S Radhakrishnan Quotes

Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself.

It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.

Be happy by forgiving or forgetting or doing both, but we can gain no happiness by holding grudges.

It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.

There are three types of people in this world. The first type learns by making mistakes; the second type keeps making mistakes but never learns; and finally, the third is the most intelligent type – they learn from the mistakes of others.

Think solutions — is the mantra for success.

When a leader was once asked how to develop the skill of quick decision-making, he answered, “Be around people who are not afraid of making mistakes.

The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India.

The main function of a university is not to grant degrees and diplomas, but to develop the university spirit and advance learning. The former is impossible without corporate life, the latter without honours and post-graduate

When the going gets tough, the tough gets going. We all start on a journey, but only a few adapt to the changes and overcome problems.

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it moves but does not go ahead. There is action but no progress.

As Swami Chinmayananda said, “The youth are not useless — they are used less. The youth are not careless — they are cared for less.

Wealth that takes longer to create stays for a longer period.

The only way to keep yourself productive is by having at least a month's work in front of you.

anubhavāvasānameva vidyā phalam. The fruit of knowledge, the fruit of vidyā is anubhava.

പിറന്നുവീണ കുഞ്ഞ് ഉറക്കത്തിലും വെറുതെ ചിരിക്കുന്നു. പിന്നെ അമ്മ തുടയില്‍ അമര്‍ത്തിയൊരു തിരുമ്മു കൊടുത്തതിനാല്‍ കണ്ണു നിറച്ചു നില്കുന്നതിനിടയില്‍ ഒരു അണ്ണാറക്കണ്ണനെ കണ്ടാല്‍ ആ കണ്ണിരിലൂടെ ചിരിക്കുന്നു. അത്രയുമേ എന്റെ ഈ ചിരിയിലുമുള്ളു. അത്രയുമുണ്ട്. ചിരിക്കിടയില്‍ കരയാന്‍, അതായത് ചിരിച്ചുകൊണ്ട് കരയാന്‍, നമുക്കു പറ്റില്ല. പക്ഷെ കരഞ്ഞുകൊണ്ട്‌ ചിരിക്കാം. ഒരു നിറകണ്‍ചിരി.

Remember that when you finally get your dream job or project, it is not enough. In fact, it's just the beginning. Then you must deliver what you have promised. Show your capability, not just by words but by result-oriented actions too. And learn to work with others, for that's the secret for succeeding in any project.

Plan out your work and work out your plan’.

The king severe with rod (punishment) becomes a terror. A king with a mild rod is despised. The king just with the rod is honoured.

A manager can also achieve this if work is not considered a “task” to be completed, but an opportunity to learn.

Kautilya advises, “Just as an elephant, blinded by intoxication and mounted by an intoxicated driver, crushes whatever it finds (on the way), so the king, not possessed of the eye of science, and (hence) blind, has risen to destroy the citizens and the country people.” (1.14.7)

It is often questioned whether one person alone can transform the whole system. In reality, only one person can transform and create change. Of course, team effort makes the change possible. Yet, the whole process of change begins with that one person who created the change — the transformational leader.

Having a Great Ambition is also a Meditation. When our efforts are focussed sincerely, even during sleep, our brains will work on it, in the form of Dreams.

Gandhiji had rightly said, “There is enough in this world for every person’s need but not enough for one man’s greed.

Everyone may not be equal in power, status or wealth. But the day you realize that everyone is equal in the eyes of God… …The leader in you is born.

They practice Chanakya’s principles in reality, applying the theory of Sama, Dana, Danda and Bheda in providing protection to citizens.

In the nature of things a priesthood is always demoralizing.

सत्य को जो जानते हैं वे सत्य बन जाते हैं, ‘ब्रह्मविद् ब्रह्मैव भवति’।

प्रार्थना सत्य का अन्वेषण है, जिसके लिए चेतना के उत्थान द्वारा अंतःस्थित अज्ञात में प्रवेश करना होता है।

So this is where the chairman of ISRO grew up,' quipped Nilanjan. 'No,' I replied. 'This is where Radhakrishnan, just another boy from Irinjalakuda, grew up.

Success is a tricky thing... I read somewhere that if you had nine hours to chop down a tree; you must take eight hours to sharpen your tool.

The leader has the mandate to communicate his priorities and at the same time provide an environment to achieve them.

