What Decides Our Success?

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What Decides Our Success?

If you want to succeed in our life which will play a major role, Guruji – faith, God, effort or luck?

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Faith, God, luck, effort, maybe all of them, but in what proportion? When you say faith, obviously it’s something that you cannot do anything about. When you say luck, again obviously it’s something that you cannot do anything about. When you say God, again it’s something that you cannot do anything about. The only thing that’s in your hands is effort, so put your 100% into your effort, what happens, happens, it’s that simple. Don’t leave proportions of your energy and your capability to luck, God, faith all these things, that’s not your business. If there is such a thing, it will act, your business is only effort, just do that.

Effort has to be incisive in a sense. It should be focused, calibrated. Simply if you make effort, that’s foolish effort incentive. Just labor is not going to get you somewhere. The right kind of action, the right timing, the right place, all this is important, isn’t it? For all these things to happen, you need perception and intelligence. That’s all you must do in your life. Constantly looking for ways to enhance your perception and your intelligence. The rest will anyway happen. This is one thing that unfortunately humanity is not doing. They’re trying to become capable of something. Do not try to become capable of something. Just enhance your perception and intelligence, whatever comes your way, right now let us say, it’s like this, it’s happening in the world all the time.

Everybody wants to become a doctor. Not now, 25 years ago it was, you want to study, first thing is medicine, if you don’t get a seat, what’s next? Engineering, don’t get a seat, next thing, like this. Let’s say you became a doctor and let’s say everybody came to the yoga program and they stopped going to the doctor. At least your visits to the doctor has come down, isn’t it? Has it? Has it come down or not? For sure it’s come down. Business will go down, it will no more be a good profession to go into because very few doctors are becoming doctors because they want to become doctors. Others are becoming doctors because they think it’s lucrative. Isn’t it? Isn’t it so?

Most people are becoming doctors because they think somebody’s sickness is a lucrative business. It’s a very, I don’t want to go into other aspect, it’s quite disturbing for me. There are a few doctors who really want to be that. They want to understand the human system and they want to sail in that direction, that’s great. Suppose everybody became jeldi, you don’t want that, isn’t it? Yes you don’t want that. Do not try to put up a recipe for your success.

Success is only when you are able to use yourself to your full potential. It doesn’t matter whether you become a doctor or a politician or a yogi or what the hell you become, it’s not the thing. Success means you are living your life to your full potential, that’s what success means. If that has to happen, you need perception and an active intelligence. How do I grow my intelligence? Don’t worry about that. Right now the important thing is to enhance your perception. If you are able to see life just the way it is, you have the necessary intelligence to conduct it well.

If you’re not able to see life the way it is, your intelligence will work against you. Most intelligent people on this planet are generally the most miserable people on the planet. This is simply because they have an active intelligence but no perception of life. One thing, one most important thing that people have not worked on is to enhance their perception. They’re trying to broaden their mind, that’s not the point. That will only make you socially successful, not truly successful. If you want to be truly successful, you must be able to see everything just the way it is without distortions.

If you can see everything just the way it is, life becomes a play. You can play joyfully, you can play it well for sure. If you can play it well, people will say you’re successful. You should never think, “I want to be successful.” Don’t ever think, “I want to be successful.” Just see how to make this being into your full-fledged being. People will say one day, “Oh he’s successful, he’s a great success.” You should not be aspiring for success, it’s a miserable way to structure your life.

You will simply cause pain and suffering to yourself and suffering to everybody because your idea is sitting on top of somebody’s head, isn’t it? Yes or no? Your idea of success is right now everybody should be below you, you must be on the top. This is your idea of success. This is not success, this is sickness. Do not ever think of success. Just see how to make this into your full-fledged being. This will find expression. If it finds good expression, people around you will say, “Oh, he is a great success.” That’s fine. People should recognize your success. You should not be thinking how to be successful, very wrong way to approach life.