As Luck would have it...

Success is 80% luck and rest hard work…You being at your rightful place…. Be at the right time where opportunities are waiting to be taken by You only and nobody else…

Even if you are brimming with talent and education and what not if you don’t get any opportunity to showcase it all goes down the drain…. You need an eventful and lucky opportunity to showcase your latent potential and make your mark on the global landscape for you to be recognized and felt like that you have actually arrived …!!!! 

Going by many successful entrepreneurs and other big names in the World…if you would read between the lines and what they have learnt from their life over a span of team…almost everyone will parrot one line “Luck had a Major role in my achievements!” – It remains a holy grail for many, as many of us are not that exceptional ‘Lucky’ to have achieve major success in life…

Many of us remain like ‘Common people’ even if we slog through the day…as that special tinge is missing…. As they say “Tea looks good depending on the amount of sugar and other ingredients it has” the other “Ingredient’ in life is that ‘Divine spirit and touch or Mercy” which is needed for us to achieve that brilliance….

SO is there a ‘Da Vinci Code’ to attract Luck … the Karma theory here suffice – “Do Good and dharmic Karma and you will get the returns” … “do wrong towards someone and you will have to suffer…” this postulate has been the spinal cord of the “Hindu Philosophy” and is eternal to one’s living…

Quite surely “Someone” out there is watching all of our acts and have made the ‘Rulebook’ for our earthly living – else there is no optimum reasoning for many of us living sedentary lifestyle with best of the degrees and effort, while many others with none of this are making merry. Internally they know it very well that they didn’t deserve all the success and adulation and there are much better souls who are sincere and faithful towards achieving their goals but have not been successful…no pragmatic explanation satiates this philosophy….

So if you want to have HIS divine Mercy …do your work with a tinge of conscious thinking – that you don’t overstep someone’s boundary for your personal goals, Parents are living Gods…respect their living and dignity and revere them for they made you come to life when you were literally nobody…Have that cognition that you are NOT the DOER and that someone is there overlooking your acts …. These simplicities when implemented in letter and spirit would make you feel life on a different tangent…believe you me, life is not so complex that what we have made out to be…overburdening us with false expectations and never ending aspirations….Leave thoughtfully and rest will be taken care of…HE is surely There… and will always be…!!!

Gratitude is Important

Have you ever counted your blessings and been considerate to consider how fortunate you are in your present life? Things we always crib and criticise about for “Have Not’s” and for those you tried your exemplary best but didn’t able to achieve….

You need to take a 360-degree holistic approach to ponder and process these thoughts…one side view of your life cannot be a mitigation to arrive at a definitive conclusion.

If you are hale and hearty, healthy and in right frame of mind, even if you are not well accomplished in your career , business or earning but able to somehow balance things out – consider yourself to be the luckiest being on this planet – for the matter I have seen many ‘Successful Professionals’ cribbing at the peak of their career and have lost their health – having BP , Diabetes , are in depression of losing their sought-after job and accomplishments which they so famously announced when they achieve it…internally they know, they have lost the plot and are more unsuccessful than the rest of the beings but cannot elucidate their predicament due to societal pressure – talk to them in person and they will ‘Pour their heart Out’ as to how they feel to be living under stigma of a broken relationship or a divorce, health issues and kids not listening to them and in fact abusing them… the loneliness creeping in with no Real friend for guidance and support BUT many minions  pumping your ego….

If you have caring family with a loveable wife, kids and you live with your mother and father ..consider yourself living in Grace…as this is a rare sight now a days, people are preferring nuclear families and don’t want to accommodate their elderly parents in their ‘Modern Life’ – oblivious of the fact that once they were too young to stand on their own feet and were taken care of in all spirit by these very parents who now are themselves grown old and cannot take care of themselves… this is the biggest irony of our society in current times….but its happening…

Finally , if you have no debt and are living an ‘Emi-free’ life, and have no major repayments lined up for decades…consider yourself to be thankful towards your elderly….for their sweat and blood has made you the man free from a debt trap – as most of the working professionals have engulfed themselves for 20-30 year marriage to the Banks….and have gone bananas …surely they want super luxury lifestyle and big flashy homes to showcase their success to all and sundry who hardly care about their living…. Just a ‘Vow’ moment for them and life moves on…. The decade ahead burden of paying high cost emi’s rest with poor soul who ends up paying more than the ‘Double’ amount to the bank to suffix his loan….

These are basic tenets of nowadays living …. If you have somehow steered away from all these anomalies of life…you are lucky, have gratitude towards Life and the Divine…. Consider you may not but that is and will remain an internal truth…a time will come when surely you will realise this….till then…”Happy Living…!”

