Why Doesn’t Hard Work Bring Me Success?

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Why Doesn’t Hard Work Bring Me Success?

Just working hard doesn’t do things in the world. This is the biggest problem. Right from your childhood your parents taught you if you study, how should you study? Study hard. If you work, how should you work? Work hard. You do everything hard. If you do things hard, things won’t happen. It will become a donkey’s life, just doing everything hard. Nobody told you you must study in joy. Nobody told you you must work in love. They told you you must do it hard. They made their lives very difficult for themselves. Now they’re insuring that your life becomes difficult too.

Why do you work hard? What are you working hard? If it’s hard, give it up. If you can do it joyfully do it, otherwise don’t do it. If you’re going to make yourself miserable in the process of working, what use is your work to yourself or to anybody around you. You just sit at the temple gate and beg and eat. It’s better. Somebody will throw you one rupee, two rupee. You eat, at least that you do joyfully. Sit there happily, eat what people throw in your bowl. If you’re going to make it so hard for yourself, I’m sure you’re making it very hard for everybody around you.

If you’re going to spread misery in the world, it’s better you don’t do anything. If you want to spread joy in the world, go and do as much as you can. Now you work hard, just because you work hard, things need not happen and they do not happen. One day it happened, can I tell you a joke? The old Ambassador wouldn’t start. Is anybody still own an Ambassador? No? All of are out of it. His old Ambassador wouldn’t start so he went home. He had a kitten at home. He brought the kitten, harnessed it, said let’s go, let’s go. People looked at this and said, are you crazy? Can this little kitten pull the Ambassador car?

Generally it takes God to move this car. What are you doing? He said, don’t you fool yourself, I have a horsewhip. You believe, you believe you can do everything hard and it will work. It will not work just because you do it hard. You must do the right thing, only then it works. Isn’t it? If you do not do the right thing, it does not work. People who are successful are successful not because necessarily they work hard, they just know what’s the right thing to do with their kind of job. That’s why they’re successful.

Another day, I fell into the septic tank. I want you to imagine it. Right up to here in filth, please imagine it. He tried to get out desperately, he couldn’t. Then after some time he started screaming fire, fire, fire. Neighbors heard the fire screams, called the fire brigade. The firemen came and looked everywhere, no fire. Then they found him in the septic tank, pulled him out and then they asked, why were you screaming fire? Then he told it, if I said, shit, shit, would you come? You must do the right thing or it doesn’t work. Just working hard will not do, you must do the right thing, otherwise, it doesn’t work.