We were sitting in chairman’s room of a big corporate house. He had gifted me a signed copy of a book written by his family member – the book was related to work, spirituality and family life. I wish I had met the author once, because the book is on aspects of life which I am exploring. The book has a straightforward message similar to Bhagvat Geeta – work is worship and how to achieve a content life even after being fully involved with material world. I had been writing for close to 6 years now on spirituality and business, this was the first time I had met a Chairman of a successful and listed company who spoke so eloquently on spirituality.
During our discussion I asked him, how does he balance spirituality and work? How can he pass on the message of spirituality to his line managers, executioners’ et al? This question was in my mind because when a person has basic needs fulfilled (shelter, food & clothing) then only he/she may think of higher pursuit in life. So, it sounds tough to send the message of spirituality, work, and growth and still balance in life to those who are struggling to make ends meet, isn’t it?
His response was pretty interesting. He asked me – “Have you studied Physics?” I said yes. He continued – “So you must be aware of resonance” He further added, “we all are made of same energy. So laws of physics apply to all of us. If someone reaches the resonance frequency of source (s)he starts resonating on the frequency. It does not require for an object to know physics to resonate on its natural frequency, isn’t it? This is how message has to be communicated; this message does not require reading books spirituality, if environment is conducive person learns. That is how the message goes to every level.”
It was interesting to speak with him, he spoke about business, spirituality and added another dimension to my thinking – science! Even if a person is atheist, the natural law of physics will apply to him; gravitational force will pull him down, right? That is how spirituality is, it does not differentiate. Spirituality is the science which is essence of everything, even if one believes or follows any religion.
I believe when more and more people become spiritual, the organizations and economy will take a more interesting turn worldwide.
PS – What is resonance? Every material has its natural frequency of oscillation. Once another object oscillating in same frequency comes near this material, the material starts oscillating or comes into vibrational motion.
Note – this is more than a year old article published after modification.
4 Comments
rummuser · December 18, 2016 at 7:14 pm
It is always easy to pontificate after one becomes the CEO! While climbing the ladder, if you had met him and asked him the same questions, his answers would have been different.
Incidentally, is this your Friday LBC post on “The Person I Admire Most Is:”?
KRD Pravin · December 21, 2016 at 12:06 pm
Due to confidentiality issue I did not write about who I admire the most.
Yes it is easy to think about generosity when at top compared to when one wants to reach at top. However, in this case I did not feel like that from the discussion.
Raj Krishnaswamy · December 20, 2016 at 5:38 am
Thank you for this great article! Really enjoyed…
KRD Pravin · December 21, 2016 at 12:06 pm
My pleasure.