Jeevesh Sabharwal Tells Entrepreneurial Lessons From The Bhagavad Gita

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1. The essence of life is in neutrality- accept the dualities of life:
Lao Tzu suggested that one should live openly with the apparent duality and paradoxical unity. There are days when things will never go your way. An entrepreneur has to gain traction with limited resources and at times the going gets tough. It is easy to lose hope under such circumstances. However, an alternate perspective is that we are all living in this world of paradoxical reality. A coin has two sides. Every failure exists as the opposite of success and every suffering counters comfort. Dark cannot exist without the light. Keeping this in mind, one should continue to strive towards the goals with total acceptance for whatever comes across.

2. Keep working without anticipating any results:
Any entrepreneurial journey is no less than a roller-coaster ride. Uncertainty and ambiguity are inevitable. Even when you perform to the best of your abilities, you cannot predict or hope what the outcome will look like. Bhagavad Gita preaches that it is our duty to keep working and surrender the fruits of our actions to the divine. The divine fabric ...
... works in its own ways which is beyond the scope of human understanding. Without deviating from the path of ‘karma;, entrepreneurs should work hard and go with the flow. The outcome will take care of itself.

3. Purity wears a mask that is often misleading:
Bhagavad Gita says, “As fire is covered by smoke, as a mirror is covered by dust, or as the embryo is covered by the womb, similarly, the living entity is covered by different degrees of this lust”.
All pure things come with an outer covering that can be misleading. Knowledge, too, comes with a covering of desire. Excessive desire for money or fame prevents us from perceiving the true nature of things and taking wise decisions accordingly. Unless we remove the covering of desire, knowledge cannot penetrate through us. It is therefore important for us to kill desire.

4. Be open to everything but attached to nothing:
Dedication and attachment gives real strength and identity to one’s work. However, attachment beyond limits confines our perspective. Excessive attachment to one’s work, relationships or situations is detrimental for growth. Change is the law of nature and we should embrace it.

5. Control your anger:
Bhagavad Gita says, “From anger comes delusion; from delusion the loss of memory; from loss of memory the destruction of discrimination; from the destruction of discrimination he perishes”.
A true entrepreneur should have immense patience to deal with any situation and any person. Anger and rationality cannot co-exist. Without being rational, it is difficult to make wise decisions.

About the Author:
Jeevesh Sabharwal is the Founder & Director of Horizon Buildcon. He is a Business Administration graduate from Western International University, USA. He believes in his father's vision as a second generation entrepreneur and carries the legacy if meaningfully touching the lives of employees, creating values for customers and leaving a legacy of inspiration for the future generations.

He shoulders multifarious portfolios and handles the group of companies that are in real estate, construction and trading (mainly import/export). The Horizon Buildcon was conceptualized in 2006 as Jeevesh’s flagship company. Since then the company has been rendering its expertise in envisioning, building, and developing residential, commercial and affordable infrastructure. Expanding their presence in North India, the company developed multiple real estate projects in the states of Delhi/NCR, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir and Maharashtra (Nasik).

Jeevesh shares his forte in real estate where his company is making the world a better place by creating contemporary housing and world-class commercial, residential and recreational properties. But that’s not just it; he also exhibits an impressive leadership in international trade across a wide range of product lines like building material and furnishings, liquor, ethnic wear and more.