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A Lesson From Mahabharata in Regard to Goal Setting

Pramod Batra

On learning about the death of his son Abhimanyu at the hands of Sindhunaresh by foul means, Arjuna takes an oath to kill Sindhunaresh before sunset the next day or commit suicide.

Well, it sounds goods, but his guru friend Krishna gives him a good verbal thrashing the next day during the battle. Arjuna is anxious to achieve his goal and is doing his best, but one eye is on the sun’s position in the sky!

In Mahabharata, Arjuna has been shown to have a confused mind. But he is intelligent enough to have a good consultant friend, Lord Krishna.
Without Krishna, Arjuna may not have stared the Kurukshetra war. Without him, he may not have killed Sindhunaresh, if Krishna had not played the trick of temporarily hiding the sun.

Krishna tells Arjuna, and this is pregnant with good learning lessons for us as managers: “…What was the need to set such a stupid deadline to achieve your goal? Now, instead of focusing on your goal with clear vision, there is “dust” in your eyes ( i.e., the setting sun).”
Arjuna listens and listens to Krishna’s forceful discourse and says sorry several times.

Deadlines are the ultimate triggers for inspiration and perspiration to work hard, but if in the process you kill yourself or others working with you it is not the right thing to do. Achieving goals should be a pleasure. It should be a journey, which you should enjoy and not rush through as if the journey is a drudgery.
Think about it. That is it, buddy!

Listen, listen, listen more…
Visualise the Mahabharata at Kurukshetra. The Chariot. Krishna as the Divine Charioteer, ready to listen to his friend’s directions. And Arjuna, seeing the great Kauravs (Bhishma, Dronacharya, Karna…), suddenly gets the “Arjuna-disease”!
Arjuna starts weakening. Arjuna starts mentally manufacturing cowardly thoughts of retreat from the post of duty where destiny has called upon him to act. Fighting is Arjuna’s karma.

Krishna listens to Arjuna and is silent as a statue. Arjuna appeals not to start the battle. Krishna listens. Krishna is silent. Arjuna goes on and on with his long–drawn–out limping arguments.

Let us draw an inspiration from this famous battle scene. In our day–to–day life at the office and at home, whenever we see difficulties ahead we come up with several mental scenes. We find excuses. Moods. Visions. Can’ts. We get into our cocoon, our shell, our box! The womb mentality!

What to do? Listen. Listen. Listen to yourself–in your mind. The right part of your mind is shouting at the left part to do your karma. Many of us have the tendency, the temptation to switch off! It’s simple. But then our right mind, our karma, starts shouting louder and louder and louder. This is the Mahabharata. Don’t bully that voice! Listen. Try. Act. You will be on the path of a karmayogi. You will start thinking outside your box.

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