Analysis Of An Ideal Society

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alignment. Pandavas have a common goal. But the individuals had their individual targets. Team building calls for the sublimation of individual ego in favor of the greater good. Conflict free mind
“ cancalam hi manah krsna pramathi balavad drdham
Tasyahain nigraham manye vayor iva suduskaram”(6.34)
Arjuna refused to do his duty of fighting a righteous war as he got infatuated with emotions and started thinking of his enemies as his own near and dear ones. But Sri Krishna said that even in unavoidable and critical circumstances a person should never give way to emotional hijacking. Similarly for every team member to be productive and efficient, they should make their mind conflict free. They need to be good at conflict resolution and sometimes …show more content…

An Ideal society will be based on the laws of Dharma. Artha and Kama should be subjected to Dharma. Every member of the society must engage himself in his Swadhrama. Action must be motivated by the spirit of Yajna -cooperative action offering the fruits of action to the collective well being. One is entitled only to Yajna Shishta. One cannot monopolies all fruits of his actions. All activities of men should have the goal of Loka samgraha collective and progressive welfare of society in its onward …show more content…

He stated that happiness is obtained not only by wealth and profit, but also by doing things rightly and doing right things (sukhasya moolam dharma). Dharma without wealth according to Kautilya is toothless (dharmasya moolam artha), and wealth without dharma is useless because a poor person cannot support the entire society. Indian culture has always emphasised that sukhasya moolam dharma and dharmasya moolam artha taken together – namely, wealth does not lead to directly happiness. One must strive to generate wealth – resources and money – share it equitably to create happiness for oneself and others. Such generation of wealth must also be through ethical means, which alone would lead to overall happiness (Garde, 2003). Kautilya further stated to generate wealth you require an enterprise or an organisation or an asset (arthasya moolam rajyam). He then stated the support for organisation is the organs (rajyasya moolam indriyajayah), the functions, processes, activities, etc. The victory over organs of the body, which is the literal meaning of the word indiyajayah, is a well-known concept in the Indian culture and this refers to the control over the five organ of sense (Muniapan and Shaikh, 2007). The economic growth with equity and social welfare as propounded in Arthashastra is bound to render sustainability to corporate governance

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