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Happy New Year 2022 and a message

 

Namaste everyone,

Wish you all a very happy and healthy new year.

We started this morning with beautiful Surya Namaskar sadhana where we offered our reverence and gratitude to the Sun God (hiraṇmayena pātreṇa), Sage Patanjali (Yōgēna cittasya), Swami Vivekananda (Each soul is potentially divine…), Guru RaghuramJi and other gurus.  All these gurus have provided us with authoritative source of knowledge (āgamāḥ) over the years and centuries.  Sage Patanjali talks about how the knowledge we acquire can affect our mind (vrittis).  The knowledge we acquire through various means is classified by Patanjali into five types (PYS 1.6) a) Right knowledge b) Wrong knowledge c) Imaginary knowledge d) Remembered knowledge (memory) e) No knowledge (sleep).  This knowledge can lead to pleasurable or painful experiences and the objective always is to reduce or eliminate any wrong knowledge (eg. fake news, non-authoritative sources). These pleasurable and painful experiences can roughly be thought of as successes or failures.

Our gurus have given us a number of ideas on how to overcome the fear of failures and how to learn from failures.  2021 has been particularly difficult year filled with failures for many people due to the challenges with ongoing pandemic.  Three words typically are used often when we face failure – FAIL, END and NO.  How can we turn failures into something useful for the future?  Can we remember these three acronyms to continue to inspire us to chase the right goals and our passions in life? 

FAIL = First Attempt In Learning

END = Effort Never Dies

NO = Next Opportunity

 I believe I have learnt these first from BrahmaSri Chaganti Koteswara Rao and from Sri Rajesh Shetty – so my sincere thanks to them.  Very inspiring messages to move forward amidst challenges and failures!

Wish you all again a happy and healthy 2022. 

Thank you and namaste,

Shailesh

Comments

  1. RhushilJanuary 1, 2022 at 7:50 PM

    Wow! These 3 words (fail,end,no) rellay make difference in once life.
    Moving forward with positive thoughts help to reach right goals. Thanks for sharing such a wonderful message.

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