Industry, Business,

Management & Finance. 

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Why Business Empires Crash / Collapse? 

श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता / Shrimadbhagvadgita indirectly points out the reasons.

The word "Business" could be found to have been originated from the Sanskrit roots as a combination of two root words :

√विश् and √न्यस् respectively.

√विश् is used to denote "to enter", while the word √न्यस् (as in न्यास, विन्यास, संन्यास, पंन्यास) is used to mean "to invest", नि (उपसर्ग) / prefix + verb-root - √अस्  to keep secure, safe, and in a good / healthy condition.

Again, the word "invest" could be traced to have roots in अनु-विश् meaning to enter kind of an activity.

There are words like "व्यवसाय" which could be split as "वि अव साय" The root word or the verb-root √सो -- साययति means "to annihilate, or "to completely destroy", while the उपसर्ग / prefix "अव" prefixed to √सो gives us the compound word "अवसाय", -meaning "to save, to protect from destruction", but implies "to prosper" / "to grow"; or to develop.

The उपसर्ग -prefix "वि" turns "अवसाय" into the word : "व्यवसाय" - that means development, growth and progress.

"Business" in this way is quite appropriate a translation of the word "व्यवसाय" that we find in the following shloka / verses --

Chapter 2/41, Chapter 2/44, Chapter 10/36, and Chapter 18/59 :

व्यवसायात्मिका बुद्धिरेकेह कुरुनन्दन।।

बहुशाखा ह्यनन्ताश्च बुद्धयोऽव्यवसायिनाम्।।४१।।

(अध्याय २)

भोगैश्वर्यप्रसक्तानां तयापहृतचेतसाम्।।

व्यवसायात्मिका बुद्धिः समाधौ न विधीयते।।४४।।

(अध्याय २)

द्यूतं छलयितामस्मि तेजस्तेजस्विनामहम्।।

जयोऽस्मि व्यवसायोऽस्मि सत्त्वं सत् त्ववतामहम्।।३६।।

(अध्याय १०)

यदहङ्कारमाश्रित्य न योत्स्य इति मन्यसे।।

मिथ्यैष व्यवसायस्ते प्रकृतिस् त्वां नियोक्ष्यति।।५९।।

(अध्याय १८)

Maybe, shall elaborate in the next posts.

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