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Life has always been complex and confusing. There have been numerous challenges in our life, personal and professional. Especially business is filled with stress today. The world is changing at a startling rapid rate now. There is competition from everywhere. Now, no business leader can afford to lay back and use yesterday’s crop. No legend is safe today. We have seen what happened with such giants as Nokia.
In the Upanishads and the Vedas, ancient Indian wisdom texts written over 2,500 years ago, the life of a human being is said to have four stages: student, householder, forest dweller and ascetic.

By reviewing the history of modern business with these stages in mind, we can see how the current upheaval of traditional business models fits within a coherent — and thus less anxiety-inducing — evolutionary path.

In ancient India, the four stages were as follows:

• The student reads wisdom texts, learns to be useful and gains self-control in order to acquire knowledge.

• The householder marries, raises a family and maintains a career or occupation in order to acquire wealth and pleasure.

• The forest dweller practices self-restraint regarding material desires and relaxes attachment to family in order to serve society at large with less of a vested interest in particular institutions.

• The ascetic renounces all worldly possessions and attachments, including family ties, in order to exclusively pursue spiritual enlightenment.

If we talk about business today, we may be tempted to think that it is better than what we had 30-40 years ago, but if we go back to a time when we were using the wisdom given in our ancient scriptures then we would see we were thriving. We were happier. We were richer.

How can we live a more fulfilling life now?

WISDOM INDIA is an attempt to help people use the knowledge and wisdom that we already have. As famous motivational speaker from India Naseer Khan says, “Knowledge is useless if you don’t use it.”