Uprightness, Friendliness, and Firmness of Devotion While Dealing With Others: He should be a people's man. Management is the ability to get the work done from the right people.

Discontent with the actual is the necessary precondition of every moral change and spiritual rebirth.

The complete use of pure reason brings us finally from physical to metaphysical knowledge. But the concepts of metaphysical knowledge do not in themselves fully satisfy the demand of our integral being. They are indeed entirely satisfactory to the pure reason itself, because they are the very stuff of its own existence. But our nature sees things through two eyes always, for it views them doubly as idea and as fact and therefore every concept is incomplete for us and to a part of our nature almost unreal until it becomes an experience.

If the king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic. If he is slack (and lazy in performing his duties) the subjects will also be lazy, thereby, eating into his wealth. Besides, a lazy king will easily fall into the hands of the enemies. Hence the king should himself always be energetic.

The novel is part of that Western concern with the condition of men, a response to the here and now. In India, thoughtful men have preferred to turn their backs on the here and now and to satisfy what President Radhakrishnan calls 'the basic human hunger for the unseen'. It is not a good qualification for the writing and reading of novels.

In spring that year (1930), by a symbolic act whose significance I myself did not grasp, a march through the stifling heat to the sea with a little band of followers to make illegal salt, Gandhi had aroused the Indian people from the lethargy into which they had long sunk after nearly three centuries of British rule, if you counted the incredible period when they were governed for two hundred years not by a foreign country but by a bizarre band of traders greedy for profit, the honourable members and agents of the East India Company. These hustlers had first came out from England early in the seventeenth century, found the pickings beyond their fondest dreams, and by hook and by crook and by armed might, had stolen the country from the Indians. It was the only instance in history, I believe, of a private commercial enterprise taking over a vast, heavily populated subcontinent, ruling it with an iron hand and exploiting it for private profit. Probably only the British, with their odd assortment of talents, their great entrepreneurial drive, their ingrained feeling of racial superiority, of which Rudyard Kipling would sing so shrilly, their guile in dividing the natives and turning them against one another, and their ruthlessness in putting down all who threatened their rule and their profits, could have done it, and got away with it so long. Perhaps only the Indians, divided as they were after the decay of the Mughal Empire into dozens of quarrelling, warring states, great and small, could have succumbed so easily and so quickly to the aggression of a handful determined merchants, backed by a small handful of British troops in the service of the Company, and remained so long in abject subjection. As Radhakrishnan, the great Hindu philosopher, put it in our own time: "The day India lost her freedom, a great curse fell on her and she became petrified.

The Flag Code then quotes Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, India’s second president, who explained: The saffron color denotes renunciation or disinterestedness. Our leaders must be indifferent to material gains and dedicate themselves to their work. The white in the center is light, the path of truth to guide our conduct. The green shows our relation to the soil, our relation to the plant life here on which all other life depends. The Ashoka wheel in the center of the white is the wheel of the law of dharma. Truth or Satya, dharma or virtue ought to be the controlling principles of all those who work under this flag.

The village pilgrim who spends all his earnings to have a bath in the Ganges or a daršan of the deity at Puri, who undertakes weary marches through toil and suffering to Benares or Kailas, has an innate conviction that man does not live by bread alone. Our age is a sophisticated one. In its superior fashion it laughs at gods and ghosts, values and ideals. It is too clever to take these outworn superstitions seriously, but the illiterate Hindus who are foolish enough to perceive that these things are the symbols of thoughts beyond the reach of our rational minds do not merit our derision. I know that the people of India are the victims of paralysing superstitions, but I cannot believe that they are devoid of religious sense.

In his numerous works, especially in The Idealist View of Life and Eastern Religions and Western Thought, the great Eastern Philosopher, Professor Radhakrishnan, advocates the necessity for the revival of the deeply spiritual mystical experience which is the basis of all religions and which is expressed in a pure form in Hinduism. He says: “In spite of all appearances to the contrary, we discern in the present unrest the gradual dawning of a great light, a converging life-endeavour, a growing realisation that there is a secret spirit in which we are all one, and of which humanity is the highest vehicle on earth, and an increasing desire to live out this knowledge and establish a kingdom of spirit on earth.” (Eastern Religions and Western Thought, p. 33). “The different religions have now come together, and if they are not to continue in a state of conflict or competition, they must develop a spirit of comprehension which will break down prejudice and misunderstanding and bind them together as varied expressions of a single truth. Such a spirit characterised the development of Hinduism, which has not been interrupted for nearly fifty centuries.

