In point of fact life too is full of transactions, and there is a stampede of people in every walk of life. From morning to evening we transact businesses with everyone we come across. Transactions are inevitable and no one evidently can stay bereft of them. Dealing with parents, spouses, children and neighbors is not anything less in degree and category coming to a matter of transactions. Everyone under the sun is a transactor in life.

Business, looking from this lens is not a different and alien transaction. It is very much likened to day to day affairs. While transacting we need to align with parties. The difference between transactions in life and transactions in business is a matter of illusion and is therefore indefinably elusive.

We can liken business transactions to a game kids play in substance; there is no difference in essence and if there is any only in kind and category. Taken this view we as businesspersons will not play foul games, for at the end of the day when children return home do they weight the fact whether they have beaten the challenger or they have been beaten?

During the transactions, i.e, at play they become too much engrossed or immersed and back home they do not carry the burden of the transactions. Next day when they commence a game they leave aside the hangovers of yesterdays. They start afresh. They are likely to reconcile and reunite anew.

We adults are by contrast behaving bizarrely, taking every burden of the day weighing down heavily upon us. Is this not what raises our blood pressure pretty high?

This is where we need to conflate spirituality and business in a manner where both realms can prettily complement each other. The objective is not to enable the individual to bear the pain when one is hit by a volley of problems, and also to teach the individual to go adrift ahead against the tempest that rise to shake the boat of life.

We know already these facts, and the problem with us is we fail to realize at times. The purpose is let the reality materialize in our mindsets. This is called enlightenment. Nirvana is not afar. It does not ask of us to part with everything we have. The Gita teaches timelessly to be detached. Detachment has nothing to do with distancing oneself from acting. The Gita accentuates action, and is conceived better than inaction.

Let us flow and be at one with the stream of life; for we can not live frozen and stationary for a second. But the point is take things as games at the end of the day. You will sleep soundly to wake up to a new dawn afresh.