Chaordic Principles and Varnashrama Dharma

Characteristics of Chaordic Organizations*

• Are based on clarity of shared purpose and principles.
• Are self-organizing and self-governing in whole and in part.
• Exist primarily to enable their constituent parts.
• Are powered from the periphery, unified from the core.
• Are durable in purpose and principle, malleable in form and function.
• Equitably distribute power, rights, responsibility and rewards.
• Harmoniously combine cooperation and competition.
• Learn, adapt and innovate in ever expanding cycles.
• Are compatible with the human spirit and the biosphere
• They serve their purposes successfully year after year without any obvious headquarters, no glittering center of power, no centralized command.
• No one owns any of them.
• Chaordic organizations are self-organizing and self-governing.
• They operate not through hierarchies of authority, but through networks of equals.
• It isn't power or coercion that makes them effective, rather it's clear shared purpose, ethical operating principles, and responsibility distributed through every node.
• They are pulled by demand, because they meet real needs very effectively.

What Chaordic Organizations Share with Daiva Varnashrama culture

• Varnashrama Dharma is based on shared purpose and principles
• Varnashrama Dharma is very low order of complexity; therefore self-ordering is quite possible
• Varnashrama Dharma exists primarily to enable all of the constituent parts to achieve spiritual emancipation
• Varnashrama Dharma is powered from the periphery (sudras), unified at the core brahmanas and ksatriyas
• Varnashrama Dharma is durable in purpose and principle; but not so malleable in form & function (once established)
• Varnashrama Dharma distributes responsibilities according to one’s position; everybody will ideally achieve the same reward (liberation); rights according to dharma; power according to qualification
• Varnashrama Dharma is big on cooperation; has little need for competition. Competition will be joined together into cartels, such as in trade guilds
• Chaordic principles are aligned with sattva-guna; passion and ignorance destroy the qualities needed. This means it will attract those in sattva, while those interested in control will not like it.
  
• Since we do not now know exactly what varnashrama culture is and how to implement it at this time, adapting and innovation are necessary. Varieties of efforts must be made in as many places as possible and adaptations to the local prevailing culture must be taken into consideration. Once it is seen that the varnashrama culture begins to function properly then others may borrow from it to enhance/perfect their own application of it. Once the culture is worked out experimentation, adaptation and innovation may cease to be necessary and curtailed since they are symptomatic of rajo-guna and inherent dissatisfaction.
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