To Achieve Success, Rise Above It
Spiritual life is one of dynamism, cheer and brilliance. It enables you to enjoy life every moment of your Life. It removes the grief, despair and depression that is associated with modern life. It energises, refreshes and vitalises you. It inspires youa nd makes you creative. It introduces you to the most potent aspect in you-the Atman or Spirit. Denied access to the Spirit, you live a dependent life, tormented by the world. Empowered by the Spirit, you transform from victim to victor, conquered to conqueror, subject to master. All it takes is a slight adjustment within, a minor change in attitude. Spiritual life is not about changing your wardrobe, diet or lifestyle. It is about a shift in outlook. From profiteering offering, from grabbing to giving, from me to 'you'. It is expanding your mind to accommodate higher pursuits. If you chase after success, it will elude you. Rise above the desire to prosper: Focus on adding value to others. You will be showered with prosperity. People work because they have to make a living. This makes for drudgery as you have no interest in the work you do. Be passionate about what you do. An athlete should be dedicated to her sport. A musician must love her field. Then you enjoy the hard work and rigour that is necessary to excel in life. Work in a spirit of Yajna-service and sacrifice towards a higher ideal. You will achieve effortless success and prosperity. Thought of self is the greatest speaking obstacle to both success and happiness. Focus on a goal beyond you and success will be yours. A student who is obsessed with doing well in an exam is likely to fail. A job aspirant craving fora job does not get it. A young man wanting desperately to get married fails in his endeavour. All three fall short not because of incompetence but because thought of self comes in the way. There is perfection within you. All you have to do is remove the self-created obstacles that come in the way Then fluent performance will follow easily. Espouse a larger cause, a worthwhile goal. Rise from mere physical delights to a powerful emotional motivation. Then you rise above physical limitations and come up with magnificent performance. You find an unknown resource of energy and vitality within you. Fix an tree intellectual ideal and even emotional hang-ups become irrelevant. You experience a creative download and find brilliant solutions to problems. Envision a spiritual goal and you achieve the impossible. Hence the MunUpanishad says that even one whoaspires for mere material prosperneeds to emulate an enlightened SAs long as a desire is unfulfillemind is agitated and you are unhaWhen the desire is fulfilled your mcalm and you are happy Thus youwrongly attribute happiness to theobject of desire. If happiness werinherent in theobject, the same should give the same quantum ofhappiness to all. But an object canextreme happiness to one and uttemisery to another. True happinesin risingabove desire. Then objecсdesire will come to you and you w happy Thus Vedanta gives you avbeing successful as well as happy.
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Courtesy : Jaya Row Speaking Tree, Times of India
To Achieve Success, Rise Above It
Spiritual life is one of dynamism, cheer and brilliance. It enables you to enjoy life every moment of your Life. It removes the grief, despair and depression that is associated with modern life. It energises, refreshes and vitalises you. It inspires youa nd makes you creative. It introduces you to the most potent aspect in you-the Atman or Spirit. Denied access to the Spirit, you live a dependent life, tormented by the world. Empowered by the Spirit, you transform from victim to victor, conquered to conqueror, subject to master. All it takes is a slight adjustment within, a minor change in attitude. Spiritual life is not about changing your wardrobe, diet or lifestyle. It is about a shift in outlook. From profiteering offering, from grabbing to giving, from me to 'you'. It is expanding your mind to accommodate higher pursuits. If you chase after success, it will elude you. Rise above the desire to prosper: Focus on adding value to others. You will be showered with prosperity. People work because they have to make a living. This makes for drudgery as you have no interest in the work you do. Be passionate about what you do. An athlete should be dedicated to her sport. A musician must love her field. Then you enjoy the hard work and rigour that is necessary to excel in life. Work in a spirit of Yajna-service and sacrifice towards a higher ideal. You will achieve effortless success and prosperity. Thought of self is the greatest speaking obstacle to both success and happiness. Focus on a goal beyond you and success will be yours. A student who is obsessed with doing well in an exam is likely to fail. A job aspirant craving fora job does not get it. A young man wanting desperately to get married fails in his endeavour. All three fall short not because of incompetence but because thought of self comes in the way. There is perfection within you. All you have to do is remove the self-created obstacles that come in the way Then fluent performance will follow easily. Espouse a larger cause, a worthwhile goal. Rise from mere physical delights to a powerful emotional motivation. Then you rise above physical limitations and come up with magnificent performance. You find an unknown resource of energy and vitality within you. Fix an tree intellectual ideal and even emotional hang-ups become irrelevant. You experience a creative download and find brilliant solutions to problems. Envision a spiritual goal and you achieve the impossible. Hence the MunUpanishad says that even one whoaspires for mere material prosperneeds to emulate an enlightened SAs long as a desire is unfulfillemind is agitated and you are unhaWhen the desire is fulfilled your mcalm and you are happy Thus youwrongly attribute happiness to theobject of desire. If happiness werinherent in theobject, the same should give the same quantum ofhappiness to all. But an object canextreme happiness to one and uttemisery to another. True happinesin risingabove desire. Then objecсdesire will come to you and you w happy Thus Vedanta gives you avbeing successful as well as happy.
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Jaya Row 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 : Jaya Row Speaking Tree, Times of India