It is often said that power corrupts, but is it always true? Is it that nobody should ever have any power because it will corrupt them and they will exploit others? Not necessarily. What corrupts is not power alone; it is power without accountability that corrupts.
That is why, in the broad Vedic wisdom tradition, those who had power, for example, the Kshatriyas, were always accountable to someone above them—the spiritual intellectuals, the Brahmanas. As long as a person in power is accountable to someone, they will not be corrupted by power. And the ultimate accountability is to God through our own pure consciousness.
(Inspired by Bhagavad-Gita 18.43)
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