What is real success? | Why students attempt suicide? | How to get success? | Yagnesh Suthar's Blog 2023

You will only understand these words if you are fortunate enough to "realize" them & if you are really believing in the existence of Supreme Consciousness.  

Have you ever asked yourself about what is the real success?

If you will ever observe any one surrounding you, you will realize one thing that everyone is running every day & night just to get money.

Just take the calculator & calculate the hours you spend for your work, you will realize that if you are working 10 hours a day, you are not getting enough time to understand & live your life fruitfully. 

Even after earning a huge amount of money, you will have many different kinds of desires to fulfill & again your hunger of success will never be satisfied completely. 

Just try to understand this fact that even science has proven it that our mind is the greatest thing which produces nearly 70,000 thoughts in a day. Do you know one more thing that, our thought becomes our action. 

So, if we are getting 70,000 thoughts, how can it be become a right action? It can't be!

That is the reason why we need to understand the working of our mind & try to get control over it. 

Our greatest rishi muni have already found the solution i.e. "Yog"

Whenever we use the word "Yog", people only understands the physical postures. Yog is not about physical postures. 

Physical postures are just 1% of the Yog. That allows to sit without getting discomfort. Physical postures are meant to be used for physical health.

But, Yog is not just about health, Yog is about the union of our consciousness with the supreme consciousness completely. Yog is all about getting liberation from the material world & uniting with the Absolute Truth. 

It is the absolute state of consciousness & it is the only goal of all the individuals. - That is the real success.(Reference: https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/2/10/)  

Because, whatever you are going to achieve in this material world, will all be left here. You will not take anything with you after you die. You don't even know where you go after dying. Because you are not aware of the reality due to Tamasic nature & activities. 

Anyways, success is not about how much money you are making or how much property you have. 

But, success is all about how much happy you are with whatever you have. It's all about your satisfaction by becoming desire less person because, only desire is forcing you to take actions. Alone desire is capable of putting you in struggle. 

You will have to understand this fact otherwise you will be controlled by your mind in many different ways. 

Suppose you have an addiction of drinking beer. You want to stop this addiction but somehow you are unable to do it, that simply means your mind is controlling you. 

Your mind simultaneously does two things: 

1. It tells you that you are controlling it so that you cannot use your intellect and  
2. Meanwhile, it controls you & puts you in struggle. 

Your greatest enemy is no one but your mind. 

No person on earth can make you sad or happy, it's only your mind. If you can understand this fact, trust me, you can control your mind as per your wish & success will be yours. 

I will now hope that you have understood what real success is? 

Real success is to realize that you are a consciousness which has a purpose to clear all the past mistakes & sins by being in this human body & along with that, you have to unite yourself with the supreme consciousness so that you will always be free from this material bondage & birth-death game. 

You will not believe but, suicide rates in students has been increased in the last 5 years in India. When I tried to find the root reason behind it, I found one most dangerous "reason" because of which students attempt suicide. 

That reason is nothing but "Fear". 

Which kind of fear? 

The fear of achieving nothing after doing all the efforts. The fear of getting rejections from everyone. The fear of becoming useless for their family & what not? 

The list goes on every single day with many different kinds of fear. 

To understand that root reason, let me tell you from the very beginning and we will go deeper into the topic. 

So, have you ever asked yourself about what is the purpose of our life? 

I know you don't have time to ask such questions to yourself!, so let me answer it on behalf of you! 

Ans: We are not born here to work entire life accumulating money and wealth. We are here for a purpose. But we have been neglecting the "facts" and accepting the "false reality (illusion)" as a reality. 

We are born here to clear all our mistakes & sins by using benevolence, unconditional love & compassion in response to hatred, anger, and all other demonic nature of people.

I know you will not accept this "fact" as a fact because you are of Tamasic nature at the moment which is why your brain will not be able to grasp this information. But just trust it with your heart & you will definitely realize it. 

You will definitely meet people affected with demonic nature in your life because it is the fact which has already been mentioned in one of the eighteen puranas (with exact interpretations). i.e. Shreemad Bhagavatam 

If you respond to those people with non-righteousness, you will commit sins & become trapped in the birth-death cycle. - So you will have to become an observer of your actions & control it accordingly to avoid taking bad actions.

If you will engage yourself in the devotion of supreme consciousness & accept everything that nature offers to you or if you take (taking revenge for the protection of Dharma, not for selfish desires) actions with righteousness & morality (by dedicating that actions to the supreme consciousness), you will not commit sins. You will only fulfil your duties as a human being & clear your mistakes & sins. 

Our first purpose of being in human life is to survive, for which we just need "food, clothes & shelter". 

If we have these three things, we don't need anything now. 

Now, our purpose is to clear the mistakes & sins from the past births but, we don't know anything about that, hence, we just have to accept everything that nature offers to us or face those situation with righteousness & morality. 

You may ask me, "why should I accept everything without knowing that I have definitely done some sins?", I know you! 

But, can you tell me what did you eat exactly 3 years ago on the same day? 

