Jayam- The 7 Light Paths from Mahabharata (Micro Principles for Macro Impact)

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'Jayam' contains 7 light paths that show us the route to Dharma. These 7 light paths have been derived from the timeless 'Mahabharata,' and are universally applicable to all of us engrossed in playing the game of life, wherein Dharma is the goal. The chances of us losing this game of life are high due to errors of assumed goodness and ignorance of the unknown rules of nature. These limitations and pitfalls are explored in 'Jayam,' thereby providing us insight into dharmic consciousness and a glimpse into our own personal Dharmic Quotient (DQ). The provision of the Dharma model, the Varna model, and the Swadharma model in the book offers the reader path-maps and philosophical frameworks that pave the way for smart dharmic living.

Rather than revolving around role models, this book explores the Mahabharata to learn about the fallibility of human nature. Even the greats like Dharmaputra, Arjuna, Vithura, Draupadi, Dronacharya, Bheeshmacharya and others who aspired to be in dharma, had to battle their own shortcomings and external challenges, exhibiting varying percentages of dharmic strengths and weaknesses. Taking sides that one was greater than the other, prevents us from learning invaluable lessons from them.

Hence, this book focuses on the lessons for life, keeping Dharma as the core.

Badri brings together in 'Jayam,' the research and intuitive reflections of saints and scholars who have all through their lives verily breathed the timeless Mahabharata, the Ramayana and the Vedas. He has extensively read, discussed, and listened to their multi-dimensional interpretations and has diligently documented these valuable findings. This led him to discover pertinent dharmic models, and unravel dharmic light paths. Through his own creation of the Varna model and the Swadharma model, Badri has laid a robust framework for human dharmic excellence and self-actualisation.

As a Human Resources researcher, consultant and coach with more than 20 years of professional experience, he has researched and decoded dimensions of Dharma in the realm of human psychology. By interviewing of over 1000 people in this regard across the world and having applied the above models in his consulting engagements, Badri wishes to further share them through his writings.

Today's world battles information overload, and most often, information's sanctity or authenticity is not validated. It is often left to the readers and their logical understanding to ascertain whether a book's mentions are true or not. This is usually done by intrinsically comparing or evaluating the information stated with the functioning of everyday society. Matured readers evaluate the same by a parallel confirmation with available information in a similar context of time and space. With such uncertainties and challenges, complex matters are partially understood, through the lens of interpreters, with little understanding of the local language, local cultural backdrops and contextual time and space equations. Bharath's universal philosophies, glorious history, profound literature, sparkling culture and timeless practices are often thus misunderstood. Sometimes, they are deliberately misinterpreted, to suit the purpose of existence, of those who misinterpreted it. Few in public life have even made such twisted misinterpretations, as the bedrock upon which, their ideology rests.

'Jayam, The 7 Light Paths' penned by Badri, a scholar on the subject of Dharma, comes at an appropriate time when the twisted, manipulated & propagated misinterpretations have now taken a dangerous shape and have even called for the Eradication of the oldest & eternal Dharma of the World, 'The Sanatana Dharma. In the last decade, many from our homeland have made it their life's mission to falsify these devious interpretations that have been cast on us, and Badri is gladly one among them.

The complaint about our current generation is that we are running behind materialistic gains, and our very purpose of existence has been forgotten as we don't really tap into the core of our 'being.