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How important are values for individuals or families and organizations? Are wealth amassed and success obtained without caring for values and ethics sustainable? Irawati Karve, in her book ‘YUGANTA-The end of an epoch’ evaluates the characters in the epic Mahabharata. Incidentally, this book is recommended for the students of Business Management at IIM Ahmedabad as a reference on values and ethics. In the 5th chapter of the book, “Father and Son?”, the author highlights the consequences of neglecting values as given below:
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Vidura and his brothers (Dhritarashtra and Pandu) were sons of the same father (Vyasa). The very meaning of “Vidura” is ‘knowing much.’ That knowledge of Vidura was not only of the worldly affairs but also of ultimate values. He acted as an advisor, especially to Dhritarashtra. Time and again in his advice to Dhritarashtra, Vidura stressed the folly of greed and the need for justice. However, Dhritarashtra neither listened to it nor profited from it. Dhritarashtra had been denied the kingdom because he was blind. Obsessed with the idea of getting for his children what he could not for himself, he had lost the ability to discriminate between right and wrong. While his sons were young, he paid no attention to Vidura’s advice. Later, he would listen, but make excuses, “What can I do? I can’t control my sons. Now they are too big to listen to me.”
At the end, when the war with the Pandavas was over and all of Dhritarashtra’s sons had died, Vidura said, “King, what is the use of weeping now? When you were happy at the Pandavas’ loss in the dice game, I had warned you. But you did not listen then. What happens to a man is the fruit of his own action. Endure it now.”
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We come across everyday news of how people overlooked values in the process of making money or gaining some undue advantage. We also have numerous examples where such people paid the price sooner or later and suffered the consequences. With competition becoming tougher by the day, people are still tending to neglect values and ethics more and more, and in the process they are falling prey and becoming victims of their own actions at the end. Could we consciously do something to help build awareness of importance of values and ethics in our children at home and in staff at our offices? Perhaps, the best way to do that is to live by example. Our children and employees learn very much by listening to what we talk and observing what we do.
To your sustained SUCCESS,
With love and regards,
Siva
value4value@gmail.com
How important are values for individuals or families and organizations? Are wealth amassed and success obtained without caring for values and ethics sustainable? Irawati Karve, in her book ‘YUGANTA-The end of an epoch’ evaluates the characters in the epic Mahabharata. Incidentally, this book is recommended for the students of Business Management at IIM Ahmedabad as a reference on values and ethics. In the 5th chapter of the book, “Father and Son?”, the author highlights the consequences of neglecting values as given below:
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Vidura and his brothers (Dhritarashtra and Pandu) were sons of the same father (Vyasa). The very meaning of “Vidura” is ‘knowing much.’ That knowledge of Vidura was not only of the worldly affairs but also of ultimate values. He acted as an advisor, especially to Dhritarashtra. Time and again in his advice to Dhritarashtra, Vidura stressed the folly of greed and the need for justice. However, Dhritarashtra neither listened to it nor profited from it. Dhritarashtra had been denied the kingdom because he was blind. Obsessed with the idea of getting for his children what he could not for himself, he had lost the ability to discriminate between right and wrong. While his sons were young, he paid no attention to Vidura’s advice. Later, he would listen, but make excuses, “What can I do? I can’t control my sons. Now they are too big to listen to me.”
At the end, when the war with the Pandavas was over and all of Dhritarashtra’s sons had died, Vidura said, “King, what is the use of weeping now? When you were happy at the Pandavas’ loss in the dice game, I had warned you. But you did not listen then. What happens to a man is the fruit of his own action. Endure it now.”
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We come across everyday news of how people overlooked values in the process of making money or gaining some undue advantage. We also have numerous examples where such people paid the price sooner or later and suffered the consequences. With competition becoming tougher by the day, people are still tending to neglect values and ethics more and more, and in the process they are falling prey and becoming victims of their own actions at the end. Could we consciously do something to help build awareness of importance of values and ethics in our children at home and in staff at our offices? Perhaps, the best way to do that is to live by example. Our children and employees learn very much by listening to what we talk and observing what we do.
To your sustained SUCCESS,
With love and regards,
Siva
value4value@gmail.com
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