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<font size="4">Success
and its Conditions</font></b></P>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT SIZE=3>SUCCESS
in any undertaking can come only by the application of a quiet force.
A force that is restless, shaky, nervous always misses the mark. A
steady, controlled, almost rigid hand alone can shoot the missile
that hits the bull's-eye. The Upanishad speaks of being one and
indivisible with one's aim, even like an arrow-head fixed into the
target. An undivided concentration naturally means an absolute
unruffled tranquillity.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>How is this tranquil energism to be secured? What are
the conditions that produce and maintain and foster it? The first
condition is self-confidence. One must have trust in oneself, a full
faith that one is able to do the thing. A pessimist, a half-hearted
doubter, a defeatist can never achieve anything in the world. All
successful men, whatever share they agreed to give to chance, had
always immense hope and faith. Against failures, against tremendous
odds they have always persisted, always believed in their star. Like
Caesar they said not only to themselves but also to others: &quot;Thou
carriest with thee the fate of Caesar.&quot; Only, of course, the
self-confidence sometimes overrides itself, becomes conceit and
arrogance. Then you go beyond your depth, tempt the fates beyond your
control and open the door to failure. So along with self-confidence,
there must be an element of sobriety; we will call it modesty –
true modesty that can perceive the extreme limit at least of the
possible and the impossible. Such modesty itself is a source of
serenity and calmness in the mind and nerves. Imagine a lion
couchant, aiming at its prey. The prey remains spellbound, unable to
run away. The lion's gaze is fixed upon its victim; its hypnotism
consists in a calm and absolute self-confidence, an unshakable
assurance that its will shall prevail.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Man's self-confidence is, as I have said, apt to
overleap</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>itself; it turns into self-conceit and blind and
obstinate complacence. An animal by instinct knows how to remain
within its limits and continue to be unfailing in its judgment: it is
domestic animals that begin to get muddled in their instinctive
movements. With the growth of the mental self-consciousness man loses
the sense of his limits and always seeks to exceed himself. And
therefore failure and fall have become almost his constant
companions. His efforts are not commensurate with his powers. Hence
in his case modesty is a great asset and a desideratum. Modesty, we
said, is the consciousness of one's limitation – not
over-estimating oneself, nor for that matter under-estimating
oneself: it is judging exactly what one is.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>That, however, is the case with the normal man with the
normal nature. But precisely because of the growth of
self-consciousness, man has developed the power to increase his
powers: he can extend the boundaries of his capacities and
possibilities. He need not confine himself within the dimensions that
he naturally possesses or acquires in the normal course of his
growth. He can follow an abnormal or extraordinary course of growth,
break through his limits and establish contact with the vast and the
illimitable and the incalculable, even the very fount and origin- of
all power. That is the gift of Yoga, spiritual discipline.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Yoga brings in a different line and scheme of life. For
it is built upon soul-consciousness, upon Divine Nature which means
another history of individual destiny. Even then tranquillity and
self-confidence are at the basis of a Yogic life also and a new
degree of modesty and humility.</FONT><BR>
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