Jain Journal 2002 07

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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Smt. Lata Bothra : Mahabira's vision on Business
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importance that it was recognized by our ancestors who had foreseen this plight and for this reason they taught their philosophy with profound intensity. The discipline and rules maintained among the monks from the order of a Gandhar, down to a sage, has instituted such a wonderful organization, that it can easily be compared to mastermind group of management.
Now Peter F. Drucker who heads the group of managements that help in running organisations successfully, writes in his book "The Practice of Management'. Thus :
The manager is the dynamic, life-giving element in every business. Without his leadership the resources of production remain resources and never become production.
Directing our minds thoughtfully and with our own efforts for discipline, we should create a selected group of people, which helps to run the organization smoothly and achieve success. The scholar Napoleon Hill in his book 'The Law of Success' has explained this explicitly. Andrew Carnegie, at one time the king of iron ware, told about his success in life in the following manner.
"Carnegies group of men constituted a master mind and that mind was so well organised, so well co-ordinated, so powerful, that it could have accumulated million of Dollars for Mr. Carnegie in practically any sort of endeavour of a commercial or industrial nature"
The Law of Success, P. 68 (Napoleon Hill)
Bhagwan Mahavir provided a degree of order from the Gandhars (heads) to Shrut Kevalis (Scholars), down to Acharyas (guides), Upaadhyaayas (teachers) and Sadhus (saints), at each stage the class of persons appointed, were in accord of their mental capacity so that they could progress in their own fields. After Lord Mahavir's time the religious order supervised by scholars right down to the Sramans (saints) were responsible for maintaining the changes in ideas and traditions brought about from time to time and keeping it stable. For this reason even today Lord Mahavir's philosophy can be applied for the administration of any organization successfully.