HOLISTIC LEADERSHIP: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Today; we are leaders for namesake. Actually we are the helpless prisoners; shackled in our drawbacks, deficiencies, degeneration, disease; and deterioration. We are victims; of the morbidity inside and outside, which we keep on surrendering to; and spreading knowingly or unknowingly to our family, our working places and our society; and pave a way of; all encompassing destruction!

We and our stooges; get spiritually destroyed through economic abundance; associated with spiritual antipathy and degeneration; and ensure the destruction of people through economic scarcity; associated with spiritual apathy and debility.

Even as we boast of the vain glory of our hollow leadership; we are actually beggars and seekers.

Our mediocrity and/or idiosyncrasies sometimes match with those of millions and culminate in mass mania. As a result; many mass movements, riots and even civil wars erupt! The tragedy is that these violent outbursts nurture the mediocrity and/or vested interests; of us and our followers”!

Let us understand that natural differences in color and character; features and appearances; qualities and peculiarities; and limitations and potentials as such; are harmless and are part of human civilization. But these same; when generate pride and prejudice; and subsequent exploitation, imposition, pressurization, suppression, cheating etc; they become obstacles in the way of evolution of and practice of holistic perspective and holistic leadership.

Our sectarian perspective leads to consolidation of petty identities such as color, race, region, history, religion, language; based on petty interests; and divide and tear apart the world violently; in pieces.

Holistic leadership must have a vision of underlying global unity amidst the apparent diversity. It must also have the perspective and appreciation of the innate and inherent complementarity amidst the apparent contradictions and controversies.

Such leadership would inspire and initiate; the marshalling and utilization of the human resources for the Conscious Evolutionary Transformation, implying; holistic health, holistic renaissance, superliving and total stress management.

The terms; ‘welfare’, ‘progress’, ‘development’, ‘advances’, ‘modernization’ etc, do not embody the holistic meaning and content; in holistic health, holistic renaissance, total stress management and superliving!

We can be holistic leaders in our respective fields; if:

1. We prefer to grow beyond our biological potentials, by choice; and NOT out of compulsion, through NAMASMARAN; as it is the greatest of all gains!

2. We recognize our innate urges or the calling of our soul; and live according to “these innate urges” matching with those of billions (called “Vishvache Arta” in Marathi).

3. We inspire our religious culture, economic culture, political culture, health culture, agriculture, and even our news culture with holistic approach