Truth. And once experienced, all the pains and dark realities around open their true nature. Nothing then seems to bother you as undesirable. They reveal Nature’s design and beauty, previously incomprehensive.
I’ve reached a point where synchronicity does not surprise me. The decision not to teach till I find authentic ‘proof’ needed by cynical mindsets created by our education system pulled in my direction various opportunity. One is reading book titled ‘Power vs. Force’ by David Hawkins. He’s expands our horizon by sharing of extensive clinical research on the physiology of the nervous system and the holistic functioning of the human organism. He’s shared from new science of Kinesiology, Chaos theory, field and attractor theories. The dynamics of human consciousness now get a very scientific understanding. What we call as Truth is not just a principle that is good or idealistic to practice, it upholds the key to our health, survival and growth. The intelligence of body cells can decipher what supports life and what does not. And needless to say, truth comes as supporting life, withholding truth or distorting it is detected by our body and we react negatively on muscular level without even noticing it. Truth, as Will Schutz writes, is the great simplifier of personal and interpersonal difficulties. However, unfortunately, it is non-truth or disguising facts to achieve desired result is seen as success strategy.
2nd October is Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday. His life can be summarized as journey to truth option. He’s even called his autobiography as My Experiments with Truth. According to research of David Hawkins, our body calibrates at various levels. Truth is life supportive hence what is good for larger well being of the Universe, calibrates at higher level. What is false, superficial, harmful or deceitful, calibrates negatively. This new scientific discovery helps understand Gandhiji’s journey in a different perspective. Hence truth becomes a healthy option for individuals and institutions.
One Hindi film Lage Raho Munnabhai is story of a common man in communication with Gandhiji on subtle consciousness level and his own experiments with truth. For sometime after its release, the film created euphoria and many experimented on similar level. Our environment however pulls down those magical moments and dulls the senses by media overload of deceit and falsehood. Tomorrow is the day to reconnect with the magic of truth within. However, another connected principle is that of non-violence, again calibrating high. Gandhiji had experimented with this principle equally. I’m sure as we reconnect with truth, non-violence will not remain empty ideal. The day may arrive when we see truth and non-violence as Organizational Development intervention and B-School curriculum. Optimism? Cultural Creative? Join me in making this dream a reality.
