An Indian saint met an old Chinese man of 90, very close to
his death but was practicing hard to learn Japanese language. With amusement
the Indian saint asked, “Close is the moment of your death why are you learning
a new language which is not so easy”, he replied, “What has death to do with my
learning, I shall be learning until I die, that is life”
One of the biggest secret of inner peace and happiness is PROGRESS..
Human beings have this
natural desire of being better, better than themselves. While human civilization
have been fighting the war of inter competition there lay a tough battle of intra
competition; the battle with our own self, the burning desire of being better,
of being sharper and ambition of improvisation. The night I get the best sleep
is the day I when I do most of my progress, learn something of my interest and
move a step ahead on my dreams. There lies maximum dissatisfaction in job where
people do the same work in the same routine in the same time from 10-5, there
is dissatisfaction because there is no progress and so the desire of being
better remains suppressed, this suppression creates eruption of
dissatisfaction.
Progress for guitarist is learning a new chord, for a dancer
it is learning a new step, for a academician it is developing a new theory, for
a teacher it is increase in pass percentage, for a student it is completion of
assignment and increase in grades, for an activist it is a stronger advocacy.
Progress is simply being better than what we were, it is the creation of new
me, a better me.
Equation of progress-
Saunak+ 1 (progress)= Better Saunak; Better Saunak= Saunak
with inner peace; Saunak with inner peace= Saunak.
i.e. Saunak + 1= Saunak
This addition of one unit of progress does not change our
originality but simply enhances our quality. The journey of this one unit of
progress, many times goes through the pathway of discomfort. We might have to
spend the whole day to learn a new dance step or to practice a new guitar
chord, even read whole night for good grades; but across this discomfort there lies
extreme pleasure of being better. Some people hate the flight but enjoy the
destination of Bangkok, whereas some other enjoy both the flight and the
destination of Bangkok. The moment we learn to enjoy both the flight and the
destination, progress becomes our daily routine and the routine of progress is
the routine of excellence, mastery and the routine of happiness with inner
peace.
