For all those working in a corporate setting, the HR, or Human Resources, department is all too familiar. Mainly focused on fitting the best candidates into available jobs, as well as keeping existing employees motivated and happy, HR works to keep everything within an organization running smoothly. However, as Sadhguru explains below, both within the HR department and beyond, there is much more we could be doing to enable our “human resources” to flower and reach their full potential.
Sadhguru: We, as humanity, have not focused on human resource in its real sense. We have invested a lot in maintaining a human being where he is right now, but we have not truly invested in developing a human being in such a way that we open up the human possibility to its fullest potential.
To make a human being flower, what are the necessary conditions? Your body, mind, emotion and your energy need to be cultivated to their full scope and dimension. You will understand this from your career, your profession and your business – unless you do the right things, right things will not happen to you. This is how life works. If this is true outside, this is also true inside. But before we do the right things with other people, first of all we need to do the right things with ourselves. If you were doing the right things with yourself, you would be in utmost pleasantness. After all, whether somebody is seeking success, money or power, whether somebody is going to the bar, going to the temple or wants to go to heaven – essentially everybody is seeking pleasantness inside and outside.
Right now, your experience is sadly determined in reaction to external situations. Whatever situations you are living in, not a single person on this planet happen to be 100 per cent of the way you want them to be. If this is so, at least this one human being – you – must happen to be your way. But right now, your joy, your peace and your wellbeing is so fragile. Anybody can shoot it down. When your wellbeing is so fragile, being anxious is normal. When anxiety is normal, madness is just one step away.
Especially if the outside situation becomes unpleasant for some reason, if people around you are unpleasant, it is all the more important that you keep your insides pleasant. If we want to truly develop human potential, the most fundamental thing is to create a situation where pleasantness is a conscious choice, it is not something that happens to you because somebody is wonderful to you.
If the best has to come out from a human being, the first thing that you must know is how to keep yourself joyful so that you can keep everybody around you joyful. If everybody who is working for you is really happy, they don’t need much management. A joyful man is a wonderful human resource always. If I meet you when you are very happy, I am sure all of you are wonderful human beings. If I happen to meet you when you are angry, frustrated, and unhappy, you could be a nasty human being. I am not saying you are, but possible. So, this is the basic thing which we have not attended to.
Your body, mind, emotion and your energies can be constantly enhanced and made to function in a better way than they are right now. The very source of creation is throbbing within you every moment, but you are not aware of it. This body got created from within, not from outside. What you call your body is an accumulation of food. You provide the raw material, but the making of the body is happening from within. Instead of living here as an accumulation of food, and an accumulation of impressions which you call ‘mind’, if you had access to that source of creation within you, you would live a very exalted life. That is when we can say you are truly developing human resource, not just by training them to do this and that.
I want you to see HR in a much larger perspective than just running your company, hiring and firing people. If we really want to develop human resource, we as individuals, families, communities, nations, and as humanity as a whole have to invest something to develop a human being into a much bigger possibility than the way he is now.
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