What Is The Space Of Leadership Consciousness?🔗

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THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

The state of a leader is born from the principle of responsibility that enriches people to become responsible

Kṛṣṇa owns responsibility, the space of leadership consciousness, Īśvaratva

Take responsibility for bringing authenticity into every action. Only by example can you cause others' reality and radiate the truths powerfully.

People’s anyakāra, the expectation that world has from Kṛṣṇa is that He is God, He is Bhagavān. He is now responsible to fulfill even others’ image about Him for leading them on the correct path.

The Master is one who is in the eternal space of Īśvaratva, leadership consciousness and is in the ultimate experience of Enlightenment. Out of compassion, He enriches by showing the path of responsibility to reach His state to all

Here, Kṛṣṇa talks about the practical aspects of why a leader needs to act in a responsible manner. There is a difference between the state of a leader and the status of a leader.

• Most of us want to attain the status of a leader but not the state. When you achieve the status of the leader, it is ego-fulfilling and you feel great. Some politicians are good examples for this.

They exert the power of their position on others without even feeling responsible. They were a little more dominating and convincing than the people whom they were trying to dominate, that’s all.

The state of the leader is something totally different. It is the state of the leader born from the principle of responsibility that enriches people to become responsible.

A leader with the status remains only as a slave. A leader with the state takes the responsibility to create more and more responsible leaders. Only when you express all the possibilities out of liberation cognition, are you living your life. Life is lived when jīvanmukta sambhāvana, the space of possibility, the space of leadership becomes your lifestyle.

Nothing else is required for you to be a leader; just leadership consciousness is enough. When Vivekananda walked the length and breadth of India, he did not have anything other than leadership consciousness in his life. But wherever he went, kings washed his feet, gave their own thrones for him to sit on, received his blessings and guidance, and requested his spiritual support.

It is responsibility that makes you realize all possibilities. It is leadership consciousness that brings not just success, but fulfillment in you.

When you do not carry the consciousness of a leader, even if you get the powers of the leader, you are bound by it and you also bind the people who accept you as leader and follow you.

Leadership consciousness is an independent intelligence; it cannot be hidden from others. Once you have it, the whole world will know that you have it; the world simply listens to you! You do not need any power, political strength or infrastructure for the world to know that you are a leader. Even if you walk on the street, you will stand tall. And the world will respect you!

I am talking from the context of being responsible for making you responsible. Be very clear, the person who talks has only one reason — making you responsible. I am responsible to make you experience responsibility as I have experienced it. A person with wealth is responsible to guide a poor man to wealth.

A person with knowledge is responsible to make ignorant people knowledgeable! When you own, you become responsible to make everyone own. Because I own responsibility, I own the responsibility of making everyone own responsibility. Kṛṣṇa, who owns responsibility, the space of leadership consciousness, Īśvaratva, is making Arjuna own responsibility.

- The SPH Nithyanand Paramashivam

Plan for success! Don’t plan for failure. Right when you start planning, if you wonder ‘If this fails what do I do?’, you immediately think, ‘I will hold him responsible!’ But holding the other responsible is not going to bring you success. Even as the thought — ‘I will hold him responsible’ arises, cut it.

In the words of The SPH I always tell my disciples, ‘Take responsibility for practicing what I teach you by bringing authenticity into every action. Don’t just preach what I teach. Only by example can you cause others’ reality and radiate the teachings powerfully.’

Deep understanding and experiential expression of the truth happens only with taking responsibility for all your actions. Only when the space of leadership becomes your own experience does the responsibility become complete.

People's anyakāra, the expectation that world has from Kṛṣṇa is that he is God, he is Bhagavān. They would simply follow what He does.

He is now responsible to fulfill even others' image about him for leading them on the correct path. That is Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa's authenticity and responsibility

Listen! By taking responsibility to enrich Arjuna with the science and direct experience of Enlightenment, Kṛṣṇa fulfills the anyakāra of not just Arjuna but of the whole humanity embodied by him; relieving the planet Earth from bhūbhāra, the burden of the collective unconscious, incomplete beings.

If you want your skin to shine, your eyes lit and your body radiating grace and joy, take responsibility for others' anyakāra.

In the words of the SPH

After Enlightenment, I came from the Himalayas to be amidst the people to enrich them with Enlightenment. I could have just stayed there happily and blissfully. But I have come here because of my responsibility to guide people with the right path of living Enlightenment.

• What is the difference between the state of a leader and the status of a leader?

• What is the space of leadership?

• How does Swamiji define responsibility?

• Do people recognise leadership consciousness in you?

• What does anyakāra mean?

• What does Īśvaratva mean?

• When people see Kṛṣṇa as God, as Bhagavān, does that make him responsible?

• For what is he responsible?

• Why did Swamiji come from the Himalayas after Enlightenment?

• Why do Masters scold us?

DRAW KRISHNA

MATERIALS NEEDED:

PROCEDURE

Draw Kṛṣṇa in all three worlds, the nether world, earth or heaven. How he is enriching in each world

INFERENCE

Kṛṣṇa is constantly engaged in action and enriching the three worlds. Because people look up to Him as God, they follow the path He sets.

MATERIALS NEEDED:

PROCEDURE:

Responsibility for others' expectations is part of leadership sciousness. Make new friends today. Ask the children to draw some pictures for the new friend and write a letter to a new friend who they will meet today.

INFERENCE:

Take responsibility for relationships. Love happens only when you take responsibility to fulfill others' expectations about you without bothering whether or not others fulfill your expectations.

Get the children to discuss the space of leadership, leadership consciousness. Let them discuss how they can recognize it in each other, for example, someone may be good at a yoga asana and also helps others to do this asana.

Conclusion: I need to be responsible for what I do for the sake of enriching those who follow.