by Sri Bmal Mohanty
VOL No. 16
Jan. 2002

CHAPTER Seventeen- PRINCIPLES OF DIVINE MANAGEMENT - Part -1

"Based on the lectures by Sri Bimal Mohanty"

To an ordinary person, the spiritual environment and the worldly environment in which he or she lives, are alien to each other and often contradictory. People always say that the so called spiritual world is mystic and unreal, and the world we live in is real and rational. We mean thereby that perhaps the two are inseparably different. If we are trying to bring about á symbiosis between these two apparently different worlds, then, we must look first what are the commonalities between the two. And that would lead us to essentially understand that the governing principle of both the apparently contradicting environments are no different from each other really.
 
We all work in an organizational environment. It may be á business organization, á department or an institution. Everywhere exists a structured organization ­ managed with set rules and procedures.

We find that our own working environment is indeed no different from the greatest of all organizations which is this universe. It is all á matter of same management practices in different scales. There is a reason and a rationality behind everything that is taking place in this gigantic organisation.

We shall now proceed to explore some of its more pronounced characteristics.

Firstly, the Vedantic philosophy, popularly known as Hindu philosophy or more precisely the Sanatan Dharma, believes in á homogeneity ­ a oneness ­ of the entire creation (what we call the Viswa) with Paramatma ( the Supreme Self) - or whatever name one may give It ­ as the supreme Lord at the helm of affairs. He is considered an all-in-all entity with His involvement in the creation inseparable and total. Whatever is manifested or not manifested, conceived or imagined, gross or subtle in character, dimensional or beyond dimension, sentient or insentient, indeed form a single wholeness (purnam) which is indistinguishable from the Lord himself.

     Isavasyamidam sarvam yat kinchá jagatyam jagat.

Everything that we call this creation is entirely pervaded by the Lord.

Sarvam hi etadBramha - as the Mandukya Upanishad proclaims.

The Sanatan philosophy speaks of the very creation being also based on this concept of wholeness. One of the finest pronouncements made by our seers runs like this:

Om purnamadah

Purnamidam

Purnat purnam udacyate

Purnasya purnamadaya purnameva avasisyate.