{"id":1254,"date":"2023-10-02T18:04:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T18:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yoganandafortheworld.com\/story\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2023-10-02T18:29:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T18:29:53","slug":"conversations-with-ananda-ch-43-nayaswami-nakula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yoganandafortheworld.com\/story\/conversations-with-ananda-ch-43-nayaswami-nakula\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversations With Ananda — Ch. 43, Nayaswami Nakula"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nakula<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

When Nakula moved to Ananda Village <\/strong>in the early 1970s, he started a small dairy that he ran for many years. In the 1980s he moved to Washington, D.C., where he operated his own construction company. When he returned to the community he managed the Ananda Builders Guild, a construction company that was started in the mid-1970s as a way to provide Ananda families with an income. (Photo: Nakula and Nischala in 2001)<\/em><\/p>\n

Q:<\/strong> You\u2019ve managed two construction companies. Is there such a thing as \u201cGod on the job\u201d in the construction business?<\/p>\n

Nakula:<\/strong> I think so. Even when I ran a business outside the Ananda community, I somewhat carried the Ananda way of thinking with me. Doing business in the community, there\u2019s a very strong difference. In some respects, we\u2019re less organized and efficient. We\u2019re working to improve that, but the cooperation and spirit has always been there.<\/p>\n

That came strongly to mind when we had a job in the San Francisco Bay Area, working on a multimillion\u2011dollar project where we were the responsible contractor. We had almost a hundred men working there in the last months and we got lots of comments about how different it felt. For example, a woman from the phone company came on the job. She was a young, attractive woman and there were eighty or ninety carpenter guys working all over, and she said it was the first time she\u2019d been on a construction site where she felt safe. Not safe literally, but that people weren\u2019t making catcalls and off\u2011color remarks.<\/p>\n

Working with Ananda people is real life, and people are just being themselves. It\u2019s not a fantasy world of perfection where everybody\u2019s always pristine and happy all the time. People gripe and get mad, but the way it\u2019s handled is different. We aren\u2019t focusing on that part; we\u2019re focusing on cooperation. The discord tends to dissipate fairly easily when it\u2019s not the primary focus \u2013 wanting to get your way at any cost, and so on.<\/p>\n

When I was running my own company in Washington, D.C. I had jobs where there was that kind of pressure, and I found I was always having to keep the harmony because there were people who\u2019d come on the job and say, \u201cEverybody get outta my way.\u201d Real arrogant and obnoxious.<\/p>\n

Even now, we\u2019ll have sheetrockers who\u2019ll come in and don\u2019t want anyone in their way. But there\u2019s a reason for that, because sheet rockers have to work fast. So we\u2019ll talk about it, find out their needs, and set it up so it works for them. Afterward, they\u2019ll usually make comments about how nice it is to work for us because they don\u2019t have to be jerks to get us to let them do their job. They feel they can just say what they need and we\u2019ll try to help them.<\/p>\n

Q:<\/strong> Where does the different focus come from?<\/p>\n

Nakula:<\/strong> I think it comes from within ourselves. We\u2019ve figured out that life is a little bigger than \u201cme and mine.\u201d It comes from understanding that\u2019s it\u2019s the way things work best. Some aspects of our business are pure business \u2013 for example, estimating. But we do get jobs because of our reputation of being harmonious and honest. Our main advertising is by word of mouth.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been subcontractors on some big government\u2011funded jobs and several churches, but our biggest business is residential remodeling, where word of mouth really counts. It takes a pretty high level of trust for people to allow strangers to come into their home with sledgehammers and saws and smash it up and put it all back together and make it look the way you want\u00a0it to. It\u2019s very stressful for the owners.<\/p>\n

Q:<\/strong> Like the book House<\/em> which described the interactions between a building contractor, a home owner, and an architect. The homeowners were always tense about what the contractors were doing.<\/p>\n

Nakula:<\/strong> We tend to bypass that. We manage to create a feeling of trust and harmony, and I believe it comes from working from a center in Spirit, from an intent to tune in, and not wanting to let stress and disharmony prevail. If tension comes up we\u2019re willing to apologize or explain what happened and work to bring it back to where there\u2019s harmony.<\/p>\n

