Ramana Maharshi says success and failure are the results of prarabdha

[Guest guest]

Devotee.: What are the means for gaining will-power?

 

Bhagavan:

 

Your idea of will-power is success insured.Will-power should be understood

to be the strength of mind which makes it capable for meeting success or

failure with equanimity. It is not synonymous with certain success. Why

should one’s attempts be always attended with success? Success develops

arrogance and the man’s spiritual progress is thus arrested. Failure on the

other hand is beneficial, inasmuch as it opens the eyes of the man to his

limitations and prepares him to surrender himself.Self-surrender is

synonymous with eternal happiness. Therefore one should try to gain the

equipoise of mind under all circumstances. That is will-power.

 

Again, success and failure are the results of prarabdha and not of

will-power. A man may be doing only good and noble actions and yet prove a

failure. Another may do otherwise and yet be uniformly successful. This does

not mean that the will-power is present in the one and not in the other.

 

Source: Talk 423

 

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Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya

Prasanth Jalasutram

 

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