Fulfillment comes from giving, not having. But what is giving? Giving away your wealth? Is that all?

Meeting Mr Sinha.

I met my client Mr Sinha after maybe after a decade, at this residence, on a weekend afternoon a few weeks back.

Mr Sinha is a superb engineering professional, who has worked in leadership roles in many organisations over decades. Still very active, extremely clear in his thought process, a person of high principles and integrity. A rarity, these days.

I sought his advice on a particular activity we were planning to add in our business. Which he recommended, not to get into!

Our conversation after some time, went to discussing the purpose of life, what gives fulfillment etc.

We discussed about "giving back to the society and makeing life better for everyone", as the beacon, showing us the path ahead.

This is the message, i got from him, after the meeting.

"Yes, that is the mission you have given me today for which I am deeply indebted to you. I will seriously think something in *** industry, which is the need, but reliability is missing"

knowing him, he is on the mission!

Six human needs

This set me thinking. I recalled the six human needs identified by Antony Robbins, the worlds number one trainer. Out of which, two are the needs of the soul. Giving/contribution and growth. The other 4 are the needs of the mind. Here is an image to give a quick summary.

Anything we do, fulfills a need. Let's discuss the "need" to contribute / give further.

What is giving? Who is it for?

We often confuse giving with donating money in charity. And think it is only for the rich.

Giving, actually is harnessing our own natural talents, whether it is innovation, or teaching or cooking, anything, which is done with the sole intention of adding value to others lives.

When a business is setup with this as the guiding principle, as our mentor ambrish chheda defines it, the profit is the outcome of massive value addition.

Pauranic reference to giving or helping others. Kashi khanda of skanda Purana

Defination of business

Ambrish has defined business in a beautiful way. This master class is helping business actually do this with a systematic plan.

The word "profit" is monetory and a priceless sense of fulfillment, both.

As we spend most of time working, aligning the buisness for value addition makes all the more sense.

This is contrary to the starting point of thinking about, "what is in it for me?". It's "what value can i add?"

The profit is the outcome. Not the objective. objective is value addition.

Get a life

The deep passion to give back, is the driving force to keep one going. Otherwise, many of us are either

1. contended with what they "having" or

2. bored with what they are "doing" or

3. accumulating with the mindset of "being" that "its not enough."

which are never fulfilling. As the "being, doing and having" are limited. Very limited.

I have seen many of my friends losing interest in life, looking forward to retirement, not knowing what they will do next. Having made some savings, got their kids educated... What next?

How much can you travel, party, relax? Come on!

Many of our old relatives are living a day at a time . When asked... How are you? I get the reply, "i am still here, waiting..." (You know for what...)

Meeting Sanjeev

On the other hand, i have our client Sanjeev, who has filed over 600 patents so far. He runs a large Pharma company. At 60, he is super excited about life extension using cutting edge stem cell technology, instead of relaxing in Europe swimming and playing squash. Amazing! His intention is to create an affordable system to benefit all, rather than just the elite. A massive value addition.

Sanjeevs stress level is low, excitement level is high, the quest for longevity is not from the fear of death, but comes from the opportunity to give back more, as one lives more! Every meeting with Sanjeev is an eye opener.

After all, it's a choice. Live contented, bored and chase something, or just go with the flow to give. Sanjeev and Mr Sinha are with the flow now. I am grateful to be connected with them.

As you align yourself for giving, you use your natural talent, as Mr Sinha and Sanjeev are doing, and creating impact.

Measuring impact

The more people you impact, for a longer period of time, in the five levels of existence (koshas), is the value you add. Mathematically, it can be represented as.

No of people x time x level of existence.

Bhagwat Gita has inspired millions over thousands of years to the fifth level of existence. It's impact is the maximum. Of course it was told by lord Krishna himself!

An organization like sanjeevs, creating drugs to fight cancer, giving a better life to patients globally, for atleast the next few decades, has an high impact.

Both bhagwat gita and sanjeevs medicines serve humanity. Their level of impact may be different, but it's absolutely significant for the people, who get benefitted from it. They impact mutually exclusive sets of people, usually.

Maximizing time impact.

An individual creates impact during a lifetime. A family tradition impacts till the family tree sustains which is a few generations. An solid values driven organization sustains longer, which is usually a few centuries. The longest time impact is with an ideology, philosophy, a way of thinking. Which sustains for thousands of years.

Maximizing people impact.

The more people impacted, usually corresponds to personas. If it's applicable to the entire humanity like. bhagwad Gita, the impact is higher. If it's applicable to cancer patients, the impacted number of people is lower, but as i said earlier, every service is very significant for the people who need it. For cancer patients you need sanjeevs medicines. For enlightenment you need the gita. the purpose is different for both.

Maximizing impact with level of existence.

The body, the energy, the mind, the self and the bliss are the five levels. Sanjeev with his acumen for medicine and sciences is at level 1. Bhagwat Gita is at level 5.

Sciences stops at the phsycial level. It's at level 1. Yoga handles energy at level 2 well. Mantras handle mind at level 3. Vedanta handles self at level 4. Bhakti handles bliss at level 5.

What if I cant create a big impact

Does that mean that one should not create an impact, if it's not large enough. Absolutely not.

Nature is all about giving

Look at the nature, which is always giving. Clouds give water. Trees give fruit. Mountains give snow. Earth gives us a ground to stand on. A plant does not think, i am smaller than a mountain! Giving is the nature.

Even a small flower, that gives fragrance for a few days to a few people at home, is also adding value.

Ikigai

Give value based on what you enjoy the most, are good at, and what will impact more and more people. This is the principle of ikigai. You will automatically make money or get returns, fulfilling the fourth parameter of the model.

Have fun. Scale will come if it has to.

Consider yourself playing a game. The player who plays in the stadium vs the one who plays in the local Street, both have the same level of fun. That is what counts. The key is to have fun.

Law of attraction

Once this level of play is done, the law of attraction, takes over naturally.

Now, there is no need of positive thinking. The intent to give is so powerful, that automatically, people with like minded goals come together, and the ones who are not, go away.

The power of abundance has taken over.

How to overcome greed and fear, and other associated emotions.

Emotions come from desires and desires from roles. Unless the identity of self is clear, that i am not my roles and the awareness of this true identity is eternal through the aum sound, it is very difficult to step into abundance.

You can be in aum just by following these steps.

https://www.limaye.org/post/immersion-in-inner-sound-in-an-instant

Re orientation of business

Recently i reoriented all our businesses to giving. Work is no longer a routine. It is exciting as we look forward to adding more value consistently to everyone in the eco system.

We are in engineering buisnesses.

I constantly think, how can I quench thirst of rural Indians at no maintanence cost water filter? How can I make buildings safer for occupants? How can I make people more productive? How can I help people program their minds for success? The desire to add value, has generated multiple business with like minded co founders. The ones who did not align to this value system and thought "why should I share by profits?" are out! The ones who what to share and grow are in!

Abundance multiplied

My dear friend rekha, an energy practitioner, visited us a few days ago. She last visited us two weeks back. According to her, the energy of abundance has grown multi fold in the last couple of weeks in me. The only reason i can think of is the eternal desire to give, following the master class model.

Blessing

Make your mission to transform a million lives! May you give with abundance of being, with awareness of doing and acceptance of having. Be in eternal aum sound... For this to happen and connect with the universal consciousness always.