Throughout the creation living beings take care of their own stomachs. A king lays the people under obligation by ruling over them. If the king does not overlook the fault of the people, the world would stop. In developing countries leaders, coming to power through the modern institutions of electoral democracy, soon revert to pre-modern mentality when faced with a crisis. A constellation of virtues marks the courtier wisdom, bravery, mercifulness, wealth, goodness, justice, birth, knowledge and cleverness.
Political writing is quite cynical about the idea of redemption.
He who works to give happiness to many, his friends, brothers, kin, Brahmins, servants and followers, leaves the world full of praises to go to heaven. The lower orders are dead . The beggarly know not of the pleasures of the world. They are living dead. This is the anthropological basis for the institution of begar or forced labour.