Self-Confidence : Key to Success
KATHA : Vivekananda Kendra
"He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himlself."
Blaming others for anything and everything had become a chronic disease with us. Why should we expect someone to come and help us? To depends on others is slavery. No good comes of blaming fate, karma or circumstances. Only a man of confidence can convert challenge into a opportunity.
Confidence is not a gift of God. It has to be cultivated with self-effort and diligence. Success stories of great people reveal the truth that in spite of their tremendous confidence they were not always successful. But the only difference between ordinary people and great ones is this: great people never consider defeats and failures as obstacles, on the contrary, they turn them into stepping stones to success, whereas ordinary people get discouraged and stop moving further. Great people are fully aware of the power within themselves, capable of overcoming huge obstacles and continuing their march till they reach their desired goal.
"The food never begins a work for fear of failure, the mediocre gives up in the middle, frustrated by obstruction; but the man of confidence never gives up, in spite of failures, till the goal is reached,"says Bhrtruhari, the poet in 'Nitishatakam' 27th Sloka.
Today's-Special : 14-July in Swami Vivekananda Life
14 July 1895 : Inspired Talk at Thousand Island
14th July, 1896
: Letter to DR. NANJUNDA RAO,
The numbers of Prabuddha Bharata have been received and
distributed too to the class. It is very satisfactory. It
will have a great sale, no doubt, in India. In America I may
get also a number of subscribers. I have already arranged
for advertising it in America and Goodyear has done it
already. But here in England the progress will be slower
indeed. The great drawback here is — they all want to start
papers of their own; and it is right that it should be so,
seeing that, after all, no foreigner will ever write the
English language as well as the native Englishman, end the
ideas, when put in good English, will spread farther than in
Hindu English.
Then again it is much more difficult to write a story in a foreign language than an essay. I am trying my best to get you subscribers here. But you must not depend on any foreign help. Nations, like individuals, must help themselves. This is real patriotism. If a nation cannot do that, its time has not yet come. It must wait. It is from Madras that the new light must spread all over India. With this end you must stork. One point I will remark however. The cover is simply barbarous. It is awful and hideous. If it is possible, change it. Make it symbolical and simple, without human figures at all. The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a symbol of regeneration.
We are awfully behind hand in art
especially in that of painting. For instance, make a small
scene of spring re-awakening in a forest, showing how the
leaves and buds are coming again. Slowly go on, there are
hundreds of ideas to be put forward. You see the symbol I
made for the Raja-Yoga, printed by Longman Green and Co. You
can get it at Bombay. It consists of my lectures on
Raja-Yoga in New York.
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