Explore and realise the dynamic potential that’s latent in you for common benefit, says Swami Chinmayananda
What is Dynamism? Have you got dynamism? Is it character, is it intelligence, is it the energetic nature of an individual to get out and get things done in the world? What is it?
The Quality Of Ojas:
Ojas or dynamism is life that expresses itself through any organism. All dynamism drains away from an organism when it is dead. The difference between the living and the dead is the presence or absence of this factor called dynamism. There is dynamism in a living plant; there is dynamism in an animal. When a plant is dead, all its vitality and dynamism ebbs away and it becomes inert. But the dynamism in a plant or animal is a natural explosion of life given a chance.
Use Your Intelligence
It is only man, because he has intelligence, who can intensify this dynamism. He can sustain the dynamism. He can apply dynamism. The poor plant or animal cannot give to it a direction, purposefulness. Man can direct it, develop it, give it a direction, a purpose, and thus bring out new factors of achievement in the world around…
Ordinary Great Men
Life is a gift; it functions through our organisms,our physiological structures, our psychological equipment. There is a dynamism coming out and it is with this dynamism in the human personality that men can achieve great things… If an Einstein carved out a niche for himself, if man has been able to land on moon – all these great feats, achievements, industrial, technological, economic and political revolutions that we have done and achieved, new progress that we have gained, all achievements of culture, art and music are stupendous expressions of this dynamism.
Be Extra Dynamic
A genius is not the guy who has a large head, or a big belly, horns or a tail. When we say that Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan was a brilliant scholar, Tagore was a great poet, what is that extra brilliance, that extra beauty in them? It is all their extra dynamism in their chosen field of endeavour. So, in each of us, there is dynamism. It is a gift. We did not ask for it. With dynamism, each one of us achieves great things in the world – for the self and the society. The total dynamism of a generation makes the history of the nation or world.
Max Your Dynamism
…There is a challenge around all of us. When I do not find any solution, then the challenge itself becomes a crisis. Today, the world is full of crises. Therefore, you need, as no other generation has ever needed, the maximum of this dynamism…
Explore Inside And Find It
How can we generate dynamism which is already there? It is not a thing that you can beg others to give to you. You have only to explore and exploit it. How can we do it?
From Ordinary To Extraordinary
Look at the life history of all great persons in the past. In whatever field of activity you look, there’s one common thing you will find in all biographies or autobiographies of great individuals who achieved great things for themselves. In everyone, you will find that they were common, ordinary, average children. They did not come in the monsoon, directly down, and say, “Believe me children, I have got a solution for your problems”. They were born like ordinary babies.
Find An Ideal And Stick To It
M K Gandhi was not a great man till his late 20s. He went to England to become a barrister-at-law. Anyone could go there to become a barrister-at-law at that time. He would certainly not have been a successful lawyer. He had neither the stature nor the personality. He was a shy guy. But during the 1920s when he visited Africa and then returned to India, he found for himself a goal and an ideal – freedom of his country, freedom for the millions in his nation. Once he had an ideal, he stuck to it.
How Siddhartha Became The Buddha
So was the prince of Kapilavastu. He was so well-protected by his family that he did not know till the age of 25 that there is disease and old age in this world. He did not know all this until he went for an evening stroll and saw things on the road. Then he started understanding them. Once he got to know these problems, he said he was going to find a solution to that; a goal and an ideal was before him. That is how Siddhartha came out as the great Buddha…
Live In Tapas
In our country, many of the potentially might-have-been scientists, artists and authors have become unemployed and are going about as local leaders because they have not discovered the dynamism in them. When we discover this energy, the vitality, it should not be dissipated in dissimilar channels.
Conserve The Vitality
Our scriptures say ‘live in tapas’. Do not allow enthusiasm and dynamism to be dissipated through sense gratification. Learn to control it and economise on it. Conserve the vitality and use it for achieving a goal. It need not necessarily be religious and spiritual. It may be a material, ideal, political view and economic theory, scientific ambition or cultural glory in itself but the goal is necessary. He who discovers that ideal, is going to be tomorrow’s man. Set your mind on an ideal, hook on to it, and thus inspired, discover and generate this dynamism.
From a talk by Swamiji to college students in New Delhi.Courtesy: Chinmaya Mission
—- With my shashtang namaskarams at the feet of the master and eternal gratitude to him.
