IIM Indore Students Learn the Secret Art of Managing the Self and the Organization

IIM Indore Students Learn the Secret Art of Managing the Self and the Organization

Students of the EPGP at IIM Indore, the only One Year Full Time Post Graduate Programme in Management in India to have a course on Ancient Oriental Philosophy and Spirituality, recently learnt the secret art of managing the self and the organization from Swami Samarpanananda of Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University (Belur Math).

It was mélange of spirituality and business at IIM Indore. Swami Samarpanananda of Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University (Belur Math) gave the future business leaders of the One Year Full-time Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management (EPGP), lessons in how to develop and channelize their spiritual and mental energies to achieve excellence in the field of business management. Coming at a time when companies are drawing flak for chasing money with complete disregard for society, these lessons promise to help the EPGP students not only become good managers, but responsible corporate citizens too.

Swami Samarpanananda Addressing the Students at IIM, Indore

Swamiji Samarpanananda, who has been involved with teaching and administration for many years now and who has recently authored 'Tiya: A Parrot's Journey Home', an imaginative rendering of Vedantic and Yoga philosophy, gave a discourse to the EPGP students at IIM Indore. Swamiji covered many important topics, for instance, the importance of detachment in life. To students who found it difficult to reconcile their future in well paying jobs with a life of detachment as proposed in one lecture, Swamiji explained, "The purpose of your life is not to become a monk. It is to attain success and develop yourself to the highest level possible. So if tomorrow you get a chance to buy a Rolls Royce, do so by all means. But understand that it's only a means to a higher end - to raise yourself to the supreme expression of yourself. In this process do not get attached to the ladder - the car in this case as that leads to misery. Keep your eyes set on the higher goal."

Swamiji very beautifully drew on examples from religions as diverse as Hinduism and Sikhism to Christianity and Islam to show that the message of all religions is essentially the same and is as relevant today as when it was first codified. He showed the students how learning from these books can be a guide to all of us today in our work places.

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