The document discusses holistic leadership and the need for holistic renaissance. It states that today's leaders are prisoners of their weaknesses which they spread knowingly or unknowingly. True holistic leadership requires having a vision of global unity amidst diversity and an appreciation for complementarity between apparent contradictions. Holistic leaders would inspire conscious evolutionary transformation through marshaling human resources for holistic health, stress management, and universal blossoming.

1. HOLISTIC
LEADERSHIP
DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR

2. Today; we are leaders for namesake. Actually we are
prisoners shackled in; our drawbacks, deficiencies,
degeneration, disease; and deterioration. We are
victims; of the morbidity inside and outside, which we
keep on surrendering to; and spreading knowingly
and/or unknowingly to our family, our working places
and our society!
We bargain, encourage, promote and multiply our
weaknesses and pave a way of; all encompassing
destruction!
We and our stooges; get destroyed through economic
abundance; associated with spiritual antipathy and
degeneration; and ensure the destruction of people
through economic scarcity; associated with spiritual
apathy and debility.
Even as we boast of the vain glory of our hollow
leadership; we are actually beggars and seekers.
Our mediocrity and/or idiosyncrasies can sometimes
match with those of millions and culminate in mass
mania. As a result of this; many mass movements, riots
and even civil wars can erupt! The tragedy is that these
violent outbursts serve mediocrity and/or vested
interests!

3. Let us understand that natural differences in color and
character; features and appearances; qualities and
peculiarities; and limitations and potentials as such;
are harmless and are part of human civilization. But
these same; when generate pride and prejudice; and
subsequent exploitation, imposition, pressurization,
suppression, cheating etc; they become obstacles in the
way of evolution of and practice of holistic perspective
and holistic leadership.
Our sectarian perspective leads to consolidation of
petty identities such as color, race, region, history,
religion, language; based on petty interests; and divide
and tear apart violently; the world in pieces.
Holistic leadership must have a vision of underlying
global unity amidst the apparent diversity. It must also
have the perspective and appreciation of the innate and
inherent complementarity amidst the apparent
contradictions and controversies.
Such leadership would inspire and initiate; the
marshalling and utilization of the human resources for
the Conscious Evolutionary Transformation or Holistic
Health, or Superliving or Total Stress Management or

4. holistic renaissance or individual and universal
blossoming!
These words (explained in my books) are deliberately
used; as they convey and imply a specific and clear cut
content of the otherwise ambiguous and redundant
terms; ‘welfare’, ‘progress’, ‘development’, ‘advances’,
‘modernization’ etc!
We can be holistic leaders in our respective fields; if:
1. We prefer to grow beyond our biological potentials!
This has to be done by preference and NOT out of
compulsion! Because, such growth is actually the
greatest of all gains!
2. If we recognize our innate urges or the calling of our
soul; differentiate them from our petty and superficial
wants or temptations; and live according to “these
innate urges” matching with those of billions (called
“VISHVACHE ARTA” in Marathi) and then we can
be holistic leaders.
3. If our perspective, knowledge, culture, health
culture, agriculture, political culture and even our
journalism and news culture in print and electronic
media; which are fragmented, reductionist and

5. sectarian; become holistic and the contradictions such
as; spiritual, material, theist, atheist, superstitious,
rationalist etc; merge in the pursuit of HOLISTIC
RENAISSANCE.
(It is strange that the news papers, magazines, other
periodicals and different TV channels have a separate
category for yoga and spirituality. Actually the yoga,
and spirituality can not be categorized; on par with
categories such as music, sports, business, agriculture
etc! They have to be the basis of every field of life!)
HOLISTIC RENAISSANCE is emergence of holistic
perspective, policies, plans, programs and their
implementation; for individual and global blossoming!
The purport of Geeta is; HOLISTIC RENAISSANCE
is inevitable (in life struggle i.e. DHARMA YUDDHA)
irrespective of whether we support it or oppose!