Be there, Get ready
Supreme Court upheld (20 July 21) the 97th amendment broadly the right to associate – to form associations, unions and cooperatives; promotion of cooperatives – voluntary formation, autonomous functioning, democratic control and professional management. However, it has struck down supervision and control matters. It has restored Cooperatives, as a state subject. We need to see what it means in the long run. Given this, what does the Ministry of Cooperation pursue and how?
Floods, Heavy spells of rain in shorter duration, across 100s of countries. Peak temperatures. Dry spells. Climate change is on us, already. We need to hurry up to be living and farming in sync with nature. All of us in this world.
It appears India is gearing up overtime for the elections to 5 states in 2022 and the President’s election.
It is three decades of economic reforms in the country, starting with devaluation of the rupee in two phases over 2-3 days, raising forex against gold holdings over two weeks, in addition to selling some gold and emergency loans from IMF. Export subsidies were taken out. Direct Private Sector Imports were allowed. Licence raj has been ended across industries except 18, then to 8. Mergers and amalgamations were eased. Public sector monopoly was ended in most sectors. FDI up to 51% was put on auto-approval. Corporate tax was raised to 45%. Prices of Petrol etc., were increased. Fiscal deficit was to be reduced to 6.5%. Large subsidies were cut down. This effort continued broadly over the last three decades despite changes in Governments. These included GST, Insolvency and Bankruptcy code, and lowering back the corporate tax.
Ramappa Temple (of Siva) at Palampet in Telangana has been declared UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was named after the sculptor, Ramappa. It was built with light bricks that float on water.
Meera Chan starts Indian Olympic Medal Campaign with a silver in weight lifting. We are looking at double digit medals this time. 2020 Tokyo Olympics (23 July – 8 August 2021) have started. 200+ countries, 339 events in 33 different sports are in. ‘Hope Lights Our Way’ is the slogan. The Summer Paralymoics are scheduled during 24 August – 5 September.
Sree Gurave namah. Gurus make all the difference in our transformation for being useful, realizing our true calling and potential and liberation. And we need to be ever grateful to them. Guru removes, reduces ignorance and darkness. Guru Purnima reminds us this. It is Krsna Dwaipayana Vyasa’s janma thithi. It is also the day, it is believed that Adiyogi Siva gave ‘yoga’ to Saptarishis. It also points to the first sermon of Buddha, teaching Dharmachakrapravartana Sutra, leading to establishing Sangha. This also marks the ‘residential’ education, and solidarity of learners in their learning journey.
So many Gurus are there in our journey. For every significant turn, instance, a Guru has been there. They are all in our thoughts forever. Their thoughts intensified this Guru Purnima. They have offered their deeply searched and realized wisdom to us selflessly. They have showed the meta-way that included seeing, hearing, sensing, pre-sensing, listening, feeling, thinking, reflecting, meditating, intuition, the sixth and seventh senses beyond the five senses; being in silence, being dispassionate, without attachment; and the humility, being humble, quitting arrogance, forgetting and forgiving. They also showed us to become and ready for the Guru to appear and offer wisdom, capacity, intent, power to translate the intent and to act. They wait till we get ready watching us, subtly influencing us with love in we getting ready. Once we are ready, they have the ways, methods, tools, instruments, skills to offer what we have been getting ready for.
Gurus come in several forms, beings, instances. Our Saastaang Pranaams. Let us be grateful and be there.
Let us commit to work with the people in building their 3R (read, write, arithmetic)/7R (3R including IT plus unlearn-learn, reflect, practice, pursue) skills. Communication skills, Emotional skills, Social skills and vocational skills. Life values, Life skills, Meta-skills. To be happy, to relish life and live, to be human, to love, and to coexist. To be with sunlight, rest/sleep, diet, exercise, confidence and friends. This is the minimum. We can do. We have to do.
We can have high impact. We are leaders in improving ourselves, our teams, our organizations, our ecosystems. As high impact leaders, we attract and develop leaders. We are passionate about scale impact. About significance. Keep trying, proactively. Seek the potential and maximize the best from it. We invest in ourselves and our meta-growth-leadership. Invest in our co-leads to become leads. Build more leaders. Focus on leveraging strengths. Acknowledge, reward the leaders with more challenging leadership tasks. Spend and invest time with leads, 80/20 rule. Take leads out of their comfort zones, challenge them to stretch to reach their potential and give ever increasing responsibilities. Let the leads take the road to meaning, usefulness, and greatness.
Let us know that these leads need mentors, right mentors, to show and expand the vision, to see farther and stretch the horizons, to uncover the blind spots and to discover the right/best paths. Let the leads find their mentors.
Purpose, Performance and Potential drive our why, how and what. We need ‘Hope, Faith, Promise and Love’ embedded in us. These values are demonstrated through: Have Vision; Be a model; take Responsibility; Time actions with a sense of timing; respect and be respectful; empower; delegate; multiply, be together; make things happen, results; seek significance. Therefore, we invest time, effort and patience; we persevere and keep trying, may be several years. And we have to. Since it is a long haul, we need to enjoy the run/walk. The path. Can we?
Yes, we can. If we let go the anxieties of the future. If we become half-monks. If we remain detached. If we dedicate time-energy to purpose-usefulness-potential. If we flow with N. For 7L.
Join us in the world of yoga of impactful useful coexistence – mahatvayoga for 7L.
G Muralidhar