The world is changing at a
pace faster than ever before
and equally there is a richer pace in the change of human
beings as well. In today's scenario the Darwinian concept "Survival of the
fittest" applies well with only slight changes in scope and approach.
It not only counts on the physical dimensions, but also connects to
the spiritual and emotional aspects. In the present scenario, the
efficiency and effectiveness of an individual is determined by the Intelligence
Quotient (IQ), Spiritual Quotient (SQ) and the Emotional Quotient
(EQ) on both personal and the professional fronts. Today, there are
amazing patterns in the organizations which pose a heavy demand on
leaders and managers to exhibit their emotions smartly and
intelligently. Whether we talk of Shuruti's,
the Bhagvad or the Ramayana, all are deeply underlying the
culmination, exhibition or the control of emotions. Emotions breed because
of social environment and our reaction to it and hence, are
reflective of our strengths and weaknesses.
In the current scenario, the unpredictable future dimensions
and unprecedented changes, the common thread of emotional
competency, maturity, sensitivity and sensibility summarizes and
concretizes the EI of an individual. When we have come a long way from
hunter man's life through egalitarian society to the current business world,
it becomes more than essential to understand the role of
emotions. Decision-making, managing and leading, all are impossible if the mind
is agitated by the waves of emotions. Self-realization is a way to
self-management and it can be achieved only through emotional self-control
and emotional self-mastery. All our sense organs which work round
the clock are capable of generating and emanating vast variety and
quantum of emotions. According to management guru Alfred Toffler,
we are living in "an age of
uncertainty", and thus we require being more emotionally intelligent.
Indian scriptures have well put it that "our senses are like wild horses, the
body its chariot and the mind its reins, intellect is the driver and if
the senses are not controlled, they will throw the chariot into deep
abyss." The Bhagvad Gita, which means "song of divine," contains the
essence of successful and righteous living. An individual with
acumen of EI can make a clear demarcation between right and wrong.
Today, when the world is suffering from cultural fragmentation,
technological isolation, competition and disturbances, the spiritual
illumination from The Gita becomes more
urgent than ever in the past. It is appropriate to say that we have developed
so much to divide and this is the reason that makes the
teachings of The Gita all the more important. |
