King is not always the King/ Ruler?

King is not always the King / Ruler?

It seems odd, but it holds true. It has been observed since time unknown, that real leaders and rulers are always different than the known King or the ruler. As in Mahabharata, Shree Krishna was the King Maker and Yudhisthira was King. In Ramayana, Bibishan and Sugriv were Kings while Prabhu Ramchandra was the Kingmaker. Though they were incarnation of God still one must realize that humans cannot be good rulers unless become as pure as God incarnated Ram and Krishna were. Ram and Krishna could think impartially at all the times and their decision always benefited the society at large. Hence, also, Sugriv and Bibishan took shelter in Ram. Yudhishthira also used to consult seniors, and Krishna.

Later during Chanakya era also Gupta King always trusted Chanakya being King maker and had the knowledge and skill to find better for the State.

Even today, PM or President of many countries cannot take sole decision on certain issues they have to consult the parliament, or ministry as we call in India. Some times even Finance Minister take help from experts in their domain areas of expertise. Home Minister discusses issues with Military Forces and others.

Coming to Corporate World, it is said, "No one is individually stronger than all of us together". It is true. Many corporate have excelled well in adverse situations by showing their solidarity while implementing important decisions. Even if that organisation is multinational, multicultural, multi departmental, multi lingual, multi vertical, multi horizontal, still together they have taken decisions and have shown the world that it is not the Leader who stands alone but the organisation as a total.

Thus, many times people say that the real ruler is either the ideology like Parliamentary Democracy or Presidential Democracy or the Socialism, or the King Family under the guidance of well educated, knowledgeable, skilled and wise men, those rule the nations. Sometimes it could be the system, or the powerful people who rule but try to hide and rule. Thus, true rulers remain unknown to the world. Only few names come out in public. Either due to necessity or some other good reasons. Even today, most of the organisations are been ruled by many stake holders having strong influence this way or that way. I heard, even nations are ruled by some classical forces and powerful people and not the nation head. The nation head is a show piece for few years say 4/5/6 years, which keeps changing. Once one of my friend knew this he left politics and he started his own business, thinking at least let's earn money instead of false power. On the other hand there was one friend who dragged himself to politics thinking it brings lot of influence in life and hence joined one political party. One of my friend could know all these things in early child hood, he went on to study from top Technology Institute in the world and got his PhD earned millions for 15 years and now he is devoting his time for social services. He claims, the same that our Seers and Saints have claimed, this world is Void. There are systems that seems to be perfect just to just to tell/ show, but ultimately there is no system as such except the God's own system. He says that even top Kings have left this earth, top scientists, top rulers, top business tycoons have left this earth (died). Hence, before my friend dies he has something to leave behind hence, his social cause. Thus, he says, King is not always the King who rules the nation, there are forces having vested interest that rule the nations.

Let these rulers rule and create heaven on earth. Let every nation become well groomed, where all follow the rules and regulations, follow the systems with ethics and values. Let us not forget humanity is more important than these man made boundries. Let us contribute to make this earth a better today, better than the best tomorrow.

Dr. Ashish Manohar Urkude,
ashish.urkude@gmail.com