Only Prayer Can t Help You Achieve Success
Traditionally, both teacher and student pray together before beginning the study of any Upaad. Every Upanishad has a shantiaa, a prayer invoking peace, in the inning. Any new undertaking her building a house, writing a or studying a text-begins with a ver. A prayer is said to invoke Divine ce and to overcome obstacles. The success of an undertaking ries three factors-prayatna, kala dative. Prayatna is well-directed, quate effort, your commitment to pursuit. You must persevere and tinue to be with the pursuit until it is Omplished. This perseverance is yatna. Kala is time, an important or in the successful completion of an ertaking because everything does happen instantly. The third factor is daiva.an unknown factor. Unlike prayatna and kala you have no control over dative. An undertaking does not succeed just because you put in effort and time. There could be many obstacles in the way of accomplishing the goal; you may not be able to totally overcome all of them. Our knowledge is very limited. You cannot visualise all possible obstacles to be avoided. Even if you do, you either do not have the power to overcome these obstacles, or the power you have is not adequate. The result of an undertaking is not predictable. This is dative. You may call it law of karma, chance, luck, God or whatever, but you recognise that there is an unknown factor that makes the difference between success and failure. Diva may be called chance, something you cannot control. If you can control it, then it is not chance; it is a manageable fact. Though you cannot control chance, you can take it into account and do something to make it favourable, in which case you are not that helpless; you can be hopeful. This hope has a basis. Hope is not based on your knowledge of what is happening or what will happen and so on; it is based on prayer. It is prayerful hope to avoid helplessness. If you acknowledge the existence of this factor, then you are objective; otherwise you are in a helpless situation. You are in for disappointment. You would call yourself a failure saying, "I am defeated all the time and smothered by situations.I have no control over anything."By being objective you discover strength within. The objectivity here is, "Ihave some resources, talents and knowledge.Witallthese, i plan for a particular thing tehappen, but there is always one factorover which i have no control. I say a prayer to have that factor in myfavourWhen you say a prayer you are pragmatic. You know that you cannot call athe shots. When you do not call all theshots, naturally, you take into account the diva factor and say a prayer to hecontrol hidden variables. This prayer, meaningful for the occasion, is a specific prayer. When youpray in general, without a specific purpose, it is a broad-spectrum prayerThere are specific prayers too, for everseason, problem and disease, for instance. But like the intake of medicinemere prayer does not do the job. Prayento makedaiva favourable. You have to make adequate effort or a length of tin to make the undertaking successful.
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Only Prayer Can t Help You Achieve Success
Traditionally, both teacher and student pray together before beginning the study of any Upaad. Every Upanishad has a shantiaa, a prayer invoking peace, in the inning. Any new undertaking her building a house, writing a or studying a text-begins with a ver. A prayer is said to invoke Divine ce and to overcome obstacles. The success of an undertaking ries three factors-prayatna, kala dative. Prayatna is well-directed, quate effort, your commitment to pursuit. You must persevere and tinue to be with the pursuit until it is Omplished. This perseverance is yatna. Kala is time, an important or in the successful completion of an ertaking because everything does happen instantly. The third factor is daiva.an unknown factor. Unlike prayatna and kala you have no control over dative. An undertaking does not succeed just because you put in effort and time. There could be many obstacles in the way of accomplishing the goal; you may not be able to totally overcome all of them. Our knowledge is very limited. You cannot visualise all possible obstacles to be avoided. Even if you do, you either do not have the power to overcome these obstacles, or the power you have is not adequate. The result of an undertaking is not predictable. This is dative. You may call it law of karma, chance, luck, God or whatever, but you recognise that there is an unknown factor that makes the difference between success and failure. Diva may be called chance, something you cannot control. If you can control it, then it is not chance; it is a manageable fact. Though you cannot control chance, you can take it into account and do something to make it favourable, in which case you are not that helpless; you can be hopeful. This hope has a basis. Hope is not based on your knowledge of what is happening or what will happen and so on; it is based on prayer. It is prayerful hope to avoid helplessness. If you acknowledge the existence of this factor, then you are objective; otherwise you are in a helpless situation. You are in for disappointment. You would call yourself a failure saying, "I am defeated all the time and smothered by situations.I have no control over anything."By being objective you discover strength within. The objectivity here is, "Ihave some resources, talents and knowledge.Witallthese, i plan for a particular thing tehappen, but there is always one factorover which i have no control. I say a prayer to have that factor in myfavourWhen you say a prayer you are pragmatic. You know that you cannot call athe shots. When you do not call all theshots, naturally, you take into account the diva factor and say a prayer to hecontrol hidden variables. This prayer, meaningful for the occasion, is a specific prayer. When youpray in general, without a specific purpose, it is a broad-spectrum prayerThere are specific prayers too, for everseason, problem and disease, for instance. But like the intake of medicinemere prayer does not do the job. Prayento makedaiva favourable. You have to make adequate effort or a length of tin to make the undertaking successful.
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Swami Dayananda Saraswat kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy : Swami Dayananda Saraswat Speaking Tree , Times of India