Do the utmost that you must in any situation, and you will find only the joy of right action. Tears are for those who turn away from their responsibility. If you were truly dedicating your energy rightly, how would you have any left to weep? So fight so hard that you either win or perish. If you win, the glory is yours. If you perish, at least all suffering is gone.
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Acharya Prashant: Even in those situations, that we call as ‘utterly woeful,’ ‘utterly hopeless,’ if we just do that which we are capable of doing, would there be space, and opportunity, and time, to despair?
Please.
You are fighting a hopeless battle, let us say. You know very well that the result is pre-ordained. The enemy outnumbers you, thousand is to one. But if you do what you must, where is the time to suffer? Is there time to suffer?
In fact, the more adverse a situation is, the more impossibly adverse a situation is, less is the time it leaves you with to despair.
Do you see that? If you were fighting an easy battle, probably you would have somehow managed to steal away some time to sneak in a corner, and despair, and call yourself, ‘helpless’, ‘luckless’, and many other such things. Right?
