I have been coming across lots of employees complaining about the work pressure, things not being systematic and problems coming again and again. People often complain that as the company is growing, they are facing increasing problems and challenges. Problems are never coming to an end. This is making them feel extremely miserable and dissatisfied.
Lets understand the situation through a story which many of us might have heard during our childhood.
Once upon a time there was a king called Vikramaditya. One day a Sage came to meet him and asked for a gift. Vikaramditya said “Whatever you wish shall be yours”. Sage said “I want you to procure a Vetal (ghost) for me who is hanging in a tree in the middle of the crematorium which is located in the Southern end of your city”. “You shall have it”, said Vikramaditya. The Sage warned the king, “Remember while you find the vetal and carry him you cannot retain him, for the moment you speak, it will escape from your clutches and return to the tree. Remember king to fetch the vetal, do not open your mouth, do not speak, silently bring him from the tree to me then I shall be most pleased”. Vikramaditya took the advice, went to the crematorium, contend on bringing the Vetal back to the sage. But vetal was certainly not happy with this. Vetal wanted to escape so he made a huge racket and asked the king “speak to me, speak to me”, but the king refused to speak, finally the clever vetal told the king a story, “you may not speak, but I shall speak, I shall tell you a story. At the end of the story there shall be a puzzle, if you know the answer of the puzzle, tell me the answer and if you know the answer and don’t speak then your head will burst into a 100 pieces”.
So the vetal began the narration of the story.Extremely complex and beautiful story at the end of which there was a puzzle, “now Vikramaditya” said Vetal, “what is the answer to this puzzle”. Vikaramaditya being a wise king had the answer and he also knew the warning that if he knew the answer and did not give the answer his head will burst into 100 pieces. And so he was forced to reply and give the correct answer.As soon as he gave the correct answer ,as soon as the word came out of his mouth the vetal ran back to the tree forcing Vikramaditya to follow him.Vetal was pulled down once again and carried back. As the journey towards the city began, the Vetal once again told him another story which ended in the puzzle, once again the Vetal said, “if you know the answer to the puzzle, speak up otherwise your head will be burst into a 100 pieces”, Vikramaditya knew the answer and he gave the answer. No sooner he did this, the Vetal went back to the tree. This happened 25 times.
Twenty fifth was a very difficult puzzle that Vikramaditya had no answer.He remained silent.The Vetal burst out laughing saying “Ha! Vikramaditya you don’t know answer to this question which means you will take me to the sage.But let me tell you something that is no sage that is Stotra. As soon as he gets hold of me he will transfer me to a goblin. The first half of the goblin will be to destroy you .So in not answering the question you have not succeeded but you have actually failed.You may have succeeded in taking the vetal to the sage but you have failed because you will eventually be destroyed because of this silence. What you considered as the monotonous task of pulling me again and again and again , the irritating monotonous part which you had to do and every time you felt bad that you had to solve the problem ,but this was actually saving your life.
This is a lesson to all the leaders in the world. They will be forced and consulted with many problems in their life and they will be expected to find a solution.These are difficult solution which demands lot of responsibility and accountability. So long as they are able to solve the problem they will be recognized as the leader . The day they are unable to solve the problem, the day they look at others to solve the problem that is the day they shall be destroyed, they will lose their leadership position.
So in life if we wish to be Vikramaditya we must always seek the Vetal. However, more difficult the situation the more difficult the puzzle, the greater the need for Vikramaditya. So choose what kind of life you want to lead, a life which is full of problem that you are expected to solve and solving them in glory or life which has no problem where you have no value because in a world where there are no problem there is no need for Vikramaditya who can offer solution

Regards-Nishu