Live to Win

Till now our earth is the only planet where life exists. All living beings give this planet a unique existence. Animals, birds, reptiles and many more creatures in nature help one another to keep this place full of life. Animals live in the forests and survive in the company of nature. Animals that eat grass live on grass. Those animals who live on the meat of other animals, get their food from grass eaters. But man is such an animal who survives on plants as well as meat both. It is said that man is the best creation of God because man is the only creature who has power of thinking. No other creature in nature has such a unique power. Man is creative, thoughtful and helpful to one another. Man has explored nature as far as he could due to his curious nature. Today he has reached the distant heavenly bodies of this universe and still trying to find some other places in the space to live. But today he has ignored this fact that he is also a part of this nature and survives on this earth because nature provides him with favorable conditions to survive. At each and every step this nature teaches us the art of living. In this world no person can be found who doesn't want to live as a winner. Being a winner is the ambition of every person but how many of us are able to reach that winning point. Perhaps very few, why?

There are so many reasons why very few people become successful in their lives. As far as I experienced, the first thing that stops us from reaching the winning point is lack of knowledge about one's capability what one can do perfectly. Our education system prepares the students for being followers to work as clerks. Most of us don't know what the actual goal of our lives are. We just have our target to get the job for earning our bread and butter and sometimes we fail to get even such a job. Why? In this context we can take an example from the ancient story of king Vishwamitra. Vishwamitra was a powerful king. Once he went to the forest for hunting. In the jungle he got late, so he decided to spend the night in the Ashram of Guru Vashishtha. Vishwamitra and his army reached the Ashrama of Guru Vashishtha. In the night there was no proper arrangement of dinner in that jungle. Guru Vashishtha had a cow named Nandini having super powers with which she could produce any thing and any time. With the help of Nandini Guru could arrange the tasty dinner for Vishwamitra and his army. In the morning at the time of departure Vishwamitra asked Guru how he could make arrangement of such a tasty dinner for so many people at that untimely hour. Guru told him the story of his cow Nandini and her super powers. Vishwamitra asked Guru to give him that cow, but Guru Vashishtha refused to do so. Ultimately Vishwamitra tried to take the cow forcibly. He and his army attacked Guru Vashishtha. Guru had a title of Brahmarishi which was given to him by gods and also a weapon called Brahmadanda. He put Brahmadanda against Vishwamitra's army. All the weapons of Vishwamitra and his army were of no use in front of Guru's Brahmadanda. He had to accept his defeat, but he decided to attain the title of Brahmarishi and went to the forest for Tapasya. He meditated for many years. Lord Indra was afraid that Vishwamitra could take away his kingdom after being a Brahmarishi, so he sent Apsaras (beautiful dancers) of his court to disturb Veshwamitra's Tapasya (meditation). He was disturbed again and again and every time he had to start his meditation from the new end. Finally he succeeded to attain the title of Brahmarishi. This was the story of success.

In present time there are so many sources to disturb a person to stop him from reaching his goal. For students there are many sources for entertainment such as TV, Internet etc.even at home which don't allow them to open their books or look the originality of this nature as well as world. In the olden days Apsaras were sent specially to disturb the concentration of a person, but today Apsaras are found scattered on the roads everywhere. To be successful you have to follow the path of Vishwamitra whose concentration cannot be disturbed at any cost before reaching your goal.