Success - the Most Decorated False Word

To carry out a task under certain conditions or to perform the best of all is called success.  Everyone wants to be successful.  Why?  To be joyful.  In reality, those who are successful are not always joyful.  Again, to be joyful you need not be successful.  In fact all the efforts you take to be successful, and the failure, if any, take you for away from your joys.
The idea to be successful is a desire or lust nurtured by some traditional stupid persons.  Imagine any game or race, can all be successful? Impossible.  999 out of thousand fail and fall utterly disappointed and sad just for the joy of one who is successful.
The real success is not in doing great and difficult things but in doing nothing physically and mentally that is called the greatest meditation, that is the most difficult but powerful source of energy for man, if he can, at least for half an hour.  That leads to the release of greatest potentials and E S P power through profound silence that arises in you.
If your joy arises from external sources, it can never be permanent.  One day you are successful and another day somebody else. But GREAT SILENCE in you brings you non stop awareness and consciousness  that results in everlasting joys in you without any pain to others or to you the least.

Stop Doing and Enjoy Happenings

Doing and happening are two important things in man's life.  Doing is from man but happening is from god, from existence, from Nature. Man is doing several things with desires, ambitions, expectations, plans, goals, with strains and efforts.  But happenings are taking place on its own accord, without any obedience to man, without any reason, mysteriously and unpredictably. 
Your growth is a happening.  Can you stop it? It is like flowering, happening on its own accord. Accident in your life is a happening. You cannot expect it but you should accept it.  Similarly death is. 
Sun rise is a happening.  Enjoy it.  Rain is a happening. You cannot expect it.  You cannot desire for it. You cannot stop it rather.  But you can enjoy it.
One of the sources of man's suffering is the difference between what he is doing with expectations and what really happens to him.  Every moment something beautiful happens, but man could not enjoy it because he is engaged with some  ' doings'  or he worries that something happens against his expectations.
Drop down all your unnecessary doings which are electrified by your desires.  Accept and enjoy what happens each moment.  Enlightenment is also a happening that will happen on its own accord one day to you.  Don't do anything for that. Don't expect it.

You are a Reputed Bird in a Golden Cage

You are a beautiful admired and secured parrot in a golden cage.  Your family gives you security and comforts; your society gives you security, comforts and recognition. If you are sick, or met with accident or stolen, or attacked, they will give you security.  You need not worry about your food or dress or any other comforts, including a life partner.  The security and comforts are more that you have even forgotten that you are in a cage and you have no language of your own to express yourself.
See the bird in the sky.  It can fly wherever it wants, pathless paths are around.  But you should walk on the paths the society dictates by its rules.  The sky bird has no religion but it is one with Nature, one with the Divine. It doesn't go to church, doesn't read bible and has no beliefs in god, yet the most divine one.  What about you? Your thoughts cannot leap beyond your religious boundaries, even your very dressing should obey your religion.
The sky bird knows not it's parents.  It does not depend on them for food.  It does not legally fight for inheriting its parents properties.  It's completely free from parent's restrictions and their expectations. It has no relations as bondage.  It lives how nature leads. What about you?
You are a bird in the golden cage.  The bars are but your family, religion, education, society, beliefs and social recognition.  You are a parrot and you should repeat what others say.  Otherwise they won't like you.  If you don't think like others, the society will punish you.  Jesus was punished.  Socratice was punished.  The society has sucked away your freedom secretly by assuring security and comforts.  It rewards you with social recognition for being a slave, for being not as yourself but for being as it directed, dictated and expected.

Success in Competition - a Real Failure in You

Many people work hard and try to succeed in competitions.  But it is a stupid attempt to nurture the evil in you.
You are spiritually born again when your ego dies.  It is your ego that is the greatest obstacle on your spiritual journey. How to drop down your ego answers the question what I mean by the title of this article.
What is ego? Your intention to be recognised as greater than others in physical appearance, knowledge, wealth, social status and talent is your ego.  When something is very difficult, a challenge, a competition, a problem, then your ego is interested in it. You want to achieve for the mere satisfaction of your ego.
War or fight or any quarrel is but for the satisfaction of your ego to prove that you are greater than others in bravery.  All games and sports are developing your ego and exploiting you, wasting your valuable time just to satisfy your ego in the name being recognised as a talented one.  Your attempt to become the number one billionaire of the world is to satisfy your ego, with financial recognition.
Your lust for power and even the one for knowledge is just to satisfy your ego.  Today's education is developing this ego further by posing so many exams, competitions, etc.  You go so far away from yourself, in the name of so called achievements and public recognitions.
Competition declares that one is the greatest of all in that particular aspect, and ranks others in order, as second, third, fourth.  But in reality, every human being, even anything in the universe is unique and incomparable in itself.  What you are is definitely greater than how should be.  The society doesn't allow you to be yourself, and it always keeps you in a race to overtake others.  It adds fuel to your already burning ego. Now in your utter madness, you don't know who you are. You have forgotten that you are not to fight with others, but to love others.  You are by birth unique and why do you foolishly strive hard to be greater than others?  Some people who fail in games, competition, and exams, even committe suicide.  Their ego has grown to such extent that it cannot endure any failure.

The greatest achievement is not  in making others know you, but in allowing yourself to know the real yourself.  You need victory over yourself, not over others.  You need to drop down your ego, not to develop and and take it to the peak.  Be silent in yourself, in the centre of yourself as the centre of a cyclone, being unaffected.

Your Birth is In Your Death

At present your mind is you. But it is not the real you.  The real you can be found only in the death of your mind. It is possible if only you drop down all your thoughts in your mind, if only your mind stops chattering.
You are full when you have no mind, no thoughts, but being aware of it.  You are a very small fragment of you if your mind is full of thoughts.  So attempt murder of the so called you, erase all your thoughts and empty your mind. 
Your thoughts are nothing but echoes of past or desires, plans, expectations and ideas of future.  Be a man of no past and future to become a man of full present, to find the real you, to attain non-stop awareness .  Do the following meditation.
Stage one.
Sit relaxed in a peaceful place.  Close your eyes.  Tell your mind you don't remember anything happened in your past, any person in the past, including your relations, home, working place and even your name.  Just watch your mind by doing this.  You may feel great aloneness, as if you lost everything.,don't be afraid.  You will find great silence, from the absence of the chattering of your mind about your past.

Move to the second stage.  Drop out all your aims, desires and plans of future.  Be only at present.  A great silence has arisen in you now, a great nothingness. Stay there for sometime with complete silence and watch only that silence.  For the first time in your life you experience it, for the first time in your life you find yourself.  A great joy as if from enlightened buddha arises in you.

To hear this is to know this with your mind. To experience this is to know yourself, to be yourself and to live yourself, after murdering the so called your present you.