Hi, this is SunDeep and what I am about to share
with you today will change how you see every
government policy, every institution, every system
that claims to serve you because I have spent
years working with leaders across the globe and
I have discovered something that will shake you
to your core. Every system we have built has
touched your life in ways you never asked for.
From taxes to education, from jobs to financial
structures, from technology to governance, none
of them have escaped this crisis and none of
them have solved what they were mean to. I am
not here to give you another analysis. No, that's
not my work. I am not here to debate politics
or policies. That too doesn't belong to me in
a traditional way. I am here to tell you what
I have witnessed first hand. in the corridors
of power, in the minds of leaders who shape your
reality and in the very soul of governance itself.
Every system that we have built from again taxes
to education, from jobs to governance, from technology
to the very structures that shape our daily lives
They have all touched us in ways we never asked
for. And somehow we have just accepted it. We
keep updating policies like patches on an old
machine, hoping something will finally run smoother.
But behind every improvement, there's this deep
gap that keeps growing every single time. The
gap between people and systems. Between what
we promised and what we actually got. Between
hope and what we have learned to settle for.
And here's what hurts the most. We weren't forced
into this. No, we weren't forced into this. We
chose to look away. When I say policy that forget
the people. I am not talking about one specific
group, not one caste, not one income class, not
one region. I mean, I am talking about people
as people, humans, not labels. Now think about
it. Children trying to learn in system that don't
see them, elders navigating Purocracy that treats
them like numbers. Women fighting for basic dignity
in structures built without them in mind. Entrepreneurs
drowning in procedures that kill innovation.
Villagers whose voices never reach the policy
rooms. Students learning things that have no
connection to their lives. every damn person
trying to live, lead, build, rest, protect or
evolve but finding themselves buried under systems
that don't remember them. Okay, now I am not
here to rebel against it all. Let me clear that
too. Gentle rebellion is a part of being human.
But this is not even about that. I am not here
to tear everything down with anger or heartbreak.
No, no, nothing, nothing like that. I am here
because I chose not to ignore it anymore. And
that's why I speak. That's why I go worldwide
to speak on all these things. That's why I advise
leadership. That's why I write. That's why I
author and whatever I do. That's why I have dedicated
everything I have to awakening leadership across
every system that shapes this world. It's a matter
of planet Earth. It's a matter of humanity. It's
a matter of our existence, our civilization,
our future. And when systems forget the people,
someone has to remember That's what this movement
is for. Here's something most people don't understand
about policies. They don't fail because they
were poorly drafted, no. They fail because some,
I mean, somewhere along the way they forget why
they exist in the first place. The soul of a
system isn't found, I mean, in its structure.
It's found in the clarity of its intention, in
the integrity of its action, and in the courage
to lead beyond self -interest. Most policies
today, and I want to think, I mean really about
this, okay? Most policies today are born from
pressure. They are created to satisfy alliances,
protect power, calm public outrage. or manipulate
a certain narrative. They don't arise from presence.
They don't come from a still mind or awakened
heart. They come from fear. They come from the
fear of irrelevance, fear of being exposed, fear
of losing control. And when fear leads, love
disappears. Purpose disappears. People disappear.
You see it everywhere, don't you? Taxes framed
not around dignity but around control. Education
reshaped every decade but never truly reawakened.
Technology scaled without soul. Praised without
ethics. Budgets announced like performances.
Like a credit -taking session is going on. Full
of applause. empty of transformation. There is
no belief, I mean in the people, no belief, no
trust that when called with truth, they will
rise. No faith that a nation can come together
to solve its own limitations if led with integrity.
Instead of seeing people, I mean as partners
in shaping a future, systems treat them like
risks. to be managed. Urgencies are ignored.
Non -issues are inflated. Problems are reduced
to headlines. And every time something breaks,
a temporary fix is rolled out like a gift. A
new relief. A new scheme. A new promise. All
short -term. Everything. All just surface. None
of it designed to transform anything at the root.
