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Don’t Worry About
Failures
Life is meant not only for
winners, but for losers as well. Most people usually only speak about their
successes while brushing their failures under the carpet. But if one desires
true success one has to think about failures as well, actually pay more
attention to the failures so that lessons can be learnt. Most of us take
hundred percent credit for successes and end up blaming others or the situation
for our failures.
Blaming others for failures is a
natural human response, because we have never been trained to accept
responsibility for our actions. Karma rules our lives and we have to accept
ownership and responsibility for our thoughts, words and deeds. The very fact
that one has faced failures in life means such people have accepted challenges,
that there has been adventure! Whenever a task is undertaken, success or failure
follow like a shadow. Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose. The important thing
is whether we win or lose, we take it in our stride and move forward in life
with complete positivity. If we mope around for being unsuccessful in spite of
our best efforts, we are digging our own grave.
In life there is no
attainment; there cannot be. That is not the nature of life. When life fails,
it fails utterly. Whether one fails or succeeds makes no difference — the
failure is the same. Those who fail, certainly they fail; but those who
succeed, they ALSO fail, and in the same proportion. To see this is of great
import. A great thinker, Ruskin, has said that in life there are only two
disappointments: to desire a thing and not to get it, and to desire a thing and
to get it. Only two disappointments. If you don’t get it, certainly you are
disappointed. But if you get it, then too you are disappointed — because
whatsoever you were hoping is not attained through it. It is something else.
That hope was YOUR projection; it was not reality.
Failure fails, success
fails too. To see this is to let hope evaporate. It does not matter whether one
dies rich or poor. It does not matter whether we die as sinners or saints. It
does not matter whether we die well-known or unknown, famous or notorious.
Death comes and destroys everything. Death is very democratic; it does not
believe in hierarchies. It does not bother whether the person was a peon or a
prime minister. It simply comes! and dust falls into dust and disappears.
It won’t help one in
any way that one is rich; it won’t help one in any way that one is famous; it
won’t help in any way that one is a great emperor, this or that. If we can see
it while we are alive, then something is possible — something which is beyond
life and death.
1 comment:
wonderful explanation.
thanks
jai baba swami
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