Swami Sivananda Daily Readings1
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Just reflect for a while when you have failed in an attempt. Try to
be more careful in the next attempt. Try to remove those factors that
led you to fail previously. Fortify yourself now. Be careful and
vigilant. Be active and nimble as the squirrel. Be quick and at the
same time be capable and efficient. Do not commit mistakes.
Call forth all your latent energies or dormant faculties. When the
house is on fire - how alert you are. How skilfully and promptly you
act at that particular moment. You do not know where the power and
the energy are flowing from at that time. You are fully concentrated.
You contrive by skilful methods, then and there, to save your
property and the lives of those dwelling in the house. You do
marvellous actions and then, when the difficulty is over you say that
some mysterious `power of God' has worked through you!
Always cut the Gordian knot at once. Do not waste time. When once you
have resolved on a definite line of action, carry it out dexterously,
with a cool and calculating deliberation and consideration.
Procrastination is the thief of time. One who procrastinates can
never succeed in life, or in any of his undertakings.
The vast majority of persons, even so-called `educated' people, have
no definite aim in life. They drift here and there like a log of wood
on a restless ocean. They do not know what to do. After finishing
their B.A. or M.A. courses students do not know how to proceed. They
do not have power of judgment to select any good vocation that is
suitable to their temperament, that will bring them prosperity in
life. They become lazy. They are not suitable for any kind of
speculative business or any kind of activity demanding knack, pluck
and skill.
In persons of this sort, those who waste their time and energy, they
finish their life's career in gloom, despair and sorrow. The energy,
the intellect are there but they have no ideal, no clear-cut
programme of life. Their life is a failure.
Clearly understand the purpose of life. Then chalk out the line of
work that is congenial to your aim. Live up to your ideal. You can
realise the ideal right now, this very second. But if you walk with
faltering steps it will take ten years. The ideal must be there and
then you can develop your will.
-H.H. Swami Sivananda
be more careful in the next attempt. Try to remove those factors that
led you to fail previously. Fortify yourself now. Be careful and
vigilant. Be active and nimble as the squirrel. Be quick and at the
same time be capable and efficient. Do not commit mistakes.
Call forth all your latent energies or dormant faculties. When the
house is on fire - how alert you are. How skilfully and promptly you
act at that particular moment. You do not know where the power and
the energy are flowing from at that time. You are fully concentrated.
You contrive by skilful methods, then and there, to save your
property and the lives of those dwelling in the house. You do
marvellous actions and then, when the difficulty is over you say that
some mysterious `power of God' has worked through you!
Always cut the Gordian knot at once. Do not waste time. When once you
have resolved on a definite line of action, carry it out dexterously,
with a cool and calculating deliberation and consideration.
Procrastination is the thief of time. One who procrastinates can
never succeed in life, or in any of his undertakings.
The vast majority of persons, even so-called `educated' people, have
no definite aim in life. They drift here and there like a log of wood
on a restless ocean. They do not know what to do. After finishing
their B.A. or M.A. courses students do not know how to proceed. They
do not have power of judgment to select any good vocation that is
suitable to their temperament, that will bring them prosperity in
life. They become lazy. They are not suitable for any kind of
speculative business or any kind of activity demanding knack, pluck
and skill.
In persons of this sort, those who waste their time and energy, they
finish their life's career in gloom, despair and sorrow. The energy,
the intellect are there but they have no ideal, no clear-cut
programme of life. Their life is a failure.
Clearly understand the purpose of life. Then chalk out the line of
work that is congenial to your aim. Live up to your ideal. You can
realise the ideal right now, this very second. But if you walk with
faltering steps it will take ten years. The ideal must be there and
then you can develop your will.
-H.H. Swami Sivananda