महान ऋषियों की धरती पर आप सबका स्वागत है। बुद्ध की धरती पर आप सबका स्वागत है। मैं यहां पर किसी देश नहीं, बल्कि एक सभ्यता के प्रतिनिधि के रूप में खड़ा हूँ। यह विश्व की सबसे प्राचीन जीवंत संस्कृति है जो कि समय की कसौटी पर खड़ी उतरी है। हमने अपने आध्यात्मिक मूल्यों के आधार पर वर्षों तक विश्व का मार्गदर्शन किया है। सत्य संभाषण करने वाले विश्व के किसी भी कोने के लोग हमारे प्राचीन शाश्वत ज्ञान से मार्गदर्शन प्राप्त कर सकते हैं। आज आप दुनिया के विभिन्न भागों से पधारे अधिकांश लोग प्रश्न कर सकते हैं कि ‘‘भारत का दर्शन क्या है?’’ भारत में कोई एक दर्शन नहीं है बल्कि विश्व को देने के लिए इसके पास बहुत से दर्शन हैं। विश्व के अनेक भागों से सदियों तक लोग हमारे दर्शन को समझने के लिए आते रहे। बदले में हमने उनके दर्शन और संस्कृतियों को सीखा है। हमने विश्व के विभिन्न भागों से पधारे लोगों के संपर्क में आकर अपनी ज्ञान—सपंदा को अधिक संपन्न बनाया है। हमारी संस्कृति विभिन्न मतों को सम्मान देती है। यहां विविधता को इसकी शक्ति मानी जाती है न कि कमजोरी। एक ही सत्य के प्रति विभिन्न दृष्टिकोण अपनाने से हमारा दर्शनशास्त्र संपन्न हुआ है। चार वेद, महाभारत, रामायण और उपनिषदों जैसे हमारे प्राचीन भारतीय ग्रंथों में आत्मा संबंधी विमर्श है जो कि हम सभी में विद्यमान है। विश्वभर से पधारे हुए चिंतकों का ध्यान मैं एक बात की ओर आकर्षित करना चाहता हूँ कि भारत को वे न केवल एक आध्यात्मिक देश के रूप में देखें बल्कि इसे भौतिक रूप से सफल एक देश के रूप में भी देखें। हम व्यक्ति के परिपूर्ण संपन्नता की बात करते हैं। हम दोनों — भौतिक उन्नति यानी अभ्युदय और आधत्मिक उन्नति यानी नि:श्रेयस चाहते हैं। भौतिक उन्नति का आधार धर्म होना चाहिए। धर्म हमें जीवन के हर कदम पर मार्गदर्शन करता है। यह एक ऐसी शक्ति है जो हमें एक साथ बनाए रखती है और व्यक्ति सत्य पहुंचने के लिए मार्गदर्शन करती है। मैं स्वयं को सौभाग्यशाली मानता हूं कि मैं जीवनभर धर्म का अनुसरण एक महान पुस्तक के आधार पर करते रहा — चाणक्य प्रणित कौटिल्य का अर्थशास्त्र। ये हमारे देष के महान दार्शनिकों में से एक थे। उन्हें हमें ज्ञान दिया है कि सुख धर्म से मिलता है — सुखस्य मूलम् धर्म। मैं आप सभी से अनुरोध करता हूं कि आप अपने देश धर्म के इस संदेश को ले जाएं।

it's better to 'under-promise' and 'over-deliver'! Of course, the best thing would be to never promise anything, if you are not sure about its execution.

Chanakya says that activity is the root of wealth. An organisation without active strategies, constant information flows, and regular reports cannot sustain itself.

The employees are primarily concerned with their salaries. An attitude of complacency can crop up if a regular and vigilant check is not kept on them. The reason is quite obvious. The human mind is very unpredictable. No organisation can reach its goal without a continuous push and pull system.

A child psychologist was once asked by a father, "My son is eight years old. When should I start teaching him the values of life?" The reply was, "Start right now! You are already eight years late!

Activity is that which brings about the accomplishment of works undertaken." (6.2.2)

Ram Charan, the well-known Indian management guru, became world-famous because of his book by the same name — Execution. In it, he says, "Execution is the key through which every CEO opens his door to success." Without this, the goal cannot be reached. Even Swami Chinmayananda phrased it beautifully, "Plan out your work and work out your plan.

