A group of people was going for a spiritual quest. An aged man Leo accompanies the party as a servant and looks after all the people with a deep sense of commitment and care. One day Leo disappeared. The group falls into disarray and the journey is abandoned. They just cannot manage without Leo.
After many years of searching, the narrator of the story stumbles upon Leo and discovers that Leo, was, in fact the head and the guiding spirit of the religious order. He had gone as a Servant in cognito to practice the final realisation in spiritual life - God is present in all being.
This tells us about the concept of SERVANT LEADERSHIP - a spiritual, unselfish, and brilliant leader playing the great servant to his people.
SERVANT LEADERSHIP is the new philosophy of leadership offered by Swami Vivekananda. It was the same old Indian idea of kings kneeling at the feet of the commonest, and serving them with utmost humility - the Rajasrshis serving like servants - the idea of SERVANT LEADERSHIP. 'Be a servant if you want to rule', that was his idea in keeping with the Vedantic tradition of showing maximum respect to the ever-present divinity in each and everyone, high or low. He loved to quote the well know slogan of Sri Guru Govind Singh 'Sardar Sirdar' (he indeed is the leader who can sacrifice the most). Swami Vivekananda constantly reminded his disciples : 'I am the disciple of a man, who -the Brhmin of Brahmins - wanted to celanse the house of Pariah - and that he did day after day in order that He might make himself the servant of all ....He is my hero. That hero's life I will try to imitate. By being the servant of all, a Hindu seeks to uplift himself.
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