Unexpected Success
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Success: It’s All About the Momentum
The system of the universe is based on the law of cause and effect. Even the minutes happening is not an exemption to this universe of law.
The roaring of the ocean, the falling of the leaves, snowfall, rain, the difference in palm lines, variance in the faces, rise and fall of nations, social good and evil; in short each and everything is bound by this law of cause and effect. Sometimes the reason is apparent and sometimes it is hidden from us.
Therefore there is no place for a ‘chance’. No philosophy of the world can prove the existence of ‘chance’. To rely on chance is, in fact, to repose trust in an imaginary thing, which is far from reality. Unwise and ignorant people think good or bad luck is connected with this unbecoming imagination.
Luck, accident, chance, fortune, etc. are, really speaking, superstitions. Only people who are unaware of the underlying causes of various happenings mention them. They tend to believe in such things just to please their condemning conscience by trusting such unreal causes.
If at all, we have to trust in ‘chance’ then we should say that only endeavor, work, struggle, and activeness provide the basis of ‘chance’ and ‘good luck’. This invisible cause lies behind activeness and hard work.
Trust in luck is only an instrument for remaining idle and misleading the mind. It is a tranquilizer for soothing the heart of idle and inactive persons.
If a player loses a game and the medal is awarded to someone else, he comes out of the playground with a dark face and a forehead wet with perspiration and, in order to retrieve his loss tells his friends something like,
“The luck of my rival was better” Hence he won! This time my fortune was not favorable.
What is pitiable is that to avoid a future defeat, he does not find out the real causes of his failure. Rather he resorts to imaginary causes, which have no basis from the viewpoint of knowledge, intelligence and philosophy, or logic. He wants that he should not to be held responsible for the defeat.
The fact is that there is an incorrect tradition in our society according to which they make luck or fortune the basis of life with regard to family affairs, educational matters, trade, etc. Parents, teachers, and traders create such conditions whereby people automatically attribute success and defeat to the effect of chance and luck. The harmful effects of this wrong tradition fill the minds of people during childhood, youth as well as in old age.
My mind says that human beings get only that for which he strives.
Like the lottery, gambling, and other things resorting to luck harms our society grievously by making our youths believe in such imaginary things and thus deprive them of enthusiasm for work and struggle. Thereafter, instead of utilizing their mental and physical powers, they begin to rely on imaginary things, like luck, to attain success, position and wealth, etc. in life.
Only those ladies and gentlemen are successful in whose dictionaries there are no words like chance, star, palmistry, etc. because they are like iron chains binding the hands and feet of people.
Youths who want to attain progress and perfection and utilize their capabilities should know that the real reason and cause of the success of any student, inventor, military officer, or diplomat is that he has realized the reality of life and has adopted the true tools of success the list of which is headed by work, endeavor, steadfastness, and discipline. He must understand that no star, magic, or chance can ever be the cause of any success or victory.
The lively soul and strong mind of this community proved to be the cause of its success. They never relied on chance and luck. They relied only on their mental and physical abilities.
They knew very well that if there is anything like luck, it is hidden behind the mental and physical capabilities.
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