There is pleasure in being defeated by yourself, if you fall to your tendencies, for pleasure, for rest, all you get is happiness, ordinary pleasure. When you lose to yourself, there is just pleasure; when you beat yourself, there is joy. Practice joy! Become obsessed. I’ll go to the extent of saying, become addicted. Read more.....
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Questioner: I try hard to get rid of my inner bondages. But I keep failing miserably. Please say something.
Acharya Prashant: See, there’s a need to avoid talking big, even of your failures. When we say, “Oh! I failed so miserably,” we are trying to turn our failures into something grand. Your efforts are petty, even your failures are petty, so forget them.
You have done nothing worth remembering. What you rather need is some honesty, that would turn your effort into something a bit substantial. Then probably you won’t have to talk so much about your failures. What is happening is this — I hardly put any effort into this (pointing to something); hardly any effort, no effort has gone into this and then I fail and then I sing aloud of my failures.
One hour of effort went into this and twenty-three hours went into singing the melancholy song of my failure. Be honest. Put more effort into this, then you won’t have to sing so much of your failures. And remember that petty work begets petty failures.
