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\nLife\nis about creating synergy. Leadership, teamwork that produce\nextraordinary results comes about when a synergy across the team and\norganisation is created. This can come about by rules and\nregulations or when a culture of cooperation and enriching each other\nis created. Foundations built solely on law and rules do not last\nlong, whereas a culture transcends many generations. The distinction\nbetween \u2018Hard Power\u2019 and \u2018Soft Power\u2019 needs to be understood\nto create such cultures.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cHard\nPower\u201d means, the political power, where the administration,\nbureaucracy, the Law, Court, punishment, reward, all this exists \u2013\n\u2018You HAVE to do this or you will be prosecuted and put in jail!\u2019 \n\u2018You should not do this or you will be prosecuted and put in jail,\ntortured. You may even be hanged!\u2019 This is \u201cHard\nPower\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cSoft\nPower\u201d is the spiritual power. It is a \u201csoft power\u201d\nwhere, if they follow, they raise themselves out of their own\ninspiration; voluntarily they come and learn to evolve themselves,\nraise themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n
The\nconcept of \u201cGod\u201d in Vedic Tradition is so beautiful, so subtle. \nBecause the concept of \u201cGod\u201d is a \u201csoft power\u201d, we also had\nalways \u201csoft power\u201d all over the world. Even now the\nworld\u2019s largest-practised religion is Yoga. And it does not\nhave any \u201chard power\u201d. It was never spread through political\npower. <\/p>\n\n\n
Buddha\nruled practically the whole of Asia, not because of \u201chard power\u201d. \nIf he was having \u201chard power\u201d, he would have been ruling just his\nkingdom. But, he left that and took up the \u201csoft power\u201d and\nhe ruled the whole of Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n
We\nwere slaves to some countries as far as \u201chard power\u201d is\nconcerned; and they were living what we were saying as far as \u201csoft\npower\u201d is concerned. What we should do as far as the legality\nand political things are concerned, how much tax we should pay, all\nthat the British were deciding. But, what he should do as far\nas his body and mind were concerned, we are deciding. Our\ntradition was never dependent on \u201chard power\u201d. That is why\nwe never cared about \u201chard power\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n
Clashes\nbetween the politicians and priests were always prevalent in the\nWest. In the East they were always together. Always the\nRajas and Rajagurus were together, because they knew their zones are\ndifferent. Kings never felt threatened by the priests. \nKings never felt threatened by the Gurus, because, whether the very\nway of thinking and acting, the Guru was settled in \u201csoft power\u201d,\nand the king was always secure as he was exercising \u201chard power\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n
A\nlittle understanding about this \u201chard power\u201d and \u201csoft power\u201d\nwill give you a lot of clarity about how to handle yourself. If\nyou always handle yourself with \u201chard power\u201d, you become\ninsensitive to life. If you all the time think only about the\nlaw and move only with that, then your whole life will be controlled\nonly by law. This does not mean that one should break the law. \nLet the \u201csoft power\u201d, the spiritual understandings decide many\nthings in your life than the fear and greed of \u201chard power\u201d. \nIf you allow more and more the fear and greed of \u201chard power\u201d to\ndecide your life, you are a slave. But, \u201csoft power\u201d is\nalways inspiration-based; it is not fear-based or greed-based. \n<\/p>\n\n\n
Based on satsangs delivered by rare Living Incarnation Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam<\/p>\n\n\n