Even national
election it does not matter at all.
The world will
be a better place if leaders are not from the tribe of 'next election minding
category'.
Position, post
,power all are meaningless if they are not used for actions which can
contribute with lasting impact in some field, for some people , for benefit of
posterity and humanity's evolutionary growth and development and so on.
The better it
is for humanity if more such souls occupy higher positions and are impregnated
with greater power.
Many scholars
debated with Adi Shankara but his vision and intention was to unite all warring
factions, feuds, flamboyant debaters under an umbrella of Sanathana Dharma with
a mixed bag of rituals, logic, philosophy etc and therefore others’ impact and
importance have been relegated to the back ground not because they were any
less scholarly or saintly;
Swami
Vivekananda's vision was to make the whole world know the great philosophy
hidden in many scriptures in the idiom and language in which the Western
scholars would understand it and as a result the philosophy of Sanathana Dharma
is known to all [ incidentally to most Indians too because of that].
Both could have
lived a very comfortable life of monk or a swamiji with all the great adulation
and object veneration that others shower on them but instead used their power
to translate their vision into a reality.
Everything
about life, including life itself, is not so much about chronological longevity
[which in any case cannot be stretched beyond a limit] but enhancing the
intrinsic values and synderesical [synderesis] qualities.
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