Ramdas Swami as a management Guru part 2

                             Inducting proactive thinking 
Ramdas believed that all human beings possess the ability to change their own destiny. He was one of the rare saint-poets who supported persistence in all endeavours, spiritual or otherwise. This is extremely significant because then existent knowledge accorded prominence to destiny than hard work. Ramdas’ work emphasized his belief in human effort; according to him, instead of asking the astrologer to make sense of one’s destiny, one can change the lines on one’s palm by consistent effort, He says

            रेखा तितुकी पुसून जाते ।प्रत्यक्ष प्रत्यया येते ।
                डोळे झांकणी करावे ते ।काय निमित्य ।।

A line on the palm may get blurred | which is a common experience | Why should one ignore this (fact) | without any reason? || By using the supreme human wit | one can even transgress this universe | (So) is there any scope | for the erroneous inactivity in life? ||’ 5

Ramdas Swami as a management Guru

A careful assessment of Ramdas’ thinking may leave you amazed: Many of his thoughts have a striking similarity to the thoughts of modern management gurus. Take, for example, this gem
                   

                              एके ठायी बैसोनी राहीला ।तरी मग व्यापची  बुडाला ।
                            सावध पणे ज्याला त्याला ।भेटी दयावी ।

                                ‘Be seated at a place | and (you will) lose control of all enterprise |
                                                 (instead) cautiously meet several people |
                                                  (and see your enterprise flourishing) ||’ 2



 Dasbodh prescribes socially responsible leadership, which is people oriented. Ramdas expects a good leader to reach out to people instead of staying put at one place (like the office cabin). He’d like a leader to meet as many people as possible, listen to them carefully and comprehend ground realities. This is strikingly similar to what Tom Peters suggests in his Management by Walking Around. Peters was the first management thinker who suggested that a manager should come out of his cabin and take a walk around the office/plant 2. L.R. Pangarkar, lr g_W© am_Xmg {da{MV gmW© Xmg~moY / 5 and frequently interact with his subordinates. Such convergence in the thoughts of thinkers is evident throughout the history of ideas. Indeed, great thinkers are not limited by the boundaries of language, nation or time. Human empowerment, his raison d’etre: To help us appreciate better Ramdas’ work, let us think of the times in which he lived. This was 17th century Maharashtra. In those times, several autocratic and unjust rulers ruled medieval India. The local political elite knowtowed with the invaders, who came lured by the wealth and vast tracts of our fertile land. As these invaders usurped power, the elite became their local partners or subsidiaries. Also, in the absence of any state support, droughts and floods caused tremendous strain on the population. People were burdened under heavy discriminatory taxes like jizya3 , and had to fork out huge sums to pay to the callous administration. Thus they were economically exploited and little was left for them to support their own lives. Commoners were also subject to the loot and plunder at the hands of the rulers’ mercenary forces and the members of the administration. Women were abducted and raped, and there was no state recourse available. There was widespread dissatisfaction and disillusionment about the rulers, but in the absence of organized resistance, people had no choice but to suffer these excesses. Moreover, people had lost confidence in themselves and preferred to remain sufferers. In utter desperation, ignoring ...wisdom, they leaned toward religious rituals, ignoring the core spiritual wisdom. The social elite had no time to pursue higher knowledge. Such ignorance would have crippled any society

Tukaram

                                 Tukaram
(1608-1650)  was a 17th century Marathi saint ,poet saint & increased Bhakti marg Movement
.

Tukaram is known  for his Abhang  Devotional Poetry .His poetry is devoted to lord Vitthala or Vithoba .

He used abhang for upliftment of society & used for Social reforms  in Hindu Dharma

                                       All his work is known as Tukaram Gatha .

                                    He is also naturist in that sense his famous Abhang

                                                वृक्ष वल्ली आह्मां सोयरीं वनचरें ।

                          पक्षी ही सुस्वरें आळविती ॥१॥     

                                        is very well known in Marathi speaking people.

                                     In the Life span of 41 year he almost 5000 Abhanga .

                                                    

                                       

Dnyaneshwar or Dnyandev

Dnyaneshwar or Dnyandev

(1275–1296)  was a 13th century Marathi saint ,poet,philosopher
& yogi of nath tradition .
Dnyaneshwari ( commentary on Bhagwat Gita ) & Amrutanubhav are considered to be milestone in marathi literature.

the famous prayer at the end of Dnyaneshwari is great literature as well as the broadness of sent mind unveiled.