Spiritual Leadership:A Study on Four Spiritual Leaders

When one thinks of leadership, the most common thing that comes to one s mind is a military officer giving orders and closely supervising so that work gets done. This aspect can be a part of leadership but they are not the essence of Spiritual leadership. Spiritual leadership is basically Servant leadership' as it involves humbling oneself and doing tasks that no one else wants to do. Spiritual leadership has a humility, service and integrity as its basic components. People follow a spiritual leader since he serves alongside them by setting an example. Also people cannot follow a leader whom they do not respect, wherein the importance of integrity comes into play. A lot of study has been done on Jesus as a spiritual leader; hence in this study emphasis has been placed on f^oses, Sri Ramakrishna Paramhans, Swami Vivekananda and Swami Bhashyanandaji. This report emphasizes on the contributions made by the above mentioned four leaders. A set of attributes of spiritual leadership has been identified from the literature and all the four leaders have been evaluated on that basis. In this paper, the intention is to:

1. Describe Spiritual Leadership,

2. Understand the various attributes of Spiritual Leadership,

3. Compare the four Spiritual Leaders understudy based on the attributes.