The most beautiful thing that will ever happen to you is love, and the most wonderful thing you will ever do is sacrifice. These concepts are relative to other human beings; therefore, they are influenced by your surroundings rather than being strictly individual. They are inherently tied to innovation and individual curiosity, but if you feel stuck, let us resolve that.
Let’s state the obvious: the greatest motivator is love, and the second best is jealousy. If you choose the former, you will engage in constructive actions; if you choose the latter, you will gravitate toward destructive ones. In this process, you will encounter struggle and success, and perhaps your contract with the cosmic world will align, making you feel “lucky.” If not, you will feel as though you are constantly struggling.
Now that the obvious has been stated, let’s explore how we arrive at this realisation. The day you learn to observe and analyse, you must look at the things you experienced between the ages of 7 and 9, and then examine the lives of your parents. You will find something that constitutes your true life purpose—this may be in favour of your upbringing or against it—and eventually, it will grow beyond your family, city, state, and country. That is where it starts. If you fall in love with your pursuit, you will make it grand and magnificent; otherwise, you will destroy it. Both paths will impact the current social architecture, but one will lead to a blissful existence, while the other will result in constant fear and struggle.
Why is this approach the biggest problem regarding our country’s growth? Regardless of where you were born—any geography, language, caste, or social status—you have been taught to be “right” and to be corrupt in your professional life.
Some of our services, both public and private, are over 70 years old, yet not even 5% of the people carry on the work after retirement. There is no excellence, no introspection, and no integrity; at the same time, not a single piece of machinery is working to its fullest potential. This educational and social framework causes a great deal of distress. People who want to do the right thing in their jobs often end up being the most corrupt. Yet, society still worships them because there is no alternative. I have a plan, but first, we must understand how all four of these abstract emotions are keeping you away from your potential.
Everyone wants to live for 100 years.
Everyone wants to be happy for 100 years—but what about other emotions?
Everyone wants to be peaceful and successful.
Everyone wants to have family and everything.
Everyone wants to travel and experience.
Everyone wants to be an expert in everything.
Everyone wants a job and security
Everyone wants to be a musician, but they cannot build the instrument.
Everyone wants to walk on shoes of some famous face and enjoy the glory but not his own.
This motivation of philosophy that we deserve everything and we can be anything is root cause of all of your problems. It all comes from what we think, practice and do will produce the result not by imagination or motivations.
Our philosophy has been simple: know yourself. The question is how. It starts with the world around you—geography, culture, language, and native roots—and then moves to your body, mind, heart, and soul. However, in the current education system, no one has the time or space for this. The current political landscape is like a prison; no one is truly free. Take the example of exploring a hidden place that might be a hotspot for local tourism: if you live far away and want to explore it, you will find that the government has implemented safety rules that prevent you from seeing the very things you came for. Imagine being born as a unique individual and forced through a system designed to make you find “success.” Is that really the way? It is so incorrect by design that it can only be understood when you look inward. Otherwise, the suffering continues, the chaos around us grows exponentially, and there is no escape. The most powerful beings—humans—are living in regret and despair because they have accepted these rules themselves. No one has time to build a basic foundation for themselves; instead, everyone is looking for success like water in a desert or a firefly in the sunlight.
Let’s see if we can understand this: if you are capable of building a guitar but you are not interested, no one can motivate you. You might find rewards and remuneration to start playing, but you will struggle. You will say, “I am unlucky, for I know how to tune a guitar, so why can I not play?” But the person who can play it, might not be able to build it; he might not be a good singer, and if he can sing, he might not be able to write lyrics. Now, he looks for a motivation expert or astrology to solve his lack of interest. In the same way, the artisan might not know which material is best for building a guitar, the woodcutter might not know how to transport the wood to the artisan, and the artisans may not know how the material should be used for the guitar.
I am not a pessimist but this perspective simply limits the distractions that begin when you fail to understand yourself and move in the wrong direction. Let’s look at a few examples from contemporary times.
First, consider a player who is the son of a famous cricketer. He has been looking for his chance in the IPL for 5–6 seasons, and perhaps his parent is hesitant to provide a final push. There are many cricket players who come and go, fail, and move on to something else rather than clinging to the dream of the Indian team. But this player carries the burden of everything he has been through, and no one could have imagined the advancement in cricket in this way. He is not able to express himself. In one of his matches, he was denied a single run three times. He could have been out; you cannot make it to the top in the name of mercy. If you are capable, take your chances, and you must decide where that respect lies. Because of something in his mind, he is unable to break his chains. His father cannot use his influence to ensure he plays five or six consecutive games to get his path sorted—either completely in or completely out. But this humiliation to his soul and the continued struggle to fit in leaves a scar on his personality. He was not born to play cricket; he was born to fix irregularities, influenced heavily by his father.
The second story is that of a politician’s son, whose family has been a pillar of independent India for three or four generations. Yet, he chooses the easiest path. Even if you are 100% right and you feel the urge to be a saviour—whether due to real danger or danger created by yourself—you feel unsuccessful, even though 99.999999% of Indian people would dream of being you. You are struggling with the same failure, and the reason is the same: you are not doing what you were meant to do. You were here to break the curse of your family and live as a common man; your presence could have been life-changing for them. Surrounded by “yes-men,” you could have used your position to spread awareness. Utilise your charisma not to win them over, but to understand them. He was born to fix irregularities in governance and resolve the fear he himself has faced.
