Greed for success : swami sukhabodhananda

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Greed for success swami sukhabodhananda
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Most people will succeed in life if they are not
burdened by greed for success. To be committed to
success is different from greed for success. If
one is greedy, it is an utter failure. Men dont
plan to be failures. They simply fail to plan to
be successful, said William A. Ward. Most of the
people lack the commitment to call on their
untapped potential. Most people settle down to be
mediocre in life and complain rest of their life
while the daring few go on making changes for
succeeding in their endeavor.
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Let us look at life in a different perceptive.
Learn to meditate on life itself. For some, this
may be shocking to grasp. Learn not to be lost in
ones goal and not to lose sleep. Learn not to
withdraw from life out of fear of going through
difficulties in achieving ones goal. Meditation
need not be a withdrawal from life. Neither it is
concentration, where one forces ones life energy
to conform to a pattern set by your mind and thus
get bound by its own ideal. 
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This conformity to an ideal, to your discipline,
is a subtle kind of escape from the actuality of
what is. Man seeks reality through success and
fantasies and thus gets caught in the
acquisition. One is lost in acquiring more and
more for deep within one is empty. One needs a
meditative alertness to see this fact.
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Why is one lost in becoming successful or
enlightened? Is it not true becoming mode is a
limitation and a pattern? Does not one get bound
by the pattern? Learn to see becoming has given
only illusion of fulfillment. It is like a rose
wanting to become moon and moon wanting to become
rose. If rose can see the beauty of itself and
the beauty of the moon and vice-versa, then one
is heightened by the perception of beauty. Hence
there is the fulfillment in the now and not in
the becoming mode. Is not the power of Being
is powerful than the power of becoming.
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Can you meditate in your life on the power of
Being - be it at home or work - rather than get
lost in becoming. You may say, There appear to
be no need to become successful. There is some
contradiction. Please explain. We are more
focused on explanation and the logic of it rather
than what makes life fulfilling. Truth has to be
comprehended rather than explained. With the
power of Being, one can see the beauty of life
and from that inner space, one can tap ones
potentiality to reach ones goal. 
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The goal is not equal to success, but the way you
reach the goal - with joy, with love, with
passion, with a commitment, with creativity that
itself is a success. Then reaching your goal is
an expansion of success, the tapping of ones
inner beauty and potential. This is a different
and meditative way of looking at life.