TAKE GOD FOR YOUR PARTNER

How different would the fabric of the world look if all business were operated on spiritual principles. All the justifications and rationalizations for poor of spirit decisions regarding layoffs, exorbitant salaries, pollution, leaving communities where they have been central to employment for decades just to improve the “bottom line”, etc would evaporate like morning dew on a desert flower. To be clear: change is natural. People who perform at exceptional levels should be compensated accordingly. If a business is not profitable and healthy, it should and must change. It is the manner and choices in change that matter. Hinduism taught over 3000 years before Jesus: “One should always treat others as they wish to be treated.” This simple, straightforward spiritual principle (think Golden Rule) is central to every spiritual path and religion, though first recorded over 5000 years ago, is routinely ignored. If business and governments employed just this single spiritual pillar, the world would be transformed overnight.

Through our continued prayers and meditation, we raise the consciousness of the world, but what of the individual? If you have not invited God into your business, do not lose any more time. Living on the Spiritual Basis, you have tapped a resource of unimaginable depth and power, yet so many who adhere to spiritual principles in their personal life allow themselves to waver when it comes to business. This happens because the competition does not employ these principles and the fear is that if we do we will lose out. Is it really any wonder then that spiritual principles like the Golden Rule are absent from “secular” business decisions? Once again, there is no secular. Everything and everyone is part of the Divine. All supposed divisions are merely convenient illusions to perpetuate the false belief that there are areas of our lives that God is not involved in or a party to. Seek then His guidance and love in the workplace as well. Whether we clean the executive washroom or rule the boardroom, deliver the mail or pass judgment from the highest court in the land, weigh every decision and choice in spiritual light, lean on the greatest partner you will ever have because In God We Trust is not situational, but a way of life.