Jaanaami Nagesh tava prabhaavam
Kanthastitah garjasi Shankarasya
Sthaanam pradhaanam na cha balam pradhaanam
Dwaarasthitah ko api na singhah?
”जानामि नागेश तव प्रभावम्
कण्ठस्थितः गर्जसि शंकरस्य
स्थानम् प्रधानम् न च बलम प्रधानम्
द्वारस्थितः कोऽपि न सिंघः ”
i.e.
“O King of the Serpents, I know your powers.
You are hissing only because you are sitting on Lord Shiva’s neck.
It is the position one occupies that is important, not one’s own strength.
At one’s own door, who is not a lion?”
In India, persons occupying high offices are eulogized, glorified, and exalted to the sky by a fawning public, which flatters them and is sycophantic, usually expecting some favors. However, the individuals being praised begin to believe they are truly great and deserving of the accolades and encomiums.
They become haughty and puffed up with arrogance, thinking highly of themselves, not realizing that it is because of the positions they occupy that they are being applauded and acclaimed, not due to any real merit in them.
There is a joke that illustrates this:
When the dog of a judge dies, there is a huge crowd of mourning lawyers at his residence. But when the judge dies, there is no one (obviously because, being dead, he can no longer grant stay orders or bail orders). 
Markandey Katju
Justice Markandey Katju is former Judge, Supreme Court of India and former Chairman, Press Council of India.
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