Ask him any questions on business strategies, and he would come out with anunusual insight from his repertoire of traditional wisdom. Sun Tzu’ssayings, he argues, can be easily applied in the current era of cut-throatcorporate competition. The knowledge can be useful in board-room battles,marketing street wars, takeover tussles, and evolving tactics to steal a marchover competitors. The Bhagwad Gita, he has me convinced, provides a perspectiveon why one shouldn’t shy away from fighting relatives (as in a business familystruggle), taking tough decisions against employees, or resorting to unfairbusiness moves as long as the motive is noble. And a form of mauna yoga – or,the sphere of silence, in Eswaran ’s lingo – can help you become a smartmanager or a visionary entrepreneur.
In fact, Eswaran’s new book, In The Sphere of Silence, is about themanner in which his family has practiced mauna yoga to become better people andefficient workers. He credits his business successes to it. And now he wishes toteach others, to propagate his very own self-help book which, according to him,can transform personalities and yield effective and measurable results within ashort span of time. "You can see the change in you within months," heclaims, and quickly adds that the best benefit is a drastic improvement inshort-term memory.
Listen to a few extracts that are aimed at wooing managers to read the book."… the sphere of silence is a guarantee of change. And change is ultimatelyone of the guarantees of success." Or that "Wealth is a state of mind. Thesphere of silence helps you understand this state of mind." Or even better,the sphere of silence "affects you. If you become better, the business thatyou do becomes better." And while talking, he made it a point to repeat againand again that the book can be used by managers and businessmen to improvethemselves in their work environment.
The principle involved in Eswaran’s method is simple. Human beings in thefast-changing nanosecond world are inundated with noise. As Eswaran puts it: "There’stoo much noise outside and there’s too much noise within." In the sphere ofsilence, you block out all that noise through simple exercises to get a sense ofdetachment "which helps us to know that who we really are." Eswaranconcludes that "to be in the highest plane of the sphere of silence is to bein complete harmony with the universe. When you achieve that, you walk it, youlive it, you talk it, and you breathe it." And since it’ll improve yourshort term memory, you will have access to the "biggest, most versatile, mostpowerful, most flexible tool that you can use in your day to day life." Be it as a common worker, a senior manager, or a successful entrepreneur.
I come out hearing the sound of one hand clapping.
