How can you lead others if you are still dependent on others? The leader must first and foremost be a person who has attained his inner completion. Only then he can be of genuine use to anybody. “If I need others, I will exploit others. If I do not need others then I can give something to others. If I do not need others then I am in a position to give something to them and that is a healthy relationship”.
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Questioner: Sir, you have said that a real leader does not need followers. I want to understand this.
Acharya Prashant: To understand this statement, you will have to go into the word need. What is a need? When does one need something outside of himself? Followers are people, other people.
When does one need other people? What is a need?
A need is a feeling of incompletion. A need therefore is a dependency. A need therefore is a sense of being weak, of being inadequate, of being not total without something else or somebody else. And hence, to have a need of another person or another thing is a kind of an inferiority complex. If you are with this, till this point; what follows will be readily clear to you. Do you understand need?
