Establish your Mastery

Instead of being under the spell of happiness and un happiness, establish your mastery over them --- this will enable you to get the best out of your experiences and make your life and living mature and more interesting. It is every man’s duty to uplift his mental qualities and ennoble his life and therefore you should also fulfil this task by adopting the proper path.

If you do not desire only favourable circumstances and if you are not afraid of difficulties, then you can achieve a lot. Always learn from whatever you achieve and thus enrich your lives, thereby the circumstances which you perceive as obstacles will start appearing favorable because you have learnt to face them and your unhappiness will start dissolving. 

Many people lament by saying, “Nobody listens to me, I am repeatedly saying such and such a thing and tred of it, but it has absolutely no effect.” According to me the fault lies more with the person who gives instructions than the one receiving them. The man who gives orders, himself does not have the knowledge about the method of working. Such people should first discover their own faults by introspection. This exercise will reveal their terrible lack of knowledge. When you know how to carry out the work, your instruction will bear the ring of conviction, and hence bear fruit. You may not speak or speak a little, but involve yourself in the work. Your work will “speak” and in a few days people will be attracted towards you without invitation. Therefore speak less, work more, because the effect of speech lasts for a second whereas the influence of your work is everlasting.