Third, take the example of the richest businessman in India and his sons. Based on a set of marketing rules and political influence, they build a business and try out smaller ones. If they ever face a loss, because they are tied to the government, they can simply increase the rates of daily necessities to offset their losses. Now, this is labeled as “success.” If your soul encourages you to do business, you should do it. They pretend to be religious in a Hindu-centric way, but when the integrity of a Shankaracharya was in question, their lips remained sealed. People who disrespect Hindu scriptures work on their payroll. What kind of success is this, if they cannot stand for their own values and live only for social media validation? They were born to fix business ideology, not to be leeches sucking the blood of the poor by utilising modern machinery.
Finally, consider the story of a Prime Minister who thinks he is doing a great job. He has not completed a single election manifesto promise, yet people are still crazy for him—and I am a fan of that. He normalises jumbles, freebies, and distractions. Whatever he claimed he would fight is now in its worst condition: demonetisation, Skill India, currency depreciation, foreign loans, black money, infrastructure, security, and human values have all plummeted to near zero. So, this is also a form of personal success. Not a single institution has become strong and dependable; a complete collapse will happen soon enough. He was not meant to be a true leader; he is merely exposing the pandits and intellectuals, showing how gullible they are. All intellectuals are retracting their own ideology and beliefs. This will leave a scar bigger than slavery.
All four examples are successful while feeding respective egos of other people.
Your source of existence is everything you need to understand, because being in this world is not an accident. It is your choice, and there is a cycle. You have to understand why you chose this. If you ignore that, your rules will keep forcing you in that direction. There are thousands of reasons you might miss it, but that purpose will never go away from your subconscious. You will see more disconnection, overthinking, and solitude. It all comes down to discipline, because everything in this world is a distraction with immense risks and rewards. Every living being, as dominant as you, walking side-by-side, face-to-face, or back-to-back, will influence your path. If there is no discipline—the kind that builds before the age of 12—your own influence on your path is compromised.
Collectively, this leads to cosmic governance. Why must we go through this? If I explain it and you hear it, it becomes my perspective; you perceive it through yours, and you can be influenced. However, there are thousands of paradoxes to handle in this situation. I would say the best connection is your “gut feeling.” This education system and philosophy, which demand dates and proofs, will limit your mind because history will take precedence in social decisions.
Now, how do you use that gut feeling at the right time and in the right direction? There is a discipline for everything, but true discipline does not come from the outside; it comes from your soul. Let’s say there is a train to catch: you will not miss it 99 out of 100 times. Why is that? Why have we trained our subconscious mind to make it important? It is mostly the biology of the body—muscle memory. How we feel about the importance of something matters. The biggest distraction is the education system forcing you to learn the same things. The process is that you already know everything your parents know—you are just an extension of them—and they force you to learn something they feel is relevant for their own age, perhaps 30 years ago or more. That is where all the problems start. Parents are often not capable enough to raise a “free” child, and perhaps the structure is designed this way, but we can fix that using the same teaching framework. Now, every relation that comes your way is where you have to choose; while choosing, you must ensure you know what you want. If you choose by measuring what others want, you will be in trouble.
As we have established regarding birth and contracts, what are the basic human problems we are facing that should not be problems at all?
If I ask you why anyone needs motivation, there are many answers, but I will ask a question one step ahead: Why do you want to do something that requires constant motivation just to continue? Perhaps the answer is, “I have to do this, and after this, I will do that.” Okay, but I am still not sure that is the right decision. So, let’s start with why we would want to do something in the first place, The root and instrumental needs are food and love. These have been masked with so many layers that these will never be revealed to you in contemporary times.
Modern parents and circumstances are such that they do not even know why they have children at least in the past they wanted their generation and DNA to continue. Since the foundation is the same, all cultural and social architecture and infrastructure were destroyed during slavery. Nothing is left for the heart and mind. So, 99% of people are, by default, on the wrong path, and the remaining 1%, who seem to have figured it out, are on the worst path—they become so destructive to society that no one can imagine. Their philosophy is I will let my children do anything then rams the car into footpath and much more worse.
Now, whatever you have chosen to do must truly and rightfully belong to you. You must have known yourself; you must have understood the struggle of your last two generations’ DNA, the current infrastructure, and the social setup. You need just one person who aligns with your idea—like Ram with Lakshman, Krishna with Balram, Arjun with Krishna, Nehru with Gandhi, or Advani with Atal. In Sanatan philosophy, that person was your life partner. You have to fight and accept the rules built by your ancestors.
These abstract ideas—Struggle, Motivation, Luck, and Success—are the cause of the rules built for the unique, independent soul by humans. If you are trapped in any one of them, it means you are not truly awake.So, ask yourself: Are you doing the thing that is in sync with your soul? If it does not make you overthink, does not cause sleep problems, does not make you feel unsatisfied, and does not leave you feeling disconnected, then you are on your own path.