One thing I learnt a very hard way is something which appears at a certain point of time could be exactly different if you consider a larger time frame.Also something which is normally perceived pleasurable could have very painful impact in long run.
For example early in my IT career I did a project on a CRM project implementation in Chennai and that project was supposed to last only few months and at that point of time I was a single and based out of Kolkata and and Chennai is a relocation with company paid accommodation , travel expense and food expenses. Also opportunity to see a new place and it had a opportunity to travel to customer location at Miami at the end of the project which seemed very enticing. But as soon as I landed over in Chennai I could very soon realize the project is already in a black hole and anything but pleasurable. We had to do very long hours and quite a few time I slept at office so that I can wake up and work the next day. No holidays and not even off on Sundays. I was a young professional and had never exposed to this type of situation earlier. At the end of the first month I contemplated to quit working in IT and peruse a civil service job which was my parents ultimate dream.But somehow I stuck to almost the very end before I had to travel back to my home town for a family emergency. This was a experience which was very painful but in retrospect I can see the amount of learning I had i those few months I would not even get in years.
Pain or failure with reflection is growth! - Ray Dalio
Sometimes we do get very myopic and focus on too short term and forget the long term life purpose. We try to do the daily activities without reflecting the bigger picture like bricklayer laying bricks without any knowledge of the wall that is being built or the building the wall will be part of. So it is very prudent to stop and reflect from time to time and imagine the big picture.
One thing which became very clear after going through a lot of challenges is nothing stays the same any good or bad changes as time passes. Or at least the interpretation of the situation changes as humans are biological machines meant for adoption. What that really mean that life will through situations at us or scenarios at us and our only job is to get some experience from the situation and add to our collection. If we do not learn or adopt the same situation will repeat over and over until we learn and get the experience which it supposed to teach us.
We feel anything good or bad based on our prior experience as that is how we survived but to really gain experience we have to treat it as a scenario with as much indifference as possible. That will isolate us from identifying the situation through a existing lens and give lot of additional perspective which was right there but ignored.
Never focus on outcome. Just visualize the outcome without any slight though about any steps needed for the outcome. Focus on process and adjust the process for the outcome. There is a beautiful verse in Bhagvat Gita
Karmanye vadhikaraste Ma Phaleshu Kadachana,
Ma Karmaphalaheturbhurma Te Sangostvakarmani
Now let's begin our main section Swami Vivekananda's commentaries on the verse.
Swamji told—
For example early in my IT career I did a project on a CRM project implementation in Chennai and that project was supposed to last only few months and at that point of time I was a single and based out of Kolkata and and Chennai is a relocation with company paid accommodation , travel expense and food expenses. Also opportunity to see a new place and it had a opportunity to travel to customer location at Miami at the end of the project which seemed very enticing. But as soon as I landed over in Chennai I could very soon realize the project is already in a black hole and anything but pleasurable. We had to do very long hours and quite a few time I slept at office so that I can wake up and work the next day. No holidays and not even off on Sundays. I was a young professional and had never exposed to this type of situation earlier. At the end of the first month I contemplated to quit working in IT and peruse a civil service job which was my parents ultimate dream.But somehow I stuck to almost the very end before I had to travel back to my home town for a family emergency. This was a experience which was very painful but in retrospect I can see the amount of learning I had i those few months I would not even get in years.
Pain or failure with reflection is growth! - Ray Dalio
Sometimes we do get very myopic and focus on too short term and forget the long term life purpose. We try to do the daily activities without reflecting the bigger picture like bricklayer laying bricks without any knowledge of the wall that is being built or the building the wall will be part of. So it is very prudent to stop and reflect from time to time and imagine the big picture.
One thing which became very clear after going through a lot of challenges is nothing stays the same any good or bad changes as time passes. Or at least the interpretation of the situation changes as humans are biological machines meant for adoption. What that really mean that life will through situations at us or scenarios at us and our only job is to get some experience from the situation and add to our collection. If we do not learn or adopt the same situation will repeat over and over until we learn and get the experience which it supposed to teach us.
We feel anything good or bad based on our prior experience as that is how we survived but to really gain experience we have to treat it as a scenario with as much indifference as possible. That will isolate us from identifying the situation through a existing lens and give lot of additional perspective which was right there but ignored.
Never focus on outcome. Just visualize the outcome without any slight though about any steps needed for the outcome. Focus on process and adjust the process for the outcome. There is a beautiful verse in Bhagvat Gita
Karmanye vadhikaraste Ma Phaleshu Kadachana,
Ma Karmaphalaheturbhurma Te Sangostvakarmani
Now let's begin our main section Swami Vivekananda's commentaries on the verse.
Swamji told—
- Be beyond the common worldly motives. "To work you have the right, but not to the fruits thereof." Man can train himself to know and to practice that, says the Karma-Yogi. When the idea of doing good becomes a part of his very being, then he will not seek for any motive outside. Let us do good because it is good to do good; he who does good work even in order to get to heaven binds himself down, says the Karma-Yogi. Any work that is done with any the least selfish motive, instead of making us free, forges one more chain for our feet.[Source]
One thing I realized after multiple experience anything that you do for the sake of doing it or even any wish you make for the good of the things no matter if it becomes or helps the self becomes and turns out to be reality as if like a act of god. So taking the self out of things makes us directing connected to the source energy or higher power or God which ever way we refer it.
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