अक्सर संगठनों में यही भी होता है कि कोई व्यक्ति अकेले तो कोई ज़िम्मेदारी आसानी से निभा लेते हैं, किन्तु उनके साथ दो चार व्यक्तियों को और जोड़ दिया जाय तथा कोई बड़ा काम सौंप दिया तो वे ज़िम्मेदारी से कतराने लगते हैं। कुछ व्यक्तियों को यदि किसी कार्य की ज़िम्मेदारी सौंप दी जाय तो हर व्यक्ति यह सोच कर अपने दायित्व से उपराम होने की सोचने लगता है कि दूसरे लोग इसे पूरा कर लेंगे।
बौद्ध साहित्य में सामूहिक जिम्मेदारी के अभाव का एक अच्छा प्रसंग आता है। किसी प्रदेश के राजा ने कोई धार्मिक अनुष्ठान करने के लिए राजधानी के निवासियों को निर्देश दिया कि सभी लोग मिलकर नगर के बाहर तैयार किये गए हौज में एक-एक लोटा दूध डालें। हौज को ढक दिया गया था और निश्चित समय पर जब हौज का ढक्कन हटाया गया तो पता चला कि दूध के भरने के स्थान पर हौज पानी से भरा था। कारण का पता लगाया गया तो मालूम हुआ कि प्रत्येक व्यक्ति ने यह सोच कर दूध के स्थान पर पानी डाला था कि केवल मैं ही पानी डाल रहा हूँ अन्य और लोग तो दूध ही डाल रहे हैं।
समाज में रहकर अन्य लोगों से तालमेल बिठाने तथा अपनी क्षमता योग्यता का लाभ समाज को देने कि स्थिति भी सामाजिकता से ही प्राप्त हो सकती है।
-पं. श्रीराम शर्मा आचार्य
वांग्मय क्र. २ जीवन देवता कि साधना-आराधना - २.२०
Team Spirit
Many individuals, even though being quite talented and capable, do not benefit society for a simple reason that they cannot harmonize with others.
Take for example a football player who happens to be so proficient in his game that if its left to him he can juggle the ball extremely well without letting it drop even once to the ground.
However, the very same talented player may not be able to make a meaningful contribution when playing in a team because he cannot work together harmoniously with other teammates, as part of a team.
Many organizations experience a similar phenomenon. They may have someone very capable who can single-handedly manage various responsibilities. However, he may shy away from playing his part when he is asked to team up with other people to accomplish some big responsibility. When a few people are given to carry out a task together, most of them may think of turning their back on their responsibility thinking that other people in the team would fulfill it.
In Buddhist literature, there is a fascinating story revealing lack of collective responsibility. It goes like this… A king once decided to organize a huge religious event. He instructed his citizens to bring milk in a pot and offer it into a pool constructed at the site of ceremony. The pool was covered up with a lid. After everyone had his or her turn, the lid was removed. The king was surprised to see that the pool was filled with water instead of milk. When he investigated its cause, he came to know that everyone had brought water in their pot instead of milk thinking that they were the only ones who poured water, the rest would surely have had poured milk!
The social skill of living together harmoniously with other people and being able to impart the benefit of our individual capabilities as a team member is a learning process that can be mastered only through living together cohesively and thereby learning to develop community spirit.
-Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya
Translated from -
The complete works of Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya
(Jivan Devtā kī sādhanā-ārādhanā) Vol 2 - Page 2.20
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