ISSN: 1529-2096
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Subject Area: Business Ethics and Law
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| Title: | A HINDU PERSPECTIVE ON SPIRITUALITY AND MANAGEMENT |
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| Author(s): | Arvind Sharma |
| Volume: | 5 Editor(s): Moses L. Pava and Patrick Primeaux ISBN: 978-0-76231-067-8 eISBN: 978-1-84950-245-0 |
| Citation: | Arvind Sharma (2003), A HINDU PERSPECTIVE ON SPIRITUALITY AND MANAGEMENT, in Moses L. Pava and Patrick Primeaux (ed.) Spiritual Intelligence at Work: Meaning, Metaphor, and Morals (Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations, Volume 5), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.203-211 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/S1529-2096(03)05010-7 (Permanent URL) |
| Publisher: | Emerald Group Publishing Limited |
| Article type: | Chapter Item |
| Extract: | This insight, when placed in the context of Hinduism, is productive of insights about Hindu spirituality. Hinduism identifies four legitimate goals of human activity: Dharma, Artha, Kàma, and Mokùa. Dharma refers to human activities directed towards righteousness, Artha refers to those directed towards the acquisition of wealth, power and success, Kàma to those directed to the enjoyment of sense pleasures (including their more refined savouring in art and literature, etc.); Mokùa consists of activities directed towards what in a Western context is best described as “salvation” and in the Hindu context as emancipation from the cycle of continued conditioned existence called . |
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