Your First Step towards Personal Leadership

Be Ever Ready To Accept Your Mistake

Mistake is the action taken under the impression that you are doing the right thing, therefore innocence or ignorance is the underlying cause of any mistake. Then the right strategy should be to get rid of 

ignorance by getting educated, and innocence can be countered by being aware of the fact that although you may think something to be correct, due to lack of wisdom or information regarding that subject, but it is still possible for you to discover at a later stage that you were not right. Thus possessing the humility of being open, to accept such realities and learn from them is the first step towards personal leadership and growth.

It calls for a great deal of humility to be ever ready to accept your mistake, where you may have no awareness of this fact, till such time this reality is brought to your notice through some external factors or it dawns on you through your intrinsic realization that you were not right when you acted under the illusion of it being right.

Know the Causes of Illusions

If you look around yourself you would recognize that there are infinite factors responsible for even the simplest of the outcome to happen. No we are not discussing the theory of probability, but even more interestingly the underlying causes or the factors leading to the illusions owing to the imperfect human sensory perception and Maya, responsible for decoding these events as they do it. The Maya or illusion coupled with your ego is the main reason for such occurrences. Time and again the scientific discoveries have revealed that our senses are imperfect and so is our understanding & interpretation of the events happening around us. Thus we see that different people, with different levels of perception, viewing the same distant object. Each of them will be 100% confident of their individual perception, but the fact could be that none of them may be right. The factors responsible for such variations could be better explained by plotting their differing individual concentration spans, selective distortion, language barriers, intellectual capabilities, personal biases, education, aptitude, aspirations, conditioning and motivation.

Your Perception Is the Reflection of Your Real Self

Your perception regarding the external world is the reflection of your true self and converse of this is also true as whatever perception you hold of the external world, gets manifested inside you, this is the power of law of attraction. Therefore it is said that when you criticize others you tend to carry and develop their negative attributes inside you and the same is true for the praise offered by you to others, but the point to be noted is that you must refrain from criticizing others and you must be genuinely sincere in your praise, this must be heartfelt and in no way be flattery, targeted to please those involved.

Preempt Falling Prey to Illusion

Therefore you must understand that these differences emanate from the dynamic psychological as well as the ever changing physiological conditioning based on differing levels of socio-cultural, socio-economic, socio-demographic and socio-political exposure. As we have discussed earlier also that Maya drags us under the influence of passion and ignorance, and this is fueled by our false ego.  It is ironical to note that most of the time, the fears and worries influencing your life, as you live under the deplorable conditions, of stress & anxiety generated by them, are imaginary and unreal. This is the impact of Maya or illusion, and even the most intelligent & knowledgeable people cannot escape from its trap, such is the strength of this Maya or illusion. This is because your worldly intelligence & knowledge is grounded in the primary motive of acquiring material possessions and therefore the only way to preempt your falling prey to the designs of illusion or Maya is to follow the real wisdom emanating from the divine virtues by living the universal eternal truths, and by surrendering your ego to the super natural power or God

God Bless

Success N Synergy

Freedom, from Jealousy & from Craving for Pride - A Divine Virtue

Freedom is an innate virtue, your state of fulfillment or otherwise depends upon whether this natural endowment is used or misused by you respectively. You can progress in the direction of

a fulfilling life only when you have the freedom from jealousy as well as the freedom from the craving for pride.

All Struggle in this World is the Result of the Craving for Pride;

Most of us generally believe that we are the real owners of our various material possessions in this world and take great pride in thinking that we are the factual owners of these material possessions, where as the fact is that these material possessions are in the ownership of God. All the struggle of most people in this world is the result of the craving for the false pride of staking the claim for the material possessions around them.

Jealousy if Allowed to Dominate Eats into the Feeling of Fulfillment;

When a hot object is placed near ice, the ice starts losing its form and it finally gets converted into  liquid, similarly Jealousy is a negative feeling which if allowed to dominate our being, it gradually grows stronger thus eating into the positive feeling of fulfillment and ultimately eradicating fulfillment completely from our lives. example, – when you get to know that another person has obtained the possession of some material object, which you also wish to have in your possession, then there are three different ways in which you can react to this event, the first and the most common way is to feel jealous of the other person, the second way could be, to be indifferent to such an event and the third way could be, to be feeling genuinely happy for the person that now possesses an object that would make him or her happy, this kind of disposition is the mark of an abundance mentality, which states that there is enough for everyone deserving and there is no shortage of any type, meaning it is not a zero sum game , where the gain of one person is necessarily the loss of another person.

To be able to experience fulfillment, the third way, marked with abundance mentality, when followed naturally by you, will be an indication that you are progressing on the right path to fulfillment. The fact of life is that each living being has to die some day or the other and we are no exceptions. Whatever deeds, divine or evil, a person does to acquire the possession of the material objects, has to face the consequences as a result of these deeds. After death there is no way the possession of these material objects can be retained by that particular person. Therefore there is no point in feeling jealous or craving for the false pride of possessing these material objects.

 

This Craving for False Pride is fueled by Passion and Ignorance;

Your reaction to any situation is governed by the dominating mode of your being, which may be exhibited by your acting under the spell of either ignorance, passion or goodness.

Ignorance; Under the spell of ignorance you tend to neglect the universal eternal truths and their impact, you are just motivated by the present ,you are so deeply entrenched in the clutches of the present moment that all your thinking capabilities are short circuited to support the act you wish to pursue in the present moment. You tend to get swayed by the emotions prevailing at that point in time, there by blocking out your access to the complete reasoning and thinking process, which could have guided you in terms of the effect of the action that will be produced as consequences of your action, such a situation can be averted by developing emotional intelligence.

Passion; When over powered by your passion you deliberately focus on acquiring objects you passionately wish to own and are willing to forego all other things , by acting in such a way you knowingly compromise on the universal eternal truths and expose yourself to the long term sufferings to be produced as a result of your actions. The difference that action taken under passion has with that taken under ignorance is that while under passion you tend to ignore the universal eternal truths through your reasoning whereas under ignorance you lose your discerning capability and all your reasoning, logic and thinking powers are completely blocked. So your actions under the spell of passion are still a matter of choice whereas those under the spell of ignorance are totally disconnected from your thinking reality in terms of the consequences arising out of your actions. 

 Acting in Goodness Gives Freedom from Jealousy as well as Craving for False Pride; 

Goodness; While in goodness you are equally concerned about the people around you and your behavior at all times is guided by the intent of not offending others through your actions, thus you see that the complete norms of etiquette flowing from this thought in different cultures and civilizations, where others, their respect and comfort are placed before the objective of self aggrandizement

Freedom if misused can take you away from the things you want to achieve, by leading you into the wrong direction, whereas its correct use can propel you to great heights and you can program yourself to achieve the things you desire in life

Knowing that you are, were or will only be a caretaker of the material possessions in your control, and the only owner is God, your craving for the false pride of owning the material objects will sublimate paving way to the attitude of leading a righteous life by following the universal eternal natural truths and imbibing the divine virtues in your life.

God Bless

Success N Synergy