Cleanliness, A Lifetime Mission

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Cleanliness
A LIFETIME MISSION
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Asven reft cleaen vitae .Cleanliness is life.
Its the vitality.
Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan wrote in his
brilliant book, The Hindu way of life, that
regardless of any religion or belief system,
its cleanliness that has been accepted in the
eastern consciousness as the door that opens and
leads to god.
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Cleanliness has lost its shine (pun intended)
literally and figuratively in India.  
 Once the whole world learnt from India how to
clean the hearts, minds and our surroundings.
Japanese education system emphasizes on
cleanliness. Japanese children first learn the
lessons in cleanliness at school.
Singapore City Board and Management Authority
(SCBMA) fine those who spit and litter.
Citizens, who spit and dirty their vicinity must
be put behind the bars for a day to realize that
its an unsocial behavior. Chanakya
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MODI
Our Prime Minister Modijis dream of Swachch
Bharat is the noblest initiative towards
modernisation and making India a developed
nation. Mr D K Somaiya of Bengaluru too has whole
heartedly embraced Modijis dream. He is putting
relentless effort through implementation of
Gandhian Servant Leadership which focuses on
making on-going efforts.
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BUDDHA
Cleanliness is everyones moral and ethical duty
and it must well up from within. We as
Lean-Kaizen practitioners see to it that from
Directors to Doormen all should wholeheartedly
participate in cleaning the set-up/organization.
This came from Buddhas exhortation to his 44
core disciples, among them Anand being the
closest and senior most. Buddha would first hold
the broom, start sweeping and give yet another
broom to Anand who would follow suit. Soon the
entire monastery would join in!!
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GANDHI
One of the 5s of Kaizen is SHINE (Seiso)-Clean
and inspect or inspect through cleaning.
Organizational cleanliness is as important as
social or collective one. To encapsulate,
cleanliness must become a mission and include all
as parts of it. To begin it from home, you can
spread it to Rome.
The whole process of cleanliness becomes a
spontaneous act of joyful expedition, which gave
English the beautiful expression Dont whine,
while shine.
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KAIZEN
One of the 5s of Kaizen is SHINE (Seiso)-Clean
and inspect or inspect through cleaning.
Organizational cleanliness is as important as
social or collective one. To encapsulate,
cleanliness must become a mission and include all
as parts of it. To begin it from home, you can
spread it to Rome.
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VEDZEN RECCOMENDS A 5 STEP AGENDA FOR CLEANLINESS

• Lets begin with ourselves and the immediate
  surroundings.
• End the cycle of dirtiness by evolving and
  setting up clean processes.
• Spread to the neighbours, society and localities.
• Subordinate other agenda like, urban living, city
  traffic and poverty to getting cleaner everyday.
• Celebrate and rejoice, make others drop in to
  check out the results.

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