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BLOSSOMING OF THE LOVE BUDS
In organizations too, we shall find that it is impossible to make any real progress except by working in harmony with the divine laws. So long as the organizations adhered to the principle of love in their dealings with the people, they flourished to their own and their people's advantage; but the moment they allowed the emotions of hatred, pride and self-aggrandizement to take over, they were swept away from existence. It is clear that the failure to observe the law of brotherhood was the cause of their downfall, for pride and self-glorification give rise to the worst kind of hypocrisy and, ultimately, also lead to tyranny, the mother of destruction.
The principle of good governance, based on the same theme, has been laid down by a great poet, many years ago (originally in Urdu):
“The people are like the root, and the king like the tree; the strength of the tree depends on the root, my son!”
Wherever this simple principle of good governance has been put into practice, it has never failed to afford happiness and joy to all concerned. It is well to bear in mind that the aim of existence is not to fill our own pockets to the detriment of all others, nor to lord it over others, but to so live in the world as to allow ourselves and all others to attain the fullest measure of peace, harmony and happiness. Since love gives rise to confidence and amity, and hatred to fear and a sense of revenge, it follows that peace and harmony, internal and external alike, are to be had only under the rule of love.
A true believer in the rule of love will necessarily develop in himself the two virtues of humility and modesty. Bowing before the virtuous with veneration is humility. To be free from pride in spite of owning great skills and knowledge is modesty. A humble
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