The Role of a Leader in Creating a Positive Work Culture

Be Receptive

To seek truth one needs to be receptive. To be religious means receptivity.

Truth cannot be sought – one can simply be receptive, that’s all. One can open the doors and wait. One can say only this much, “If the divine guest comes, you will be received, welcomed. I don’t know who you are, and I don’t know your address and I cannot even send an invitation. But whosoever you are, and whomsoever it concerns, if you come, my doors will be open – you will not find them closed.” This is all that a seeker can do. And that is all that needs to be done. More than that is not possible and is not needed.

So let this posture be your deep attitude. One has to become receptive. The search for truth is not a male search. It is a feminine search – just like feminine energy – receptive. Not like a male – aggressive.

Meditativeness is simply a deep receptivity, a readiness, an open door.

Superiority And Inferiority

Let me explain by giving two examples which will give you clarity how to hold our superiority and inferiority:

1. Examples of superiority – TATA – whole Jamshedpur and Mithapur are developed by TATA. In either of the towns the population was adivasis, before they took over. When TATA decided to develop these towns he did not say that I am superior to you in many ways. What he said is how we can work together for the development of the towns. Everyone was having different talents and he created opportunities for them. Today not only the whole town is stable with infrastructure, jobs, education, etc, but also parents who were uneducated their children are studying abroad and also working abroad, lifestyle gave them confidence and dignity as human beings.

TATA could hold his superiority and made the population over there to grow, live the life of self-respect and made them financially independent. Adivasi became emperor from bagger. To make anyone a beggar or a slave is very easy but to give them dignity is very difficult.

Try to give at least one person dignity in your life and see how much joy you will get. By giving dignity to others you will be stacking your ego. A Wonderful journey.

2. Second example is of Sabari – how to hold inferiority. When Rama came to Sabari, who was Princess of Bhil King. With a certain authority of herself. Irrespective of Rama’s superiority Sabri was not afraid to present herself. She did not become prey to her inferiority. She knew very well why Rama came to her. As she was a princess and knew the strategy to fight with demons. Still she gave the eaten fruits to Rama to eat. Till the time she was not sure that Rama would use her strategy or not, she has not disclosed it. If some higher authority comes to us how eager we become, excited to do anything or give our ideas to them before they ask. This is because we become unconscious towards ourselves.

When we become capable of holding our superiority and inferiority, we can come out of our unconsciousness and become conscious towards self. Ego enjoys and is nourished by both, superiority and inferiority.

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