Social Responsibility, Productivity, and the Cosmology of Sri Cakra

Guruji: Social responsibility for Corporates and Governments

Among the various responsibilities which corporates and Governments face, the prime focus must be on improving productivity of their own people besides making profits, unlimited growth and maintaining a competitive edge over rivals. Stephen Covey calls it sharpening the saw. Sharpening the saw saves many times the time and energy spent on cutting later. The current employees are overworked. They don't have any spare time. The retired employees can be used to give the necessary trainings.

What are the activities which create leaders, generate new ideas, raise productivity, and promote healthy light-hearted friendships in company? Group play and group meditations, or "your own time" are some examples. Play makes them like children, forgiving and forgetting easily. Activities like meditation, yoga, or martial arts help in concentration and quietness in the middle of frenzied action. Even a simple policy like "do whatever you want relating to Company's products/image for one day per week" has paid enormous dividends. Governments can decide to play war simulation games which do not destroy men, machines or cities. They get their kicks and the world can get peace. Enlightened corporations who experimented with such ideas flourish today. Need I say more?

A little more about views of Śrīcakra.

All conic sections: triangles, circles, ellipses, parabolas, hyperbolas are possible. An ellipse represents an orbital: of stars around a black hole (center of a galaxy), a planetary system, of electronic orbitals around a nucleus, etc. Angular momentum of an orbital can exist in 3 states: 1, 0 and -1. 1 and minus 1 are clockwise and anti-clockwise rotations, and zero is non-motion.

The Śrīcakra also suggests another dimension, going up and down its axis. Going up is Śiva, down is Śakti. Up is a movement from matter to spirit, and down spin is a movement from spirit to matter. Their interpenetration represents release and bondage.

Śrīcakra has 9 triangles: 4 up, 5 down, a total of 27 vertices. All triangles bypass the center. This avoids a singularity in expansion or contraction processes. Without singularity, explosion and implosion processes can go on cyclically.

In his seminal work Savitri, Sri Aurobindo postulates 27 states, given below. Starting from below, the lowest level of consciousness, these form 9 groups:

1. Subconscient (Nascent, Inconscient, Obscure)

2. Body (Physical, Emotion, Reason)

3. Sahasrara (Spiritual, Illuminated, Higher)

4. Lower Intuitive (Action and feeling, Sense and thought, Vision and Force)

5. Higher Intuitive (Inspiration, Discrimination, Revelation)

6. Overmind (Mental, Supramentalised, Supramental)

7. Supermind (Interpretative, Representative, Imperative)

8. Aditi the Mother (Ānanda, Cit, Sat)

9. Central Presiding Deity (Manifest, Eternal Manifest, Unmanifest)

The movement Individual → Divinity proceeds through these 9 steps (triangles). The lowest three steps belong to Physical Body, the next three to Intuitive mind and the final three to Supermind.

While the enumeration is descriptive in microscopic details, there are little or no clues of how to transit from one state to another. The views on Śrīcakra, by detailing forbidden transitions (ex: Nascent to Supramental, or Nascent to Inconscient are forbidden), and the permitted transition rules on orbital angular momenta and spins, can actually be determined from the conic-section description of Śrīcakra.

Everything comes or reaches the mind through intuition from the supermind. Views on Śrīcakra complement the missing links in Aurobindo's overwhelming work. They show, explain, the way Divine plan described by Aurobindo works through Śrīcakra.

I think I will stop here.