Guru Gobind Singh Ji: Happy Birthday: REAL CEO

“All progress is born of enquiry. Doubt is often better than over confidence for it leads to enquiry, and enquiry leads to invention.”

Check WIKIPEDIA on life lesson and teaching :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_52_Hukams_of_Guru_Gobind_Singh

Why GURU Gobind Singh JI was the best CEO:

1. Clear plan and vision:

At a time when there was communal disharmony and rulers and emperors repressed and exploited the common people, Guru Gobind Singh came with a mission to disseminate the spirit of universal brotherhood. He envisioned a classless and casteless society and planned to introduce an independent and distinct spiritual system.

2. Effective communication:

To spread the message of brotherhood and peace, Guru Gobind Singh travelled all over the country and even outside it. He visited numerous places of Hindu and Muslim worship. In those times illiteracy was rampant. He reached out to people at grass-root level through his travels and spread his ideas far and wide, thereby gaining popularity for the Sikh religion. He used interactive approach for conversing with the people.

3.Path of truth and enlightenment:

Guru Gobind Singh carried the torch of truth on his voyages and enlightened people who were suffering out of hatred, falsehood, greed and hypocrisy. He travelled and taught through practice and precept. On the banks of river Ganga, he cautioned people offering water to their dead ancestors in the region of Sun to quench their thirst, against false rituals and superstitions and directed them to follow the path of truth and enlightenment.

4. Concept of social responsibility:

Guru Gobind Singh asserted the importance of helping the needy and the poor. He himself always helped the poor and he served food to them. Guru asserted that helping the destitute by activities like feeding thehungry and providing clothes to the naked makes the donor a recipient of God?s grace, and emphasized that such donations should be made out of one?s honest earnings.

5. Re-engineering of personalities:

Guru Gobind Singh never ignored or out-casted people who did not possess good personalities but worked to reform and re-engineer them and was able to transform them into fine individuals.

6. Equality of mankind:

Guru Gobind Singh gave the message of equality of mankind. He taught that God has created the universe and he is everywhere and in every being. So, one cannot discriminate people on the basis of caste and creed etc. when God has created them as equals. He introduced the practice of community kitchen where people from all castes and creeds sat together to eat without any distinction of social hierarchy.

7. Cultivation of inner strength:

Guru Gobind Singh accentuated the value of virtues of the human character and advised control of vices. The vices like ego, anger, greed, lust and vanity can be conquered through self-examination and self- realization. He said, "See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world"