Today's world is torn by the fundamentalist aggression, consumerist greed ending in cut-throat economic competition, and frustration and peacelessness arising out of a sensate culture. People all over the world are in search of peace, stability, amity among religions, and individual freedom in a sustainable society. All this can come only under the right kind of leadership. In this global civilisation, we need leaders who are universal in approach, all¬embracing in religious outlook, rational and humanistic in thinking, and above all spiritual in vision. All great leaders are products of great philosophy. India's universal¬rational-humanistic Vedanta culture has given rise to spiritual and epochal heroes like Buddha, Ashoka, Guru Nanak, Shankaracharya, and most 'recently Swami Vivekananda.