
How else does spirituality manifest in your life?
If you do everything with that aspect in mind, you do it with much clearer thinking and you end up creating an amazing energy.
For instance, recently, I decided to use spirituality to design my daughter’s wedding. I did not want it to just be another wedding where people come to talk, network and eat. I also wanted them to feel the idea of the divine in such a union, using some of the Vedas’ essence, as well as some Protestant Psalms, and see what kind of blessings they were giving to a married couple, thousands of years ago. If you pay attention to it, instead of just putting together a big party, you create a very different energy.
Another example would be ASSOCHAM [ ] which I will be heading as of the month of June. I am trying to think how to make it the Chamber of the future, how to attract young people, how can it be a pillar of democracy, how do we look at an internet economy, how do we adapt to this new era when something like the swine flu can affect so much of the world in such a short time. It is a completely different world we live in and we need to prepare ourselves, we need to adapt. So in a sense all those questions are also related to spirituality.
Spirituality can also apply to business and management?
Yes, I wrote a book with my husband on that subject, “The light has come to me”. We wanted to share the lessons one can draw from the Gita for management.
The Gita is an amazing book because it tells you what is the right way. You can keep going back to it when you have a problem. I have learned so many lessons from it when I had issues and hurdles to overcome.
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