There are many things in life that we like to do but should not — eating junk food, sitting late in office even when it is not required, browsing through the Internet without a purpose — all these add up to make a person unproductive and inefficient in the long run.

documents of your life. Keep adding names to it, as more people help you.

Remember, success is an attitude a person develops. So never give up till you achieve your goal. Chanakya had said, "Even after a hundred trials, an enthusiastic man will surely succeed.

It's all about great relationships that you maintain with your clients, suppliers, shareholders, employees, and every other person you come in contact

well-defined job profile and job description will help a person understand his role. One way of doing this is to document these roles and expectations. The best way is to make the person himself write it, lest he forgets.

Chanakya suggested that the unproductive employee must be fined! Just announcing this, or making this part of the company policy will not help. One has to implement it from time to time. This will get rid of lethargy and the employee will act quickly to protect himself. It will also send out the message that you are serious about your business and no one can take his work for granted.

Who Is Your Role Model?' Interviews usually start with the interviewer asking, "Tell me something about yourself." The very next query should be, "Who is your role model?" This is a very different, yet powerful question. The answer will tell you about the candidate's thinking pattern, because a role model is a person one usually thinks about, relates to, and even tries to copy.

Whom Do You Spend Time With?' It's important to know the interests and lifestyle of the person beyond office hours. If the answer is 'family', you know he is a family man. If the person's free time is mostly spent in libraries or with friends, you know he is seeking education and knowledge, or just companionship, respectively. As the old saying goes, "Company makes the man.

Suppose You Were Asked To....?' It would help to give the person a cultural shock by forecasting a change in job profile. For example, if you are interviewing a Chartered Accountant for a senior financial post, ask him, "What if we ask you to head the marketing department in a year's time?" The answer will tell you his ability for 'change management'. The more a person is adaptable to change, the more the benefit for both the parties.

It's important that the director, CEO, or even the head of a department keep notes of people who are productive. People who are sincere, dedicated, and committed are essential in every company. Such people are the pillars of any organisation. While it's good to keep mental notes of the staff's performance, it would be best if these could be written down for future reference.

At such times, note your thoughts down immediately on a sheet of paper, or even on your mobile, or computer. Then you will not forget it. Your mind will be at peace. Then, after making the note, continue doing your current work at hand, if that is your priority.

Aanveekshikee is a very interesting subject, but hardly known to our generation. It is a mixture of logical, lateral, alternative, analytical, and out-of-the-box thinking. In short, we can call it 'the science of thinking'. It helps a person develop his IQ and converts him into a strategist.

The greatest challenge for any parent is to know the balance between discipline and love. The solution is love with discipline and discipline with love.

times, while listening to the opinion of others, it is tempting to say, "Oh, I already know that. I know it will not work." However, one should know how to control oneself. Cutting off a person while he is talking, is not just an insult to him, but will also end the possibilities of understanding the central message he is trying to convey.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what hasn't been said.

A project manager said it well, "It is not important how many projects I started, but how many I have completed.

What you ought to do tomorrow, do today, what you want to do today, do it now!

All of this would, no doubt, make you a better man. After all, you would be following the old adage, "The only time well spent is the time spent learning new things!

For the first five years, love your child unconditionally, for the next ten years, discipline him. From the sixteenth year onwards, treat him as a friend.’ (3.18)

Read deep and read wide. Also, read scholarly and research papers for your personal growth.

Later in the day, you will get sucked into the demands of others, and you will never be able to do it.

Don’t prioritize your schedule, but schedule your priorities.

When things are going completely wrong and one does not know what to do, one must find a way to keep calm. But when things are going right and everything seems to be moving in a positive direction, it’s still important to keep calm.

മരിക്കാന്‍ പേടിയില്ലെങ്കില്‍ മരിക്കാന്‍ എളുപ്പമാണ്.  ജീവിക്കാനും എളുപ്പമാണ്.  പേടിയുണ്ടായിപ്പോയാല്‍ നല്ലൊരു മരണംപോലും നഷ്ടപ്പെടുന്നു; മരണം അസഹനീയമാവുന്നു.

