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May the Whole Earth Be Happy: Loka Samastat Sukhino Bhavantu

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  • Stafford Beer

    (Team Syntegrity Inc., 34 Palmerston Square, Toronto, Ontario M6G 2S7, Canada)

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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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  • Stafford Beer, 1994. "May the Whole Earth Be Happy: Loka Samastat Sukhino Bhavantu," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 24(4), pages 83-93, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:24:y:1994:i:4:p:83-93
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.24.4.83
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