Maha Kumbh is supporting transit livelihoods and offering quick incomes to Kumbh value-chain players. There will be continuation of these for some time more. 60 Crore dips may translate as at least Rs. 12-15 lakh Crore turnover and surplus could be 50%. Rs.3 lakh Crore may go to the state. 60+ lakh livelihoods. Per capita income earned additionally would be not less than Rs. 5 lakh. Wow.
Do we live, love, lead, learn, and link? Do we transcend ‘affection’, ‘attachment’, and ‘bonding’? Love. A stronger form of like, in contrast with hate, apathy. Maybe, in contrast with lust. Is it kindness, compassion? Or more. Strong attraction, emotional attachment, and lasting longer. Something that keeps us together against odds. Various forms, a continuum. Self to divine. Conditional to unconditional. Material to social. Intimacy, passion, and commitment together, to varying degrees. Close friendship, relationship, or platonic? Action, or experience that takes us to happiness, joy. For people, for life, for things, for identities, or for principles. For being together, working together et al.
It is more than a feeling that includes actions, a series of actions over a sustained duration. A conscious choice, commitment exercised being free despite its origin being an involuntary feeling. It contributes to stress reduction over time; enhances physical, mental, emotional, and social health; boosts immunity; heals; encourages survival, living, flourishing; and maintains wellbeing. It is said that it gets consolidated over seven stages: preska – seeing something pleasant, desiring to see; abhilasa – thinking about; raga – desire to be with, be together; sneha – actions; prema – unable to be without; followed by being together; and playful interaction. Vaatsalya. Can we give? Can we know what is needed without them asking, and give?
What do we get in our high-end education institutions? The deal seems to be: we survive the ‘course’, to be ‘free’. We build our abilities – skills, tools, and brands. We use our time, energy so that we get a ‘great’ job or we start an enterprise and make it ‘succeed’, to become someone to be ‘reckoned with’. So, we have to survive; we have to give long hours; we have to get exhausted, anxious day-in day-out. We need to cope on our own. Is this a worthy deal? Are we wasting our time and energy wrongly?
Can we play politics? Are we cut out for this? In life, in the family, in the workplace, in the organization, in the network, forum, platform, in the village, and in the country. Everywhere. If we cannot, can we reconcile with this? Can we build our agency to play politics to influence, to make better decisions, to realign with purpose, vision, and values? Can we push the ideas, concepts, and plans that could work strongly? Can we champion them? If we do not interact, converse, and show possibilities, who else would do? If we step away, some stupid idea, which may be harmful, may win the day. How can this be OK? We may lose power; lose direction. Isn’t it self-sabotage?
Therefore, can we engage in a meaningful, purposeful agenda? Authentic, open relationships. Can we understand the buttons, levers? Can we articulate, communicate, advocate, and influence? No manipulation, no loss of integrity, purpose and values; no loss of physical, mental, emotional, social, spiritual balance, and resilience. Can we build coalitions that win? Win-win. Can we do it?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing. Knowing steering the way. In N? Nitiyoga for 7L.
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