May the Whole Earth Be Happy: Loka Samastat Sukhino Bhavantu

Stafford Beer
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Interfaces, 1994, vol. 24, issue 4, 83-93

Abstract: Teachings of Vedantic philosophy, developed in India several thousand years ago, are relevant to today's world. The most renowned script, the Bhagavad Gita, can be viewed as a treatise on management action. I examine Vedantic creation myths for their approach to the creation, recursion, and closure of system; they prefigure these features in contemporary physics. I make a direct and startling comparison between the Vedantic creation model and the viable system model of current managerial cybernetics. I examine Vedic mathematics for its relevance to school teaching and to computers and consider the role of yogic meditation in management training.

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Date: 1994
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