The way to develop the ten Royal Qualities

In order to show how these qualities are developed I can summarize it into three words. Gifting, Restraint and Taming.

Let me briefly expound to you the fruits of gifting. The fruits of gifting are wealth and comforts. Good noble friends, good advisors, good reliable, honest, skilled assistants and workers. Now this is the most valuable fruit for a leader, because a leader always needs good people to work with. Infact that is one of his greatest assets. Another fruit of gifting is good children but most of all the greatest fruit of gifting is that it positively helps in the destruction of greed. If you go from greed to greed these ten qualities will never get developed. If you go from greed to greed you will only go from misery to misery. The restraint of the senses or the practice of austerity goes hand in hand with the control of greed. If you practise this process of gifting continuously, frequently, it acts positively for the abatement and the destruction of greed.

The next is restraint. This means the restraint of the senses. The control and the guarding of the doors of the senses. Practice of austerities and the development of virtue can only get completed, if one is always practising restraint. It is very easy to cater to the pleasures of the senses. Anyone can do that. However, it requires effort to restrain one's senses and it is this development of restraint that goes to fulfil those two qualities that I earlier mentioned as virtue and austerity.

Finally we come to this process of taming. What it means is the taming of the mind. A mind that is tamed means a mind that is calm and serene. A mind that is well collected, well composed and endowed with knowledge and wisdom. This is a most vital process because the mind is the forerunner to all things. Therefore, firm resolve and much effort should be directed to the task of taming the mind. A leader in the process of trying to fulfil his objectives will encounter obstacles. He overcomes those obstacles by wisdom. Unforseen conditions, obstacles, problems are of the nature to arise when one proceeds towards fulfilment of objectives. A leader requires wisdom at that time to surmount them and to carry on with his task.

When these three practices of gifting, restraint and taming are developed and when you make much of it these ten royal qualities blossom out. When these ten royal qualities blossom out a being acquires certain skills which makes one a leader.

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