Success in Life

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What is it that you want out of life? What great desire dominates your

life? Do you wish to become the greatest musical genius in this world?

Or do you want to become the fastest Olympic runner or greatest

weightlifter in the world? For those with such an overwhelming

ambition, all other problems recede into the background. But if you do

not have such an all-consuming ambition, then everything becomes a

problem, and sex also becomes a problem. In you think, " Let me satisfy

this desire first, then I will have a little peace and can attend to

my other goals, " you are greatly deluded. Satisfaction of desire will

only have one result. It will intensify that desire. Desire is not

subdued by satisfying it, but by directing it into a higher channel.

 

Therefore, the right way of solving this problem is to rise above it,

so that it becomes something not to important to you. If you want to

attain victory over the clamour of the senses, you must arouse within

yourself a great fire of higher aspiration. Then, what happens? In

order to attain that upon which you heart is set, you give yourself

so tally to it, that you have no time for other things. You are too

busy pursuing your goal. Great scientists, for example, do not have

this problem, because they are all the time completely absorbed in

their scientific research. They do not pay much attention to food or

clothing or bathing or anything. Why? Because they are so interested

in something else.

 

After all, what is the hallmark of culture? It is the ability to

control oneself. What is the difference between an uncivilised person

and a civilised person? A civilised person has gained mastery over his

lower nature.When asked " What do you think of Western Civilisation?, "

Mahatma Gandhi is reported to have replied, " I th ink it would be a

good idea! "

 

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