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THE WAY OF LIFE
believe to be right may go wrong on account of external forces and unforeseen circumstances. Your conjectures and decisions may go wrong.
IT IS WRONG TO HAVE NO PURUSHARTHA (OBJECTIVE) IN LIFE.
But you need not give way to despair. You need not give way to despair even if twenty five percent oï your conjectures come true. When your conjectures prove wrong and when your efforts fail, then you must search for the cause for the failure, “Why has my conjecture failed?” When you again make some conjecture or decision you must take into consideration that cause also. But you should not plunge into the ocean of despair thinking that misfortune is the cause for your failure.
“We thought of the objects, the place, the time and our capacity and then launched upon this business but we have not attained the desired result. Fortune has not favoured us. Let us give up thinking of all these things”. On account of this kind of thinking man may discard all his purusharthas. The pursuit of the purusharthas requires that man should be prepared to face any situation in pursuing them. Such a man must possess patience, courage and self-confidence. If he perseveres in his endeavour he will attain success sooner or later. He will always learn new lessons from his failures.
Man's thoughtfulness regarding the objects, the place, the time and his capacity will be perfect and mature if he has a sense of dedication, application, imagination and wisdom to attain success in his endeavours. If he has these qualities he will achieve success beyond his expectations. The history of many great achievements is written on this basis.
If a man is gloomy and depressed, if he is indifferent towards the task he has undertaken and if he is not firm in his pursuit of the task undertaken he will put forth only half-hearted endeavours. What he does will be incomplete, unsystematic, and of a lower level of perfection. You must remember that success does not fall from the skies. Success comes only
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