These days, there is a television serial (Yes, you heard that right!) that gets me glued to the television. Its called Chandragupt Maurya and is broadcast on TV proposals. It was refreshing to see a world where there are bigger problems than the sari competition between the women of the serial at home, or the additional civil affairs and illegitimate children of the protagonists of this series.
This is a historical drama, the story of the first King of Chandragupta Maurya-, and tells the story of the dethrone a Nanda King, by the enormous foresight of an unarmed, saffron-clad guru .... a key figure in every sense of the word. Chanakya (or Kautilya, as he is called) is the author of Arthashastra-dealing with the economy of the nation concerned; and Chanakya neeti-, which is the correct behavior for the ruler and the citizens concerned.
What is the most interesting are the dialogues that sometimes reminds us that great country had a highly developed civilization, when many of the world was inhabited by wandering nomads. But whatever grabs my attention is the Chanakya neeti-that makes so much common sense ...
The last was an episode where hostile reception in his class of Yudh-shastra (the science of war) of the rest of the class, usually royalties is faced with a very young Chandragupt. So if he has a difficult task assigned to him by his guru, he the classmates for asking for help. Of course, he receives no. If he goes to complain to the guru, what do you think that the guru says?
The guru says, "If there is something that you need to get done, you the solutions themselves. The gurus will not help you. If it is the help you need from your class, you must find ways to make them help you. "... for me is that Human Resource Management in the most profound words. It is under personal motivation, and leadership skills, taught at the best level of human understanding-learning by example.
Of course there are many more such statements, allowing a sit up and wonder-what is done with this great country that gave birth so many large sons and daughters? Why is it that our Chanakyas, Gandhis and Anna Hazares are now a small minority become? And when are we going to revive the glory of this country? I think the time has come, when we need to dig out the ancient wisdom of our mother country, and use it to revive our glory.
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