Man wishes to relate, express, reflect and envision

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Pulin Garg, well known Professor from IIMA, once shared with us at the ISISD labs, “ man has a deep desire to relate and express, as also to envision and reflect”. I would often smile at these comments – these were not jargons but Gargons. It is only after several years that I clearly understood the potency of these words.

Over several workshops working with senior leadership groups, I am constantly reminded how we all as human beings wish to relate and express. What does it mean to know oneself, to be aware of the self, and to engage and connect with the other? Clearly the way we think, the way we feel and the way, we interact, connect and behave with others determine our world and how we see others and ourselves. The Talmud says, “we do not see things as they are, we see them as we are”.

We can only understand others once we become more aware of ourselves. I have found that the use of psychometrics, visualization, guided meditation, Gestalt exercises, Life Graph Analysis etc useful to support personal exploration. However, most of all, I have discovered that Silence and listening to oneself deeply is significantly useful. In silence, you listen to the sound of AUM – both the beginning and the end - alpha and the omega.

“The nature of system is certainty; the nature of structure is security; the nature of beauty is order. These define the ‘oughts’ of a good society. When the ‘oughts’ become ‘musts’, they become tools of oppression and unleash great sorrow. When that sad day arrives, the way to regenerate the society is not to defy or to deny but to define; not to resist or to desist but to persist.”~ Pulin K. Garg