Rama stands out as an ideal ruler intensely responsive to the wishes of the people. Today persons who are incompetent and unworthy are aspiring for positions of power. This is utterly wrong. This is the reason for the nation finding itself in the doldrums to day. The disastrous decline of Bharat is entirely due to the incompetence of those in power. Men of character, who are totally free from self-interest, should occupy the seats of power. Rama demonstrated the ideal relations that should exist between the ruler and the ruled. (SSS Vol.24, p. 60)