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TRANSFORMATION IN
TERMS OF SHASTRAS
LEADERSHIP TRANSFORMATION
• Vision
• Growth mindset
• Idealized Influence
• Inspirational Motivation
• Individualized Consideration
• Intellectual stimulation
BENEFITS
• Innovation
• Indian state and academia are driven by anti hindu ideologies not by knowledge.
• commitment to dharma
• an attitude of being dispassionate and impersonal when delivering justice and punishment.
QUALITIES OF A LEADER
• Being wise
• Courage
• Perseverance
• being on the right path and showing the society what the right path is
• Strategy
Physical health and soundness is a primary requirement for a leader and not for everyone.
HEALTH AND LEADERSHIP
Positive Examples
• Sri Rama
• Vikramaditya
• Nala
HEALTH AND LEADERSHIP
Negative Examples
dhratarashtra - had a physical handicap and also a buddhi dosha, a negativity stemming from a sense of
being wronged
Karna - karNa’s sense of being wronged, his jealousy towards those he thought were more fortunate
resulted in his siding with adharma, and in fact acted as a pillar of adharma.
WHAT DIFFERENTIATES A LEADER FROM OTHERS
A Raja represents will, and it takes great austerity to keep the will in line with dharma and untouched by
qualities of ego such as ambition, self-righteousness, arrogance and audacity that comes with power, partial
knowledge of reality and so on. It is not possible to overcome these without the 17 forms of tushTi-s and
siddhi-s.
Thus a study of sAmarthya (ability, competence) and asAmarthya (disability, incompetence, disqualification) is a
primary prerequisite in any attempt at dhArmic leardership.
LEADERS OF BHARATA
Examples of leaders throughout Bharata’s history from ancient times up to the independence struggle
• examples like Lokamanya Tilak and Veer Savarkar had these qualities
• Infinite positivity in the wake of the struggle they put up and the hardships they faced
• Solving most complex problems and coming up with timely solutions that are most apt for the nation
and society (karma yoga and other writings by Tilak and Hindutva by Savarkar)
• Did not take recourse to ego but commitment to the cause of Bharata and pragmatic decision making
LEADERS OF BHARATA
Mahatma Gandhi
• One can recall how Gandhi imposed principles meant for personal practices on a political
movement. This stemmed from his ego. One can relate how Gandhi’s ignorance and absence of
positivity reflects in his decisions, in cases like Khilafat and Chauri-chaura.
CONCLUSION
• Since independence, the standard of leaders in Indian politics has not risen
•
• there has not been enough understanding of what yields quality leadership necessary for a society
like ours.
• Most of the good leadership we saw arose despite the quality of politics and entered polity from
outside political organizations.
• Today, what we see in social movements and polity is negativity, groupism, rhetoric, bargaining, and
mortgaging social good for political and personal mileage.