INFRASTRUCTURE AND INNER STRUCTURE

One student from the Western world came to India and so was her observation…. “India’s infrastructure is very incoherent, buildings are not orderly, and every design is different from the other. In the western world houses, buildings are very coherently built, there is orderliness.”  She did not stop at this, she continued, “but I think Indian homes are coherent from within, there are cordial relationships, families are built nicely, and father, mother, children and other relatives are staying in these houses all together. But in the western world, the families are broken, parents are not staying together(separated), kids are in their own world.”

Infrastructure is good but inner structure is broken—that is west.

Inner structure is good but infrastructure is improper – that is India.  Of course, India too is catching up fast with its western counterpart in becoming weak from within. It is in a most precarious condition indeed!

Vedic leadership talks about the coordination between the inner and outer infrastructure, lack of which leads to continuous conflict. In the proper system,

Individual strength increases collective strength and collective strength in turn, helps the weak individual to grow.

Decentralized leadership helps people grow internally and centralized leadership helps the infrastructure grow.

Decentralized leadership consisted of Parents, Teachers and village heads. The king, ministers and the army were the centralized leaders.

 Morality was individual responsibility, and legality was the king’s responsibility. 

Morality would help grow internally and legality would help grow externally. 

This is the system which our Vedic scriptures and traditional leaders teach us. Therefore, India was economically strong, even up to the 18^th century. Because Laxmi (Represents wealth) with Narayana is very auspicious.  Laxmi is prosperity and with Narayana it is Dharmik.

So let us find a leader who tries to create such a system of leadership!