Three millennia ago, a series of natural calamities, wars and mass migrations led to the dissolution of established civilizations and empires in ancient Greece, India, the Middle East and China. This disintegration caused a loss of trust in religions and other institutions and practices of society. 

Since business is an institution that is created by and composed of humans, human reality can and should inform business reality because of the Upanishadic principle of correspondence.

The dharma principle gives the organising rule for maintaining balance among the different subsystems that describe business’s connections.