These thoughts came into my mind when I was watching the Race competition between athletes. I tried to contemplate what exactly an athlete would have the status of mind in the whole process of racing. I sincerely feel that the same attitude and thoughts can be applied for every work we take in our hand to complete:
1. Clarity
of Goal: We are very clear about our destiny point where we have to reach.
That destiny point is our Goal. So put this goal into sub-conscious mind.
2. Clarity
in the Process of Achieving the Goal: Our lap and small strip where we have
to run is predefined and we are very much clear that what we have to do to
reach to our destiny point. We just have to start running. So put the process
of running into conscious mind and utilize whole energy and concentration in
running only.
3. Deviating
Factors: While running, we can’t waste our energy and concentration to see
how many of our opponents are progressing or regressing how much with us. If we
do that, we will certainly lose our concentration and balance on running, we
may fell down because we may lose our strip where we are running by overlapping
with the strips of others, we will waste a lot of our valuable energy and
concentration by doing this which we can utilize in running and at last we will
lose the game. So we can’t waste such valuable energy and concentration by
having our eyes on others status. If we do a little bit of contemplation on
this, we will find that it’s of no use to be aware about our status compared
with our opponents. We did this either because of our fear factor of losing the
game or because of curiosity to know where we are in the race or we have the attitude of competing with others. But all of these
factors don’t help us on winning. We have to suppress our fear and curiosity while running and need to change our attitude of competing with others. When at some point of time if we choose to
compete with others, it will certainly have two drawbacks:
a. When
we will see that we are progressing with our opponents, we may feel too much
secured, confident, encouraged and may be some amount of arrogance that we
may stop utilizing our whole capability in process of running, which is necessary
to win the race. This may lead us to lose the game.
b. When
we will see that we are regressing with our opponents, we may feel discouraging
and depressing and may stop using our whole capability. This is the biggest
defeat of ours and our attitude of perseverance which leads us nowhere but to
only misery and sufferings. This discouragement just leads us with a life
without energy and fighting attitude. Such life is a life without life.
So in both condition when we compete with others we
lose the battle. So we have to compete with ourselves only by utilizing our
whole energy, concentration and will power in the process of running till we
reach the destiny point.
4. When
we run in the race with having
such attitude described above, whether we win or lose the game, but at last we
feel the peace because we are very much aware that we did our best. And this
peace is the factor which really matters in our life, because as Swami
Vivekananda says:
Peace is the highest form
of Strength. Strength is life and weakness is death
Swami
Vivekananda’s quote on the perspective of achieving goal:
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of
it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body,
be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to
success.
Arise! Awake! And stop not till the goal is
reached…
