The Three Stumbling Blocks To
Success
Despair is a major obstacle to
progress. It scuttles the process of gaining success. “It cannot be done!” This
sentence is a great stumbling block to any kind of success. It was my sutra,
never to despair. Why should we think something cannot happen?
When we believe that the soul has infinite potential, then, why should we think
something will not happen?
The second stumbling block on the
path to success is laziness, lack of effort. It can be done, but
we do not do it. There are those who have the ability but because they put in
less than the required effort, they are not successful. Therefore, build up
your capacity to work commensurate with the goal to be achieved.
Dissappointment comes when we desire something, but do not work toward it or we
have not built our capability to achieve it.
If you place hard work in front of
you, and not destiny, then automatically, your hard work pays off and what it
yields becomes your destiny.
The third deterrant to success is
carelessness, negligence. It is alright, it will be done, it does not matter
... this attitude hinders success. People work a lot but are not able to
consolidate it because of their casual attitude.
These are three stumbling blocks
to success: despair, laziness and carelessness.
Additionally, I had resolved that
work should be executed with patience, for hurry yields nothing. No work that
is undertaken goes waste, if you have patience. If you are impatient, then the
unripe fruits that your work yields will be sour. A fruit is said to have come
to fruition only when it is fully ripe.
A ripe mango tastes many times
sweeter than a raw one.
A young man asked Tolstoy, “How
long to be patient. Can water ever hold in a seive?” Tolstoy replied, “It will hold,
be patient. When water turns into ice it will be held even within a seive.”
Patience is a very great mantra to
success ... I have seen that those who remained patient have gone far ahead in
life. Those who were impatient and restless got left behind, lost.
Another sutra for success is
pleasant conduct. A person may be very knowledgeable, very wise but if he is
not good with people, he is not able to achieve anything.
When does a person’s fate turn
inimical? When he starts wishing others ill. My resolve was not to ever think
ill of anybody. I do not remember ever having imagined anyone in poor light.
All through over my nine decades I do not think I have done or thought ill for
anybody.
I had one strong conviction: I
should never let inauspicious or useless thoughts about anyone enter my mind. I
should be able to respect everybody. Be he illiterate, knows less, whatever be
the traits – I should not look upon them with any less respect.
I also thought it necessary to
keep my emotions under control and did do so. In nine decades of my life if
someone were to ask me how many times I got angry, I would have to think. I
believe that a person who seeks success has to bring his emotions under control
or else they might have to negotiate a slippery ground.
Acharya
Mahapragya
Excerpted
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