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should relate to people. Some of it we are aware of, some of it we are not aware of. We take it to our work places so that the relationships, the necessary task-based relationships that ought to develop to a lesser or greater extent at work, or any place outside the family, are not there. Some kind of garbled version of family relationships is imposed.
The last thing that I will refer to is one experiment which we have done bringing organizational behavior and yoga together. I am not the architect of that program, I am a consultant to it. The architect is Dr. Jaydhusend Ganji of I.T.C. This is a retirement program for retiring managers. The retiring managers are crossing one more boundary and going back to their families, so all retiring managers with their spouses come to this program. Apart from other things, we have a module of yoga and that aspect of behavioral science which is based on psychoanalytic insights. So, yoga and a psychoanalytic-based module come together, and people are helped to look at how they have formed their identity so that they can do something with it. You know, it is funny, we believe that unless we have a strong identity (at least I used to believe until very recently) our lives will be a mess. And having built up a strong identity, I also realize what a mess I have made and what a mess everyone is making with their very strong identity. So let us understand how we build up this strong identity, so that at last we can begin to do something about it and merge with that which is beyond identity.
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