True management

Once you step into the world, there is a lot of filth. There is corruption and so much nonsense happening everywhere. Some people develop an allergy for this filth – they cannot take it. They usually run to the Himalayas.

If you want everything to be pure, it is not possible because the filth of the world has one way or the other, entered our minds. So those who are allergic to filth try to run away but they cannot. We cannot avoid filth, it is there. Another larger segment of people unfortunately have come to think that ‘anyway the world is full of filth, so let me also become filth.’ So they merge into the filth.

What we call as filth however can also become great manure. Indian spirituality often uses the lotus symbolism. A lotus flower blooms best where the filth is thick. We too have this option every moment of our life. If the atmosphere that we live in makes us, we cannot call ourselves managers. If we make the atmosphere that we live in, only then we can call ourselves managers. Being a manager means that we are going to create whatever we see as the most beautiful thing that should happen right now.

Allowing situations to create you is not management at all; creating the situations that you want is management.

You need to make yourself capable, not only in terms of management and other skills, but also capable as a human being.

You need to be like a lotus flower, to be able to go through situations untouched; maintain your beauty and fragrance even if you are in the filthiest of situations. Then you can float through life untouched.

There is no such thing as perfect management. If you give yourself absolutely to what you are doing, things will happen. Management is your ability to be capable of inspiring people to do their best. If everybody around us is doing their best, that is the best possible management that can happen. You should be willing to give yourself one hundred per cent to the person who is sitting next to you at that moment. If you touch the core of his humanity, every human being is willing to do his best for you, always. Only if people around you love you and they want to do their best for you, you will not get
ulcers doing management.

Only when people around us really want to do their best for you, management can happen wonderfully. Our lives become beautiful not because of what we do, our lives become beautiful simply because we have included everybody around us as a part of our dream of wellbeing.

Ranked amongst the fifty most influential people in India, Sadhguru is a yogi, mystic, visionary and a New York Times bestselling author Sadhguru has been conferred the Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India in 2017, the highest annual civilian award, accorded for exceptional and distinguished service.