Not a single thing. Rarely. I mean, if the real
issue was never lack of intelligence, it's the
absence of soul. These systems don't think like
human beings anymore. They operate like machines.
They respond to input. They propagate that input
forward. They protect their codes. They run their
cycles, but they don't remember who they serve.
An awakening policy must carry something deeper.
It must carry human values. It must carry love,
not as an emotion, but as a responsibility. It
must contain the courage to do what's right,
not what's easy. It must believe in the people
it's written for. If that soul is missing, then
no matter how modern the design looks, the result
will remain the same. Hollow systems, tired people
and a future written without clarity. Okay, now
here's where it gets interesting. It's really
interesting. I mean, the problem didn't begin
in the institutions. Yes, you heard it right.
It didn't begin in law or in some policy room
filled with bureaucrats. No, no, no, no. It began
inside the individual. It began when leadership
forgot to awaken itself. Every structure we see
today is a reflection of its maker. That's how
it works. all the time. Every institution carries
the psychology of those who lead it, carries
the character of those who lead it, carries the
values of those who lead it. They carried the
corruption too. They carried their failures too.
They carried their hypocrisy too. Nothing it
cannot reflect. Every policy is shaped by the
state of consciousness behind it. It doesn't
matter how many degrees sit in the room or how
advanced that, you know, the data looks. If the
human being leading the process is unawakened,
the policy that emerges will be... fully unconscious.
I have seen this happen. Leaders who are disconnected
often know they are. Yes, deep down they know
something isn't sitting right but who the hell
is having the time to analyze this, to sit with
ourselves. They know this isn't the full truth.
But instead of choosing clarity, they settle
for what's expected. They operate from urgency.
They say yes to strategies they don't believe
in. They move things forward just enough to keep
the machine running. Even when their own conscience
is resisting. Over time, that resistance gets
buried. Silent. Now, and slowly, what was once
a voice becomes a huge noise. What was once truth
becomes opinion. That matters to everyone, but
not the one who is giving that opinion. What
an irony! What was once leadership becomes maintenance.
People stop believing that they feed deeply,
can ever become real again. They silence their
inner truth because they think it won't work
in this system. It's not the place to get those
things work. They adjust their convictions because
the room won't hold them anymore. They reduce
their decisions to what's safe, what's manageable,
what keeps them in place. But listen to me carefully,
my dear friends. A system without inner leadership,
inner clarity, awakened leadership will always
collapse no matter how efficient it looks on
paper, on media platforms, on their own official
commentaries. We need to stop pretending that
governance is just a technical function. It's
not. It never was. It's human leadership. It's
soul translated into structure. How beautiful
it is. It's the ability to feel deeply and act
wisely. And until that ability is restored, every
policy will carry a fracture, no matter how much
it's polished. If a child were asked me or if
any child were to ask me, why do governments
forget the people? You can ask this question
to yourself too, okay? Why do governments forget
the people? I wouldn't say they forget. No, I
will never say that. I would say... they start
believing they are the people. They convince
themselves they know what's best for others without
remembering they are part of the same humanity
they claim to serve. That one delusion is where
all distortions begin. It's a bit frustrating,
but that's what we have to face and we have to
manage. Governance today looks like an assembled
machine. Each part comes from somewhere different,
different policies. different departments, different
coalitions. It looks like a structure. It looks
like something is working. But at the center,
there is no engine strong enough to power it
all. No awakened core. No single rhythm that
ties it all into something living that can be
trusted, that can bring transformation. No system
can run on patches. No nation can evolve through
maintenance. And yet, that's exactly how modern
governance functions. As a cycle of repairs,
leaders roll out new terms, new reforms, new
labels. They show new graphs and glowing projections.
But the truth behind those numbers is buried.
It's not the success. That's the problem. No,
success is not the problem. Those numbers are
not the problem. It's what's excluded from the
picture to protect the illusion of success. When
something collapses, you know, numbers are modified.
