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<p class="paracenter">HOW TO WAIT
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<p class="para">&quot;If you know how to wait, you gain time&quot;. Usually, when you are 
about to do a thing, the impulse is to rush towards it and rush it through; 
between the idea and the execution you do not want to leave any gap. You are in 
a haste to see the thing done. You do not care to pause and look about you, view 
and weigh the conditions and circumstances, think out the best way of working 
towards the goal. The result of the hustle is failure, very often dead failure. 
You have to begin over again. You may even have to begin over and over again if 
you do not learn the lesson given. Evidently, you lose time, lose energy and 
lose your success. On the contrary, what you have to do before you actually take 
up your work is not to jump at it, but understand what it means and involves, 
have before your mind's eye a clear figure or pattern of the thing to be 
undertaken, not to go upon a vague and indefinite notion about it, something 
that will take shape—that will take care of itself—as you proceed. You must have 
a clear conception of your work and also you must find out the exact ways and 
means, have at your elbow the best possible implements.
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<br><p class="pageno">Page-30</p>
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<p class="para">It is only when you are fully armed with the necessary equipment 
that you can be sure of success without any waste of time or energy.
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<p class="para"> And then there is a time, a 
propitious time for everything. A thing cannot be done at any time, it has its 
own appointed hour; you cannot succeed even if you attempt a hundred times 
before that hour strikes. But when the time is ripe, how easily a thing seems to 
get done! In what does this ripeness of time consist, what are the marks of the 
propitious hour? It is when you are in complete possession of the right 
instruments and when the disposition of circumstances is such that they concur 
to help and execute and not mar and obstruct. But how to find out or recognise 
when such conditions are available? Not by your mind or external reasoning. You 
must have the intuition, an instinctive perception of the situation. Always the 
indication is there in the very poise of your consciousness. That is to say, 
when it is filled with a great calm, trust and confidence, a luminous 
concentration.
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<br><p class="pageno">Page-31</p>
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