BlissTarang

  In the vastness of inattention, there is a thread of attention In the ocean of forgetfullness, there is a drop of memory In the galaxy of vacuum, there are some grains of matter In the continuum of existence, there is figment of space In the moment called billion billion years, there is a tick of time For what we chose to attend, there is vastness of wilful or default ignorance. In Corporate Scenario, one hunts for statistics, analysis, etc to reduce the vast dimension of data. This in debate of sages vs scientist is refered to as “reductionist” approach where we reduce everything to mind-friendly patterns or equation or theories. And this precisely what is contradicted by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book Black Swan where the affinity to the known makes us enemity or dislodger  to the infinity of unknown. In Corporate, One has to be mindful and awareful of wider gamut of data always to see if one is missing the assimilation of outlier in quest to pat...

“Why don’t employees in my company rise above the monetary gains to selves?” “What is the missing link between “professionalism” and “emotional being” that we are?” These and many questions haunt many a leaders nowadays. Since time immemorial, humans have existed in communities. These communities transformed depending on thrival-instincts and survival extincts. These communities took different shape, size, localizations and thrived on varied occupancy around basic food, shelter, clothing, social interactions. From ancient times of everyday food gathering to food preservation for long term to “subsistence” to barter systems to “mudra” systems to monetary systems, the skill levels kept changing and expanding. During each change, the social purpose also kept changing in terms of “time devoted for social interactions”, ” geographical reach of social interactions”, “physical presence during social interactions”, “physical space of social interactions”, “blending economic...

“How are you feeling?” started the conversation for Rajesh. Dilip replied, “Nothing good”. Their learned friend standing by the side switched the awareness… …nothing good …no thing is good …all things are not good …all things that matter are not good …all things that matter are not giving the matterless-the good …all matters are not giving the matterless …all forms failing the formless. For all the formless to exist, there is a form that delivers the emotion or experience. For example…redness which is a formless quality cannot exist without a matter or form which carries the redness. Redness waves need the form for the necessary qualia or subjective experience. It is said in wisdom scriptures that one should constantly carry feelings/formlessness of happiness, purity, bliss, peace, love, power of will, compassion. A deep inquiry sets a question as to -where do we carry this? And an integral question is, “ is this feeling the effect we look for or the ca...

Bandra Western Express Highway, Mumbai. Two trees in the background of the picture. One laden with blushing leaves, swinging branches, smiling bark. The other tree impoverished and famished. My vehicle pulled over to the side and  I walked a few curious steps towards the nearest residence and submitted by inquiry, “what’s the story with the two trees?”. The neighbor smiled and said that till a few months back, both of them completed a beautiful partnership like Sachin-Kambli school-cricketing historic partnership of 664 runs. Then somehow one of them lost its way and to the sway. Somehow this seemingly adjacent but contrasting outcomes to almost same inputs (as like above) remains the ever so mysterious enigma. It was this stroke of insight that even drove Deepak Chopra towards spirited Spiritual quest. He was unable to comprehend how two patients with almost same history, health,potential , treatment from same Dr…would give conflicting outcomes. One ancient acco...

“let’s quickly leave” quipped Chandi. Nandy smiled “why don’t we just stay a bit and help Kishan”. Chandi’s mind which had already left the office was annoyed at being called back. “Why should I bother? It’s not my job. Besides it doesn’t figure in my KPI”. “My job is different from your job and I would do my bit and move on”…is the common attitude at most workplaces. Many a times this very approach also leads to dismal understanding about the fact that while each department has to be named differently and having specific objectives, it is intricately, un-removably intertwined with other department. Some Ancient scriptures talk about a philosophy of non-dualism which means that …there is no distinction between the self (purusham) and the nature/universe (prakriti) or …in other words the subject-object experience that makes up all our experiences are one (this is even revealed in the latest scientific leap called qualia which means that ultimately all experie...

“We are poised for quantum leap” “we have what it takes to grow really big” “scale is the game of the name and the name of the game” …Roared Sukchar…CEO of a Small Sized Company. His Guru asked Sukchar as to, “What is growth?” and “Why growth?”. Sukchar said that everybody everywhere is expanding. Growth is life, and  stagnancy or degrowth is death. Guru asked “does growth guarantee no-death of a corporate?”. Sukchar paused and then stuttered and then could offer only blank wide eyes. Guru then turned the gaze and said…”look at the universe”. At any given point of time, the Universe is massively expanding (scientists have numerous  researches to support this) and they say that there shall come a time when successive scale would lead to implosion. Guru continued to explain that it is Nature’s nature to teach…we should learn. He then added that there is a beautiful balance and cosmos in the way nature manages itself. Guru then quizzed Sukchar to...

 A man went to a Wise one and asked, “what and where is consciouness?” Wise man pointed to the man’s hand and asked, “what is this?”. Replied the man, “That’s my hand”. The wise one then went on and asked about the person’s legs, ears, eyes and hair. He then went to the level of asking as to who answered these questions. The man said that his thoughts helped him answer his questions. So the wise one asked, “Are you the thoughts?”… To which the man said “no”. This inquiry went on and finally the conclusion was that the “awareness” that is aware of itself being the witness of the body, thoughts, emotions is the consciousness. Deepak Chopra says that consciousness is non-local…one that exists not in time, space and matter. The world calls it the new scale called the plank scale at which time, matter and space seize to exist. Now turning to the corporate or company. Is Marketing the company? No. Is sales the company? no is HR the company? no. And forth so, it i...