Author : Sriman Patri DasE-Mail : Patri.PVS@pamho.netDate Produced : October, 2004Editor : Sriman Subhananda Hari DasSerial No. : 26 of 54

LEADER LEADER OF THE AGEOF THE AGE

This This presentation is presentation is based on the based on the teachings ofteachings of

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaFounder Acharya: International Society for Krishna Consciousness

Modern AdvancedSociety

What we What we want want and… what and… what we we havehave??

ALWAYS ON RISE

Murder

Violence

DrugAddiction

Rape

Unemployment

Corruption

Mental stress

SuicideD ivorc e

WARS

Who will save the Planet ?Who will save the Planet ?

… … a modern conception of a modern conception of a power!a power!

““ I am the monarch of I am the monarch of all I survey.”all I survey.”

I am the enjoyer!!!

This is ignoranceThis is ignorance..

Public Unrest

Communal Violence

Violence and terrorism

Steadily increasing every year.Steadily increasing every year.

Time Magazine Time Magazine PollPoll

11stst : : CrimeCrime

22nd nd : : Lack of MoralityLack of Morality

The main problems facing the The main problems facing the society today ?society today ?

With not With not enough to eat enough to eat

& & starve to deathstarve to death

Gun Sales in AmericaGun Sales in America

0

1,000,000

2,000,000

3,000,000

4,000,000

5,000,000

6,000,000

1997 1999 2001

Average Average number of number of

reported rape reported rape cases in South cases in South

Africa in a Africa in a yearyear

33,00033,000

USUS 5555

CanadaCanada 4545

DenmarkDenmark 4040

No. of divorces per No. of divorces per 100 marriages100 marriages

Before finishing school Before finishing school an average child an average child

watcheswatches

8,000 murders8,000 murders100,000 acts of violence100,000 acts of violence

… with pack of dogs in a room how can we expect peace !!!

Srila Prabhupada explains…

Are we really advancing

in right direction ?

Why there is much chaos & confusion in

society?

How can we expect peace &

happiness ?

Where is Where is the the solution???solution???

There is There is a great necessity a great necessity for a proper for a proper LEADER !!!LEADER !!!

Who can Who can become become a Leader?a Leader?

Do you Do you know know

THAT…

Only the perfect and the infallible can create a program which is applicable at every place and can be followed by all in the world. It is the person who rules, and not the impersonal government. If the person is perfect, the government is perfect. If the person is a fool, the government is a fool’s paradise. That is the law of nature. (Srila Prabhupada’s lecture Çrémad-Bhägavatam 1.10.3-4 Tehran, March 13, 1975)

Whatever action a great man performs, common men follow. And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.

( Bhagavad Gita 3.21

Whatever action a great man performs, common men follow.

And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues. ( Bhagavad Gita 3.21)

Head must be clean. Other parts may be unclean, but the head must be clean; otherwise the whole business will be spoiled.

(Room conversation Rome,May 24, 1974)

Clear thinking – clear understanding Clear thinking – clear understanding of the GOAL of human life !of the GOAL of human life !

Goal give a sense of direction

A Leader is a A Leader is a representativerepresentative of of

GODGOD

A Devotee of the Lord is a desire tree

“…Only a Vaiñëava leader can fulfill all the desires of the people (väïchä-kalpataru), and he is compassionate because he is the contributor of the greatest benefit to human society…” (SB 4.21.50 purport)

Prthu Prthu MaharajMaharaj

is a real is a real example example of of a Leadera Leader

…the leaders, the politicians, the king, the brähmaëa, they should be very much pure, without any sinful tinge of life.

Press conference April,18,1974 , Hyderabad

What are the simptoms of a qualified leader or a ruler?

Merciful and compationedMerciful and compationed

Dharma-pathe-sthitahDharma-pathe-sthitah - - always remain on a path of always remain on a path of pietypiety

DRDHA-VRATAHDRDHA-VRATAH-- firmly determinedfirmly determined SATYA-SANDHAHSATYA-SANDHAH - - situated in truthsituated in truth BRAHMANYAHBRAHMANYAH - - a lover of brahmanical culturea lover of brahmanical culture VRDHA SEVAKAH-VRDHA SEVAKAH- servitor of acaryas and old peopleservitor of acaryas and old people DINA-VATSALAHDINA-VATSALAH- - very kind to poor and helplessvery kind to poor and helpless KINKARAH-BRAHMA VADINAM-KINKARAH-BRAHMA VADINAM- the most obedientthe most obedient

servant of a servant of a devoteesdevotees

TITIKSATITITIKSATI- - tolerates like Mather Earth(KSITI-VRTTI-tolerates like Mather Earth(KSITI-VRTTI- MAN) MAN)

DURASADAHDURASADAH- - unapproachable to the enemiesunapproachable to the enemies

Real leader like a Real leader like a captain on the shipcaptain on the ship

Without a proper Without a proper leader…leader…

A real Leader is a Spiritual guide, who can take us from the mountain of our pride to the surface of our constitutional position of a humble servant of the Lord!

gurur na sa syät sva-jano na sa syätpitä na sa syäj janané na sä syätdaivaà na tat syän na patiç ca sa syänna mocayed yaù samupeta-måtyum

“No one should become a spiritual master—nor a relative, father, mother, worshipable Deity or husband—if he cannot help a person escape the imminent path of death.”

(Srimad Bhagvatam 5.5.18)

A king or a ruler must see that A king or a ruler must see that everybody has sufficiently food everybody has sufficiently food and protection…and protection…

See to the prime interest of the See to the prime interest of the people, which is to become people, which is to become elevated devotees of the Lord.elevated devotees of the Lord.

A Leader must be like a bridge between the people and theSpiritual World

Maharaj Prthu was able to teach the lesson even to Mother Earth to perform her prescribed duty…

Hard like a thunderbolt

Soft like a roseSoft like a rose

…humble and obedient servant of the Vaishnavas

…devoted to cow protection, guru and brahmanas…

(Srimad Bhagvatam 4.22.62)

teñäm ahaà päda-saroja-reëumäryä vaheyädhi-kiréöam äyuùyaà nityadä bibhrata äçu päpaànaçyaty amuà sarva-guëä bhajanti

O respectable personalities present here, I beg the blessings of all of you that I may perpetually carry on my crown the dust of the lotus feet of such brähmaëas and Vaiñëavas until the end of my life. He who can carry such dust on his head is very soon relieved of all the reactions which arise from sinful life, and eventually he develops all good and desirable qualities.

(Srimad Bhagvatam 4.21.43)

Prataparudra Maharaj

Desire to hear Krishna Desire to hear Krishna Katha from the Katha from the DevoteesDevotees

My dear Lord, I therefore do not wish to have the benediction of merging into Your existence, a benediction in which there is no existence of the nectarean beverage of Your lotus feet. I want the benediction of at least one million ears, for thus I may be able to hear about the glories of Your lotus feet from the mouths of Your pure devotees.

(Srimad Bhagvatam 4.20.24)

Who can hear nicely- can preach nicely!