The Secret of Success—Live in the Present

The future is always carved out in the present. Tomorrow’s harvest depends upon today’s ploughing and sowing. But in the fear of facing possible dangers to the crops if a farmer wastes his present chances of thoroughly ploughing and carefully sowing at the right time, it is guaranteed that he shall not have any harvest at all. The present moments are to be invested intelligently and well, so that we may reap a better time in the future.The past is dead; the future is not yet born. If one becomes unhealthy and inefficient in the present, certainly he has no reason to hope for a greater future. This fundamental truth is very well-known and is easily comprehended by a simple statement, ‘If success you seek, then never strive with a mind dissipated with anxieties and fears about the fruits’.When we closely analyse the stuff of which the ego is made up, we can find that it is a bundle consisting of the memories of the past, and hopes and expectations for the future. The dead moments that are no more, constitute the past. The future is unborn and does not yet belong to us. To live in the ego, therefore, is to live either in the burial grounds of the dead moments, or in the womb of time where the unborn future now rests. By indulging in all of these preoccupations, we lose the immediate moments given to us to act upon, to strive, to earn, and to achieve. Thus unintelligently we squander the wealth of the present chances through our broodings and imaginations. Even a fool can study the scriptures. Only a wise man can practice them.

The Secret of Success—Live in the Present

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