FAITH IN ONESELF, THE FOUNDATION OF ALL GREATNESS
Courage of conviction in the face of adversity is what characterises the greats and separates them from the common run of humanity. They seek circumstances to fashion them further after their own minds and, so, usher in ideas that were nascent in humanity and seeking deliverance. Civilisation is ever pregnant with possibilities of future evolution, for evolution is the natural impulse of all life. The greats are the conduits for such expression of ideas, some conceiving them and some giving them shape and substance, form and structure for their proliferation and absorption in the collective consciousness and life of humanity. But it all boils down to fundamental self-belief, the strength to be oneself, original, unimpeded in thinking and having the will to execute one's conception in real life irrespective of the approbation or denunciation of society.
This faith in oneself is the essence of the spiritual life and the basic impulse behind all greatness. All movements that assume gigantic future proportions are in the seed built about this tremendous sense of conviction in the ideas fermenting in the minds of their founders and evolve in due course to give shape to the initial vision. Where adherence to the nascent state of the idea is fast held on to despite the passage of time, allowing only for timely modifications to suit changing circumstances without altering the essential message, the movement gains momentum through persistence of the idea and its consequent percolation into mass psychology. Where the idea is broad and uplifting, sublime and universal with ample scope for amplification and interpretation as and when the need arises, and not fixed in dogmatic assertions that leave no room for evolution of its thematic content, the movement spreads slowly but conduces to great human good. And where fanatical ideas are spread by the sword, the movement rapidly advances in its terrestrial conquest but brings in its wake terrible suffering and the demise of culture and civilisation. But through good or through ill, it is faith in oneself that brings forth the inner fire and raises or lowers the individual as and how one's bent of mind is.
The man of weak will realises not his dreams but it is the strong man of genuine conviction in his ideas that causes ripples on the surface of civilisation and even alters it for good or for evil. Spirituality here comes in to lighten the burden of such strong-willed misdirected action and careers the man of the moment to a higher end such that his life's energy is well-spent and raises civilisation by whatever minuscule amount or, by incremental movement over time, in large proportion. Hence, believe in yourselves even before you believe in God or Guru, for only then will your faith in yourselves work veritable wonders for you. Om!
Written by Sugata Bose
Courage of conviction in the face of adversity is what characterises the greats and separates them from the common run of humanity. They seek circumstances to fashion them further after their own minds and, so, usher in ideas that were nascent in humanity and seeking deliverance. Civilisation is ever pregnant with possibilities of future evolution, for evolution is the natural impulse of all life. The greats are the conduits for such expression of ideas, some conceiving them and some giving them shape and substance, form and structure for their proliferation and absorption in the collective consciousness and life of humanity. But it all boils down to fundamental self-belief, the strength to be oneself, original, unimpeded in thinking and having the will to execute one's conception in real life irrespective of the approbation or denunciation of society.
This faith in oneself is the essence of the spiritual life and the basic impulse behind all greatness. All movements that assume gigantic future proportions are in the seed built about this tremendous sense of conviction in the ideas fermenting in the minds of their founders and evolve in due course to give shape to the initial vision. Where adherence to the nascent state of the idea is fast held on to despite the passage of time, allowing only for timely modifications to suit changing circumstances without altering the essential message, the movement gains momentum through persistence of the idea and its consequent percolation into mass psychology. Where the idea is broad and uplifting, sublime and universal with ample scope for amplification and interpretation as and when the need arises, and not fixed in dogmatic assertions that leave no room for evolution of its thematic content, the movement spreads slowly but conduces to great human good. And where fanatical ideas are spread by the sword, the movement rapidly advances in its terrestrial conquest but brings in its wake terrible suffering and the demise of culture and civilisation. But through good or through ill, it is faith in oneself that brings forth the inner fire and raises or lowers the individual as and how one's bent of mind is.
The man of weak will realises not his dreams but it is the strong man of genuine conviction in his ideas that causes ripples on the surface of civilisation and even alters it for good or for evil. Spirituality here comes in to lighten the burden of such strong-willed misdirected action and careers the man of the moment to a higher end such that his life's energy is well-spent and raises civilisation by whatever minuscule amount or, by incremental movement over time, in large proportion. Hence, believe in yourselves even before you believe in God or Guru, for only then will your faith in yourselves work veritable wonders for you. Om!
Written by Sugata Bose
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