Challenges: The means of elevation

The worldly hardships and troubles cannot harm you, unless and until you become week from inside and give up. If you have faith in your Self, if you are strong from inside, then outer troubles only helps you to elevate to higher state of equanimity and happiness. However, when you are fearful and discouraged, then you tend to take wrong decisions and in this manner help the troubles to win over you and suppress you.
If your outlook is positive and constructive, then you can step over all the troubles and obstacles of life easily. Not only that, with the right perspective, you can make proper use of these obstacles to

Only requirement for attaining inner happiness is passionate eagerness

Human Will is capable of achieving anything in the material world, as well as in the spiritual world, the inner world. It is not that we lack resources or we lack intellect to gain the knowledge of the Self. It is only that we lack the ardent eagerness required to gain the highest goal of human life – the true inner happiness. The true seeker of Self is rare. You can easily find the seeker of wealth, the seekers of eminence, the seekers of peace, the seekers of comforts or even the seekers of God, but it is very rare to find an ardent seeker of inner happiness, the inner wisdom of Self.

Let me tell you an ancient story of such a ardent seeker of true wisdom, Nachiketa.

“Nackiketa was son of a rich Brahmin, Vajashravasa. Vajashravasa, desiring worldly blessings from the Gods, made offerings of many cows.

Brakes and light in the life of a true seeker

“Stop…Stop right here,” shouted a policeman at the impish teenager riding a bicycle in the dark streets of Delhi. “Why are you riding so fast in the dark without any light on your bike?”
“Please move aside Sir….Lights…Ha ha…this bicycle is not even having the brakes,” replied the happy-go-lucky rider.
Well… you may laugh at him, but most of us are doing the same with our lives. We are also riding the bicycle of our lives without any brakes and light. We act indiscriminately as per the wishes of the mind, without putting any restraints on our senses. At the same time most of us are in dark, ignorant about the inner world of mind, intellect, heart, consciousness and the blissful soul.