How many times all of us have fell & failed while walking our 1st steps on ground? How many times we failed while cooking? How many of us failed driving test 1st time? How many time Einstein, Newton and Thomas Edison failed before they became successful? Yes everyone of us have failed many times before getting success. Failure indeed are helpful for our growth. They help us to keep our feet on ground, focus on reality, makes us humbled, prevent us from getting arrogant. They tempered our consciousness, give new perspective on life. They give us new information and teach us how to deal with our life.....and finally Success.
In dictionaries also word success come after failure. In other word success is define as which follows failure. It is good to have intermittent failure in between success. If we keep getting success one after others, when failure comes after long intervals then it is unbearable. Intermittent failure keeps us healthy may be not wealthy...LOL.
One of ancient scriptures Bhagavad Gita define success in terms of our efforts not as a result. We should be very attentive & do our best efforts it can be either a work, relationship or any projects without focusing on it's outcome. Yes we can always analyze the result and see how we can improve ourselves.
Success & Failure is relative term. It is vary from person to person. We can be very successful in our fields and become wealthy & famous but if it is at cost of our health and family then it is failure.
Our moods also fluctuate according to success or failure. Srimad Bhagavad Gita says in Chapter of Yoga that we should keep our mind in equality at the time of success-failure. Also educate us to live balanced life ( Work, Recreation, Eating, Sleeping....etc).
Fundamentally Yoga is state of our consciousness, it is about detachment from results not from action. It is not about inertia or laziness. It is best for us not to carried away from results of success or failure....DON'T LOOSE ENTHUSIASM.... This kind of approach to our life is Success it self...
Bg 6.36 - For one whose mind is unbridled, self-realization is difficult work. But he whose mind is controlled and who strives by appropriate means is assured of SUCCESS. (vedabase.com).
Video link by Rasamitra Swami from ISKCON.
https://youtu.be/0z__fauTbbg
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I am inspire to hear & read Vedic Scriptures by regularly listening Sri Pandurang Shashtri Athvale known as Dadaji ( speak on Srimad Bhagvad Gita, Veda based discourses & western philosophy ) and association of Swadhyay Parivar every Sunday in Swadhya Kendra.
FYI: Good source of Vedic literature: Vedabase.com (Srimad Bhagvad Gita is the essence & Srimad Bhagavatam is the nectar of all Vedic scriptures).
I also hear and read discourses & articles on Vedic thoughts & other philosophy from Srila Prabhupada, his disciples & grand disciples (Rasamitra Swami. Amarnath dasa, Bhakticharu Swami, Chaitanya Charandas Prabhu, Sutapa Das, Urmila Devi Dasi, Radhanath Swami, Lal Govind Prabhu ( Gujarati & Hindi) Prahalad Maharaj in Surat (Gujarati) .......and many more from ISKCON......).
I am posting some article based on Vedic scriptures and literature. Of course I use Google search to collect some data. Thanks to Facebook for providing platform.
It is always good idea to share our good thoughts & knowledge with others. GREATFUL to EVERYONE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED in MY LIFE.
Hopefully my enthusiasm will continue by grace of Guru & God (Absolute Truth).
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