How many of you get this feeling? Either Often? Or Always?
Have you ever thought: Why?
Let's understand....
Look at this picture below carefully and answer the questions listed thereafter:
- Who has the pleasure of enjoying the free shade on a rainy afternoon?
- Who has the place to rest and relax, while the traffic oozes all around?
- Who seems well fed and satisfied, even when there may be little to possess?
- Who has the ball with them, even when not asked for it?
- Who got clicked by a curious passer-by and now becoming subject of a blog story?
Still, you may very conveniently say that they are mere stray canines - certainly, they can't be good enough!
Won't this be the popular perception, if this issue went for a vote?
A good number of my students are canine lovers. Many of them support stray animals deeply and actively. They spend from their own pockets to often take these animals to doctors and hospitals. Yet...
...What are the common experiences of them all that I get to learn about?
- Their neighbours complain;
- Housing Societies put fines on them.
- People warn them to take their dog love elsewhere, etc.
Why?
Simply because the dominant perception that prevails in the society is that the stray animals aren't good enough!
Now, why are you not good enough?
Simply because for some reason you haven't met the expectations that were on some person's list, a result of which, they told you that you are not good enough.
And then somehow you began to believe those words.
In HR interviews or in prestegious entrance exams such as CAT, when they reject you, then most of the times either no reason is given or sometimes you are told that you shall find an opportunity somewhere else.
Where? This no one would tell.
Still, when such rejections happen over and over, then sadly, we also start believing the same. We start saying... oh... perhaps, I am actually not good enough!
Afterall, not so many people can be wrong in observing that truth! This is the logic that you give yourself on all such occassions.
What is the actual problem here?
The problem is that somehow we are not able to find what we are brilliant at, instead.
Thus, while we know that we may not be good at a donkey number of things in the world, yet we can't figure out that one thing, at which, we may be truly brilliant at, to be able to answer our critics.
Every person has an inherent quality of brilliance. This brilliance may remain hidden, undiscovered, yet it's there, always, in everyone.
Both modern psychology and ancient spirituality draw the same conclusion.
(Ref: Personality Trait Theories & Swadharma - your own truth - concept of Bhagavad Gita)
Therefore, if anyhow we can find out what we are brilliant at, then the problem should get solved. Isn't it?
Recall that movie, "Taare Zameen Par", where the child is dyslexic, however brilliant at art.
Yes, indeed a big part of the problem gets solved once we are able to learn what we are brilliant at.
One can understand this brilliance of theirs without much difficulty through even simple self-reflection also. Moreover, there are several quizzes, tests, workbooks that are also widely available in the market.
I also help my students in the matter, if someone asks for it.
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This is indeed the first step. Identifying your quality of internal brilliance. It is a very important milestone for personal growth and internal peace, even when this may not be the final step.
This is because, life may present other complexities.
Therefore, let's look at some of those challenges now.
Examples:
- I am brilliant at writing, yet my books don't bring in enough money.
- I am financially sound, I like my work too, yet my partner is somehow always unhappy.
- I try my best to keep my family happy, yet all this is now taking its toll on my health.
- I give a fuck to my challenges, yet somehow I still feel something is missing deep within...
- People are always telling me that you are so brilliant and that actually pisses me...
What about such situations?
What may be done in such cases?
This is where you shall have to remember the following example from the Mother Nature.
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Further, here you may have to work with a coach or a teacher for a little longer in order to:
1. Empower Yourself
2. Wait for appropriate openings
3. Map your path towards the point of inflection.
Also, ideal would be to understand the science of your spiritual truth via scriptures such as Bhagavad Gita and practice mind control disciplines such as Meditation.
These practices directly help you find your direction in all such situations.
Please remember these sciences are not difficult to absorb either. A rightful teacher shall be able to help you in the matter in the most interesting, insightful and innovative method.
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I know all this because I was once such a person. Now, I have many students who are confidently doing things that are their qualities of brilliance.
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Therefore, all people who may be facing any confusions on this front must always remember that evolution is a gradual process, yet a continuous one. With the help of a rightful teacher, it can be enabled in the most practical manner.
One thing shall lead you on this path to another in the most astonishing manner.
"You are good enough", this feeling you shall then start possessing with absolute contentment and without any anxiety, anger or fear. ✌️🙏
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