No! 

Because we tend to forget everything we did & experienced. So, you will not be able to know your past mistakes as such. If you want to know them, you will have to follow Ashtang Yog. That is the one of the right ways to get that capabilities. You are not even trying to stop your addictions, desires & still want to know your mistakes? This is the indication of your Ego. If someone is telling you the "truth" & you do not accept it, that is because of your "Ego". 

Any desires other than these necessities are because of illusion (the illusionary effects of material world to control our mind). 

Observe it carefully, if you will ever see a beautiful girl/boy, your mind will think to make her/him as a girlfriend/boyfriend. 

That thoughts will gradually snatch your living force from you & you will suffer your life with struggle & sadness.

So, what is the solution? 

Adopt to the practical applications of Ashtang Yog, i.e. Yam, Niyam, Asan, Pranayam, Pratyahar, Dharna, Dhyan and Samadhi. 

If we can just adopt the first 7 limbs of Ashtang Yog, there will no sadness, pain or sufferings in our life. And, I am guaranteeing you about these words. 

Our children attempt suicide because they are innocents, they are ignorant, they don't know the purpose of their life. Instead of providing them with the right knowledge, we force them to work their entire life to get materialistic achievements which themselves are going to be vanished! But we did not get this human body just to accumulate wealth. 

If you are poor or rich, what does it make any difference in your life? if you will earn 1 crore rupees, you will still be able to eat 500 gm of food in a day. And, if you will earn 10,000 rupees, still you will be able to eat only 500 gm of food in a day. There is no difference at all. The difference you feel, corelate & understand is only because of comparison of yourself with others. which will always & definitely show you a difference because everyone has got their life based on their actions in their previous lives. 

You don't know but, one disastrous Purush gives birth to five disastrous Prakriti. 

Which purush I am talking about here?

अहम् (Ego). 

Which five prakriti is born because of Aham?

कामेच्छा (desire), इर्ष्या (jealousy), क्रोधाग्नि (anger), लोभेच्छा (greed), and जिद्द (Stubbornness).

These five disastrous Prakritis of disastrous Purush is the root cause of suffering, sadness, pain & what not?

They all are the products of mind. So, if you are able to control your mind, you will control these six energies. And the right way to control your mind is to adopt Yog. 

So, we need to dissolve that Ego by controlling our mind. And we will get "satisfaction" intellectually. That is the real success. Becoming Sthitaprajna is the real success in this material world.  

To understand the mind, we need to understand the "behind the scenes"  of mind. 

So, desire gives birth to actions. 

Actions are of two types : good and bad

Those actions which are performed according to Dharma (righteousness) are good actions & rest of others are bad. 

We also need to understand that without actions, no animal can survive on earth. But, good actions will give good results (not think only physical dimension because, we are not only physical, we are beyond the physical.)

And, bad actions will give you bad results. 

Also, action arises from the desire and necessity (Necessity is primary requirement & it is related to Sanchit & Prarabdh Karma that's why I did not mention that, "it also gives birth to actions!").

Your survival is a necessity - that means, you'll have to take actions to survive. There are many different necessities in life: Survival, Duty, Dharma (Righteousness) etc.

But other actions are just because of desires. Desires are endless, they will always trap you in the material world and grow your Ego. 

If you will understand the reason for your birth, you will understand the purpose and goal of your life. 

And, once you will understand this fact, your behavior will never hurt anyone and you will only work according to righteousness. You will always be happy. You will not feel demotivated by not getting what you want! Instead, you will develop an understanding that will never force you to run behind useless desires & thereby keeping you satisfied. - That is the real success. 

Otherwise, I have evidences of people who are already billionaires and still they are working so hard to get more money. Because as you get money, you will get more desires. I mean, if you fulfil one desire, mind will produce millions more! 

If you will run behind "desires" you will never be satisfied. You will have to understand this fact. 

And, by saying all this, I am not telling you to resign from your job or stop doing your business. Instead, I am telling you to not involve yourself "completely" in such activities. But, involve yourself in such activities considering them as your duties. Because, your main duty as a human being is not to accumulate wealth as I've mentioned earlier. 

So, if you are getting failure or victory in the materialistic achievements, it is just result of your actions. There is nothing to be proud of! And, there is nothing to be cried for or feel guilty for! 

You are going to forget everything one day! All your failures or victories are just existing in the temporary moments. Only exists permanently is "you" - your consciousness. 

All your relations, your responsibilities, achievements, actions for your desires are only limited to your physical body. 

So, develop your understanding beyond this limited mindset. Do not ever think that you are of no use or you are nothing. You are the part of God's consciousness. You have the same powers as of God. Just change your approaches of living & you will realize these words. Otherwise, you will just think, "These words can only be suited in books!".

So, that's it for today. Thanks for reading this article. I would strongly wish that you adopt at least some of the things from this article in your life. So that you can get real success. These are not just words, I only write what I follow in my life. And that is why, I am already on my way! :) 

See you in the next article. till then take care & be happy :)