{"id":280,"date":"2015-02-07T13:15:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T18:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sudlatnid.com\/apps\/wp\/?p=280"},"modified":"2015-02-07T13:15:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T18:15:20","slug":"realise-your-potential-by-swami-chinmayananda-on-may-04-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Realise Your Potential – By Swami Chinmayananda on May 04, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"Gurudev\" Explore and realise the dynamic potential that\u2019s latent in you for common benefit, says Swami Chinmayananda
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What is Dynamism?<\/strong> 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?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Quality Of Ojas:<\/strong><\/p>\n
Ojas or dynamism is life that expresses itself through any organism. All\u00a0<\/span>dynamism drains away from an organism\u00a0when it is dead. The difference\u00a0between the living and the dead is the\u00a0presence or absence of this factor called\u00a0dynamism. There is dynamism in a living\u00a0plant; there is dynamism in an animal.\u00a0When a plant is dead, all its vitality\u00a0and dynamism ebbs away and it becomes\u00a0inert. But the dynamism in a\u00a0plant or animal is a natural explosion of\u00a0life given a chance.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Use Your Intelligence<\/strong><\/div>\n
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It is only man, because he has intelligence,\u00a0<\/span>who can intensify this dynamism.\u00a0He can sustain the dynamism. He can apply dynamism. The poor plant\u00a0<\/span>or animal cannot give to it a direction,\u00a0purposefulness. Man can direct it, develop it, give it a direction, a purpose,\u00a0<\/span>and thus bring out new factors of\u00a0achievement in the world around\u2026<\/div>\n
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Ordinary Great Men<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Life is a gift; it functions through\u00a0<\/span>our organisms,our physiological structures,\u00a0our psychological equipment.\u00a0There is a dynamism coming out and\u00a0it is with this dynamism in the human\u00a0personality that men can achieve great\u00a0things… If an Einstein carved out a\u00a0niche for himself, if man has been able\u00a0to land on moon – all these great feats,\u00a0achievements, industrial, technological,\u00a0economic and political revolutions that\u00a0we have done and achieved, new\u00a0progress that we have gained, all\u00a0achievements of culture, art and\u00a0music are stupendous expressions of this dynamism.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Be Extra Dynamic<\/strong><\/div>\n
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A genius is not the\u00a0<\/span>guy who has a large\u00a0head, or a big belly,\u00a0horns or a tail. When we say that Sarvapalli\u00a0<\/span>Radhakrishnan\u00a0was a brilliant scholar,\u00a0Tagore was a great\u00a0poet, what is that extra\u00a0brilliance, that extra\u00a0beauty in them?\u00a0It is all their extra dynamism\u00a0in their chosen\u00a0field of endeavour.\u00a0So, in each of us, there is dynamism. It is a gift. We\u00a0did not ask for it. With dynamism,\u00a0each one of us achieves great things in the world – for the self\u00a0<\/span>and the society. The total dynamism of\u00a0a generation makes the history of the\u00a0nation or world.<\/div>\n
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Max Your Dynamism<\/strong><\/div>\n
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…There is a challenge around all\u00a0<\/span>of us. When I do not find any solution,\u00a0then the challenge itself becomes a crisis.\u00a0Today, the world is full of crises.\u00a0Therefore, you need, as no other generation\u00a0has ever needed, the maximum\u00a0of this dynamism…<\/div>\n
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Explore Inside And Find It<\/strong><\/div>\n
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How can we generate dynamism\u00a0<\/span>which is already there? It is not a thing\u00a0that you can beg others to give to you.\u00a0You have only to explore and exploit it. How can we do it?<\/div>\n
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From Ordinary To Extraordinary<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Look at the life history of all great\u00a0<\/span>persons in the past. In whatever field\u00a0of activity you look, there\u2019s one common\u00a0thing you will find in all biographies\u00a0or autobiographies of great individuals\u00a0who achieved great things\u00a0for themselves. In everyone,\u00a0you will find that they were\u00a0common, ordinary, average\u00a0children. They did\u00a0not come in the monsoon,\u00a0directly down,\u00a0and say, \u201cBelieve me\u00a0children, I have got\u00a0a solution for your\u00a0problems\u201d. They\u00a0were born like ordinary\u00a0<\/span>babies.<\/div>\n
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Find An Ideal And Stick To It<\/strong><\/div>\n
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M K Gandhi\u00a0<\/span>was not a great man\u00a0till his late 20s. He\u00a0went to England to\u00a0become a barrister-at-law.\u00a0Anyone could go\u00a0there to become a barrister-at-law at that time. He would certainly not have been\u00a0<\/span>a successful lawyer. He had neither the\u00a0stature nor the personality. He was a shy guy. But during the 1920s when he visited Africa and then returned to India,\u00a0<\/span>he found for himself a goal and an ideal –\u00a0freedom of his country, freedom\u00a0for the millions in his nation. Once he\u00a0had an ideal, he stuck to it.<\/div>\n
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How Siddhartha Became The Buddha<\/strong><\/div>\n
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So was the prince of Kapilavastu.\u00a0<\/span>He was so well-protected by his family\u00a0that he did not know till the age of\u00a025 that there is disease and old age in\u00a0this world. He did not know all this until\u00a0he went for an evening stroll and saw\u00a0things on the road. Then he started understanding them. Once he got to know\u00a0these problems, he said he was going to\u00a0find a solution to that; a goal and an ideal\u00a0was before him. That is how\u00a0Siddhartha came out as the great Buddha\u2026<\/span><\/div>\n
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Live In Tapas<\/strong><\/div>\n
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In our country, many of\u00a0<\/span>the potentially might-have-been\u00a0scientists, artists and authors\u00a0have become unemployed\u00a0and are going about as local\u00a0leaders because they have not discovered\u00a0the dynamism in them. When\u00a0we discover this energy, the vitality,\u00a0it should not be dissipated in dissimilar\u00a0channels.<\/div>\n
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Conserve The Vitality<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Our scriptures say \u2018live in tapas\u2019.\u00a0<\/span>Do not allow enthusiasm and dynamism\u00a0to be dissipated through sense\u00a0gratification. Learn to control it and\u00a0economise on it. Conserve the\u00a0vitality and use it for achieving\u00a0a goal. It need not necessarily be religious and spiritual.\u00a0<\/span>It may be a material, ideal,\u00a0political view and economic theory, scientific ambition or\u00a0<\/span>cultural glory in itself but the\u00a0goal is necessary. He who discovers\u00a0that ideal, is going to be tomorrow\u2019s\u00a0man. Set your mind on an\u00a0ideal, hook on to it, and thus inspired,\u00a0discover and generate this dynamism.<\/div>\n
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From a talk by Swamiji to college students in New Delhi.Courtesy: Chinmaya Mission<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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—- With my shashtang namaskarams at the feet of the master and eternal gratitude to him.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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