Banking & Yoga Facilitate Self Actualisation. The theme ‘Yoga for Humanity’ appropriately portrays the role of Yoga in alleviating suffering during Covid-19.Yoga brought people together through kindness and compassion during the post-Covid geopolitical crisis and fostered a sense of unity worldwide.
Yoga is a practice that brings joy, health, and peace from within to deepen an understanding of the continuous connection between an individual’s inner consciousness and the external world.
“Yoga is the journey of the self, to the self, through the self; Banking is the empowering of self through the discovery of the self.”
Banking and Yoga have been integral parts of life. The temple priests were the earliest bankers trusted to embody honesty, integrity, trust, and truthfulness. They accepted and lent coins to the commoners in the society on behalf of the king and the people. The respect paid to priests as revered bankers has transmitted to modern career bankers who continue to be entrusted with hard-earned savings by the masses for safe custody and returns.
Guru Patanjali’s yoga philosophy of self-preservation, self-development, and self-transformation integrates mind, body, and breath and leads a long life. Yoga is not just physical exercise; it builds emotional stability and calms the mind. As civilisations evolved through the stone age, iron age, and textile revolutions, the involvement of physical labour tapered down. With no visibility of treadmills and exercise machines, the desire to remain fit made folks embrace. Yoga evolved as an integral part of life to boost positive energy and improve the quality of life. It bestows self-understanding, love, knowledge, wisdom and happiness to awaken the spiritual self to inner divinity to look. healthy, youthful and beautiful. Banking supports the growth of healthy minds and bodies.
Banking is an art of aggregating small savings by commoners into critical mass assets for corporates that usher in prosperity, employment and happiness to the masses. Banking,like Yoga, is a timeless tradition with a history as old as a temple, church, mosque and gurudwara. People hold banks as harbingers of growth and opulence. Pertinent welfare schemes for developing agriculture, small industry, corporates and service industries have
improved the economy health. The role-play of banks is similar to that of Yoga. Both illuminate life beyond pain and suffering into more extended existence.
Banking, like Yoga, is for everyone. It is never late to start a banking account or practice yoga. One can open an account as a child, take an education loan, become a bureaucrat or entrepreneur, flourish and retire with senior citizen benefits from banks. A yogi gifts himself a positive frame of mind as a student, business person, and mature leader. Banking and Yoga build confidence and infuse vitality to adapt to changing world order.
Banks help actualise the thoughts and dreams of entrepreneurs to change their life. Yoga controls human thought waves to channelise ideas that make men move mountains. Banks strengthen financial muscles; Yoga emboldens intellectual grids of mind. Guru Patanjali’s help provides practical scientific solutions to awaken and opt for the right path; a banker opens channels of growth & innovation through timely financial sustenance. Cultivating Yoga provides calmness of mind, and operating a smooth bank loan brings harmony to life.
A Banker looks for a borrower’s determination and hard work as powerful inner qualities. Yoga teaches the art of undertaking a pleasant inward journey to develop tolerance and patience. Bank provides economic assistance to smother pain points and be a winner. Yogic relaxation is consciously resting the body and emptying the mind of worries. Yoga is a natural way of recharging the mind and the body.
A healthy relationship with Bank helps in mitigating financial concerns. Banking helps focus on product innovation and improved sales. Yoga calms and prepares the mind to sharpen business skills to boost productivity. Banking creates millions of millionaires by converting the business sense into a financial opportunity. Yoga transforms negative energy into positive.
Yogic healing is not a quick fix but a sure and lasting remedy for health issues. Banking is a long-time family doctor with deep pockets. Yoga repairs frozen shoulder and tennis elbow. Banks restructure and elongate the repayment cycles of clients.
A yogic diet is balanced that fulfils the nutritional needs for mind-body equilibrium. Eating the right food with the right attitude is yogic compliance. An optimum loan for utilising it for the desired purpose prevents the account from becoming an impaired asset. Taking good care of body and mind through regular Yoga makes humans Standard and Performing assets.
Yoga teaches how to inhale the future and exhale the past. Banking helps shape the future. Banking and Yoga help cover the longest journey of life, which is the journey inwards to actualise the self. Both teach us what was rightly said by Swami Vivekananda, “Arise, awake and stop not, till the goal is reached.”
-Hargovind Sachdev