I have two of these spiritual gurus (Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo) whom I did not meet. I also had two living gurus in Jawaharlal Nehru for politics and Dr Radhakrishnan for philosophy. In my spiritual quest, I have had a whole spectrum of spiritual gurus; a Shakta guru who was a Kashmiri pandit, a Vaishnava guru who was an Englishman, a Shaiva guru who was an American, a Sufi guru who was Muslim, a Kriya yoga guru who is from Kerala. So, I have been blessed with a number of gurus and teachings around the world.

You cannot choose your battlefield, the Gods do that for you; But you can plant a standard, where a standard never flew. NATHALIA CRANE

There is death in stagnation. There is life in movement.

The best make-up on your face is a smile.

The inner world and outer world is the same,’ said Swami Vivekananda. So if you have to change your outer world, it is important to first work on your inner world.

A fines del XIX cobró envergadura lo que dio en llamarse el Renacimiento hindú, un movimiento cultural, surgido en Bengala, que tenía como objetivo rescatar y prestigiar la cultura india antigua. Muchos intelectuales indios abandonaron su postura acomplejada ante Occidente y empezaron a sentirse orgullosos de su cultura. Escribieron sobre su tradición e informaron a Occidente sobre ella, mediante libros y conferencias. La exposición del denominado neo-hinduismo, hecha por Vivekananda en Chicago en 1893, en el World Parliament of Religions, despertó gran interés hacia la India y hacia pensadores como Aurobindo Ghose, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Dayanand Sarasvati, Ramana Maharshi, Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan y otros.

The aim of marketing is to know and understand our customers so well that the product or service fits them and sells itself.

The secret to living a content life is understanding that comforts and luxury do not bring happiness. It is your mindset and quality of thoughts that determine your quality of life. So always maintain a prayerful attitude towards life. Those people who are grateful for what they have, experience peace and happiness throughout their lives.

Being energetic is the most important quality of a leader.

I am hopeful that the PAC will examine these issues, as well as the processes and legal propriety of Pratyush Sinha’s khap panchayat carefully, particularly regarding its tainted chairmanship and tainted membership of Chairman ISRO Dr Radhakrishnan, who not only had silently approved the construction of GSAT 6A in the Space Commission, but also hobnobbed with Devas, even after the Space Commission’s decision to annul the deal. Cherry-picking the guilty only substantiates my suspicion that the Pratyush Sinha Committee had clear instructions from its appointers about who should be made the fall guys, and who should be let off. An examination of the Space Commission membership that approved GSAT 6 and GSAT 6A, with their present and past positions will give accurate information of those members who knew about the deal and sat like silent conspirators, committing the same offence of concealing facts from the Space Commission as Madhavan Nair. Why have they been exonerated?

(6.2.30)

(5.4.11)

सकता,

Life is like a game of bridge ... we did not invent the game or design the cards; we did not frame the rules and we cannot control the dealing. The cards are dealt out to us whether they be good or bad... But we can play the game well or play it badly. A skillful player may have poor hand and win the game. A bad player may have a good hand and yet make a mess of it. Our life is a mixture of necessity and freedom, chance and choice... we may not change events but we can change our approach to events.

You are not a human being on a spiritual journey. You are a spiritual being on a human journey.

Finally, it is the man behind the machine, who makes you win the war.

Peter Drucker, the father of modern management once said, “Initially delegation is not easy. It gives a feeling of insecurity. However, one realises that it leads to freedom.

Bravery, resentment, quickness, and dexterity — these are the qualities of energy.

The aim of marketing is to know and understand our customers so well that the product or service fits them and sells itself.” •   

Private victory leads to public victory.” A

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सार्थक ज्ञान केवल वही होता है जो चीज़ों की प्रकृति में अंतःप्रवेश करता है।

निरपेक्ष सत्ता का आनंददायी दर्शन जब चकित द्रष्टा को एक बार हो जाता है तो इंद्रियगाह्य का रस उसके लिए समाप्त हो जाता है

सत्य को यदि ज्ञान का विषय समझने की गलती की जाएगी तो वह जाना नहीं जा सकेगा।

आत्मा ही उसका अपना प्रकाश होती है, ‘आत्मैवास्य ज्योतिर्भवति’।

शरीर, प्राण, मन और बुद्धि के परिधानों के पीछे वह हमारी गहनतम सत्ता है। वस्तुपरकता सत्य की कसौटी नहीं है, बल्कि हमारी सत्ता में ही प्रकट हुआ सत्य स्वयं कसौटी है।

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