Name: Khushboo Singh
Country: India

Year: 2025
Volume: Volume-10, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 52-62
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18195273

ABSTRACT
This paper explores the integration of values from the Gurukul system in Ancient India with the concept of Modern Emotional Intelligence (EI), juxtaposing Devdutt Pattanaik‟s "My Hanuman Chalisa" and Daniel Goleman's "Emotional Intelligence." Gurukul represents a system of education that aimed at the holistic development of an individual‟s intellect, morality, and emotions through guidance, social living, and disciplined action. Through the correlation of the chaupais of the Hanuman Chalisa with Goleman‟s classification of EI into self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management, Hanuman Chalisa has been shown to be the “Psychological Knot” where Hanuman symbolically represents the Psychological Archetype of “Emotional Control,” “Moral Upliftment,” and “Bhavdhara,” or selfless service. With such understandings, it is proposed here that the
“Gurukul 2.0” framework be applied to modern education and leadership. Some key aspects include transformation from personal success to collective service, cultivating contextual empathies among organizational leaders, identifying and cultivating “obstacle-removers” in their organizational workforce, rooting all work efforts in the pursuit of organizational ethics, and creating organizational culture strategies that harmonize thought, action, and speech.

Keywords: Gurukul, Goleman‟s EI, Emotional Quotient, Gurukul 2.0, Hanuman Chalisa,
Devdutt Pattnaik, Emotional Intelligence