Sure Ways
of Success in Life
1.
Control the modifications of the mind-stuff in
order to be able to have clear perception and true insight.
2.
We become normal only when we cease from
thinking in terms of forms of the mental modification and begin to adopt quite
a different way of perception. In other words, we have to rest in our own
selves, first, in order that we may be healthy and also have a healthy
perception of things.
3.
All types of objective thinking are considered
in our system of Yoga as certain diseased conditions of consciousness, for in
these states the consciousness is not-in-itself.
4.
A successful life, and a happy life, is possible
only when one is able to adjust and adapt the different sides of the
personality in a harmonious way and the entire personality with the others that
form the constituents of the world. In this sense, life is an art.
5.
The essence of art is the arrangement of
material to produce rhythm, symmetry, order, fullness, and a sense of
perfection so far as the mind can conceive of it. We have to arrange the
pattern of life, with its forces of the outward Nature and inward impulses, so
that there may not be any jarring element or inharmonious appearance unsuited
to the purpose of realizing the equilibrium of the universe as reflected in our
personal lives, in the life of society, the community, the nation and the
world.
6.
A happy man who has been able to lead a
successful life is one who is thoroughly friendly not only with the structural
demands of his own body, mind, emotions, and intellect but also with the
different elements that go to form the world outside.
7.
Life is a preparation for self-accusation, a
training ground for the individual to transfigure itself in a self-dedication
to the Absolute Reality.
8.
Our duty is to act, act in the right way,
bearing in mind that we are fulfilling an inviolable and unavoidable
imperative, not forced upon us by any outward mandate, but by the law of our
own being.
9.
The Bhagavad-Gita, exhorts us not to have
attachment to things.
10.
To which object am I to be attached, when
everything outside me is inseparably related to me, and we all mutually
inclusive and determined in this magnificent home of God's creation?
11.
Every action has a reaction which comes with an
equal force of nemesis and retribution, for every action is a sort of
disturbance produced in the equilibrium of the universe, and the universe shall
ever maintain its balance by rebutting the force of disturbance created in its
being in the form of an action of thought.
12.
The correct spirit with which we have to work in
this world is one of self-sacrifice and surrender to the Supreme Cause of all
things.
13.
The correct perception is designated as
Ishvaradrishti, the practice of the presence of God in each and everything, in
every quarter and cranny, everywhere, and at all times.
14.
The essence of the Gita teaching is this, that
the universe is the body of God; it is
God Himself appearing to us through our senses, the mind and the intellect,
that there is nothing outside of God ever existent, that man is bound to have
prosperity, victory, happiness and lawful polity when he acts with this
consciousness—with the deep feeling that he is an instrument in the hands of
the Absolute, that his actions are really not his but Its, and that suffering
is inevitable the moment he cuts his consciousness off from the Divine. The
happy and the normal life is, therefore, the Divine life.
15.
To be successful in our different endeavors for
perfection, first, we have to use our
emotions properly and adjust them in such a way that they do not create any
discord in life's harmonious process and secondly, we have always to attempt to
make a fuller use of our personalities than we actually do in states of
misconception, prejudice and ignorance.
16.
Remember, always, that what is important is not
so much what you are, as to what extent you know why you are what you are, and
how much you Endeavour to improve yourselves in the right direction.
17.
Understand well
before you take a step. There cannot be a right attempt without a clear-cut
ideal before it, and directing it. A race horse put to a plough or a plough
horse put to race will not lead to any substantial result. We have to know our
powers, our knowledge, and go only so far; not further.
18.
The training of the emotions and the development
of strength within, however, is not difficult for one who has a genuine
conviction that he is backed up at all times by a mighty Power that works
everywhere in the cosmos, and that he has nothing to fear. This faith should be
born of conviction, enlightened understanding, and a real love for the Supreme
Being.
19.
Do not have inner conflicts. Such conflicts are
mostly results of the inability to fulfil the basic instinctive urges, which,
again, is due to ignorance of one's hidden capacities and of the way by which
to utilize properly the facilities provided under the conditions in which one
is placed.
20.
You have to know clearly (1) what ought to be
done, (2) what is capable of being done, (3) what has been done already, (4)
why something has not been done yet, and (5) how to overcome the obstacles in a
reasonable manner. This means that you have to be master of your own
psychology.
21.
A successful life includes physical, emotional,
intellectual and moral fitness based on an integration of being in all its
degrees, inwardly as well as outwardly. Know yourselves as higher than you now
are.
22.
Summon the reserve forces which lie latent
within, and use them for the constructive work of building the structure of
life which is not merely yours, but of everyone, equally.
23.
When the diversity of beings is beheld as rooted
in the One, and as having proceeded from the One, then does one attain to
Perfection, says the Bhagavad-Gita. But the achievement of this end is hard,
though possible for everyone. It demands inner toughness born of a perfect
moral nature.
24.
A capacity to love and to serve all with the
feeling of the presence of a common element behind everyone, to be truthful and
honest and straightforward at any cost, to be able to feel for others as one
does for oneself, not to do to others what would not be desirable for oneself,
to have always a concern for the good of the whole world and not merely of a
restricted group of persons, not to attempt at appropriating things which do
not lawfully belong to one self, to be perfectly continent and restrained in
thought, word and deed, to be able to look at the world with a cosmic vision,
and to act at all times with this consciousness, is the requisite qualification
demanded of a truly cultured person and a seeker of Truth.
25.
Let us pray in the sublime words of the
Upanishad:
Lead
us from the unreal to the Real,
Lead us from darkness to Light,
Lead us from death to Immortality.
Lead us from darkness to Light,
Lead us from death to Immortality.
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