Dwapara Yuga - Football, Business and God realization

A recent USA today article describes a curious paradox in the world of American Pro Football.

Pro Football has long been one of the most socialistic enterprise in America because the worst teams each year always get the first pick of the best players for the next season.

The idea is to prevent the same teams (typically the ones with the most wealth in a major sports-entertainment market) winning year in and year out, causing fans to lose interest. Paradoxically, the same teams do win and the difference is one of overall approach, not simply access to Pro Bowl players.

The USA today article illustrates a Dwapara Yuga truth that good leadership and a considered process or system for winning matters more than any one individual or star, especially since a good system can develop such stars.

"Successful leaders, such as Colts President Bill Polian and Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, backed by patient owners, are just as important to teams as Pro Bowl players, if not more. They flood their organizations with talent – players, coaches and scouts – that collectively buys into a broad vision. Their frameworks cultivate winning, not merely talented players."

"I think one of the biggest reasons why [losing] teams aren't getting better is instability," says former Bills coach and general manager Marv Levy, who coached the team to four consecutive AFC titles from 1990 to 1993. "It's always, 'Let's change, let's change.'"

The football truth applies equally well in the business world. Strong leadership and a long-term, team-based approach for innovation characterize good companies like Apple with a pipeline of successful products masking occasional failures.

The weak, or Kali Yuga, approach is found in egotistical executives who optimize their own short term compensation with little regard to their companies, shareholders, customers or employees with wheezes such as "me too" poorly copied products, cutbacks of research and engineering and continual reorganizations, wasting time and energy dancing around real issues.

Politicians play a similar Kali Yuga game, inventing new laws with action-oriented names that do not address fundamentals and may never be implemented since they cover the same ground as existing laws but provide the illusion of action without the burden of thought or effort of execution - like tightening rules for legal immigration in the US when illegal immigration is ten times greater yet does not respond at all to adding more form filling or background checks so beloved of bureaucrats.

In spirituality, Kriya is a system for God contact with proven examples, itself rather different from large religious organizations that can point to occasional saints and prophets over the centuries against a backdrop of a distinct lack of realization. Most older religions (and surprisingly some new ones) have no lack of their own 'dancing around' of interminable ceremonies, special schools, gestures, clothes, even home appliances to distract from any real search for God. Such a search is characterized by intense personal effort and concentration that more than likely will not be visible to the casual observer.