What's human development?
All human beings can have two commendable aspirations.
One is worldly prosperity and well being. Second is spiritual illumination and freedom. Of these both righteousness is said to be the basis crumbles down sooner than feared due to internal haemorrhage, so to say.
Of course, with spiritual illumination one cannot think of being righteous.
Worldly prosperity is not directed and subordinated to and utilised for attaining spiritual illumination, it becomes self destructive. However it's is not logical development through empty stomach like fasting or extensive prayers or giving away sleep, punishing oneself is no good for any religion.
Who doesn't want success in life?
Whatever maybe our under takings in the direction of worldly prosperity or spiritual illumination, none of is likes to fail. We all want to succeed, we all desire it will be noticed in various spheres of life, truly successful people are only handful. Many are those who attain only moderate degree of success, and many more just fail.
There will be various factors in the stories of successful people and failures of life. The degree of person's success in life is commensurate with the degree of will-power they have attained. Will-power is most important fundamental issue of everyone's life. It should be the part of our education from our childhood to be trained in developing the will-power instead of carrying loads of book to the school, struggling hard to maintain being topper for the class, most of the children of this generation grow up under stress to be able to impress their teachers, parents, sibling and friends. Without will-power education remains largely ineffective.
What is this education? Is it book-learning? Doing lot of assignments, home works, project work, following a rhythmic flow followed at the school? Is it diverse knowledge?
The training by which expression of will brought under control and become fruitful is called education. Education as a result of which the will being continuously choked by force through generation is now well-nigh killed out. Is that education which sways even the old ideas, new ones are disappearing one by one; is education which is slowly making man a machine? I think education spoiled me, I do not know who am I, what am I, what do I want? I am so confused and trying my best to practice will-power at my mid-age.
Unfortunately we have not learnt how to develop will-power early in life, we should do so at any stage of life because self-improvement is almost impossible without voluntary or involuntary exercise.
Consider these three cases of modern history. When Lincoln was alone with history in the White House in those dark days of civil war, what would have happened to the Union but for his powerful will to save it? Consider how the will-power of Winston Churchill played the decisive role in the Second World War. What would have happened to the England and Europe now enjoying prosperity but for the man's will who said he had nothing else to offer but blood, sweat and tears? Consider the effect of will-power of Gandhiji, for all the people in the world who in their own lands were rules by colonial powers?
Many of them once in bad shape and afterwards were found to rise from shambles in a spectacular manner.
Given the will-power people makes everything out of nothing as it were. In the absence of the will-power, all their talents, qualities and endowments come to nothing..nothing.
All human beings can have two commendable aspirations.
One is worldly prosperity and well being. Second is spiritual illumination and freedom. Of these both righteousness is said to be the basis crumbles down sooner than feared due to internal haemorrhage, so to say.
Of course, with spiritual illumination one cannot think of being righteous.
Worldly prosperity is not directed and subordinated to and utilised for attaining spiritual illumination, it becomes self destructive. However it's is not logical development through empty stomach like fasting or extensive prayers or giving away sleep, punishing oneself is no good for any religion.
Who doesn't want success in life?
Whatever maybe our under takings in the direction of worldly prosperity or spiritual illumination, none of is likes to fail. We all want to succeed, we all desire it will be noticed in various spheres of life, truly successful people are only handful. Many are those who attain only moderate degree of success, and many more just fail.
There will be various factors in the stories of successful people and failures of life. The degree of person's success in life is commensurate with the degree of will-power they have attained. Will-power is most important fundamental issue of everyone's life. It should be the part of our education from our childhood to be trained in developing the will-power instead of carrying loads of book to the school, struggling hard to maintain being topper for the class, most of the children of this generation grow up under stress to be able to impress their teachers, parents, sibling and friends. Without will-power education remains largely ineffective.
What is this education? Is it book-learning? Doing lot of assignments, home works, project work, following a rhythmic flow followed at the school? Is it diverse knowledge?
The training by which expression of will brought under control and become fruitful is called education. Education as a result of which the will being continuously choked by force through generation is now well-nigh killed out. Is that education which sways even the old ideas, new ones are disappearing one by one; is education which is slowly making man a machine? I think education spoiled me, I do not know who am I, what am I, what do I want? I am so confused and trying my best to practice will-power at my mid-age.
Unfortunately we have not learnt how to develop will-power early in life, we should do so at any stage of life because self-improvement is almost impossible without voluntary or involuntary exercise.
Consider these three cases of modern history. When Lincoln was alone with history in the White House in those dark days of civil war, what would have happened to the Union but for his powerful will to save it? Consider how the will-power of Winston Churchill played the decisive role in the Second World War. What would have happened to the England and Europe now enjoying prosperity but for the man's will who said he had nothing else to offer but blood, sweat and tears? Consider the effect of will-power of Gandhiji, for all the people in the world who in their own lands were rules by colonial powers?
Many of them once in bad shape and afterwards were found to rise from shambles in a spectacular manner.
Given the will-power people makes everything out of nothing as it were. In the absence of the will-power, all their talents, qualities and endowments come to nothing..nothing.
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