Arise , Awake ( Shri Vivekananda)

Arise , awake & work till you aim is not achieved

or arise , & work till you can .

Both the sentence are quite similar , generally the meaning is almost same , but the only difference is awake .

While both focusing to do your best , one is telling to arise while other say that be you should also awake , you should not be in the state of sleep .

While we compare with others , we saw so many people , different different type of people , it feels some are doing worth full , meaningful in there life , while some are doing just repetition .

Repetition is sleep , but once we are awaken we know what we are doing .

If we are awaken we will follow our destiny , if we are not we will follow others .

Just go to a Mahatma , go to a Goodman or a politician , they all will say arise & work , fight for your right , fight for your survival or take sanyas to meet the God (fight with your inner feelings if you are not willing to do it)

The issue is not only doing your best , but also doing your best with direction .

One policeman was trying to catch a thief , who was running after taking valuable from a house .

Police man was doing his best , when he was about to catch the thief , the thief was afraid .

But the thief was very intelligent , he thinks for a moment . while running he asked to the Police man , why you are waiting your energy behind me , I am an racing champion , you will not be able to catch me .

The policeman became angry & told I am the best racer in my department , you can not escaped .

the thief argued little more & same the Policeman did .

In Between the thief challenged the Policeman to touch the Pole , some distance away .

The Policeman was very much confident & take the challenge , but when he saw back to announce his victory , he saw no one was there . Thief was left behind & enjoying with the valuable .

Being more capable ,more energetic than the thief , Policeman could not catch the him.

Because He changed his focus , the aim was changed by the thief easily because while running the Policeman forget why he was doing this , while the thief was awaken & was smiling .

There is lot of race in the life , & lot of thieves are here in the way who always try to change our destiny , Some time the thieves are internal (our habits ) while some time they are external , But overall the purpose of each is to change our aim .

Its up to us how we respond.

Mahabharata

Most of us has heard ,read or viewed the tells of Mahabharata, One of my teacher asked me are u know why the Pandavs wins the war & Kauravs loose it ?

Without waiting for a second I just answered that Pandavs are fighting for the religion ,they are with truth , While kauravs are opposite to it .

Kauravas are doing Adharma while Pandavs are with the Dharma , thats why they wins .Lord krishna was with Pandavas , favouring the dharma thats why the Pandavas wins .

He says let us think the thing with new sight .He said the basic behind the victory of Pandavs was that they have only one aim ,they all have only 1 taqrget, victory what was going behind this .

The Kauravas loose because they all have there different aim , the all were fighting but they  have there own target ,they are not collectively fighting for the victory , for example The great Bhisma has his own oath that he will force krishna to take his shastra (arms ).Bhishma himself told arjun how he can be killed.

Karna was having his own view , He knows that untill he is having his kavach kundal , no one can kill him , but for him his personal aim was high then to win the war .He caught others pandavs & left them free in the war because he wants to kill only Arjun .

While in other side , no Pandav is having his personal aim , they all are fighting for the victory , they all did what they could do best for victory from killing of Bhisma from behind of Shikandi to killing of Dronacharya by creating rumours of death of Ashwathama .

They all are united , so they wins .They are single aimed so they do what is required for that, either it will be creating rumors or forgetting the Oath by Sri krishna of not taking the arm(shashtra).

Simulate the story with our self in real life , some time we see our self that we can not solve that problem while after some time we easily solve that .

We have many senses (gyanendirya) , once they are united, they are single focused towards single aim the output comes as best .

But if we are having multiple aim at a single moment of time , we are divided from our aim & once we are divided we are defeated . No one can save us .

Ox & Horse

Long ago there was two animal  Horse &  Ox in a forest. They trapped in a empty Pit.Both tried to come out from the well .

OX was trying continuously from every side ,but he was not success .After many unsuccessful attempt the legs of the horse became injured .

While the Horse was little bit calm & clever .He looks each side of the pit & finally got one easy place to go out , tried the best & came out from the pit.

This happens every where around us , daily with our self & others also .Every time we caught in a problem  sometime we are able to solve it & sometime we are not .

While we saw some people always can find the solution for each problem (in other word they are able to manage with the problem) while some or not .

The core difference is only that who thinks over the problem , who analyze the problem , is able to overcome from it .Definitely that is not the case with others .