Spirituality & Society Spirituality & Society Magazine Spirituality Issue 5, 5-Nov-20 NL Spirituality Issue 5, 9-Nov-20 EN

The Eternal Festival of Lights

Prof.em. Dr. Ir. Gerrit Broekstra (author), Milady A. Cardamone (translator) Like all traditional festivals, the Diwali ‘festival of lights’ takes place once each year, lasts a very short period of time, and is celebrated through rituals and traditions in the joyful environment of family and friends. In this year 2020 of the pandemic the Diwali […]

Management & Leadership Spirituality & Society Spirituality & Society Magazine Spirituality Issue 4, 2-Oct-20 EN

Inspired Leadership in Times of Crisis: Gandhi’s Secret

Yoga is really nothing but ceasing to think that you are different from the Self or Reality 6  Part 3 – The secret key to successful action 7 If you further contemplate verse 2.48 of the Bhagavad Gītā, you will discover that taking action from a deep point of stillness, which is your true Self or […]

Management & Leadership Spirituality & Society Spirituality Issue 3, 20-Jun-20 EN

Inspired Leadership in Times of Crisis: Gandhi’s Secret

Yoga means uniting of the individual self, your superficial or fake self, with the universal or supreme Self, your deepest Self. The Gītā calls this ‘the ultimate secret of Yoga Part 2 – Towards a balance between creation and destruction In the Bhagavad-gītā two opposing armies stand poised in the battlefield to settle a dramatic […]

Management & Leadership Spirituality & Society Spirituality Issue 2, 25-Apr-20 EN

Inspired Leadership in Times of Crisis: Gandhi’s Secret

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Part 1 – A world out of balance and the Gītā[1] In my classes for managers I often ask them to give some examples of truly authentic leaders. The first to be named were most often historical figures such as Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson […]