May the whole earth be happy: Loka samastat sukhino bhavantu

Teachings of Vedantic philosophy, developed in India several thousand years ago, are relevant to today’s world. The most renowned script, the Bhagavad Gita, can be viewed as a treatise on management action. The author examines Vendantic creation myths for their approach to the creation, recursion, and closure of system; they prefigure these features in contemporary physics. A direct and startling comparison is made between the Vedantic creation model and the viable system model of current managerial cybernetics. The author examines Vedic mathematics for its relevance to school teaching and to computers and considers the role of yogic mediation in management training.