Leadership Qualities Found in Lord Ram in Ramayan

Abstract

Ramayana is the greatest epitome of India it teaches us how to live life every day. It has many lessons of obedience, courage, hospitality, leadership, and humility, all leading to the path of righteousness. Lord Rama, the Supreme Lord, appeared at the beginning of the Treta Yuga i.e. about 13,00,000 years ago in the city of Ayodhya. Even though Ramayana is age-old we cannot imagine the then environment, but the teachings are applicable anytime and are Evergreen in time. We can find many leaders in Ramayana. Where each one is a leader demonstrating a different type of leadership according to the attitude, righteousness, belief, and situation. Very few well-known leaders mention Rama, Dasharata, Ravana, Vali, Valmiki etc. But the one who stands out is Lord Rama. His ideologies, strategies, philosophy, and administration are applicable even in this digital era. He is an amalgamation of a good administrator, warrior, ruler, caretaker, family man, friend, and mentor etc., He has his style and approach to dealing with every situation in his life. He is a proven leader. The proposed research attempts to bring out his strategies and approach in dealing with every situation so that it becomes a thumb rule to achieve success through righteousness. Just like Ramayana is a complete epic in all aspects depicting every aspect of worldly affairs, in the same way, Rama is a complete man starting from ruling a big dynasty to attending to a strong devotee, Shabari aspirations. The work is based on numerous literatures as it cannot be simulated or generated in real time environment. Attempts have been made to decipher some slokas of some epics narrating Rama’s approach or stand for a given issue.