When lives are lost, the count is softened. When
decisions go wrong, they are never wrong on record,
never. The system becomes its own puppet and
those within it becomes actors performing a stability
while silencing everything that doesn't match
the spirit. match the script, match the scenario
they wanted to create. And you know what's even
more sad? Even the media joins it. Not because
it wants to, but because it's too late not to.
The pressure to survive, to stay funded, to be
allowed in the room. forces even the boldest
institution to play careful. Truth is no longer
filtered for clarity. It's filtered for convenience.
Over time, this system teaches even the most
brilliant minds how to stay in line. You can
speak. You can publish. You can act. but only
within invisible boundaries that don't threaten
those who hold power. That's how courage dies.
That's how hope dies. That's how truth becomes
selective, situational, conditional. And that's
how leadership turns into performance. You don't
need a theory to see this. I mean just look around.
From the way policies are launched to the way
press conferences are held, the optics are rehearsed,
the applause is managed and the sincerity, if
it exists, is buried under a hundred layer of
design. Yes, I would say at least hundred layers,
not less than that. This is not what governance
was mean to become Okay, so Let me share the
most hopeful thing that I can Share with you
all today and that's what matters the most Because
we can have problems we can have situations but
without the solutions to them without the ways
to solve them, not to blame them. We must need
that part too. We are not just here to question
someone and then walk away. No, that's not the
way any human will, any human that want to bring
something good to the world will ever do. So,
I would say here's what I believe is possible.
There's a different way, okay? A way where governance
remembers its soul. I once heard a story from
a global respected leader. He was known for saying,
I don't like people who come to me only with
problems. I like the ones who say, It will get
done. At first, that made sense. We do not need
people who can get things done. Or we do. So
at first, it was looking so nice. We do need
people who can get things done. But here's the
question no one asked. What are we getting done?
And why was it needed in the first place? Because
if you create the problem and now you are fixing
it, that's not leadership. And you're not accepting
it. Nothing is perfect. No one can. Truthful
is what you can. So that's a cycle of unconscious
governance, I would say. where you are creating
problems. That's project management with a political
level, I would say. In awakened governance, getting
things done is just the baseline. It only becomes
leadership when what you are doing is born from
tooth. The act must serve human values, not institutional
speed at all. The first shift a leader must make
is not external. Yes, you heard it right. It's
internal. It's a moment of remembering who they
are. It's a return to emotion, to courage, to
care. to the simple recognition that leadership
is not a badge or a strategy. It's a moment to
moment embodiment of being human. A real leader,
an awakened leader doesn't suppress that humanity
because of their position, because of the pressure.
They allow it to sharpen their vision. They allow
it to question what others are silent about.
They allow it to guide them towards what is needed,
not just what is profitable or most popular,
I would say. I often imagine a government or
you can say a government room where something
rare happens. For a brief moment, no one looks
at each other through the lens of a party, organization,
agenda or ideology, where questions are asked
without fear, without manipulation, without self
-interest, where concerns are received without
defense, where people walk in as leaders and
sit down as human beings. That's not utopia at
all. That's simple majority Some might feel like
oh what a fantasy is creating That never happens
in real world. He has no knowledge about the
practical world. He'd know nothing about politics.
He know nothing about governance Then I have
nothing to say to you And that majority I was
talking about it's the bare minimum of what government
should be And in that space policy becomes something
else. It stops sounding like a formal document.
It stops reading like a scripted press release.
It becomes simple. It becomes clear. It speaks
to all of us. A child, an elder, an entrepreneur
or a farmer, everyone should be able to read
a policy and feel they belong to it. Every human
should feel like this system exists for them.
with them and through them, not above them every
time. When awakened governance becomes the norm,
something extraordinary becomes possible. We
enter a world where courage returns to leadership,
where compassion returns to decision making,
where love is not soft but the strongest force
in every policy. judge you and they don't dodge
you they don't bully you and you're not showing
a manly attitude when they don't even know about
what that means that kind of world is not a fantasy
my dear friends it's a decision and every decision
starts from where within there is a fact That
has stayed with me The entire volume of blood
Just okay, just take it into consideration this
fact is awesome the entire volume of blood in
the human body Flows through the heart in about
a minute Literally a minute. I was surprised
how what us what a centre it is, what a control
room centre we have inside us. In that same minute,
now coming to another part, and in that same
minute approximately 6 ,000 lighting strikes
hit the surface of the earth. We may not see
them, but they are happening constantly everywhere.
