YIELD NOT TO IMPOTENCE (क्लैब्यं मा स्म गमः पार्थ)

ARISE! AWAKE!!

THE MIGHTY VEDAS SAY

उत्तिष्ठत जाग्रत प्राप्य वरान्निबोधत

Swami Vivekananda quoted these words of power and awakening to his audience. The words are from Kathopanishad and as he translated them carried his own touch and vigour.

Arise! Awake!! And stop not till the goal is reached.

THE THREE TYPES OF PEOPLE

According to the men of wisdom, the whole of populace can be placed into three groups, the scoundrels, the mediocre and the noble people. The Sanskrit Shloka stating these divisions is given below:-

प्रारभ्यते न खलु विघ्न भयेन नीचै

प्रारभ्य विघ्न बिहिता विरमन्ति मध्याः

विघ्नौ पुनः पुनरपि प्रतिहन्यमाना

प्रारभ्य चोत्तम जनाः न परित्यजन्ति

Meaning: Afraid of possible impediments, the scoundrels do not start (any work). The mediocre ones start but discontinue when they face obstacles. But the noble ones, once start (some work), even facing obstacles after obstacles, DON’T QUIT.

COURAGE

The courageous belong to the last category. If you too are the one, then it is mandatory for you to “PRESS ON”and never-ever QUIT the fight in hand. Adhere to the three ‘P’s viz. patience, persistence and perspiration. Take your time and think well before you take a goal into your hands. Fight out en-route setbacks and DONT STOP TILL THE GOAL IS REACHED.

Courage is the most important ingredient of all the virtues. Without courage, you can not practice any virtue consistently. Success, in fact, means that even after stumbling from failure to failure, there should not be any loss of enthusiasm. How can you know what is around the next corner. There may be everything beyond or may be vice versa. Why to worry about that to affect your speed. Keep putting one foot in front of the other, keep moving, and these small steps will bring down the mountain-peak below your feet one day. Remember, the biggest journey is made up of small steps only. It is better to take many steps, one after the other, in the right direction than try to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

Don’t ever give up.

Don’t ever give in.

Don’t ever stop trying.

Don’t ever sell out.

And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment, pick your self up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off. BUT NEVER, EVER, EVER GIVE UP.

Life is not as magical here. You are not the only one who feels like you don’t belong, or that it is better somewhere else. But there ARE things worth living for. And the best part is, you never know what is going to happen next.

Men, who have attained things worth having in this world, have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. They worked like a bull and lived like a hermit. As a result, they enjoyed in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to their good luck. The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to us to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach our goal. Failure we may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never shall we know how close it lies unless we turn the corner.

"To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous WILL. ‘I will drink the ocean’, says the persevering soul, ‘At my WILL, the mountains will crumble up’. Have that sort of energy, that sort of WILL, work hard, and you will reach the goal” Says Swami Vivekananda.

“तस्मात् उत्तिष्ठ कौन्तेय युद्धस्व कृतनिश्चया”

THEREFORE STAND UP, O ARJUNA, DETERMINED TO FIGHT.

Neither humiliation nor surrender (न दैन्यं न पलायनं) must be your policy, as was of Arjuna.