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THE PHILOSOPHY OF SUCCESS
the spoils of war, as well as presents, decorations, etc., for the neighbor's generals, ministers, and secret agents.
4. Bheda, "splitting, dividing, breach, rupture, disturbance, sowing dissension in an enemy's party, treachery, treason." This is the technique of divide and conquer, of boring from within. These are the four chief means, to which are added: 5. Māyā, "deceit, trick, the display of an illusion."
The god Indra displayed his māyā when he assumed the form of an inoffensive Brahman and appeared among the anti-gods or titans. These enemies of the gods had built a fire-altar in the form of a pyramid by which they were mounting to heaven to seize command of the universe. The harmless Brahınan removed a few bricks from the lowest level of the towering structure, and all the demons were dropped back to the ground.20 Another Vedic myth tells how the same god, when pursued by a company of the titans who had just defeated his forces in battle, suddenly assumed the shape of a horsehair and thus disappeared from view.
Māyā means "deceit, fraud, any act of trickery or magic, a diplomatic feat." Mr. Kurusu's diplomatic mission to Washington, apparently for appeasement, while the Japanese bombers were on their way to Pearl Harbor, was not an utterly unfair, unprecedented play, according to the completely unmoral code of Indian and Far Eastern policy, but a classic stratagem. The fishes always attack and swallow each other without warning.
Māyā, in diplomacy, would also include the wearing of the mask of moral probity, religious righteousness, and civilized indignation, which has proven itself a powerful weapon in the recent history of the West, where the war leaders have had to draw support from populations bred to philosophies rather of moral duty than of unashamed attack.
6. Upekṣā, a second minor device or means, is that of "over26 Satapatha Brahmana 2. 1. 2. 13-16 (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. XII, pp. 286-287).
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| SR No. | 007309 |
| Book Title | Philosophies of India |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Heinrich Zimmer, Joseph Campbell |
| Publisher | Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd |
| Publication Year | 1953 |
| Total Pages | 709 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 34 MB |