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Bhagavad Gita - Leadership Lesson



Several months ago, the image above went viral. The Bhagavad Gita was being read by everyone's favorite captain, Dhoni, during a car trip. 

What does Bhagvad Gita have to do with becoming a powerful leader like Mahi?

What should a leader be like?

There is one thing you must have always noticed about Dhoni. He always takes responsibility if India loses a match. He personally talks to the press, taking responsibility for the loss without mentioning any players, and if India win, he hands the trophy over to his team and stands in a corner. It's something about this leader that makes him different from others. Dhoni understood that none of us are as strong as all of us. The Bhagavad gita teaches us the same thing. It explains the difference between a leader and a boss. Boss and leader, these two words sound quite similar but there is a world of difference between them. Whenever you work in an organization, you like to work with some managers, and some not. Some seniors become friends whom we see as mentors and we try to erase some people from our memory as soon as we leave the office. One boss who gives instructions and expects results, but when it comes to his own performance, his hypocrisy knows no bounds. A boss expects everyone to come on time and he himself is always late. On the other hand, a leader leads by example. He behaves the same way he expects his team to behave. With this, the leader's employees do not remain employees, they become team members, and they start trusting the leader. Great leaders inspire their team with their actions, then the team doesn't need to be told, the voice comes from within. Players like Dhoni started focusing on fitness. He realized that if we want to defeat fit teams like Australia, then we have to stay fit on the field too. He started a fitness drive for himself. Today, even at the age of 40, Dhoni is a better wicket keeper than a 30 year old newcomer. 

What does cool mean? 

This is from 2007 the very first T20 World Cup, and India & Pakistan were in the final. Whenever these teams meet face to face, then the tension is not limited to cricket. And when it comes to the World Cup, the pressure on these players is no less than a battlefield. In such a situation Mahi was standing behind the wickets. He was watching Misbah hammering every bowler one by one. Harbhajan Singh was the experienced bowler but Misbah hit three sixes in his over. In the game's 17th over, Harbhajan leaked 19 runs, and then whole game was tilted towards Pakistan. India could have lost, in the last over only 13 runs were needed. The choice was between Harbhajan Singh & Joginder Sharma. Johinder Sharma was an inexperienced bowler, but Harbhajan Singh told Dhoni that he is not feeling confident. 

Sometimes the problems are such that no matter how much you analyze at the physical level, you end up getting paralyzed so Krishn says that in your various collages and universities, you have learned how to apply your mind, but there is one such university from where you can get the power of intelligence, access it, foreigners call it intuition, Many people call it inspiration but God says in Gita, "Dadami Buddhi Yogam Tam", I give you the power to take decisions from within your inner soul. This is called God's intervention. 

Dhoni handed the ball to Joginder Sharma, and the first ball went wide, then a dot ball and then six. Pakistan needed only six runs to win, with four balls left to be bowled. The game was completely in Pakistan's hands, and just then a miracle happened. Misbah tried to scoop the ball and hit it towards the boundary and the ball went straight into Sreesanth's hand. India won the match and the rest is history. 

Captain cool, everyone knows Dhoni by this name, because he has a superpower, the superpower to stay calm. Dhoni has the power to master his own emotions. The one who can master his own emotions, can master his own actions, and the one who can master his own actions, he can direct the future in the right direction. 

The Bhagavad Gita teaches us that both happiness and sorrow are temporary. They keep coming and going in line with seasons, and the cycle continues. Sometimes instead of fighting the situation, we have to learn to accept 

So what's the difference between success and happiness?  

Success is getting what you like. Happiness is liking what you get. So we have to live our lives in a gap between these two. 

When we accept our conditions, then we can move forward. Things that are not in our control when we stop thinking about them, only then can we think about those things that are in our control. 

Dhoni believes that in a pressure situation only two things can happen, one that you get the result you want, and second, that you lose. But in these situations, but in these situations, it's important to understand that life is an infinite game. After losing a tournament, life doesn't end. Life goes on. The loser in this game of life is the one who does not learn from his mistakes. 

If you get a desired result, then win and learn, and if the result is undesired, lose and learn, but do learn. Because that's the real victory. 

Often, a leader's vision is not known to his teammates, then a team just focuses on the task at hand and follows the orders, then when the work is over along with the computer, he switches off the mind and goes home and this cycle continues. But when a leader is able to convey his vision to his team, then that vision becomes the vision of the team. That transfer of vision is an important skill.

R. Ashwin is a genius at cricket. He says that Dhoni keeps the team strategy very simple. He used to decide on a squad of 15 people, and the same 15 people used to play for the whole year. By this, players would get security that if they did not play a match well, they didn't have to worry about being dropped and this result was seen in their performance. 

Bhagavad Gita teaches us about trust. If we want to do any great work in life, then we have to believe in some power greater than ourselves. In the Ramayana, many animals and birds of the forest were able to build a bridge to Lanka because they believed in Lord Rama. The Pandavas could defeat the Kauravas because they believed in the words of Lord Krishna. Similarly, big victory is possible only when a team works like an army and not like a herd and is able to trust its commander. 

Not being overconfident during preparation gives permission to be confident during performance.   

There are many such secrets in the Bhagavad Gita, which have been teaching our kings and emperors strategic planning for centuries. 

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