RAMA OR RAVANA

While ‘Ravana’ means the one who makes others cry, ‘Rama’ refers to the one who is the personification of pleasure. Leaders like Ravana make others cry out of hankering for not having what others have, caused by the ‘less supply more demand’ policy. Such leaders prefer to keep resources under control, abandoning the people from experiencing freedom, which they fear leads to independent thinking, critical analysis of the situation, fault finding in the faulty governance and eventually dislodging them. But Ravana like leader ensure that the subjects continue to cry over little things so that they never think of higher values like creating positive revolutions. 

Ravana’s policy is creating mini-Ravanas by awarding handsome remunerations to the loyalist and shrewd so that they keep the people under control, exploited and in continuous lamentation and hankering of personal needs.

In Rama’s leadership, one finds subordination.  They  are loyal subjects  and they choose their leader   unanimously,  and out of gratitude to Rama, they are willing to do anything. When Rama was leaving for Vanvaas, all of Ayodhya was moving out. For them, Ayodhya was there where  Rama was. Rama not only gave them resources in abundance, but also gave them His very self. In return, Ayodhyavasis gave themselves to Rama.

Therefore it is the duty of the subjects to choose their leaders critically. Depending on whether they choose  Rama or  Ravana, they will experience the respective consequences.