Hi,
Read a story that an ambitious young man was
very anxious to know if he would be successful in accomplishing his dreams.
Hence, he approached a wise monk and asked him to predict if he would ever
achieve his chosen goals. The monk told him that he would be successful if his desire to achieve those goals was so strong that he would strive to achieve them as if
his very survival depended on them. Let us take a look at an incident from the Mahabharata that supports this opinion and draw inspiration from it.
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If it
is a 'Do or Die' situation, it will happen
On the 13th day of the
Kurukshetra war, when Arjuna was away fighting Samsaptakas in
a fierce battle,
the kaurava army rearranged itself in a lotus formation (padmavyuham also known
as chakravyuham) and attacked the pandava army in which Arjuna’s beloved son
Abhimanyu was brutally killed by the kauravas in an unethical manner against the code of the war.
Arjuna on his return came to know that the king Jayadratha, son-in-law of
Dhritarashtra, who blocked entire pandava army and prevented them to support
Abhimanyu, was the cause of his son’s death. He instantly took an oath, “I will kill the wicked Jayadratha before
sunset tomorrow. If I fail to do so, I will kill myself.” 
The news of the oath reached the kauravas. They hid Jayadratha in a safe place and guarded the way of
about 12 miles all along with the strongest of the warriors including Drona in
the front followed by Durmarshana, Duhsasana, Kritavarma, Sudakshina,
Srutayudha, Bhurisravas, Karna, Aswatthama, Salya, Vrishsena, Kripa, and many
others along with their forces. Arjuna’s desire to find and kill Jayadratha was so strong that he conquered
one after the other by some means or the other as he made his way ultimately to
Jayadratha and engaged with him in a battle that raged long.
Krishna was watching all this, and wanted to
support Arjuna in his mission. He sent his sudarshan chakra and blocked the sun
for a brief while that made the sun disappear. As the darkness came in,
Jayadratha thought that the sun had set and the time-limit of danger from Arjuna was over and that he was saved. He along with Duryodhana and all the kauravas thought that now
Arjuna would feel disgraced and kill himself. As they rejoiced, relaxed, and their
attention got diverted, Arjuna took that opportunity and shot his arrows at
Jayadratha that cut his head and carried it away. After Jayadratha’s death,
Krishna withdrew his sudarshan chakra from the galaxy and the sun reappeared and
shone brightly for an hour before setting down the horizon.
Thus, Arjuna redeemed his oath successfully.
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Yes, dreams are essential for living a life of
purpose and fulfilment. Goals provide a direction to reach them. But it is the magnitude
of strength of the desire to accomplish those goals and dreams that transforms
them into a reality or not. The stronger the desire is the better the chances
of success. We may say, I want to do
this. I wish to go there, I love to become that. But in order to accomplish
them, it is important to ask oneself, “How strongly do I desire to achieve it?
Do I see it critical for my life? Is my desire to achieve my most important
goals in life so strong that I am treating them as though my life and my very
survival depended on them?” It’s time for a self-check.
To your
success,
With love and regards,
Siva
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