ON WORKPLACE SPIRITUALITY
We grew in an environment which was surrounded by people who kept preaching us all through that ‘work is worship’ and somewhere in our inner self it got imbibed that we live to work and there is no escape from work. The meaning of work changed according to time, for a child it was to go to school, learn and study and perform best in the examinations. After studies it was to get a job and work as per the nature and requirements. So the school and the workplaces were believed to be temples. Temples where we worshiped our work, temples where we were allowed to meditate, temples where we were groomed and mentored by experienced and learned people, temples which helped us build ourselves, temples where we could find our call, temples where we learnt and discovered the purpose of our life. These were places where we met different types of people and we learnt to deal with them to their and our satisfaction. We debated, argued and quarreled on some petty i...