True Leadership

True leadership is found in the person who can inspire you to live your greatness. There is no personal agenda, service is the all and all, and his/her sole ambition will be to inspire others to their greatness. This is what makes true leaders great.

There are two kinds of leaders, the one who controls and the who commands. The one who commands will be the leader who is secure, self-confident, genuine, authentic and sincere. S/he will command - and then it is up to you. This is a really important difference to one who seeks to control. The one who wants to control is the one who is acting from the place of fear, who is insecure, not self-confident and one who tries. That leader is always trying, but in trying there is an essence of insincerity. Either you are doing something or you are not. Trying is superfluous, it covers the actual act, so no one can see the fear of failure.

I have met few true leaders in my life, but they are the people who stand out few and far between as having had the greatest impact. The biggest gift of a true leader is that s/he will always command you to be who you really are - without compromise, without apologies, without hiding, without frills and masks.

Of course, then there are those who try to control. They are the bosses who come in and take over with incessant and endless processes of what should we do, what should we do, what should we do, until everything is broken down and nothing gets done at all; they are the ones who seek only to fulfill their own agenda; they are the ones who bite and fight and maim and destroy. They remain adamantly in the center of everything. They are the "geniuses with 1000 helpers."

When a true leader dies - legacy lives on. When a controller dies, everything collapses. The commander has led, but never taken the identity of the people s/he commanded. S/he has guided and directed them to their own highest destinies, and that will never be erased. When the controller dies, his or her genius dies with him and everything else dissolves. S/he hasn't trained people to be great - it was always just about him or her.

Each of us, everyday is a leader in our own lives. Our every interaction can be of true leadership, where we are desiring nothing more than the greatness of every individual we encounter. Or we can act from the place of the controller, where everything is about me, me, me, our own perceived greatness in complete disregard for anyone else.

It is in service that we attain all in life. It is in love that we are loved. It is in giving that we receive. If our interactions honor the highest good in people, if our own personal life leadership is that of commanding greatness and living it, we become catalysts for change in the world.

Blessings.
- Darshan