Enlightened Global Leadership

At the present moment our world society is suffering from a devastating vacuum in global leadership. Today's typical leader is more interested in what he can take than in what he can give. This creates a very unbalanced situation which then filters down through all the levels of our global village creating unnecessary misery and anxiety for everyone. Even those who have managed to manipulate themselves to the top, and who are exploiting the system for their own aggrandizement, are not satisfied.

So what can be done to rectify a situation that has gotten so far out of hand? We need ideal men and women of character who can provide global leadership by their mere example, whether or not they hold a big title or a big position. Such leaders are described as follows in the Bhagavad-gita:

yad yad acarati sresthas
tat tad evetaro janah
sa yat pramanam kurute
lokas tad anuvartate

"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

If such a class of saintly persons can now emerge on this planet, they will naturally provide the new standard of enlightened global leadership that our ever-increasingly fractured world needs now more than ever.

You, my dear reader, are invited to join the ranks of those who pursue pure God-centeredness as the ultimate goal of their existence.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: How to Become an Initiated Disciple?...

How do I become initiated by a bona fide spiritual master?

Respectively yours,

Andrew Tullett-Court

Answer: Inquire From and Serve the Spiritual Master...

Your question, "How do I become initiated by a bona fide spiritual master?" is glorious because it is enjoined in the Srimad Bhagavatam as follows:

tasmad gurum prapadyeta
jijnasuh sreya uttamam

"Any person who seriously desires real happiness must seek a bona fide spiritual master and take shelter of him by initiation."
Srimad Bhagavatam 11.3.21

Our first birth is from our mother and father, and our second birth is from our spiritual mother, the Vedas, and our spiritual father, the spiritual master. The method for becoming initiated is described by Lord Krishna as follows in the Bhagavad-gita:

tad viddhi pranipatena
pariprasnena sevaya
upadeksyanti te jnanam
jnaninas tattva-darsinah

"Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized souls can impart knowledge unto you because they have seen the truth." Bhagavad-gita 4.34

We simply have to approach the spiritual master with submissive inquiries and a humble service attitude and reveal to him that we would like to take shelter of him by initiation. He will then guide us exactly what we need to do to become his fully surrendered disciple.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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