Administrative Morality and Leadership in the context of Bhagavad Gita

Abstract

In the world today, the nature of the modern democratic state has been transformed to the
nature of the welfare state where the state ultimately aims at welfare to all irrespective of
any discrimination. In ancient Indian political thought we have seen that the concept of
Rajdharma i.e. duty of king is given importance in both of the epics of Ramayana and
Mahabharata. In Bhagavad Gita morality and skill of just society and life also have been
mentioned. Here an attempt has been made to discuss how administrative morality and
leadership that is mentioned in the Bhagavad Gita and its relations to the modern state. In
preparing this study descriptive and analytical methods will be used. The sources of data
are secondary.