LEADERSHIP

TRANSFORMATION IN
TERMS OF SHASTRAS
LEADERSHIP TRANSFORMATION

• It believes in inspiring team members through example

• People rise higher through positive motivation than negative

• Leaders and followers help each other

LEADER QUALITIES

• Vision

• Authenticity and honesty

• Growth mindset

• Promote new ideas and creativity

4 I’S OF LEADERSHIP TRANSFORMATION

• Idealized Influence

• Inspirational Motivation

• Individualized Consideration

• Intellectual stimulation
BENEFITS

• Innovation

• Higher output and efficiency

• Develop future leaders

• People will work also if monetary compensation is less

• Enthusiastic work atmosphere

LIMITATIONS

• Totally depends on ability of leader

• Leaders might lack required qualities

LEADERSHIP TRANSFORMATION IN TERMS OF
SHASTRAS
Current Scenario

• Indian state and academia are driven by anti hindu ideologies not by knowledge.

• This made us believe leaders are born not made.

• What is a good leader in Hindutva.

QUALITIES OF A LEADER

A High Level View

• being selfless

• well learned in subjects like statecraft, governance, war-science, justice

• commitment to dharma

• ability to endure and face hardships

• an attitude of being dispassionate and impersonal when delivering justice and punishment.
QUALITIES OF A LEADER

References from some primary mythological texts

• Ramayana, Mahabharata, Purana, arthaSAstra, and smRti-s: These elaborately diRscuss

rAja dharma, and the main qualities required in a king such as prajA-ranjakatva and sikshA
dakshata.

• Pancatantra,Vikramaditya-Betala and Bhoja-sAla bhanjika: These texts demonstrate

through stories the subjects discussed before in a way that lay people of these subjects can
understand.
QUALITIES OF A LEADER

Few more qualities

• Being wise

• having presence of mind

• Courage

• Perseverance

• dispassionate delivery of justice

QUALITIES OF A LEADER

• being on the right path and showing the society what the right path is

• imparting fearlessness among the virtuous

• Strategy

• solving problems of people

HEALTH AND LEADERSHIP

ShashThi Tantra enlists 28 kinds of indriya asAmarthya.

17 of these are buddhi doshas.

tushTi-s and siddhi-s are limbs of a perfectly healthy buddhi.

There are Important to be a leader.

Physical health and soundness is a primary requirement for a leader and not for everyone.
HEALTH AND LEADERSHIP

Positive Examples

we do celebrate the perfect body-vAstu of

• 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

• SAstra jnAna required to make the dhArmic decisions

• Very little if any, incompetence of buddhi

 LEADERS OF BHARATA

• 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

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

• Netaji Subash Chandra Bose stands out on #1 #3 and #5 as a bright example

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.