And that's how the lives of forgotten people
work too. Just because you don't hear them doesn't
mean they are in thunder. Just because they don't
show up in the policy documents or high -level
meetings doesn't mean they don't exist in every
corner of this world carrying silent storms within
them. The forgotten are not just the poor or
the weak or the marginalized. They are everyone
who has ever felt that something better was possible
but watched the world convince them it wasn't.
They are the ones who said this can be better
and then slowly stopped saying it out loud. They
are the ones who are willing to change themselves
for a better world but felt alone in the effort.
What systems often take away is not the opportunity,
no, no, no. It's belief, not just in governance
but in goodness, in what's possible, in what's
worth fighting for, in the idea that something
beautiful can still be built even after everything
that has been broken brutally slowly we are not
asking for perfect systems nobody is asking that
and that is not possible we are asking for truthful
ones only that's the only thing if governance
ever remembers the people again not in language
not as a voter bank, but in prisons, the first
thing that would return is warmth. Yes, those
who know the importance of that, they can understand
what it means. Not strategy, not programs, not
projections, just warmth, a softening in the
space between people, a willingness to come together.
Even when nothing is certain a sense that no
matter what challenges I Mean no matter what
are the challenges or what challenges we are
about to face or what we have to face We don't
face it alone. That's the only thing now we know
Sometimes I wonder what would happen if more
leaders could witness one simple thing Maybe
I'm not saying about I'm not a conference not
a crisis nothing like that But the look in someone
eyes right after they have lost something they
can never replace and Right before they lose
something else again That moment where breath
stops where the body becomes quiet, where nothing
matters except what was just taken, that gap,
that silence. That's the feeling so many people
live with daily. If a leader could feel that
once, not observe it, not analyse it critically,
technically, politically, but feel it like a
human, they would understand something. no policy
could ever teach. That all of this, the budgets,
the institutions, the governance, the technology,
it's not about control. It's always about care,
trust, hope. And without that, nothing will build.
Nothing will build the way you want it. Nothing
we can build. will last so here's what I want
to feel right now not that you have just finished
listening to another podcast episode because
I never take it like a podcast episode or something
like that it's just a way of speaking my heart
out to all the hearts those who have still eyes
and ears left in them and now that you have finished
listening it not that you have heard some perspective
worth discussing later and I'm not even considering
that because most of them will really find it
that it's the time to go and realize, I mean
go deeper go inside and realize the importance
of this or wait for things come to their doors
as hard as they can and then they cry loud and
say okay now nothing can be done i want you to
feel what's already inside you whether it's dying
whether it's buried whether it's screaming to
be seen that small undeniable knowing inside
you that says we are not here to perform life.
We are here to live it. We are here to build
it. We are here to remember what kind of world
we always knew was possible. If you have ever
felt that even once, then don't dismiss it. Don't
delay it. Don't doubt it just because the world
hasn't given you permission. Whenever it comes,
that knowing, that moment, that clarity, don't
let it die. Nothing in the name of safety, not
in the name of timing, not for anyone. Because
if you do, then all of this, every breath, every
word Every fight, every love, every attempt to
be good will mean nothing. And if there is one
thing I have learned, it's this. No matter how
hard life gets, no matter how hard it gets, we
still always have a choice. And the moment you
wait for someone else to approve it, you have
already lost the one thing that could have saved
you. That is what I know. That is what I have
learned. That is what I am sharing with you today
on SunDeep Talks: A Leadership Awakening Podcast.