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"When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants"

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Collective power is the real predator here, not the lion.

Saskya Pandita frames cooperation as a force that rewrites the usual hierarchy of strength. The lion cub is a loaded image: royalty-in-training, an emblem of inherited dominance, the sort of creature the world expects to grow into unquestioned authority. Ants, by contrast, are the anonymous workforce - countless, interchangeable, nearly invisible. Putting them in the same sentence is a deliberate insult to aristocratic myths of greatness: the mighty can be undone by the disciplined many.

The quote works because it’s not simply cheerleading teamwork; it’s issuing a warning. “Great things may be accomplished” sounds uplifting, then the example turns unsettling. A “single colony” can kill. Unity is morally neutral; it magnifies whatever goal is chosen. Pandita’s phrasing - “It is said” - also matters. He leans on proverb and hearsay, the kind of story that travels easily and sticks, because the point isn’t zoology; it’s social physics. People remember an image of small bodies swarming a larger one.

As a leader, Pandita is speaking to the problem every ruler and institution faces: coordination beats charisma. The subtext is governance advice dressed as fable. If you want durability, organize your “ants.” If you rely on being the lion, remember how fragile lone power becomes when the crowd stops acting like a crowd and starts acting like a system.

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Saskya Pandita (1182 AC - 1251 AC) was a Leader from Tibet.

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