Mental Strength

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One of the test of mental strength is faith & perseverance.Only a strong mind

can have a firm faith.One must believe firmly ,"I am a being who can achieve

something in the world of spirit." Success in spiritual life depends on our

firmly & steadily holding on to our spiritual ideal.In the midst of all the

confusion & darkness of the relative plane we must hold on to a definite course

of action,thinking,feeling & willing.Otherwise spiritual life comes to

nothing.It often happens that many spiritual aspirants set out with great

enthusiasm but soon their fervor evaporates when they meet various kinds of

obstacles,mostly of their own making.Great tenacity of purpose is needed, as

Swami Vivekananda always insisted on the lives of his followers.

 

Look at the lives of the great prophets and saints.Look at the lives of Sri

Ramakrishna & Swami Vivekananda.What tremendous strength of mind , what

gigantic will they possessed! We need something of their grit & determination

in order to succeed in spiritual life. Even if we fail, we should never own

defeat, never stop struggling.We fall down but we should never own defeat,never

stop struggling.We fall down but we have to rise again. Spiritual life is seldom

smooth,rarely does it go in a straight line.But we should not make this excuse

of falling continuously. If we persists in our struggles & learn to rise after

every fall, we will come to have great strength of mind & power of

discrimination.

 

Leading a spiritual life is like walking on razor's edge, "do or die".

 

Thanks .

 

Rohit.