Passage 6

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In plain words

It takes shape as the welfare of the world. Viśvāmitra had fully mastered all the arts of missiles and weapons that anyone could need. He had every missile with him; then what is the inner meaning of his taking refuge in Śrī Rāma? When he was performing a yajña, could he not protect that yajña himself? No. No. If he used his power for his own yajña, it would take the shape of self-interest. A yajña is for the welfare of the world. Recognising that no one but a divine person could bring about this welfare of the world, he took refuge in Śrī Rāma. Not only that. Recognising the Satya that their power becomes worthwhile only when it is used for that divinity, he took refuge in Him in order to hand all those missiles to Him. The Pāṇḍavas. What did the Pāṇḍavas lack? The strength and skill that were in these five Pāṇḍavas were in no other persons. In Dharmaja, the first brother, Dharma itself took on its form. The second was Bhīma. He had strength of arm, strength of intellect, strength with the mace and the strength of elephants. Then the third was Arjuna. There was no power Arjuna lacked. Arjuna won all these titles, Arjuna, Phalguṇa, Pārthiva, Kirīṭi, Śvetavāhana, Bhībhatsa, Savyasācī, Dhanañjaya, and won also the fitness to hold Śiva's bow. With all these powers, what is the inner meaning of their taking refuge in Śrī Kṛṣṇa? In Kṛṣṇa there was no self-interest. To children who have watched stories, plays and films, Kṛṣṇa seems to have had self-interest. In Kṛṣṇa there was not the least self-interest. He conquered all the kings and crowned another to that kingdom; He did not have Himself crowned. That is why the Purāṇas have declared that those who lived selflessly, holding fast to morality and integrity, are the ideals. All these histories are sacred. Only when we understand well the histories of such people can we set our life on the right path.

So this is one basis for putting ethos in the MBA class. If we take political leaders, or anyone else, as leaders, this is not true leadership. They are all selfish leaders. Leaders without morality and integrity. Any person at all may have some fault or other. Ethos means that those who came from the itihāsa alone are true leaders.

Then the seventh is R. Role of Rules. How are these rules? Without overstepping these rules, without changing them, without any objection to the conscience bound up with our heart, without our making a loss, without any kind of change in the Market Value: what happens here is that some changes keep coming in the environment. Many changes keep happening in the Market.