Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 100, Shloka 25
शततमः सर्गः — Rāma Questions Bharata on Rājadharma
Governance, Counsel, and Public Welfare
कच्चिन्मुख्या महात्स्वेव मध्यमेषु च मध्यमाः।जघन्याश्च जघन्येषु भृत्याः कर्मसु योजिताः।।।।
kaccin mukhyā mahatsv eva madhyameṣu ca madhyamāḥ | jaghanyāś ca jaghanyeṣu bhṛtyāḥ karmasu yojitāḥ ||
क्या तुमने अपने सेवकों को कार्यों में यथायोग्य लगाया है—श्रेष्ठ को श्रेष्ठ कार्यों में, मध्यम को मध्यम कर्तव्यों में, और निकृष्ट को निकृष्ट कामों में?
I hope you have employed highly competent servants for important tasks, mediocre servants in mediocre tasks and low people in inferior tasks.
FAQs
Dharma in administration is fairness and fitness-for-role: assigning responsibilities according to capability prevents injustice, waste, and harm to the public.
Rāma questions Bharata about practical governance—whether he matches personnel to tasks in a rational hierarchy.
Organizational discernment and justice: rewarding competence with responsibility while safeguarding critical tasks from unfit hands.