Welcome to Mohanji Speaks.
Hello friends,
Hope you're doing well.
The question of success,
Which is very relative,
Means it's different from people to people what is success.
I call success is contentment.
This is my take about success.
Perpetual contentment means you are happy with the situation.
When we were talking about success recently,
I was telling people that success cannot be defined by your activity or what you do for a living.
That's immaterial.
You're eating,
Drinking,
Sleeping,
Taking a bath,
That's not success.
That's part of existence.
Success is when you have perpetual contentment every moment,
All the time.
And success is for me,
Not doing an activity,
But having a proper goal,
Clarity about it and working for it without expecting anything out of it.
I'll explain further.
We all work hard,
Sometimes really hard for certain result.
And when the result does not happen as per expectation,
We have suffering,
We feel sad.
So how do we overcome this?
I was looking back at my own life.
What created Mohanji?
Well,
Early 2000s,
I was concentrating on finding silence.
I wanted to see where noises end.
That was my quest.
I was trying to find the root of all noises.
So when I was in isolation,
When external noises are not bothering me anymore,
I started getting connected or being aware of the internal noises.
The main noise has been the thoughts,
Too many noises,
Variety of noises.
And then I was trying to find the source of that noise also,
Very silence.
So the finding silence was my aim.
And I did not have an expectation that I will find it.
When expectation was removed,
The journey was easy.
So many times we are not achieving what we have to achieve,
Because expectation supersedes determination.
First of all,
Clarity of goal.
I had clarity.
I was finding silence.
And I said I will find silence someday.
And then distraction does not matter.
Distractions are part of our life.
Distractions come and go.
All the time we are distracted in one way or the other.
But it will not be affecting you if you are not expecting a certain result within a certain time.
Here,
The goal was there,
Determination was there,
And a definite discipline was there.
That means every day 2.
30 am I got up,
Took a bath.
I was sitting in my room which I had prepared specifically for practices.
I sat there until 8.
That means 5 hours.
Depending on the workload,
I sometimes stop at 7.
30.
But at least 4-5 hours of total silence.
Totally being with myself.
That time,
Without expectation,
Finally took me to a level of silence where I had no thoughts,
No noises.
Why I am explaining my own story is because it can be kind of a benchmark,
Not that I am asking you to follow the same thing.
Whatever you want to achieve in life,
It should have clarity.
The goal should be well thought of.
That means you should meditate on it.
You need to sit down and think.
Even if it is a small activity every day,
Just imagine if you have to do a presentation,
Just meditate on it a little bit.
How the presentation should be.
How it will be received.
Or how do you want people to see it.
See today,
Attention levels are so low.
People have great distractions because of the internet age.
Tremendous distraction.
And if you do not express yourself in an interesting way within a certain period of time,
You can't convey the message.
Draw on dragging kind of presentation,
Nobody will watch.
You got to have dynamism.
And you need to know that the people out there have great distraction levels.
So you need to present something if you really want to catch the attention.
You need to present it within a time span,
Let's say one minute or one and a half minutes.
And you should catch the attention of the people at that time.
And if the subject matter is good for them,
They will watch.
Or visuals should be good.
If subject is not so good,
Then you can compensate it with visuals,
Like a visual presentation.
People can still be attracted to it.
Then only you will catch the attention.
Likewise when your expectation is more than your determination,
The chances are that you will have disappointments a lot.
We got to understand this very clearly.
When we have less expectation,
We have greater success.
When expectations are there,
Distractions are also there.
For example,
I did not know what silence tastes like.
I did not know what it smells like.
I don't know how it feels like.
So I did not know what I am searching for.
But I knew one thing.
There is a space called silence.
There is something called silence.
There is something called no thoughts.
So I was on a consistent basis trying to find that.
It took literally years.
But again,
I was not distracted because I did not have an expectation that I will complete this within this time.
That helped me.
That was really helping.
Because now looking back I know,
But at that time I didn't have these thoughts.
As I am telling you now after all these years,
If I had expectation of a completion within a particular time,
It would have probably been a different game.
Now distraction was taken care of.
Distractions happen.
But I wasn't worried.
Because I get distracted,
Then I get back.
Because I have no time frame,
No agenda,
No expectation.
So this was really helpful.
We must have discipline.
We must have determination.
Discipline is very important because at that time the subconscious allows it to happen.
If it is different times and if you are irregular with it,
It will not happen.
That's why any practice you do,
There should be a discipline.
At least initially.
After a while you won't need the practice.
It's like crossing the river.
You need a boat to cross the river.
But after crossing the river,
You may not need the boat at all.
Maybe it's land and then if you need another river to cross,
That time there will be a boat there.
Trust it.
What actually affects our normal routine or what affects our success rate is our expectation in it and also distraction connected to it.
Please take for granted there will be distractions in life.
There is bound to be because we are worldly beings.
There will be distractions but we must have a goal and a vision much more brighter and shining in front of us than the distractions.
Distractions will come and go but the goal always remains.
So this is very important to understand.
And when we are moving in the path of liberation,
We must know that reduce the expectation,
Concentrate on your activity,
The practice and don't look for a particular result within a particular time and don't even compete with others because they are distractions.
Comparisons and competitions are all distractions.
We must steer clear of all these kind of stuff.
And have the goal,
Clarity of thought,
Clarity of goal,
Clarity of vision plus determination and less expectation or no expectation and just focus on the activity and then the results will come at its time.
It will for sure.
So this is very important to understand.
When we talk about success and that gives contentment and what is detrimental for contentment?
When expectation happens,
You need a particular result to happen for happiness.
When the result doesn't happen,
You have no happiness.
Even if it is a positive thing,
Sometimes we miss it because the result did not happen as per our expectation.
So this is very important to understand.
We must be very clear,
We must be very sure that whatever the results be,
I am doing my work,
I am putting in my effort.
This is exactly how we should proceed.
I hope this is clear.
If you have a question,
I would like to answer and I wish you a great success in life and do great things in life.
You have the power,
You have the energy,
You have everything for this.
See even people who do not have proper legs,
Means on artificial limbs they have climbed Everest.
If they can do that,
We can do much much more.
So we have all the power,
All the energy,
Just align yourself with your goal of life and let the goal be for the betterment of the world.
Let it be for great selfless reasons.
So that the energy and the power that will power that goal will be much higher than a selfish goal.
Wish you success.
This is Mohanji for you.
