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You Have It All
Pramod Sharma
Over the years, I have been through enough struggle to realise that
each and everything I went through and experienced was created by me
to teach myself something, and to give me a better understanding of
life. It is my firm belief that we are here to learn / evolve and grow
to a point where we can clearly understand the law of Karma and how
this law regulates our destiny.
If we stop and look back at the last 10 years of our life, we will
find that wherever we are today is the result of choices we made over
a period of time. We, in fact, chose to be what we are today. All the
innumerable small decisions we made had a cumulative effect, which
shaped our today. What, then, we choose to do with this very moment
will determine how we will live tomorrow.
If you know what you want in your life, and are ready to give it what
it takes, you will have it, and there is nobody — no circumstance, no
eventuality — which can stop you from having it. History is filled
with stories of many great personalities who performed astonishing
feats and conquered insurmountable adversities to achieve what they
desired.
In ancient times, TAPASYA was practiced by individuals to gain wealth,
power, fame or nirvana. The process was that the person had to sit,
lie or stand in one particular position, and choose a certain “mantra”
to chant for pleasing one particular God or Demigod. During the
practice of TAPASYA the person might undergo several distractions in
the form of rain, heat, cyclones, threats from wild animals, passes
from lovely lasses…but if the determination of the individual
practicing TAPASYA was strong enough, eventually the God or Demigod he
was meditating for would appear in person and bestow his blessings.
In a modern day context, let us examine TAPASYA. The basic elements of
TAPASYA are:
- A burning desire to have something
- A willingness to do whatever is needed to do and sacrifice comfort
- Focused and continuous effort until the objective is achieved
Here we see that no circumstance, no distraction, no disability
matters. What matters is the clear-cut vision of purpose/goal, a
willingness to do what needs to be done and continuity of effort.
These three basic elements, when synchronized and practiced upon,
produce the results far beyond anyone’s comprehension. It doesn’t
matter if a person has the means or not, if a person has a conductive
environment or not, if a person has the right physical attributes or
not. The only thing that matters is an individual’s belief in himself
and his dreams. Is he ready to really go after his desired goal or it
is only a wish, which he feels will be nice to have?
Each and every being has the seeds of greatness hidden within him; he
only has to go within himself to find out. No outward circumstance is
important enough to influence one’s progress. The only thing that
matters is what you have inside you.
Humanity is full of examples where people with very humble beginnings
have performed astonishing feats and made themselves immortal. How did
that happen? Was it a miracle? Did they become great one fine morning
with a stroke of luck? No, they had no special privileges except their
strong desire to do something in their life. They believed in
themselves, they believed in their dreams, they knew what they wanted.
Great leaders know it. They know their destiny belongs to them, not to
anybody else. For example, Lal Bahadur Shastri was born in a family
which was so poor that the did not even have money to pay for the boat
fare which carried people from one bank to the other bank of the river
where the school was. Boy Lal Bahadur had to swim across the river to
attend his school. Anybody would have had a valid excuse for not going
to school, but not Shastri. As we know, he outgrew his adverse
circumstances to become Prime Minister of India. The disease called
excusitis did not affect him. In fact this disease has universal
appeal. Everybody seems to be blaming everybody else whatever is
happening in his life.
A person’s success in life is not subject to the circumstances he is
in but how he reacts to them and what he learns from them. Two
individuals in the same circumstances react differently and learn
differently. Here’s an example of two brothers. One brother was highly
successful, wealthy and leading a life of fulfillment and other was
just the reverse, a drunkard, wife beater, living on the poverty line.
When asked for the cause of their present status both stated the same
reason! The affluent brother said he saw his father doing all the
wrong things, drinking, beating his mother, leading a careless life —
and promised himself never to do the same in his life. One the other
hand, the drunkard brother chose to follow his father’s example.
Same circumstances, different reactions. Circumstances just do not
matter, they only present different sets of perspectives. It depends
on the individual, on whether he takes it on as a challenge to improve
further (overcome it) or go down blaming it, trying to gather
sympathy, which ultimately he doesn’t get.
All individuals have immense potential and can do anything they want
to do because everything is inside them. YOU have it all.
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