Had the scenario been different as below, the world would
have definitely known Niccolo Machiavelli as the Italian Chanakya .But Chanakya,a professor of Takshashila
University is known as the Indian Machiavelli. His works were 1800 yrs earlier
than the Italian diplomat Niccolo Machiavelli’s. As his works were lost by the
end of the Gupta dynasty and discovered in the year 1915, so he was not known
to this world before.
Thanks to Chanakya’s outstanding strategy for, it was he,
who was credited for the establishment of the Maurya Empire which was the first empire among archeologically recorded history. His initial
attempts with Chandragupta Maurya to defeat the Nanda dynasty failed.He heard a
mother scolding her child to prefer the cooler edges as he burnt his hand by
eating porridge from the middle of it, as mothers are the best managers and true
socialization of a baby comes from her, he knew his strategic error and
attacked the periphery of the Nanda dynasty
instead of focusing on Magadha. He was succeeded. Nobody will think like
him. That’s why when a genius’ mind ceases to work, his cognition initiates.
Who will dare to stop the greatest conqueror of the world,
Alexander-the great’s army to conquer the Maurya Empire? He did so by
infiltrating the Greek army by spreading the rumours about greatness of the
Indian army. He is the greatest diplomat, manipulative thinker .
It is believed that he has authored the Arthashatra and
Neetishatra.The Arthashatra discusses
about monetary policies, fiscal policies, international relations, welfare
economics ,war strategies and outlines the duty of a ruler. The
Neetishatra is about how to lead an
ideal way of life.His contribution to the field of Economics and political
science is tremendous.
Chanakya,the then chief advisor of Chandragupta Maurya was giving
small doses of poison to the king to make him immune to it,as a strategy against
the enemies .Unknowingly the king gave some food to the queen when she was nine
months pregnant. The queen could not resist and died.Chanakya saved the heir to the throne,Bindusara by cutting
the queen’s belly.His management skills are really brilliant.He is the real
Management-guru,the world has seen before.
His quotations are soul-touching.His wisdom is divinely-gifted.
His way of thinking is applicable to the
contemporary field of management, business,commerce,economics,politics,diplomacy.A
question arises frequently to our mind that unscrupulous methods are not
legally accepted,so why we will follow Chanakya.His own saying that , “ A person should not be too honest.
Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first” is it’s answer.
It is very true. Another example is the Lord Krishna in the
great Indian epic Mahabharat.Here the god himself plays lots of tricks with diplomacies
to deceive the enemies. But we should focuses on one thing which is above
all,i.e,”All ambitions are lawful, except those which climb upward on the
miseries or credulities of mankind”.
