Success and Failure, Both Are Divine

When we confront failure and bad times, we react, why it is happening with me. When we get a grand success in our life, we never ask why it is happening with me. This is the psychology of the human beings. The good days seems passes so fast that we never get time to realize it. The bad times seems passes so slow that every moment compels us to think about it. The failure provides us an opportunity to see the reality. The reality, illusion, hallucination, the right, and the wrong everything gets unleashed before us in the worst times only. It gives us an opportunity to differentiate the truth from untruth, action from inaction to avoid the similar worst situation take place in our life in future. All the successful persons have confronted the fiasco in their life. The debacle is for learning more, analyzing and realizing our self. Failure and success, both are inevitable in our life; it comes and goes like weather. Both are equally important. Bhagavad Gita 2:14 suggests “the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.” The way every weather has its own importance to sustain and maintain life on the earth; similarly, failure and success are equally important to thrive in our life. In Antarctica, there is cold only, hence life is not possible there. If we are getting continuously success only or failure only in our life, the life would be excruciating.

Getting success without tang of failure can make you arrogant, cruel, injustice, flaunt and vanity. These qualities of the human are perilous, it will never allow you to be happy rather than making planning to harm others and flaunt yourself. On the other hand, if you are getting failure continuously and not working on the same to improve yourself, which can mould you toward success, then it can make you frustrated, irritated, psychologically weak, and loose in confidence. Both success and failure are divine if it is handled gingerly. Success and failure at the regular interval keep your eyes opened and provide an equal opportunity to thrive in both spiritual and material.

Failure is the best teacher, and success can be treacherous, if you forget your teacher (failure) and its teachings. Success gotten by failure adds more values and more happiness in your life than getting something without your effort. Ups and Downs in life is temporary and transitory features; it comes and goes at regular intervals.  If Up is Laxmi, then Down is Sarasvati. Both goddesses are divine. Laxmi is the goddess of prosperity and Sarasvati is the goddess of knowledge. If one goes then another comes, you stay with divine. Both prosperity and knowledge (intelligence) are important in our life. In the absence of any of the both, the life remains incomplete. No matter what, we have to respect both the situations to get both internal and external happiness and peace. The wise never get affected by the failure and success and they always remain equipoise in both the situations. Bhagavat Gita 2:57 says –“In the material world, one who is unaffected by whatever good or evil he may obtain, neither praising it nor despising it, is firmly fixed in perfect knowledge.”