CS Amitava Banerjee has 17 years of rich industry experience with brands like ITC Limited, Moser Baer, Isolux Corsan, CII, Vaish Advocates, Grant Thornton and National Foundation for Corporate Governance (NFCG), a PPP by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), GoI. He is a qualified Company Secretary, LLB, M. Com, B. Com, and holds a […]
Spirituality & Society Magazine
Editorial Note: Spirituality, Management And Society, Issue 7 – Yoga
Dear all, We are delighted to share the 7th issue of OM RISE Magazine with you. For this issue, the theme is Yoga. The popularity of yoga globally was recognized when the United Nations declared 21 June as International Yoga Day. In the current issue we celebrate this day by sharing a collection of articles […]
Yoga and the Bhagavad Gītā
In recent years yoga has gained tremendous popularity. In the western world, the image associated with yoga is a class full of young men and women stretching on yoga mats and performing breathing exercises, with the aim to improve both mental and physical health. The yoga market has become a big business. Students pay high […]
Yoga seen from the Triyoga systeem
‘Yoga’, which often evokes images of meditation and yoga poses, sparks a sense of positivity within. However, there is more to the word than just its meaning or the beautiful imagination. It is a complete philosophy that has existed for ages and continues to live on. The global popularity of yoga has attracted individuals to […]
Integration
The term yoga suffers quite a bit from “meaning expansion”. This is also true for other similar concepts from the East – Tao, Zen, karma, and nirvāna. The original meaning of these words seems to have been somewhat lost. Conceptions are shifting. In our time of opulence, busyness and threat, we usually associate yoga with […]
Yoga and Moral Rules: Some Thoughts on the Yamas
It is well-known that yoga has become immensely popular all over the world since the middle of the twentieth century. Yoga is perhaps one of the most successful cultural exports of India. It is also well known that many Western practitioners associate yoga mostly with postures (āsana) and breathing exercises (prāṇayāma). There are many varieties […]
Śāstra Manthana: Churning the Ocean of Scriptures
For inspiring our readers, we are mentioning an indicative list of scriptures in which yoga has been explained. We may be covering some of them in the Śāstra Manthana column5 of the OM RISE magazine’s future issues. An indicative list of Yoga related scriptures 6 Vedas Atharvavedaḥ Ṛgveda Sāmaveda Yajurveda Darśana Patañjali Yoga Darśana (sūtra) Pātañjalayogaśāstravivaraṇa […]
Natural leadership: The Everest Climber in Everyone (2013)
There is an Everest climber in each one of us. During our life, we get to know about our ‘Everest’ and the ‘climb’. This case study is about Tine Mena, the youngest Everest climber from the North East of India. The case takes us through the stages of development of various qualities, values, vision and […]
Leadership and Authenticity: The Case of Buurtzorg Nederland (2017)
The authors explain the relationship between leadership and yoga in the contributing chapter. Yogais seen as a worldview and a way to enhance virtuous behaviour. So far, leadership has been studied as a style, an attribute, or trait. New models propose it as anactivity. The authors propose leadership as a cognition and a virtue. The […]
What If Business Revisits Pavlov’s Kennel? The Case of Buurtzorg Nederland (2018)
The view that individuals can be controlled through conditioning is predominant in the businessenvironment. However, in recent years, people have started to question this control mechanism. Inthis article, the authors elaborate further on the implications of conditioning to business and presentanother approach to making organisations agile, highly productive and VUCA (volatility, uncertainty,complexity and ambiguity) ready. […]
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