Diwalli - India

O Diwali (também transcrito do Deepavali ou Deepawali) é uma festa religiosa hindu, conhecida também como o festival das luzes. Durante o Diwali, celebrado uma vez ao ano, as pessoas estreiam roupas novas, dividem doces e lançam fogo de artifício. Este festival celebra o assassinato de Narakasura, o que converte o Diwali num evento religioso que simboliza a destruição das forças do mal.

O Diwali é um grande feriado indiano, e um importante festival para o hinduísmo, o sikhismo, obudismo e o jainismo. Muitas lendas são associados a Diwali. O feriado é at

ualmente comemorado pelos hindus, sikhs e jains em todo o mundo como o festival das luzes, onde as luzes ou lâmpadas significam a vitória do bem sobre o mal dentro de cada ser humano. Diwali é comemorado no primeiro dia do mês lunar Kartika, que ocorre no mês de outubro ou novembro.

Fonte: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali

Foto tirada em Bengaluru 26/nov/2011 Sheraton Hotel

Desire and Destiny - Hindu Mythology

According to the Veda, before all things came desire. It is desire that caused the restlessness which led to creation. Without desire, God would not have opened his eyes to observe the Goddess. In the Puranas, desire takes the form of a god called Kama. Kama is an archer whose arrows struck Brahma, awakening his senses, making him aware of his daughter and her myriad forms.

Yama swings his noose and fetters the jiva to his destiny. Kama shoots his arrow and injects desire in the jiva. Destiny manifests as worldly stimuli while desire influences choice of response. Destiny is determined by past. Desire influences future actions.

Bound with destiny, propelled by desire, the jiva faces a moment of choice: to accept destiny, fight it or avoid it. Choice of response, and the obligation of facing its consequences, rests solely with the jiva.

myth = mythya

A Handbook of Hindu Mythology

Dr Devdutt Pattanaik

Business Strategies for Tomorrow - P. Drucker

Unique events cannot be "planned". They can, however, be foreseen, or rather, one can prepare to take advantage of them. One can have strategies for tomorrow that anticipate the areas in which the greatest changes are likely to occur, strategies that enable a business or public service unforeseeable. Planning tries to optimize tomorrow the trend of today. Strategy aims to exploit the new and different opportunities of tomorrow.

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In many markets one prospers only ate the extremes: either as one of the few market leaders who set the standard, or as a specialist supplying a narrow range of products of services, but with such advantage in knowledge, services, and adaption to specific needs as to be a class of one's own. The in-between position is rarely desirable or even viable.

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What "market leadership" means is a matter of industry and market structure rather than a sales volume, something that varies widely in different markets.

Managing in Turbulent Times

P. Drucker