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
Wish you all again a happy and healthy 2022.
Thank you and namaste,
Shailesh
Wow! These 3 words (fail,end,no) rellay make difference in once life.
ReplyDeleteMoving forward with positive thoughts help to reach right goals. Thanks for sharing such a wonderful message.