Many of my characteristics of resilience, bravery, the importance of skill in daily lives, wisdom, and a never-say-die attitude were born pretty early during my childhood and it was because of the way my grandfather used to narrate great stories of Ramayana and Mahabharata with so much power of voice modulation that actually used to create an environment of authenticity - as if the scene is happening in real life and I am playing an important role in it. And that's why I always argue for having a good storyteller in each and every school. However, I have no idea if the right way to make the character of a child is through audio-video, only audio, or just plain through reading books. I think the educationists have to decode this very fact for choosing the best medium that should be used for transforming the character and building the morale of the children.
So when my grandfather used to narrate the character of Laxman throwing the ultimate challenge to Meghnaad in that cave shouting at him with his thunderous voice and inviting him for the ultimate fight for life, the fight which actually determined the future course of action of the battle of the Ramayana and it forced Ravana himself to come out of the shelter and face #lordrama, and thus the #dharam was established by the ultimate grace of superpowers of #lordshiva and #maadurga (who unknowingly or rather unwillingly had to come down to protect Ravana by making Him sit on Her lap) and I somehow used to think of myself at the centerstage of such situation it actually created a phenomenal personality in a child.
When my grandfather used to narrate the bravery of 14-years-old Abhimunya surrounded by the most powerful saptarathi - fighting all alone and still seeming to be almost invincible - and then his chariot was broken and still he showed the courage of saying te #truth to the Saptarathi to fight one by one - and not together - in accordance to the principles of war - and then ultimately succumbed to death - I remember I used to cry like a two-year-old baby - and today I must admit that it was not actually because of the valor of the brave youngster fighting all-alone but it was actually thinking about the cruelty in the real world - towards which just a teenage boy was pushed with the meticulous background calculation by none other than #lordkrishna - just to bring out the real fighter from inside #arjuna to establish #truth.
So, see having an uncluttered mind is so essential for leadership. Why #lordkrishna didn't see any sin in such sacrifices, because anyway, the best way a Khastriya can become immortal is only by fighting for his nation till his death and it would really help to establish the #truth - which was essential for the society - for the big world outside the Kuru and Pandava family - for the people of the #bharat and not exactly for His own or anything else at all. Such was the conviction of #lordkrishna. He completely knew what He was doing and what could possibly be the outcome and he played all-out for this - without any camouflage or guise - not really like a fence sitter - but being at the center stage of the whole drama - not exactly playing the role of a soldier - but rather having an eye of an observer and thus making each and every step forward with an absolute cool head and without any feelings of guilt or achievement - an absolute sense of detachment - doing everything, not for His personal gain or anything else - neither for any specific person - or family nor actually any specific matter or person - but just to establish #dharm or what is called #truth
Now, think about the way the powerful Kumbhakarna - who was sleeping - was awakened by Ravana. What Ravana did - was really awful - sent loud music - Kara Nakara - and all such stuff which in a sense was just unbearable for a sleeping man. Now we can think of it in two ways - one way is with the false sense of "correctness" - a product of a feeble, weak #woke mindset - that it was an act of cruelty. And the other way is - that Ravana did exactly what was supposed to be done for the love of His nation - wake up the sleeping giant by a #dhamaka - by loud force- by applying brute force.
Now, let us apply this same kind of realization for #bharat - a real sleeping giant made by external scrupulous people - which started many years ago - and gradually inject poison into each and every institution - the mindset - the society - the family values - and so much poison has been continuously pushed purposefully by people at the top - who with a camouflage of leadership attire of #bharat actually helped to get it destroyed - and now when it has almost reached the gangrene stage - what exactly the top leader of #bharat has to do to wake up this sleeping giant - yeah... you got it right - exactly the way Ravana acted to wakeup Kumbhkarna - a real dhamaka - a real shake up - a real ugly showcase of power from the top - and of course not by playing it safe as a fence-sitter just uttering Man ki Baat with the hope that one-day charkha of Bapuji will bring peace in the society. So let me sit quietly and meditate to establish #truth - #dharm.
He has to stand up, shake up, pray and start dancing with the #tandava mantra ON.
We must remember - laaton ke bhoot baaton se nahi mante
And to establish #truth - the leadership has to develop an uncluttered mindset about what is #truth - just like #lordkrishna - and then play all-out to establish that - that is a real test of #leadership
The best leaders know pretty well when exactly he needs to sit quietly and
#meditate
and
when exactly does he need
to do
#tandava
#realitybites
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