465. Aspire to be a leader and let Absolute alone be the SUPREMO!

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We need leaders to guide and it is always right to aspire to be a leader for a group or mass. Things work well when there is a concept of guidance and management. To a certain level leadership helps to sustain social ordinance or well being of the society but when it is misused by the people around the leader to manipulate the given rights then supremacy takes over and leadership losses it’s value and falls into the category of Bossism (Dadagiri) and Vandalism (Gundagardi). Then leader s stature will start to get contaminated with the tinge of Dictatorship (Tanashahi). 

Leadership qualities are very hard to acquire and it is very easy to slip from the status of a leader to a Supremo. Leader is a self acquired status while Supremo is a superficial tool imposed by the sycophants to ensure something beneficial from the society.  It may also be a state made up by certain group of people to either set an ordinance of higher level or claim some special attributes from the said Supremo.

In simpler words a leader is given the status of Supremo by a group of people for their very own agenda. Such an incident happens in almost every group irrespective of the class, the upper or the lower class and also in any area such as political, social, religion. The leader has to have a strong hold on his followers and should not be carried away by the flatter words of the sycophants. This can happen only when the leader instead of letting the followers crown him the Supremo, if he from day one considered Absolute to be Supremo. “Absolute is Supreme” means “He is above all of us including the leader”. The leader has to believe that Absolute is the doer and the cause for all the effects and in a way he is been used as a tool by Him. He is a mere traveler on the path with Him as a guide. If he does not believe so he turns out to be a Dictator.

After all the leader is a mortal and his tenure has to end. The immortality of the work done and the help rendered in the form of service from that mortal leader becomes Supremo. If the leader becomes egoistic considering the count of his followers and starts imposing his ideologies on the society it will be the first stupid act from him. Having said that if a leader simply practices certain ideologies sincerely there are chances that the whole society will try to follow him. Ideologies are good for self, but when tried to impose on other they become an act of audacity.

Supremacy should never be meant for the benefit of certain individual or his family and his sycophants only, but rather it would be acceptable if it creates certain privileges to a certain province. This can be seen as the Monarchy System where the royal group has certain supremacy yet it still has had a collective benefit to the province in protecting the land, its culture and tradition.

 

Again in very remote cases supremacy even though it is superficial can be acceptable if the superficial is beneficial to all.  In contrary if it does not happen so then it remains purely superficial and fail to appeal hence it does not require the abiding and is just respected due to the awe feeling by their own people!

“Mama Swami Harir Nityam Sarvasya Patireva Cha” (Absolute is my eternal Lord and also Lord of all)---- knowledge of this will destroy Ahamkara (Ego) and Mamakara (Selfishness) in a leader.