IIM Lucknow offers course on Wisdom of Indian Philosophy

IIM Lucknow’s course on the Wisdom of Indian Philosophy is to mentally groom the future industry leaders. The course teaches concepts like Karma & Dhyana for the holistic development of its students. It targets Indian philosophy and its three dominant systems, namely, Samkhya, Yoga, and Vedanta. 

Indian Institute of Management Lucknow’s elective course on ‘The Wisdom of Indian Philosophy’ is changing the way students approach real-life tasks, by deriving inspiration from India’s roots. While the course is taught in English and has some traces of modern theories, it primarily relies on the tenets of Indian philosophy derived in Sanskrit from Patanjali Yoga Sutras, Samkhya Karika, and Upanishads with references from the Bhagavad Gita.

Indian philosophy predates Thales of Miletus, who is regarded as the first Greek philosopher and the creator of Western philosophy, by at least a millennium. This dynamic course employs a holistic and integrated approach, by incorporating numerous fields such as metaphysics, aesthetics, epistemology, sociology, psychology, ethics, life sciences, and even the dynamics of interpersonal relationships and man's interactions with the outside world.

The course is 15 hours long, and currently running its fourth year. In the current academic year, the elective is running in both the Lucknow campus for the core MBA programme and at the Noida campus for Working Executives MBA programme. The course is created and floated by Professor Anadi Pande, who was motivated to introduce this curriculum to students in order to help them manage their selves better, reduce stress, and anxiety, amongst other things to enhance focus and improve quality of mind.  

Speaking about the increasing stress in students in recent years, and how the values from scriptures can help them in a stress-free learning, Prof. Anadi Pande, Course coordinator, and Professor, Strategic Management, IIM Lucknow said, “We live in a highly globalized, dynamic, and changeable world, with surfeit of information, intense competition, the acronym BANI aptly sums up its characteristics. Samkya, Yoga and Vedanta enable us to connect with our true nature, achieve peace, and have a focused mind. A superior mind is a tremendous instrument which can not only de-stress, improve our psychosomatic condition but enable us find innovative solutions to challenges in our workplace and the material world.”

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