People keep asking me if there are any ingredients for success.
What should one do to keep moving in life in all aspects?
Let us see the 3 essentials of achievement.
The first – the 3 essentials of it.
What are the 3 essentials of achievement or success?
If somebody would ask me about a formula, I would tell you there are 3 things that any individual needs to have.
The first one is what I would like to call Intent.
The second is the effort, and the third is Divine Grace.
Intent + effort + Divine Grace would lead anybody to a sense of achievement.
What is intent?
Intent is different from desire, as we all could have a thousand desires daily. I could have a thousand desires – I would like to be that, I would have that, I would like to have been there…
Desires could be a million, but Intent needs a tremendous passion going within. Whenever a desire is coupled with passion, we call it intent, and any starting point anywhere has to happen only with Intent.
So, what kind of Intent should you have?
While having an intent, at the most, a human being can have 4 or 5 intents – one for their profession, one for their children, one for their marital relationships, and one for their health, at the most 4 or 5.
Most often, the Universe is so structured that our Intent has to be fulfilled, provided we fulfil certain conditions.
We need to see the source of your Intent.
- Do you desire something because your brother has it?
- Is your Intent coming from comparison with somebody?
- Is yourIntent coming from anger and hurt towards somebody?
- Is your Intent coming from a desire to prove something to someone?
- Is your intent coming from love?
As is the seed, so is the fruit. If the seed is painful, then the fruit also will be painful.
If you want the journey fulfilled, the seed has to be sourced in joy; Then you would also enjoy journey as well as your destination.
What is your Intent? Are you starting with pain or joy?
Spirituality is something that goes with you; it is there in your thoughts, it is there in your emotions, it is there in every one of your movements, in your experience of pain, in your experience of pleasure, and it is there with you. Spirituality- is that what you are, your essence.
What are your emotions?
Is it fear or anger?
Fear is something you don’t want to have, and if you focus on it, you go in that direction, right!
So we need to understand that every time we take an intent, having an intent is not sufficient, but living the Intent is necessary, which means you also focus on the direction of your Intent.
Now, moving to the next element; therefore, before moving, be very clear about your focus.
Close your eyes and contemplate what you have been feeling over the past 15 days or one month, what you have been ignoring, and if your emotion has been fear, excitement, anxiety, or joy?
Please understand whenever we are trying to do something, we know that the world will not appreciate it; we need to appreciate ourselves because that will give us strength.
Students ask me, can you suggest a way where I need not study but get good results.
People who want to reduce weight tell me, can you suggest a way where I need not exercise but still my weight would go down.
All of us are kids, perhaps!
Effort – What do we mean by effort?
We know this is karma bhoomi(Indians believe in karma), or the plane of action.
On this earth plane, only some can have results if they have come with the efforts they have put in.
What we are witnessing today is the story of greed, the story of everybody who has fought for their individual survival.
- Can we decide that your efforts should be in the direction of cooperation?
- Can we as individuals decide we would no longer struggle for our survival?
The effort should be towards cooperation; let your efforts be mutually beneficial and mutually nourishing, and let them be helpful to you, me, and everybody else. And let our efforts be consistent.
You are prepared to put in consistent effort where taking your business to a higher level is concerned, and you are prepared to put in consistent effort where the starting of your project is concerned.
But hardly people put any effort into building better relationships. Because we somehow have the belief that relationships are ready-made. They are not; you make them.
And how long do you make it? I see people telling me how long I work. I am tired.
You are tired, agreed, but to be born, you took 9 months, right?
To be born, you took 9 months; an elephant takes 18 months, while a sparrow takes less.
You want a great relationship to be born; it takes greater time. It does not happen in a day. There are no shortcuts.
Now, the third element, the most important of the elements, is Divine Grace.
What is Grace?
Some so many people come and tell me I don’t believe in anything I can’t see. Agreed
Do you believe in love? You don’t see it.
Everything has power. Please understand the invisible has much more power than the visible. And it is the invisible that runs the visible. And the Divine or God is the invisible. Call this the third element: the Higher Consciousness, the Cosmic Consciousness, and the Collective Consciousness.
When do we need Divine Grace?
All the time, all the time, it has always been there. Sometimes, we have noticed it, and sometimes, we have not;
There are so many things that you can achieve just with Intent, and effort in the wisdom of suffice.
But there are some things in which, with the best of your intentions and efforts, you still can’t achieve that, which is when you need Divine Grace. To access the divine grace learn the art of prayer.
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