Embedding Spirituality for Professionals – A Study Using Movies as Pedagogy

We may face ethical dilemmas in professional and personal lives. Moral depravity has been the cause for financial, ecological crimes etc. Value based decisions demand courage, and conviction. The paper examines conflicts in values and responsibilities. The research paper uses select movies as pedagogy to sensitize the professionals to dimensions of spirituality such as “karma yoga” and “arishadwarga” and discuss the consequent ethical dilemmas. There is complex relationships and conflict between values, responsibilities, at organizational and individual level. We observe certain events trigger act as spiritual anchors and decisions fall into realm of spirituality. We also observe that “what stand to take is as important as when to take a stand.