THE SECRET OF SUCCESS

Now, this one thing we all definately want in life: success. Whatever may be our under-taking in the direction of worldly properity or spritual illumination, in spheres secular or spritual-not one of us likes to fail. We all want to succeed. Success though we all desire, it will be noticed in various spheres of life, trulyl successful men are only a handful. Many are those who attain only a moderate degree of success. And many more just fail.

There will be various factors in the stories of men's successes and failures of life. But in every single case there will be one common factor involved. That is the factor of will-power. The degree of a person's success in life is commensurate with the degree of will-power he has attained.

How to develop the will-power thus turns out to be the most important fundamental issues of everyone's life. It should be the part of our education from our childhood to be trained in developing the will-power, for without it education remains largely ineffective. SwamiVivekanad says:

What is education ? Is it book-learning ? No, Is it diverse knowledge? Not even that. The training by which the current and expression of will are brought under control and fruitful is called education. Now consider, is that education as a result of which the will, being continuously chocked by force through generations, is now well-nigh killed out; is that education under whose sway even the old ideas, let alone new ones, are disappearing one by one; is that education which is slowly making man a machine?