Leadership and Spiritual Insights from the Bhagavad Gita || Acharya Prashant, in conversation (2024)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00so a lot of entrepreneurs would also be seeing and watching and reading about

00:07this interaction so any uh leadership lessons you want to share with them

00:13even before adhoyat life education was founded i was teaching leadership

00:19there was something done two decades back and left behind it was only very recently that

00:26questions on leadership again came to me in context of the loksabha elections

00:30otherwise spirituality is more of an inner thing so leading others is not something that i usually

00:40speak on but yes you see if you want to lead people

00:50you have to understand the difference between

00:57healing and exploitation

01:02like the pied piper you could lead them to their doom

01:10for a while you will register some success if we take a screenshot it would show you as

01:20the leader with an entire army following you but it doesn't help

01:26a few months a little a bit of fame that's the maximum you will be able to draw from it

01:41leadership is engagement engagement with a lot of people

01:50you must be very conscious of what this engagement is doing to the other

01:57you cannot relate to the other to perpetuate your own darkness

02:06you fully will know you are not at ease with yourself

02:10and i'm not coming just from theory or gita

02:16i used to conduct a lot of management development programs also

02:24so i have experience with top management

02:29so that was long back i'm coming from there as well

02:35to lead is

02:40to not to be fooled

02:46you are not there to to charm people

02:52you must first of all go within and figure out

02:59what do you have for the other

03:01it is great disrespect to the other

03:07and injustice

03:10to speak to him or her

03:16or even approach him

03:19before being internally sorted

03:23i do not know my own life

03:28i do not know the source of my own motivations

03:33i do not know where my own desires come from

03:37and i want to infect the other with the same desire

03:45in the name of leadership and motivation

03:49am i sure that these desires

03:52or the goals i have set for myself

03:55have first of all been auspicious for me

03:58what has not worked for me

04:01how will it work for the other

04:04the path that i am taking right now

04:07has it been good even for me

04:12or is it a path that i am kind of sleepwalking on

04:18so the best leaders are really good for their followers

04:25the best leaders produce leaders

04:32and the general ones are more exploiters than leaders

04:43they would want the follower to remain a follower

04:49they have a stake in never letting the follower become a leader

04:53so when you engage with someone

05:00whether as a teacher or a leader

05:03you have to ask yourself

05:05how soon

05:06will this person's dependency on me evaporate

05:12the student is not with you

05:15to perpetually remain a student

05:17and the follower is not with you

05:20to forever remain a follower

05:21engagement is tremendous responsibility

05:28if you are touching someone

05:30you have to touch

05:31with responsibility

05:32with care

05:34i dare say with love

05:36else don't touch anybody

05:38if you are speaking to someone

05:43you are entering his mind

05:45you cannot enter somebody's mind

05:48to spoil it

05:50speaking is tremendous responsibility

05:53policy making is tremendous responsibility

05:55the policies that you are making in your organization

05:57are going to affect so many people

06:00hundreds probably thousands

06:02you must be very conscious of what your policies are doing to the mind

06:09of the employee

06:11and also to the mind of all your stakeholders

06:17including your customers consumers

06:20the general public

06:21let me put it more materially

06:31all businesses exist to fulfill a need

06:36right

06:37if a business does not

06:43clearly realize the need it is addressing

06:48it will not survive

06:49and all businesses need a customer

06:54the customer is the human being

06:58the most fundamental need of the human being

07:05is realization

07:09illumination

07:09call it peace

07:11call it love

07:12whatever

07:13hence you must be able to

07:18through your product or service

07:20in some way bring

07:23illumination

07:24and peace to your customer

07:26because that is the most fundamental human need

07:30and the customer

07:31is

07:32first of all a human being

07:35you are dealing with a human being

07:36and you say

07:37I am here to fulfill a need

07:39first of all know

07:40what that word need means

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