Q:<\/strong> Do you try to identify with the client\u2019s needs?<\/p>\n

Nakula:<\/strong> Yes, we try to understand their reality. When they sense that you understand their reality, they begin to feel that they can trust you. It\u2019s important that the customer be happy, and that the crew be happy. It\u2019s not satisfying to make a bunch of money if everyone is unhappy. You have to make money to stay in business, but that\u2019s not enough. You need happiness to make it worthwhile to stay in business.<\/p>\n

Q:<\/strong> Can you talk about the relationship with the employees?<\/p>\n

Nakula:<\/strong> I think everybody\u2019s basically happy. The recession caused some serious financial problems, but we weathered it and we\u2019ve added new people. In our kind of business, the employees typically don\u2019t have high job security, because they can be laid off after each project, but we try to pay back their loyalty by putting out the effort to find new projects quickly. And as a result of that, really, our permanent people have never been out of work for more than a few days. With the permanent employees, we never have to tell them, \u201cThere\u2019s no work, stay home and we\u2019ll call you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Q:<\/strong> Does the company feed into the community and the families? And does that come back to nourish the company?<\/p>\n

Nakula:<\/strong> We have a family campout every year for which we pay all the costs. The campout has been taken over by the Ananda family ministry, but it started with the Builders\u2019 Guild, because at one point most of the fathers in the community worked for the Guild.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what I like about construction \u2013 it\u2019s very diverse, and the diversity creates a sense of ministry, to the clients in the outside world, or to the employees, or with business and money and design. For example, we built a museum for relics of Paramhansa Yogananda, and that type of project naturally feeds into our spiritual life. So all the different ways it interconnects with the community and families and our spiritual lives make it interesting and appealing.<\/p>\n

Q:<\/strong> Is the company efficient?<\/p>\n

Nakula:<\/strong> For a while we had a big office with seven or eight people, and when the work slowed down we got caught unawares. I was doing all the bookkeeping, bidding, and coordinating \u2013 it was a big job, but that\u2019s what it took to keep the overhead under control. We had big losses, and we had to borrow lots of money, and then we had a customer who to this day owes us $100,000. But we decided that we couldn\u2019t go bankrupt because we owed people, so we would call and tell them what had happened, and with certain people we were able to arrange payments.<\/p>\n

Q:<\/strong> Did you get help from the community?<\/p>\n

Nakula:<\/strong> I did. Vidura [the Ananda general manager] would hire the Guild for any construction jobs that were needed in the community. We did some remodeling for the Village, and they probably could have found someone to do it a little cheaper, but they wanted to show their support for us. They were trying to do right, and they trusted our quality and fairness.<\/p>\n

We genuinely try to look out for the customer as best we can. Whenever we were having cash flow problems Vasanta Weber [consultant to the Ananda businesses] would give me good advice. About once a month I would talk with him for a half\u2011hour about my financial statement. I like running my own business, and I don\u2019t thrive on people telling me that I\u2019m doing it all wrong, and Vasanta was very helpful without making me feel stupid.<\/p>\n

I still talk with him, and that\u2019s part of what I like about being located close to several other Ananda businesses. I\u2019ll see Vasanta walking down the path and we\u2019ll stop and talk, or I can talk to someone about the latest book from our Ananda publishing branch and how it\u2019s selling. I like having the opportunity to network with other business people who are friends and give each other support. Your best thoughts in business often come from passing information along informally, rather than from meetings.<\/p>\n

Q:<\/strong> I spoke with a man who hired the guild to build his house. He said it was an eye\u2011opener to see how well the crew worked together, and how carefully they listened to his questions and requests.<\/p>\n

Nakula:<\/strong> It is different. It takes a while to understand the difference, because it isn\u2019t spelled out \u2013 \u201cOkay, here\u2019s how we do business.\u201d It\u2019s a flow and a way of thinking. What happens with our businesses, I strongly believe, is that we connect on a soul level. The employers, employees, and clients are connecting at a soul level, and even though it\u2019s invisible, it\u2019s something you can feel.<\/p>\n

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