...contd....
“Oh
Krishna! Why are you smiling? We can’t get butter. Are you no sad?” they asked.
He
started laughing his musical hearty laugh and that put their fears at rest.
“Just
follow my instructions and we all can still eat all the butter” he said
confidently.
They
snuggled to listen to his ‘plan of action’. Then they set in action. The
strong, big boys stood bent at the bottom and on them thinner boys climbed and
sat bent. They formed ‘mountain of human chain’ and Krishna climbed atop all
and took the pot of butter effortlessly, had his fill and passed it to others.
When he and others got down, everyone shared the butter among them and had
their fill”.
They
left that home and also left behind empty pots. No act of Krishna or no chapter
of Krishna’s life is out of place or without a lesson. Sick minds can call him
‘butter thief’. That’s their choice! But a heart that is filled with love for
him knows that his acts teach us ‘how to live in this world’. He is the ‘first
Management Guru’. The human mountain represents the ‘Management ladder’. The
triangle shape formed is the shape of hierarchy of any management or company.
At the base are the ‘people with brawns’ whom we casually call as ‘labour classes’.
The group /crowd there is vast and hence the base is always large. But as the
management or hierarchy increases, it thins and finally at the top is ‘Krishna’
– the Master Planner – the one person who strategizes and gives his action plan
to be executed by others. He is the ‘Mental man’ meaning one with brains.
One
with brains is always at the top and the one with brawn forms the bottom crust
of any organisation. Only when all together work in co-ordination with each
other, can they get the ‘butter’ of hard work – the profits, name, fame etc for
organisation which is then distributed among everyone – when this is properly
done every time, only then can such an organisation – go for next successful
venture. If the top management when receives butters out of greed if it takes
it all, then next time the base level wouldn’t co-operate and the organisation
would face labour problems, strikes and what not!”
She
left us for tea-break. I had never seen Krishna in this light and it really
amused me. I found others too talking on similar grounds. It was really enriching
class. Aziz had something to sit-on being in management line. I thought of
sharing it with him and asking him to putting it across in one of his meetings
and applying too! Well, I need to think a bit for that but atleast I had the
base material ready for that! Good!
Our
gang really missed an important class. I so wanted to share all this with them.
I for one had always loved Krishna only as God. But today to imagine him as a
management Guru was a ‘cultural shock’ for me. It was amusing to imagine him in
‘jeans and T-shirt’ giving a PPT in some company meeting.
...contd....
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