Monday, 12 November 2018

For Success and Peace 

The Speaking Tree India | ET

By E RAVISHANKER

All actions that are undertaken can have four parts, not necessarily in sequence. These are: focus on the action at hand; discrimination between right and wrong to help us act appropriately; devotion to objectives of the action; and insulation from results of the action, not allowing it to affect the doer.

The four parts form a wonderful combination of mind and body to the one performing the action. To focus means not allowing diversions and distractions to interfere in the action.

This means application of Raja Yoga, that helps hone a meditative focus on the job on hand. To discriminate between right and wrong and take the right path is application of one’s knowledge, which is the practical side of Jnana Yoga.

To be devoted, as it were, to the objectives at hand is Bhakti Yoga. Not to allow results of the action to affect the doer is Karma Yoga. To disallow positive outcomes getting into one’s head, one has to give credit to others involved in the action and God.

If the result happens to be negative, the other three parts help the doer to take course corrections to achieve the objectives. If this doesn’t work, at least the doer will be happy with the efforts and not lose morale.

The four-parts approach helps us to handle success with humility; failure with creative course corrections. With practice, the approach improves one’s chances at success in one’s endeavours, and it provides peace of mind, and amplifies one’s scope for further prosperity.

DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.

Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta

Depend little on outer things, knowing that external expression can never express the rest feelings of the heart. Talk little . it is not words or beautiful language but character that will bring the light. Grate seers spoke in most simple language but their words were full of light of life, of hope and courage. Let the plant of your devotion grow in silence on your heart. Water it with the tears of true and sincere love. Look not of result; merely serve with your whole heart and soul;

The true devotee works for his ideal and for no one else. His eating, drinking, sleeping, moving, his every set become an act of worship. He feels that all belongs to the ideal even his body, so he feeds and cares for it, not as his own, but as part of the ideal. If it is hurt or hungry or cold or in any way neglected, he thinks that it is the ideal that is suffering, so he takes every care of it for the sake of the Beloved. Or he may look upon his body as a temple in which the Division Ideal dwells and whatever he does for it becomes an offering to the Beloved. He is therefore watchful only to give to it what is perfectly pure and worthy to be offered on that inner altar of the heart. The constant thought of the Ideal as dwelling within enables one to free himself from all physical bondage.

Thus true devotion brings you to a state where you live with your Ideal in every moment o of your life. Nothing else can exist for you except the Beloved One, and when you live in Him and Him alone, all misery ceases. Your whole heart flows out at the feet of the Beloved and you become lost in Him. This state is blessed because it leads to the ultimate goal-the true vision of God.

But, if He exists?

I drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.

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