DESI PARDESI

1. Program for Office bearers of IFFCO
Employees Union
Vivekananda Kendra Kanyakumari Presentation
Deepak D. Khaire
Indian Culture and its
relevance in organisational
development

2. • India
• Indian Culture
• Its relevance
• In organisational development
Indian Culture and its relevance in
organisational development

3. • India is a Nation
• Every nation has a Goal/Purpose
• India has a Goal
• Nations are born with a Goal and die when
the Goal is fullfilled.
Indian Culture

4. • Goal
• Values
• Discipline
• Struggle
• Culture/Character
Culture

5. Culture
• Sanskriti - Samyak Kriti - collective kriti
• Characteristic way of life inspired by
fundamental values according to which
people live

6. Indian Culture
• Indian Culture is "Sanatana" (not
destructible)
• "Anadi" & "Anant" - without beginning and
end
• In spite of many invasions by Greeks,
Shakas, Hoonas, Yavanas, Kushans,
Arabs, Afghanis, Turkis, Pathan, Muhgal,
British, etc, we have retained our
identity/style of living.

7. Indian Culture
• Ancient, however, always new - it is well
coordinated with changing time so it is
relevant. It has got flexibility of changing
its external form maintaining the
fundamental principles constant. - "Nitya
Nutan, Chirpuratan"

8. Indian Culture
Fundamental Principles
• Isavasymidam sarvam - everything is
Ishvara hence sacred
• Ekoham Bahusyam - "I am one, let me be
many" - Everything is the manifestation of
Ishvara.
• Sarvasamaveshak - all inclusive
• Akhandamandalakaram

9. •Expansion is life
•Interrelated
•Interconnected
•Interdependent
Indian Culture

10. Ekam Sat Vipra: Bahudha Vadanti
• Jagat - Manifestation of Ishvara, hence
can be worshipped in different forms and
names
• Specialty of India Culture - freedom of
different ways of worship.
• Tat Tvam Asi - The all pervading Ishvara
dvells within you also. (Lion and Sheep.)
• Goal of life : Manifest the divinity within

11. Ashramas
• Brahmacharya
• Grihastha
• Vanaprastha
• Sanyaasa

12. Mahayajnas
• Brahma
• Dev
• Rishi
• Pitar
• Bhoot/Nar

13. Organisational Development
• Each organisation has a
Goal/purpose

14. Organisational Culture
• Character of each member makes
the Culture of the organisation
• Culture of the organisation makes
the character of each member

15. Organisational Culture
Organisation - Organic
• Interrelated
• Interconnected
• Interdependent

16. • Organisation lives, Members live
• Mutual Nourishment
• Organisation and individual freedom
• Importance of Congenial Atmosphere
Organisational Culture

17. • Self-interest to Self realisation
• Goal in life - Goal of life
• Career and life - Purusharth
• Service and work - Yajnas
• Growing with the organisation
Organisational Culture

18. • We are the organisation
• I am the organisation
• Organisation lives, I live
• Organisation grows, I grow
• Organisation dies, I die
• I die, Organisation to continue
The Mother and Child
Organisational Culture

19. "Krinvato Vishvam"Krinvato Vishvam
Aryam"Aryam"
Let us make the whole world Noble
A Vivekananda Kendra Kanyakumari Presentation