~ After All...Its Life...~

The Complexities of life are simple…it is us who have made it uniquely complex to a phase where we can’t handle it…

Sit down a bit and go through the day – ponder how you start and plan your day…many a time you would have made big aspirational plans and achievements which you want to accomplish…just out of the blue…

As night falls and you get tired to the brim, you contemplate your whole living past 24 hours…what you had planned and what you actually realise or did… you will be flabbergasted many a time to see the variance in the results… That’s the summary of life in a day…!

Well, living over a considerable number of days in my life, what I have summarized…. Live situations as awareness….and accomplish them day by day...not grandeur plans…not big hopes and aspirations…Afterall , you were never here to accomplish BIG FAT things…but to remain happy and what all is needed to do it….it is not ONLY titles, money, power , fame but family time, health, a soothing tea cuppa, sitting idle watching nature, birds , flowers , street dogs, cats…they are all around you to make you realise…that .. when you would be gone and your time is up …it is just these fond memories which you will take along…your karma will accompany your soul to the next birth….Just remember You are who you are in this birth. Your titles , fame , accomplishments are here for this time not for eternity…

Life’s not that complex and complicated…we have made it to be…as we have to make a mount hill  first and then make efforts to achieve it throughout our life…. As I give a real life example of a man I know who is very fond of playing soccer and wants to accomplish a feat of hitting every goal for his team…. As we play, we finally give him a pass to just shoot at the nets…instead he takes the ball away from the goalpost and then tries to hit with a 45 Degree angle like Ronaldo only to be missed!!!!

That’s all what we do…. Life’s simplicity is not very complex… live it with all the resources you have…your family ,friends, acquaintances… animals …what not… and see for yourself your happiness quotient makes a tangible mark in your living… your face shines with all ear to ear smiles always and in all situation…as you now have started to live in tandem with nature’s laws and have correctly understood your presence as to who you really are and for what purpose and that is to be Happy…..!!!

~ khush bandeyan nu haale tu taan milya ee nahi. Jehde mile ne bechaare bas kaamyab ne ~

[You havent met any Happy person...all You met were Successful People!]

~ The World We Live... ~

 We live in an uncertain world where everything is uncertain and ephemeral – your best of efforts may go in vain without any applause and recognition.

Anxiety is now inborn in our living – we are seldom calm and in comatose state of our living , fearful of our future and what lays ahead – so what is the problem that engulfs us which make our life pitiable? – it’s our overthinking! 

We create scenarios which in all likelihood would never happen – in all probability, we create demons in our heads and engulf ourselves in continuous negativity – to the extent that we take drastic decisions – even ending our lives!

Sit down with a calm mind and ponder over your past, what you thought and what happened … you would realise that more than 90% of the happenings didn’t happen as according to your thoughts – the amazing part of our cognitive mind is that we think worst for our future ..what if this doesn’t happen or what if that doesn’t materialize….

Quite inversely to this, we never are exceptional optimistic about our future outcomes…

We ration our positive thoughts but fill our cup till the brim for our negatives…that is nature of the mind. It pre-empts negative thoughts and creates a world around them.

Many of my friends who are at pinnacle of their career are facing bouts of anxiety and uncertainty – even after having achieved much, the level of fear and opaqueness of future takes them to bouts of anxiety – this is the cruel living of today – nothing is surely certain, alas it never was!

The only way to get out of this whirlpool is “Bhakti” and prayers and complete and a whole heart submission to God…as HE knows the best what is going to happen – though it seems a cliched thought but that is what has gratified me! Your best of the plans and efforts will go in vain and you remain clueless of its outcome – inversely, your half-hearted efforts reap stupendous results with all praise by your peers and bosses – that is the irony or rather funny part of life…We all have to live with it…

Just observing the people’s life around, you, you will see that it is all happening without one’s expectation and control…job losses, business failures, stock mart downturn , relationship failures, health standard declining…everything beyond one’s control.

But, once you sit and start to meditate on HIS form – whosoever you pray or whatever religion or sect you follow, immerse yourself in all unison – the peace and the calm that follows will give you eternal happiness and your zeal would be uplifted to do new and creative things – The adrenaline rush would turn you to be a go-getter and you will always feel “Someone” or “Some Power” or a “Guardian Angel”  guiding you and steering your life for a better purpose.

“Life is like this and would function in its own trails and travels and you have to adjust yourself with time…” – this noble advice about living life has ever been a staunch day to day philosophy and sooner or later many of you will fall in line with this idiom of wisdom…till then …Live Free…