Success in Day-to-day living

Success is something that we all want to have. Who doesn't want to be successful? Even a sanyasi wants to be successful, a successful sanyasi. As a human being we all have a number of ambitions, desires, likes and dislikes are there and you want to fulfill them . Nothing wrong . Somehow in this country there is a widespread belief that, to have a desire is a weakness.That is wrong thinking.

Desiring is a privilege of a human being, only a human being can have a desire.

But at the same time, this desire is something to be fulfilled, if it is not fulfilled, then it is a problem. Therefore they say desire is bad, just like, if you say you have a headache, they say remove the head, then who is free form headache. So, removing head if you have a headache is a silly thing.

No desire can be fulfilled without effort, there should be effort, there should be enthusiasm, you require courage to undertake anything. Effort, you may have, enthusiasm, you may have, courage you may have,...no knowledge, then you will get into hot waters.

If a planning and clean knowledge of what I am in for, if that is not there then all the efforts are of no use. When everything is there and you don't take your Shakthi (resources) into account, which is very important. One should necessarily take into account, the Shakthi one can command .

On the way, please understand, there are obstacles…Don’t think that there will be a clean road. There is no clean road anywhere. Therefore, you find there are varieties of obstructions. Obstacles, will be there and one should be able to recast ones plan one's own ideas, and marshal one's resources and then again overcome the obstacle...

Where these six qualities exist, there the Lord gives a helping hand, why because still you require the Lord. Because there is an unknown factor, a factor over which you have no control whatsoever and that makes the difference between success and failure and that factor should not be given simply to chance and we don't. The Hindus, the Vaidikas, the Vedic people belong to this tradition, the Vedic tradition, we take the chance factor , into account and we call it Daivam (Lord), and we invoke Daivam, by our own Prarthana (prayer) . There your freewill is used and your freewill is highly manifest by your prayer because without prayer also you can work, and with prayer also you can work. And it is prayer that takes care of the unknown factor, which makes the difference between success and failure.

In every undertaking - you can get more, you can get less , you can get equal or you can get the opposite...and these four types of results you have for every action and naturally you should know how to handle them and therefore, if you know how to handle them, I would say, you are a successful person.