Corporate Perspectives On The Vedic Meditative Practice Upasana

77 T he individual biological organism is more than a mere aggregate of disparate body functions. Angyal (1941) remarked that there are no irrelevant properties to the component subunits of a biological organism. The feature is a definitive characteristic of systemic organizations. The idea of transformation of an aggregate of functions to a system was used by Sri Aurobindo in order to explicate his integral yogic method for a transition of the mind to a “higher” status beyond common experience (Sri Aurobindo, 1977). Upasana, a Vedic meditative technique devised by the Indian Mystics, is a method of effecting a similar transformation by individuals in themselves. A descriptive account of this technique is facilitated by using a convenient parallel available from the dynamics of business corporations.