Personal and Global Leadership

[Guest guest]

It's interesting how people see Amma's leadership entirely in terms

of their personal relationship with Amma. Meanwhile she is at the

head of a huge international organization with trust funds,

hospitals, schools, home building programs, etc. etc. She has

changed the nature of education in her schools in Kerala by

including spirituality even in engineering, medical and nursing

colleges.

 

We don't think of Amma as an international leader, but she is. We

don't think of her as similar to a CEO of a multi-national

corproation but she is. What a different model than the other multi-

nationals which run on greed instead of love!

 

As I'm working on this paper, I'm realizing how important it is for

us to see the scope and effectiveness of Amma's work and to

acknowledge her leadership, especially important perhaps for women.

Amma doesn't seem like a leader because she doesn't lead in the way

we have seen many male leaders perform. What she does is so natural,

just like a mother.

 

In Amma's speech before the UN Conference of Women Spiritual

Leaders, as she was accepting the Gandhi-King Award, she called for

a reawakening of Universal Motherhood among all women in the world.

Taking a serious look at how Amma's motherly ways are highly

effective and coming to understand how and why would seem to be part

of implementing this.

 

We can look at Amma as a Divine Incarnation and decide that we can't

possibly do what she does. That's probably true when it comes to

raising the dead, etc. but there may be things to learn that we can

use from what and how she does what she does.

 

Aikya