The budget!!!!
The newly appointed government in india declared the annual budget. Budget an exercise of resource allocation. Government has income and expenditure just like any functional organization. Major part of the income comes from the tax payer. How this income is allocated to different developmental projects. Most governmental development projects are not for profits. But the thing created by the project has to be maintained for its sustained use. A budget is also a planning exercise which needs lots of foresight. There are both allocation for yearly projects and continued input to long term projects. How does a governmental budget contrast a corporate budget? ROI for each budget allocation component is critical for corporate. There are various scenarios. New investments, continued investments, short term profits - corporates are measured by quarterly results - hence a balance between long term and short term allocations is very critical. The 3 major activities of a corporation are operating, investing and financing.
Does Gita and the vedas talk anything about Budget? Throughout our scriptures, how time is spent is given paramount importance. A yogi has to budget his time. The goal of the vedas is to assist an individual to attain a life state of eternal uninterrupted happiness not bothered by birth death oldage and disease. In our annual time budget, most of it is allocated for survival & security. With a flickering global economy any individual irrespective of his net worth can at times fall in the band of survival and security. For a person in the middle class, there is a constant background fear on survival and security. We budget for recreation in the forms of annual vacations etc. The vedas recommend to budget atleast 10% of our daily time to progress towards eternal life. What are the activities that can be done in the budgeted 10% time? One has to refer to Srimad Bhagavatham to understand this. There has to be a daily dosage of chanting Harinama, discussion on the activities of the supreme being Sri Krishna. The goal is to go to a state of Kirtaniya sada harih - constant glorification of the supreme being. There is a necessity of diversion of consciosuness from acting for maintainance of the body to emancipation of the soul. The body is an embarrasment for the soul. So its everyones duty to budget for emancipation - otherwise true happiness is not possible. Anyway the body is wearing out, what is the point is spending our entire time for the well being of the body knowing it will wither away after x years. Body should be maintained as far it doesnt trouble us in meditation on Sri Hari. As we progress in devotion, maintainance needs decreases. One can be happy in poverty provided one is rich in consciosuness. So budget your time to become rich in cosnciosuness.
Does Gita and the vedas talk anything about Budget? Throughout our scriptures, how time is spent is given paramount importance. A yogi has to budget his time. The goal of the vedas is to assist an individual to attain a life state of eternal uninterrupted happiness not bothered by birth death oldage and disease. In our annual time budget, most of it is allocated for survival & security. With a flickering global economy any individual irrespective of his net worth can at times fall in the band of survival and security. For a person in the middle class, there is a constant background fear on survival and security. We budget for recreation in the forms of annual vacations etc. The vedas recommend to budget atleast 10% of our daily time to progress towards eternal life. What are the activities that can be done in the budgeted 10% time? One has to refer to Srimad Bhagavatham to understand this. There has to be a daily dosage of chanting Harinama, discussion on the activities of the supreme being Sri Krishna. The goal is to go to a state of Kirtaniya sada harih - constant glorification of the supreme being. There is a necessity of diversion of consciosuness from acting for maintainance of the body to emancipation of the soul. The body is an embarrasment for the soul. So its everyones duty to budget for emancipation - otherwise true happiness is not possible. Anyway the body is wearing out, what is the point is spending our entire time for the well being of the body knowing it will wither away after x years. Body should be maintained as far it doesnt trouble us in meditation on Sri Hari. As we progress in devotion, maintainance needs decreases. One can be happy in poverty provided one is rich in consciosuness. So budget your time to become rich in cosnciosuness.
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