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Hi,
Welcome to day 3 of the Self Challenge Week and I am with you.
My son loves watching Roll No 24, Kris, Krishna, and My Friend Ganesha and Bal Hanuman are one of his favourite movies. So, today, I am going to share with you one of the instances form our mythological epic Ramayana, which came to my mind when I was enjoying a conversation with my mother.
This instance occurs in Kishkindha Kand where Lord Hanuman had to go to Lanka and get the news of Mata Sita. Since the task was urgent and Hanuman had to cross the vast sea, he had no clue how to meet with this difficult challenge. He didn’t understand how he could solve this problem and cross the vast ocean in such a short span of time.
And while he was still brooding over the problem along with other Vanars, just at that moment, Jamavanta, the king of bears, came, and extolled the virtues of Hanuman and reminded him of his supernatural powers.
कहइ रीछपति सुनु हनुमाना। का चुप साधि रहेहु बलवाना।।
पवन तनय बल पवन समाना। बुधि बिबेक बिग्यान निधाना।।
Praising Hanuman, Jamavanta reminded him that there was hardly any task that he couldn’t do. This was not time to think, but to act. Since they already had a bigger purpose and mission to fulfil, therefore Hanuman must make use of his supreme powers and complete the assigned task without thinking about the obstacles and challenges in his way.
कवन सो काज कठिन जग माहीं। जो नहिं होइ तात तुम्ह पाहीं।।
राम काज लगि तब अवतारा। सुनतहिं भयउ पर्वताकारा।।
Immediately listening to words of Jamavanta, Lord Hanuman grew bigger in his size and took a leap to cross the vast ocean with his superpowers.
Now this instance has the following lessons for us:
Challenges reveal our hidden powers. Like this story, we too come across situations and challenges in our lives that make us feel fearful and intimidating, but it is also true, that it is during these times of hardships, we realise the latent powers, talents, strength, courage and intelligence inside us.
Hanuman is our superhero and superman, bestowed with supernatural attributes and qualities, in the same manner when we look at the people who have achieved great results in their lives, we feel, that they too have been bestowed with some superpower and super intelligence, however, it has all been the result of their courage to solve the issue and find the solution.
Having faith in Lord and believe in cause is important to meet the challenge. Whatever path we may chose, there are and will be challenges and tests to meet, but we must have immense faith in the Lord and belief in the cause and purpose for which we strive. It is then, we would be able to find out the way like Hanuman.
Hanuman had a purpose to find out mata Sita and he had immense faith in his lord Rama and had a bigger purpose for which he went on to the Golden city of Lanka and created havoc there. But it is his faith and belief in his lord and noble cause forced him to unleash his latent powers within himself.
Challenge is another name for adventure. While the two words have different meaning, however, if we consider, challenge as an adventure, we could really enjoy the entire episode.
The adventure has elements of suspense, excitement and uniqueness about it and therefore meeting a challenging experience, person or situation, could bring an unusual experience in our life and therefore we must be ready for such unknown experiences and lessons which may be bold and risky too, and which would be revealed in the due course.
Like in his way to Lanka, Hanuman also outwitted two daemons, Sursa and Sinhika and showed his brilliance and courage once again.
So should we be also prepared and thrilled to discover something new in our adventurous way about our own selves. And when the challenges and problems in life come, we should be ready to ask and think:
- How could we find Hanuman inside us?
- How could we instil unflinching faith in lord inside us?
- How could we find the bigger purpose and mission in our life so that we could push ourselves for that cause?
- And how could we find greatness inside us even when we have to do the smallest of tasks?
Now, don’t you think that challenges are destined and planned to find and reveal something bigger in life for us?
सीखत श्लोखहु अर्ध के, पावहु अछर कोय |
वृथा गमावत दिवस ना, शुभ चाहत निज सोय ||
||चाणक्य ||
Well quoted Devanshu, “शुभ चाहत निज सोय” is the key.
Thanks for sharing the wisdom of Chanakya!
Hi Mam,
Good to be back after a short break.I always believe nothing can be discovered in comfort but when we are faced with challenges,we are revealed to our true self.
We should always be challenging ourselves to grow better day by day…and have faith in our abilities.
I truly believe faith can move mountains 🙂
Welcome back Mohit. Good to see you on this platform again.
Yes, we must make sure to challenge our self every now and then to grow better and to understand our sold deeper. In fact, the Bible also reveals the lesson that if we have the faith of a mustered seed, we can still move the mountains.
So start with your self challenge week from today onwards, I will wait for you to join in 🙂
This article reminds me one of the Ten Rituals of Radiant Living from Robin Sharma’s “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”
Ritual of Personal Reflection – Sit down after day, note down what you did for the whole day and differentiate then with positive or negative activities. Also plan to improve negative stuff.
Only a human being can step out of himself and analyze what he is doing right and what he is doing wrong.
However, innately, there also exists an even more wonderful and miraculous potential, the existence of which is hidden from most of us. As we begin to activate this inner energy source we can utilize these dormant powers for our own well-being and for the blessing of the whole world.
So, I assume most of us are stuck up in “begin to activate” only.
Many thanks Anuj Bhaiya for joining the Platform.
Yes, you are right, we all have immense potential and miraculous powers inside us to do whatever we want and achieve whatever we want but these powers are either in the dormant form or in the hibernating form because of one reason or the other.
And therefore, it is very important for all of us to deeply connect with our inner selves and find out those immense powers and potentials which can transform our own life and the life of others around us. This connect may start because of a person, situation or incident in our life and thus we must always be open and alert to learning and life transforming connections.
Many thanks again!
Keep connected and stay blessed always 🙂
According to me, we should observe ourselves at every situation that how are we reacting to it whether it is good or Bad. It’ll explain us that “It’s time to act but not to Think”.
Keeping the record of these small situations will help us in knowing how powerful decisions can we make and that’ll give us the idea to find bigger purpose and mission in life.Thus, we’ll realise someday that how far we have come and there’s a Long way to go .
True Radhika, self mastery is the biggest key to achieve success, happiness and contentment in life.
This mastery begins when we stop thinking and taking about others and focus on our own talks, behaviours and actions and minutely observe them and analyse them. Doing this process regularly, we would soon observe our patterns and likes and dislikes and would start knowing ourselves better. This journey will take us towards the goal and purpose in our life. And this self analysis journey we must continue until we reach to our death beds.