SUCCESS = GODLY ATTITUDE

These days my daughter surpirses me more often with some punching statements that she makes. Last week, while we were playing in the garden, I was kind of hanging to a tree and shaking it. She was on the slides about 15 feet away from me. She screamed, "Daddu! don't harm the tree, there is GOD inside the tree!". I was not only surprised but kind of ashamed of myself that how did I forget that there is GOD everywhere and that we must treat every thing with great respect, and handle it with utmost care so that we don't heart anyone, as every form of life, nature, living and non-living is very godly, that only has created it. So very creation is so very special as we ourselves are!

On May 2, it was Buddha Poornima. I was having holiday, and sitting in my bedroom, I was playing teacher-student game with Maitri. She was teacher and I was a student. She gave me some assignment, and I did not do it properly. She was upset, but told me not to repeat it again. However, I did the same mistake again. She came close to me - looked into my eyes and with a very authoratative voice said, "Don't be like Devdutta, Be like Buddha!". Both me and Pradnya were shocked with her use of example. We have taught her this story of Devdutta and Buddha some days back - which she told in her story telling competition at School and won first prize. This story is about Devdutta shooting the bird with an arrow, which falls in fornt of Gautama, which he picks up and strats treating a wound. Devdutta order Gautama to give back the bird to him, as it is his catch.......".

When I remeber both of these interactions with my daughter, I realize that this girl is talking about an "ATTITUDE" in life. She is referring to "GODLY ATTITUDE", an attitude which is so very positive in its implementation, and outcome that success is guaranteed. I wonder, most of us why fail to succeed? The major reason I believe is our attitude is not godly. In godly attitude there is nothing impossible, there is no probability, there is no space for doubt. Most of the time when we initiate something we always doubt our own capability, thus our attitude never remains godly.

Most of the time when we mean success, we mean defeat to someone. Our purpose of sucess is never so very pure like a flowing water, there is always some hitch and thus our attitude is never so very godly. With an attitude to defeat someone or creating loss to others, you can never be successful. Most of the time we are part of a team that aspires to achieve some degree of success, but we always have inbuilt plans not be be 100% team player, might be that we don't like the leader or his leadership. How can such a team where few or most of its members do not have 100% dedication and confidence to the cause for which they swear by. The team and members of the team fail simlpy because they lack goldy attitude. Most of the time we study hard, work hard not to shine but often to get more marks than one of our fellow classmate or to show to our teachers that I do have an ability to be successful - how can you ensure that such a success becomes permanant feature when your attitude is not very godly, but is filled with revenge in it.

It is very imporatnat that our ATTITIDE is GOLDLY, without any prejudice, without any -ve ideas, with 101% dedication to expected outcome, without any purpose to harm anyone directly or indirectly. With such a GODLY ATTITUDE success is guranteed. There could be no better example of this GODLY ATTITUDE in recent time than Mahatma Gandhi. He was clear when he shoulder the responsibility, it was not to harm the regime that has inavded, and neither to prove his sumpremacy in Indian politics, it was just very simple - to make this country and its people free of occupation and lead them to republic independece. Thus,

SUCCESS = GODLY ATTITUDE!